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 ASAWOO (ANR INFRA 2014-2017): Adaptive Supervision of Avatar/Object Links for the Web of Objects
• ANR project C3PO (ANR CONTINT 2014-2016): Collaborative Creation of Contents and Publishing using Opportunistic Networks
• Project DoDWAN: Middleware and applications for disconnected mobile ad hoc networks

Past Projects

• 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–   Fadhlallah Baklouti (Definition of an adaptive service-oriented shared space for spontaneous ephemeral social networks)
• 2013–   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

• 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.
• F. Laforest, N. Le Sommer, S. Frénot, F. de Corbière, Y. Mahéo, P. Launay, C. Gravier, J. Subercaze, D. Reimert, E. Brodu, I. Daikh, N. Phelippeau, X. Adam, F. Guidec, S. Grumbach. “C3PO: a Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networking Framework for a Collaborative Creation and Publishing of Multimedia Contents”, in International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNeT 2014), Rome, Italy, September 2014, pp. 214-219, Elsevier.
• A. Makke, Y. Mahéo and N. Le Sommer. “Towards Opportunistic Service Provisioning in Intermittently Connected Hybrid Networks”, in Fourth International Conference on Networking and Distributed Computing (ICNDC 2013), Honk Kong, China, December 2013, pp. 28-32, IEEE CS.
• N. Le Sommer and Y. Mahéo. “Location-Aware Routing for Service-Oriented Opportunistic Computing”, International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services, 5(3&4):225-235, December 2012.
• N. Le Sommer, A. Makke and Y. Mahéo. «A Soft Handover for Service Delivery in Intermittently Connected Hybrid Networks», in 5th International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware 2012), Berlin, Germany, November 2012.
• A. Makke and N. Le Sommer and Y. Mahéo. “TAO: A Time-Aware Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Service Invocation in Intermittently Connected Networks”, in Eighth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2012), Venice, Italy, June 2012.
• Y. Mahéo, N. Le Sommer, P. Launay, F. Guidec and M. Dragone. “Beyond Opportunistic Networking Protocols: a Disruption-Tolerant Application Suite for Disconnected MANETs”, in Fourth Extreme Conference on Communication (ExtremeCom'12), Zürich, Switzerland, March 2012.
• F. Guidec, P. Launay, N. Le Sommer and Y. Mahéo, “Experimentation with a DoDWAN-based Application Suite for Opportunistic Computing (demo paper)”, in Fourth Extreme Conference on Communication (ExtremeCom'12), Zürich, Switzerland, March 2012.

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Teaching 2016/2017

• Understanding computer systems (Bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Computer Science)
• System/Network administration (Master in Computer Science)
• Middleware for distributed applications (Master in Computer Science)