Fw: [asr-forum] Available Ph.D. position

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>
> Available Ph.D. position
>
> High-level abstraction for network programming
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>
> Contacts:
> Prof. S. Ubéda (stephane.ubeda@insa-lyon.fr)
> Prof. S. Grumbach (Stephane.Grumbach@inria.fr)
>
> Located in the CITI laboratory (Lyon, France) and the LIAMA Institute
> (Beijing, China)
>
> Research areas: networking protocols and database technology
> Keywords: networking protocols, declarative languages, P2P, adaptive
> behavior
>
>
> Environment
> ------------
> The trend towards ubiquitous wireless communication is accelerated with
> wireless
> technologies interconnecting an increasing number of heterogeneous devices
> such as
> sensors, PDA's, wearable computers, etc. This leads to an increase of the
> complexity
> and dynamics of communication networks. More and more facilities will be
> interconnected temporarily in dynamic networks, and cooperate to carry on
> common tasks. The constraints of the participating nodes, such as their
> limited
> energy, their communication capabilities, their mobility, as well as the
> distribution
> of the resources, make data and network management very challenging.
>
>
> Objectives
> -----------
> The objective of this thesis is to develop a framework, which allows to
> program both
> networking protocols (eg routing) as well as distributed applications (eg
> P2P content
> distribution) in a simple and declarative manner. Programming in a
> declarative manner
> means specifying the desired results and not the algorithms to compute
> them. The system
> is thus in charge of generating, as much as possible optimized,
> distributed algorithms.
>
> The objective is to extend to networks the approach that has made the
> success of
> databases, relying on a clear separation between a logical and a physical
> model,
> which allows users and applications to access data through declarative
> queries
> (eg SQL), leaving the system compute optimized execution plans. The
> languages
> which will be used originate from the database field. They allow an
> application
> oriented vs system oriented programming. Finally, the network is hidden in
> databases
> and a control packet of routing protocols is viewed as a recursive request
> which is
> recursively propagated to the neighbourhood of the source node.
>
> Having essentially query languages at our disposal, the system will rely
> on embedded
> databases in each node of the network, to perform the local computation,
> whether related
> to networking or to applications. This facilitates the development of the
> code, which
> will make use of functionalities of the embedded DBMS (Data Base
> Management System),
> but moreover it allows the language to operate on heterogeneous
> architectures and networks.
>
> The thesis will contribute to the development of the methodology, in
> particular the
> distributed query processing techniques, the declarative networking
> approach, the development of
> new routing mechanisms relying on queries, as well as the proof of concept
> with the participation to
> the development of a system prototype.
>
> References
> -----------
>
> * Stéphane Grumbach, Jialiang Lu, Wenwu Qu: Self-organization of Wireless
> Networks
> Through Declarative Local Communication. OTM Workshops (1) 2007: 497-506
>
> * S. Abiteboul, I. Manolescu, O. Benjelloun, T. Milo, B. Cautis, N. Preda.
> Lazy Query
> Evaluation for Active XML. In Proc. of the 2004 ACMSIGMOD Intl. Conf. on
> Management of
> Data, 2004.
>
> * Xiuzhen Cheng and Min Ding and David Hongwei Du and Xiaohua Jia. Virtual
> backbone
> construction in multihop ad hoc wireless networks. Wireless Communications
> and Mobile,
> Computing, March, Number 2, Volume 6, p 183-190, 2006
>
> * D. B. Johnson, D. A. Maltz. Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless
> Networks. In
> Mobile Computing, edited by Tomasz Imielinski and Hank Korth, Chap. 5, pp
> 153-181.
> Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
>
> * Deshpande, Z. Ives, V. Raman, Adaptive Query Processing, Foundations and
> Trends in
> Databases: Vol. 1: No 1, pp 1-140, 2007.
>
> * Fei Dai and Jie, Virtual Backbone Construction in MANETs using
> Adjustable Transmission
> Ranges. to appear IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
>
> * B. Loo, J. Hellerstein, I. Stoica. Declarative networking: Language,
> Execution and
> Optimization, in "Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD", June 2006.
>
> * S. Xiang, H. B. Lim, K.L. Tan, Multiple Query Optimization for Wireless
> Sensor Networks,
> In IEEE 23rd Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007.
>
> * J.-L. Lu, F. Valois, D. Barthel, M. Dohler A Fully Integrated Scheme of
> self-Configuration and self-Organization for WSN, IEEE Wireless
> Communications and
> Networking Conference (WCNC'07), Hong-Kong, March 2007.
>
> Prerequisites
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> * Database management systems and query languages
> * Networking protocols
> * Good programming skills (java, C++)
>
> The Ph.D. student should work during 18 months in China and the rest of
> the time in France.
> The schedule should be discussed between the Ph.D. student and the two
> research teams.
>
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> Professor UBEDA STEPHANE -- INSA-Lyon
> Head of CITI Lab & AMAZONES INRIA Project
> Tel: +33 (0)4 7243 6069
> http://citi.insa-lyon.fr
>
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