Activities

Jun 2024

12 Jun

LINCS PhD Student Day + Team Building

12/06/2024    
8:30 am-6:00 pm
Supporting our PhD students is crucial for nurturing their talent and ensuring the success of their research. We are glad to be there for them, [...]

May 2024

29 May

Understanding and Modeling Collective User (Mis-)Behavior Driving Information Spread Online

29/05/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jussara Almeida
The literature is quite rich in efforts to model and analyze how different aspects of user behavior may drive the dissemination of a piece of [...]
22 May

Caching and pre-fetching: the role of hazard rates

22/05/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Andres Ferragut
Consider a local memory system receiving requests from a given catalog: the typical caching objective is to maximize its hit rate, i.e. the number of [...]
22 May

Hypercomputation: a paradigm for network-inspired computing

22/05/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Carlos Zapata-Carratala
In this talk Carlos Zapata-Carratala will present evidence from recent work on hypergraph rewriting research and abstract algebra that points towards new ways to conceptualise [...]
22 May

How to create pure Python web apps (Solara+AnyWidget)

22/05/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Alonso Silva
Solara lets you build pure Python web apps. These apps work both inside the Jupyter Notebook and as standalone web apps. With Solara, you benefit [...]
15 May

Navigating 5G Virtualization: Constructing a Kubernetes Cluster for Seamless Deployments

15/05/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Massinissa Ait-Aba
This presentation navigates the intersection of 5G and virtualization, offering  a comprehensive guide to building a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster and configuring the OAI 5G core [...]

Apr 2024

24 Apr

What a confidence interval really is

24/04/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
François Durand
By analyzing a (hopefully) illuminating example in depth, we will show what a confidence interval really is, and what are the common traps in its [...]
17 Apr

Seminar Talk : A Protocol to Assess the Accuracy of Process-Level Power Models

17/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dimitri Saingre and Emile Cadorel
The energy consumption of servers has been a critical research area, drawing significant interest from academic and industrial sectors. Various models have been developed to [...]
10 Apr

Level-strategyproof Belief Aggregation Mechanisms

10/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Estelle Varloot
In the problem of aggregating experts' probabilistic predictions over an ordered set of outcomes, we introduce the axiom of level-strategy\-proofness (level-SP) and prove that it [...]
03 Apr

Double talk : "Can Edge Computing fulfill the requirements of automated vehicular services using 5G network?" & "Can Vehicular Cloud Replace Edge Computing?"

03/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Hakim OUEDRAOGO & Rosario PATANE
Abstract 1: Communication and computation services support- ing Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are characterized by stringent requirements, in terms of response time and reliability. [...]
03 Apr

C

03/04/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Marc-Olivier Buob
As stated in WIkipedia, C is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used [...]

Mar 2024

27 Mar

Tournament Solutions

27/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
François Durand
A tournament is an oriented graph where there is exactly one edge between each pair of nodes, in one direction or the other, with the [...]
20 Mar

Double Feature: IPyWidgets + Using LLM

20/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Fabien Mathieu
IPyWidgets is a popular Python library for creating interactive, customizable user interfaces in Jupyter Notebooks and other environments using the power of the Widgets system [...]
13 Mar

Group Signature in Dynamic Clusters

13/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Farah-Emma Braiteh
This talk presents a group signature scheme specifically designed for a cluster of moving vehicles. The group signature enables vehicles to authenticate themselves within dynamic [...]
06 Mar

Introduction to the cake cutting problem

06/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Emma Caizergues
The cake cutting problem arises when a cake must be divided fairly among individuals who have different preferences. In this presentation, after a brief explanation [...]

Feb 2024

28 Feb

Is Reinforcement Learning all you need?

28/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Lorenzo Maggi
When attacking a new problem, the algorithm designer typically follows 3 main steps: rule out options that are unlikely to work well test the handful [...]
22 Feb

International Workshop on RIS

22/02/2024-23/02/2024    
9:30 am-5:00 pm
Mathias Fink, Markku Juntti, Alessio Zappone, Mohsen Khalily, Angeliki Alexiou, Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy, Guodong Sun, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Luis Uzeda Garcia, Valeria Loscri, Philipp Del Hougne, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces are very promising physical-layer candidates for sixth-generation cellular networks. This international workshop will cover the main scientific and technological questions underlying this [...]
21 Feb

A visual journey to convey complex messages through MAThematical ANIMation - manim

21/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Leonardo Linguaglossa
Manim is a tool used to programmatically create precise and high-quality animations. Based (almost) entirely on Python, manim evolved from being a powerful visualization engine [...]
14 Feb

A new perspective of entropy

14/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Guodong Sun
Have you ever wondered how mathematicians "understand"? In a 1932 lecture, Hermann Weyl identified two key modes of mathematical reasoning: topology and abstract algebra. These, [...]
07 Feb

Bell theorem and the role of complex numbers in quantum information theory

07/02/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Renou
Quantum information theory has several puzzling properties. In particular, it predicts that information carried by quantum objects is incompatible with the use of the logical [...]
07 Feb

An introduction to anonymity networks

07/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Guillaume Nibert
Anonymity networks play a crucial role in preserving privacy on the Internet by masking users' identities and guaranteeing the confidentiality of communications. In this talk, [...]

Jan 2024

31 Jan

Everyone procrastinates: a Beamer demo

31/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Francesca Bassi
This tutorial delves into the intricacies of Beamer, a powerful LaTeX document class designed for crafting presentations. We will explore basic and advanced features and [...]
24 Jan

Understanding quantum computing using Quirk, a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator - Quantum

24/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Ludovic Noirie
Quirk (https://algassert.com/quirk) is a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator that is easy to use and very interesting to understand how quantum computers works. In this session, [...]
17 Jan

Data Poisoning Attacks in Gossip Learning

17/01/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Alexandre PHAM
Traditional machine learning systems were designed in a centralized man-ner. In such designs, the central entity maintains both the machine learningmodel and the data used [...]
17 Jan

Understanding quantum computing using Quirk, a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator - Basic

17/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Ludovic Noirie
Quirk (https://algassert.com/quirk) is a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator that is easy to use and very interesting to understand how quantum computers works. In this session, [...]
10 Jan

Authentication through error estimation in QKD

10/01/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
The one-time pad is an encryption technique that is proven to be unbreakable by an eavesdropper. It relies on a single-use secret key shared between [...]
10 Jan

D3.js tutorial: animating a card game

10/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Rémi Varloot
D3.js is a JavaScript library that facilitates the creation and animation of HTML and SVG content representing a (possibly dynamic) data structure. While clearly more [...]

Dec 2023

20 Dec

Proving and analysing security protocols with Tamarin Prover

20/12/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Guillaume Nibert
Tamarin Prover is an open source model checker for proving and verifying security protocols in the Dolev-Yao symbolic model, initially developed at the Information Security [...]
13 Dec

Binomial Line Cox Processes - Modeling Streets Across a City

13/12/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gourab Ghatak
Acknowledgment: Joint work with Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame) The current analysis of wireless networks whose transceivers are confined to streets is largely based [...]
13 Dec

Ensemble distillation for robust model fusion in federated learning

13/12/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Fabio Pianese
Federated Learning (FL) attempts to protect the privacy of the participants in the scheme by uploading locally-trained models from edge devices to a server, where [...]
08 Dec

Wireless Network Optimization: From Algorithm Design to Field Trials

08/12/2023    
10:00 am-11:30 am
François Durand, Lorenzo Maggi
An overview of François Durand and Lorenzo Maggi's activities on beamforming, energy savings, radiation exposure mitigation, and scheduling over the last few years. François' slides [...]
06 Dec

APT: managing software under Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions

06/12/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Marc-Olivier Buob
APT (Advanced Package Tool) is the package manager used under Debian and any Linux distribution based on Debian (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.). APT is used needed [...]
01 Dec

Pushing Programmability to the Edge and beyond: the Evolutions of Mobile Networks Architecture towards Smart Radio Environments

01/12/2023    
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Antonio Capone, Tijani Chahed, Andrea Araldo
This talk precede the talk of Prof. Andrea Araldo "Technical and economic strategies for Multi-Tenant Edge Computing". The evolution of the architecture of Mobile Radio [...]

Nov 2023

30 Nov

Phd Thesis Defense : Artificial Intelligence for Resource Allocation in Multi-Tenant Edge Computing

30/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ayoub Ben Ameur
We consider in this thesis Edge Computing (EC) as a multi-tenant environment  where Net- work Operators (NOs) own edge resources deployed in base stations, central [...]
29 Nov

Reinforcement Learning and optimization for an energy and resource efficient 5G slicing

29/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Maxime Elkael
This talk, which will be the rehearsal of my thesis, addresses resource allocation problems in 5G networks. Our objective is to leverage network slicing (e.g. [...]
29 Nov

Coverage and Capacity of Joint Communication and Sensing in Wireless Networks

29/11/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Romain Cervera
Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) is a technology aiming at integrating both communication and sensing in one single system. It requires the  reevaluation of network [...]
22 Nov

From Data Networks to Intelligent Networks: In-Network Computing's Promise

22/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Masoud Hemmatpour
In-network computing technologies encompass a range of approaches and tools designed to enable computation and data processing within the network infrastructure, such as Network Interface [...]
22 Nov

Gossip learning with linear models on fully distributed data

22/11/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Mohamed Legheraba
In the realm of distributed machine learning, a novel approach called Gossip Learning, was presented in 2013 by the paper "Gossip Learning with Linear Models [...]
17 Nov

Twin talk part 2 : 3GPP Standardization at Nokia Bell Labs and Its Interactions with Research

17/11/2023    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Luis Uzeda Garcia, Stefano Paris
Luis Uzeda-Garcia and Stefano Paris will survey the topics of current and future interest to 3GPP.
16 Nov

#SystemX : Attacks & trust in connected networks: secure behavioral models

16/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lyes Khoukhi
A System X seminar. Please find all details and the registration form on the organiser's website : https://www.irt-systemx.fr/evenements/lyes-khoukhi-animera-un-seminarsystemx-le-16-novembre-2023/
15 Nov

Developing Python packages with Poetry and Package Helper 3

15/11/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Fabien Mathieu
When you develop a Python project, it is highly recommended that you design it as a Python package, which gives you access to a variety [...]
08 Nov

Performance Analysis of RIS-assisted MIMO-OFDM Cellular Networks Based on Matern Cluster Processes

08/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guodong Sun
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology are a promising physical-layer candidate for sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks. This paper provides a system-level performance assessment of RIS-assisted multi-input [...]
08 Nov

The Projection Method: A Unified Framework for Community Detection

08/11/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Martijn Gösgens
We present the class of projection methods for community detection that generalizes many popular community detection methods. In this framework, we represent each clustering (partition) [...]
03 Nov

Twin talk part 1 : 3GPP Standardization at Nokia Bell Labs and Its Interactions with Research

03/11/2023    
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Luis Uzeda Garcia, Stefano Paris
Luis Uzeda-Garcia and Stefano Paris will survey the topics of current and future interest to 3GPP.

Oct 2023

25 Oct

Opportunistic Federated Learning: An Exploration of Egocentric Collaboration for Pervasive Computing Applications.

25/10/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
June Pyo Jung
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning technique, through  which models can be trained using the data collected by user devices in resource-constrained situations [...]
18 Oct

Modeling of LEO Satellite Constellation and Downlink Analysis Leveraging Cox Point Processes

18/10/2023    
3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Chang-sik Choi
This work develops an analytical framework for downlink low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications, leveraging tools from stochastic geometry. We propose a tractable approach to [...]
18 Oct

Application of Chaos Engineering Techniques to Protect Cloud-based IoT Ecosystems

18/10/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Daniel Díaz-López
System security represents a big challenge for many organizations, and it must be specifically handled when a system is intended to be deployed in a [...]
18 Oct

Tikz introduction: how to draw a platypus

18/10/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Emma Caizergues
Emma Caizergues will present Tikz, which is a language for producing vector graphics. In particular, I will show the method to draw graph-like figures (graphs, [...]
13 Oct

Critical real-time in cellular networks

13/10/2023    
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Catherine Rosenberg, Ke Feng
11 Oct

Quantum Networks for 5-Year-Old Network Researchers

11/10/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Rémi Varloot
The aim of this talk is to present a quick overview of quantum networks. It will focus on their uses, how they operate, and most [...]
06 Oct

Launch of Communication Network Day

06/10/2023    
9:30 am-11:30 am
François Baccelli
This semester, LINCS is organizing regular meetings on communication networks. These meetings take place on Fridays and are open to all LINCS members interested in [...]
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