Postdoc position

We recently opened a postdoc position, available ASAP.

Additionally to this postdoc announcement, please note that there will be a "social networks, mobility" tenured position for a junior researcher to be recruited in 2010 at CNRS (ref. 42/04). cf. the CNRS website.

Here's the topic of the postdoc :

Many users travel daily with computing devices possessing both communication and geographical positioning peripherals, e.g., portable WiFi telephones equipped with GPS. These devices, connected together, potentially constitute a large distributed system with a very dynamic topology. Information about mobility, such as the positioning of nodes and their movement, is an essential characteristic of any realistic approach for ubiquitous systems.

The ARUM project aims to place the mobility concept at the center of distributed algorithms for resilient ubiquitous systems via the exploration of the relationship between the computational and physical aspects of failure-prone mobile systems. Both practical and theoretical aspects are to be considered, based on the collection and exploitation of mobility and failure data captured on mobile phones. The analysis of the collected data should enable the definition of realistic mobility and failure models. These models will be used for the validation of mobile services: (a) by experimentation on a platform composed of real mobile nodes (cf. the blog) and (b) by simulation.

From a practical viewpoint, the data collection campaign will be started early 2010 and will be based on portable telephones equipped with GPS (Nokia 5800 smart-phones). A prototype application was developed and the actual deployed software is to be finalized. The post-doc will thus: 1) maintain and evolve this software, 2) deploy and manage the experiments, 3) collect and sanitize the collected data, 4) analyze the data and develop appropriate models.

The gross salary will be 30k€ per year (2040 € per month after mandatory health and social insurance), the position is available for up to 2 years.

Send your application letter, including CV, thesis reports, publications list and names of referents, by email to Marc-Olivier Killijian.

Do not hesitate to contact Marc-Olivier Killijian for more information.

The platform shot

Our platform was shot by a team from CNRS image and should appear as the Friday Featured Video on the main CNRS webpage early 2010.

Appearance on ICT results webpage

We are very proud to appear on the official Cordis website as the picture illustrating the Hidenets project.

Big demo day

On the 17th of March 2009, we had a big demonstration of the distributed blackbox testbed of the Hidenets project. It is a avionics-like blackbox running on top of a partial Hidenets architecture with the following blocks: Proximity Map, Trust and Cooperation Oracle, Cooperative data backup. The demos were successful and shot on film. We are currently editing a movie but just to show off, here's a preliminary shoot.