First meeting at Zürich

The 1st ERCIM WG eMobility meeting in 2009 was held at SWITCH, Werdstrasse 2, Zürich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, January 28, 2009.

Participants

Thomas Bohnert, SAP
Torsten Braun, U Bern
Kurt Baumann, SWITCH
Ioannis Komnios, Democritus U Thrace
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere UT
Jean-Frédéric Wagen, UAS / EIA-FR
Geert Heijenk, U Twente
Javier Poncela, U Malaga
Francisco Barcelo, UP Catalunya
Do van Thanh, NTNU
Robert Bestak, Czech TU
Wim Vanhoof , U Namur
Dimitri Konstantas, U Geneva
Peter Schelkens, VU Brussels
Edmundo Monteiro, U Coimbra

Agenda

10.00 - 12.00 h

Welcome and introduction of participants
Presentation of new members
Preparation of 3rd ERCIM eMobility workshop in 2009, co-located with WWIC 2009
Presentation of meshed.eu activity

12.00 - 13.30 h

Lunch at Restaurant Helvetia

13.30 - 16.30 h

Presentation & discussion of joint project proposals in FP7 calls 4/5
Any other business

Presentations

Activities in 2008

2nd ERCIM Workshop on eMobility, Tampere (Finland), May 30, 2008
- Invited Session: Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks and Cooperating Objects: Towards the Internet of Smart Things
  - Jorge Pereira: From Autonomous to Cooperative Distributed Control: Towards the Internet of Smart Things
  - Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS (CONET): Cooperating Objects: roadmap towards deployment
  - Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico Milano (WASP): Content & Context Aware Routing for Mobile WSNs
  - Manuel Serrano, ETRA I+D (EMMA): Cooperating objects in the field of Mobility
  - Markus Taumberger, VTT (POBICOS): A Middleware Platform Enabling Cooperation in the Object Community
- Technical Sessions
  1. Transport Protocols
  2. Multi-Hop Networks
  3. Services, User Interfaces and Mobility
1st International Workshop on Mobile and Kinetic User Interfaces, Fribourg, October 13-14, 2008
- http://diuf.unifr.ch/pai/events/MobiKUI08

Activities planned in 2009

3rd ERCIM WG eMobility Workshop 2009
- May 27, 2009 at Twente, co-located with WWIC 2009
- Format:
  - Invited sessions with talks on
    - related European NoEs, e.g. Content (responsible: Edmundo Monteiro)
    - Internet of Things / collaborting objects (Jorge Perreira, to be contacted by Torsten Braun)
    - Car-to-Car communications (responsible: Thomas Bohnert, Geert Heijenk)
  - Technical contributions
    - primarily from ERCIM WG eMobility members with (full), short, abstract papers (12 / 6 / 1-2 pages)
  - Brainstorming session for EU FP7 ICT Call 5
- Dates
  - Paper submission: March 30, 2009
  - Author notification: April 19, 2009
  - Camera-ready versions and registration: May 1, 2009
- Organization of paper submission and reviews via edas (to be set up by Geert Heijenk)
- Workshop Topics
  - Future mobile applications, e.g. medical applications, multimedia, mobile learning, telematics
  - Mobile application support such as coding, content distribution and adaptation
  - User interfaces of mobile devices and applications
  - Ubiquitous, pervasive, and context-aware computing and communications
  - Location-based services
  - Mobile Peer-to-Peer
  - Security including trust and authentication
  - Runtime adaptation
  - Software development for mobile devices
  - Wireless access networks
  - Mobile ad-hoc and wireless mesh networks
  - Sensor networks
  - Wireless experimentation and test networks
  - Simulation methods and tools for wireless networks
  - Mobility management, roaming, and handover support
  - Quality-of-Service and traffic engineering
  - Transport protocols and congestion control in wireless networks
  - Cross-layer protocol design
  - Energy-efficient protocol mechanisms
  - User interaction for mobile devices
  - Vehicular and car-to-car communication
Meshed.eu
- Activity initiated by Peter Dely (Karlstad U) and Thomas Staub (U Bern, staub@iam.unibe.ch)
- Common web portal on European wireless mesh test-beds
  - Test-bed architectures and used hardware
  - Developed software,
    - e.g., operating systems, management software, emulation
  - Publications
  - Related work
  - …
- Email list to be announced to ERCIM WG eMobility members
- Related activity: The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), http://www.openlivinglabs.eu

Other Activities

ERCIM Fellowships
ERCIM News Articles
- Special issue on “Future Wireless Internet” to be organized by Torsten Braun
- Could serve as a basis for a book, e.g. LNCS
Reports on activities in IEEE CommMag Newsletter
Special issues in journals to be organized on a specific topic by individual members