The third F2F CONTACT meeting was hold in the premises of HES-SO in the beautiful city of Sierre from 07 to 09 June

The second F2F CONTACT meeting will be held in University of Bern from 30 November to 01 December 

Prof. Mario Gerla is visiting SnT and getting to know about CONTACT on 18^th November.

Maria Rita Palattella gave a talk at LCES (ITS session) in Qingdao, China, November 2016

Certification of Appreciation 

Our paper SDN Coordination for CCN and FC Content Dissemination in VANETs obtained a certification of appreciation in ADHOCNET conference held in Ottawa

September 2016: Work in-progress accepted !

Our paper "A Centralized Approach for Setting Floating Content Dissemination in VANETs" has been accepted as work in progress paer in CCNC 2017 that will be held in Las Vegas, USA. 

July 2016: Paper accepted !

Our paper "SDN Coordination for CCN and FC Content Dissemination in VANETs" has been accepted in ADHOCNET conference that will be held in Ottawa 

12-13 May 2016:Kick-off meeting

 The CONTACT project consortium partners met in SnT, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Trust (Luxembourg). The purpose of this meeting is to officially start up the project,  establish a common understanding of goals as well as the work to be carried out by each partner and plan the next steps.

University of Luxembourg – SnT 

The CONTACT project will be carried and coordinated in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, SnT, at the University

of Luxembourg, particularly by NetLab, headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel, who will be the Principal Investigator (PI) for the project. Over 20

research projects have been launched in the NetLab group, funded by partners, EU/FP7/H2020, and FNR. Among them, 6 projects on VANETs

and one on SDN (CoSDN lead by Dr. Maria Rita Palattella) are running. 

University of Bern

The Communication and Distributed (CDS) research group at the Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (IAM) of University

of Bern (UBERN) is headed by Prof. Torsten Braun since 1998. The CDS research group has been involved in several national and international

collaboration projects, among them the EU FP7 Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN), which is currently investigating the usefulness of CCN in

4G/5G mobile telecommunication networks, in particular for caching and load balancing. Currently, UBERN is running two SNSF funded basic

research projects on ICN/CCN.

HESSO

The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (Haute Ecole Spécialisée-Suisse Occidentale: HESSO) is composed by over ten campuses, with a total of 19’000 enrolled students. The main mission of the IIG Lab of HESSO (lead by Dr. Gianluca Rizzo) is to carry out R&D activities in partnership with industry and SMEs in order to foster innovation and technology transfer. Dr. Rizzo has supervised a PhD thesis on Floating content for the last four years.

CarPostal Suisse SA   

 CarPostal Suisse is the leading bus company in Switzerland's public transport network. With over 3,700 employees (incl. the drivers of the CarPostal

companies) and around 2,200 vehicles at its disposal, all equipped with WIFI conectivity CarPostal carries round 141 million passengers each year.

It has a share capital of CHF 72 million. Its trademark – the three-tone horn and the yellow Postbuses – are part of Switzerland's cultural identity.

The CarPostal brand embodies the values of reliability, security and trust.

• Maria Rita Palattella (University of Luxembourg): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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• Stefanie Oestlund (SnT): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The main goal of the CONTACT project is to enable Quality of Service (QoS) support in VANETs by developing a set of communication techniques which efficiently adapt, at the same time, to the highly volatile and unstable vehicular environment, to content attributes and properties, and to application performance requirements.

Objective 1

• Identify: services that future VANETs should support, type of content that will be exchanged, and main factors impacting application performance Design a high level system Architecture for QoS provisioning in VANETs.
• Design a high level system Architecture for QoS provisioning in VANETs.

Objective 2: Investigate strategies for applying the CCN approach in vehicular communications, for the support of multi-hop content exchange

Objective 3: Design an SDN-based content delivery architecture for VANETs

Objective 4: Design opportunistic replication strategies for improving content availability in VANETs

Objective 5:   

• Implementation of the architecture on a common testbed
• Integration of the proposed solutions
• Performance evaluation of the integrated system.