All IP Networks for the FutuRe Internet of Smart Ob- jects
Smart Objects and the Internet of Things provide unparalleled means to connect the physical world
with the digital world, enabling important applications such as Smart Infrastructures or Smart Cities.
But existing systems are typically proprietary and tailored to one specific application,
which sacrifices interoperabiltiy and hinders widespread adoption.
This project proposes to explore how Smart Objects can be interconnected and viewed as interop-
erable IP based end-hosts on the Internet thus making the Future Internet of Smart Objects happen
and enabling the emergence of novel and exciting applications. We are not alone in seeing the vision
of IP-based smart objects, as evidenced by the IPSO Alliance, IETF standards (6LoWPAN, ROLL,
CoAP), and recent start-ups/industrials that follow the same track. However, even though the IETF
standardization process makes constant progress, there are still many research issues requiring
investigation and the whole approach calls for experimental validation.
IRIS leans on the significant body of work on sensor networks to bring energy-efficiency, ro-
bustness, quality of service, and flexibility into the IPv6 stack, a combination of features that
existing work has not previously done. IRIS addresses all architectural issues related to large-scale
networks of Smart Objects: the interaction of different layers with duty-cycled MAC (in particular, the
interaction of RPL routing and transport with energy-efficient MAC layers), the influence
of energy harvesting, inter-layer aspects of self-organization and self-stabilization, the adaptation
of 6LoWPAN to interoperate with standard IPv6 nodes, the analysis and optimization of routing
protocols, the design of suitable objective functions and metrics for routing, finding the right tradeoff
between performance and power consumption, taking advantage of multicast and anycast commu-
nications, considering mobility of a group of smart objects. Another research problem is related to
transport and applications layers: we propose to analyze the operation of transport protocols and
find adequate adaptations for the duty-cycled operation, enhance the CoAP RESTful protocol
layers, and provide a push-oriented communication paradigm for convergecast data generated
by sensor nodes.
We use two applications to drive our work: Smart Critial Infrastructures, and Cloud-
based services, all of which need both standardized interfaces, self-configuration and flexible means,
and extremely low power operation. We see experimental validation and evaluation as critical to the
success of the project. Therefore, we will extensively rely on the ANR large-scale distributed
SensLAB platform to which several partners have priviledged access. This gives a structure for
evaluation that has not previously been available.
We expect IRIS results to impact four areas: standards, open source software, scientific research,
and commercial products. The project partners have extensive experience in the application domains,
the IETF, sensor networks, and large-scale experiments.
PARTENAIRESGrenoble INP Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Laboratoire LIG LSIIT Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Images, de l’Informatique et de la Télédétection (Université de Strasbourg) SEN.SE STMICROELECTRONICS SA THALES COMMUNICATIONS & SECURITY SA UPMC Universtié Paris 6-LIP6 Aide de l’ANR : 985 895 euros |
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