Seminars

Seminars and Workshops

May 2023

17 May

Three Perspectives to Enhance the Performance of High-Speed Datacenter Networks

17/05/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Vamsi Addanki
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 [...]
10 May

Quantifying the Bias of Transformer-Based Language Models for African American English in Masked Language Modeling

10/05/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Jerome Ramos
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 [...]

Apr 2023

26 Apr

A necessary and sufficient condition for stability of queuing networks with state-dependent departure rates

26/04/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Pierre Popineau
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 [...]
19 Apr

Strategic Computational Investment in Blockchain Mining

19/04/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Swapnil Dhamal
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 [...]
12 Apr

Distributed Function Computation over Networks

12/04/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Derya Malak
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 [...]
05 Apr

Age of Information Processes under Strongly Mixing Communication

05/04/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Adrian Redder
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 [...]

Mar 2023

29 Mar

fAST: How to find relevant regular expression from a small set of positive examples

29/03/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Maxime Raynal
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 [...]
22 Mar

Talk à définir

22/03/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Pierre Popineau
08 Mar

LINCS and ERC-NEMO 2-day Workshop "Performance Guarantees in Wireless Networks"

08/03/2023-09/03/2023    
9:00 am-5:45 pm
**CLICK to reach the web page of the Workshop** You will find there the list of the confirmed invited speakers and the program   The [...]
01 Mar

Coverage and Capacity of Joint Communication and Sensing in Wireless Networks

01/03/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Nicholas Olson
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 [...]

Feb 2023

22 Feb

Some Methods to Improve IoT Performance and Cybersecurity

22/02/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Erol Gelenbe
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-OKfcZ5bRit6OSXKDe2ubXy7w1TGGF_/view?usp=share_link
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 [...]
08 Feb

"What next?" - event for the PhDs

08/02/2023    
5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Francesca Bassi (SystemX) Gabriele Castellano (Huawei) Céline Comte (CNRS Toulouse) Rémy Léone (Scaleway) Leonardo Linguaglossa (Télécom-Paris) Flavia Salutari (BNP Paribas)
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 [...]
08 Feb

A Converse for Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation

08/02/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Avhishek Chatterjee
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 [...]
01 Feb

Communications and sensing, a Winning team for 6G wireless communications

01/02/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Andre Noll Barreto
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 [...]

Jan 2023

25 Jan

Spatial network calculus and performance guarantees in wireless networks

25/01/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Ke Feng
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 [...]
18 Jan

A Linear Algebric Framework for Quantum Internet Dynamic Scheduling

18/01/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Paolo Fittipaldi
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 [...]
11 Jan

Coalitional Manipulation of Voting Rules: Simulations on Empirical Data

11/01/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
François Durand
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, [...]
04 Jan

INFRES seminar on "Kubernetes"

04/01/2023    
1:30 pm-4:45 pm
Rémi Léone
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 [...]

Dec 2022

14 Dec

PA-CODA: Planner-Agnostic Collision Detection and Avoidance for Multi-Robot Navigation

14/12/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Sara Ayoubi
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 [...]
07 Dec

Special RG session: presentation of the TP software radio platform

07/12/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Philippe Martins
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 [...]

Nov 2022

30 Nov

Network Intelligence in the Open RAN: architectures, challenges and open experimental platforms

30/11/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Salvatore D'Oro
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 [...]
16 Nov

Coverage and Stability Analysis of Cellular Network with Temporal Traffic

16/11/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Qiong Liu
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, [...]
09 Nov

Talking to robots and drones: Network requirements for autonomous agents in factories and warehouses of the future

09/11/2022    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Matthew Andrews
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 [...]

Oct 2022

26 Oct

Work Memory Requirements in Error Susceptible Quantum Networks

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 [...]
12 Oct

Extended Reality in 5G NR and Beyond

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 [...]

Sep 2022

28 Sep

PCANT — Programable Capture and Analysis of Network Traffic

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

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 [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]
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 [...]

Apr 2022

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] [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Feb 2022

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 [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]

Dec 2021

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 [...]

Nov 2021

17 Nov

Dynamic Secure-Emulation

17/11/2021    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Pierre Civit
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 [...]

Oct 2021

27 Oct

Joint Channel Coding of Consecutive Messages with Heterogeneous Decoding Deadlines in the Finite Blocklength Regime

27/10/2021    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Homa Nikbakht
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 [...]
21 Oct

"Big Thought Time Talk" by Nokia: “Fast Distributed Optimization with Asynchrony and Time Delays”

21/10/2021    
5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Laurent Massoulié
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

20/10/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Pierre Popineau
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 [...]
13 Oct

Discv5 - service discovery for the Ethereum P2P network

13/10/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Michal Krol
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 [...]
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