Collaborative Creation of Contents and Publishing using Opportunistic networks – C3PO

The C3PO project aims at investigating the problems posed by SESN, and especially those induced by the dynamic and unreliable nature of the ad-hoc mobile networks. It will offer innovative scientific and software solutions for services provision with intermittent connectivity, the definition of an infrastructure for the collaborative management of services in the context of SESN, and an analysis of the value adapted to this context. The proposed contributions will be validated by experimentation in real-world conditions.

The C3PO project proposes a set of scientific and software solutions for service delivery in presence of intermittent connectivity, the definition of an infrastructure for the collaborative management of services in the context of Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks (SESN) and an organisation of the creation and sharing of value.
Through SESN, the C3PO projet aims at facilitating exchanges and collaboration among mobile users, in particular in the domain of the production and consultation of digital contents, typically in cultural and sports events. The C3PO project can be seen, through this particular domain, as an oppotunity to experiment and observe new techniques and practice for the production, publication and consultation of documents in nomadic situations where the consumer is also producer.

The solutions proposed by C3PO are innovative in the domain of mass events management, and should allow the ChronoCourse company to make the difference in this domain, mainly with the evolution of their web site that today provides sports events results and will become a participative sports reporting web site. More widely, the C3PO project can be the starting point for new mobile, decentralized, collaborative and user-oriented solutions for the production of press content, solutions that answer the needs of this strongly evolving domain.

* Robert Reimann. Datenschutzfreundliche Soziale Netzwerke: spontan und kurzlebig. Daten.Netz.Politik (DTN), Wien, Germany, September 20-22, 2014

* Frédérique Laforest, Nicolas Le Sommer, Stéphane Frénot, François de Corbière, Yves Mahéo, Pascale Launay, Christophe Gravier, Julien Subercaze, Damien Reimert, Etienne Brodu, Idris Daikh, Nicolas Phelippeau, Xavier Adam, Frédéric Guidec, Stéphane Grumbach. C3PO: a Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networking Framework for a Collaborative Creation and Publishing of Multimedia Contents,Int. Conf on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNet), Roma, Italy, September 8-10, 2014.

Social networks put together individuals with common interests and/or existing real-life relationships so that they can produce and share information. There is a strong interest of individuals towards those networks. They rely on a stable, centralized network infrastructure and a user will always be provided with the same services no matter of its current context.
By contrast, our C3PO project wants to promote “spontaneous and ephemeral social networks” (SESN) that build on top of a peer-to-peer distributed architecture leveraging ad-hoc mobile networks and the resources and services offered by mobile devices. As with traditional social networks, SESN can put together nomad individuals based on their affinities and common interests so that they can collaboratively work on tasks as part of a SESN. In C3PO, we strive for incitation in collaborating through a SESN. Several application domains have been anticipated for SESN, especially those involving gathering information and producing content as part of cultural or sport events. In such types of SESN, photo sharing, collaborative document edition and sport results spreading services can be used for building structured digital contents that relate the events of a sports event. Generated contents can be consulted through the several production sources. They can then be replicated on dedicated servers or published to traditional, centralized social networks and made available to Internet users beyond the lifespan of the SESN where they were initially produced.
The C3PO project aims at investigating the problems posed by SESN, and especially those induced by the dynamic and unreliable nature of the ad-hoc mobile networks. It will offer innovative scientific and software solutions for services provision with intermittent connectivity, the definition of an infrastructure for the collaborative management of services in the context of SESN, and an analysis of the value adapted to this context.
C3PO is a 3 years industrial research project involving 4 academic research groups and an industrial partner. The proposed contributions will be validated by experimentation in real-world conditions.