FRONTS Winter School

Lübeck, Germany, November 17-21, 2008

General Information

The FRONTS Software School on our experimental environment will take place in Lübeck, on November 17-21, 2008.

Registration

Registration will take place in front of Room AM S1, 2nd Floor, Building 65 (pitfall: not room AM2).

In case of any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Claudia (Mobile +49
162 657 45 73, Phone: +49 451 500-5389, Fax +49 451 500-5382, E-Mail:
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Prepare for the event

Bring a Wi-Fi capable laptop.
Please read Chapter 2-4 of the Deliverable 4.1 available at http://fronts.cti.gr/images/deliverables/d4_1.pdf

File Server

During the event, it will be necessary to distribute file among the participants. These will be available at http://wisebed.eu/ws08/

Social Event

The social event takes place on Wednesday, 19:30 in the Restaurant “Hieronymus”, Fleischhauerstr. 89 in the old city part of Lübeck. It is walking distance from the hotels; see the maps below for directions.

Agenda

Day 1-3: FRONTS & WISEBED Winter School

Day 4+5: FRONTS Winter School

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2008
12:00	Registration
12:30	Introdution
13:00	Shawn Session I · Install and compile Shawn. · Running some easy applications · Tasks: Modify the Hello World application, compile Shawn again, and run the new application on your own
15:00	Coffee Break
15:15 - 17:00	Shawn Session II · Introduction on how to configure Shawn for simulations with .conf-files and JShawn · Tasks: Write your own configuration-files for the application implemented in Session I, add and change parameters and have a look at the effects of simulations with different Shawn configurations.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2008
09:00	Shawn Session III · Basic Knowledge: World, Nodes, Processors · Message Transmission · Keeper-Concept and Handles · Event-Scheduler · Read Configuration Parameters from Files
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	(Continued)
12:00	Lunch (in the Mensa)
13:30	Shawn Session IV · Simulation Tasks · Tags: Attach information to various Objects · Models: Communication, Edge, and Transmission Model · Example: How to write your own Transmission Model
15:00	Coffee Break
15:15 - 17:00	(Continued)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008
09:00	Shawn SessionV · Readings and Sensors: Simulating Measurements · Topology: Create complex network topologies · Logging: Using the Logging Concept in Shawn
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	(Continued)
12:00	Lunch (in the Mensa)
13:30	Shawn Session VI · Visualization: Generating images of the simulated World · Mobility Models · Mobility Sequences: Create movement behaviour for the whole network
15:00	Coffee Break
15:15 - 17:00	(Continued)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008
09:00	Moving from Shawn to iSense (iSense API, Simulate iSense applications using Shawn)
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	(Continued)
12:00	Lunch (in the Mensa)
13:30	(Continued)
15:00	Cofee Break
15:15 - 17:00	(Continued)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
09:00	Using the iSense hardware and the FRONTS testbed
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	(Continued)
12:00	Lunch (in the Mensa)

Day 4+5: FRONTS WP 2+3+4 Workshop

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008
09:00	Presentations from each site (Each 15 min.)
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	(Continued)
12:00	Lunch (in the Mensa)
13:30	WP2
12:00	Coffee Break
15:15 - 17:00	WP3

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
09:00	WP4
10:15	Coffee Break
12:00	Presentation of outcome by each WP
12:00	Lunch (in the Mensa)

The workshop will be co-located with a similar workshop of the WISEBED project and some parts will be held together with members of FRONTS (Day 1-3).

Each site should send at least one participant.
More details, concerning registration, hotels, etc., will follow in due time.

About Luebeck

(Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luebeck)

Lübeck is the second largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League ("Queen of the Hanse") and because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage is on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. In 2005 it has a population of 213,983.

Situated at the Trave River, Lübeck is the largest German port on the Baltic Sea. The old part of the town is an island enclosed by the Trave. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe River. Another important river near the town center is the Wakenitz. Autobahn 1 connects Lübeck with Hamburg and Denmark (Vogelfluglinie). The borough Travemünde is a sea resort and ferry port at the coast of the Baltic Sea.

Lübeck is very famous for its excellent marzipan industry, and according to local legend, Marzipan was first made in Lübeck possibly in response to either a military siege of the city, or a famine year. The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that the town ran out of all foods except stored almonds and sugar, and used these to make loaves of marzipan "bread". Others believe that marzipan was actually invented in Persia a few hundred years before Lübeck claims to have invented it. The best known producer is Niederegger, which tourists often visit while in Lübeck, especially during Christmas time.

One Lübeck specialty is Rotspon, wine made from grapes processed and fermented in France and transported in wooden barrels to Lübeck, where it is stored, aged and bottled.

Hotel

Please book hotel-rooms in Lübeck by yourself. These are hotels in the Old Town (city centre) of Lübeck. So all participants will have the opportunity of socialising in the evenings in the nice and close-by located bars or restaurants.

Our suggestions are:

• Hotel “Exxelent” (German website)
http://www.hotel-exxelent.de/kontakt/impressum/

• Hotel “Zur alten Stadtmauer“ (German website)
http://www.hotelstadtmauer.de/

• Hotel “Am Mühlenteich“ (English website)
http://www.hotel-am-muehlenteich.de/english/homeeng.html

• Hotel “Alter Speicher“ (German website)
http://www.hotel-alter-speicher-luebeck.de/_private/start.htm

• For additional information, please visit http://www.luebeck-tourismus.de/ or contact Claudia.

You can get to the university by taking bus nr 9 or 19.

• Bus nr 9:
To university (alight at stop “Fachhochschule”)
http://www.stadtverkehr-luebeck.de/index.php?getfile=9_bad-uni07.pdf

From university
http://www.stadtverkehr-luebeck.de/index.php?getfile=9_uni-bad.pdf

• Bus nr 19:
To university (alight at stop “Fachhochschule”)
http://www.stadtverkehr-luebeck.de/index.php?getfile=19_bad-gri07.pdf

From university
http://www.stadtverkehr-luebeck.de/index.php?getfile=19_gri-bad07.pdf

Getting to Lubeck

1. By car
Take the A1 to Lübeck and take the exit at “Lübeck-Zentrum”.
2. By train
Take a train to “Luebeck” to get to the main station. Timetable information is available at http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/. From the main station, proceed to the bus terminals (called ZOB) and take a local bus to you hotel. Timetable information is available at http://scout.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en. Enter “ZOB, Luebeck” in the “From:” field and for the “To:” field, have a look at the information for your hotel.

3. By plane
Two airports are available near Lübeck: Hamburg Airport (most major airlines) and Lübeck Airport Lübeck (mostly serving Ryanair flights).

Arriving at Hamburg Airport (HAM, http://www.airport.de/index_en.phtml), there is an airport shuttle called TRAVELiner (http://www.traveliner.de/), that offers a direct connection from Hamburg airport (Terminal 1) to Lübeck’s bus terminal near the main station (called ZOB). The timetable is available at http://www.autokraft.de/docs/5930_beide_NEU_2.pdf.

From the main station, proceed to the bus terminals (called ZOB) and take a local bus to you hotel. Timetable information is available at http://scout.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en. Enter “ZOB, Luebeck” in the “From:” field and for the “To:” field, have a look at the information for your hotel.

Arriving at Lübeck Airport, take the bus No. 6 local bus to the Lübeck city centre. Timetable information is available at http://www.flughafen-luebeck.net/Lubeck_en/bus_train/.