ANR Perenne Project

🌟 Programmable wireless communication stack for sustainable deployments 🌟

  • Perenne is a collaborative research project between public entities at national level (PRC) funded by the French National Agency (ANR) 🇫🇷 in the 2023 generic call for proposals (AAPG) by the scientific evaluation panel (CES) 25.
  • Perenne is certified by the competitive cluster Images & Réseaux.

PERENNE plenary meeting 3

The next PERENNE plenary meeting will take place on June, 15 and 16 2026, at the IMT-A engineering school in Rennes. This meeting will bring together project partners to discuss ongoing research, share technical insights, and review project progress. Agenda June 15 Welcome Scientific presentations 1 HYMA-PS: A Hybrid Management Plane Switching for Programmable Wireless Networks (T. Le Tarnec, IMT-A/ICube) AI-Enabled Traffic-Aware Closed-Loop Framework for MAC-Layer Control in Multi-Hop IoT Networks (A. Mahmod, ICube) Discussion June 16 ...

June 10, 2026

New publications

We are excited to announce that our partner has published two scientific articles in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and at CoReS 2026 The first article, titled “FINE-STACK: Flexible architecture for low-power lossy IoT Networks with programmablE network STACK and semantic runtime updates”, introduces a flexible, fine-grained network architecture where lightweight protocol functions are orchestrated centrally, enabling semantic-aware management and fast, selective runtime updates. Its hybrid design combines local control with optional global optimization, improving network stack programmability. Experiments on a real testbed show that this approach enhances operational performance while significantly reducing update size and time, all within the strict resource constraints of low-power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Overall, FINE-STACK makes practical runtime reconfiguration and network programmability feasible for IoT. ...

June 9, 2026

PERENNE plenary meeting 2

The next PERENNE plenary meeting will take place on November, 24 and 25 2025, at the ENSSAT engineering school in Lannion. This meeting will bring together project partners to discuss ongoing research, share technical insights, and review project progress. Agenda November 24 Welcome Scientific presentations Software Defined Low-power Lossy Wireless Networks (A. Mahmod, ICube) Programmable User-space Linux Network Stack (K. Fakih, ICube) Hybrid Management Plane using Dual Communication Stacks (T. Le Tarnec, IMT-A/ICube) Dynamic framework for Multi-Standard Communication: A Flexible Approach to Wireless Connectivity (A. Lakhdari, IRISA Granit) Discussion on PHY / Upper Layer Interactions Hardware & testbed Scenarios November 25 ...

November 25, 2025

New publication in Elsevier IoT journal

We are excited to announce that our partner has published a new scientific article in Elsevier IoT Journal The article, titled “PENSIL: ProgrammablE Network Stack for Low-Power Lossy IoT Networks Using Lightweight Virtualization”, introduces a new network architecture built around a programmable and modular stack for Low-Power and Lossy Wireless Networks (LLWNs). This architecture enables dynamic and semantic reconfiguration of the protocol stack, allowing networks to adapt seamlessly without downtime. A proof-of-concept implementation on real hardware demonstrates that this approach improves performance through fast, lightweight, and secure updates, all while meeting the stringent memory, energy, and processing constraints of LLWN devices. ...

November 24, 2025

PERENNE plenary meeting 1

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

February 28, 2025