Activities

Nov 2022

30 Nov

Unimodular Random Graphs

30/11/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
François Baccelli
I will define the unimodularity of random graphs and then I will give several examples of applications concerning tessellations, optimization, dynamic systems, etc. If time [...]
16 Nov

Coverage and Stability Analysis of Cellular Network with Temporal Traffic

16/11/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Qiong Liu
In this talk, we discuss the stability region characterization of a random network when a traffic model is integrated into the network geometry description. First, [...]
16 Nov

Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Petting Zoo

16/11/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Claire Bizon Monroc
PettingZoo (https://pettingzoo.farama.org/) is an open source Python source library supported by Farama Foundation to accelerate research in multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL). Inheriting the standard features [...]
09 Nov

Talking to robots and drones: Network requirements for autonomous agents in factories and warehouses of the future

09/11/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Matthew Andrews
Future factories and warehouses will contain fleets of autonomous agents to assist with monitoring and control. In this talk we will describe a variety of [...]
09 Nov

An introduction to network calculus

09/11/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Ke Feng
Network calculus is a theoretical framework for performance guarantees in communication networks. Here we present a first introduction to some fundamental concepts and principles in [...]
08 Nov

PhD thesis defense "Analysis and Control of Online Interactions through Neural Natural Language Processing"

08/11/2022    
3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Léo Laugier
Natural Language Processing is motivated by applications where computers should gain a semantic and syntactic understanding of human language. Recently, the field has been impacted [...]
02 Nov

Distributed Optimization for Cellular Networks

02/11/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Chung Shue (Calvin) Chen
In this presentation, we will introduce a class of distributed optimization algorithms for resource allocation problem, built on potential game and related to simulated annealing. We [...]

Oct 2022

26 Oct

Work Memory Requirements in Error Susceptible Quantum Networks

We consider the problem of path congestion avoidance in networks of quantum repeaters and terminals. In other words, the avoidance of situations when demands exceed [...]
26 Oct

Concurrent Programming in Python3 Using Asyncio

26/10/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
Asyncio is a library to write concurrent code using the async/await syntax. Asyncio is used as a foundation for multiple Python asynchronous frameworks that provide [...]
19 Oct

Quantum Cryptography: Quantum Key Distribution protocols

19/10/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Ludovic Noirie
Quantum cryptography [BBE92] consists of the communication of a shared secret key between two users (Alice and Bob) which prevents an eavesdropper (Eve) from intercepting [...]
12 Oct

Extended Reality in 5G NR and Beyond

Extended Reality (XR) has been one of the ambitious research topics under development for several decades and today it is becoming mature enough to appear [...]
12 Oct

Vehicular Networks, in Practice

12/10/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Francesca Bassi
Vehicular ad hoc networks are composed by vehicles sharing data over the radio channel. They are the basic infrastructure of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), [...]
05 Oct

Distributed Task Processing with GNU Parallel

You probably tried many times to execute a script on multiple files in parallel, or to download multiple files at the same time, only to [...]

Sep 2022

28 Sep

PCANT — Programable Capture and Analysis of Network Traffic

PCANT is a solution for streamlining the deployment of arbitrary online traffic analysis methods inside networks. It allows network administrators to dynamically instantiate new monitoring [...]
21 Sep

Calculating the probability of the Condorcet Paradox using combinatorics tools

21/09/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Emma Caizergues
The paradox of Condorcet (1785) is a phenomenon that occurs when people express their preferences amongst candidates. Calculating the limiting probability of the Condorcet paradox [...]

Jun 2022

29 Jun

2022 LINCS Workshop with the Scientific Committee

29/06/2022-30/06/2022    
9:00 am-6:00 pm
This year Annual Workshop with the Scientific Committe will take place in LINCS new premises in Palaiseau (@Télécom-Paris). Four members of our Scientific Committee will [...]
22 Jun

Invertibility on the Poisson space and construction of Hawkes processes 

22/06/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Laurent Decreusefond
Following previous investigations by Üstünel   about the invertibility of some transformations on the Wiener space, we find some entropic conditions under which a random [...]
15 Jun

Bidding efficiently in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions using Monte Carlo Tree Search

15/06/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Alexandre Pacaud
We tackle in this work the problem for a player to efficiently bid in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions (SAA). Although the success of SAA partially comes [...]
15 Jun

Enumerating Bipartite Graphs With Degree Constraints

15/06/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Emma Caizergues
Enumerating graphs with a given degree sequence is a problem of interest in many fields such as voting theory and statistics. If we are able [...]
08 Jun

Stability of multiclass spatial birth-and-death processes with wireless-type interactions

08/06/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Pierre Popineau
With the densification of wireless networks and the increasing standards of wireless communication protocols, the study of the stochastic stability of wireless networks becomes increasingly [...]
08 Jun

Easy Convex Optimization in Python with CVXPY

08/06/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Maxime Elkael
Convex Optimization provide a set of fast, practical tools and algorithms which have applications accross many fields, from Machine Learning to Networking or Finance. However, [...]

May 2022

18 May

Operationalizing machine learning in real world networks

18/05/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Francesco Bronzino
Applications of machine learning to networking, from performance diagnosis to security, have conventionally relied on models that are trained on offline packet traces, without regard [...]
18 May

Introduction to submodular functions

18/05/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Submodularity is a property that models "diminishing return", when the benefits of adding a new element to a set decreases with the size of the [...]
11 May

LINCS young researchers "elevator pitch" presentation n°3/2022

11/05/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Claire Bizon Monroc - Thomas Le Corre - Ilia Shilov - Lucas Weber
Bizon Monroc Claire Inria PhD Informatique Le Corre Thomas  Inria PhD Smart greed Shilov Ilia  Inria PhD Game theoretic approaches for decentralized electricity markets Weber [...]
04 May

LINCS young researchers "elevator pitch" presentation n°2/2022

04/05/2022    
3:00 pm-4:15 pm
Michel Davydov - Sayeh Khaniha - Pierre Popineau - Maxime Raynal - Bharath Roy Choudhury - Guodong Sun
  Davydov Michel  Inria PhD Dynamiques markoviennes à base de processus ponctuels et leurs applications Khaniha Sayeh  Inria PhD   Popineau Pierre  Inria PhD Study [...]
04 May

Introduction to Gym and Stable Baselines for reinforcement learning

04/05/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Claire Bizon Monroc
Gym by OpenAI is an open source interface to reinforcement learning (RL) tasks. It comes with a set of standard tasks useful for benchmarking RL [...]
02 May

PhD Thesis defense "Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Cloud Environments"

02/05/2022    
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Thomas Tournaire
The emergence of new technologies (Internet of Things, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, health, industrial automation, ...) requires efficient resource allocation to satisfy the demand. These [...]

Apr 2022

27 Apr

Representing reputation in a multiagent system

27/04/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Francesca Bassi
We consider the problem of a multiagent system where entities meet and interact in a pairwise fashion. Agents may rate the outcome of the interaction [...]
20 Apr

Cache Allocation in Multi-Tenant Edge Computing via online Reinforcement Learning

20/04/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Ayoub Ben Ameur
We consider in this work Edge Computing (EC) in a multi-tenant environment: the resource owner, i.e., the Network Operator (NO), virtualizes the resources and lets [...]
13 Apr

Towards an interactive visualization of the Internet

13/04/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Maxime Mouchet
All kinds of Internet maps have been produced to emphasize various features of the network such as undersea cables [1], relationships between autonomous systems [2] [...]
13 Apr

Architecture in Object-Oriented Programming: A Case Study

What is often done: Explain basics of OOP (e.g. syntax), Give principles of clean programming (e.g. SOLID) with simplified examples, more or less realistic. What [...]
06 Apr

LINCS young researchers "elevator pitch" presentation n°1/2022

06/04/2022    
3:00 pm-4:15 pm
Maxime Elkael - Ayoub Ben Ameur - Joao Paulo Bezerra de Araujo - Wei Huang - Rosario Patané - Alessandro Spallina - Andrei Tonkikh
  Elkael Maxime Télécom-SudParis (IMT) PhD Reinforcement learning, Networking Ben Ameur Ayoub  Télécom-SudParis (IMT) PhD Edge computing Bezerra de Araujo Joao Paulo Télécom-Paris (IMT) PhD [...]
06 Apr

The Weakest Failure Detector Abstraction

06/04/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Petr Kuznetsov
Many important distributed computing problems cannot be solved in purely asynchronous fault-prone systems. These impossibilities can be circumvented with failure detectors, distributed oracles that provide [...]

Mar 2022

30 Mar

Learning Optimal Bids in Second Price Auctions with Temporal and Overlapping Targeting Constraints

30/03/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Ravi Mazumdar
Ad placement in web-browsing and wireless mobiles is an increasingly important component of the advertisement market. The market size is over $ 100 billion and [...]
23 Mar

GeoLink: a Multimodal approach Internet Scale Geolocation System for Improved Coverage and Accuracy

23/03/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Kévin Vermeulen
Despite being critical infrastructure, it remains challenging to accurately position the physical location of Internet routers. In contrast to end-host geolocation where provider databases, registry [...]
23 Mar

A brief introduction to Sagemath

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, [...]
16 Mar

Cryptocurrency Wallet Security Solutions

16/03/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Kalpana Singh
With the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies, interest in digital signatures for securing keys is also on the rise. Researchers have been attempting since the 90’s [...]
16 Mar

Wireless communication channel for dummies (like me)

The bulk of the scientific talks on wireless communication begin with: "Let’s consider the classic model y = Hx where x and y are the [...]
10 Mar

LINCS-NEMO WORKSHOP on V2X

10/03/2022-11/03/2022    
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Altintas - Chiasserini - Dressler - Gonzalez - Haenggi - Heath - Mancuso - Nguyen - Petrov - Shagdar - Wymeersch
LINCS-NEMO workshop on vehicular networks   **PROGRAM OF THE WORKSHOP** MARCH 2022, THURSDAY 10TH AND FRIDAY 11TH (9AM – 6PM) To make our vehicles smarter and [...]
02 Mar

Wireless scheduling subject to slice constraints

02/03/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Matthew Andrews
We present methods for achieving slice guarantees in cellular networks by adjusting the MAC scheduling weights. A network slice is a portion of a network [...]
02 Mar

SOLID Principles in Object-Oriented Programming

Once you know the basics of object-oriented programming, a more difficult step can be to design the architecture of your code for a given project: [...]

Feb 2022

23 Feb

Application of stream graphs theory on internet topology

23/02/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Matthieu Gouel
The network topology of the internet and its dynamics has been studied extensively for two decades. Meanwhile, Latapy et al. extended graph theory to capture [...]
18 Feb

PhD thesis defense "Unsupervised Anomaly Detection: Methods and applications"

18/02/2022    
2:30 pm-5:00 pm
Andrian Putina
An anomaly (also known as outlier) is an instance that significantly deviates from the rest of the input data and being defined by Hawkins as [...]
16 Feb

Securing communications in the C-ITS

16/02/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Francesca Bassi
Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems allow connected vehicles to communicate with each other, with the road-side infrastructure, and with other smart devices to improve road safety [...]
09 Feb

Graph-based contributions to machine learning

09/02/2022    
2:30 pm-5:30 pm
Quentin Lutz
A graph is a mathematical object that makes it possible to represent relationships (called edges) between entities (called nodes). Graphs have long been a focal [...]
09 Feb

Object-Oriented Programming in Python

We will deep dive into the OOP paradigm and see how it’s implemented in Python. This session will be beginner-friendly and aims to give explanations and practical [...]
02 Feb

The Quantum Internet: Recent Advances and Challenges

02/02/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Don Towsley
Quantum information processing is at the cusp of having significant impact on technology and society in the form of providing unbreakable security, ultra-high-precision distributed sensing [...]
02 Feb

Infinite Hidden Markov Models

02/02/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Maxime Mouchet
The Hidden Markov Model is a generative model in which the distribution of the observations depends on the state of a Markov chain. These models [...]

Jan 2022

26 Jan

A stochastic matching between graph theory and linear algebra

26/01/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Stochastic dynamic matching has numerous applications, ranging from supply-chain management to kidney exchange programs. In a matching problem, different classes arrive according to independent Poisson processes. Unmatched items [...]
19 Jan

Accountable distributed computing

19/01/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Petr Kuznetsov
There are two major ways to deal with failures in distributed computing: fault-tolerance and accountability. Fault-tolerance intends to anticipate failures by investing into replication and [...]
19 Jan

Developping in Python

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 [...]
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