Oct 2023
04
Oct
Toward Quantum Explainable AI: A Quantum Algorithm for Shapley Value Estimation
In the classical context, the cooperative game theory concept of the Shapley value has been adapted for post hoc explanations of Machine Learning models. This [...]
04
Oct
Colosseum - A hands-on introduction to software defined radio based network emulation
Abstract: We will have a session on the Colosseum SDN-based emulation platform, which lies at the intersection of software-defined radio (SDR) and advanced network emulation [...]
Sep 2023
26
Sep
Phd Thesis Defense : Unimodularity in Random Networks: Applications to the Null Recurrent Doeblin Graph and Hierarchical Clustering
This thesis is based on the notion of unimodularity in the context of random networks and explores two domains of application: Coupling from the Past [...]
25
Sep
Phd Thesis Defense : Dynamiques markoviennes à base de processus ponctuels et leurs applications
In this thesis, we are interested in mathematical models of phenomena that can be interpreted as network dynamics. This includes for example neuron population models [...]
18
Sep
Phd Thesis Defense : Records of stationary processes and unimodular graphs
Consider a navigation rule defined on a graph that maps every vertex of the graph to a vertex in such a way that the navigation [...]
18
Sep
ERC NEMO Workshop : 8 Days on Network Mathematics
Between September 18th and September 27th, our partner INRIA is hosting a two-week informal international workshop with a primary focus on stochastic networks, spatial stochastic [...]
Jul 2023
05
Jul
2023 LINCS Annual Workshop
The LINCS organizes its Annual Workshop with the Scientific Committee. **PROGRAM** (<= click) § LINK to the SLIDES FOLDER A 2-day workshop with: LINCS [...]
Jun 2023
14
Jun
PhD thesis defense of Pierre POPINEAU "Study of the dynamics of spatial point processes in wireless communication networks"
Thanks to the new paradigms introduced in the latest generation of wireless networks, expectations concerning service time, latency and network performance have increased. To model [...]
12
Jun
PhD thesis defense by Matthieu Gouel "Internet-Scale Route Tracing Capture and Analysis"
The Internet is one of the most remarkable human creations, enabling com- munication among about two thirds of the global population. This network of networks [...]
07
Jun
2nd PhDs “elevator pitch” training session
Bharath Roy Choudhury (Inria) Guillaume Nibert (Sorbonne/Snowpack) Sayeh Khaniha (Inria) Thomas Le Corre (Inria) Claire Bizon-Monroc (Inria) Lucas Weber (Inria)
May 2023
24
May
1st PhDs "elevator pitch" training session
Emma Caizergues (Dauphine/Nokia) Guodong Sun (Inria/Nokia) Emma Braiteh (Télécom-Paris/SystemX) Shashwat Mishra (Nokia) Mohammad Abdullah (Télécom-SudParis)
24
May
Digital Twins for Networks of Future: Open Research Challenges and Opportunities
In this talk, I will address the different definitions of Digital Twins (DT) and explain their differences according to the sectors and domains we consider. [...]
17
May
Three Perspectives to Enhance the Performance of High-Speed Datacenter Networks
The performance of large-scale computing systems often critically depends on high-performance communication networks. In this presentation, I will focus on two key metrics throughput and [...]
17
May
Sorting under Partial Information
We present the following article: Cardinal, Fiorini, Joret, Jungers, and Munro. Sorting under partial information (without the ellipsoid algorithm). Proceedings of the forty-second ACM symposium [...]
10
May
Quantifying the Bias of Transformer-Based Language Models for African American English in Masked Language Modeling
In recent years, groundbreaking transformer-based language models (LMs) have made tremendous advances in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the measurement of their fairness with [...]
10
May
Proving and analysing security protocols with Scyther
Scyther is an open source Python tool for proving and verifying security protocols. It offers the possibility to integrate adversaries to compromise protocols and to [...]
Apr 2023
26
Apr
A necessary and sufficient condition for stability of queuing networks with state-dependent departure rates
Reaching stability conditions for Markovian queueing networks is a problem for which many methods have been developed, depending on the queueing policies, laws for arrivals [...]
19
Apr
Strategic Computational Investment in Blockchain Mining
This presentation will be based on our work on strategic investment of computational power by miners in blockchain. In particular, we shall consider a setting [...]
19
Apr
A Bit of Gymnastics in Python
In this interactive session, I will propose exercises inspired by the most popular questions about Python in Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?tab=votes. Here is the approach of [...]
12
Apr
Distributed Function Computation over Networks
Large-scale distributed computing systems, such as MapReduce, Spark, or distributed deep networks, are critical for parallelizing the execution of computational tasks. Nevertheless, a struggle between [...]
05
Apr
Age of Information Processes under Strongly Mixing Communication
The decentralized nature of multi-agent systems requires continuous data exchange to achieve global objectives. In such scenarios, Age-of-Information (AoI) has become an important metric for [...]
05
Apr
Gaussian limit laws and generating series
The Central Limit Theorem states that some sums of random variables, once renormalized, converge to the Gaussian distribution. Some parameters of large combinatorial objects have [...]
Mar 2023
29
Mar
fAST: How to find relevant regular expression from a small set of positive examples
Regular expressions are ubiquitous in computer science but are cumbersome to code. In this work, we present a new algorithm, named fAST (find Abstract Syntax [...]
29
Mar
Content Delivery Networks: providing content at global scale
On April 13, 2019, 17.4 million users watched the newly released episode of Games of Thrones. The Trump vs. Clinton debate was streamed to 2 [...]
22
Mar
22
Mar
Wireless communications for dummies – part 2
We will cover Chapter 3 of [1], including important concepts for modern wireless networks such as time/frequency/antenna diversity, space-time codes, and—if time permits—OFDM. [1] Tse, [...]
15
Mar
An introduction to the numerical solver for multiple integrals
Evaluating multiple integrals is challenging when there exists no simple closed form representations. However, they are frequently encountered in network analysis, such as in queueing [...]
08
Mar
LINCS and ERC-NEMO 2-day Workshop "Performance Guarantees in Wireless Networks"
**CLICK to reach the web page of the Workshop** You will find there the list of the confirmed invited speakers and the program The [...]
01
Mar
Coverage and Capacity of Joint Communication and Sensing in Wireless Networks
From an information theoretic perspective, joint communication and sensing (JCAS) represents a natural generalization of communication network functionality. However, it requires the re-evaluation of network [...]
01
Mar
Parse and analyze source codes with Tree-sitter
Tree-sitter is a library for parsing source codes. Compared to similar libraries, Tree-sitter is very fast and dependency-free. This makes it easy to embed it [...]
Feb 2023
22
Feb
Some Methods to Improve IoT Performance and Cybersecurity
The relative simplicity and lightweight nature of many IoT devices, and their widespread connectivity via the Internet and other wired and wireless networks, raise issues [...]
22
Feb
Introduction to Differential Privacy
Consider an individual who is deciding whether to allow their data to be included in a database. For example, it may be a patient deciding [...]
15
Feb
Note taking and knowledge management with Obsidian.md and Zotero
Obsidian is a recent markdown note-taking software (2020) with powerful features, such as the ability to link notes to each other, to view these links [...]
08
Feb
"What next?" - event for the PhDs
WHAT NEXT? Navigating the PhD is certainly not an easy task, but making decisions about what to do next can be even more complicated and [...]
08
Feb
A Converse for Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation
As techniques for fault-tolerant quantum computation keep improving, it is natural to ask: what is the fundamental lower bound on redundancy? In this paper, we [...]
08
Feb
Platooning in VANETs
Platooning is a group of vehicles that drive in the same lane in a close proximity aiming at improving road safety and traffic efficiency and [...]
01
Feb
Communications and sensing, a Winning team for 6G wireless communications
Up until now, communications and radar sensing applications have employed different spectrum allocations and equipment, despite both employing the same physical phenomenon, i.e., the propagation [...]
01
Feb
Collective Behavior Emerging From Multiple Agents in Networks
Transport networks and computer networks can be described with the same mathematical framework: the infrastructure can be described as a graph and on top of [...]
Jan 2023
25
Jan
Spatial network calculus and performance guarantees in wireless networks
Network calculus is initially a methodology allowing one to provide performance guarantees in queuing networks subject to random arrival and service processes. It relies on [...]
25
Jan
Hands-on JavaScript
In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple “to-do list” client-server application. The aim is to present the different features, pitfalls, and general quirks of JavaScript [...]
18
Jan
A Linear Algebric Framework for Quantum Internet Dynamic Scheduling
The quantum internet is an envisioned worldwide quantum network that promises to enable quantum communication between arbitrary pairs of distant nodes through the sharing of [...]
18
Jan
How Google Manages Its Data-Center Interconnexion With SDN
Google has built a dozen data centers around the world. To avoid data loss and offer high availability, Google replicates a massive amount of data [...]
11
Jan
Coalitional Manipulation of Voting Rules: Simulations on Empirical Data
Using computer simulations based on empirical data, we show that seven voting rules that we call the IRV family (Instant-Runoff Voting, exhaustive ballot, Condorcet-IRV, Benham, [...]
11
Jan
Optimal Bounds for the No-Show Paradox via SAT Solving
The participation criterion is a social choice criterion that characterizes voting rules. A voting rule satisfies this criterion if, considering a is the winner of [...]
04
Jan
INFRES seminar on "Kubernetes"
Leonardo Linguaglossa, maitre de Conf. at Télécom-Paris (Dept. INFRES), invited Rémy Léone (Scaleway) to give a seminar talk on "Kubernetes" in the framework of his course on Cloud [...]
Dec 2022
14
Dec
PA-CODA: Planner-Agnostic Collision Detection and Avoidance for Multi-Robot Navigation
Coordinated path planning and motion control are crucial for collision-free navigation of a fleet of robots that share a space and potentially contend for the same [...]
14
Dec
What is JavaScript?
As a programming language, JavaScript does has a few quirks here and there, but what truly sets it apart is the central role it plays [...]
07
Dec
Special RG session: presentation of the TP software radio platform
Exceptionally, we'll have a session of the "Practical Network" Reading Group that will be moved to the usual schedule of the LINCS seminar. Philippe Martins [...]
07
Dec
The magic of container networking: a (not-so) short introduction
Like regular applications, containers deployed within highly virtualized contexts need to communicate via a networking abstraction. In order to do so, common technologies adopt Linux [...]
Nov 2022
30
Nov
Network Intelligence in the Open RAN: architectures, challenges and open experimental platforms
The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) paradigm and its embodiment based on the O-RAN Alliance specifications is poised to transform the telecom ecosystem via virtualized [...]