UMOBILE: Universal, mobile-centric and opportunistic communications architecture

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Making connectivity and computation available at the edge of the network, in challenging environments, where infrastructure is limited or not available.
 

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Funder Horizon 2020
Amount € 3 000 000

Project website http://www.umobile-project.eu/

Research topics  Delay-Tolerant Networks | Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing | Information-Centric Networks | Edge Computing | Community Networks

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Description

Cars, sensors, home appliances, every device in the daily life of citizens is becoming a constituent in Future Internet, adding to the need to reconsider requirements and assumptions in terms of network availability and affordability to support the ever increasing traffic demand. Still, the current Internet can only evolve adequately, if its infrastructure can be devised to accommodate the emerging services. The increased cost of adding new infrastructure and capacity has a drastic effect on rural and remote communities as well as nomadic users as they become marginalized by not gaining access to crucial Internet services. Our goal is to make the Future Internet universally pervasive supporting a diverse set of services.

To achieve this, we develop a universal mobile-centric and opportunistic communications architecture (UMOBILE), which integrates the principles of Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) and Information Centric Networking (ICN) in a common framework.

We utilize the benefits of both ICN and DTN to enable resource exploitation at minimal bandwidth, opportunistic access to information and more localized access to information through novel caching strategies.

UMOBILE focuses on assisting users in getting access to the content they want or content that may be of shared interest to their trust circles. By relying on an instance of the UMOBILE architecture, users are able to share information directly with other peers without relying on infrastructure or expensive connectivity services. The proposed architecture targets the mobile part of the networks, extends Internet connectivity to regions that are not typically covered enhancing network resilience and is fully backward compatible with the current Internet architecture.

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Publications

• Arcia-Moret, I. Psaras, J. Crowcroft, "Bringing Information Centric Networking to Challenged Environments" (2017)
• Parisis, George, et al. "Efficient content delivery through fountain coding in opportunistic information-centric networks." Computer Communications (2016)
• O. Ascigil, V. Sourlas, I. Psaras, G. Pavlou - "Opportunistic Off-Path Content Discovery in Information-Centric Networks"
• K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas, I. Psaras, S. Reñé, G. Pavlou - "Information-aware access network selection"
• U.D.Silva, A. Lertsinsrubtavee, A. Sathiaseelan, K. Kanchanasut - "Named Data Networking Based Smart Home Lighting"
• I. Psaras, S. Rene, K. V. Katsaros, N. Bezirgiannidis, V. Sourlas, S. Diamantopoulos, I. Komnios, V. Tsaoussidis, G. Pavlou - "Keyword-Based Mobile Application Sharing" (2016)
• Sathiaseelan, A .Lertsinsrubtavee, A. Jagan, P. Baskaran, J. Crowcroft, "Cloudrone: Micro Clouds in the Sky", ACM Mobisys Dronet 2016
• Argyrios Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras, Vasilis Sourlas, George Pavlou, "Tube Streaming: Modelling Collaborative Media Streaming in Urban Railway Networks", IFIP Networking 2016
• Rute Sofia, Paulo Mendes, "A Characterization Study of Human Wireless Footprints with PerSense Mobile Light", MobiArch 2016
• Dimitris Vardalis, Christos-Alexandros Sarros, Vassilis Tsaoussidis "Buffering... energy for mobile devices: A “store and rendezvous” approach"
• Christina M. Malliou, Nikolaos Bezirgiannidis, Vassilis Tsaoussidis "Bulk Data Transfers through an Airline Delay-Tolerant Network"
• Luis Lopes, Rute Sofia, Paulo Mendes, Waldir Moreira, "Oi! - Opportunistic Data Transmission based on Wi-Fi Direct", Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, USA, April 2016 (demo paper)
• Lertsinsrubtavee, L. Wang, A. Sathiaseelan, J. Crowcroft, N. Weshsuwannarugs, A. Tunpan, K. Kanchanasut, “Understanding Internet Usage and Network Locality in a Rural Community Wireless Mesh Network”,11th Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2015
• Wang, Liang, et al. "Pro-Diluvian: Understanding Scoped-Flooding for Content Discovery in Information-Centric Networking." Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information-Centric Networking. ACM, 2015
• Waldir Moreira and Paulo Mendes, "Pervasive Data Sharing as Enabler for Mobile Citizen Sensing Systems", IEEE Communications Magazine (2015)
• Susana PEREZ-SANCHEZ, Jose Maria CABERO, and Inigo URTEAGA, "DTN routing optimised by human routines: the HURRy protocol", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wired & Wireless Internet Communications, LNCS Volumes by Springer (2015)
• Mamatas, Lefteris; Papadopoulou, Alexandra; Tsaoussidis, Vassilis; "Exploiting Communication Opportunities in Disrupted Network Environments", The 13th International Conference on Wired & Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2015), Malaga, Spain,
• A. Sathiaseelan, L. Wang, A. Aucinas, G. Tyson, J. Crowcroft, "SCANDEX: Service Centric Networking for Challenged Decentralised Networks", 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Florence, May 2015