About Hidenets -Project Summary
HIDENETS - a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) in the European 6th Framework Program running in the period from January 2006 to March 2009. It developed and analyzed end-to-end resilience solutions for distributed applications and mobility-aware services in car-to-car communication scenarios with infrastructure service support.
Thereby, the concept of resilience extends the classical notion of fault tolerance, usually applied to recover system functions in spite of operational faults, to some level of adaptability, so as to be able to cope with system evolution and unanticipated conditions.
Main results of HIDENETS
- Design and evaluation of a run-time resilience support via a set of middleware and communication level functions;
- A holistic evaluation framework for quantitative analysis of dependability properties of HIDENETS-like applications in highly mobile settings;
- Design methodologies and tool support for the development and testing of resilient applications on top of the HIDENETS middleware;
- Prototype implementation and evaluation acting as proof-of-concept of key aspects of the HIDENETS solutions;
- Dissemination material including a detailed tutorial of over 900 slides.
The HIDENETS solutions contribute to a user perception of trustworthiness of future wireless services, as this perception is strongly impacted by availability and resilience aspects. Such perception is critical for the technical and business success of these services.
The solution development and analysis required a holistic approach combining aspects of communications, middleware, service deployment and access. Hence the research work combined forces from the engineering community and from leading research teams on resilient distributed systems.