POPS: System and Networking for Portable Objects Proved to be Safe

POPS: System and Networking for Portable Objects Proved to be Safe

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The POPS research group investigates solutions to enhance programmability, adaptability and reachability of small objects designated by POPS (Portable Objects Proved to be Safe). The POPS set contains small devices like smart cards, RFID tags or personal digital assistant which are characterized by limited resources, high mobility and high security level in spite of untrusted environment. The development of applications integrating POPS suffers from lack of "reachability" of such platform. Indeed, most of POPS are not easy to program and high level of expertise is needed to produce software in such limited operating systems and devices. Moreover, POPS mobility induces sudden and frequent disconnection, long roundtrip times, high bit error rates and small bandwidth. Hence, POPS system has to adapt itself to application requirements or modification of its environment. In that context, we are conducting research in the connected areas of embedded systems and mobile networking.

The POPS project-team is a common research project of CNRS, INRIA and Univ. Lille 1. POPS gathers researchers from LIFL laboratory (Université Lille 1-CNRS UMR 8022, RD2P research group) and from INRIA Lille - Nord Europe research centre.

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2009 activity report is available Apr 2, 2010 The 2009 annual report of INRIA's research groups (RAWeb) is now available on-line. This activity report gives an overview of research activities of the institute in term of scientific production, technological development (e.g. software) and industrial transfer. Concerning POPS project-team, discover new results on embedded web servers, RFID, energy-aware geographical routing in wireless networks, wireless sensor networks with mobile nodes, performance evaluation in wireless networks, etc. read more...	The invaders Jul 1st, 2010 The experimentations of self-deployment algorithms in wireless sensor and actuator networks have started. Seventeen mobile robots with Wifi communication capabilities are used to validate our proposals. In this work, each node is considered as a particle and its movements are governed by the interaction with a part of its neighboring nodes. The interacting neighbors and the node's direction are chosen based on the local relative neighborhood graph. read more...	PhD position on Self-deployment algorithms Aug 19th, 2010 A PhD position is opened in the POPS INRIA project-team in Lille (France) on Self-deployment algorithms for substitution network. The objectives of this PhD subject in to study algorithms and protocols to manage the deployment of a substitution network which is composed of mobile routers and has to enhance performances of an existing network. More specifically, the wireless mobile routers must be deployed so that the performances of the networks are maximized. read more...	Three new ANR funded projects starting in Fall 2010 Aug 24th, 2010 Three new collaborative projects funded by ANR will be launched soon. In alphabetical order: BinThatThinks (EcoTech call) which considers the use of RFID or ZigBee technologies for garbage management, F-LAB (VERSO call) which is a "platform" type of project in the areas of Future Internet, sensor networks, federation of networks and testbeds, RESCUE (VERSO call) which considers substitution networks composed of mobile routers and which aim to enhance performances of an existing network. read more...