May 2021
05
May
Python profiling
This session will be devoted to a non-exhaustive view of profiling techniques that can be useful in Python. While profiling is absolutely no substitute for [...]
Apr 2021
28
Apr
SOBA: Session optimal MDP-based network friendly recommendations
Caching content over CDNs or at the network edge has been solidified as a means to improve network cost and offer better streaming experience to [...]
28
Apr
Exponential families
Exponential families are parametric sets of probability distributions that arise in many applications. These include well-known univariate distributions (such as the binomial, Poisson, geometric, exponential, [...]
21
Apr
Pattern Matching, text generation and sequence complexity
Pattern matching is a powerful tool used on many kinds of data as long as they stand on a linear support such as texts or [...]
21
Apr
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Repurposing Existing Measurements to Identify Stale Traceroutes
Dear all, The Internet Measurement reading group will meet again on April 21st. We will talk about the following paper : Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Repurposing Existing [...]
07
Apr
PhDs presentations n° 1 on Network Metrology, Blockchain, Computational Social Choice
Seminar by: - Maxime Mouchet (Postdoc UPMC) = Network Metrology - Matthieu Gouel (PhD UPMC) = Network Metrology - Pierre Civit (PhD UPMC) = Blockchain [...]
07
Apr
Design of algorithms for the production of training data
There is a well-known saying in the supervised machine learning community: "garbage in, garbage out". The performance of a supervised learning algorithm depends critically on [...]
Mar 2021
31
Mar
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communications
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently emerged as the new wireless communication research frontier with the goal of realizing metamaterial-coated smart and reconfigurable radio propagation [...]
31
Mar
Classification of Load Balancing in the Internet
Dear all, Next Wednesday (31/03/2021) will take place the first Internet Measurement reading group ! We will talk about the following paper : Classification of Load [...]
24
Mar
DNN Based Beam Selection in mmW Heterogeneous Networks
In this work, we consider a heterogeneous cellular network wherein multiple small cell millimeter wave (mmW) base stations (BSs) coexist with legacy sub-6GHz macro BSs. [...]
24
Mar
Python Threads 101 + Python Sockets 102
The threading library permits programs to execute several things at the same time on the same machine. This talk will review the basics of the [...]
17
Mar
Collective brainstorming for the organization of the June WS with the LINCS Co.Sci.
This time, during our usual seminar time-slot, the whole LINCS community is encouraged to participate in a remote collective brainstorming to elaborate on the organizational [...]
17
Mar
Ensemble methods
Ensemble methods are popular machine learning techniques that combine the predictions of multiple agents to improve their accuracy and robustness. We will introduce these methods, [...]
10
Mar
Formalizing the analysis of blockchains robustness through game theory
Blockchains systems evolve in complex environments that mix classical patterns of faults with selfish, rational or irrational behaviours typical of economic systems. During the presentation [...]
03
Mar
FCLTs for Determining the Performance in Finite Systems of Servers with Randomized Load Balancing
Here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FCLT_MFE.pdf
03
Mar
Container Overview
Containers are one of the fundamentals of cloud native application development. Popularized by Docker and now widely adopted by the cloud computing industry, containers paved [...]
Feb 2021
24
Feb
Can we automate our own work — or show that it is hard?
Computer scientists seek to understand what can be automated, but what do we know about automating our own work? Can we outsource our own research [...]
24
Feb
A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noisy Systems (2)
In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]
17
Feb
The impact of multi-user massive MIMO on resource allocation in 5G cellular networks
One of the very important technologies for 5G is multi-user massive MIMO. It has the potential to deliver excellent performance if used well. However, it [...]
17
Feb
A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noisy Systems (1)
In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]
10
Feb
Real-time Bidding in First and Second Price Auctions with Temporal and Targeting Constraints
Please, find here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bidding_LINCS_Jan2021.pdf Here, Professor Mazumdar's webpage with info on his academic path: [...]
10
Feb
03
Feb
Edit distances, string alignments and dynamic programming
Edit distances quantify how dissimilar two strings are by counting the minimum number of edit operation (insertion, deletion, etc) to transform one string into the [...]
Jan 2021
27
Jan
Presentation of Huggingface Transformers library for Natural Language Processing
Transformers architectures have been dominating the benchmarks of most Natural Language Processing tasks for the past 3 years with new models popping up every week, [...]
20
Jan
"Secure and Robust MIMO Transceiver for Multicast Mission Critical Communications"
Mission-critical communications (MCC) involve all communications between people in charge of the safety of the civil society. MCC have unique requirements that include improved reliability, [...]
20
Jan
A tutorial on Bayesian optimization with Gaussian processes
Bayesian optimization proves to be useful when our goal is to i) optimize an unknown function, that we can learn by sampling ii) our sample [...]
13
Jan
"Self-Adjusting Networks: From Metrics to Algorithms"
In this talk I will present the vision of self-adjusting networks: communication networks whose physical topology adapts to the traffic pattern it serves, in a [...]
13
Jan
Takeaways of building a research-oriented system
Building a modern, scalable and fault-tolerant system in Python has never been so easy and enjoyable. Here is some takeaways of building such system in [...]
06
Jan
Multi-winner voting rules
Multi-winner voting rules aggregate the opinions of several agents and yield a set of several options. We will give an overview of the classic rules [...]
Dec 2020
21
Dec
Thesis defense "Tractable Reliable Communication in Compromised Networks"
Reliable communication is a fundamental primitive in distributed systems prone to Byzantine (i.e. arbitrary, and possibly malicious) failures to guarantee integrity, delivery, and authorship of [...]
17
Dec
Thesis defense "Deep learning techniques for graph embedding at different scales"
In many scientific fields, studied data have an underlying graph or manifold structure such as communication networks (whether social or technical), knowledge graphs or molecules. [...]
16
Dec
Special meeting: new tool for LINCS research&projects
The LINCS community is encouraged to participate in an exceptional Wednesday meeting with Fabien Mathieu to check, discuss and exchange about a new tool to share [...]
16
Dec
Python Sockets 101
The socket library permits programs that execute on various machines over a network to communicate. This talk will review the basics of the Python socket [...]
14
Dec
Thesis defense "Mechanisms and architectures to encourage the massive and efficient use of local renewable energy"
To meet carbon reduction goals in Europe but worldwide too, a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DER) still need to be deployed. Aiming [...]
10
Dec
Thesis defense "Random walk on simplicial complexes"
The notion of Laplacian of a graph can be generalized to simplicial complexes and hypergraphs. This notion contains information on the topology of these structures. [...]
09
Dec
"On the deployability of Augmented Reality Using Embedded Edge Devices"
Edge Computing exploits computational capabilities deployed at the very edge of the network to support applications with low latency requirements. Such capabilities can reside in [...]
09
Dec
Voting in Networks
In this talk, we are investigating a selection of problems related to the process of voting on a (social) network. Among other problems, I am [...]
08
Dec
Thesis defense "Speed of convergence of diffusion approximations"
In many fields of interest, Markov processes are a primary modelisation tool for random processes. Unfortunately it is often necessary to use very large or [...]
07
Dec
Thesis defense "Contributions to the representation of multivariate time series and graphs"
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are designed to learn models that have the ability to take decisions or make predictions from data, in a large panel [...]
02
Dec
Thesis defense "Transport of critical services over unlicensed spectrum in 5G networks"
Critical services in 5G networks, denoted by Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), allow the existence of many promising applications such as factory automation, remote surgery and [...]
02
Dec
Pyinstaller / Vis.js Network
Two independent tools will be presented for this session. Pyinstaller is a tool that converts Python code in standalone executable. The goal is not to [...]
Nov 2020
25
Nov
Talk by a member of LINCS Scientific Committee "On the Use of Small Solar Panels and Small Batteries to Reduce the RAN Carbon Footprint"
The limited power requirements of new generations of base stations make the use of renewable energy sources, solar in particular, extremely attractive for mobile network [...]
25
Nov
An introduction to mean field theory
When working with interacting particle systems, mean-field models provide a link between models on a microscopic scale describing the behavior of the system and simplified [...]
18
Nov
Talk by a member of LINCS Scientific Committee "Distributing service execution"
Services often consists of independent components that can be executed independently (so-called microservices) and they often deal with very large user populations. This setup presents [...]
18
Nov
SimPy Package tutorial
SimPy is a python package for discrete event simulations based on python’s standard generators. This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use SimPy to implement [...]
13
Nov
04
Nov
Fluid limits : a useful tool to study the stability of queuing networks
Introduced by Rybko and Stolyar in 1992, fluid-scaling and fluid limits offer a systematic way to study the stability or instability of queuing networks over [...]
Oct 2020
28
Oct
What problems does cloud solve? Non BS introduction by a former academic.
Cloud computing in addition to being a large industry can also seem daunting to understand. In this introduction, we will present in a very didactic [...]