Research Agencies
National research Agency (ANR) [external link]
National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) [external link]
National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Ministry of Higher Education and Research Roadmap (2012-2020). (See “Digital Sciences and Mathematics” section; p.16f) [external link]
National Research Agency (ANR) Strategy (2011-2013). (See “Digital Technologies” section 6.5; p.20f) [external link]
EU Commission Review of FP7 funding (See 4th bullet point on p.1) [external link]
CNRS Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies; Research Priorities. (See section “Strategic Priorities”)[external link]
INRIA Strategic Plan (2013-2017) (See p.29f for research strategy and priority areas) [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€275 – €550 million.
Best Estimate: circa €400 million
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Organisations
Cap Digital [external link]
Thales [external link]
Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies Department [external link]
Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies [external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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COATI
COATI is working on several concurrent projects which seek solutions to mathematical challenges arising from the development of the future internet.
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Coeur de Filiére Numerique
Coeur de filiére numerique” is an initiative launched by the French Ministry of Crafts whcih aims to create a new ecosystem of technological innovation and application through targeted funding of key research and development areas.
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CORMORAN
The CORMORAN project seeks to develop innovative communication features and radiolocation based on these cooperative inter/intra-WBANs radio links.
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Ctrl-Green: The Autonomous Management of Green Data Centres
The Ctrl-Green project aims to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of autonomous management systems through the integration of new green metrics and control capabilities.
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Data Integration and Mining
The Data Integration and Mining team is interested in the problems of multi-source data access and data mining of data from the web or from temporal (RSS, sensors) or spatiotemporal (moving objects) flows.
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DIONYSOS
The main objectives of the DIONYSOS (Dependability Interoperability and perfOrmance aNalYsiS Of networkS) project are the identification,conception and selection of the most appropriate network architectures of a communication service, as well as the development of computing and mathematical tools for the fulfillment of these tasks.
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Future Internet of Things
The Future Internet of Things project aims to develop an experimental Future Internet research facility, and a federated and competitive infrastructure with international visibility
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Future Ubiquitous Networks
Future Ubiquitous Networks (FUN) aims to develop self-organization solutions for future wireless sensor, actuator and RFID networks.
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GANG: Networks, graphs and algorithms
The GANG project focuses on the design of algorithms for large scale networks, making use of the structural properties of the networks themselves.
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ImaginLab
Imaginlab is a telco grade Next Generation Network dedicated to experimentation in the realm of ICT. Imaginlab is to the fore in developing the technologies at the core of the Future Internet to the benefit of telecommunication operators, broadcasters, content providers, application developers and end users.
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IRIS: IP Networks for the Future Internet of Objects
IRIS aims to explore how Smart Objects can be connected to IP enabled Internet terminal equipment, making possible the emergence of new and attractive applications of Internet of Things technologies.
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MADYNES
The MADYNES project focuses on applied and experimental research dedicated to the management of Future Internet networks and services.
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MAESTRO
The ambition of MAESTRO is to provide the internet community with methods and tools for the performance evaluation, optimization and administration of networks through research into stochastic Discrete-Event Dynamical Systems and heterogeneous networks.
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RAP: Networks, Algorithms and Probability
The general goal of the RAP project is to design, analyse and optimise algorithms for complex communication networks as well as to investigate and develop probabilistic models of such networks, using stochastic methods and processes.
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Resource Allocation in Wireless Communication Systems
This project focuses on the allocation of centralised and distributed resources in order to optimise the functioning of wireless communication systems.
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SASCO
The objective of the SASCO project is, in the context of high-performance systems and critical applications, to design self-adaptive ICT systems able which take into account their immediate environment and adapt to different scenarios.
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