Nov 19

DiYSE project recevies the prestigious ITEA Silver Award 2012

The   DiYSE project was awarded the prestigious ITEA Silver Award 2012.

Each year, the ITEA Achievement award highlights very successful projects with outstanding contributions to the ITEA programme. Major factors include innovation, exploitation and dissemination. As ITEA aims to make Europe’s industry more competitive, effective industrial exploitation of project results is crucial.

The Internet of Things (IoT) marks the next major revolution in worldwide connectivity. The ITEA 2 DiYSE project has developed a technical platform to overcome barriers to user-generated IoT applications for ordinary people, developers and other ecosystem actors alike. Key outcomes are a live public experimental Internet site and a series of underlying technical assets, many already being exploited.

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Mar 21

SERVERY project receives the prestigious Celtic Gold Award 2012

The SERVERY project was awarded the prestigious Celtic plus excellence award2012 in gold at Stockholm.

SERVERY’s main objective is related to the creation of a Service Marketplace, i.e. the possibility for end user to access to a great deal of innovative services created by professionals or by the user‘s community. The idea is to take advantage of the Internet and the Telco environment, considering the different architectural approaches (the innovative one of the Web 2.0. and the reliable and standardized one of IMS). The marketplace infrastructure aims at bridging the Web-based and IMS network, in order to make available a totally new operating environment, based on the flexibility and friendliness of former and the reliability of the latter, specifically considering security, charging and identity management.

Mar 21

Prof W.S Rhee joins the lab for a 1 year sabbatival leave

Pr Woo Seop Rhee, Hanbat University, Seoul, Korea. joins the lab for a 1 year sabbatical leave from Feb 2012.

Prof Woo Seop Rhee received B.S. degree in computer science from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1983 and M.S., and Ph.D. degree in 1995 and 2003, respectively, in computer science from Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea. From 1983 to 2005, he was with the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI). He involved in development of TDX switching system, HANbit ACE ATM switching system and Optical access system as a project leader. In 2005, Dr. Rhee joined Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea and is currently associate professor of Information & Communication devision. His research interests are concerned with broadband network architecture, quality of service in Internet and mobility management with multicast. He is an active member of ITU-T SG 13 as Editor and member of KICS in Korea and IEEE.

Jan 19

Xiaodi Huang (CSU, Australia) joins the team for a sabbatical leave

Dr Xiaodi Huang, Assoc. Prof in the School of Business and Information Technology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, joins the Service Architecture Lab for a sabbatical leave. His focus will be in data mining for Online Social Networks and Web Services.

Jan 18

Best Paper Award at ICNS 2011

The International Conference on Networking and Services, that took place on May 22-27 in Venice, Italy, has selected S.H. Shah Newaz, R.U Akbar, Y. Lim, and J.Y Choi, G.M Lee, N. Crespi’s paper entitled “Efficient Mobile IP Location Update Mechanism for Idle Terminals in Optical Wireless Integrated Access Networks” for its Best Paper Awards. The conference covers fundamentals on networking and services, and highlights new challenging industrial and research topics. Ubiquitous services, next generation networks, inter-provider quality of service, GRID networks and services. The paper is a collective work between Telecom SudParis and ETRI, Korea.

Oct 27

Standardisation for SUN (Smart Ubiquitous Networks) in ITU-T (May 2011)

Due to emerging trends in ICT concerning the extension of communication objects (including not only humans but also machines and objects) and ways of communication, the ITU-T Study Group 13 has proposed a name – SUN (Smart Ubiquitous Networks) – as a new vision that incorporates current activities and emerging trends. At the meeting in May, it was decided that activities for SUN in the following areas would commence: content awareness, context awareness, programmability, smart resources management and autonomic network management.

N.B – The definition of SUN is IP-based packet networks that can provide transport and delivery to a wide range of existing and emerging services to people and things. The services provided by the networks can cover aspects such as control, processing and storage. The networks are smart in the sense that they are knowledgeable, context-aware, adaptable, autonomous and programmable, and can instigate services effectively and securely. The networks are ubiquitous in the sense that they allow access anytime, anywhere, through varied access technologies, access devices including end user devices and human-machine interfaces.

Oct 27

ITU-T Internet of Things Global Standards Initiative event (May 2011)

During the last ITU-T Telecommunication Standardisation Advisory Group meeting held in February, it was agreed upon to establish an Internet of Things Global Standards Initiative (IoT-GSI) to promote a unified approach in ITU-T for the development of technical standards, or Recommendations, enabling the Internet of Things on a global scale. ITU-T Recommendations developed under the IoT-GSI by the various ITU-T Questions – in collaboration with other standards developing organizations – will enable worldwide service providers to offer the wide range of services expected by this technology.

At the first meeting of IoT-GSI in May 2011, the group agreed to develop a deliverable that describes objectives (very high level requirements), characteristics, ecosystem and business models, high-level IoT diagrams and key areas.

Website: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/gsi/iot/Pages/default.aspx

Oct 27

Standardisation for Internet of Things in IETF (March 2011)

The IAB’s workshop on “Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet” was held in Prague on the 25th March 2011, which aimed to explore the experience and approaches taken by researchers and developers of Internet technology when considering the characteristics of constrained devices.  Our team’s position paper was accepted and key experts presented their views for future standardization. A draft report is now available.

All accepted position papers: http://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/smartobjects/papers/

Program: http://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/smartobjects/agenda/

Report: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-iab-smart-object-workshop-00.txt

In addition, an IoT research workshop was held on the 31st March 2011. In this workshop, several issues including architecture, naming and transport protocols were raised. Our team presented an internet-draft on the problem statement, and had a meeting with the EU IoT Architecture project team for future collaboration.

Oct 12

Collaborative paper wins Best Paper Award at ICSEA 2010

The International Conference on Software Engineering Advances 2010, that took place on August 22-27 in Nice, France, has selected Jacques Simonin, Emmanuel Bertin, Yves Le Traon, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, and Noël Crespi’s paper entitled “Business and Information System Alignment: A Formal Solution for Telecom Services” for one of its Best Paper Awards. The conference covers a broad spectrum of software-related topics, including fundamentals on designing, implementing, testing, validating and maintaining various kinds of software. The paper is a collective work between SAL, TELECOM Bretagne, Orange Labs and INRIA, and proposes a new formal solution to analyze the consistency between the target functional view and the target business view of telecom services.

Oct 12

DiYSE project wins the ITEA2 Exhibition Award 2010


During the ITEA2-Artemis Co-summit, that took place on October 26-27 in Ghent, Belgium, visitors elected “Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences” to win the Exhibition Award for the best and most understandable project showcased at the event. The two-day co-summit focused on scalability and growth in software-intensive systems and services. The event included the biggest exhibition of funded collaborative research, development and innovation projects in software-intensive systems & services and embedded systems in Europe. Exhibitors included the 70 ITEA and ARTEMIS projects as well as national competitiveness clusters, Flemish projects, several EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) projects and EUREKA projects. Over 600 R&D actors and policy makers from industry, research organisations, academia and public authorities from around the world participated.