Activities

Apr 2025

30 Apr

User-side WiFi channel charting for pseudolocalization

30/04/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Hakim Ouedraogo
TBD
22 Apr

Joint LINCS / Sorbonne University Workshop on AI, Networks & Cybersecurity

22/04/2025-23/04/2025    
9:00 am-6:30 pm
We are pleased to announce the dates for the upcoming Joint LINCS / Sorbonne University Workshop on AI, Networks & Cybersecurity, which will take place on [...]
09 Apr

Data Compression with Locality Properties

09/04/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Aslan Tchamkerten
Traditional compression schemes typically require decompressing the entire compressed archive to access a single bit. Similarly, updating a single bit requires re-encoding the entire archive. [...]
02 Apr

Green digitalization ?

02/04/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Philippe Ciblat
We provide an overview on Information and Communication Technologies comsumption in recent years by conducting different types of analysis. We evoke the rebound effect related [...]

Mar 2025

26 Mar

Responsible digital developments in research and education: where do we start?

26/03/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Daphne Tuncer
Several recent initiatives have proposed new directions for research practices and their operations in the computer science community, from updated codes of conduct that clarify [...]
21 Mar

Incentives in large-scale demand-side flexibility management in smart energy grids: the RESONANCE approach

21/03/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
George D. Stamoulis
The increased contribution of renewable energy sources to energy production has led to increased variability and lower levels of controlability of energy generation. On the [...]
19 Mar

Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience of Complex Systems

19/03/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Romain Dagnas
Abstract : Thanks to technological advancements, critical infrastructures integrate many smart technologies and become highly connected to the cyber world. This is especially true for [...]
14 Mar

Deployment of an end to end 4G/5G testbed based on a single computer

14/03/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Philippe Martins
This presentation will present the deployment and installation procedure of a 4G/5G testbded on single computer. This testbed is based on SRSRAN open source 4G/5G [...]
07 Mar

Python tricks for discrete-event simulation

07/03/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Rémi Varloot
In this presentation, I will introduce discrete-event simulation, provide a minimal Python implementation, and then showcase how we can use certain Python features (decorators, generator [...]
05 Mar

Orchestration of AI-based Applications in Heterogeneous and Distributed Computing Systems

05/03/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Francescomaria Faticanti
Today, distributed systems are increasingly needed to support distributed applications that involve machine learning (ML) operations for both service providers and end users. These operations [...]

Feb 2025

28 Feb

Communication Complexity of Common Voting Rules

28/02/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Emma Caizergues
In this presentation, I will discuss the paper Communication Complexity of Common Voting Rules [1], which examines how many bits must be exchanged to elicit [...]
21 Feb

FjORD: Fair and Accurate Federated Learning under heterogeneous targets with Ordered Dropout

21/02/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ahmad Nasser
Federated Learning (FL) has been gaining significant traction across different ML tasks, ranging from vision to keyboard predictions. In large-scale deployments, client heterogeneity is a [...]
19 Feb

AI for the Detection and Mitigation of Cyberattacks

19/02/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Erol Gelenbe
Gateway Servers for the Internet of Things, including critical application areas such as the Internet of Vehicles and health monitoring, must meet stringent  Security and Quality [...]
14 Feb

Master Python Efficiency with itertools and joblib

14/02/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sébastien Tixeuil
This Python programming tutorial is designed for intermediate learners who want to optimize their code for performance, scalability, and elegance using two powerful libraries: itertools [...]
12 Feb

How can alpha-information theory formally prove that your sensitive circuits are protected against side-channel attacks?

12/02/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Olivier Rioul
Cryptographic algorithms are ubiquitous in our digital society. Principles (such as Kerckhoffs’) and mathematical techniques for securing data against cryptanalysis are well established, even with [...]
07 Feb

Particle filter based statistical inference for positioning and tracking applications

07/02/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
The lecture will provide a comprehensive summary of statistical inference using particle filters for positioning and tracking applications. The lecture will cover the motivation behind [...]
07 Feb

The RESTART Project: focus on Network Programmability and Orchestration

07/02/2025    
10:00 am-10:45 am
Walter Cerroni and Davide Borsatti
In the last decade, software has been playing an increasingly relevant role in communication networks, bringing advanced programmability features to network infrastructure management, and enabling [...]
05 Feb

A functioning 5G core network deployed on top of a standard Kubernetes cluster

05/02/2025    
1:30 am-3:00 am
Davide Borsatti
In this seminar, we will show how to deploy a functioning 5G core network on top of a standard Kubernetes cluster. This talk will start [...]

Jan 2025

31 Jan

Enhancing Network Efficiency with eBPF/XDP Technology

31/01/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Weichen Tao
eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) and XDP (eXpress Data Path) have revolutionized the way we interact with the Linux kernel, enabling developers to run custom, [...]
22 Jan

Quantum advantage in distributed computing

22/01/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Isadora Vereen
In recent years many advances have been made in the field of quantum networks and even bigger improvements are expected in the foreseeable future: tasks [...]
17 Jan

Exploiting Partial System Knowledge in Reinforcement Learning for Admission Control and Electricity Storage Optimization

17/01/2025    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Lucas Weber
This thesis exploits partial system knowledge to design more efficient reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for three problems: admission control (1), electricity storage optimization (2), and [...]
17 Jan

Sharp phase transition in discrete and continuum percolation.

17/01/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar
This talk consists of simple example of percolation models: Bernoulli bond and site percolation on lattice and Poisson Boolean model on Euclidean space. In these [...]
10 Jan

Some network emulation tools

10/01/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Guillaume Nibert
In this talk, we will explore various practical methods to obtain a functional network for running applications based on TCP/UDP/IP. We will delve into the [...]
08 Jan

Preventing WebRTC IP Address Leaks

08/01/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guillaume Nibert
The WebRTC API enables real-time communication of text, video, and audio media streams through a web browser without requiring third-party extensions. However, it was not [...]

Dec 2024

20 Dec

Git happens: from first commit sadness, to CI/CD greatness

20/12/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Leonardo Linguaglossa
Git is a developer’s best friend… until it isn’t. Whether it’s an accidental git push --force, a mysterious merge conflict or the feared “detached HEAD” state [...]
18 Dec

A Stochastic Geometry Framework for RIS-Assisted Cellular Networks

18/12/2024    
2:00 am-5:00 am
Guodong Sun
This thesis is jointly supervised by Prof. François Baccelli, Dr. Luis Uzeda Garcia, and Dr. Stefano Paris. This thesis investigates the impact of deploying reconfigurable [...]
11 Dec

Line Cox Processes Part II: Large Scale Automotive Radar Networks and Statistics of Successive Successful Detection

11/12/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gourab Ghatak
Note: Part I of this talk was presented at LINCS in 2023 (www.lincs.fr/events/seminar-talk-by-gourab-ghatak/). In this talk, first, we revisit the newly introduced model -the binomial [...]
06 Dec

Heroes: Lightweight Federated Learning with Neural Composition and Adaptive Local Update in Heterogeneous Edge Networks

06/12/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Junepyo JUNG
Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models without exposing their private data. However, it is difficult to implement efficient FL due to [...]
04 Dec

Handover frequency in dynamic terrestrial network

04/12/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar
In this work we shall consider a dynamic wireless communication model on real line or plane. Let us assume that a user located at origin, [...]

Nov 2024

29 Nov

The functools python module

29/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
First, we recall several concepts (lambda functions, callbacks, callables, functors, decorators) needed for the rest of the presentation. Second, we present the "functools" module, which [...]
27 Nov

Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models

27/11/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Camilo Chacón Sartori
This talk demonstrates how to efficiently Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models like Llama-3.2-3B, showing practical techniques for extracting structured knowledge from JSON and [...]
22 Nov

Lagrangian multipliers, normal cones and KKT optimality conditions

22/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Lorenzo Maggi
Lagrange multipliers are a go-to tool for anyone who’s worked in optimization. In this talk we will explore the renowned Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions starting from [...]
20 Nov

Lincs PhD Welcome Day

20/11/2024    
8:30 am-1:30 pm
PhD Students Affiliated with Lincs
We are delighted to finally announce the programme (click on it!) for this special day dedicated to welcoming our PhD students ! The event will begin with [...]
15 Nov

Optimizing Energy Consumption and Performance in Modern Cloud Systems

15/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fadel Chbib
In the modern era of data-driven innovation, the challenge of optimizing energy consumption without sacrificing performance in modern cloud system networks has become increasingly important. [...]
08 Nov

uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver & marimo notebooks: rethinking the notebook to create reproducible notebooks

08/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Alonso Silva
alonsosilvaallende.github.io/2024-11-08_uv_marimo_at_LINCS
In this session, we will talk about uv, an extremely fast Python package and project manager designed as a single tool to replace pip, pip-tools, [...]
06 Nov

The Squared Kemeny Rule for Averaging Rankings

06/11/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dominik Peters
For the problem of aggregating several rankings into one ranking, Kemeny (1959) proposed two methods: the median rule which selects the ranking with the smallest [...]

Oct 2024

30 Oct

Optimal time partitioning in V2V ISAC Systems

30/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
Platooning-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) frameworks have emerged as an attractive strategy in recent years. In this work, we present an optimal [...]
25 Oct

Hierarchical Community Detection in Hierarchical Stochastic Block Models

25/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sayeh Khaniha
In this session of our reading group, I will discuss community detection in hierarchical clustering of networks, based on the paper "When Does Bottom-up Beat Top-down [...]
18 Oct

Understanding Reinforcement Learning error in image-based environments

18/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Matthew Andrews
In many Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments the state is represented by an image. In such cases, if the RL doesn’t work well, is the problem [...]
18 Oct

Decentralized Federated Policy Gradient with Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Provably Fast Convergence

18/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Alexandre Pham
In Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL), agents aim to collaboratively learn a common task, while each agent is acting in its local environment without exchanging raw [...]
11 Oct

Visual Studio Code, an all-in-one development environment

11/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Rémi Varloot
Rémi Varloot will present VS Code, a text editor / development environment that can be used for just about every coding need, and showcase how [...]
09 Oct

Zero knowledge proofs in blockchain

09/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
José Luis Muñoz-Tapia
In this talk, we will explore the fundamental concept of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), a cryptographic technique that allows one party to prove knowledge of [...]
04 Oct

Quantum states are relative to observers!

04/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
Many "pseudo-paradoxes" arise in quantum physics because "quantum states"  are generally considered to be absolute, that is, independent of observers. But entangled pairs of qubits [...]
02 Oct

How Much Can Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Augment Sky Visibility: A Stochastic Geometry Approach

02/10/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Junse Lee
This talk presents the application of point processes and stochastic geometry to quantify the sky visibility experienced by users located in an outdoor environment. The [...]
02 Oct

Design and Optimizations Toward Smart Grid Connected Green Future Networks

02/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
Realizing energy sustainable communication networks has been a key challenge in the upcoming sixth generation (6G) networks. A key bottleneck has been to make the [...]

Sep 2024

25 Sep

Gaming on the Edge: Performance Issues of Distributed Online Gaming

25/09/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Diletta Olliaro
Edge computing is revolutionising gaming and streaming services by processing data closer to the user, which greatly reduces latency and enhances bandwidth efficiency. This talk [...]
25 Sep

Job migrations in queueing networks: some non-conventional product-forms

25/09/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Andrea Marin
Job migrations are important to improve the performance in distributed systems.  In this talk, we explore two policies for job migration that are receiver-initiated, i.e., [...]
18 Sep

 An Economic Analysis of 5G Network Slicing and the Impact of Regulation

18/09/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Patrick Maillé
A joint work with Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Maël Le Treust, and Bruno Tuffin Network slicing is a key component of 5G-and- beyond networks, requiring to define [...]
18 Sep

Performance analysis of a buffered cellular network: Coverage probability, channel capacity, and steady-state analysis

18/09/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Taisia Morozova
In this talk I will discuss a stochastic geometric model of a buffered cellular network with either uplink or downlink transmissions. Various network models have [...]

Jun 2024

27 Jun

2024 LINCS Annual Workshop with its Scientific Committee

27/06/2024-28/06/2024    
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Members of the LINCS Community
https://www.lincs.fr/2024-lincs-annual-workshop-with-its-scientific-committee/ The event is reserved to the LINCS community Please find the program by clicking => Workshop LINCS - agenda 2024
19 Jun

Elevator: Self-* and Persistent Hub Sampling Service in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

19/06/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mohamed Amine Legheraba
We present Elevator, a novel algorithm for hub sampling in peer-to-peer networks, enabling the construction of overlays with a topology between a random graph and [...]
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