Damasco Project

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Data Acquisition and MAnagement in a Sensing and COmmunicating environment

Project for scientific and technological cooperation founded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research in the framework of international collaboration between Italy and USA

Official Damasco Project Web Site

Short Summary of the Scientific Statement

DAMASCO aims at studying and improving the emerging technology for the collection, elaboration, transmission and use of context information gathered through sensors which are able to communicate. The focus is on the collection and elaboration of context information.

The research activities of the DAMASCO project are centered on "Intelligent Transport Systems" (ITS). The internetworking and communication frameworks are based on solutions suitable for ad hoc (multi-hop or peer-to-peer) and sensor networks so that new solutions to monitor and collect context information can be easily deployed. These data are elaborated to provide services for:

• Accurate traffic and environment information
• Distributed monitoring of vehicles and roads
• Improvement of road safety
• Infotainment

The deployment of ITS services for car networking is limited by the small number of vehicles equipped with sufficient hardware and software to create a network node. Thus, in the initial phase of the project, an infrastructure will be used to provide services to networking cars.

Partners

• UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles)
• Universita' di Trento
• Universita' di Bologna
• ST Microelectronics
• Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (Torino)

Short Summary of the Local Activities

The research activity of the University of Trento is centered on security and application aspects:

• Ad hoc and peer-to-peer networking for vehicular communication, in particular, node localization and security (node and user authentication, confidentiality and data availability)
• Location aware collaborative recommendation.
• Infotainment for the application of new communication paradigms to enable context aware services
• Reputation and Trust Management for ad-hoc virtual communities.

Members of the local unit

• Prof. Roberto Battiti (Scientific Coordinator)
• Dr. Mauro Brunato
• Dr. Roberto G. Cascella (Young Researcher)

Publications

ROBERTO G. CASCELLA
The "Value" of Reputation in Peer-to-Peer Networks.
In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 10-12, 2008. [doi]

ROBERTO G. CASCELLA
Costs and Benefits of Reputation Management Systems.
In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2008), Newport Beach, CA, USA, June 23-27, 2008. [doi]

MARIO GERLA, ROBERTO G. CASCELLA, ZHEN CAO, BRUNO CRISPO, ROBERTO BATTITI
An efficient weak secrecy scheme for network coding data dissemination in VANET - Invited Paper.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008), Cannes, France, September 15-18 2008.

ROBERTO G. CASCELLA, ZHEN CAO, MARIO GERLA, BRUNO CRISPO, ROBERTO BATTITI
Weak Data Secrecy via Obfuscation in Network Coding Based Content Distribution.
Accepted for publication to the IFIP Wireless Days Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 24-28 2008.

Related News

• L'Adige, 20 marzo 2006 in Italian

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