I am an associate professor at Université Bretagne Sud, in Vannes, France. I am member of research group CASA, in Computer Science laboratory Irisa.

Research

Research themes

Delay-tolerant & Opportunistic Networking, Internet/Web of things, Service-oriented architecture, Distributed applications, Middleware, Software Components, Deployment, Context-awareness.

Current Projects

• ANR project O'Browser (ANR générique 2017-2020): Opportunistic Fog Computing with browsers
• Project DoDWAN: Middleware and applications for disconnected mobile ad hoc networks

Past Projects

• ANR project ASAWOO (ANR INFRA 2014-2017): Adaptive Supervision of Avatar/Object Links for the Web of Objects
• ANR project C3PO (ANR CONTINT 2014-2017): Collaborative Creation of Contents and Publishing using Opportunistic Networks
• Project ARA SSIA SARAH (2006-2009): Asynchronous services for ad hoc networks
• Project Cubik (2003-2007): Ubiquitous Software Components
• ACI GRID project Concerto (2002-2003): Adaptive parallel components
• Project Expresso (2000-2002): Object-oriented services on high performance networks

PhD Students

• 2014–2019   Fadhlallah Baklouti (Service composition in opportunistic networks)
• 2013–2017   Maël Auzias (Disruption-tolerant middleware support for the Web of Things)
• 2010–2015   Ali Makke (Service provisioning in intermittently connected hybrid networks)
• 2006–2011   Romeo Said (Middleware for service provision in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks)
• 2003–2007   Didier Hoareau (Ubiquitous software components for dynamic networks)

Recent publications

• A. Sánchez-Carmona, F. Guidec, P. Launay, Y. Mahéo, S. Robles. “Filling in the missing link between simulation and application in opportunistic networking”, in Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 142, pp. 57-72, August 2018, Elsevier.
• F. Baklouti, N. Le Sommer and Y. Mahéo. “Choreography-based vs Orchestration-based Service Composition in Opportunistic Networks”, in 13th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob'2017), Rome, Italy, October 2017, IEEE.
• F. Baklouti, N. Le Sommer and Y. Mahéo. “Opportunistic Service Composition in Pervasive Networks”, in Wireless Days, Porto, Portugal, March 2017, IEEE.
• N. Le Sommer, L. Touseau, Y. Mahéo, F. Raimbault, and M. Auzias. “A Disruption-Tolerant RESTful Support for the Web of Things”, in 4rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2016), Vienna, Austria, August 2016, IEEE.
• A. Boutet, S. Frénot, F. Laforest, P. Launay, N. Le Sommer, Y. Mahéo, and D. Reimert. “C3PO: A Network and Application Framework for Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks”, in International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2015), Miami, FL, USA, November 2015, pp. 348-358, LNCS 9419, Springer.
• N. Le Sommer, P. Launay and Y. Mahéo. “A Framework for Opportunistic Networking in Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks”, in 10th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'2015), Paris, France, September 2015, ACM.
• N. Le Sommer, P. Launay, Y. Mahéo, S. Frénot, F. Laforest and D. Reimert. “Demo: C3PO - Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks”, in 10th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'2015), Paris, France, September 2015, ACM.
• M. Auzias, Y. Mahéo and F. Raimbault. “CoAP over BP for a Delay-Tolerant Internet of Things”, in 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2015), Rome, Italy, August 2015, IEEE CS.

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Teaching 2017/2018

• Understanding computer systems (Bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Computer Science)
• System/Network administration (Master in Computer Science)
• Introduction to distributed system (Master in Computer Science)
• Scientific and technical Intelligence (Master in Computer Science)