Supervision : Marcelo DIAS DE AMORIM

Co-supervision : SPATHIS Prométhée

Offloading massive data on mobile nodes

In this thesis, we exploit the daily mobility of vehicles to create an alternative transmission medium. Our objective is to draw on the many vehicular trips taken by cars or public transports to overcome the limitations of conventional data networks such as the Internet. In the first part, we take advantage of the bandwidth resulting from the mobility of vehicles equipped with storage capabilities to offload large amounts of delay-tolerant traffic from the Internet. Data is transloaded to data storage devices we refer to as offloading spots, located where vehicles stop often and long enough to transfer large amounts of data. Those devices act as data relays, i.e., they store data it is until loaded on and carried by a vehicle to the next offloading spot where it can be dropped off for later pick-up and delivery by another vehicle. We further extend the concept of offloading spots according to two directions in the context of vehicular cloud services. In the first extension, we exploit the storage capabilities of the offloading spots to design a cloud-like storage and sharing system for vehicle passengers. In the second extension, we dematerialize the offloading spots into pre-defined areas with high densities of vehicles that meet long enough to transfer large amounts of data. The performance evaluation of the various works conducted in this thesis shows that everyday mobility of entities surrounding us enables innovative services with limited reliance on conventional data networks.

2013-2018 Publications

• 2018
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, M. Dias De Amorim, Y. Viniotis, M. Ammar : “Mobility as an Alternative Communication Channel: A Survey”, Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, vol. 21 (1), pp. 289-314, (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (2018)
• 2017
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, H. Rivano, M. Dias De Amorim, Y. Viniotis, M. Ammar : “Centrally-Controlled Mass Data Offloading Using Vehicular Traffic”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 14 (2), pp. 401-415, (IEEE) (2017)
• 2016
  • B. Baron : “Transport intermodal de données massives pour le délestage des réseaux d’infrastructure”, thesis, defence 10/11/2016, supervision Dias de amorim, Marcelo, co-supervision : Spathis, Prométhée (2016)
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, H. Rivano, M. Dias De Amorim : “Offloading Massive Data onto Passenger Vehicles: Topology Simplification and Traffic Assignment”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24 (6), pp. 3248-3261, (IEEE/ACM) (2016)
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, M. Dias De Amorim, M. Ammar : “Cloud Storage for Mobile Users Using Pre-Positioned Storage Facilities”, ACM SMARTOBJECTS'16, New York, United States (2016)
  • B. Baron, M. Campista, P. Spathis, L. Maciel Kosmalski Costa, M. Dias De Amorim, O. Muniz Bandeira Duarte, G. Pujolle, Y. Viniotis : “Virtualizing vehicular node resources: Feasibility study of virtual machine migration”, Vehicular Communications, vol. 4, pp. 39-46, (Elsevier) (2016)
• 2015
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, H. Rivano, M. Dias De Amorim : “Étude de l’intermodalité pour le délestage des réseaux d’infrastructure”, ALGOTEL 2015 — 17^es Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications, Beaune, France (2015)
• 2014
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, H. Rivano, M. Dias De Amorim, Y. Viniotis, J. Clarke : “Software-Defined Vehicular Backhaul”, Wireless Days 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 1-6, (IEEE) (2014)
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, H. Rivano, M. Dias De Amorim : “Vehicles as Big Data Carriers: Road Map Space Reduction and Efficient Data Assignment”, VTC2014-Fall - IEEE 80^th Vehicular Technology Conference, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1-5, (IEEE) (2014)
• 2013
  • B. Baron, P. Spathis, M. Dias De Amorim : “Leveraging on Electric Vehicles for Big Data Transfers”, JNCT 2013 - Journées Nationales des Communications dans les Transports, Nevers, France (2013)