MIMES'08
Middleware for Mobile Embedded Peer-to-Peer Systems
First International Workshop
July 25, 2008 - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
co-located with
MOBIQUITOUS 2008
The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:
Computing, Networking and Services
July 21-25, 2008 - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
MOBIQUITOUS 2008
Workshop programme
  09:15 - 09:30     Welcome and opening
  09:30 - 10:30   Invited talk
  PLASTIC: Providing Lightweight & Adaptable Service for pervasive Information & Communication
  Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)
  10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break
  11:00 - 12:30   A Formalization of the SMEPP Model in Maude
  Francisco Duran, Francisco Gutierrez, Pablo Lopez, Ernesto Pimentel
  A Secure Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Claudio Vairo, Michele Albano, Stefano Chessa
  Tailoring Service Discovery to Embedded P2P Systems
  Antonio Brogi, Sara Corfini, Thaizel Fuentes
  12:30 - 14:00   Lunch break
  14:00 - 15:30   Implementation and Performance Analysis for Key Divergent and Evolution Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network
  Han Chiang Tan, Jun Wen Wong, Jianying Zhou
  General Security Concept for Embedded P2P System
  Stefan Kraxberger, Udo Payer, Stefan Tillich
  An Adaptive Middleware Applied to the Ad-hoc Nature of Cardiac Health Care
  Gemma Power, Christopher Foley, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dimtri Botvich
  15:30 - 16:00   Coffee break
  16:00 - 17:00   Panel - Perspectives of mobile embedded peer-to-peer systems: trends and challenges
  Panelists: Esteban Cabrera (TECNATOM, Spain), Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France), Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore)
17:00
   End of the workshop

Important dates.
May 07: Paper submission (closed)
May 31: Notification of acceptance (done)
June 08: Camera-ready version (closed)

Introduction. Mobile Embedded Peer-to-Peer (MEP2P) Systems introduce new challenges in the development of software for distributed systems. MEP2P systems have brought about an important revolution in distributed computing paradigms, now that the roles of client and server, which were the basis of the most widely used distributed computation models, are disappearing. The new scenario consists of systems in which all the elements of the network are symmetrical and in most cases the mechanisms of communication are not based on pre-existing infrastructures, but rather on dynamic ad-hoc networks among peers. At the same time, recent technological advances in short distance wireless communications have opened up new application areas which represent important technological challenges. In addition, MEP2P systems are extremely vulnerable against various types of internal or external attacks, due to resource constraints, lack of tamper-resistant packaging, and the very nature of open and public communication channels. One of the key factors for the success of MEP2P systems is the possibility of abstracting all the above mentioned problems by means of convenient middleware. Such middleware should hide the complexity of the underlying infrastructure while providing open interfaces to third parties for application development. The development of such a middleware is challenging, since besides the disappearance of the roles of client and server, other critical requirements appear, which have to be supported by these infrastructures, such as mobility, new security problems, or discovery and routing issues.

Workshop objective and topics. The main objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent advances and ongoing work in the design and implementation of middleware for mobile embedded peer-to-peer systems. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest for the workshop includes:

  • Interaction Models for MEP2P systems
  • Service Models for MEP2P systems
  • Software Architectures for MPE2P middleware
  • Component models for MPE2P middleware
  • Dynamic configuration and adaptability
  • Security issues in MEP2P systems
  • Middleware development frameworks and tools
  • Routing in P2P and ad-hoc networks
  • MEP2P applications

    Paper submission. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research on the above topics are solicited. The workshop proceedings will be available via the ACM digital library and they will be published on a CD. Submissions should be formatted using the 2-column ACM SIG proceedings format, and they should not exceed 6 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Position papers, not longer than 2 pages, are also welcome. To submit, please click here. If you have any questions, email us.

    Program Committee

  • Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy - Workshop Co-Chair)
  • Geoff Coulson (Lancaster University, UK)
  • Manuel Diaz (University of Malaga, Spain - Workshop Co-Chair)
  • Karl M. Göschka (TU Wien, Austria)
  • Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)
  • Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium)
  • Patricia Lago (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)
  • Hein Meling (University of Stavanger, Norway)
  • Eila Niemelä (VTT, Finland)
  • Ernesto Pimentel (University of Malaga, Spain)
  • Razvan Popescu (Trinity College, Ireland)
  • Gregor Schiele (Universitat Mannheim, Germany)
  • Bernard Traversat (Sun Microsystems, USA)
  • Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore)

    Acknowledgements. The MIMES workshop is partially supported by the EU Project SMEPP (Secure Middleware for Embedded P2P Systems).