Jun 2024
12
Jun
LINCS PhD Student Day + Team Building
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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?"
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
Mar 2024
27
Mar
Tournament Solutions
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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, [...]
11
Oct
Quantum Networks for 5-Year-Old Network Researchers
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
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 [...]