BIOlogically-inspired autonomic NETworks and Services

BIONETS DIT-PRJ-05-091

Homepage http://www.create-net.it/bionets/aree/overview/index.php
Status NOT active project
DISI role Coordinator
Project type Research Project
Dimension International
Acquisition date 2006-01-01
Start date 2006-01-01
End date 2009-12-31

Project details

Project astract The motivation for BIONETS comes from emerging trends towards pervasive computing and communication environments, where myriads of networked devices with very different features will enhance our five senses, our communication and tool manipulation capabilities. The complexity of such environments will not be far from that of biological organisms, ecosystems, and socio-economic communities.<br/><br/>Traditional communication approaches are ineffective in this context, since they fail to address several new features: a huge number of nodes including low-cost sensing/identifying devices, a wide heterogeneity in node capabilities, high node mobility, the management complexity, the possibility of exploiting spare node resources.<br/><br/>BIONETS aims at a novel approach able to address these challenges. Nature and society exhibit many instances of systems in which large populations are able to reach efficient equilibrium states and to develop effective collaboration and survival strategies, able to work in the absence of central control and to exploit local interactions. We seek inspiration from these systems to provide a fully integrated network and service environment that scales to large amounts of heterogeneous devices, and<br/>that is able to adapt and evolve in an autonomic way.<br/><br/>BIONETS overcomes device heterogeneity and achieves scalability via an autonomic and localized peer-to-peer communication paradigm. Services in BIONETS are also autonomic, and evolve to adapt to the surrounding environment, like living organisms evolve by natural selection. Biologically-inspired concepts permeate the network and its services, blending them together, so that the network moulds itself to the services it runs, and services, in turn, become a mirror image of the social networks of users they serve.
Keywords pervasive computing, biological inspired network, autonomic communication
Fundings 1860180 €
Partners
  • Create-Net
  • CNR
  • DIT - UniTN
  • Universitaet Basel-Computer Science Department
  • Technische Universitat Berlin-Fakultat IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik Sekretariat FR 5-14
  • Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V,University of Hamburg,Department of Computer Science
  • RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN,Department of Wireless Networks
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics,Department of Telecommunications
  • Nokia Corporation,Nokia Research Center / Networking Laboratory
  • Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus (TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND),VTT ELECTRONICS
  • Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique,INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit (Maestro team)
  • NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS,Dept. Informatics & Telecommunications/Faculty of Science/University of Athens
  • Telecom Italia Learning Services S.p.A.,Research & Development
  • London School of Economics and Political Science,Department of Media and Communications
  • Sun Microsystems Iberica SA,Client solutions
  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science
  • Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V
  • RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Nokia Corporation
  • Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus (TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND)
  • Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
  • NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
  • Telecom Italia Learning Services S.p.A.
  • London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Sun Microsystems Iberica SA
  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

DISI Sub-project details

Project astract BIONETS should include reputation mechanisms that allow soft management of nodes that are misusing resources or not fulfilling their obligations. Such solutions are implicitly implemented in social networks. Animal and human societies have set up complicated frameworks to establish reputation and trust.<br/><br/>Our proposed security solution will provide the framework for monitoring the performance of individual nodes and how well they honor their contractual obligations. Thus only nodes with a provable record of positive past interactions would be trusted to provide critical information and analysis.<br/><br/>In our opinion the key issue should be to integrate the identity and anonymity schemes with reputation mechanisms for continual monitoring of nodes in a BIO-NET. The research challenge here is provided by the existence of various classes of nodes that will require different levels of monitoring because of the <br/>different possible ranges of identities or pseudo-identities.<br/>
Keywords Trust, Reputation Management, Identity, Soft Management, Pseudonymity
Fundings 113421 €
Manager Roberto Battiti