COST IC0906 WiNeMO

Wireless Networking for Moving Objects

Working Groups

Structure of WGs/SIGs

During the 4th MC meeting a decision on re-organization of working style has been taken. Due to low efficiency of WG/SIG operation MC decided to take ad-hoc approach driven by the current research topics. The result of these efforts is so-called “White Paper” representing up-to-date vision on every particular topic.

White papers of WiNeMO


Working Group 1 :: Network Architectures

Chairs: Hakima Chaouchi (IT SudParis, France) and Paulo Mendes (University of Lusofona, Portugal)

List of participants

  • Architectures for WiNeMO, in particular the incentive-driven architectures for autonomous environment;
  • Architectures for disruptive-tolerant networks;
  • Role-based architectures. Modular architectures based on atomic networking functions and general interfaces between them to allow an effective cross-layering;
  • Seamless content-based services and applications;
  • Handling of user’s requirements in terms of QoS, security/privacy, etc.
  • Mobility and interoperability between different network domains;
  • Security and privacy;
  • Addressing and tracking of roaming WiNeMO objects;
  • Novel routing algorithms and protocols (e.g., opportunistic, named-based, declarative, location-based etc.); content-service based routing;
  • Description language: ontologies, categorization and meta data / meta information;
  • Reliable communication; Control/Data/Management planes.
Working Group 2 :: Protocol Engineering, cross-layering and cooperation

Chairs: Evgeni Osipov (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) and Boris Bellalta (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

List of participants

  • A cooperative MIMO architecture for wireless networkable objects;
  • Algorithms and techniques to coordinate multiple transmissions from different objects in order to improve the communication range and reliability with lower power consumption (cooperative MIMO, network coding);
  • Optimization of resource management, seamless transmission, intelligent information filtering and joint energy conservation;
  • A joint MAC/routing approaches for event-based WiNeMO networks;
  • Medium Access Control protocols for cognitive spectrum solutions; Delay tolerant routing protocols for moving objects with sporadic connectivity;
  • Novel realistic mobility models for relevant application scenarios to support evaluation of the developed algorithms, protocols, techniques and mechanisms;
  • Mobility scenarios under dynamic and agile requirements;
  • Performance evaluation and protocol stack optimization;
  • Cross layer solutions.
Working Group 3 :: Applications and services

Chair: Dirk Staehle (University of Würzburg, Germany)

List of participants

  • Seamless content-based services and applications;
  • Assessment of the Quality of Experience for different types of traffic in heterogeneous environments;
  • Communication interfaces between application and the network stack within the service oriented architecture vision;
  • Protocols ensuring application, session and network mobility in an integrated way.
  • Methods for synchronized processing of heterogeneous data traffic within compound real time interactive applications and services;
  • Dynamic adaptation of audio-video codecs depending on the context information;
  • Assessment of the quality of experience for different types of traffic in heterogeneous environments.
Working Group 4 :: Use-cases, soceital and economical aspects

List of participants

Chair: Jonathan Ismael (Lancaster University, UK)

  • Design and evaluation of stand-alone and joint tesbeds, and living labs;
  • Concept, functional description and analysis of realistic use-cases;
  • Economic and societal impact;
  • Pricing mechanisms and business models for novel applications and services.
SIG on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Chair: Alexey Vinel (SPIIRAS, Russia) and Tatiana Madsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

  • Protocols for inter-vehicle communication
  • Vehicular mobility
  • ITS infrastructure