Seminars

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, [...]

This presentation will cover different models for the dimensioning of OFDMA air interfaces. In a first part, models that rely on classical stochastic geometry results [...]

In Graph Theory, a reconfiguration problem is as following: given two solutions of a problem and a transition definition, is there a path of acceptable [...]

We are well into the era of multi-core architectures and as the applications demands are still growing, we soon expect to see the first many-cores [...]

Unimodal functions arise whenever the expected value f(x) of the metric to be optimized has a single peak as a function of the available control [...]

Many solutions to fault tolerant distributed system problems, such as state machine replication, safe broadcast or agreement, rely on reliable communication primitives which guarantee the [...]

Solving most inference tasks, such as denoising and linear regression, relies on exploiting the structure of the desired class of signals (e.g. images).  Traditionally, such structures [...]

In visible light communications (VLC), LEDs are used for not only illumination but also communications. LEDs can further be used to support indoor positioning with [...]

Shannon's information theory has served as a bedrock for advances in communication and storage systems over the past five decades. However, this theory does not [...]

The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed and censored high-profile websites [...]

Conventional thinking treats the wireless channel as a given constraint, so wireless networks to date center on the problem optimizing the communication endpoints. We instead [...]

Modern wireless networks should be able to accommodate a high density of users. But serving more users usually generates higher interference which leads to more [...]

This talk describes a new perspective on cloud/fog computing, by distributing computation in order to handle the large volume of data with growing computational demand. [...]

Short-range wireless communication technologies such as Bluetooth or ZigBee represent an important part of the Internet of Things ecosystem.By design, this category of smart devices [...]

This talk is about the characterization of the stability, metastability, and the stationary regime of traffic dynamics in a single-cell uplink wireless system. The traffic [...]

Identifying IoT devices types as they connect to the network enables better devices and services management. However, real-time identification is very challenging in such heterogeneous [...]

Communities play an important role in social networks. However while there exists a large body of work that formally models and studies macroscopic properties of [...]

Wireless body area network has received a lot of attention in the medical monitoring domain because of its wireless convenience. Considering the safety of user, [...]