Issue 22 - August/September 2012

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The Rise of User-centric Wireless Networks

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1. Highlight:  ICON Shown at CCNxCon 2012

Bruno Batista and Paulo Mendes attended the CCNxCon 2012 conference in September 12th/13th 2012, Sophia-Antipolis, France, to provide a technological demonstration of ICON, an implementation of an information-centric architecture for opportunistic networks. ICON is based on prior work from CCN/NDN - forwarding and interest structures, and from HAGGLE - its flexibility required to operate in opportunistic networks. Innovation in ICON relates to a modular structure, and to the possibility to easily couple the architecture with new modules. The conceptual work behind ICON is part of the DTN-Amazon project, and this first demo has been developed by the MSc student Nelson Morais (MEISI, ULHT), supervised by Bruno Batista/Paulo Mendes (SITILabs/ULHT). ICON is expected to be released to the public during October 2012, and the current prototype has been tested in Windows, LINUX, and MacOS. ICON is currently being tested in Android and ported to embedded platforms based on .NET.

Project CCNx® exists to develop, promote, and evaluate a new approach to communication architecture we call content-centric networking. It provides support for a community of people interested in experimentation, research, and building applications with this technology, all contributing to its evolution.

In this Number:

1. Highlight: ICON Shown at CCNxCon 2012

2. DTN-AMAZON Releases Social-Aware Functions

3. UMM Mobility Management Decoupling Approach

4. SITILabs Brunch

2. DTN-AMAZON Releases Social-Aware Functions

The DTN-Amazon project has recently released a technical report covering utility functions used in the dLife opportunistic routing solution. The proposed utility functions are able to infer information about social relationship among users, allowing the dLife protocol to perform forwarding based on social graphs. 

The work was done in the context of Waldir Moreira's PhD thesis entitled “Social-aware Opportunistic Routing for Delay-Tolerant Networks” and is being evaluated in the context of the DTN-Amazon project.

DTN-Amazon is a joint cooperation between SITILabs, Universidade Lusófona (Paulo Mendes), and Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA, Eduardo Cerqueira) in Brazil, having been started in January 2012. DTN-Amazon aims at developing an information-centric architecture for Delay Tolerant Networks.

3. UMM Mobility Management Decoupling Approach

The User-centric Mobility Management (UMM) project has released a proposal for an instantiation of control and data plane decoupling of mobility management IP based solutions. The proposed approach has been presented in July 2012 by Christian da Silva Pereira at the CoHetNet 2012 workshop, Munich, Germany. The proposed approach has been validated on simulation environments, and a decoupled approach based on PMIPv6 is expected to be released until March 2013.

The UMM project is dedicated to the research of mobility management solutions that are more adequate to e.g. user-centric environments or flat networks, and addresses mobility management from a functional perspective, attempting to provide a mobility management architecture that can be distributed across different elements on a network, from an end-to-end perspective, but placing as far as possible elements closer to the end-user. 

being sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, FCT.

4. SITILabs Brunch 2012

SITILabs's yearly brunch took place in September 17th 2012. During the event, SITILabs has provided feedback concerning changes to occur in its near future, and technical areas where the unit intends to invest in 2013.

The SITILabs Brunch is an yearly event where SITILabs members provide presentations and their perspectives concerning aspects that SITILabs should consider both from a technological and from a development perspective, being the motivation to assist in a better intertwining of R&D with the teaching environment of SITILabs's mother institution, Universidade Lusófona.

SITILabs, Universidade Lusófona
Edifício U, 1º Piso
Campo Grande, 376, 1749-024 Lisboa
Website: http://siti.ulusofona.pt
Contact: siti-mgt@siti1.ulusofona.pt