Seminars

Seminars and Workshops

Dec 2025

10 Dec

LLM-Driven Scheduler Generation for Intent-Based RAN

10/12/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Maxime Elkael
The shift toward open, programmable O-RAN and AI-RAN 6G networks presents new opportunities for Intent-Based Networking (IBN) to dynamically optimize RAN operations. However, applying IBN [...]
03 Dec

TBD

03/12/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Michèle Wiggers
TBD

Nov 2025

26 Nov

TBD

26/11/2025    
1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Nadjib Achir
TBD
19 Nov

TBD

19/11/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Rida Khatoun
TBD
12 Nov

User-side Opportunistic Channel Charting & Location-Aware Access Point Selection

12/11/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Wendlasida Ouedraogo
Channel Charting (CC) is a promising tool for managing radio resources, especially those tied to user location. Conventionally, CC involves a dimensionality reduction of channel [...]
05 Nov

TBD

05/11/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Anastasios Giovanidis
TBD

Oct 2025

15 Oct

TBD

15/10/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tom Boumba
TBD
08 Oct

Estimating the hyperuniformity exponent of point processes

08/10/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Bartek Blaszczyszyn
A joint work with G. Mastrilli, B. Blaszczyszyn, F. Lavancier Hyperuniformity characterizes random spatial structures whose large-scale variance grows more slowly than that of Poisson [...]
01 Oct

Statistical learning from high-dimensional and distributed data

01/10/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Faicel Chamroukhi
Modern learning algorithms must tackle real-world problems involving complex, heterogeneous, often unlabeled, high-dimensional, and potentially large-scale and/or distributed data. In this talk, the speaker will [...]

Sep 2025

24 Sep

Stochastic Geometry and Dynamical System Analysis of Non-Terrestrial Networks

24/09/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
François Baccelli
This lecture will be mainly focused on broadband communication networks based Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations. It will first describe the structure of these constellations, [...]
17 Sep

Measuring and Mitigating Risks with AI-Driven Information Targeting

17/09/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Oana Goga
In this talk, the speaker will discuss risks related to online advertising and micro-targeting, and present methods for measuring and reducing these risks. I will [...]

Jul 2025

04 Jul

Designing Server Sets for Anycast CDN

04/07/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Noriaki Kamiyama
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the effective operation of anycast Content Delivery Networks (CDN). Existing anycast CDNs answer the same set [...]

Jun 2025

18 Jun

Geometric lower bounds for stochastic processing networks with limited connectivity

18/06/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Andrés Ferragut
Abstract: We consider processing networks where multiple dispatchers are connected to single-server queues by a bipartite compatibility graph, modeling constraints that are common in distributed [...]

May 2025

28 May

Pushing the Boundary for Index Policies: Recent Advances, Challenges and Opportunities

28/05/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Xiaojun Lin
Abstract Many network control problems (e.g., minimizing age-of-information, network slicing, and caching, just to name a few examples) can be cast as Markov Decision Processes [...]
07 May

Resilient and Efficient Decentralized Learning

07/05/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mohamed Amine Legheraba
Decentralized learning enhances privacy, scalability, and fault tolerance by  distributing data and computation across nodes. A popular approach is Federated learning, which relies on a [...]

Apr 2025

09 Apr

Data Compression with Locality Properties

09/04/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Aslan Tchamkerten
Traditional compression schemes typically require decompressing the entire compressed archive to access a single bit. Similarly, updating a single bit requires re-encoding the entire archive. [...]
02 Apr

Green digitalization ?

02/04/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Philippe Ciblat
We provide an overview on Information and Communication Technologies comsumption in recent years by conducting different types of analysis. We evoke the rebound effect related [...]

Mar 2025

26 Mar

Responsible digital developments in research and education: where do we start?

26/03/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Daphne Tuncer
Several recent initiatives have proposed new directions for research practices and their operations in the computer science community, from updated codes of conduct that clarify [...]
21 Mar

Incentives in large-scale demand-side flexibility management in smart energy grids: the RESONANCE approach

21/03/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
George D. Stamoulis
The increased contribution of renewable energy sources to energy production has led to increased variability and lower levels of controlability of energy generation. On the [...]
19 Mar

Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience of Complex Systems

19/03/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Romain Dagnas
Thanks to technological advancements, critical infrastructures integrate many smart technologies and become highly connected to the cyber world. This is especially true for Cyber-Physical Systems [...]
05 Mar

Orchestration of AI-based Applications in Heterogeneous and Distributed Computing Systems

05/03/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Francescomaria Faticanti
Today, distributed systems are increasingly needed to support distributed applications that involve machine learning (ML) operations for both service providers and end users. These operations [...]

Feb 2025

19 Feb

AI for the Detection and Mitigation of Cyberattacks

19/02/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Erol Gelenbe
Gateway Servers for the Internet of Things, including critical application areas such as the Internet of Vehicles and health monitoring, must meet stringent  Security and Quality [...]
12 Feb

How can alpha-information theory formally prove that your sensitive circuits are protected against side-channel attacks?

12/02/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Olivier Rioul
Cryptographic algorithms are ubiquitous in our digital society. Principles (such as Kerckhoffs’) and mathematical techniques for securing data against cryptanalysis are well established, even with [...]
07 Feb

The RESTART Project: focus on Network Programmability and Orchestration

07/02/2025    
10:00 am-10:45 am
Walter Cerroni and Davide Borsatti
In the last decade, software has been playing an increasingly relevant role in communication networks, bringing advanced programmability features to network infrastructure management, and enabling [...]
05 Feb

A functioning 5G core network deployed on top of a standard Kubernetes cluster

05/02/2025    
1:30 am-3:00 am
Davide Borsatti
In this seminar, we will show how to deploy a functioning 5G core network on top of a standard Kubernetes cluster. This talk will start [...]

Jan 2025

22 Jan

Quantum advantage in distributed computing

22/01/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Isadora Vereen
In recent years many advances have been made in the field of quantum networks and even bigger improvements are expected in the foreseeable future: tasks [...]
08 Jan

Preventing WebRTC IP Address Leaks

08/01/2025    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guillaume Nibert
The WebRTC API enables real-time communication of text, video, and audio media streams through a web browser without requiring third-party extensions. However, it was not [...]

Dec 2024

11 Dec

Line Cox Processes Part II: Large Scale Automotive Radar Networks and Statistics of Successive Successful Detection

11/12/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gourab Ghatak
Note: Part I of this talk was presented at LINCS in 2023 (www.lincs.fr/events/seminar-talk-by-gourab-ghatak/). In this talk, first, we revisit the newly introduced model -the binomial [...]
04 Dec

Handover frequency in dynamic terrestrial network

04/12/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar
In this work we shall consider a dynamic wireless communication model on real line or plane. Let us assume that a user located at origin, [...]

Nov 2024

27 Nov

Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models

27/11/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Camilo Chacón Sartori
This talk demonstrates how to efficiently Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models like Llama-3.2-3B, showing practical techniques for extracting structured knowledge from JSON and [...]
06 Nov

The Squared Kemeny Rule for Averaging Rankings

06/11/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dominik Peters
For the problem of aggregating several rankings into one ranking, Kemeny (1959) proposed two methods: the median rule which selects the ranking with the smallest [...]

Oct 2024

30 Oct

Optimal time partitioning in V2V ISAC Systems

30/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
Platooning-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) frameworks have emerged as an attractive strategy in recent years. In this work, we present an optimal [...]
18 Oct

Understanding Reinforcement Learning error in image-based environments

18/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Matthew Andrews
In many Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments the state is represented by an image. In such cases, if the RL doesn’t work well, is the problem [...]
09 Oct

Zero knowledge proofs in blockchain

09/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
José Luis Muñoz-Tapia
In this talk, we will explore the fundamental concept of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), a cryptographic technique that allows one party to prove knowledge of [...]
02 Oct

How Much Can Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Augment Sky Visibility: A Stochastic Geometry Approach

02/10/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Junse Lee
This talk presents the application of point processes and stochastic geometry to quantify the sky visibility experienced by users located in an outdoor environment. The [...]
02 Oct

Design and Optimizations Toward Smart Grid Connected Green Future Networks

02/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
Realizing energy sustainable communication networks has been a key challenge in the upcoming sixth generation (6G) networks. A key bottleneck has been to make the [...]

Sep 2024

25 Sep

Gaming on the Edge: Performance Issues of Distributed Online Gaming

25/09/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Diletta Olliaro
Edge computing is revolutionising gaming and streaming services by processing data closer to the user, which greatly reduces latency and enhances bandwidth efficiency. This talk [...]
25 Sep

Job migrations in queueing networks: some non-conventional product-forms

25/09/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Andrea Marin
Job migrations are important to improve the performance in distributed systems.  In this talk, we explore two policies for job migration that are receiver-initiated, i.e., [...]
18 Sep

 An Economic Analysis of 5G Network Slicing and the Impact of Regulation

18/09/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Patrick Maillé
A joint work with Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Maël Le Treust, and Bruno Tuffin Network slicing is a key component of 5G-and- beyond networks, requiring to define [...]
18 Sep

Performance analysis of a buffered cellular network: Coverage probability, channel capacity, and steady-state analysis

18/09/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Taisia Morozova
In this talk I will discuss a stochastic geometric model of a buffered cellular network with either uplink or downlink transmissions. Various network models have [...]

Jun 2024

19 Jun

Elevator: Self-* and Persistent Hub Sampling Service in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

19/06/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mohamed Amine Legheraba
We present Elevator, a novel algorithm for hub sampling in peer-to-peer networks, enabling the construction of overlays with a topology between a random graph and [...]

May 2024

29 May

Understanding and Modeling Collective User (Mis-)Behavior Driving Information Spread Online

29/05/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jussara Almeida
The literature is quite rich in efforts to model and analyze how different aspects of user behavior may drive the dissemination of a piece of [...]
22 May

Caching and pre-fetching: the role of hazard rates

22/05/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Andres Ferragut
Consider a local memory system receiving requests from a given catalog: the typical caching objective is to maximize its hit rate, i.e. the number of [...]
22 May

Hypercomputation: a paradigm for network-inspired computing

22/05/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Carlos Zapata-Carratala
In this talk Carlos Zapata-Carratala will present evidence from recent work on hypergraph rewriting research and abstract algebra that points towards new ways to conceptualise [...]

Apr 2024

17 Apr

Seminar Talk : A Protocol to Assess the Accuracy of Process-Level Power Models

17/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dimitri Saingre and Emile Cadorel
The energy consumption of servers has been a critical research area, drawing significant interest from academic and industrial sectors. Various models have been developed to [...]
10 Apr

Level-strategyproof Belief Aggregation Mechanisms

10/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Estelle Varloot
In the problem of aggregating experts' probabilistic predictions over an ordered set of outcomes, we introduce the axiom of level-strategy\-proofness (level-SP) and prove that it [...]
03 Apr

Double talk : "Can Edge Computing fulfill the requirements of automated vehicular services using 5G network?" & "Can Vehicular Cloud Replace Edge Computing?"

03/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Hakim OUEDRAOGO & Rosario PATANE
Abstract 1: Communication and computation services support- ing Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are characterized by stringent requirements, in terms of response time and reliability. [...]

Feb 2024

07 Feb

Bell theorem and the role of complex numbers in quantum information theory

07/02/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Renou
Quantum information theory has several puzzling properties. In particular, it predicts that information carried by quantum objects is incompatible with the use of the logical [...]

Jan 2024

17 Jan

Data Poisoning Attacks in Gossip Learning

17/01/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Alexandre PHAM
Traditional machine learning systems were designed in a centralized man-ner. In such designs, the central entity maintains both the machine learningmodel and the data used [...]
10 Jan

Authentication through error estimation in QKD

10/01/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
The one-time pad is an encryption technique that is proven to be unbreakable by an eavesdropper. It relies on a single-use secret key shared between [...]

Dec 2023

13 Dec

Binomial Line Cox Processes - Modeling Streets Across a City

13/12/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gourab Ghatak
Acknowledgment: Joint work with Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame) The current analysis of wireless networks whose transceivers are confined to streets is largely based [...]
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