Amazones

Context

With the emergence of ambient computing and network of communicating objects, a new class of software has emerged. Human activities are more and more relying on digital information, acquired, stored, processed and delivered using a growing variety of smart devices in more and more intelligent environments. This ambient intelligent environment is made of a collection of heterogeneous hardware, from very specific communicating sensor nodes up to Personal Digital Assistant. Most of the applications that are deployed in such environments do not meet strong requirements as the ones found in critical embedded systems. These applications are deployed and executed in rather constrained environment with reduced CPU and memory and intermittent communication capabilities. In ambient computing, resource are managed to guarantee an average behavior, with specific constraints coming from the embedded world. We think that ambient systems are typical best-effort systems that need to be designed like critical ones. This problem raises a new scientific ground where new models and techniques must be found to bridge the two software design approaches that address those specific environments. The AMAZONES project deals with challenges in the context of software engineering for this new class of resource constrained communicating hardware in ambient environment. The aim is to study new models and design tools to leverage development of applications with trade-offs between dynamicity and predictable behavior.

Scientific foundation

Ambient applications suppose that computing processes and services are available at any time, anywhere. They exploit surrounding context and provide user-friendly applications. Services in ambient environment are running in very heterogeneous environment, in terms of hardware platforms, operating systems and communicating patterns. They need to inherit properties from the embedded world but achieve best-effort behaviours as large scale distributed applications. Designing such applications is still an issue, and most of the time, pure ad-hoc approaches are used. One challenge of designing services for ambient environments comes from the convergence of these two visions of services design: generic services dynamically adaptable and embeddable services for platforms with scarce resources and dependability constraints. Therefore, the need for middleware platform simplifying application design and integration becomes obvious. The middleware acts as glue between and within the hardware layers and the service layers. AMAZONES objective is to model and design middleware architectures as a convergence layer between embedded approaches and dynamic services. More precisely, we focus our activity on two frontiers. The south-bound which deals with a smart coupling between operating systems and hardware devices and the north-bound which aims at designing better framework support for ambient world. Finally, we think that efforts have to be made on the ground of this middleware layer by coupling south-bound issues and north-bound issues. This coupling may be very strong and static, when the middleware is very thin on very small devices and more dynamic when the middleware includes a virtual machine deployed on more powerful devices.

For more information

A more detailed presentation of the AMAZONES team can be found at this address: http://amazones.gforge.inria.fr/.

People

Head

sfrenot
Associate professor
Middleware
Email stephane.frenot@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 6416
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/~sfrenot/
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-127
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Faculty

jcharnay
Assistant
Assistant
Email joelle.charnay@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7322
Fax +33 47243 6227
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-130
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sdalu
Research engineer
Network administration
Email Stephane.DAlu@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 6483
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://www.sdalu.com/
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-118
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afraboul
Associate professor
Embedded systems
Email antoine.fraboulet@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7312
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/afraboul/
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-234
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flemouel
Associate professor
Mobile services
Email frederic.le-mouel@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 6422
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://citi.insa-lyon.fr/~flemouel
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-235
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vlegrand
Associate professor
Security
Email veronique.legrand@insa-lyon.fr
Fax +33 47243 6227
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-122
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kmarquet
Associate professor
Design and verification of operating systems and virtual machines.
Email kevin.marquet@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7317
Fax +33 47243 6227
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-122
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lmorel
Associate professor
Embedded systems
Email lionel.morel@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 6182
Web http://www.lionelmorel.org
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-119
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jponge
Associate professor
Middleware and Service-Oriented Architectures.
Email julien.ponge@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7314
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/jponge/
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-232
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gsalagnac
Associate professor
Programming languages and operating systems for embedded systems
Email guillaume.salagnac@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 6413
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/gsalagnac
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-122
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nstouls
Associate professor
Formal methods for software engineering
Email nicolas.stouls@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7321
Fax +33 47243 6227
Web http://perso.citi-lab.fr/nstouls/
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-120
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tworkows
Assistant
Assistant
Email Gaelle.Tworkowski@inria.fr
Phone +33 47243 6421
Fax +33 47243 6227
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-118
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subeda
Professor
Distributed algorithm, ambient networks
Email stephane.ubeda@insa-lyon.fr
Web http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/subeda/
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
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PhD students

ydan
PhD Student
Ambient calculus for distributed, service oriented virtual machines
Email dyf824@gmail.com
Phone +33 47243 6485
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-240
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fgoichon
PhD Student
Hardware security and resource control in L4 µ-kernel
Email francois.goichon@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7305
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-241
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rgolchay
PhD Student
Smart OS for smart ambient devices
Email roya.golchay@insa-lyon.fr
Phone +33 47243 7305
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-241
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zhu
PhD Student
Discovery and network integration of heterogeneous devices by pattern recognition and fusion of sensor data
Email zheng.hu25@gmail.com
Phone +33 47243 6485
Fax +33 47243 6416
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-127
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mselva
PhD Student
Service Oriented Application over Real Time Platforms
Email manuel.selva@insa-lyon.fr
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TB-231
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Trainees

aabdella
Master student
Continous delivery for virtual machine
Email laeddine.etud2007@yahoo.fr
Phone +33 47243 7313
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-117
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bhosari
Master student
Twitrank a smart query framework for twitter
Email bayram.hosari@gmail.com
Phone +33 47243 7313
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-117
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syang
Master student
Etude de la delocalisation des services d'un puits vers les noeuds d'un reseau de capteur
Email yangshengcong@gmail.com
Phone +33 47243 7313
Address Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon 6 Av. des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Office TLC-117
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