Activities

Nov 2022

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

26/10/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Michel Barbeau
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

12/10/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Stefano Paris
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

05/10/2022    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Maxime Mouchet
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

28/09/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Rémi Varloot
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

13/04/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
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

23/03/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
David Coudert
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)

16/03/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Lorenzo Maggi
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 [...]
LINCS-NEMO WORKSHOP on V2X

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 MARCH 2022, THURSDAY 10TH AND FRIDAY 11TH (9AM – 6PM) To make our vehicles smarter and our roads safer, communications [...]
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

02/03/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
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

09/02/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Matthieu Gouel
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

19/01/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
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 [...]
12 Jan

Poisson approximations of sums of Bernoulli random variables

12/01/2022    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Michel Davydov
Approximation by Poisson distributions or processes is of great interest in many applications including networks, queueing theory and even neuroscience, as the Poisson distribution arises [...]

Dec 2021

15 Dec

Testing in Python

15/12/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Maxime Mouchet
Thanks to its dynamic nature, it is extremely easy to prototype code with Python. However, this also means that it is difficult to catch errors [...]
08 Dec

Meta Distributions and Joint Geometric Modeling of Cellular Networks

08/12/2021    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Ke Feng
In cellular networks, there is a growing emphasis on the user experienced performance and ultra-reliable low-latency communications. This necessitates an analysis of the performance achieved by most [...]
08 Dec

MIMO Performance: From Theory to Practice

08/12/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Guodong Sun
In the past decades, multiple antenna systems were widely employed in modern wireless network to improve the communication performance. For example, iPhone XS is equipped [...]
01 Dec

MPLS in Internet topologies

01/12/2021    
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Matthieu Gouel
Dear all, The Internet Measurement reading group will meet on Wednesday 1st. In this session, Matthieu Gouel (Sorbonne Université, LIP6) will talk about MPLS in Internet topologies. [...]
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