Seminars

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  LINCS organizes a rich two-day event with talks by its international Scientific Committee. Monday 21st (Paris time) 15.15 - 16.00 Invited talk by Professor [...]

In this presentation, we consider the problem of cross-chain transactions where parties that do not trust each other safely exchange digital assets across blockchains. Open [...]

Computational neuroscience features a variety of stochastic network models where both the input and the output of each neuron are point processes. In these models, [...]

Seminar by: * Razanne Abu-aisheh (PhD, Inria+NBLF) * Gabriele Castellano (Postdoc, Inria) * Camila Fernandez (PhD, Sorbonne+NBLF)

We consider a network of prosumers trading electricity under (i) a centralized market design, seen as the benchmark, formulated as an optimization problem, and (ii) [...]

The principal tenet of C-RAN is the softwarization of the base-band signal processing, which enables the sharing of compute resources among multiple radio heads. Resource [...]

Seminar by: Stefano Iellamo (Engineer TP) = Wireless Networks Yibo Quan (PhD TP) = Wireless Networks Maxime Raynal (PhD Nokia) = Graphs, machine learning, algorithmics [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Seminar by: - Maxime Mouchet (Postdoc UPMC) = Network Metrology - Matthieu Gouel (PhD UPMC) = Network Metrology - Pierre Civit (PhD UPMC) = Blockchain [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FCLT_MFE.pdf 

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Edge Computing (EC) is a network paradigm in which computational resources, e.g., CPU, memory, are distributed in the access networks, close to the final users. [...]

With the goal of replacing proprietary hardware appliances with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) implemented in software, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has gained popularity in the [...]

The world is suffering from a pandemic called COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. National governments have problems evaluating the reach of the epidemic, due [...]

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a novel trend in IT networks which advocates replacing hardware middleboxes with equivalent pieces of code executed on general-purpose servers. [...]

We study an N-player game where a pure action of each player is to select a non-negative function on a Polish space supporting a finite [...]

Two interns from LINCS will present their works at this LINCS seminar: 1) Pooneh Mokariasl (Nokia Bell Labs / Sorbonne Université): Monitoring as a service [...]

Various classes of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been proposed and shown to be successful in a wide range of applications with graph structured data. [...]

Searching for documents is a task that everyone faces on a regular basis, especially when looking for a relevant Internet page, an e-mail, or a [...]

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly present in our lives. This plethora of devices creates a need to manage them easily, transparently and quickly [...]

Beam management is central in the operation of dense 5G cellular networks. Focusing the energy radiated to mobile terminals (MTs) by increasing the number of [...]

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are popular models for processing sequential data and have found many applications such as speech recognition, time [...]

The increasing number of machines and technologies involved in existing infrastructures and networks hardens their management. Even if many monitoring solutions help to detect a [...]

Deploying cellular networks in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies require coping with rapid channel variations and severe free-space pathloss and atmospheric absorption. In order to make [...]

In this talk, we will present our recent work investigating criteria of performance and success of teams in a scientific context using a quantitative approach. [...]

First I will introduce our model, heterogeneous continuous time random walk (HCTRW) model as a versatile analytical formalism for studying and modeling diffusion processes in [...]

(NSDI preview) Despite the well-known existence of load-balanced forwarding paths in the Internet, current Internet-wide active topology mapping efforts are multipath agnostic – largely because of the probing [...]

Bandwidth Part (BWP) is a feature introduced in 3GPP Release 15 as part of the standard for 5G New Radio (NR). The introduction of BWPs [...]

In the Bitcoin system, mining is the procedure through which miners can gain money on regular basis by finding solutions to a mathematical crypto puzzle [...]

The Laplacian of a graph is a key object in the theory of graphs and can be viewed as the generator of a continuous time [...]

We consider wireless communication networks where service rates of nodes depend the loads of their neighbours. We demonstrate that these rates are utility-maximising in a [...]

In this presentation, we will analyse from the game theoretical point of view Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) blockchains when processes exhibit rational or Byzantine behaviour. [...]

Authors:  Mahdieh Ahmadi, James Roberts, Emilio Leonardi, and Ali Movaghar While the cost of the access network could be considerably reduced by the use of [...]

Business and Mission critical communication (MCC) is a major communication paradigm that is used by public agencies, e.g., during emergency situations, or critical infrastructure companies, [...]