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
1. Welcome and introduction of participants
2. Presentation of new members
3. Preparation of 3rd ERCIM eMobility workshop in 2009, co-located with WWIC 2009
4. Presentation of meshed.eu activity
• 12.00 - 13.30 h
5. Lunch at Restaurant Helvetia
• 13.30 - 16.30 h
6. Presentation & discussion of joint project proposals in FP7 calls 4/5
7. Any other business

Presentations

• Welcome and introduction of participants
• Torsten Braun, University of Bern
• Dr. Uli Eisert, SAP Research, Ernst Sassen, University of St. Gallen
• Ioannis Komnios, Democritus University of Thrace
• Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva
• Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology
• Jean-Frédéric Wagen, EIA-Fribourg

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