ANR Perenne Project

The next PERENNE plenary meeting will take place on March 6, 2025, at the ANFR headquarters in Paris. This meeting will bring together project partners to discuss ongoing research, share technical insights, and review project progress. Agenda Welcome Scientific presentations Programmability and SDN: Improved Control Plane and Data Plane for Adaptive Wireless Networks (T. Le Tarnec, IMT-A/ICube) Software Defined Low-power Lossy Wireless Networks (A. Mahmod, ICube) SDR Paradigm for Multi-Standard Communication: A Flexible Approach to Wireless Connectivity (A. Lakhdari, IRISA Granit) WiFi/Mobile Fight Smart Coexistence (A. Marquet - ANFR) Technical discussions and sharing Work progress and deliverables Administrative matters Miscellaneous items Next meetings and actions

We are excited to announce that our partner has published a new scientific article at AINA 2025 The article, titled “Programmable Solutions for Low-power Lossy Wireless Networks: A Study of SDN and Femto Containers”, explores network programmability techniques for Low-power Lossy Wireless Networks (LLWNs) and combines Software-Defined Networking for control plane programmability and Femto Containers for lightweight data plane virtualization. A proof-of-concept validation on the FIT IoT-LAB testbed demonstrates the feasibility of this approach, effectively meeting LLWN constraints while incurring a slight increase in packet processing delay. ...

The University of Rennes is proud to announce the recruitment of Adam Lakdhiri for a pioneering PhD thesis focusing on “Programmable Wireless Radio for Long-Life Communications”. Scheduled to commence in October or November 2024, this thesis will leverage the Software-defined paradigm (i.e., SDN and SDR) and focus on the design of a programmable, scalable radio system that is aware of its environment and energy consumption. Adam Lakdhiri will be guided by a team of experienced supervisors, including Matthieu Gautier, Robin Gerzaguet, and Baptiste Vrigneau, who has recently joined the project. Their expertise and mentorship will ensure the success of this innovative research endeavor. ...

We are pleased to announce that IMT Atlantique is recruiting Thomas Le Tarnec starting October 1, 2024, for a PhD thesis focused on the “Programmable Wireless Protocol Stack”. Thomas Le Tarnec is currently completing his engineering training at the École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Rennes (ESIR). The PhD thesis will leverage the software-defined paradigm (i.e., SDN and SDR) to make wireless networks fully programmable, enabling ultimate flexibility, from the reconfiguration of the protocol suite at runtime to the deployment of any future wireless technologies on the same infrastructure. ...

We are excited to announce that our partner has published a new scientific article at CoReS 2024 The article, titled “Menu or a la carte? An architecture for programming the data plane of constrained wireless networks”, proposes a modular architecture based on programmable networks allowing fine programming of the data plane of constrained wireless networks. Such an approach allows constant adaptation of the network to dynamic variations in order to maintain the required level of performance. ...