Apr 2022
13
Apr
Towards an interactive visualization of the Internet
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]

LINCS-NEMO WORKSHOP on V2X
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
12
Jan
Poisson approximations of sums of Bernoulli random variables
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
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
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
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
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. [...]
Nov 2021
24
Nov
17
Nov
Dynamic Secure-Emulation
We present probabilistic dynamic I/O automata, a framework to model dynamic probabilistic systems. Our work extends dynamic I/O Automata formalism from Attie & Lynch to [...]
17
Nov
Chaos Engineering
"Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in [...]
10
Nov
HLOC: Hints-based geolocation leveraging multiple measurement frameworks
Dear all, The Internet Measurement reading group will meet on Wednesday 10th. In this session, Maxime Mouchet (Sorbonne Université, LIP6) will present HLOC: Hints-based geolocation leveraging [...]
09
Nov
PhD thesis defense "Stochastic matching models and their applications to demand-supply balancing"
The recent growth of the collaborative economy with peer-to-peer networks created the need for interfaces that put in relation different types of populations. Applications such [...]
03
Nov
Developing With Style: The Pythonic Way
Beautiful is better than ugly… In this session we will use modern coding-style to improve the readability, the performance and the correctness of Python code. [...]
Oct 2021
27
Oct
Joint Channel Coding of Consecutive Messages with Heterogeneous Decoding Deadlines in the Finite Blocklength Regime
One of the pillars of 5G is ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC), where the goal is to transmit typically small quantities of data with a [...]
27
Oct
Stability Conditions for a Discrete-Time Decentralised Medium Access Algorithm
We will present the paper: Shneer, S., & Stolyar, A. (2018). Stability conditions for a discrete-time decentralised medium access algorithm. The Annals of Applied Probability, 28(6), 3600-3628. [...]
21
Oct
"Big Thought Time Talk" by Nokia: “Fast Distributed Optimization with Asynchrony and Time Delays”
The training of models over distributed data calls for distributed optimization schemes. This has motivated research on distributed convex optimization, leading to the identification of [...]
20
Oct
On Velocity-based Association Policies for Multi-tier 5G Wireless Networks
Mobility is a key challenge for beam management in 5G cellular networks due to the overhead incurred at beam switching and base station (BS) handover [...]
20
Oct
PCAP tools for practical traffic monitoring in LAN
Pcap (Packet CAPture) is an API for network monitoring in network, essentially in LANs (Ethernet, WiFi). It is mainly use for passive monitoring (packet capture) [...]
13
Oct
Discv5 - service discovery for the Ethereum P2P network
Ethereum is one of the largest permissionless, open-source blockchains supporting Turing-complete scripting via smart contracts. Ethereum runs a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network based on Kademlia Distributed [...]
13
Oct
Python 101
We will see how to install a complete Python environment: Python distribution (Anaconda), Python IDEs (Jupyter Notebook / JupyterLab / PyCharm). We will go through [...]
06
Oct
Random Line and Hyperplane Processes
We will talk about: Stationarity The Poisson case. Associated random measures. Associated tessellations. The Crofton cell. Mass transport. Applications. Reference: Random Measures, Point Processes, and [...]
Sep 2021
21
Sep
PhD thesis defense "Longitudinal, large scale and unbiased Internet Measurements"
Today, a world without the Internet is unimaginable. By interconnecting billions of people worldwide and by offering an uncountable number of services, it is now [...]
15
Sep
Higher-Order Spectral Clustering for Geometric Graphs
This work is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. It appears that the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs. We present an [...]
Jul 2021
08
Jul
PhD thesis defense "Alarm prediction in networks via space-time pattern matching and machine learning"
Nowadays, telecommunication networks occupy a predominant place in our world. Indeed, they allow to share worldwide a huge amount of information. Networks are however complex [...]
07
Jul
"Maliciously secure consensus from succinct arguments, and short transparent threshold signatures"
We consider consensus protocols, for application to state machine replication, in the model of Castro-Liskov-Dolev-Lynch-Stockmeyer (partial synchrony, black box leader election, malicious corruptions). These protocols [...]
Jun 2021
30
Jun
Experience in research and deployment of AI-based techniques for “networks”
In the talk we will first present Telefonica Research, a team of researchers in Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Security/Privacy and Networks/Systems and highlight potential [...]
30
Jun
Algorithms for generating random permutations
Systems such as masscan, yarrp and diamond-miner send in the order of a million packets/s in order to discover open ports and packet paths on [...]
23
Jun
Reverse Traceroute
Dear all, The Internet Measurement reading group will meet again on June 23rd. We will exceptionally meet at 13:45 instead of our regular time of 10:45. In [...]
22
Jun
Edge Classification: Offloading under Token Bucket Constraints
We consider an edge-computing setting where machine learning-based algorithms are used for real-time classification of inputs acquired by devices, e.g., cameras. Computational resources on the [...]
22
Jun
Enabling intelligent services via function virtualization at the network edge
The proliferation of novel mobile applications and the associated AI services necessitates a fresh view on the architecture, algorithms and services at the network edge [...]
22
Jun
Machine Learning for Network Management
Machine Learning has been applied to a wide range of networking topics. Network management provides ample examples, often of the type of combinatorial optimizations. In [...]