Activities

Feb 2017

21 Feb

The formal Theory of Birth-and-death processes, lattice path combinatorics and continuous fractions

21/02/2017    
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Céline Comte, Elie de Panafieu
Céline Comte and Élie de Panafieu will present The formal Theory of Birth-and-death processes, lattice path combinatorics and continuous fractions, Flajolet and Guillemin, 2000
20 Feb

Meeting IoT #01

20/02/2017    
4:00 pm-6:00 pm
Participants of IoT WG
Kick-off meeting. Initial discussions about interests of people in IoT and about objective of this group at LINCS
15 Feb

Real option game theoretic framework for investment decisions in mobile TV

15/02/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tijani Chahed
We present a strategic investment framework for mobile TV delivery by two potential operators: broadcaster (DVB) and cellular (MNO), in the presence of demand and [...]
08 Feb

Data Protection by Means of Fragmentation

08/02/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Katarzyna Kapusta
Although symmetric ciphers may provide strong computational security, a key leakage makes the encrypted data vulnerable. In a distributed storage environment, reinforcement of data protection [...]
03 Feb

QoE Management for Internet Applications: Technologies and Challenges

03/02/2017    
10:00 am-11:00 am
Luigi Atzori
Abstract: The talk starts by presenting the current approaches for a QoE-aware service management in the Internet, i.e., application oriented or network management, which are [...]
01 Feb

The FUTEBOL project - experimentation on the optical/wireless network frontier

01/02/2017    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Jose' Marcos Nogueira and Daniel Macedo
This talk will present the FUTEBOL project, which is a joint EU-Brazilproject focused on the creation of experimental testbeds. Theproject’s goal is to allow the [...]
01 Feb

PEERING: An AS for Us

01/02/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Italo Cunha
PEERING is a testbed that provides safe and easy access for researchers to the Internet's BGP routing system, enabling and inspiring transformational research. Traditionally, the [...]

Jan 2017

25 Jan

Towards a Networking ``Characteristica Universalis''

25/01/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Zied Ben Houid
Most unwritten languages today have no known grammar, and are rather governed by "unspoken rules". Similarly, we think that the young discipline of networking is [...]
18 Jan

Summarizing Performance Samples with Extrema rather than Averages: A Lesson from Practitioners

18/01/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Yves Guiard
The notion of performance seems crucial to many fields of science and engineering. Some scientists are concerned with the performance of algorithms or computing hardware, [...]
11 Jan

The many faces of fault-tolerant and Byzantine tolerant distributed computing

11/01/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Maria Potop-Butucaru
The tolerance to faults and Byzantine behaviors has a long tradition in distributed computing. Now, more than ever, fault-tolerant and Byzantine tolerant distributed computing finds [...]

Dec 2016

14 Dec

Modeling and algorithms for IoT service characterization and recommendation

14/12/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
Connected devices, as key constituent elements of the Internet of Things (IoT), are flooding our real world environment. This digital wave paves the way for [...]
07 Dec

IRT SystemX: le programme "Internet de Confiance" et le projet "Cloud et virtualisation"

07/12/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gilles Desoblin
Presentation du programme IRT SystemX qui comprend les thématiques Cybersécurité et évolutionsdes architectures réseaux.
06 Dec

Granger Causality Networks: Causal Inference for Time Series Data

06/12/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ryan J. Kinnear
Identifying causal (rather than merely correlative)relationships in physical systems is a difficult task, particularly ifit is not feasible to perform controlled experiments. Granger'snotion of causality [...]
01 Dec

A BILEVEL MODEL OF FACILITY LOCATION THAT INVOLVES 
COMPETITION, SELFISH USERS AND QUEUES

01/12/2016    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Patrice Marcotte
In a competitive setting, we consider the problem faced by a firm that makes decisions concerning both the location and service levels of its facilities, [...]

Nov 2016

30 Nov

Variable neighborhood prediction of temporal collective profiles in web services usage

30/11/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Keunwoo Lim
Temporal collective profiles generated by mobile network users can be used to predict network usage, which in turn can be used to improve the performance [...]
23 Nov

Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using Large-Scale Traceroute Measurements

23/11/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Cristel Pelsser
Understanding network health is essential to improving Internet reliability. For instance, detecting disruptions in peer and provider networks identifies fixable connectivity problems. Currently this task [...]
16 Nov

WalkSCAN: Improving PageRank for local community detection

16/11/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Alexandre Holloucou
Community detection is a fundamental problem in the field of graph mining. The objective is to find densely connected clusters of nodes, so-called communities, possibly [...]
08 Nov

Prototyping IoT-Cloud Services over Multisite Edge Clouds based on Affordable SmartX K-Clusters

08/11/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. JongWon Kim
Recently we are in the middle of structural changes toward software-defined ICT infrastructure, which attempts to transform the existing silo-based infrastructure into futuristic composable one by integrating [...]
02 Nov

Liberté, sans fraternité, est la mort de l'égalité pour video dans l'Internet(Network-layer QoE-fairness for Encrypted Adaptive Video Streams)

02/11/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marwan Fayed
Netflix, YouTube, and the like, are now the dominant sources of traffic on the Internet. Recent studies observe that competing adaptive video streams generate flows [...]

Oct 2016

26 Oct

Maximum Coloring of Random Geometric Graphs

26/10/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Milan Bradonjic
We have examined maximum vertex coloring of random geometric graphs, in an arbitrary but fixed dimension, with a constant number of colors, in a recent [...]
19 Oct

Hands-on series: Jupyter Notebook

19/10/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses [...]
12 Oct

Caching Games between Content Providers and Internet Service Providers

12/10/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Vaggelis G. Douros
We consider a scenario where an Internet Service Provider (ISP) serves users that choose digital content among M Content Providers (CP). In the status quo, [...]
05 Oct

Generalized Threshold-Based Epidemics in Random Graphs: the Power of Extreme Values

05/10/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Emilio Leonardi
Bootstrap percolation is a well-known activation process in a graph,in which a node becomes active when it has at least $r$ active neighbors.Such process, originally [...]
03 Oct

Data and Algorithmic Bias in the Web - Amphi Jade (Barrault)

03/10/2016    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Abstract: The Web is the largest public big data repository that humankind hascreated. In this overwhelming data ocean, we need to be aware of thequality [...]

Sep 2016

28 Sep

n-Backtracking Spectrum of Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Models

28/09/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lennart Gulikers
Motivated by community detection, we characterise the spectrum of the non-backtracking matrix $B$ in the Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Model.Specifically, we consider a random graph on [...]
07 Sep

Network Function Virtualization; Techno-Economics

07/09/2016    
2:30 pm-3:00 pm
Mathis Obadia
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging approach that has received attention from both academia and industry as a way to improve flexibility, efficiency, and [...]
07 Sep

Dynamic Cache Partitioning for Encrypted Content Delivery

07/09/2016    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Andrea Araldo
In-network caching is an appealing solution to cope with the increasing bandwidth demand of video, audio and data transfer over the Internet. Nonetheless, an increasing [...]

Jul 2016

13 Jul

Data-Driven Design and Simulation of Future Mobile Networks (with applications in Vehicular Networks, Transportation, Mobile Health)

13/07/2016    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Ahmed Helmy
The future of social networking is in the mobile world. Future network services are expected to center around human activity and behavior. Wireless networks (including [...]
13 Jul

The Effects of Mobility on the Hit Performance of Cached D2D Networks

13/07/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Anastasios Giovanidis
In this talk we will deal with problems arising in device-to-device (D2D) wireless networks, where user devices also have the ability to cache content. In [...]
06 Jul

Mining usage patterns in residential intranet of things

06/07/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Vassilis Christophides
Ubiquitous smart technologies gradually transform modern homes into Intranet of Things, where a multitude of connected devices allow for novel home automation services (e.g., energy [...]

Jun 2016

29 Jun

A Minimax Optimal Algorithm for Crowdsourcing

29/06/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Richard Combes
We consider the problem of accurately estimating the reliability of workers based on noisy labels they provide, which is a fundamental question in crowdsourcing. We [...]

May 2016

18 May

Finding Very Damaging Needles in Very Large Haystacks

18/05/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Vern Paxon
Abstract: Many of the most costly security compromises that enterprises suffer manifest as tiny trickles of behavior hidden within an ocean of other site activity. [...]
11 May

Networks of multi-server queues with parallel processing

11/05/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Celine Comte
We consider a network of multi-server queues wherein each job can be processed in parallel by any subset of servers within a pre-defined set that [...]

Apr 2016

20 Apr

Where are the anycasters

20/04/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Danilo Cicalese
Use of anycast IP addresses has increased in the last few years: once relegated to DNS root and top-level domain servers, anycast is now commonly [...]
18 Apr

Data Cleaning in the Big Data era @ Barrault (Amphi Rubis)

18/04/2016    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Paolo Papotti
Abstract: In the “big data” era, data is often dirty in nature because of several reasons, such as typos, missing values, and duplicates. The intrinsic [...]
18 Apr

Webstrates : Shareable Dynamic Media

18/04/2016    
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
James Eagan
I present our ACM UIST'15 Best Paper Award-winning research on Webstrates: Shareable Dynamic Media. In this work, we revisit Alan Kay's early vision of dynamic [...]
13 Apr

A Study of the Impact of DNS Resolvers on CDN Performance Using a Causal Approach

13/04/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ernst Biersack
Resources such as Web pages or videos that are published in the Internet are referred to by their Uniform Resource Locator (URL). If a user [...]

Mar 2016

30 Mar

Dynamic Resource Allocation for C-RAN systems

30/03/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mohammed Yazid Lyazidi
Abstract: Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a new emerging technology that holds alluring promises for Mobile network operators regarding capital and operation cost savings. However, [...]
30 Mar

Passive Wi-Fi link Capacity Estimation on Commodity Access Points

30/03/2016    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Diego Hora
Wi-Fi is the preferred way of accessing the internet for many devices at home, but it is vulnerable to performance problems due to sharing an [...]
25 Mar

Power Control for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Cellular Systems

25/03/2016    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Abstract: Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising candidate for wireless access in 5G cellular systems, and has recently received considerable attentions from both academia [...]
23 Mar

iBGP2: a scalable iBGP redistribution mechanism leading to optimal routing

23/03/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
The Internet is made of almost 50,000 ASes exchanging routing informationthanks to BGP. Inside each AS, information is redistributed via iBGP sessions.This allows each router [...]
09 Mar

Bandwidth calendaring: a new SDN service

09/03/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lazaros Gkatzikis
Abstract: Software Defined Networking paves the way for new services that enable better utilization of network resources. Bandwidth Calendaring (BWC) is a typical such example [...]
02 Mar

An Opportunistic Blanking SubFrame (OBS) solution for 5G networks

02/03/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Christian Vitale
Abstract: Telco operators view network densification as a viable solution for the challenging goals set for the next generation cellular networks. Among other goals, network [...]

Feb 2016

26 Feb

On the Whittle Index for Restless Multi-armed Hidden Markov Bandits

26/02/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
D. Manjunath
Abstract: We consider a restless multi-armed bandit in which each armcan be in one two states. When an arm is sampled, the state of the [...]
24 Feb

Lattice network codes based on Barnes-Wall lattices

24/02/2016    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Kenneth Shum
Abstract: Lattice network coding is employed in physical-layer network coding, with applications to two-way relay networks and multiple-access channels. The receiver wants to compute a [...]
24 Feb

Logic-Based Integrative Causal Discovery with Business Applications

24/02/2016    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ioannis Tsamardinos
  Computational Causal Discovery aims to induce causal models,causal networks, and causal relations from observational data withoutperforming or by performing only few interventions (perbutations,manipulations) of [...]
10 Feb

That's the end of the Web as we know it

10/02/2016    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Dario Rossi
HTTP is one crucial element of nowadays Internet, almost to the point of being nowadays that ``thin waits'' that used to be identified with the [...]
03 Feb

Centralized Content Delivery Infrastructure Exploiting Resource Pools: Performance Models and Asymptotics

03/02/2016    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Virag Shah
We consider a centralized content delivery infrastructure where a large number of storage-intensive files are replicated across several collocated servers. To achieve scalable delays in [...]

Jan 2016

27 Jan

Model-Graft: Accurate, Scalable and Flexible Analysis of Cache Networks

27/01/2016    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Michele Tortelli
Large scale deployments of general cache networks, such as Content Delivery Networks or Information Centric Networking architectures, arise new challenges regarding their performance prediction and [...]
20 Jan

Virtualization techniques in the design of 5G networks

20/01/2016    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Fabrice Guillemin
We describe in this talk the new possibilities offered by virtualization techniques in the design of 5G networks. We precisely introduce a convergent gateway realizing [...]

Dec 2015

16 Dec

Dynamic control of stochastic and fluid resource-sharing systems

16/12/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Maialen Larrañaga
We study the dynamic control of resource-sharing systems that arise in various domains: e.g. inventory management, healthcare and communication networks. We aim at efficiently allocating [...]
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