Networking
The time has come to explore a new generation of autonomous
wireless networks that dynamically adapt their robustness to the
hostility
of their environment and promote a sustainable
environment in terms of energy consumption and electromagnetic
pollution.
Digital radio
Digital radio is starting a new transformation to face the tremendous increase of wireless services: digital radio should provide wireless nodes with awareness, flexibility and adaptability and even full cooperation abilities.
Middleware
More and more human activities are relying on digital information managed by growing variety of smart devices in even more intelligent environments inducing the strong need of revisiting many middleware concepts.
Security
The context of nomadic smart communication devices organized in numerous interconnected spontaneous networks induces new security challenges that cannot be resolved only by cryptographic methods and protocols.
Embedded
An embedded system is highly constrained by software interactions with the physical world and the physical execution platform. Paradigms from hardware design, software design, and control theory need to be combined in a consistent manner to design such a system.