Autonomic Distributed Environments for Mobility
Humans and more generally agents (virtual humans and machines, robot or physical devices) interact in highly dynamic distributed environments. They can join, leave or move inside a global infrastructure. These features require the implementation of dynamic systems, that is to say they can cope autonomously with changes in their structure, in terms of physical facilities, software, and virtual infrastructures. It therefore becomes necessary to define, develop, and validate self-organized, self-healing, and secure architectures of heterogeneous, autonomous and cooperative mobile entities. Such distributed architectures are sometime gathered under the generic term of Autonomic Computing, referring to self-* properties of distributed systems adapting to unpredictable changes.
The unprecedented scales to consider, the dynamics of the system, as well as the heterogeneity of devices, usages, and participants make the design of such infrastructures extremely challenging in three main fields: modeling, networking, and virtualization for the cloud.
Main Challenges:
1. Modeling using real traces to capture global properties
2. Network design
3. Virtualization and Clouds
Contact: Franck Petit (LIP6), Pierre Sens (LIP6)