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Deliverable D7.4

Year 2 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Report

Project Number: IST-2006-034241

Project Title: POPEYE

Document Type: Deliverable

Planned Completion Date: 31.03.2008

Actual Completion Date: 30.10.2008

Editors: Marco Boero (SOFTECO)

Participants: Refer to list of contributors

Workpackage: WP7

Nature: Table of Contents

Dissemination Level: Public

Version: 2.0

Total Number of Pages: 89

File name: POPEYE_D7.4_080613_PU.doc

Abstract This document contains the POPEYE deliverable D7.4 – Year 2 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Report. The deliverable illustrates the second year achievement of POPEYE project as regards dissemination, exploitation of results, contributions to standards and open source. Keywords List Dissemination, exploitation, standards, open source, collaboration, peer to peer, mobile ad hoc network


Executive Summary

This deliverable D7.4 presents the second year activities and achievements as regards POPEYE dissemination, exploitation and standardisation activities. Specifically, D7.4 provides the following:

o an overview of the dissemination approach, with selection of number of dissemination target, actions and channels implemented in the course of first year and the associated success evaluation metric;

o a detailed description of second year’s results and achievements in each dissemination areas; o a description of the POPEYE results exploitable by the partners, based on the final project

technical developments and the implemented POPEYE architecture and components; o the partners strategies for exploitation and use of project results; o the project approach and actions done concerning the use of and contributions to standards

and open source; o a concluding view about POPEYE results and the indication of a number of further

dissemination actions planned by the POPEYE partners for the short-term period after successful completion of the project.

Originally planned for end of March 2008, this deliverable was issued after the end of the project in order to be able to duly report about the dissemination actions undertaken up to the final month of POPEYE and including, in particular, the POPEYE Final Demonstration event collocated to the MiNEMA 2008 workshop.


Revision history

Version Date Description, Editors

1.0 13.06.2008 Initial version, Marco Boero

2.0 30.10.2008 Updated version to incorporate the elements required after

the Final Review as follows:

� section 3.4.2: providing evaluation data from the

POPEYE demonstration events

� section 4.2.3.3: providing comparison of POPEYE’s

strengths and weaknesses to existing solutions

Marco Boero


Contributors

First Name Last Name Company Email

Marco Boero SOFTECO [email protected] (Editor)

Nicolas Berthet THC [email protected]

Eike Michael Meyer OFFIS [email protected]

Isabelle Demeure GET-ENST [email protected]

Antonio F. Gómez

Skarmeta UMU [email protected]

Pedro García López URV [email protected]

Paola Inverardi UDA [email protected]

Paolo Gianrossi SOFTECO [email protected]


Acronyms

Acronym Meaning

A2A Administration to Administration

A2C Administration to Citizens

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

B2E Business to Employee

CRM Corporate Resource Management

CWE Collaborative Working Environments

CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Work

DHT Distributed Hash Table

DYMO Dynamic MANET On-demand Routing Protocol

E2E Employee to Employee

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FOSS Free & Open Source Software

FSF Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/)

GGF Global Grid Forum

GPL General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IRTF Internet Research Task Force

LBS Location Based Services

LGPL Lesser General Public License

MANET Mobile Ad hoc Network

MP2P Mobile Peer to Peer

OCP Open Context Platform (middleware available from UMU)

OMG Object Management Group

P2P Peer to Peer

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PND Personal Navigation Device

SME Small or Medium sized Enterprise

UG POPEYE User Group

VPN Virtual Private Network


Acronym Meaning

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WG Working Group

WWRF Wireless World Research Forum

The present document has been produced in consistence with the definition of terms described in the POPEYE Glossary v1.0 accessible on the POPEYE web site http://www.ist-popeye.eu/


Table of Contents

Executive Summary.......................................................................................................................................................... 2

Revision history................................................................................................................................................................. 3

Contributors...................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Acronyms........................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................................................. 7

1. Introduction............................................................................................................................................................. 9 1.1 POPEYE background and objectives .............................................................................................................. 9

1.1.1 Context and focus of POPEYE research..................................................................................................... 9 1.1.2 Objectives and achieved results................................................................................................................ 10

1.2 WP7 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation................................................................................. 11 1.3 Scope of Deliverable D7.4............................................................................................................................. 12

2. Overview of the approach..................................................................................................................................... 13 2.1 Dissemination levels...................................................................................................................................... 13 2.2 Actions and channels .....................................................................................................................................14 2.3 Success and evaluation metrics...................................................................................................................... 15

3. Dissemination of knowledge ................................................................................................................................. 16 3.1 Overview of results and achievements .......................................................................................................... 16 3.2 General activities and results ......................................................................................................................... 18

3.2.1 Project identity and dissemination material ............................................................................................. 18 3.2.2 Web presence ............................................................................................................................................ 21 3.2.3 Public project Deliverables ...................................................................................................................... 22 3.2.4 Publications .............................................................................................................................................. 24 3.2.5 Conferences and workshops ..................................................................................................................... 28

3.3 Knowledge transfer........................................................................................................................................ 30 3.4 POPEYE Open Events................................................................................................................................... 32

3.4.1 The POPEYE Interim Demonstration Event ............................................................................................. 32 3.4.2 The POPEYE Final Demonstration Event ................................................................................................ 33

3.5 External collaboration.................................................................................................................................... 37 3.5.1 Collaboration with research projects ....................................................................................................... 37 3.5.2 Collaboration with communities............................................................................................................... 39 3.5.3 The POPEYE User Group ........................................................................................................................ 41

4. Exploitation Planning ........................................................................................................................................... 43 4.1 Identification of exploitable results ............................................................................................................... 43 4.2 Market analysis.............................................................................................................................................. 45

4.2.1 Main POPEYE exploitation targets .......................................................................................................... 45 4.2.2 Overview of main potential exploitation markets ..................................................................................... 47 4.2.3 Competition............................................................................................................................................... 58

4.3 General partners exploitation lines ................................................................................................................ 62 4.3.1 Main exploitation directions ..................................................................................................................... 62 4.3.2 Industrial exploitation............................................................................................................................... 62 4.3.3 Academic and research exploitation......................................................................................................... 67

4.4 Detailed exploitation plans ............................................................................................................................ 70 4.4.1 Result Level 1: POPEYE mobile P2P overlay network abstraction ......................................................... 70 4.4.2 Result Level 2: POPEYE MP2P collaboration components..................................................................... 72 4.4.3 Result Level 3: POPEYE security services ............................................................................................... 75 4.4.4 Result Level 4: Integrated POPEYE MP2P Collaboration Middleware .................................................. 76 4.4.5 Result Level 5: POPEYE MP2P collaboration application(s).................................................................. 78

5. Standardisation and Open Source ....................................................................................................................... 81 5.1 Contribution to standardisation...................................................................................................................... 81 5.2 Contribution to Open Source community ...................................................................................................... 82

5.2.1 Use of Open Source components and specifications................................................................................. 82 5.2.2 Contributions to Open Source................................................................................................................... 83


6. Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................................................................ 86

7. References .............................................................................................................................................................. 87


1. Introduction

1.1 POPEYE background and objectives

1.1.1 Context and focus of POPEYE research

Next generation collaborative systems will offer the mobile user seamless and natural collaboration amongst a diversity of agents within distributed, knowledge-rich and virtualised working environment. However, this ambitious goal faces numerous challenges from the underlying communication infrastructure through to the high-level application services. These challenges, depending on the operational need, can be addressed in both technological and scientific terms. The POPEYE project focussed on supporting dynamic spontaneous collaborative group working environments with autonomous coordination and knowledge management support. When most of the currently available tools supporting collaboration exploit a rigid client-server architecture and rely on a communication infrastructure like the Internet, POPEYE is getting collaborative working free from such constraints. In this setting, the project has taken into account P2P over wireless ad hoc groups, where fixed infrastructure is not a prerequisite, where virtual communities can emerge spontaneously and share data with the appropriate quality of service (persistence, synchronisation, security,…). Overall, POPEYE has

a) drawn out an integrated overlay networking architecture that combines the stability and performance of infrastructure networks (when available) with the flexibility and spontaneous character of mobile ad hoc communications,

b) developed a communication platform to provide efficient P2P management and communication primitives,

c) developed higher-level context-aware, secure and personalised core services to facilitate application development by allowing the combination of user preferences with ambience information, such as time, location, user activity, and peers’ presence,

d) produced an integrated framework to be used as a middleware for development of mobile, P2P, context aware, secure collaboration applications,

e) validated and demonstrated the capabilities of POPEYE mobile CWE technology through a proof-of-concept application prototype presented in two demonstration events.


1.1.2 Objectives and achieved results

The overall goal of the strategic research of POPEYE is: “to provide the concepts, methods and core services for next generation mobile collaborative working environment with emphasis on P2P information exchange model in the environment of heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks”. In the general notion of virtualised working environments, POPEYE addressed mobile P2P and ad hoc groups, where fixed infrastructure is not a prerequisite, where virtual communities can emerge spontaneously and share data with the appropriate quality of service (persistence, synchronisation, security,…).

With this approach in mind, the key project objectives that drove the POPEYE research include:

• Design of an integrated overlay networking architecture that combines the stability and performance of infrastructure networks (when available) with the flexibility and spontaneous character of mobile ad hoc communications.

• Design and implementation of a communication platform that exploits cross-layer functionality down to lower-level protocols to provide efficient P2P management and communication primitives. A key feature is its “network and terminal awareness”, allowing adaptation in accordance with the underlying physical links, network availability and local device resource constraints. Several P2P issues are already, even partly, addressed by “conventional” middleware. POPEYE has selected existing platforms and components (mostly available from partners and in the open source domain), which were extended to introduce additional mobility and pure ad hoc communication support.

• Design and implementation of higher-level context-aware, secure and personalised core services. Based on the P2P middleware platform, core services have been designed and developed to simplify application development. In the frame of spontaneous virtual communities/groups, users’ preferences are exploited to publish, discover and access or deliver information within the P2P network in a targeted and personalised fashion. User preferences combined with ambience information, such as time, location, user activity, and peers’ presence, enable applications to propose automatic actions, such as joining or leaving a group and publishing or subscribing to some particular type of information, under user control.

Peer to peer networks have already shown their potential in fixed packet-based networks. Their distributed nature makes them particularly suited for mobile applications. Moreover, deploying P2P architectures in mobile networks can bring the same wide range of new applications and services to mobile users. However, in POPEYE we concentrated on the deployment of P2P services in the context of spontaneous ad-hoc network formation and how we can fully take advantage of P2P in a mobile environment, with an architecture carefully designed to guarantee it adapts to the particular properties of mobile networks.


1.2 WP7 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation

WP7 of POPEYE work plan addressed all of the activities aimed at dissemination, exploitation planning and contribution to standardisation.

Particularly, WP7 objectives were as follows:

o To identify the key targets for dissemination of knowledge and results generated within POPEYE and the messages or information set required for each target.

o To establish the communication channels for the target audience, prepare, update and maintain the content for the different audience groups.

o To design and develop a well-structured and operable dissemination plan covering the above objectives and to follow implementation of the planned actions in the course of the project.

o To establish the POPEYE identity and logo.

o To establish the POPEYE website as a main dissemination tool for the general audience.

o To organise targeted POPEYE dissemination events – including one public demonstration event – to communicate results, key methods and lessons learned during the POPEYE research.

o To participate to European dissemination events in the IST sector, including those organised by the NWE Program Unit.

o To plan and prepare exploitation of project results in the post-project phase.

o To facilitate possible contributions from POPEYE to the relevant standardisation groups and areas.

Accordingly, the work within WP7 is organised into the following tasks:

• Task T7.1 - Dissemination of results. This task was concerned with presentation and dissemination of results to the target groups, using the standard channels such as publications in journals, presentations and demonstrations in conferences, workshops and exhibitions, etc. Furthermore, a web site was developed for a global dissemination. Presentation of a coherent and complete perspective of the achievements, in terms of final results was performed during specific demonstration events.

• Task T7.2 – Exploitation. This activity is to monitor the exploitation initiatives of the partners and foster the cross-breeding of industrial and academic capabilities so as to maximise the overall usage of the POPEYE achievements.

• Task T7.3 - Contribution to fora and standards. POPEYE has the potential to influence work groups in Internet Research Task Force’ (IRTF) Peer-to-Peer Research Group and the Global Grid Forum (GGF). Partners of the POPEYE consortium are also participating in standardization bodies such as 3GPP, ITU, ETSI, WWRF, IETF, W3C, OMG and OMA. This task identified project developments and achievements having the potentials to provide useful contributions to the relevant standardisation groups and areas.


1.3 Scope of Deliverable D7.4

The goal of deliverable D7.4 is to report on the second year activities and achievements as regards dissemination, exploitation and standardisation work in POPEYE. Based on the general strategies, objectives and targets defined in the POPEYE Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Plan [POPEYE D7.2] the deliverable D7.4 first provides a summary of main results and achievements of WP7 during the second year of the project, describing each of them in more details in separate sections. The updated exploitation view of the project is then introduced, with identification of the main exploitable results, together with a description of the exploitation plans of the partners. The project approach to open source and contribution to standardisation are also illustrated. Finally, a few planned actions for dissemination and exploitation for the first year after successful project end are briefly presented.


2. Overview of the approach The POPEYE dissemination and exploitation process was planned in the first six months of the project and it is reported in the deliverable D7.2 “Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Plan”. Taking into account the project objectives, the partners’ expertise and roles as well as the main identified dissemination groups, the process includes dissemination material and actions focussed on the specific characteristics of the different target groups.

Overall, the POPEYE dissemination strategy is based on three main steps:

• the specification of the target dissemination (user) groups, which was achieved in the first six months of the project;

• the continuous definition and update of the main contents to disseminate to the potential user groups identified;

• the selection and application of the media/channels to be used for the dissemination activities proper.

An overview of the adopted dissemination actions is included in section 2.2-Actions and channels. The detailed description of second year’s results concerning dissemination and of the planned exploitation of POPEYE results are given in chapter 3 and 4 respectively.

2.1 Dissemination levels

The following main levels – groups of potential users or “adopters” – of POPEYE results and technology have been identified and form, altogether, the target audience of the project:

o Research communities, which are interested in the project results to support their research activities taking into account the POPEYE conceptual innovation, exploiting and further developing the project outcomes, and cooperating with POPEYE partners’ research activities. Such communities include the IST program, and particularly CWE, research groups involved in Integrated Projects, STREPs or Networks of Excellence active on the themes addressed by POPEYE.

o European industries, mainly technology and service providers in the ICT area. These are potentially interested in the commercial exploitation of project results, mainly with the development of new products or the introduction/integration of advanced features in existing products.

o Potential End user communities (“ adopters”) that may take a relevant advantage from the availability of new and more powerful software products to support cooperative working and improve the efficiency and productivity of groups of people working together in a large variety of situations.

In order to facilitate dissemination during the project lifetime and prepare the exploitation and adoption of POPEYE results in the post-project phase, users from the above-targeted levels have been involved in the POPEYE User Group (UG). The UG is comprised of a list researchers, companies and organisations interested in the POPEYE research and possibly willing to evaluate the approach, methodologies and tools in early testing and use of POPEYE solutions. The UG has been populated particularly in the early stage of the project and was updated during project progress, using contacts of participating companies and institutions.


2.2 Actions and channels

POPEYE dissemination and promotion activities involved a coordinated set of instruments and tools, with a mix of regularly timed actions and asynchronous activities.

The following table provides a short overview of the adopted dissemination actions and channels.

Table 1 - POPEYE main dissemination channels / actions

Action / Item Goals and Objectives

Notes

Website / Portal Awareness Information Promotion Engagement

One of the most versatile dissemination tools, the correct place for providing information targeted to different audiences.

Flyers / Brochures Awareness Promotion

Though much communication is electronic, A4 flyers that can be circulated in printed form, e.g. to hand out at conferences, have been produced (project start, midterm and project end). The electronic version (e.g. PDF) have been circulated electronically and provided e.g. through the web site.

Project Deliverables / Public distribution

Awareness Engagement Promotion

Most POPEYE project Deliverables are public. These provide a main source of information on project advances and achievements. They are gradually made accessible mainly via the POPEYE website when accepted by the European Commission.

Paper / Journal articles Awareness Engagement Promotion

Most of the scientific dissemination efforts have targeted international scientific journals. A list of candidate journals and magazines has been identified in Section 6.

Conference presentations


National and International conferences organised by Institutions, Universities, Journals, Research Organisations, etc., are important opportunities to share project results with other experts in the field. A list of candidate events has been identified in Section 6.

Conference posters Engagement Promotion

A poster session at a conference is more appropriate when work is in progress. The work (e.g. current results) is written in poster format and presented to delegates who attend the session.

Knowledge transfer / Tutorials

Awareness Education

The scientific results obtained in POPEYE provided the base knowledge for further research and education. To focus the attention of the interested professionals, research and student communities on POPEYE results, targeted dissemination events and tutorials are delivered, e.g. in conjunctions with some major international event (conference, workshop, etc.) addressing the research fields of POPEYE.

User Group / UG mailing list


In order to facilitate dissemination and collaboration between POPEYE and other member of the CWE community, a POPEYE User Group was established as a first community of targeted dissemination and information exchange. The UG can mainly be reached through a dedicated mailing list that is used for distribution of information and material

Open POPEYE Events / Workshops / Demonstrations

Awareness Promotion Engagement

Workshops are small interactive events held to achieve a specific objective (e.g. open discussion and consensus formation around User Requirements, POPEYE public demonstration events). Workshops were used to perform in depth dissemination mainly within the POPEYE UG.


2.3 Success and evaluation metrics

This subsection provides in a concise view an evaluation of the second year dissemination activities and results, based on the criteria adopted in [D7.3] to evaluate the success of POPEYE dissemination.

Table 2 – evaluation metrics

Media/Action/Method Performance parameter Project Website / Portal - web exposure - on-line dissemination tools

Number of visits: 10.236 from project start until 30.4.2008 Ranking on search engines (keywords: “POPEYE MANET collaboration”): within first 5 positions on Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos (see details in sect. 3.2.2) POPEYE User Group Forum + 8 Public deliverables

Project dissemination material - flyers / leaflet / brochures

Number of flyer/leaflet/brochure distributed: 300-400

Scientific publications - papers published on Journals / Magazines - papers presented at Conferences / Workshops / … - citations / references

Number of papers on Journals/Magazines: 3 (2 pending accep.) Number of papers at Conf./Workshops: 31 (2 pending accep.)

Educational activities - seminars / courses /

Number of attending people: 20-30

Collaboration within the CWE research community - collaboration with other projects - contribution to CWE working groups and initiatives - collaboration within the project User Group

Number of projects: 3 (+ 3 within UbiCollab) Number of events attended: 9 Size of the User Group: 20

Project public events - workshops - demonstrations

Number of attending people: N/A Number of attending people: 30 + 50 (2 events)


3. Dissemination of knowledge This chapter provides an overview of the dissemination activities undertaken during the second project year (May 2007 – April 2008) and the results and achievements obtained by the POPEYE partners related to dissemination, exploitation and contribution to standards and open source.

The different actions and results are grouped according to the various elements and dissemination channels previously introduced in section 2.2-Actions and channels.

3.1 Overview of results and achievements

The following table provides an overview of the main dissemination activities and their achievements in the second year of the project. More detailed descriptions of each activity/result are given in the next sections.

Table 3 – POPEYE main dissemination activities

Date Action Type Type of

Audience Involved partners

April 2007 Participation to ETAPS 2007, Braga, Portugal

Scientific paper ICT community URV

May 2007 Article presented at International Workshop on Self-Managing Systems (Devices, applications networks), Toronto, Canada

Scientific paper ICT community UMU

May 2007 Article presented at ASWN 2007, Spain

Scientific paper ICT community GET-ENST

June 2007 3 articles presented at IEEE WETICE 2007, Paris, France

Scientific paper ICT community All

July 2007 Article presented at ISCC’07, Aveiro, Portugal


July 2007 Super peer model on MANET, based on multi-cast

Master thesis Master students UMU

July 2007 Article presented at ICWE’07, Como, Italy

Scientific paper ICT Community UMU

September 2007

Article presented at DBISP2P’07 – VLDB’07, Varna, Bulgaria

Scientific paper ICT Community URV

October 2007

POPEYE Interim demonstration Event, Paris, France

Project demo event, open to external parties

POPEYE User Group

GET-ENST + All

October 2007

Participation/presentation at WearIt@Work Conference, Bologna, Italy

Project cooperation meeting

CWE community Softeco

October 2007

Article presented at IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN’07), Dublin, Ireland


October 2007 – January 2008

Software Engineering course at the University of L’Aquila, Italy

Academic course

Master students UDA

November 2007

Article presented at IEEE P2PAA’07, Silicon Valley, USA



Date Action Type Type of

Audience Involved partners

November 2007

Publication of the Proceedings of POPEYE Interim Demo Event

Project dissemination report


November 2007

Article presented at CollaborateCom 2007, New York, USA


December 2007

Participation/presentation at InContext Concertation Meeting, Vienna, Austria



December 2007

Participation to the UbiCollab Group kick-off meeting, Vienna, Austria



February 2008

Article presented at MOBILWARE 2008, 1st Intl. Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OS and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria


March 2008

Article presented at 3PGIC / CICIS 2008, Barcelona, Spain


March 2008

Article published on Ubiquitous Computing and Comms Journal


March 2008

Final POPEYE project leaflet Dissemination material

CWE/ICT communities

Softeco

March 2008

Final POPEYE project poster Dissemination material

CWE/ICT communities

Softeco

March 2008

Project gadgets (POPEYE T-shirts)

Dissemination material

General public Softeco

April 2008 Article presented at NAOMI 2008, Brussels, Belgium


April 2008 Article presented at ICN 2008, Cancun, Mexico


April 2008 Public POPEYE Demonstration at MiNEMA 2008, Glasgow, UK

Project demo event, open to external parties

CWE/ICT communities

All

April 2008 Video about POPEYE final demonstration and proof-of-concept prototype

Dissemination material

CWE/ICT communities

Softeco, GET-ENST

April 2008 Formal verification of the POPEYE SA

Master thesis Master students UDA

April 2008 onwards

Submission of 11 papers (7 accepted, 4 pending) targeting international conferences and journals

Scientific paper ICT community All


3.2 General activities and results

3.2.1 Project identity and dissemination material

The identity and image of POPEYE have been established at the project onset, identifying the general lines of communication and the “corporate image” (figure 1 below shows the adopted POPEYE logo) adopted as a background for dissemination and promotion in all project activities including, for instance, the official project slide presentations, project documents (deliverables, reports, …), the public website, audio-visual material, software applications, etc..

Figure 1 – The POPEYE logo

Overall, the general dissemination material produced during the second project year upgraded and extended the communication material produced in the first year, and included the following type of resources:

o A final version of the project brochure, with updated and extended information concerning the project aims, key research themes developed and achievements, intended for dissemination at public events (conferences, exhibitions, etc.);

o A project whitepaper, illustrating to an user and technical (but non-specialist) audience the key features of POPEYE, the provided services and capabilities, the benefits and scenarios of use;

o Specific project dissemination material – additional to the planned project deliverables – produced according to specific project events such as

- the proceedings of the POPEYE Interim Demonstration event, held in Paris (GET-ENST) on 26th October 2007 (see sect. 3.4.1),

- a video documenting the Final POPEYE public demo event, held in Glasgow on 1st April 2008, co-located with the MiNEMA 2008 Workshop and in the context of the EuroSys 2008 international conference (see sect. 3.4.2)

The following figure shows a few dissemination material produced during the second project year: (a) the project leaflet, (b) the proceedings of the interim demonstration event and (c) a few snapshots from the video illustrating the final public POPEYE demonstration event.


Figure 2 (a) - The POPEYE project leaflet


Figure 2 (b) - Proceedings of POPEYE Interim Demonstration Event (Paris, 26th October 2007)

Figure 2 (c) – From the video of POPEYE final public demonstration (Glasgow, 1st April 2008)


3.2.2 Web presence

Adequate presence of POPEYE project on the web is ensured since the early stages of the project by the public project website, which is a main public channel and access point for dissemination of project results. Its address is clearly indicated in all reports and documents produced and distributed by the project (e.g. summary and detailed activity reports, deliverables, etc.). The POPEYE website is accessible through the following URL: http://www.ist-popeye.eu. The contents of the website have been regularly updated during the second half of POPEYE. Updates included the posting of project events, the uploading of public deliverables accepted by the EC and of other project documents, the generation of the internal sections reporting about POPEYE demonstration events. The visibility of POPEYE website is achieved by a combination of elements, including careful choice of text description and keywords, indexing, cross-linking with other sites and portals in the addressed domain. POPEYE is about peer-to-peer applications over ad hoc networks (MANETs) to support collaboration activities. A search on Google with these keywords shows (April 2008) 46.500 hits for the association ‘P2P MANET’ and 11.600 hits for the association ‘P2P MANET collaboration’1, most of which are related to research work in the domain. Using the three fundamental keywords for POPEYE – P2P, MANET, collaboration – the POPEYE website has an excellent visibility and is generally found within the first page of results of most popular search engines as illustrated in Table 4.

Table 4 – POPEYE Website ranking

Search for Keywords: P2P MANET collaboration Search engine POPEYE website ranking Google 1st page, 4th position Yahoo 1st page, 4th position Altavista 1st page, 4th position Lycos 1st page, 5th position Excite 1st page, 14th position

A measure of visibility of POPEYE site on the web can be also derived by looking at the references made to POPEYE by other resources – websites of universities, research groups, projects, scientific publishers, papers and presentations publicly accessible on the web. The following table provides the results obtained (April 2008) by a number of search engines and with different keywords associations.

Table 5 – POPEYE references on the web

Search for Keywords Nr. of hits from search engine POPEYE

IST FP6 POPEYE P2P

ad hoc POPEYE P2P

collaborative working Google 184 372 258 Yahoo 61 132 115 Altavista 61 132 115 Lycos 71 102 129 Excite 22 22 19

1 with a strong reduction with respect to previous year (May 2007), the corresponding occurrences being 186.000 and 75.800 respectively


3.2.3 Public project Deliverables

A major source of information for dissemination and project communication is ensured by the large number of public project deliverables produced in POPEYE. The tables below provide the list of public deliverables produced and issued respectively during the first year and during the second project year. Once accepted by the Commission, the public deliverables are made available on the POPEYE website in the section Documents > Deliverables.

Table 6 – POPEYE public deliverables for the first year

2 Deliverable numbers Dx.y 3 Month in which the deliverables will be available. Month 1 marking the start of the project (i.e. May 2006), and all delivery dates being relative to this start date. 4 Please indicate the nature of the deliverable using one of the following codes: R = Report P = Prototype D = Demonstrator O = Other 5 Please indicate the dissemination level using one of the following codes: PU = Public

Deliverable No2

Deliverable title Delivery date3

Nature 4

Dissemination level5

D1.1 Management Plan M2 Jun. 06

R PU

D2.1 Description of collaboration scenarios M3 Jul. 06

R PU

D7.1 POPEYE web site M3 Jul. 06

O PU

D6.1 POPEYE Demonstration Plan M5 Sept. 06

R PU

D2.2 Description of functional, non functional and technical requirements

M6 Oct. 06

R PU

D5.1 POPEYE Basic Core Services Description M6 Oct. 06

R PU

D7.2 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Plan

M6 Oct. 06

R PU

1st Interim Activity Report (publishable extract)

R PU

D7.3 Year 1 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Report

M11 Mar. 07

R PU

D3.1 POPEYE Security Design Document M12 Apr. 07

R PU

D4.1 POPEYE lower level Design Document M12 Apr. 07

R PU

D5.2 POPEYE Core Services Description M12 Apr. 07

R PU

D6.2 POPEYE e-Collaboration Applications: Specification and Design Document

M12 Apr. 07

R PU


Table 7 – POPEYE public deliverables for the second year

PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services). RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services). CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services). 6 Deliverable numbers Dx.y 7 Month in which the deliverables will be available. Month 1 marking the start of the project (i.e. May 2006), and all delivery dates being relative to this start date. 8 Please indicate the nature of the deliverable using one of the following codes: R = Report P = Prototype D = Demonstrator O = Other 9 Please indicate the dissemination level using one of the following codes: PU = Public PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services). RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services). CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services).

Deliverable No6

Deliverable title Delivery date7

Nature 8

Dissemination level9

1st Periodic Activity Report (publishable extract)

M13 May 07

R PU

D2.3 POPEYE architecture description report M16 Aug. 07

R PU

D4.2 POPEYE lower level Architecture Definition M18 Oct. 07

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D5.3 POPEYE Core Services Architecture Definition

M18 Oct. 07

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D8.1 First POPEYE Demonstration M18 Oct. 07

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2nd Interim Activity Report (publishable extract)

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D7.4 Year 2 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation Report

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2nd Periodic Activity Report (publishable extract)

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D6.3 Evaluation and Guidelines for Developing POPEYE Applications

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3.2.4 Publications

All POPEYE partners, both academic and industrial, have excellent track records in international publications on sector journals and magazines as well as in presentations at international and local conferences and works. Based on the relevant partners fields of research and scientific interests, and continuing the stream of publications of the first project year, a number of papers have been produced during the second year of POPEYE and are reported in this section. The following papers have been published or accepted for publication:

I. Nieto, J. Botia and A. Gomez-Skarmeta. - The Role of Context Awareness in a Mobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Working Environment. Int. Workshop for Self-Managing Systems (Devices, applications and networks). Toronto, Canada, 13rd May, 2007. J. Pujol , P.A. García López, M. Sanchez. - SQS: Similarity Query Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Databases. Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07), Portugal. June 2007. H. Dung Ha Duong, C. Melchiorre, E. M. Meyer, I. Nieto, G. Paris, P. Pelliccione, F. Tastet-Cherel. - A software architecture for simple and reliable computing environments for collaborative work (short paper), Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2007), IEEE WETICE, Paris, France. June 19th, 2007. Pedro A. García López, Marc Sàchez Artigas, Jordi Pujol Ahulló. The P2PWeb model: a glue for the Web. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises 2007 (WETICE'07). Paris, France. June 18-20, 2007, pp. 153-158. M. Arrufat, G. Paris, P. G. López, A. F. Gómez Skarmeta. - SCOMET: Adapting collaborative working environments to the MANET scenario, 1st Workshop on Interdisciplinary Aspects of Coordination Applied to Pervasive Environments: Models and Applications (CoMA 2007). IEEE WETICE 2007, Paris, France, June 18-20, 2007. P.A. García López, M. Sanchez, J. Pujol. - The p2pWeb model: a glue for the Web. 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Service-oriented P2P Information Systems (COPS 2007). IEEE WETICE 2007. Paris, France, June 18-20, 2007. Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, Carles Pairot and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Web Clustering using Distributed Aspect Middleware (Damon). In the 7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE’07). Workshop on Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering (AEWSE'07). Como, Italy, July 2007. Jordi Pujol Ahulló, Pedro García López, Marc Sànchez Artigas, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. SQS: Similarity Query Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Databases. 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07). Aveiro, Portugal. July 1-4, 2007, pp. 1107-1112.


M. Wister, J. A. Botía, A. F. Gómez Skarmeta and D. Arias Torres. “A Cross-Layer Clustering-Based Approach to Service Discovery in MANETs”. The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii (WiMAN 2007). M. Wister, J. A. Botía and A. F. Gómez Skarmeta. “Evolution and Challenges in Service Discovery Architectures: from fixed networks to Mobile Ad hoc Networks”. 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2007), Zaragoza, Spain. Marc Sànchez-Artigas, Pedro García-López and Antonio F. Skarmeta, “Making Replication Secure over Structured P2P Systems: Defending against Omission Attacks”. In 5th Intl. Workshop on Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P’07) collocated with VLDB’07, Vienna, Austria, 24 September, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Marc Sànchez-Artigas, Pedro García-López and Antonio F. Skarmeta, “A comparative study of Hierarchical DHTs Systems». In IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN’07). Conference Best Paper Award. Dublin, Ireland, October 2007. Marc Sànchez-Artigas, Pedro García-López and Antonio F. Skarmeta, “On the Relationship between Caching and Routing in DHTs”. In 2nd Intl. IEEE Workshop On Peer-to-Peer Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2PAA’07), Silicon Valley, USA, 2-5 November, 2007. Hoa Dung Ha Duong, Christian Melchiorre, Eike Michael Meyer, Ignacio Nieto, Marcel Arrufat, Patrizio Pelliccione, Frederique Tastet-Cherel, "POPEYE: a simple and reliable collaborative working environment over mobile ad-hoc networks". The 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007), New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007. Marcel Arrufat, Gerard París, Pedro García López, "AGORA: an integrated approach for collaboration in MANETs", 1st International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), February 12-15, Innsbruck, Austria. Jordi Pujol Ahulló, Pedro García López, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. LightPS: Lightweight Content-based Publish/Subscribe for Peer-to-Peer Systems. 2nd International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid and Internet Computing (3PGIC-2008), held in conjunction with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CICIS-2008). Barcelona, Spain. March 4-7, 2008. Marc Sánchez-Artigas, Marcel Arrufat, Gerard París, Pedro García López, "SCOMET: A Middleware for Collaborative Working Environments in MANETs". Ubiquitous Computing and Communications Journal, Volume 3, March 2008. ISSN 1992-8424. Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, Carles Pairot, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Building a Distributed AOP Middleware for Large Scale Systems. 7th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD 2008), Next Generation Aspect Oriented Middleware Workshop (NAOMI 2008), April 1, 2008, Brussels (Belgium). Gerard París, Marcel Arrufat, Pedro García López, Marc Sánchez-Artigas, “An Application Layer Multicast for Collaborative Scenarios: the OMCAST protocol”, 7th


International Conference on Networking (ICN 2008), April 13-18, 2008, Cancun, Mexico. Demeure I., Gentès A., Stuyck J., Guyot-Mbodji A. and Martin L., “Transhumance: a Platform on a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork Challenging Collaborative Gaming", The 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Games (CoGames 2008)", Irvine, California, USA, May 2008. C. Melchiorre, P. Gianrossi, “POPEYE, a simple and reliable collaborative working environment over mobile ad-hoc networks”. Project poster accepted for WETICE 2008 (IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises) project showcase session, Rome, Italy, 23-25 June 2008. Botia J., Ha Duong H., Demeure I. and Gómez-Skarmeta A., “ A Context-aware Data Sharing Service over MANET to Enable Spontaneous Collaboration”, The 6th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2008). WETICE, Rome, Italy, 23-25 June 2008. Lluis Pamies-Juarez, Pedro Garcia Lopez and Marc Sanchez Artigas. "Reciprocal Exchange for Resource Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Networks", IEEE WETICE 2008. Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems Workshop. June 23-25. Rome, Italy Ha Duong H. and Demeure I., “Partage de données sur réseau mobile ad hoc”, CDUR 2008 (workshop of the NOTERE 2008 conference), Lyon, France, June 2008. Martin L. and Demeure I., “Améliorer l'édition collaborative sur MANETs avec des données structurées et segmentées", CDUR 2008 (workshop of the NOTERE 2008 conference)", Lyon, France, June 2008. Paroux G., Demeure I. and Reynaud L., “ Un Intergiciel Adaptable à l'Energie", 8ème Conférence Internationale sur les NOuvelles TEchnologies de la REpartition (NOTERE’08), Lyon, France, June 2008. Jordi Pujol Ahulló, Pedro García López and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. CAPS: Content-bAsed Publish/Subscribe services for peer-to-peer systems*.* In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'08). Rome, Italy, 1-4 July 2008 Marc Sánchez-Artigas, Pedro García López and Antonio Gómez Skarmeta, "Bypass: Providing Secure DHT Routing through Bypassing Malicious Peers", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08) July 6 - 9, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco Sánchez-Artigas M., López P.G. and Skarmeta A.G., "Secure Forwarding in DHTs - Is Redundancy the Key to Robustness?", 14th International Euro-Par Conference European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2008), August 26-29, 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Sánchez-Artigas M., Pedro López P.G., Skarmeta A.G., "On the Feasibility of Dynamic Superpeer Ratio Maintenance", In Proc. of 8th IEEE Intl. Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, (P2P'08), Aachen, Germany, September, 2008


Gianrossi P., Melchiorre C., Pelliccione P., “POPEYE, a Peer-to-peer Collaborative Working Environment over mobile ad-hoc networks”, paper accepted for presentation at eChallenges 2008 Conference to be held in Stockholm on Oct. 22nd-24th, 2008.

The following articles have been submitted for publications and acceptance is still pending at the time this report is prepared:

Gerard París, Marcel Arrufat, Pedro García López, Marc Sánchez-Artigas, “An Application Layer Multicast for Collaborative Scenarios: the OMCAST protocol”, submitted to the Mobile Computing and Applications Track of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008).

Jordi Pujol Ahulló, Pedro García López, Marc Sànchez Artigas, Marcel Arrufat Arias, Gerard París Aixalà, Max Bruchmann, “PlanetSim: An extensible framework for overlay network and services simulations”, submitted to the First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTOOLS 2008).

Jordi Pujol Ahulló, Marc Sánchez-Artigas, Pedro García-López, Antonio Gómez-Skarmeta. “GTAG: Supporting Geographical Queries onto DHTs”. Journal JCSSE: Special Issue on Data Management in Grid and P2P Systems

Marcel Arrufat, Hoa Dung Ha Duong, Paolo Gianrossi, Juan Antonio Martinez Navarro, Eike Michael Meyer, Patrizio Pelliccione, Frederique Tastet-Cherel. “POPEYE: Providing Collaborative Services for Ad-Hoc Communities”. Service Computing and Applications Journal (SOCA) Springer, London; Special issue on Collaboration Services: Methodologies, Architectures, Technologies and Protocols, S. Dustdar, M. Mecella, H.L. Truong (Eds.)


3.2.5 Conferences and workshops

Dissemination actions have been also undertaken, during the second year, in the form of participation to CWE related conferences and workshops. Contributions from POPEYE include presentations and presence with dissemination material. During the second year of the project POPEYE partners have participated to the following CWE oriented conferences or CWE community meetings:

o 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for

Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2007), Paris, France, June 18-20, 2007:

- POPEYE Participants: Pedro García, Gerard París (URV), Hoa Dung Ha Duong (GET-ENST).

o 5th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2007), IEEE WETICE, Paris, France. June 19th, 2007. POPEYE Presentation

- POPEYE Participants: Hoa Dung Ha Duong (GET-ENST) o 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07). Aveiro, Portugal,

July 1-4, 2007

- POPEYE Participants: Jordi Pujol Ahulló (URV).

o 5th Intl. Workshop on Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P’07) collocated with VLDB’07, Vienna, Austria, 24 September, 2007

- POPEYE Participants: Pedro García, Marc Sànchez-Artigas (URV).

o WearIt@Work Conference, Bologna, Italy, October 2007. POPEYE Presentation

- POPEYE Participants: Christian Melchiorre, Paolo Gianrossi (SOFTECO, WP7 leader)

o IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN’07), Dublin, Ireland, October 2007:

- POPEYE Participants: Marc Sànchez-Artigas (URV)

o 2nd Intl. IEEE Workshop On Peer-to-Peer Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2PAA’07), Silicon Valley, USA, 2-5 November, 2007:

- POPEYE Participants: Marc Sànchez-Artigas (URV)

o CollaborateCom 2007, the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007. POPEYE Presentation

- POPEYE Participants: Patrizio Pelliccione (UDA) o InContext project Concertation Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 6 December 2007. POPEYE

Presentation

- POPEYE Participants: Marco Boero (SOFTECO, WP7 leader)


o Participation to the kick-off meeting of the UbiCollab group on CWE (lead by Vienna Technical University; http://www.ubicollab.net/), Vienna, Austria, 6 December 2007. POPEYE Presentation

- POPEYE Participants: Marco Boero (SOFTECO, WP7 leader), Juan Botia (UMU)

o 1st International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems,

and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), February 12-15, Innsbruck, Austria - POPEYE Participants: Pedro García, Marcel Arrufat, Gerard París (URV).

Furthermore, papers have been accepted for presentation at the following CWE related conferences, scheduled after the conclusion of POPEYE: o DMC 2008, the 6th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration.

WETICE, Rome, Italy, 23-25 June 2008.

o CoGames 2008, the 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Games, Irvine, California, USA, May 2008


3.3 Knowledge transfer

Knowledge transfer through different courses, seminars, etc. that academic and research partners of POPEYE have developed represent an additional added value and a dissemination channel of the project. The following is a summary of the university courses, specific education and research activities, training and tutorial sessions, etc. held during the second year of the project: UDA:

o In the academic year 2007-2008 POPEYE has been considered as a running case study of the academic course on title Software Engineering (Ingegneria del Software) at the University of L’Aquila, Computer Science department. The POPEYE project has been largely presented as a running case study for the different topics of the course, from project management, to requirements engineering processes, to software architectures, to implementation and maintainability. The dissemination has been performed through the use of ad-hoc slides and deliverables of the projects. The responsible of the course and of this dissemination activity has been Patrizio Pelliccione from UDA.

o The verification of the software architecture of the POPEYE project has been the topic of a master thesis assigned by Patrizio Pelliccione and Paola Inverardi to Marilena Aureli. The idea of this thesis is to model the software architecture of POPEYE trying to find the right abstraction level. The right abstraction level is the result of a trade-off between details need by the verification and simplicity required to successfully perform the verification. The chosen level has been the level of layers of the POPEYE SA by referring to the deliverables of WP2. Model checking was chosen as formal analysis technique. The thesis has been presented in April 2008.

URV:

o A PhD thesis has been initiated (October 2007, Mr Lluís Pàmies) that is taking as a starting point the work developed by URV members relative to peer to peer networks.

o In the University course “Distributed Architectures for Mobile Environments” POPEYE

is receiving special attention with tutorials and training sessions. Students will also participate in several POPEYE real testbeds in the URV Campus.

UMU:

o Within UMU, there is now a Phd. Thesis under development that explores the problem of service discovery in MANET. The candidate is Miguel Wister. POPEYE has been a research platform for exchanging ideas and testing software coming from the Phd. Candidate and will definitely influence the results as a Phd. Thesis. In this research work, we investigate the influence of having distinguished nodes as opposite to nodes with limited computing and battery capabilities. Presentation of the Phd. Thesis expected in May 2008.

o Another Phd. Thesis being currently developed in the scope of POPEYE is that of Juan

Antonio Martínez Navarro, involved in the projects since the beginning. Juan Antonio has been involved mainly in network issues within POPEYE. He has been in charge of the design of some of the protocols that maintain the clusters structure and also peer and super peer management. All the results of his research will appear in the Phd. Thesis. Presentation of the Phd. Thesis expected in June 2008.


o Thanks to the involvement of the UMU team in POPEYE, we have gained experience in

concepts of peers and super-peers and about service management in ad hoc networks. This had a natural consequence of incorporating this know-how into the subjects we teach in the postgraduate course we manage at UMU.


3.4 POPEYE Open Events

POPEYE held some public events to disseminate the project approach and maximise the impacts of POPEYE research, particularly within the Collaborative Working communities (refer to [POPEYE D7.2], section 2.3.7). In particular, during the second project year two main demonstrations took place, the Interim and Final Demonstration Event.

3.4.1 The POPEYE Interim Demonstration Event

The POPEYE interim demonstration was held on 26th October 2007 in Paris, at GET-ENST. The goal of the event was to provide first demonstration of POPEYE technologies to external parties and to achieve a first operational validation of POPEYE approach also through feedbacks from the POPEYE User Group. Though contractually it was foreseen that the First Demonstration would involve only a group of users selected internally to the project partners, the consortium decided to open the event also the full POPEYE User Group, to the project reviewers and the Project Officer, thus involving also other people external to the project and development group. Invitation mails and an information leaflet were sent to the potential attendees and some communication material was produced to facilitate information and communication with the external attendees during the demonstration session. Participants contributed to the validation of the first POPEYE prototype system and provided useful comments and feedbacks for further development and consolidation of the POPEYE architecture and applications. The demonstration was organised around a set of Use Cases addressing the key scenario adopted for POPEYE validation: P2P collaboration and information exchange among users at public, open events such as a Conference or a Symposium. The demonstration was organised around the following use cases:

o Demonstration Case 1: POPEYE users setting up the collaboration - Setting up the system - Creation of workspace and sharing of information

o Demonstration Case 2: inexperienced POPEYE user joining the collaboration - Access to the Captive Portal - Creation of a POPEYE Account - Access to workspaces and participation to the discussions

o Demonstration Case 3: security threat, attempting malicious access - Trying to enter the POPEYE framework - Trying to enter unauthorised groups

o Demonstration Case 4: security threat, attempting ‘spoofing’ - Sniffing POPEYE communications - Trying to extract identity information

The workshop was attended by some 20 experts from both the POPEYE Consortium and the external User Group. The selected Use Cases provided a demonstration of key functionalities and characteristics of the POPEYE framework. Discussion between the User Group and POPEYE consortium members, as well as collection of feedbacks from the User Group followed the demonstration.


The event, with the demonstrations given, the following open discussion and the feedbacks provided by the participants, is documented at length in workshop proceedings that are publicly available on the POPEYE website (www.ist-popeye.eu) in the Events section.

Figure 3 – Pictures from the POPEYE Interim Demonstration Event (GET-ENST, Paris, 26th October 2008)

3.4.2 The POPEYE Final Demonstration Event

The Final Demonstration ideally followed European Commission’s recommendation to involve real end users [...] through a live trial at a small conference event. This event had therefore a public character – i.e. it was an open, public showcase of POPEYE technologies, with involvement of external users. Held on April 1, 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland, it was co-located with the 6th MiNEMA Programme Workshop10 as part of the demonstration session (Figure 4), taking place in the larger context of the EuroSys 2008 international conference11. The POPEYE session included a presentation of the main project themes and vision, and a live demonstration of the developed proof-of-concept application, a prototype POPEYE

10 http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/conference/minema2008/demos.html; MiNEMA, Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications, a scientific program of the European Science Foundation, http://www.minema.di.fc.ul.pt/ 11 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Conferences/EuroSys2008/.


system enabling P2P information exchange and collaboration among users at public, open events such as a Conference or a Symposium.

Figure 4 – Program of demonstration session of MiNEMA 2008 workshop (Glasgow, 1st April 2008)

A setup of POPEYE peers interacting through an ad hoc wireless network was created using POPEYE MANET management services, and support to user collaboration within dynamically created groups and workspaces demonstrated. The demonstration allowed participants to test POPEYE and get an insight of the approach, architecture and capabilities including:

• general structure and characteristics of POPEYE middleware,

• opportunistic ad hoc networking of POPEYE peers, multi-hop capabilities,

• creating and joining workspaces, sharing information in a mobile setting,

• users and shared context information management,

• security approach, secure communication and content sharing,

• user communication and discussion services,

• collaborative core services and user defined applications (plug-ins)

The event was attended by some 50 people and had an open and collaborative spirit, allowing participants to share views, interests and experiences in the field of the background POPEYE themes, including distributed mobile middleware, mobile P2P applications, collaborative working frameworks and applications. Also representatives from the Conference/Event management industry were invited to attend the event12, although it was not possible to finally have them to participate. Comments on POEPYE prototype application, its capabilities and usability were collected from a number of participants, providing valuable feedbacks for further development of POPEYE. This was done running hands-on demonstrations of POPEYE software in which individual users were allowed to use the POPEYE peers network and were engaged in content sharing, communications and collaboration tasks using demonstrational applications (like e.g. document sharing, communications via a chat, a cooperative/competitive anagram game).

12 BME Global, UK (www.bmeglobal.co.uk), MPI UK (www.mpiuk.org), France Congres (www.france-congres.org), Conference Coordinator, Spain (www.conference-coordinator.com), Nexa, Italy (www.nexaweb.it), IIMC, Ireland (www.iimg.com).


Figure 5 – POPEYE public demonstration at MiNEMA 2008 workshop (Glasgow, 1st April 2008)

This informal evaluation session with external users provided a number of feedbacks and suggestions for future developments of POPEYE that are summarised in the following table:


Item Feedbacks

Spontaneous networking Seen as a major feature of POPEYE, of particular relevance for the target use case demonstrated (sharing/ collaboration in a public event).

The capabilities related to workspace creation, joining and management were generally considered as a strong point of the mP2P platform.

Peers, peers mobility Multi-hop capabilities seen as a fundamental capability of POPEYE (although not fully demonstrated at the event).

Implementation of POPEYE also on light-weight peers (e.g. iPhones, PDAs) considered as a natural evolution and a main potential exploitation.

Collaboration support Although all participants could be seen mainly as end-users of POPEYE services, the usefulness of the demo application for business users (event organisers, conference managers) was acknowledged by the participants.

The enhancement and use of user context information was seen as a key elements for further expansion of POPEYE platform.

Plug-in architecture seen as a major element for POPEYE potentials of adapting to different applications and supporting collaborative scenarios.

Usability Generally considered as good and well-suited for the kind of applications demonstrated. Some participants suggested that extended and more intuitive ways to display the state of participants (who is joining which workspace) could improve usability.

All participants stressed the usefulness of POPEYE as a complementary tool for interaction within dynamic and mobile groups, certainly not substitutive of face-to-face interaction.

The demonstration event is fully documented in a 6-minute movie shot during the event, introducing the main POPEYE features and reporting on the demonstration held at MiNEMA 2008. The movie is publicly accessible on the POPEYE website (in the Event section, and from the home page).


3.5 External collaboration

The POPEYE strategy for developing external collaboration with other stakeholders in the area of CWE research and innovation was basically implemented through:

• Collaboration with research projects

• Collaboration with communities

• the POPEYE User Group

Results achieved during the second project year in each of these areas are summarised in this section.

3.5.1 Collaboration with research projects

The POPEYE consortium, mainly through the project coordinator, has established cooperation agreements with other on-going research projects, with the aim of facilitating the exchange of information and the largest possible integration of POPEYE within the CWE community. During the second year, collaboration with other project was carried out as described in the following.

3.5.1.1 Cooperation with WORKPAD

Contacts have been established with Schahram Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna). At the technical level, the liaison is maintained through UDA (Paola Inverardi) and URV. The cooperation started in the first year continued mainly through URV. Concrete events over the reporting period:

• WORKPAD meeting in Rome: Pedro Garcia Lopez (URV) was invited to a WORKPAD technical meeting in July in Rome. In this meeting both projects agreed cooperation around deliverables and software modules (Octopus tool).

• URV has established collaboration with the WORKPAD project through the following persons: Massimiliano di Leoni (University of Roma “La Sapienza”) and Manfred Bortenschlager (Salzburg Research).

WORKPAD researchers provided a new version of the OCTOPUS wireless emulator to URV members. Contacts established at the WETICE 2007 workshop (June 2007) led to the participation of POPEYE members in a WORKPAD meeting to push forward the collaboration in POPEYE MP2P communication middleware.

3.5.1.2 Cooperation with InContext

Contacts at project coordination level established with Schahram Dustdar (InContext Coordinator). The technical liaison is facilitated by SOFTECO that is a partner in both projects, with a major role as applications developer. Concrete events over the reporting period:


• Participation to the InContext Concertation Meeting, held in Vienna on 6th December 2007. The meeting included presentations from a number of CWE projects (InContext, WORKPAD, POPEYE, CoVES, DiFac) as well as projects addressing social web issues (Nepomuk), followed by an open discussion on collaboration issues.

• Analysis of potential technical cooperation between the two projects, particularly as regards the interoperability of collaboration services. The aim was to investigate some level of interoperability between POPEYE and InContext CWE solutions by developing a (simple) use case showing how a selected collaboration service can be exploited by both users of POPEYE and InContext systems.

The use case identified involves personal organisation services – e.g. personal agenda and meeting scheduler services. Possible solutions were identified and will be brought forward by Softeco as part of the exploitation of the two projects.

3.5.1.3 Cooperation with WearIt@Work

Contacts were active at coordination and technical levels between Nicolas Berthet and Frédérique Tastet, for POPEYE, and Mickael Lawo and Michael Boronowsky, for WearIt@Work. Concrete events over the reporting period:

• Participation to a WearIt@Work meeting, Bologna, Italy, 7th November 2007. Presentation of POPEYE architecture and interim demo prototype in the context of WearIt@Work services.


3.5.2 Collaboration with communities

Since the start of the project, POPEYE has established cooperation with the active communities related to the project strategic objectives and technology areas (mobility, ad hoc networks, persistence and synchronisation). The context of cooperation has been mainly provided by the following communities: • Open Collaborative Architecture (OCA) Working Group, • AMI@Work family of communities, • European Network of Living Labs. Initial cooperation with the OCA WG has been developed during POPEYE architecture specification and design phase (first project year, WP2). Some OCA design principles and recommendations have been taken into account and had impacts on POPEYE architecture definition. The liaison with the OCA WG was established through WP2 (POPEYE Architecture) and was mainly exploited through OFFIS and UMU who are both partner in ECOSPACE, a major contributor to OCA work. The first meeting was the OCA WG Workshop in Prague, 15 May 2007, where POPEYE partners (OFFIS) participated. Cooperation between POPEYE and OCA was identified at the meeting particularly concerning security issues. During the second project year, cooperation activities have been extended also to the UbiCollab community of collaboration experts (http://www.ubicollab.net). The Ubiquitous Collaboration Expert Group serves as an open platform for CWE related projects, researchers, and industry interested in driving the content and evolution of future collaboration systems. POPEYE participated to the kick-off meeting held at the Technical University of Vienna (TUV) on 6th December 2007 (Fig. 5), hosted by the InContext project. The other contributing projects include: POPEYE, WORKPAD, CoVES, DiFac, Nepomuk. The goal of the meeting was to set the general lines of the UbiCollab work program, addressing standardisation of collaboration services. All participating projects discussed in break-up sessions a first set of questions, addressing both technical and organisational issues, to get standardisation activities going. The next scheduled meeting of UbiCollab is in June 2008, in Rome, in the context of WETICE 2008.


Figure 6 – Participation to the UbiCollab kick-off meeting (Vienna, 6th December 2007)

Finally, some cooperation activities with industrial partners active in the CWE community were also undertaken. URV: Pedro García López (URV) invited Miguel Valdes (Bull R+D, ObjectWeb architect) to Tarragona on 6th March 2008. The goal of this meeting was to start dissemination of POPEYE software to the ObjectWeb middleware community, with plans to strengthen collaboration and dissemination with this community in the final months and after the end of the project.


3.5.3 The POPEYE User Group

In order to facilitate dissemination of knowledge and cooperation between POPEYE and other projects, a POPEYE User Group was established during the first year. The POPEYE UG is comprised of:

• POPEYE consortium members themselves, as the prime user community of the POPEYE framework,

• experts belonging to the entities in the POPEYE consortium but not directly involved in the POPEYE research work,

• experts belonging to other project consortia where a cooperation agreement exists,

• experts belonging to the communities where POPEYE is involved under an External Collaboration scheme.

During the first year, the User Group has been actively participating in the POPEYE End-Users Requirements Workshop (refer to paragraph 3.4.1-The POPEYE ). In the second year, the POPEYE UG has participated to the POPEYE demonstration events, with the aim of contributing to the assessment of the implemented POPEYE technologies and prototypes, and of providing feedbacks in relation to the capabilities of POPEYE prototype and demonstration to meet the collaborative requirements identified at the onset of the project. The following table shows the composition of the POPEYE User Group.


Table 8 – Organisations in the POPEYE User Group (as of April 2008)

Organisation Country Note

ARTTIC SA Belgium

Atos Origin Spain Expert from CLOCK project

Business Technology Consulting AG Germany

Data-Quest GmbH Germany

DFKI Germany Expert from CASCOM project

ESoCE-NET European Union

European Society of Concurrent Enterprising

Fraunhofer FIT Germany Expert from ECOSPACE project

GET-ENST France Expert other than those involved in POPEYE

OFFIS e.V. Germany Experts other than those involved in POPEYE

Préfecture de la Région d'Ile-de-France

France

Red Dot Solutions AG Germany

Softeco Sismat SpA Italy Expert other than those involved in POPEYE

Synthetron SA Belgium

Technical University of Vienna Austria Expert from InContext project

GET-ENST France Experts other than those involved in POPEYE

Telematica Instituut The Netherlands

Thales Communications France Experts other than those involved in POPEYE

Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Italy Expert from Workpad project

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain

University of Bremen, TZI Germany Expert from WearIT@work project


4. Exploitation Planning The initial exploitation context for POPEYE and a description of the general lines adopted to prepare the exploitation of POPEYE results after successful project end were defined and described in D7.2. Deliverable D7.3 refined the initial view based on project developments and updated knowledge about the characteristics and capabilities of the POPEYE platform and applications, developing a more focused exploitation strategy (including a refined definition of various exploitable results and the related exploitation plans by the partners). Based on the second year project achievements and the software prototype produced and validated during the two demonstrations held in the second half of the work program, this deliverable D7.4 conveys the final project updated view, and provides a more concrete definition of the exploitable results and exploitation intentions related to all POPEYE partners.

4.1 Identification of exploitable results

This section describes the exploitable results previously identified in D7.3, listing the main expected results of POPEYE in relation to the key research areas addressed in the project and to the different levels of the reference POPEYE architecture.

POPEYE addresses a collaboration context with the following main characteristics:

o mobile P2P and ad hoc collaboration groups, mainly in a MANET environment, without the need of supporting communication infrastructures;

o working groups (virtual communities) can emerge spontaneously, can be quickly set-up and are dynamic in nature (members can join and leave the collaboration environment at different times);

o dependable and secure data sharing and collaboration support is required, suitable for business and professional applications, providing the appropriate quality of service (persistence, synchronisation, context-awareness,…).

The successful completion of the research and technical development program in POPEYE led the definition of a number of exploitable results, including: the POPEYE MP2P Framework as a main results for industrial and further research exploitation, and a number of sub-systems and components that will be also exploited as individual results from the POPEYE partners. Overall, POPEYE research resulted in the following types of exploitable results: A. Specifications and design of several components (software modules, services, …) and

of the POPEYE framework (platform);

B. Prototype implementation of some POPEYE software modules/components and of integrated framework (platform);

C. Proof-of-concept implementation of POPEYE application(s) addressing selected CWE context(s).

The following table shows the main achieved results of POPEYE in relation to the key research areas addressed in the project and to the different levels of the reference POPEYE architecture [POPEYE M2.1] providing also indication of the project deliverables that are most relevant for (i.e. provide extensive background knowledge about) each result.


Table 9 – Identification of exploitable results

Result Level Type Relevant

Deliverables

1) POPEYE mobile P2P overlay network abstraction, providing communication services for an abstract network layer able to operate in a heterogeneous environment, including MANET, WiFi AP infrastructures, multi-hop network elements. Support for communication, routing, peer/resource discovery/ location, super-peer management, etc.

- Communication middleware providing unicast and multicast protocols (DYMO, MMARP); implemented on top of JGroups

- Network Topology & Configuration Tool; for simulation and evaluation

D2.4, D4.1, D4.2, D4.3

2) POPEYE MP2P collaboration components, providing a number of support services in a mobile P2P environment. Support for context representation and management, data management, distribution and synchronisation, shared workspaces, group management, etc.

- collaboration platform (based on WIMPY)

- open context platform (based on OCP)

- plug-in management framework (based on CHARMY)

D2.2, D2.3, D2.4, D5.1, D5.2, D5.3

3) POPEYE security services providing a number of security mechanisms suitable for MP2P collaboration in MANET and hybrid environments.

- design

- implementation (POPEYE security toolbox)

D3.1, D3.2, D3.3

4) Integrated POPEYE MP2P collaboration middleware, providing a platform integrating a number of services including support for context representation and management, data management, distribution and synchronisation, shared workspaces, group management, etc.

Prototype implementation

D5.4, D2.4

5) POPEYE MP2P collaboration application(s), selected among those targeted by the POPEYE MP2P communication and collaboration platform, implemented and evaluated in a proof-of-concept demonstration.

Proof-of-concept implementation

D6.2, D8.1, D8.2


4.2 Market analysis

4.2.1 Main POPEYE exploitation targets

Future developments of mobile collaboration support applications – featuring almost “anywhere at any time collaboration” capabilities – appear to surface as a natural evolution of nowadays mobile business support services and applications provided by most handset suppliers and telecom operators – e.g. mobile internet access, email and instant messaging, group calendaring and scheduling, file synchronisation and transfer, etc. The emergence of spontaneous networks in many aspects of life, including businesses and professional activities, is already seen as an unavoidable phenomenon by several leading telecom operators. The development of advanced MP2P collaboration support facilities and services like mobile shared workspaces, presence tools, group and community management services, etc., as those addressed in POPEYE is directly targeting the core needs of this user segment. This is even more true if one considers the need to ensure adequate support to collaboration and content sharing also in situations where a fixed communication infrastructure is not available or cannot be conveniently accessed – like e.g. during a travel, a meeting in a third party location, etc. The continuing market penetration of mobile personal devices integrating increasing computing power with wireless communication and location capabilities – from lightweight notebooks, to new generation PDAs, smart-phones, iPhones, etc. – is addressing the above needs and market demand, and is gradually and dramatically changing the landscape of mobile services and applications. This technological and market trend is expected to open the way for a future wave of P2P applications for mobile community support, content sharing, information exchange and collaboration in the coming years. The most direct exploitation of POPEYE results is related to solutions / products tackling the core application scenarios addressed in the project: the integrated provision of collaborative working, content sharing and communication services for business users in events and situations that:

• involve dynamic, opportunistic grouping of users, mainly co-located, possibly involving also distant users;

• within groups up to a size of 100 individuals;

• using ad hoc mobile communications, eventually combining this with the stability and performance of infrastructure networks when available;

• with multi-hop networking capabilities (for e.g. distant users, inter groups collaboration, ...) and

• with a high level of dependability and security. Work in WP2, task T2.1, has reviewed a number of use cases and identified the key CWE requirements for several common professional situations and events involving the above characteristics, like e.g.: cooperation within dynamic, spontaneous groups at a workshop or a conference; organising and running business meetings in non equipped locations or without relying on third party infrastructures (egg at an airport, hotel, etc.); performing collaborative work while travelling; etc.


The key requirements to support collaboration and group communication in such situations have been investigated in WP2, Task T2.1, and are detailed discussed in [POPEYE D2.1]. The main services and capabilities required are discussed in [POPEYE D2.2] and the plans for implementing and integrating these into the (two stage) POPEYE demonstrator are defined in [POPEYE D6.2]. In summary, the key services and capabilities that are delivered by POPEYE prototype framework and proof-of-concept application include:

• Mobile ad-hoc network connection for co-located users • User management (profiling, etc.) • Group management • Group shared space management • Presence service • Messaging (e.g. instant messaging and chat) • Security (PKI Certification) and trust management • Access right management • Event publish-subscribe mechanisms • Off-line synchronization and caching mechanisms • Search mechanisms • Group calendar tools • Forum and discussion tools • Voting service, joint decision tools

Several of these services and capabilities are emerging as common, reference features in the context of next generation integrated, interoperable e-Professional Collaboration Environments (e.g. [ECOSPACE07]). We expect that POPEYE based solutions / applications will attain relevant competitive advantages in this market sector by providing, particularly, advanced support and key capabilities as regards the following issues:

(a) dynamic, opportunistic nature of group formation and development, (b) ad hoc collaboration context and underlying communication infrastructure

(MANET), (c) dependable and secure access and use of provided services within the MANET, (d) openness and extendibility of the collaboration platform (POPEYE Plug-in

Framework and plug-in development support) with respect to the development of specific, process (use case) oriented e-collaboration solutions.


4.2.2 Overview of main potential exploitation markets

POPEYE results address the needs and features outlined in previous section, providing significant steps ahead through integrated management of spontaneous group collaboration in infrastructure-less environments, context information, smart personalisation and mobile, secure collaboration support. The potential market for POPEYE applications has been preliminarily investigated during the first year of the project and a brief overview of identified candidate segments for POPEYE exploitation is reported in deliverable D7.2, section 3.2.1 [POPEYE D7.2]. The following market segments have been analysed more in depth in the second year of the project, as most interesting for the exploitation of POPEYE results and analysed more in depth:

• Event and conference management services • e-Professional and enterprise collaboration services • Personal, leisure and infotainment services • Mobility and e-Tourism services • Civil protection, homeland and public security

The remainder of this section provides the updated view at the end of the project and a more detailed description of the above markets. In all of the market areas analysed below, novel CWE facilities are required that offer relevant exploitation potential for POPEYE capabilities in supporting wireless, spontaneous formed, ad-hoc, P2P networks and groups of users.

4.2.2.1 Event and conference management services

The event management services market represents the most direct prospective exploitation segment for POPEYE, given the scenarios investigated in the second year and the experimental application developed and demonstrated in the final part of the project.

4.2.2.1.1 Market overview

Event Management is a multi-million Euro industry, growing rapidly, with large shows and events hosted regularly in different sectors of business and services. The industry includes a number of different types of events, involving groups of participants (as well as organisers and various stakeholders) of different types and size, different settings (indoor, outdoor) and different business areas such as those commonly known as MICE – Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Events – exhibitions, conferences and seminars as well as live music and sporting events. A coarse classification of the events sectors includes: business and scientific events (conferences, workshops, seminars, training sessions, etc.), corporate events (product launches, press conferences, corporate meetings and conferences, conventions, users fora, etc.), marketing programs (road shows, grand opening events), special events like concerts, award ceremonies, film premieres, launch/release parties, fashion shows, commercial events, etc. The main drivers behind the huge economic value and growing market of event management services are various. These are directly related to the expanding businesses of the target customers of event industry (Press, Businesses, Agencies/Media Planners, Government and Academia) as well as, indirectly, to the relevant economic impacts on the


main associated markets (i.e. travel, accommodation, food & beverage, shopping, entertainment, tourism, etc.). However, a strategic driver is certainly represented by the increasing recognition of the value of public events as “marketing tools”; i.e. as a strategic and effective form of experiential marketing able to significantly enhance brand communication leveraging on human connections through live interaction. According to EIA, the UK Events Industry Alliance [EIA08] “live event marketing is experiencing a renaissance as more and more marketers recognise its power to engage audiences and deliver the all important 'experience' that develops and cements brand loyalty. The increasing number of events taking place, the trend for media groups to strengthen print and digital portfolios with live events and the growing involvement of leading brands has seen marketing budgets shift towards the sector”. Following a survey conducted in 2007 by Meeting Professional International, a US-based leading international meetings industry association, event marketing has grown up to 27% of the marketing budget of corporate and service companies and will continue to grow in 2008, with three business areas – health and pharmaceutical, ICT, finance and insurance – accounting altogether more than 50% of event marketing expenditures [MPI08]. IXMA, the US based International Experiential Marketing Association [IXMA08] has conducted an international online survey in 159 world countries showing that some form of live brand experience is considered as the most powerful tool (more than 50% of possible options) in experiential marketing and about one third of this (more than 15%) is represented by live events (Fig. 7). A recent survey (2007) about advertising expenditure conducted by Outsell Inc. [OUT08] reveals that public events have become a main (49%) channel for traditional trade magazines advertisers (Fig. 8).

Figure 7 – Live events as most powerful tools in experiential marketing (Source: Experiential Marketing Forum Survey, San Francisco, CA – Feb. 2007)


Figure 8 – Main channels for traditional trade magazines advertisers

(Source: Outsell Inc. Annual Ad Spending Study 2007 – 19.1.2007)

Despite the importance and growth of the event management industry, apparently there is no formalised research to assess the size and volumes of this market worldwide. As a national example, KPMG have conducted (2005) a survey of UK event industry market assessing its huge economic value: 17m visitors, £9.3bn of expenditure in the UK economy, £4.1bn of GDP contribution, 137,000 jobs (some 0.5% of total UK employment) [KPMG05]. More generally, some indications and trends are published regularly (e.g. yearly) by sector associations and research institutes such as ICCA, the International Congress & Convention Association13, IAPCO, the International Association of Professional Congress Organisers14, CIC, the Convention Industry Council15, EIA, the Events Industry Alliance16. A market survey conducted within WP7 shows the large variation of the worldwide and European landscape composition of sector organisations, encompassing different kind of companies from international global service providers down to very local, small-business organisations. The US based Cvent company (http://www.cvent.com/) is an example of such organisations, as a large on-line event management company used by more than 10,000 Event/Marketing Professionals worldwide, with over 50.000 events planned per year. Other examples of different size and market capabilities in Europe providing a good overview of the typical sector actors include, for instance: BME Global17 (UK), TUI Event Management18 (Germany), Business Meetings19 (France), Nexa20 (Italy), IIMC21 (Ireland).

4.2.2.1.2 Use of technology solutions

Technology based on-line services have become a general trend for event management companies, providing support in various phases of the event production cycle, including information and communication with the event delegates and the public during the event itself.

13 http://www.iccaworld.com/ 14 http://www.iapco.org/ 15 http://www.conventionindustry.org/ 16 http://www.eventsindustryalliance.com 17 http://www.bmeglobal.co.uk/ 18 http://www.tui-eventmanagement.com 19 http://business-meetings.fr 20 www.nexaweb.it 21 www.iimg.com


Beside typical management and administrative back-office functionalities (event workflow management, budget management, payment processing, reservations management, etc.) looking more directly to the capabilities and services of interest from POPEYE point of view, current event management software solutions provide several base functionalities, often accessible via tailored event/conference portals, to support information sharing, users communication, conference attendees services, etc. These are typically provided in various combinations by the available market tools, and may include:

• event marketing tools, • online event registration, • program information, news, notifications, • papers/presentations submission management, • speakers/chairpersons management, • hotel/travel booking, • content management/publishing for delegates (e.g. profiles, announcements,

photographs, etc.) • secure online payment, • online event surveys and reporting, • webcasts and support to webinars, • etc.

There are currently several market solutions of this class, most often produced by the event management service providers themselves. The following products are just examples and are typically representatives of the current technology offer in this sector: WingateWeb Conference™ and the Event Management Suite from WingateWeb22, the Shocklogic software suite23, the Symphony Event Management Software24, eventbookings.NET25, EventAvenue26.

4.2.2.1.3 Potential impacts of POPEYE

POPEYE is addressing mobile community support, content sharing, information exchange and collaboration services, all of which are themes relatively untouched and uncovered in present day event/conference management software tools. There is however a strong interests in bringing such capabilities into current event management solutions in order to enhance event experience for the participants and improve communication and attendees services for the event managers. Indeed, the introduction of mobile features and services have started recently at major events. Participants at the MPI European Meetings and Events Conference in London, on 18-20 April 2008 at ExCeL, enjoyed a new way to find people in the room. Each participant received a New Spotme® handheld device to use during the conference. The device enhanced the networking capabilities of participants allowing delegates to use the New Spotme to message, locate individuals, view the programme, find their way around and vote on issues raised. The New Spotme was experimentally launched in June 2007 at a Nestlé Leadership Conference in Europe. Since then, has been used at other conferences and events all over the world.

22 http://www.wingateweb.com/ 23 http://www.shocklogic.com 24 http://www.symphonyem.co.uk/ 25 http://www.eventbookings.com 26 http://www.eventavenue.com


The developed and tested POPEYE experimental application addresses this market area, facilitating mobile interaction, networking and collaboration among the participants during a conference, workshop, exhibition or any similar event. It provides an integrated set of easy-to-use collaboration services enabling professional event organisers to improve communication, information distribution and the provision of services for the event delegates, and the delegates themselves to experience augmented participation in the conference, before, during and after the event. Strong points of the application include:

• dynamic set up and organisation of user groups and virtual communities of participants and delegates,

• virtual workspaces supporting content distribution and sharing within the groups and communities according to different user defined criteria; for instance matching the event structure into thematic areas, sessions, etc.,

• delegates networking through instant messaging (plain or ciphered) and forum, • documents and keynote screen sharing, searching and finding participants according

to profiles of interest, • workflow support for inviting and managing meetings and networking sessions, • an open, plug-in based platform which can be easily extended and further adapted,

adding new services that help increasing organisational efficiency and enhance delegates participation and collaboration at the event.

4.2.2.2 e-Professional and enterprise collaboration services

Mobile business applications for enterprise and e-professionals represent the second direct possible exploitation market for POPEYE. Continuing to show strong signs of growth, the global enterprise mobility market - consisting of mobile hardware, software and services - is expected to reach $33 billion by 2009 [VDC07]. According to research by Compass Intelligence [COMP08], a US based consulting and market analytics company, the market of mobile applications in the US is projected to reach about $9 billion, including CRM, ERP, email, SMS/text messaging, project management, collaboration, and security offerings, by 2011. Looking at the European market, according to IDATE’s Mobile 2008 Report [MOB08] “the current mobile take-up rate per employee (around 25%) is likely to continue rising and by 2011 the enterprise mobile base in Western Europe should reach 60 million units, against an existing base of 50 million”. As also pointed out by Compass Intelligent research [COMP08], there are several factors driving the growth in mobile services market from a business end-user standpoint: the need to access day-to-day applications from remote locations or from mobile devices, the need to collaborate and share files with co-workers, the growing demand to have better productivity tools remotely, and lastly the general growth in mobile and remote workers driving the need for remote/mobile applications across businesses and industries. Demand for mobility solutions is widespread across a broad cross-section of sectors and industries. Largest opportunities are for field sales and service and government solutions while professional services represent some of the fastest growing sectors. Enterprises are expected to spend the most on mobile applications from 2006 to 2011 (41.5 percent), just slightly exceeding small businesses (38.1 percent). Midsize businesses are forecasted to spend significantly less (15.9 percent), while small-office/home-office


businesses are expected to be the smallest spenders (4.5 percent). When segmented by industry, the professional services and government verticals are expected to spend the most this year, 37 percent and 27 percent respectively. In Europe and Asia mobile videoconferencing and mobile collaboration applications are becoming common. Typical widely used mobile collaboration oriented services include synchronous applications such as web conferencing, audio and video conferencing, application sharing and instant messaging (IM), while on the asynchronous side one can consider email, people search and various forms of groupware services. This technology is now gradually being “ported” to mobile formats. Fourth generation personal productivity technology will be a hybrid of real-time collaboration and mobile technologies. Most mobile enterprise and professional collaboration services in use today in this sector, including mobile CRM and employees collaboration support services (B2E, E2E), are infrastructure-based; i.e. they mainly relay on:

• the underlying wireless infrastructures, based on 2.5/3G networks, Wi-Fi and, shortly, WiMax,

• a centric architecture, involving a backbone providing servers and service web portals.

More recently there have been attempts to introduce e-collaboration applications for open environments without the need of communication infrastructures. Perhaps the most relevant example is provided by Microsoft, with their new kind of P2P service in Vista. With this tool, called Windows MeetingSpace [MEET08], laptops users can share information with other nearby machines. Microsoft has built Windows MeetingSpace with the “People Near Me”-technology, that lets people share and view files. As an integrated middleware providing collaboration support services as well as an open platform for development of targeted “anywhere at any time collaboration” applications in full MANET environments, the POPEYE MP2P collaboration framework addresses this market segment rather directly. The distinguishing, fundamental feature of POPEYE in this business area is providing support for mobile collaboration in infrastructure-less application scenarios. The competitive advantages of POPEYE include the provision of an integrated set of fundamental collaboration services for MANET oriented collaborative situations, including:

• mobile, distributed, shared workspaces, • presence tools, • group and community management services, • group security features • open, plug-in based structure for targeted application development

Relevant exploitation potentials are seen for the POPEYE MP2P Framework as a base platform for development of targeted applications in several domains of mobile business services, including:

• professional meetings on the move, • group work and collaboration sessions on the move, • outdoor and indoor business training involving mobility of the users, • mobile learning, • field work


4.2.2.3 Personal, leisure and infotainment services

Mobile services for leisure and infotainment market represent a huge and expanding market sector, the main drivers of which include the continuous penetration and growth of mobile devices market (Fig. 9) – with some outstanding cases such as the breakthrough of smartphones, new generation PDAs, iPhones, etc. – and the rapid expansion of phenomena like social networks, virtual communities, Web 2.0 and its evolution into the mobile communications context (mobile P2P interaction or “Mobile 2.0”). The growth of the telecommunications sector has been around 6% in 2007, once again helped along significantly by the mobile services sector. This is still a driving force with a growth of 11% and a significant increase in the number of users from 2600 million in 2006 to 3200 million at the close of 2007. On the other hand, the popularity of the open, on-line user communities has grown up dramatically over the last five years, with some notable examples like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Micorosoft’s Zune gradually moving into the mobile arena, and a parallel evolution of both the scope and interests of virtual communities and the services provided by the underlying P2P technologies (Fig. X, [P2P07]).

Figure 9 – The mobile terminal market 2004-2011 (Source: IDATE [MOB08] – 02.2008)

Figure 10 – Evolution of Virtual Communities and Peer-to-Peer technology (Source: P2P Major Event project [P2P07] – 02.2007)


Popular personal, leisure oriented mobile applications involve various features including file sharing, messaging and communication, sharing of user generated content, infotainment and mobile gaming. No surprise, the main driver behind the worldwide expansion of this market segment is still represented by mobile networks operators. For example, Vodafone have just announced (May 2008) a tie-up with Facebook for mobile phone activity. Facebook has launched a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices. Vodafone is the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the UK and Germany, with planned expansion of the program to Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal.

4.2.2.3.1 Mobile content sharing

As the commercial offer of mobile operators is becoming more and more attractive for the mass market of end users, several mobile information and content sharing applications are coming to the market. As an example, NewBay, an Irish company located in Dublin, has created FoneShare (2004), a mobile content sharing application that enables users to find, buy, and recommend mobile content to other mobile users. The application concept is build around communities. The systems tracks what mobile content consumers are purchasing and encourage them to recommend the content to group mates. Using this solution mobile operator subscribers instantly become powerful sales forces generating profit to all participants of the mobile content value chain. The prevailing model, today, is thus still strongly based on a centric view, with a major role played by an underlying infrastructure of server-based content spaces accessed through mobile devices by the community of users. However, some departures from infrastructure-based mobile scenarios are starting to be seen, with an evolution into distributed, P2P and eventually infrastructure-less settings. A main sign is probably the appearance (March 2008) of the first native iPhone P2P torrent software. With mobile torrent technology, the concept of file sharing from one system to others is borrowed from computer-based file sharing applications into the mobile setting through a very popular and increasingly used handset. The development is only at initial stage, and not yet packaged for the average user. While available online, the current application is a command line client and does not have a user interface so far. Additionally, due to handset system limitations and extensive use of handset resources of mobile torrents applications, this type of services may not be ready yet for massive use. Nonetheless, several market observers agree that this is yet another relevant indication that true P2P content sharing applications will be entering the market of mobile content sharing in the next few years.

4.2.2.3.2 Mobile gaming

The peer-to-peer concept is increasingly being considered by mobile game developers. The idea is quite recent, mostly promoted by researchers [KNUT04] and mobile equipment vendors such as Nokia [NOK05]. The market conditions for handheld and mobile game products – for both pure leisure and education-oriented games, i.e. “edugames” – are very favourable in both Europe and the US. In the US, the demand is growing by a five-year compound annual growth rate of 26.5%. Revenues will grow from $57 million to $185 million by 2012.


Several of the best known game development companies such as Glu Mobile, EA Mobile, UbiSoft, Gameloft, and Sega are putting new mobile game-based learning products into the pipeline. There are several major growth factors driving the mobile games and edugames market:

• There are new revenue opportunities for suppliers that can develop the right kind of game and master the complex distribution process

• Young consumers and kid buyers still dominate the market, but the demand is growing faster in other segments (e.g. customer education “advergaming”, brain training gaming, etc.)

• Game developers and publishers are now designing games in collaboration with cognitive science and educational neuroscience experts

• Buyers prefer dedicated gaming devices so far, but are migrating to new convergent devices with integrated gaming functionality such as new generation PDAs or smartphones.

As a result, new types of products that appeal to a much wider audience are put on the market, fundamentally new types of games are appearing and new customers are being created. The current market favours suppliers that can continue to create new customers and meet the needs of these new buyers. While a mobile multiplayer game is most often only a re-branding of the corresponding game for the PC or a gaming console, native mobile community games are starting to appear. For instance, Cellfun (www.cellfun.com) have started to produce community games made for mobile phones like “Call of the Pharaoh”, which won "Best Mobile Game" at the Global Mobile Awards 2008. In these games, players use their cellphones to access a community website where they can play browser-based games with thousands of players. This type of game works well on a limited platform like mobiles, because they do not require a lot graphical content. The essence of the game consists rather of the interaction between a multitude of participants. Also in the case of such initial mobile community oriented games, the prevailing scheme and underlying technologies are related to quite traditional infrastructure-based settings. However, multiplayer mobile gaming is intrinsically distributed and more naturally related to P2P, spontaneous styles of participant networking – i.e. the kind of collaborative scenarios enabled by the POPEYE MP2P framework. This can be easily seen, for instance, when looking at current dedicated gaming consoles. Sony's PlayStation Portable uses ad hoc connections for wireless multiplayer gaming, as does the Nintendo DS. Technically, the Nintendo Game Boy used this method for linking up to each other player in a wireless (Game Boy IR port or wireless adapter) mode. Addressing such kind of infrastructure-less settings, several research project and experimental developments have recently started to investigate true mobile, multiplayer gaming applications suited for ad-hoc P2P networking of participants [INT07]. For instance, INTEL have provided an environment CaféTrek [CAF02] is an earlier mobile ad-hoc network game for PDAs for triggering and supporting face-to-face interaction in public places developed at Future Applications Lab Viktoria Institute in Sweden. CaféTrek has been designed specifically for the unique properties of handheld devices, such as the possibility to rotate the display and placing devices next to each other to achieve a larger play area. The BlueGame project [BLU08] has


developed an ad-hoc multiplayer mobile game based on the Dungeons&Dragons board game. The main idea lies in the adoption of Bluetooth Piconet configuration and direct face to face contact of players in real environments. “SmartBlaster” [SMA06] is a multiplayer game developed at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Darmstadt for several different platforms (notebooks, PDAs, smartphones) that is able to use several different channels (Bluetooth, IrDa, 802.11 and other network supporting TCP/IP) to allow user communities to engage in multi-player games in an ad-hoc fashion. Furthermore, also in the PC market computer components manufacturers like INTEL, for instance, have recently mobile games programming tools supporting ad-hoc networking. The Intel Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit [INTE] provides a set of APIs for network connectivity, power management, display information and processor information. Version 2.0 of this TDK adds Ad-Hoc networking APIs running on Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows XP. These APIs can be used to integrate with games and other applications to provide ad-hoc networking facilities. Source codes and sample codes are also included in the TDK.

4.2.2.4 Mobility and e-tourism

Mobility, transport, travel and tourism related information services encompass a wide spectrum of applications, for different target segments of users: tourists, commuters, business travellers, professional drivers, etc. Current market services – generic or location based – include traffic and transport information delivered in real-time, congestion and event information, parking information, route advise, personalised on-trip information, weather information and forecast, information about touristic services, Points of Interest, hotels, etc. These are usually offered on-trip using different channels and are accessed through different devices including PDAs, in-vehicle devices, smart phones, Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), etc. This market sector has shown a dramatic expansion in the last few years. This is the result of to the convergence of a number of driving factors including: the boost of mobile communications services market; the expansion of mobile hardware market (both hand-held and in-vehicle); the take up of digital maps, geo mapping and Location Based Services; the increasing offer of automotive, OEM and aftermarket suppliers of new on-board services; the growth of consumers interest for mobile social networking and Mobile 2.0, with a number of start-up mobile social networks launched in Europe over the last year – e.g. Aka Aki (Germany27), Mobiluck (France28), Imity (Denmark29). A market analysis conducted by ABI Research [ABI08] highlights the huge potential of this market segment, anticipating annual global revenues (in North America) of more than $13 billion by 2013. Sales of Personal Navigation Devices in vehicles has almost tripled in one year, from 11.9 million in 2006 to 33.9 million in 2007. In 2008, Nokia says it expects to sell 35 million GPS-capable phones that will be able to use cell tower and WiFi geolocation. A few recent market agreements are clear signs of the growing interest of the mayor players in the sector. TomTom (http://www.tomtom.com), the Netherlands-based navigation solutions provider is bringing its traffic information service to Germany through an exclusive agreement with mobile operator Vodafone Germany. TomTom High Definition Traffic is TomTom's new traffic information system that delivers up-to-date travel time

27 www.aka-aki.com 28 www.mobiluck.com 29 www.imity.com


information. The service is expected to be launched in Germany in the second half of 2008. In the effort of making the internet more accessible through mobile phones, Google has announced a strategic alliance with T-Mobile (Germany mobile telecom operator) and Motorola to provide mobile access to Google Maps and related location based information, with the aim of replicating their big online success in the mobile phone industry. An agreement has been also announced to provide Google Maps on the iPhone by the end of 2008, opening up another main channel for mass penetration of mobility and tourism related location based information services. Although traditionally strongly based on telecom infrastructures, large potentials are also seen for mobility and tourism related information sharing and cooperative services on the move, without the need of accessing telecommunications infrastructures. Example services include on-trip information exchange and services linking users within ad hoc communities of both private (e.g. travellers and tourists in a city) and business (e.g. transport, logistics) type. For instance:

• cooperative exchange of information during travel (e.g. on a train) requesting nearest or most convenient service (e.g. hotel, restaurant, …) or business (e.g. public office);

• cooperative map information, city plan, town guide; see for instance PARC’s Magitti project [BELL08] and the Whrrl service launched by Pelago30 in the US, providing shared maps and mapping information (location of people, events, etc.) on the iPhone;

• exchanging information and alerts about traffic events (congestions, accidents, …); • shared hiking and biking maps.

This is a nascent market that is even difficult to evaluate today [CRA07]. For example, In the U.S. and U.K., MySpace.com's mobile site is the most popular with 3.7 million users in the U.S. and 440,000 in the U.K.; Facebook (that has launched in 2007 an iPhone-optimised service) is second place with 2 million users in the U.S. and 307,000 in the U.K. Finally, one aspect that is worth noting and has high potentials of plying as an additional main driver for the expansion of mobile P2P information exchange and services is the growing interest of automotive industry for peer-to-peer networks and vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Pushed over the last decade by strong interests of car industry in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) communications [VAN07] mainly for traffic safety and efficiency purposes, this area has recently addressed more social oriented applications dealing with of travel and touristic information exchange. As shown, for example, by the recent introduction and experiment of CarTorrent [CART07].

4.2.2.5 civil protection, homeland and public security

Humanitarian and rescue tasks, as defined in Europe by the Petersberg Tasks in 1992, is a domain of application that is more and more prominent. Indeed, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami31, the 2005 Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Katrina32, recurring floods, earthquakes, fires, etc, all have in common severe damage to the infrastructures, including the communications infrastructures. It is recognised that emergency assistance to the populations in such context is ad hoc in nature.

30 www.pelago.com 31 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami 32 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina


The European Commission, Environment Directorate-General, Civil Protection unit D3, defined mechanisms to facilitate reinforced cooperation in civil protection assistance interventions and intended to provide support in the event of major emergencies which may re-quire urgent response action33. These mechanisms recognise compatibility of means, especially means of communication, as a key criteria to consider. Further, we believe that POPEYE can make a significant difference in how institutions and citizens themselves collaborate in establishing ad hoc communication links that rely on disseminated individual devices rather that on centralised infrastructures.

4.2.3 Competition

Competition analysis has continued during the second year of the project, with the aim of identifying emerging developments of interest for POPEYE potential market exploitation. Overall, market monitoring has been streamlined along two main directions:

1. the appearance of specific MP2P applications (solutions, products, etc.) addressing the vertical eProfessional market and POPEYE core application scenarios introduced in previous section

2. the emergence of MP2P frameworks and middleware platforms over MANETs, as generic solutions to support development of mobile collaboration applications.

4.2.3.1 Targeted POPEYE vertical market areas

As pointed out in section 4.2.2, taking into account the specific prototype application developed for POPEYE proof-of-concept validation, the vertical market segments that have been reviewed as the most interesting areas for direct (short term) exploitation of POPEYE results include (a) event management services and (b) eProfessional / enterprise collaboration services. Related to these market areas, the survey conducted in the second year has lead to confirmation of the view built up in first project year: as of today, there are no emerging products, solutions, developments addressing altogether the key issues addressed by POPEYE and implemented in the resulting prototype application(s) – open P2P collaboration platform for MANETs, spontaneous groups management, community support, context awareness, peer clustering and multi-hop communications, dependability and security, open and expandable plug-in based architecture for application development, etc. As regards the sector of Conference and Event Management applications, as previously mentioned in section 4.2.2 current solutions and products have no or only limited support for mobility, with a few initial services – mostly based on PDAs browsing information available through the conference web portal – offered at some major conferences during 2007. In this respect, POPEYE is in a very interesting and competing position, offering a true mobile, infrastructure-less and open (plug-in based) CWE platform for development of advanced applications to support both the event delegates and managers. Looking more generally at the e-Professional / Enterprise mobile collaboration services market, conceivably the most interesting market oriented development in this area (but also, potentially, for personal/social use) is the new “ad hoc collaboration” facility integrated by Microsoft Corp. in the MS Vista environment. The Windows MeetingSpace (formerly

33 EU Handbook on assistance interventions in the frame of the Community Mechanism for Cooperation in civil protection


named Windows Collaboration) [WMS07] allows people with Windows Vista laptops to share files, such as presentations with other nearby Vista laptops.

Windows MeetingSpace uses the standard Wi-Fi connection to set up computer-to-computer network with other laptops using the Microsoft P2P infrastructure and provides basic support for content sharing and collaboration to improve the way people work in projects and in common activities. Using this environment, for instance, users can organise meetings viewing and inviting participants, distributing an agenda, attendee list, and other documents. However, it is not clear how and to which extent peer mobility, dynamic clustering, etc. are supported, eventually, in such complex, multi-hop scenarios as those addressed by POPEYE. Colligo Workgroup Edition (http://www.colligo.com) is another market solution for business users allowing mobile teams equipped with Wi-Fi enabled laptops, TabletPCs or PDAs to instantly and securely network together wherever they are working, without the need of accessing a network infrastructure. Once connected, users can share files, share an Internet connection, share a printer, collaborate on a document, chat, compare calendars. This product is a mature market solution, although it seems to enable only rather “simple” P2P ad-hoc networking (no peer clustering, no multi-hop capabilities, etc.) and lacks advanced user profiles and context awareness capabilities as well as expandability of collaborative applications through plug-in support. All other market solutions identified and analysed seemed much simpler and can be regarded as rather initial, at this stage. A few (and mostly free) products are appearing that are conceived to support, over wireless and ad hoc networks, at least part (or only a few) of the group communication and collaboration services available in POPEYE, and could be in future developed to support more extended collaborative applications. For instance, WiPeer (http://www.wipeer.com/) is a freely distributed tool that enables sharing files directly among computers, chatting and collaboration over both Wi-Fi and home/office networks. Also included are user profile management and search/location (“friends locator”, social networks) and support for interactive multi-player games (some come bundled with the WiPeer distribution). WhiFiChat (http://wifichat.vmik.info/) is a basic screen sharing system for PDAs over ad hoc networks, allowing the users to share a whiteboard and carry out collaborative drawing. Although addressing some of the areas of POPEYE, none of the applications currently found through market search – except Windows MeetingSpace and, partly, Colligo Workgroup Edition – seem to meet the requirements and capabilities of professional applications (dependability, security, trust, structured, multi-hop MANET environments, etc.) as addressed in POPEYE.

4.2.3.2 POPEYE MP2P framework

Several recent and ongoing developments in the various areas addressed by the developed POPEYE MP2P middleware have been reviewed in [POPEYE M5.1] with analysis of projects and available systems, toolkits, etc. in the area of distributed (P2P) data sharing, context awareness and their integration into tools and systems to support development of mobile data sharing and collaboration.


The identified systems can be grouped according to three different categories: protocol based systems (e.g. JXTA, JME, JGroups), middleware (e.g. JMobiPeer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows P2P Networking). Approaches potentially related to or competing with POPEYE can be found along two main directions:

• existing P2P, distributed collaborative platforms originally developed for wired applications and likely to exploit the uptake of wireless capabilities and base ad hoc network connectivity of laptops, notebooks and PDAs.

• developments of new platforms and application programming environments addressing directly the wireless and MANET context.

Groove [GROO] is a well known reference in the field of wired collaborative platforms and a strong market player, especially given its recent integration within MS Windows and Office (Groove Virtual Office). However, although it already provides most of “classical” collaborative services like those planned in POPEYE (content sharing, shared workspaces, chat, etc.) none of the key capabilities of POPEYE are supported, such as operating over MANETs (multi-hop, etc.) ad hoc group management, context awareness, etc. Other recent research initiatives have delivered results in POPEYE areas and will be possibly enabling further development of potential competing solutions34. The following is a list of the most relevant recent or ongoing research initiatives in the field. STEAM [STE04] is an event-based middleware that exploits publish/subscribe mechanisms without the need of using dedicated event servers. A limitation of the platform is the need of keeping the peers in the same radio range, without any support for multi-hop application scenarios. The AGAPE project [BCM03] [AGA] has produced a group management and group communication framework that enables and supports the design, development and deployment of context-aware collaborative applications in MANET environments. Mobile Chedar [Kot05] is a mobile extension to the Chedar Java-based P2P middleware [CHED] developed at the University of Jyväskylä that can be used to build collaborative applications supporting user mobility. Mobile Chedar is based on a hybrid peer-to-peer model that uses a Mobile Chedar gateway node as the master in the network. The Mobile Chedar gateway node runs on a PC that also provides an Internet gateway for the mobile nodes. LaCOLLA [MaN05] [LaCO] at the Open University of Catalunya has developed a fully decentralised middleware for building collaborative applications that provides general-purpose collaboration functionalities. The initiative is ongoing and mobile support will be possibly added. Peer2Me [PEE06] is a framework developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology used to develop mobile collaborative applications in Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME).The framework focuses on the support for same-place-same-time collaboration on mobile phones utilising personal area networks (PANs).

34 In the following, we are not considering the WORKPAD project, that is actually addressing very similar areas and objectives as POPEYE, as we have ongoing contacts and possible cooperation issues


4.2.3.3 POPEYE strengths and weaknesses

Based on the information collected about the existing solutions addressing the core POPEYE MP2P application areas, the identification of POPEYE strong and weak points was carried out. A comparison of the main identified strengths and weaknesses is summarised in the following table. This should be considered, anyway, taking into the account that:

• the comparison was carried out using information available from the internet, including both commercial/technical documents about the reviewed products/ solutions and description of completed or ongoing projects;

• as previously remarked, as of today, there are no emerging products, solutions, developments addressing altogether the key issues addressed by POPEYE and implemented in the demonstrated prototype applications, and we consider this as the main strong point of a fully developed and engineered POPEYE platform over the available or emerging competing solutions.

Competitors POPEYE

Strength Weakness Strength Weakness

support for meeting organisation, integra-tion with widely used products (eg Office, Groove?)

comparable meeting organisation support; enhanced expanda-bility thanks to plug-in architecture

probably difficult to achieve integration with widespread MS Office applications

support for dynamic workgroups?

full support for dynamic workgroups

Windows Meetingspace

no multi-hop mobility multi-hop mobility

support for Tablet PCs, PDAs

Tablet PCs, PDAs not yet supported

no peer clustering full support to for peer clustering

no multi-hop mobility multi-hop mobility

no support for context and user profile

context representation and use, user profile

Colligo Workgroup

Edition

expandability of applications?

highly expandable applications thanks to plug-in architecture

social networks oriented services (eg “friend locator”)

not available in POPEYE, but can be easily integrated thanks to plug-in component

WiPeer

very simple application, poor mobility support

business oriented platform with high level features (full mobility, multi-hop, context, dependability, security)

WiFiChat very simple application, only screen sharing services, poor mobility support

business oriented platform with high level features (full mobility, multi-hop, context, dependability, security)


4.3 General partners exploitation lines

4.3.1 Main exploitation directions

The exploitation strategies of POPEYE consortium reflect the nature and diversity of the involved partners and are tailored to the specific scientific and business goals of each participating organisation. An overview of the main exploitation directions of each POPEYE partner is given in the remainder of this section. The detailed exploitation foreseen the defined POPEYE exploitable results is described more in depth in section 4.4 – Detailed exploitation plans. For POPEYE industrial partners, further development and exploitation of project results offers a key strategic opportunity for the longer-term development of their business, both in Europe and globally. Particularly: o THC is focussing on the identification of new architectural communication patterns for

the future mobile systems and to study the associated security mechanisms and threats. Through its business domains, THC has already explored specific usage of ad-hoc radio communications for the battlefield and expects POPEYE infrastructure to help develop dual usage of this technology to the full range of civilian and military domains, including fire-fighting, disaster recovery, humanitarian relief, homeland defence, peace-keeping, fast reaction force, etc.

o SOFTECO, from the point of view of a SME developing advanced business oriented

ICT solutions, is interested in the development and validation of further innovative value-added solutions for the industrial and service market. The research conducted in POPEYE and the achieved results (both in terms of technology development and developed knowledge) are considered as extremely valuable assets to feed into future products analysis and development strategies in several areas of the company core business.

Academic partners are mainly aiming to exploit POPEYE outcomes as an increased know-how in the various addressed research fields, enhancing their ability to support the European mobile telecommunications, software systems and ICT applications industry. The knowledge developed throughout the project increase the academic partners capabilities to supply technical advice and consultancy and trained engineers to the European work force in mobile telecommunications applications as well as in mobile, P2P CWE applications.

4.3.2 Industrial exploitation

4.3.2.1 Thales Communications

The exploitation of POPEYE results for Thales Communications involves mainly the gradual transfer of developed technologies and know how into a number of application areas in both civilian and military domains (e.g. fire-fighting, disaster recovery, humanitarian relief, homeland defence, peace-keeping, fast reaction force, etc.). Of main interest are particularly the solutions and know how developed in the POPEYE technical areas where Thales has contributed more directly; i.e. the solutions, technologies and methods for secure communication and collaboration within groups of users in ad-hoc networks (including authentication, group trust and security, etc.).


In line with the strategy developed in the first project year, the research team coordinated with the Tactical Internet Business Unit of Thales Communications, in charge of developing the products and systems for its customers and managing the on-going programmes. Concretely, this coordination involves Nicolas Berthet (POPEYE Coordinator) and a System Engineer from the above-mentioned Thales Business Unit. In addition, more than one year ago (end of 2006), Thales took the strategic step to increase its contribution in the NCOIC35 Information Assurance Working Group and in Mobile Networking Working Group. In charge of defining tomorrow’s interoperable mobile communication patterns in a coalition of heterogeneous users, NCOIC Mobile Networking Working Group has identified the three following domains:

• Ad hoc mobility (no predefined infrastructure, moving nodes and networks, no dependence on any particular node),

• “Connected” mobility (node or network moving within the larger internetwork while remaining connected; predefined network infrastructure),

• “Disconnected” mobility (node or network disconnected and then moving to a new location; when reconnected, could be within an ad hoc or infrastructure network).

The strategy of Thales Communications to capitalise on POPEYE know how is concretely supported by the following evidence: • coordination between POPEYE and NCOIC activities involves Nicolas Berthet as POPEYE

Coordinator and as Vice-Chair of NCOIC Technical Council, elected in March 2008.

• Full time appointment of Mr. Francisco Bas Esparza after completion of his GET-ENST researcher work focussed on POPEYE.

• Full time appointment of Mr. Marcel Arrufat Arias after completion of his URV researcher work focussed on POPEYE.

4.3.2.2 Softeco Sismat SpA

4.3.2.2.1 Company market areas

Softeco Sismat is a mid-size ICT solution provider firmly established in the Italian software market for both industrial and service sectors and, through supplies to larger industrial partners and customers, operating also in the European market. During the last financial year, about 64% of the company’s sales were in the industrial area, including industrial process automation, process control, production planning and management, while the remaining 36% were in the area of services (public administrations, finance) and research organisations. With a steady increase of its turnover during the last years (around 10%), the company has been acknowledged by sector analysts as one of the national emerging SMEs in the area of software applications, and one of the leading companies for application of advanced Its and innovation in their products. Participation to POPEYE and to the development and validation of mobile P2P solutions for innovative e-Business/e-Work/e-Services applications has contributed to strongly increase the company know how and technological excellence in the area of mobile CWE applications and provided – through availability of research prototypes – concrete starting points for possible industrial development of innovative elements, components and systems in a core business area for our company.

35 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium: www.ncoic.org


4.3.2.2.2 Foreseen industrial exploitation of results

The key target area for exploitation of POPEYE results for Softeco is the market of e-collaboration solutions for e-Professionals and Enterprise users. This represents the most direct industrial exploitation of results and is based upon the primary involvement of Softeco in the development and proof-of-concept validation (WP6 and WP8) of the selected POPEYE use cases: collaboration support for ad hoc workgroups of e-professional users over MANETs and hybrid network infrastructures, in situations like public events (workshops, conferences, ...), business meetings, etc. This is a broad industrial exploitation market where different specific applications/users segments can be identified. Considering the starting point provided by POPEYE results (both software prototypes, methods and knowledge) three main exploitation areas have been identified by Softeco, implying different levels of development efforts and investments required to develop industrial market solutions meeting the fundamental user needs and goals in the areas: 1) Forefront exploitation market. Event management software applications – involving spontaneous communities of users, mobility, infrastructure-less environments, etc. – is the most direct exploitation market, starting from the available POPEYE proof-of-concept prototype. This is a new market for Softeco, which is regarded to have potentials for relevant business developments for the company. Innovation efforts in this area are ongoing also through other own and external projects. For instance, Softeco is participating as a main software provider (and integrator) to the InContext project (FP6-IST-034718) where also a (web based) context aware event management application is being developed and tested (with target use case a trade fair in the UK). The synergies between results from the two projects36 are considered to provide concrete possibilities for new solutions development in the area of event management technologies and services. 2) Second level exploitation market. Mobile CWE and collaboration support for enterprise workgroups represent a second main exploitation direction identified for Softeco. Business solutions for large industrial enterprises and service companies is core business of Softeco, with a large portfolio of long standing customers in a number of market areas. These include major players in the telecommunications sector (Alcatel, Ericsson, Selex Communications, Telecom Italia, etc.) energy distribution and services (ENEL, EDF, EGL, …), automation, plants and engineering (ABB, Siemens, Finmeccanica Group, …), manufacturing and electronics (Whirlpool, Philips, Bosch, …), automotive (FIAT, Marelli, ...). With reference to the previous market segment, mobile CWE enterprise services offer potentials for larger market impacts for Softeco. However, the investments required are likely to be higher, given the baseline prototype application available from POPEYE as a starting point for industrial solutions development and the larger amount of work needed to meet the final application requirements. POPEYE solutions addressing e-Work/e-Business corporate applications and involving hybrid networking environments (MANET + wireless/wired networks) have large potentials for exploitation. Identified areas of potential industrial exploitation for Softeco include:

36 a preliminary analysis of possible integration between POPEYE and InContext architectures has been done, and possible ways of enabling service interoperability between the two systems have been identified.


- mobile CRM, - workforce management, - support to field services (e.g. sales services)

The development of such solutions are possible exploiting the open structure of POPEYE platform and the plug-in framework and will be addressed by further development of the POPEYE prototype application (after project end). 3) Further exploitation market segments. Other company business areas where potentials are seen for industrial exploitation of POPEYE results include: e-Government, public administration, mobility, transport and tourism market segments. In the e-Gov and Public Administration market, POPEYE based applications and solutions include Administration-to-Administration (A2A) and Administration-to-Citizens (A2C) applications. The potentially exploitable market includes all major regions of Italy, where various kinds of solutions have been already supplied.

The mobility, transport and tourism market represents a vertical market for Softeco, with a number of customers in Italy (virtually in most regions and major cities) and partnerships in other European countries (mainly Germany, UK, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria) and, outside Europe, in the Russian Federation. Softeco is offering solutions for travel and traffic information on the move, public transport information using mobile devices (PDAs, smart phones) as well as mobile information and booking services for on-demand transport (e.g. shared taxis, demand responsive bus services, etc.). Applications for tourism are also expanding, with a current project involving a network of natural history museums and aquaria (including the Aquarium of Genoa) with the aim of integrating and distributing digital contents to visitors to improve access to information and learning. The development of P2P mobile services for communities of travellers, tourists, etc. represents a potential further expansion of Softeco offer in this market segment. Potential applications include:

- sharing and distribution of mobility related information for communities of travellers - shared applications like e.g. route planning, route information and advice, etc. for

groups of travellers on the move (e.g. on a train, at the airport, etc.) - community oriented location based information and services for tourists visiting

historical cities (organised, shared virtual information spaces integrated with geographical information and location based information and services)

- mobile, P2P, community oriented applications enhancing the experience of the visitors of museums, cultural centres, historical sites, etc.

4.3.2.2.3 Planned actions

The starting point for targeted actions addressing the above market areas after successful project end is provided by the proof-of-concept POPEYE prototype developed in the second year of the project, as Softeco has been largely involved in (and responsible for) proof-of-concept development (WP6) and demonstration (WP8) activities. Overall, the main actions planned for the first year following project end include:

• careful evaluation of demonstration outcomes with the aim of deriving a set of requirements and priorities from the point of view of development of POPEYE industrial/commercial applications in the target market areas of interest for Softeco. This activity was conducted involving technical experts, product managers and marketing managers from the industrial divisions of Softeco – particularly, from the Production Division (responsible for industrial markets), the Infomobility Division


and Energy Solutions Division, responsible for the mobility and energy markets respectively;

• further development and refinement of a prototype version POPEYE application, suitable for further demonstration and pre-marketing activities. This was address (a) firstly the event management solutions market, starting from the available POPEYE proof-of-concept prototype, (b) more generally, information sharing, communication, group management and collaborative applications for mobile teamwork in the enterprise setting.

• dedicated prototype presentation events, with involvement of key customers (2 or 3 out of the company’s customers base) during the demonstration / validation sessions;

• pre-marketing actions, including solution/product profiling and dissemination at sector events (national and European ICT exhibitions);

• development of an initial industrial and business plan for the POPEYE solutions identified and validated through prototype demonstration.

Concretely, the following first steps are planned in the short term (next six months):

1. Conference/Event management mobile CWE: a first demonstration and further validation of a POPEYE-based event management application is foreseen for late October 2008, in the context of the international Science Festival taking place in Genoa during the last week of October and first week of November each year (Festival della Scienza, http://www.festivalscienza.it). At the time this report is prepared, Softeco is planning participation to the event with an own stand and is negotiating with the event organisers to held live demonstration and validation of POPEYE application with a controlled group of users.

2. Enterprise mobile CWE: a customer oriented demonstration event is planned in the

domain of mobile applications for enterprise and professional users. Field force management and mobile services will be the targeted applications areas. Industrial users will be involved selecting from Softeco strategic customers in the energy market (ENEL, as a service provider; Siemens, as a solution provider), transportation and mobility market (SITAF motorway operator; field force for technical equipment maintenance), industrial automation (ABB, as a solution provider in different industrial areas including production plants, naval and marine, environment).

3. Further research oriented dissemination: participation is planned to the following events:

o WETICE 2008 Demonstration session, Rome, 24th June 2008; poster and demonstration

o e-Challenges 2008, Stockholm, 22-24 October 2008; paper presentation

o ICT Event 2008, Lyon, 25-27 November 2008; POPEYE stand, including software demo (acceptance confirmation pending)


4.3.3 Academic and research exploitation

4.3.3.1 Universidad de Murcia

At UMU, POPEYE has been an important source of new knowledge that will be incorporated in a number of subjects we teach for PhD students. Exploiting projects results, UMU will develop their expertise in distributed systems and security for the mobile peer-to-peer. Continuing the academic publication activities carried out during POPEYE, UMU will produce further academic research papers in national and international conferences; furthermore, the direct cooperation with some industrial partners will help to disseminate their knowledge and experience. More specifically, further use of POPEYE results will contribute to expand two main research lines at UMU:

o Research on advanced routing protocols for MANETs. The POPEYE overlay network architecture is based on previous work developed at UMU in the area of unicast and multicast protocols for ad hoc networks:

o DYMO protocol (Dynamic MANET On-demand), an IETF standard unicast protocol of which UMU has developed one of the two existing implementations – DYMOUM (http://masimum.dif.um.es) – currently available.

o MMARP protocol, a multicast protocol that has been adapted to support identified architectural needs and integration in the overlay network abstraction of POPEYE architecture.

The combined use of both protocols to meet the requirements of POPEYE MANET environment (Ad-hoc networks, WiFi AP infrastructure, Multi-hop networks) will lead to an integrated communication environment and provide further ground for both education and future research in this area

o Research on context-awareness and context aware architectures. OCP (Open Context Platform) is a context-aware middleware developed at UMU, whose motivation is to offer a global, homogeneous and adaptable context-aware platform for applications and other middleware to exploit. The goal of OCP is to provide a way for defining the information model of a context aware scenario, together with services to manipulate, handle and manage this information in a homogeneous way even on heterogeneous settings. OCP has proven a considerable advance in functionality and flexibility when adapted to the special conditions of the POPEYE computing environment. UMU plan to make it open source through Sourceforge as a standalone product

4.3.3.2 Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

Participating to POPEYE, UDA improved their skills in software architectural design of collaborative working environments. The project results (as well as the collaboration with the consortium partners) will be exploited for validating the methodologies and tools that UDA has developed for non-functional modelling and analysis of software systems. Specifically, UDA plan to re-use POPEYE results in the context of global modelling that is becoming a new trend in software engineering and global software development, where the focus moves from writing and sharing documents to writing and sharing models. Elements of the POPEYE platform will be re-used to investigate and develop a collaborative modelling environment for supporting synchronous and asynchronous modelling and further research in this area.


As in traditional computer supported cooperative tools, software engineers are willing to work in both a synchronous and an asynchronous way. During synchronous global modelling, many users can work together on the same set of diagrams, they can switch from a model to another, and they can lock some portions of the model according to some defined rules. During asynchronous global modelling, different users can take the model from the repository and apply changes in parallel. As usual, the problem to be managed here consists in comparing the two models for identifying, and then explicitly showing, model differences. Building on POPEYE results UDA plan to produce a collaborative version of Charmy37 that will support both synchronous or real-time collaborative modelling (offering services for sharing the modelling space, models, documentation, and configuration) and asynchronous collaborative modelling (offering services for supporting merging of models modified and edited separately by different software engineers). Furthermore, the expertise acquired in POPEYE will also be exploited in the PLASTIC European project, which is aimed at the development and deployment of service-based applications on heterogeneous platforms. UDA intends to publish scientific papers in international conferences basing on the work developed in POPEYE, targeting conferences and journals of good quality.

4.3.3.3 Universidad Rovira i Virgili

URV’s research group is currently involved in both research and technology transfer projects related to collaborative environments and peer-to-peer technologies. In this line, URV contributions to the dissemination and exploitation of POPEYE’s results will be twofold: - To produce academic research papers in national and international conferences from the

results obtained in the POPEYE project. - To promote technology transfer results and further collaborations with selected

enterprise partners: Eidola (URV Group Spin-Off), Bull, Fujitsu, Telefonica, I. Guttman.

Furthermore, POPEYE will contribute to enhance the training of URV students in mobile collaborative settings and to disseminate results in the local Tarragona’s society (citizen association Tinet and Wireless communities TarracoWireless and ReusWireless). Finally, URV will promote POPEYE open source middleware dissemination in the ObjectWeb community.

4.3.3.4 GET–ENST

Over the years, GET-ENST has developed know-how in the area of mobile service support. POPEYE has given GET-ENST the opportunity to further investigate the support of collaborative applications in a spontaneous network environment. Continuing the publication activities carried out within POPEYE, GET-ENST will produce further academic research papers in national and international conferences from the research conducted in the project. POPEYE will also permit the exposure of GET-ENST graduate

37 Charmy website: http://www.di.univaq.it/charmy


students and researchers to high-level technical work considering real-life technological problems. In general, expertise acquired through the POPEYE project will be reused in student projects, courses and seminars at GET-ENST. The work developed by GET-ENST members relative to data management and sharing as well as data search, provided the basis for the PhD thesis of Mrs Hoa Ha Duong (thesis started in October 2006). The POPEYE framework will constitute a test bed to test innovative algorithms developed by Mrs Ha Duong as well as other GET-ENST students in the above-mentioned fields. Finally, the increased know-how developed within POPEYE: - will be beneficial in future research projects on collaborative work as well as on mobile

service platforms, - will enable the participation in technology transfer projects that can further exploit

POPEYE achievements, - will be transferred to the training activity and contribute to the good training of GET-

ENST students who will soon be part of the European work force in mobile telecommunications.

4.3.3.5 OFFIS e.V.

Being a non-profit research institute, the dissemination of POPEYE results by OFFIS will focus on the scientific community. A commercial exploitation won’t take place. Through papers and presentations, project outcomes will be made available to the scientific public strengthening OFFIS' position as a leading research institute for mobile applications and services. Through liaison with standardisation bodies and direct collaboration with operators, it is expected that early exploitation will be seen in the form of accelerated diversity in the introduction of new services on future generation network. The results and experiences of the POPEYE project that are developed by OFFIS members will be reused in future research projects which include efforts towards technology transfer and student projects respectively. Also the established contacts to the academic partners within the project as well as to the industrial ones shall be utilised for future activities. The exploitation and further use of developed knowledge concerns our work on the management of workspaces and users as well as our work on application plug-ins; for instance, development of a “collaborative map” to be used in mobile applications involving information sharing and collaboration. The experiences in collaborative working environments will influence, improve and extend our research and work on the development of mobile applications and location-based services.


4.4 Detailed exploitation plans

This section provides a description of detailed exploitable results updated during the second year. With reference to the general classification of results introduced in section 4.1, the results described in the following include both (a) the final integrated platform/applications POPEYE is aiming at, and (b) some individual components and outcomes related to the different architectural layers, which will be exploited as self-standing results by the relevant partners. Results are listed based on what was identified in the exploitation report of the first year (D7.3) and the Table defining the POPEYE exploitable results previously introduced in section 4.1. For each result, under the section “Exploitation partners” are indicated the POPEYE partners having the strongest interest in exploiting further the specific project outcome. However, all other partners will have the right to exploit project results, as these belong to the foreground knowledge generated by the project. Furthermore, as several of these results have been made available in the open source domain, it is expected their exploitation will be much wider, beyond the POPEYE consortium. The following table provides a summary view of the POPEYE exploitable results more detailed described in the remainder of this section.

Exploitable results Partner(s) interested in exploitation

Result Level 1: POPEYE mobile P2P overlay network abstraction Result 1.1: POPEYE MP2P Communication Middleware URV, UMU Result 1.2: POPEYE Network Topology and Configuration Tool GET-ENST Result Level 2: POPEYE MP2P collaboration components Result 2.1: POPEYE base collaboration platform (WIMPY) URV Result 2.2: Open Context Platform (OCP) UMU Result Level 3: POPEYE security services Result 3.1: Design of MP2P CWE security services THC Result 3.2: POPEYE Security Services Toolbox THC Result Level 4: Integrated POPEYE MP2P Collaboration Middleware Result 4.1: POPEYE CWE Framework All Result Level 5: POPEYE MP2P Collaboration Applications Result 5.1: POPEYE Event Management proof-of-concept demonstrator Softeco, All (pub. vers.)

4.4.1 Result Level 1: POPEYE mobile P2P overlay network abstraction

4.4.1.1 Result 1.1: POPEYE MP2P Communication Middleware

4.4.1.1.1 Description of exploitable result

This project result is the URV application-layer multi-hop communication middleware. In the URV we are also working in a self-contained communication middleware that does not need underlying transport MANET protocols (DYMO, OLSR, MMARP). Such middleware can simplify the deployment of POPEYE applications in any OS or platform (mobile, PDA, laptop). We believe that this adaptation middleware can boost the adoption


and usage of POPEYE tools in many settings. The major problem to current deployments now is the installation complexity of MANET protocols.

4.4.1.1.2 Partner(s) involved in the exploitation

Main exploitation partners will be UMU, URV. UMU is the main developer of POPEYE communication solutions, being the developing partner of MMARP protocol and of one of the few implementations of DYMO protocol available today. URV is the developer of basic communication services on top of JGroups (peer discovery, group management, etc.) that are used in the base MP2P communication platform.

4.4.1.1.3 Expected exploitation

It is an added module to the POPEYE stack that opens up the usage and deployment of POPEYE tools. URV plan to promote this software in conferences, communities and in local companies.

4.4.1.1.4 Further research and development

An open research line in application level Multi-hop middleware is being continued in the Spanish research project P2PGRID.

4.4.1.1.5 IPR issues

None.

4.4.1.2 Result 1.1: POPEYE Network Topology and Configuration Tool


This project result has been produced by GET-ENST to facilitate testing and evaluating MANET applications using the POPEYE communication layer, by facilitating the set up, configuration and simulation of a MANET test bed involving a number of mobile devices.

The Network Topology Configuration tool allows to create and visualise multi-hop scenarios without physically moving the devices. Based on Mackill, it also allows the modification of the topology at any time during the execution of a test. Basically, it includes:

- a mechanism in charge of sending the Mackill filters (filters are sent in a certain order to assure no partitions are created and using TCP instead of UDP).

- a mobility module (including different mobility models like Random Waypoint, Circle, Square...).

A simulation tool based on the Topology Configuration Tool GUI is also available. It simulates the services provided by the Network Layer and some other such us the Naming Service. It has been used to test the Data Sharing and Data Search Mechanisms of POPEYE.



GET-ENST.


It is complementary tool that allows setting up, configuring and describing graphically (dynamically) the operation of a test bed for MANET communication frameworks. The Network Topology Configuration tool has been released as a SourceForge project under LGPL license under the name manetconfig (http://sourceforge.net/projects/manetconfig/). A documentation can be found in the “work in progress” wiki of the project (also in Source Forge). As an open source tool and it will be of use for research and experimental projects.


The tool is available to third parties for further research and development.


None.

4.4.2 Result Level 2: POPEYE MP2P collaboration components

4.4.2.1 Result 2.1: POPEYE base collaboration platform (WIMPY)


The core of POPEYE collaboration services are developed starting from an open source platform called WIMPY. WIMPY is a middleware for collaboration based on JGroups and developed at University Rovira i Virgili (URV) which provides:

• Several services such as group management, naming, publish/subscribe and various communication functionalities.

• A plugin-based architecture for application development, on which plug-ins may benefit from underlying middleware services

WIMPY does not depend on the underlying network characteristics, since it can be deployed over a multi-hop MANET, a wireless network or an Ethernet, provided that appropriate routing protocols are available. The following diagram depicts the architectural view of WIMPY, composed by three different layers. The upper layer (Application) includes the collaborative applications (plug-ins) and the framework used to install and run them. The Plugin Services layer is composed of the plug-in management mechanisms and the Plug-in API, which provides an interface to access to middleware services. And last but not least, the bottom layer includes basic communication and group functionalities in order to build collaborative applications.


Figure 11 - WIMPY architecture

WIMPY can be seen as a framework that facilitates the creation of collaborative applications for several network environments, and supported by a rich set of communication functionalities. Actually there is a direct mapping between the middleware modules from WIMPY with the ones defined in the POPEYE architecture diagram [POPEYE M2.1]. WIMPY is thus one of the key elements for development of POPEYE CWE architecture, together with communication and peer discovery services developed by UMU (see previous result 1.1) specifically designed for MANETs and the CHARMY framework developed by UDA to support plug-in functionalities. All other core services planned for POPEYE (WP5) were developed on top and integrated within WIMPY.


Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).


WIMPY is made available to all POPEYE partners through the URV project management tool (Trac), and was also offered to the WORKPAD project partners as an example of POPEYE collaborative middleware. Other on-going research projects in the CWE field may be interested in evaluating, using or even enhancing WIMPY services. As described in sect. 5.2 ahead, part of POPEYE results have been made available to the open source community. WIMPY is distributed as an open source project under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) in order to provide a collaborative middleware for MANETs to interested audience and benefit from future development activity.


WIMPY requires both external unicast and multicast routing protocols in order to be deployed in a MANET environment. Our plan for future development on WIMPY is to get rid of these external requirements and integrate an application level routing protocol that could allow WIMPY to become a standalone MANET middleware.



Copyright of WIMPY is held by Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

4.4.2.2 Result 2.2: Open Context Platform (OCP)


Besides being integrated in the overall POPEYE CWE middleware, POPEYE context-aware services and management capabilities are delivered as an individual component, offering a global, homogeneous and adaptable context-aware environment that can be exploited by other applications and middleware. OCP is a generic middleware that, with a vertical approach, delivers context information and context related services to services and applications. The key features of this result relate to the development of context aware capabilities over ad hoc and heterogeneous collaborative working environments, where users (peers) can dynamically join and leave the communication and collaboration context at any time. Reaching a full context-awareness over MANET has some complex technical issues to take into account, such as the difficulty in merging all the information coming from different, heterogeneous sources of the environment and offering it so each entity involved can exploit this data consistently. The POPEYE release of OCP is a proof-of-concept implementation of OCP delivering context information and managing it on MANET environments.


UMU has been developing the OCP platform.


OCP will be made publicly available as open source software, on Sourceforge. Exploitation will be as an open source platform for further development.


We plan now a number of directions in research and development mainly focused on the generation and automatic management of user models about their behaviour in the system. Context has an historical dimension through which we can obtain a list of data that reflects the same item in an ubiquitous environment and its evolution through time. It is possible to obtain statistical and/or intelligent models from this temporal series data. We will push forward this research on OCP.


Copyright of OCP is held by UMU.


4.4.3 Result Level 3: POPEYE security services

4.4.3.1 Result 3.1: Design of MP2P CWE security services


This project result includes the specifications and design of the MP2P CWE security mechanisms and services that have been implemented, as part of the proof-of-concept validation of POPEYE. POPEYE objectives are to provide a simple and reliable computing environment for collaborative group working. The security services in POPEYE support collaborative working application for small spontaneous communities with sporadic connectivity. The security mechanisms are suitable to ad hoc networks constraints. The security we designed in the POPEYE framework relies on a PKI when a fixed infrastructure is available and switches towards lighter mechanisms when only pure P2P infrastructure remains. The coexistence of these two approaches in a single framework is a real challenge in the next generation of collaborative systems. Moreover, distributed and collaborative intrusion or anomaly detection systems are required in such open and dynamic communities. To fulfil the security needs of the POPEYE users, we identified specific security mechanisms to implement group management and access control services, trust support and privacy services, and intrusion detection systems for MANETs. In the POPEYE architecture, we designed a security transversal layer. The interactions between the security modules and the POPEYE core services and overlay network abstraction are clearly identified and documented in order to integrate POPEYE security services in any other CWE middleware or application.


Thales Communications.


The Tactical Internet Business Unit of Thales Communications, in charge of developing the products and systems for its customers and managing the on-going programmes, identified customers’ expectations about security management for joint operations across independent organisations. POPEYE concepts about group management, access control and trust support for spontaneous community are addressing most of these needs. Thales products MiniCitaTM (Terminal Security Solution) and Mistral (VPN Gateway) enables outsourced security infrastructure for sensitive Information system. They will benefit from POPEYE concepts to secure collaborative working application for small spontaneous communities with sporadic connectivity (fixed infrastructure or pure P2P network). This result is confidential and no exploitation will be possible outside the consortium.



Further research and development will be mainly internal to Thales Communications.


Thales Communications is the owner of POPEYE security mechanisms design.

4.4.3.2 Result 3.2: POPEYE Security Services Toolbox


The POPEYE security services are provided by an advanced security toolbox that implements scalable security mechanisms to enable a simple and reliable computing environment for collaborative group working. This security toolbox manages security and raises end-user awareness toward security issues. The security service toolbox implements part of the design of spontaneous groups security services for POPEYE defined in previous Result 3.1.


Thales Communications.


Exploitation of the POPEYE Security Services Toolbox will be possible also outside the consortium. Research projects about CWE or secure, dependable and trusted infrastructures will be allowed to use the first release of the POPEYE security software . The toolbox is planned to be distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.


Mainly further investigation and development of spontaneous groups security issue, models and architectures in MANET and hybrid networking environments.


The copyrights of POPEYE Security Services Toolbox prototype is held by Thales Communications.

4.4.4 Result Level 4: Integrated POPEYE MP2P Collaboration Middleware

4.4.4.1 Result 4.1: POPEYE CWE Framework


The POPEYE Framework represents the major exploitable outcome of POPEYE and corresponds to the integrated MP2P collaboration support middleware integrating all services and functional components developed within the project. The integrated


collaborative platform provides a middleware supporting the development of specific CWE applications, tested and validated through the applications implemented in WP6 and the use cases demonstrated in WP8. Overall, this result provides a middleware integrating all major components of the POPEYE architecture [POPEYE M2.1] [POPEYE D2.4]:

o POPEYE Network Abstraction Layer (services: communication, peer discovery) o Middleware Layer (POPEYE core services: naming, publish/subscribe, group

management, user management, data management / sharing, workspace management, plug-in management / interface)

o Security Toolbox (services: super-peer trust, access control, privacy, security policies, security management)

o Context Component (POPEYE core services: context collection, context management, context delivery)

o Application Layer (component: framework manager)

Figure 12 - Overall POPEYE CWE Framework architecture


All POPEYE partners.



The POPEYE mobile CWE platform has been released (on Sourceforge) as an open source middleware under LGPL licence at http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-cwe/. The middleware has been released together with a number of illustrative plug-ins supporting basic CWE services like user communication (chat, instant messaging), content sharing/search/retrieval, etc., with the aim of providing examples of how CWE applications can be developed on top of POPEYE. The expected exploitation is both commercial and in further research, along the following main lines:

- development of specific applications for industrial use in several market areas (main interested partner: Softeco)

- consultancy services to third commercial partners using the POPEYE open source middleware for own developments (main interested partner: Softeco)

- use of the middleware for internal industrial research work (main interested partners: Thales Communications, Softeco)

- use of the middleware for further collaborative research work (all partners) - use of the middleware for education and teaching purposes (mainly academic

partners)


Both internal (industrial partners) and open collaborative research. Further research areas and themes identified during the project include:

- evolution from MANETs to hybrid overlay networks - dynamic context management (decentralised, P2P, clustering and hierarchical

architectures, etc.) and enhancement of semantic capabilities (e.g. semantic desktop concept)

- support for fully distributed collaborative workflows and applications - dynamic environments for group collaboration including dynamic service discovery,

composition and management within mobile, spontaneous collaborative communities - integration of location based services and location information within mobile

collaboration facilities (e.g. cooperative use/development of maps and location information)

- mobile social networks in infrastructure-less and infrastructure-based environments


The copyright of the Integrated POPEYE MP2P Collaboration Middleware is jointly held by the POPEYE partners.

4.4.5 Result Level 5: POPEYE MP2P collaboration application(s)

4.4.5.1 Result 5.1: POPEYE Event Management Proof-of-concept Demonstrator


This result is a first implementation of a CWE application developed on top of POPEYE collaboration middleware and supporting the use cases selected for demonstration, validated at a public event. Particularly, this demonstration prototype provides the services and capabilities required by the core POPEYE user scenario “Collaboration at a scientific conference” described in deliverable D2.1 [POPEYE D2.1].


The prototype application facilitates mobile interaction, networking and collaboration among the participants during a conference, workshop, exhibition or any similar event. The application provides an integrated set of services for use by both event organisers and participants, including:

- dynamic set up and organisation of user groups and virtual communities of event participants and delegates,

- virtual workspaces supporting content distribution and sharing within groups and communities, according to different user defined criteria; for instance according to the event structuring into thematic areas, sessions, etc.,

- delegates networking through instant messaging (plain or ciphered) and forum, - documents and keynote screen sharing, searching and finding participants according

to profiles of interest, - workflow support for inviting and managing meetings and networking sessions, - an open, plug-in based platform that can be easily extended and further adapted,

adding new services that help increasing organisational efficiency and enhance delegates participation and collaboration.


Softeco Sismat.


The prototype is intended to provide a basis for Softeco to develop further and consolidate an industrial solution addressing the e-Professionals market, the company is interested in for future commercial exploitation. Particularly, it is the starting point for industrial exploitation of POPEYE software in the event management market. Target applications and solutions developed from the POPEYE prototype include event management software to support mobile information sharing and collaboration during events such as:

- business and scientific events (conferences, workshops, seminars, training sessions, etc.),

- corporate events (product launches, press conferences, corporate meetings and conferences, conventions, users fora, etc.),

- marketing programs (road shows, grand opening events), - special events like concerts, sport events, launch/release parties, commercial events,

etc. A public version of the prototype application has been made available on Sourceforge, as part of the released POPEYE package, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-cwe/. This includes the following illustrational plug-ins:

- POPEYE File Sharing plug-in - POPEYE Messaging plug-in - Shared presentation plug-in - Voting plug-in - Forum plug-in - Anagram game plug-in - Collaborative map plug-in


The public version can be used by third parties for further development, research and experimentation.


Further research is possible using the public version of the POPEYE application released on Sourceforge.


The copyrights owner of this result is Softeco Sismat.


5. Standardisation and Open Source

5.1 Contribution to standardisation

Related to standardisation, there are no main variations with respect to the first year. Essentially, standardisation activities have been looking at two complementary action lines:

1. adoption and thereby promotion of appropriate standards within POPEYE, notably in the specification and implementation of POPEYE framework and applications;

2. development of specific inputs to standards, when POPEYE achievements are identified that allow this.

Overall, potential contributions and input and knowledge transfer from POPEYE to relevant standardisation bodies during the project included:

o OMG, UML. In the last few years, UDA has contributed to OMG standards in the area of validation of UML models, particularly as regards software performance and software reliability validation.

Nowadays UDA is collaborating with other institutions (such as Carleton University at Ottawa) that contribute to the new Request for Proposal MARTE, which is a new UML profile aimed at migrating the Schedulability, Performance and Time (SPT) profile on UML 2 meta-model, and at the same time at integrating it with elements from the real-time domain and the quality of service domain. The POPEYE project represents a suitable case study to experiment these incoming OMG standards.

o IETF MANET. UMU are already actively participating to the standardisation of DYMO (Dynamic MANET On-demand Routing Protocol) within the IETF, and has developed one of the only two implementations available nowadays and that has been used in POPEYE. The University of Murcia, due to their involvement in the implementation and validation of the DYMO protocol has contributed a few changes required in the specification for the correct operation of the protocol. In particular, UMU participated in the design of the new schemas to deliver route errors as well as the way in which sequence numbers are now specified. This has been acknowledged by the authors in the corresponding section of the internet-draft.

In order to streamline contacts and actions, besides the liaisons already established by POPEYE partners and the above standardisation groups, the COPRAS initiative [COPRAS] has been addressed by delivery of a COPRAS questionnaire. Any further specific action will eventually follow by initiative of the individual POPEYE partners.


5.2 Contribution to Open Source community

5.2.1 Use of Open Source components and specifications

The implementation of POPEYE architecture involves also the use of some open source components – some of which represent developments of the participating partners – that have been identified during the architecture specification/design phase (WP2). These have been exploited in the development of POPEYE architectural building blocks (WP3-WP5) and proof-of-concept applications (WP6). In order to meet the architectural requirements and design principles of the POPEYE architecture, these components required further work and development to ensure they provide the needed functionalities and base services to build up the POPEYE architecture. This adaptation and extension work done within POPEYE results in a valuable contribution to the development and further extension of the tools and components themselves.

5.2.1.1 JGroups

The exploitation of existing open source components for the development of a collaboration middleware for MANETs was considered for POPEYE implementation. A review conducted in WP2 on available options has indicated JGroups [JGroups] as a viable option. JGroups is a widely used and fairly mature open source middleware providing a number of basic facilities for development of collaboration support architectures. It includes a number of interesting features for POPEYE, including lightweight reliable multicast, ordered communication protocols, encryption protocols and group membership. Due to its capabilities, JGroups has been adopted as a basis for POPEYE M2P2P communication network abstraction layer (WP4) and provides the basis of the open source collaboration tool (refer to paragraph 5.2.1.2-WIMPY) adopted to develop the POPEYE collaboration layer (WP5). JGroups is being used in many projects and POPEYE developments are an interesting contribution to the open source community. Currently, a complete CSCW platform built on top of JGroups is not available, so many potential users that already know JGroups could also be interested in POPEYE middleware and tools.

5.2.1.2 WIMPY

WIMPY is the base open source collaboration middleware developed at URV. Independent from the underlying communication infrastructure, it provides a number of key facilities (naming, publish/subscribe, group management services, plug-in development framework) that are a good starting point for implementation of the designed POPEYE services. WIMPY is available under LGPL, compatibly with the planned licensing scheme decided for POPEYE. The version of WIMPY resulting from the developments and enhancements needed and implemented for POPEYE is also a result of the project (see previous section 4.4.2.1 - Result 2.1: POPEYE base collaboration platform (WIMPY)) publicly available for further research and exploitation.


5.2.1.3 DYMO-UM

Related to communications over P2P MANETs, DYMO (Dynamic MANET On-demand routing protocol) has been selected for implementation of POPEYE MP2P communications services. DYMO is an open specification from IETF (internet draft [DYMO]) intended for use by mobile nodes on multi-hop networks. There are also a few open source implementations, including one available from UMU [DYMO-UM]. The main objective of POPEYE framework is to provide a collaborative environment upon a mobile network. DYMO provides to POPEYE a way to transmit information without introducing a relevant control overhead. This will be important in order to build scalable middleware and applications relying the data transmission to this protocol.

5.2.1.4 CHARMY

POPEYE developed its plug-in infrastructure starting from CHARMY (CHecking ARchitectural Model consistencY) [Charmy] an open source tool released by UDA under the GPL licence. Apart the plug-in infrastructure, the aim of CHARMY is very different from the aim of POPEYE, since CHARMY is a framework that assist the software architect in designing Software Architectures and in validating them against functional requirements. CHARMY has been extended and used in POPEYE to provide the functionalities needed to define and implement the end-user plug-ins necessary to provide specific functionalities and services for CWE applications built on top of the POPEYE collaborative middleware. The developments based on CHARMY ongoing in POPEYE include integration with facilities provided by WIMPY and further extension of the resulting capabilities to meet the requirements of the Plug-in Framework designed for POPEYE.

5.2.2 Contributions to Open Source

The feasibility of delivering POPEYE software as open source has been taken into account during the first project year, and an appropriate strategy has been decided and followed. All parts of POPEYE modules and components have been released as Free / Open Source Software. Given the strong decoupling between the Framework, the Application and the Plug-ins layers, releasing the framework and example application and plug-ins as Free Software does not jeopardize the potential industrial exploitation of POPEYE and the commercial interest of the involved partners. As a general strategy, we licensed the delivered modules under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) . This leaves open future commercial exploitations of results based on POPEYE. Indeed, any further commercial development (solution, application, product) are able to use POPEYE open source components (e.g. as libraries) without necessarily having to become open source under LGPL38, and could be marketed without any restriction (i.e. shipped with POPEYE components included).

38 this is the big difference to the GPL (GNU Public Licence), where works linking against it must be licensed under the GPL as well.


On the other hand, this leaves intact all the advantages of open source development, as any modification, extension, etc. made to POPEYE open source components will have to be publicly released as Free Software under the LGPL.

5.2.2.1 POPEYE open source modules

Overall, the following POPEYE software prototypes has been released under the LGPL scheme:

o The POPEYE Framework, as defined in sect. 4.4.4.1, together with a few demonstrational plug-ins

o The POPEYE Security Toolbox, as defined in sect. 4.4.3.1 and 4.4.3.2 o The POPEYE Demo Application, as defined in 4.4.5.1 o The POPEYE Demo Plug-ins, as defined in 4.4.5.1

In addition, the extensions developed into the previously mentioned tools/platforms adopted for POPEYE implementation (WIMPY, OCP) will be made available to the public domain, given the open source nature of the starting tools.

5.2.2.2 Target open source communities

As a starting view, we considered the ObjectWeb open source middleware community as a good reference platform. However, due to the wide user base and the recognised stability and diffusion of the platform, SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net) was eventually chosen as the reference platform for the POPEYE project.

5.2.2.3 Process steps

In order to enable the open source dissemination process of POPEYE results, the following steps have been accomplished:

1. All partners producing software parts or components made sure they took all the required steps to license the software parts and components of which they retain copyright under the GNU LGPL. This included inserting a statement in all source code files where they declare the software is released under the LGPL following the FSF indications, adding a full copy of the license to the package they retain copyright of and releasing the full machine readable source code of the aforementioned piece of software.

2. In the case that any of the software modules or components contains knowledge of strategic value, the copyright holder of such component may not have released such knowledge as Free Software. In all cases such a case arose, the same partner has provided a semantically equivalent substitute of the said part to be released within the POPEYE framework under the LGPL.

3. The source code has been uploaded to the SourceForge platform, and is currently available at http:// www.sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-cwe/.

4. Upon release of the POPEYE framework and tools as Free Software, sound publicity and diffusion of the existence and availability of the framework as Free Software will be given, mainly through dedicated portals and services on the Internet, such as Slashdot, Freshmeat and the like. Also, other forms of publicity and diffusion may and will be investigated by POPEYE partners for the post-


project phase, in the intent of giving the most widespread diffusion of the existence and availability of the POPEYE framework as Free Software.


6. Concluding Remarks This deliverable reports on the results and achievements of POPEYE related to the second and final project year activities concerning dissemination, exploitation and contribution to standards and open source. An overview of the project achievements is first given, in relation to a number of dissemination target, actions and channels. More detailed descriptions are then given related to each type of action and channel, highlighting the results achieved as well as the ongoing actions and potentials for further dissemination after successful completion of the project. The view on exploitation set out in the first year POPEYE plans (D7.3) has been updated based on the results achieved during the final part of the project, and a number of exploitable products have been identified. Both the integrated results from POPEYE – the target CWE middleware – and a number of individual components of the defined architecture will be exploited by the partners. With reference to these, detailed exploitation plans have been then introduced for each POPEYE partner. The project approach to open source has been described, as well as the intentions and planned actions of POPEYE partners to contribute public domain results that have potentials for further use and exploitation in follow-up projects and initiatives related to the main themes addressed in POPEYE.


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