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Dr Ioannis Psaras presented the GreenICN work at the Department of Informatics of the University of Sussex

Dr Ioannis Psaras presented the GreenICN work on “Name-Based Replication Priorities in Disaster Cases” at the Department of Informatics of the University of Sussex on the 26th of February 2014. Members of the group where our work was presented is active in the area of DTN and ad hoc communications and are also keen on the ICN paradigm. The audience (of around 15 people) liked the idea of name-based replication and the discussion focused around the adoption of our proposed scheme in some of their projects.

University of Goettingen and KDDI Meeting

Researchers from the university of Goettingen and KDDI  R&D Labs met from the 5th of February till the 7th of February in order to advance the GreenICN projects work on disrupted networks and delay tolerant networks.

Atsushi Tagami and Kohei Sugiyama also presented their work to the staff and students of the Computer science institute at the University of Goettingen.

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EU partners meeting in Rome, 14-16 January 2014

The EU partners held a working meeting in Rome from the 14th of January till the 16th of January, 2014. The meeting was held at the “Tor Vergata University” and was organized by Prof. Nicola Blefari Melazzi and Prof. Andrea Detti.

The meeting was attended by all the partners working on the networking aspect of GreenICN and the main focus of the meeting was the development of the “Internames” architecture. Moreover, we discussed the next steps in preparation for submitting the deliverables as well as the first official review meeting in May.

 

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K. K. Ramakrishnan represented GreenICN at the COMSNET panel discussions.

The COMSNET (http://www.comsnets.org/archive/2014) was held in Bangalore, India from the 7th of January till the 10th of January, 2014. K.K. Ramakrishnan was part of the panel titled “Telling gold from pyrite: Promising research direction or hype ?” and represented GreenICN (http://www.comsnets.org/archive/2014/panel_discussions.html). The goal of the panel was to understand how to identify if an emerging technology is a hype or a promising research direction. The case studies considered were AI, P2P, CCN, Cloud, BigData and SDN.

The following is a list of all the panelist:

  1. Romit Roy Choudhury,  Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA
  2. Krishna Gummadi , Head of Network Systems Research, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany
  3. Rajat Moona, Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
  4. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA
  5. K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Fellow and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs-Research, USA,

The 2nd Workshop on Name-Oriented Mobility (NOM): Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2014

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NOM 2013 Call for Papers
The 2nd Workshop on Name-Oriented Mobility (NOM): Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications
in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2014
April 28 or May 2, 2014
Toronto, Canada
http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2014/Workshops_NOM.html
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GreenICN partners are part of the Steering committee as well as the TPC.

Prof. Tohru Asami, presented GreenICN at the 12th MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair 2013

Prof. Tohru Asami presented GreenICN at the 12th MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair 2013.

“MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair” has been held for the promotion of mobile

computing and the development of the mobile market, and is evaluated as
an only one mobile professionals’ exhibition in Japan. The URL of this
fair is as follows.
http://www.mcpc-jp.org/fair2013/index.html

12th MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair 2013 is held in TEPIA (Association for
Technological Excellence Promoting Innovative Advances), 2-8-44,
Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061, Japan, Tokyo. It is sponsored by
Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium (MCPC), co-sponsored by Japan
Electronic and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA),
and supported by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National
Federation of Societies of Commerce and Industry, National Federation of
Small Business Associations, Communications and Information network
Association (CIAJ), IT Coordinator Association (ITCA), Embassy of UK,
Embassy of Canada , Korea Trade -Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)
Tokyo IT support center, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the
Inter-Embassies IT & Mobile Forum (IEMF), and ASP-SaaS – cloud
Consortium (ASPIC).

 

Prof. Asami, presented it as a special lecture from 10:30 to 11:30 on Friday, November 22, 2013 just after the talk by the opening speech by Mr. Hideo Fudeda, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The audience size was about 250 participants in the hall and about 30+ participants watching via TV screens.

 

 

GreenICN meets in Tokyo, 11-13 November 2013.

The GreenICN consortium met in Tokyo from the 11th to the 13th  of November 2013 and made advances in the design of the architecture and naming. The meeting was held in the University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus and was arranged by Prof. Asami and the local organization was handled by Tagami-san, KDDI.

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Parallel sessions were held to discuss application specific issues (Disaster and Video). The meeting also had some preliminary demos involving Panasonic, CEDEO, CNIT and Uni-Goettingen.

 

Below are some snaps taken during the intense technical sessions and the cooling down phase in the evening.

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The next EU-Japan meeting is scheduled for May along with the First review meeting. In the mean time, the Japanese and EU partners will have separate meetings, most likely in January.