- EU COST COSTNET (January 2016 – December 2019)
The EU COST project COSTNET (European Cooperation for Statistics of Network Data Science) is chaired by Ernst Wit (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). A major challenge in many modern economic, epidemiological, ecological and biological questions is to understand the randomness in the network structure of the entities they study. Although analysis of data on networks goes back to at least the 1930s, the importance of statistical network modeling for many areas of substantial science has only been recognized in the past decade. There are excellent statistical network scientists, but cross-disciplinary collaboration has been slow. This Action aims to facilitate interaction and collaboration between diverse groups of statistical network modelers, establishing a large and vibrant interconnected and inclusive community of network scientists. On the scientific level, the aim of this Action is to critically assess commonalities and opportunities for cross-fertilization of statistical network models in various applications, with a particular attention to scalability in the face of Big Data.
- EU COST ACROSS (November 2013 – November 2017)
The EU COST project ACROSS (Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services) is coordinated by Rob Van Der Mei (CWI) and J.L. Van Den Berg (TNO, The Netherlands). Currently, we are witnessing a paradigm shift from the traditional information-oriented Internet into an Internet of Services (IoS). This transition opens up virtually unbounded possibilities for creating and deploying new services. Eventually, the ICT landscape will migrate into a global system where new services are essentially large-scale service chains, combining and integrating the functionality of (possibly huge) numbers of other services offered by third parties, including cloud services. At the same time, as our modern society is becoming more and more dependent on ICT, these developments raise the need for effective means to ensure quality and reliability of the services running in such a complex environment. Motivated by this, the aim of this Action is to create a European network of experts, from both academia and industry, aiming at the development of autonomous control methods and algorithms for a reliable and quality-aware IoS.
- CONGAS (October 2012 – September 2015)
MAESTRO was a member of the FP7 STREP european project CONGAS (Dynamics and COevolution in Multi Level Strategic iNteraction GAmeS). The project management of CONGAS was performed by CREATE-NET and the scientific coordination of CONGAS was performed by Inria (MAESTRO). The participants were Université D’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (UAPV, France), Technische Universiteit Delft (TUDelft, The Netherlands), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom), Universityá di Pisa (UNIPI, Italy) and Technion – Israel Institute of Techonology (Israel). CONGAS developed new mathematical models and tools, rooted in game theory, for the analysis, prediction and control of dynamical processes in complex systems. It provided a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of structure and patterns in these systems, accounting for interactions spanning various scales in time and space, and acting at different structural and aggregation levels.
The project’s final evaluation by the european commission considered the project as having “excellent achievements” in all its objectives.
- Network of Excellence TREND (1 September 2010 – 31 August 2013)
The NoE TREND (Towards Real Energy-efficient Network Design), coordinated by Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO) (Italy), had as partners: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (France), Huawei Technologies Dusseldorf GmbH (HWDU) (Germany), Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo (TID) (Spain), France Telecom – Orange (FT) (France), Fastweb (FW) (Italy), Universidad Carlos III (UC3M) (Spain), iMinds (Belgium), Technical University of Berlin (TUB) (Germany), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland), Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT, Italy), Panepistimio Thessalias – University of Thessaly (UTH, Greece) and collaborating institutions: Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (Italy), Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (Germany), Institute IMDEA Networks (Spain), CNR Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR) (Italy), International Hellenic University (Greece), INRIA (France) and Boston University (USA).
TREND aimed at integrating the activities of major European players in networking, including manufacturers, operators, research centers, to quantitatively assess the energy demand of current and future telecom infrastructures, and to design energy-efficient, scalable and sustainable future networks. MAESTRO’s task was to propose and analyze energy-aware network cellular network design and management, in collaboration with the other partners.
- ICT STREP ECODE (2008-2011)
The goal of ECODE (Experimental COgnitive Distributed Engine) was to develop, to implement and to validate experimentally a cognitive routing system able to meet the challenges experienced by the Internet in terms of manageability and security, availability and accountability, as well as routing system scalability and quality. MAESTRO’s task was the design and evaluation of flow management schemes that can deal with potentially sampled traffic information. The project had 7 partners, including Inria project-teams MAESTRO and PLANETE, and was coordinated by D. Papadimitriou (Alcatel-Lucent Bell, Belgium).
- IST FET BIONETS (January 2006 – February 2010)
BIONETS (BIOlogically-inspired autonomic NETworks and Services) focused on the design of protocols that will allow evolution of services over a self-organizing wireless network that contains a huge amount of cheap sensors, as well as a limited number of intelligent terminals. The project followed an inter-disciplinary strategy for designing such networks (called bionets) by using methods and tools from biology, physics, economics. MAESTRO’s task was to collect such tools and to adapt them to BIONETS. The project had 16 partners, including Inria project-teams MAESTRO and OASIS, and was coordinated by D. Miorandi (Create-Net, Italy). E. Altman was the coordinator of the work package on “Paradigm Collection and Foundations”.
- Network of Excellence EuroNF (2008-2009)
MAESTRO was a member of the Network of Excellence EuroNF. “Its main target is to integrate the research effort of the partners to be a source of innovation and a think tank on possible scientific, technological and socio-economic trajectories towards the network of the future”.
- Network of Excellence EuroFGI (2007-2008)
MAESTRO was a member of the Network of Excellence EuroFGI which was devoted to the “Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet”. MAESTRO was involved in the EuroFGI Specific Joint Research Project “JRA.S.29 MMSOS” (2007). MMSOS (Mathematical Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems) aims at providing a general modeling and model evaluation methodology that is capable of specifying and evaluating self-organizing systems for a wide area of applications.
- Network of Excellence EuroNGI (2004-2006)
MAESTRO was a member of the Network of Excellence EuroNGI. MAESTRO participated in three Specific Joint Research Projects, “JRA.S.07/S.25 Cellular” (2005/2006), “JRA.S.11/S.19 Fairness” (2005/2006) and “JRA.S.23 Delayed” (2006).
- “Cellular” focused on cross-layer protocol design for wireless networks.
- “Fairness” (project coordinator: P. Nain) was devoted to the performance evaluation of fair and efficient scheduling in wired and wireless networks.
- “Delayed” focused on transfer control with delayed feedback signals.
E. Altman was the co-coordinator of the EuroNGI Work Package on “Control and optimization in telecommunication networks”.
