Seminars

Seminars and Workshops

Oct 2024

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 [...]
01 Dec

Pushing Programmability to the Edge and beyond: the Evolutions of Mobile Networks Architecture towards Smart Radio Environments

01/12/2023    
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Antonio Capone, Tijani Chahed, Andrea Araldo
This talk precede the talk of Prof. Andrea Araldo "Technical and economic strategies for Multi-Tenant Edge Computing". The evolution of the architecture of Mobile Radio [...]

Nov 2023

29 Nov

Reinforcement Learning and optimization for an energy and resource efficient 5G slicing

29/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Maxime Elkael
This talk, which will be the rehearsal of my thesis, addresses resource allocation problems in 5G networks. Our objective is to leverage network slicing (e.g. [...]
22 Nov

From Data Networks to Intelligent Networks: In-Network Computing's Promise

22/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Masoud Hemmatpour
In-network computing technologies encompass a range of approaches and tools designed to enable computation and data processing within the network infrastructure, such as Network Interface [...]
16 Nov

#SystemX : Attacks & trust in connected networks: secure behavioral models

16/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lyes Khoukhi
A System X seminar. Please find all details and the registration form on the organiser's website : https://www.irt-systemx.fr/evenements/lyes-khoukhi-animera-un-seminarsystemx-le-16-novembre-2023/
08 Nov

Performance Analysis of RIS-assisted MIMO-OFDM Cellular Networks Based on Matern Cluster Processes

08/11/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guodong Sun
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology are a promising physical-layer candidate for sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks. This paper provides a system-level performance assessment of RIS-assisted multi-input [...]

Oct 2023

18 Oct

Modeling of LEO Satellite Constellation and Downlink Analysis Leveraging Cox Point Processes

18/10/2023    
3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Chang-sik Choi
This work develops an analytical framework for downlink low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications, leveraging tools from stochastic geometry. We propose a tractable approach to [...]
18 Oct

Application of Chaos Engineering Techniques to Protect Cloud-based IoT Ecosystems

18/10/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Daniel Díaz-López
System security represents a big challenge for many organizations, and it must be specifically handled when a system is intended to be deployed in a [...]
04 Oct

Toward Quantum Explainable AI: A Quantum Algorithm for Shapley Value Estimation

04/10/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Iain Burge
In the classical context, the cooperative game theory concept of the Shapley value has been adapted for post hoc explanations of Machine Learning models. This [...]

Jul 2023

05 Jul

2023 LINCS Annual Workshop

05/07/2023-06/07/2023    
9:30 am-6:00 pm
LINCS researchers + members of the Scientific Committee
The LINCS organizes its Annual Workshop with the Scientific Committee. **PROGRAM** (<= click) § LINK to the SLIDES FOLDER    A 2-day workshop with: LINCS [...]

Jun 2023

14 Jun

PhD thesis defense of Pierre POPINEAU "Study of the dynamics of spatial point processes in wireless communication networks"

14/06/2023    
2:00 pm-5:30 pm
Pierre Popineau
Thanks to the new paradigms introduced in the latest generation of wireless networks, expectations concerning service time, latency and network performance have increased. To model [...]
07 Jun

2nd PhDs “elevator pitch” training session

07/06/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
PhD students
Bharath Roy Choudhury (Inria) Guillaume Nibert (Sorbonne/Snowpack) Sayeh Khaniha (Inria) Thomas Le Corre (Inria) Claire Bizon-Monroc (Inria) Lucas Weber (Inria)

May 2023

31 May

Séance préparation POSTER

31/05/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Sébastien Tixeuil
24 May

1st PhDs "elevator pitch" training session

24/05/2023    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
PhD students
Emma Caizergues (Dauphine/Nokia) Guodong Sun (Inria/Nokia) Emma Braiteh (Télécom-Paris/SystemX) Shashwat Mishra (Nokia) Mohammad Abdullah (Télécom-SudParis)
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 [...]
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