Seminars

Seminars and Workshops

Apr 2014

02 Apr

Gold mining in a River of Internet Content Traffic

02/04/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guiseppe Scavo
With the advent of Over-The-Top content providers(OTTs), Internet Service Providers (ISPs) saw their portfolio of services shrink to the low margin role of data transporters. [...]
02 Apr

Characterizing bufferbloat from end-hosts

02/04/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Stephane Wustner
While, on routers and gateways, buffers on forwarding devices are required to handle bursty Internet traffic, overly large or badly sized buffers can interact with [...]

Mar 2014

26 Mar

Making mobile access networks green: from research to standardization

26/03/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Salaheddine Elayoubi
Energy efficiency in mobile networks is gaining in importance from both environmental and business points of view. In particular, site sleep mode techniques are being [...]
20 Mar

Opportunistic Channel Selection by Cognitive Radios Under Imperfect Observations and Limited Memory: A Repeated Game Model

20/03/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Zaheer Khan
To help mitigate the critical stress on spectrum resources spurred by the more powerful and the more capable smart devices, a recent presidential advisory committee [...]
19 Mar

Quantun Information

19/03/2014    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Adel Sohbi
Information is something encoded in physical systems's properties. Hence the study of information and computation is linked to the underlying physical processes. Quantum Information is [...]
12 Mar

Network Fingerprinting: TTL-Based Router Signatures

12/03/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Yves Vanaubel
Fingerprinting networking equipment has many potential applications and benefits in network management and security. More generally, it is useful for the understanding of network structures [...]
05 Mar

On the resiliency of the French Internet

05/03/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Remi Varloot
This presentation focuses on the resiliency of the French Internet, studied from thepoint of view of network interconnectivity. We define a model for representing theBGP-level [...]

Feb 2014

26 Feb

Impact of the electronic architecture of optical slot switching nodes on latency in ring networks

26/02/2014    
2:30 pm-3:00 pm
Nihel Djoher Benzaoui
An optical slot switching node network called POADM (packet optical add-drop multiplexers) has formerly been proposed as a flexible solution for metropolitan ring networks to [...]
26 Feb

Energy-Aware Computing with Application Processors

26/02/2014    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Karel De Vogeleer
Energy aware computing is as ubiquitous as ubiquitous computing itself. The user experience and up-time of hand-held devices are affected directly by the squander of [...]
20 Feb

On Recovering Causality Information from Time Series Data

20/02/2014    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Prof. Ravi Mazumdar
Suppose we have N time series available where one time-series could be causally dependent on others. For example, such dependence can be found in economic [...]
19 Feb

Optimal cache allocation for content-centric networking

19/02/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Steve Uhligh
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is a promis-ing framework for evolving the current network architecture,advocating ubiquitous in-network caching to enhance contentdelivery. Consequently, in CCN, each router has [...]
05 Feb

Be fair to flows: a fair network is attractive and trustworthy and far more than just adequate

05/02/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
James Roberts
The subject of active queue management is again highly topical with the recent creation of a new IETF working group. Regained interest has arisen notably [...]

Jan 2014

29 Jan

Protecting Privacy While Providing Utility in Published Network Mobility Traces Using Differential Privacy

29/01/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jim Kurose
Those who design, develop and deploy computer and networked systems, have a vital interest in how these systems perform in "real-world" scenarios. But real-world conditions [...]
22 Jan

COBRA: Lean Intra-domain Routing in NDN

22/01/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Michele Tortelli
Named Data Networking (NDN) is an emerging In-formation Centric Networking architecture based on hierarchicalcontent names, in-network caching mechanisms, receiver-driven operations, and content-level security schema. NDN [...]
15 Jan

Community detection in stochastic block models via spectral methods

15/01/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Laurent Massoulié
Community detection consists in identification of groups of similar items within a population. In the context of online social networks, it isa useful primitive for [...]
08 Jan

Presentation du PPP 5G

08/01/2014    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Brigitte CARDINAEL
Brigitte CARDINAEL Head of Cooperative Research France Telecom Orange Brigitte Cardinael graduated from INT in 1987. She joined Matra Communication in 1987,where she was involved [...]

Dec 2013

11 Dec

Combating Internet Attacks Via Infiltration

11/12/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Vern Paxson
Far and away the most energetic driver of modern Internet attacks is the ability of attackers to financially profit from their assaults. Many of these [...]
10 Dec

Convergence Speed of Asymptotic Consensus Algorithms

10/12/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Thomas Nowak (DYOGENE)
Asymptotic consensus is a phenomenon observed in bird flocking, firefly synchronization, opinion spreading, or synchronization of coupled oscillators. Algorithms that achieve asymptotic consensus are used [...]
04 Dec

Understanding the Dynamic Behaviour of the Google Congestion

04/12/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Luca De Cicco
This is a joint with G. Carlucci and S. Mascolo, and will be presented at Packet Video Workshop, San Jose, CA, USA, December 2013. Real-time [...]

Nov 2013

27 Nov

Adaptive Internet Governance: Innovation in the Ecosystem

27/11/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Nanette S. Levinson
Abstract: The years following the United Nation's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) have seen much technological change related to the Internet as well [...]
27 Nov

Providing Incentives for Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks

27/11/2013    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Prof. I-Hong Hou
Wireless Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems allow mobile users to obtain data from nearby peers instead of the far away base station. It has the benefits of [...]
26 Nov

Feature Selection for Neuro-Dynamic Programming

26/11/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Sean Meyn
Neuro-Dynamic Programming encompasses techniques from both reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming. Feature selection refers to the choice of basis that defines the function class that is required [...]
13 Nov

Reliable and Scalable Account Correlation Across Large Social Networks

13/11/2013    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Oana Goga
There is lot of interest and concern, both in research and industry, about the potential for correlating user accounts across multiple online social networking sites. [...]
06 Nov

Détecteurs de défaillances

06/11/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Hugues Fauconnier et Carole Delporte
Les détecteurs de défaillances ont été introduit par Chandra et Toueg en 1996 et ont été l'objet d'une recherche active depuis cette date. On présentera [...]

Oct 2013

23 Oct

Adaptive traffic light control using a wireless sensor network

23/10/2013    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Sebastien Faye
We consider the problem of controlling traffic lights in an urban environment composed of multiple adjacent intersections by using an intelligent transportation system to reduce [...]
15 Oct

Randomized Load Balancing in Large Processor Sharing Systems

15/10/2013    
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Ravi R. Mazumdar
Processor sharing models occur in a wide variety of situations. They are good models forbandwidth sharing as well as being solutions to NUM for logarithmic [...]
09 Oct

Locator/ID split: Analysis of the caching system

09/10/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jordi Domingo-Pascual
Abstract: Locator/Identifier splitting is a paradigm proposed to helpInternet scalability. At the same time, the separation of the locatorand the identifier name spaces allows for [...]

Sep 2013

18 Sep

Violation of interdomain routing assumptions

18/09/2013    
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Riad Mazloum
We challenge a set of common assumptions that are frequently used tomodel interdomain routing in the Internet. We draw assumptions from thescientific literature and confront [...]
18 Sep

Tolerating Byzantine failures in sparse networks

18/09/2013    
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Alexandre Maurer
As network grow larger and larger, they become more likely to fail locally. Indeed, the nodes may be subject to attacks, failures, memory corruption... In [...]
04 Sep

Locator/ID split: Analysis of the caching system

04/09/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jordi Domingo-Pascual
Locator/Identifier splitting is a paradigm proposed to help Internet scalability. At the same time, the separation of the locator and the identifier name spaces allows [...]

Aug 2013

28 Aug

Peeking Behind the NAT: An Empirical Study of Home Networks

28/08/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Sarthak Grover
We present the first empirical study of home network availability, infrastructure, and usage, using data collected from home networks around the world. In each home, we de- ploy a [...]

Jul 2013

17 Jul

POMDP Approach for Pilot Allocation and Receive Antenna Selection

17/07/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marceau Coupechoux
This talk considers antenna selection (AS) at a receiver equipped with multiple antenna elements but only a single radio frequency chain for packet reception. As information about [...]
10 Jul

Toward an Enhanced Internet Architecture: the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP)

10/07/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Luigi Iannone
The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), proposed by Ciscoand currently under standardization at the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), is an instantiation of the paradigm separating [...]
04 Jul

Point-Map Palm Measures

04/07/2013    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Mir-Omid Haji-Mirsadeghi
In this talk, we speak about a framework for studying point-map invariant measures. A compatible point-map on the set of counting measures is a mapping [...]
03 Jul

Optimizing QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Caching Platform

03/07/2013    
2:30 pm-3:00 pm
Rémy Leone
This paper addresses monitoring and surveillance applications using Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN). In this context, several remote clients are interested in receiving the information collected by the nodes in a WSN. As [...]
03 Jul

Efficient IP-level network topology capture

03/07/2013    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Thomas Bourgeau
Large-scale distributed traceroute-based measurement systems are used to obtain the topology of the Internet at the IP-level and can be used to monitor and understand the behaviour of [...]

Jun 2013

19 Jun

Nash equilibrium structure of a class of blocking games arising in network security

19/06/2013    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Venkat Anantharam
We study a game-theoretic model for security/availability in a networking context. To perform some desired task, a defender needs to choose a subset from a set of resources. To [...]
13 Jun
12 Jun

Integer programming models for transmission scheduling in wireless networks

12/06/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Michal Pioro
In the presentation, we will discuss exact integer programming models for transmission scheduling in wireless networks based on the notion of compatible set. A compatible set is defined as [...]
04 Jun

From Gossip to Distributed Optimization (and back again)

04/06/2013    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Jérémie Jakubowicz
Consensus in a network is a fundamental, thoroughly, studied problem. It is well known that the main obstacles to it are unreliability and asynchronism as [...]

May 2013

22 May

SMOOTH: A Simple and Realistic Way to Model Human Mobility

22/05/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tracy Camp
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community; however, while the use of simulation has [...]
14 May

Design of a Survivable VPN Topology over a Service Provider Network

14/05/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Brigitte Jaumard
Survivability in IP-over-WDM networks has already been extensively discussed in a series of studies. Up to date,most of the studies assume single-hop working routing of [...]
03 May

CLIPS: Infrastructure-free Collaborative Indoor Positioning Scheme

03/05/2013    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Uichin Lee
Indoor localization has attracted much attentionrecently due to its potential for realizing indoor location-awareapplication services. This talk considers a time-criticalscenario with a team of soldiers or first responders conductingemergency mission operations in a [...]

Apr 2013

30 Apr

Control of the grid in 2020, and how economics can help us

30/04/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Sean Meyn
In this talk we survey control issues in the grid, and how the introduction of renewables brings new and interesting control problems. We also explain the need for economic theory [...]
24 Apr

Real-time Monitoring of Physical Phenomena and their Dynamics with Quality Guarantees via Wireless Sensor Networks

24/04/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Daniela Tulone
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are a powerful type of instrument with thepotential of remotely observing the physical world at high resolution and scale.However, to be [...]
23 Apr

A Benes Packet Network

23/04/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Longbo Huang
Benes networks are constructed with simple switch modules and have many advantages, including small latency and requiring only an almost linear number of switch modules. As circuit-switches, Benes networks [...]
17 Apr

Controlling Electric Loads to Manage Energy Imbalances in Power

17/04/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Johanna Mathieu
Increasing the share of energy produced by wind turbines, solar photovoltaics, and solar thermal power plants helps society address many key energy challenges including climate [...]
15 Apr

NDN Reaching 3: Results and Challenges -- A Personal Perspective

15/04/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lixia Zhang
In this talk I plan to do a quick walk-through for part of the works we have done over the last 2.5 years. More specifically I will discuss what [...]
10 Apr

Robust Mobile Wireless Networking

10/04/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Izhak Rubin
Cellular wireless networks are expanded to support ultra high speed multimedia applications and incorporate the use of next generation energy efficient micro base stations in supporting much higher density of mobile [...]

Mar 2013

29 Mar

Optimization of Decentralized Partially Observable Systems in Cognitive Radio Networks

29/03/2013    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Yezekael Hayel
We consider a non-cooperative Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) game where Secondary Users (SUs) access opportunistically the spectrum licensed for Primary Users (PUs). As SUs spend [...]
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