Activities

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 [...]
02 Dec

Finding dense subgraphs and interesting events in social networks

02/12/2015    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Mauro Sozio
Algorithms for finding dense subgraphs are an important subroutine in many data mining tasks, in particular, community and event detection in social networks. Huge amount [...]

Nov 2015

18 Nov

CrowdSurf: Empowering Transparency in the Web

18/11/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Stefano Traverso
Abstract: Individuals lack proper means to supervise the services they contact and the information they exchange when surfing the web. Thissecurity task has become challenging [...]

Oct 2015

28 Oct

Trimming Sparse Random Graphs: Bounds, Algorithms, and Experiments

28/10/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Milan Bradonjic
Abstract: Viral spread on large graphs has many real-life applications such asmalware propagation in computer networks and rumor (or misinformation)spread in Twitter-like online social networks. [...]
22 Oct

Multi-Resource Fairness: Objectives, Algorithms and Performance

22/10/2015    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Thomas Bonald and James Roberts
Presentation of their paper "Multi-Resource Fairness: Objectives, Algorithms and Performance": http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2745844.2745869
14 Oct

Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Resource Allocation Problems in TV White Space and NFV-based Networks

14/10/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jocelyne Elias
In this talk, we focus on the resource allocation problems in communication networks. More specifically, we will first consider a TV White Space (TVWS) network [...]
07 Oct

Optimal Investment in Social Signals.

07/10/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jean Louis Dessalles
Abstract: This study is an attempt to determine how much individuals should invest in communication in a social context. Two simple models of social relationships [...]

Sep 2015

30 Sep

Advanced Demand Response Solutions for Capacity Markets

30/09/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Rim Kaddah
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm brings an opportunity for advanced Demand Response (DR) solutions. Indeed, it enables visibility and control on the various appliances [...]
23 Sep

Big Data Integration

23/09/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Divesh Strivastava
Abstract: The Big Data era is upon us: data is being generated, collected and analyzed at an unprecedented scale, and data-driven decision making is sweeping [...]
16 Sep

Towards a Software-Defined Network Operating System for the IoT

16/09/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Giacomo Morabito
Abstract: The heterogeneity characterizing the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape can be addressed by leveraging network operating systems (NOS)s. Current NOS solutions have been developed [...]
09 Sep

Least Recently Used caches under the ShotNoise Model

09/09/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Emilio Leonardi
Talk: Least Recently Used caches under the ShotNoise Model Abstract: In this paper we develop an analytical framework, based on the Che approximationfor the analysis [...]
07 Sep

Modeling, optimization and control in wireless networks

07/09/2015    
9:00 am-6:00 pm
various
We are organizing a Seminar on modeling, optimization and control in wireless networks, notably 5G, on September 7, 2015, in Telecom ParisTech, rue Barrault, Paris [...]

Jul 2015

15 Jul

Learning to Rank: Regret Lower Bounds and Efficient Algorithms

15/07/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Richard Combes
Algorithms for learning to rank Web documents, display ads, or other types of items constitute a fundamental component of search engines and more generally of [...]
08 Jul

Being Greedy is Good : Approximating the FDMA Capacity

08/07/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Rahul Vaze
Abstract: We consider the classical problem of approximating the FDMA capacity,where the problem is to allocate disjoint resources (frequencies) tomultiple users so as to maximize [...]
07 Jul

Approximations for stochastic graph rewriting

07/07/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Vincent Danos
We present a method to compute approximate descriptions of a class of stochastic systems. For the method to apply, the system must be presented as [...]
01 Jul

Online network optimization with SDN

01/07/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jeremie Leguay
Abstract: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging network architecture decoupling the network control and forwarding functions, and it enables the network elements to become directly [...]
01 Jul

New MAC Protocol, Multiple Packet Reception and Smart Wireless

01/07/2015    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Wong Wing Shing
Massey and Mathys proposed protocol sequences as a new design approach to media access control protocol without feedback that delivers throughput performance that can asymptotically [...]

Jun 2015

25 Jun
24 Jun

Posting behavior in Social Networks and Content Active Filtering

24/06/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Alexandre Reiffers-Masson
Abstract: In this talk, first we describe a model of the posting behavior in Social Networks in topics which have negative externalities, and the second [...]
24 Jun

Rethinking Competitive-Ratio: Two Case Studies

24/06/2015    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
I-Hong Hou
Abstract: Competitive ratio is traditionally defined by asking the question: “How much service can a policy deliver with a fixed amount of resource”. This definition [...]
17 Jun

Small Cells for 5G: Fundamentals and Recent Theory

17/06/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tony Quek
Abstract: With 4G cellular technologies now beginning to be deployed widely around the world, the fifth generation (5G) mobile and wireless communication technologies are emerging [...]
17 Jun

The Capacity of Wireless Networks for Emerging Applications

17/06/2015    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
I-Hong Hou
Abstract: Future wireless traffic is going to be dominated by emerging applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, video/audio streaming, etc. These applications have their unique [...]
10 Jun

A novel spectral algorithm for the identification of overlapping communities

10/06/2015    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Emilie Kaufmann
Spectral algorithms are popular methods for finding a partition of a network into groups of nodes that are densely connected, called communities. However, the structure [...]
03 Jun

Timelines Analysis and competition over popularity, influence and visibility in social networks.

03/06/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Eitan Altman
The major social networks use timelines to display content that a user receives from those sources that he follows. A content that arrives at a [...]
03 Jun

Compressive Sensing, Opportunistic Network Coding and Repetition MAC for Connected Cars

03/06/2015    
10:00 am-11:00 am
Shahrokh Valaee
Abstract: Recently we are witnessing the emergence of situation-aware vehicles, equipped with plurality of sensors that can help driver with vehicle control and maneuvering. Cars [...]

May 2015

27 May

Learning WiFi Performance

27/05/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Nidhi Hegde
Accurate prediction of wireless network performance is important when performing link adaptation or resource allocation. However, the complexity of interference interactions at MAC and PHY [...]
27 May

Sampling Node Pairs in Large Graphs

27/05/2015    
11:00 am
Don Towsley
Abstract: Characterizing user pair relationships is important for applications such as friend recommendation and interest targeting in online social networks (OSNs). Due to the large [...]
22 May

The Power of Online Learning in Stochastic Network Optimization

22/05/2015    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Longbo Huang
Abstract: We investigate the power of online learning in stochastic network optimization with unknown system statistics a priori. We are interested in understanding how information [...]
20 May

Understanding Online Video Users: A Key to the Future of the Internet

20/05/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ramesh Sitaraman
Online video is the killer application of the Internet. It is predicted that more than 85% of the consumer traffic on the Internet will be [...]

Apr 2015

15 Apr

Analyzing Interference from Static Cellular Cooperation using the Nearest Neighbour Model

15/04/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Luis Alvarez Corrales
The problem of base station cooperation has recently been set within the framework of Stochastic Geometry. Existing works consider that a user dynamically chooses the [...]
15 Apr

A Flow-Level Performance Model for Mobile Networks Carrying Adaptive Streaming Traffic

15/04/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Yu-Ting Lin
As the adaptive streaming technology becomes the mainstream solution for online video service and 4G broadband service becomes very accessible, for mobile service providers, having [...]
08 Apr

BASIC regenerating codes for distributed storage systems

08/04/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. Kenneth W. Shum
Reliability in disk arrays is provisioned by storing the data with redundancy. For example, in RAID-6, we protect the data from being lost by introducing [...]
01 Apr

Optimal Geographic Caching in Cellular Networks

01/04/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Anastasios Giovanidis
We consider the problem of an optimal geographic placement of content in wireless cellular networks modelled by Poisson point processes. Specifically, for the typical user [...]

Mar 2015

25 Mar

A Synchronous View of Loosely Time-Triggered Architectures

25/03/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guillaume Baudart
Abstract: Loosely Time-Triggered Architectures (LTTAs) are a proposal forconstructing distributing embedded control systems. They build onquasi-periodic systems, where computing units execute almostperiodically, by adding a [...]
18 Mar

VANET Services and Mobile Vehicle Clouds

18/03/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mario Gerla
Abstract: New vehicle applications have recently emerged in several areas ranging from navigation safety to location aware content distribution, urban surveillance and intelligent transport. A [...]
11 Mar

Game-theoretic statistics: Learning from data generated by strategic agents

11/03/2015    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Patrick Loiseau
Statistical learning methods developed in the last decades have proved very useful for many applications. However, most algorithms were developed under the assumption that the [...]
11 Mar

On the Design of Integrated Forwarding and Caching Policies in Named-Data Networking

11/03/2015    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Udo Krieger
Abstract: Current IP-based networks are unable to fully exploit the capabilities ofthe increasing number of multi-homed mobile terminals. We argue thatNamed-Data Networking (NDN) can fill [...]
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