Activities

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

**CLICK to reach the web page of the Workshop** You will find there the list of the confirmed invited speakers and the program   The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]