Telecommunications Research at INRIA : Overview
Since 1997, telecommunications have been established as a strategic
priority by INRIA. Strenghts of INRIA in this sector lie in the areas
of software and mathematical modeling, and, to a lesser extend, in
communication technologies. Components, electronics, and physics,
are not within the scope of INRIA research. In this domain, INRIA
is a corporate research partner of Alcatel, France Télécom, Hitachi,
Thales and develops huge research programs with Microsoft Research,
Philips, Texas Instruments, and Thomson.
Current main research areas include: network architecture and performance
with emphazis on Internet, software infrastructure and middleware
for services, self-management, mobile and wireless communications,
ubiquitous and ambient computing, multimedia communications and contents,
Web services and applications.
Some highlights include, e.g.:
- the development of End-to-End Internet/ADSL performance prediction
and dimensioning technology and the launching of the startup N2NSoft;
- the development of UDLR IETF protocol with applications to DVB-H
and the creation of the startup UDCast,
- the ObjectWeb open source infrastructure and consortium (C-JDBC : a database cluster middleware
that allows any Java application was awarded during the LinuxWorld
2004 conference),
- soft decoding and synchronization of arithmetic and quasi-arithmetic
codes contributed to JPEG-2000/JWL
wireless standard.
- standardization actvities e.g. at the IETF (Internet Engineering
Task Force) where protocols such as OLSR
(routing protocol for ad hoc networks) or HMIPv6 (Hierarchical
Mobile IPv6 mobility management) have been recently approved as "RFC",
- a joint research with Texas Instruments focused on accelerating Java applications on
mobile devices
Research on Networks
Research on Services and Contents
INRIA, brief
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