2026-2028
Cybersecurity of Networks and Networked Systems
Cybersecurity of Networks and Networked Systems Overview During its first decade, the LINCS did not consider cybersecurity as a structuring research theme. The prevailing assump1on was that the security of networks could be addressed in parallel with their design and optimization, without requiring a transversal framework. This separation reflected the...
Foundations and New Paradigms of Communications
Foundations and New Paradigms of Communications Overview LINCS has always been and continues to be active in several foundations of the domain of networks. The main activities in this direction are stochastic networks, information theory and coding, stochastic geometry, and distributed control and scheduling.
Network–Cloud–AI Convergence and Edge Computing
Network–Cloud–AI Convergence and Edge Computing Overview In order to avoid ambigui1es, we first introduce several working definitions related to cloud infrastructures. These defini1ons are not intended to be universal but rather correspond to the terminology adopted in this document. Cloud: Any system in which the services or applica1ons are decoupled...
Non-Terrestrial Networks
Non-Terrestrial Networks Overview Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) based on constellations of satellites with low or medium orbits are developing very fast all over the world. NTNs already constitute one of the most creative domains of communication networks research and engineering worldwide, in a broad set of domains including data communications through...
Quantum 2.0
Quantum 2.0 Overview The current research activities on Quantum 2.0 at LINCS are still on going. But there are additional research topics that are interesting to look at : Quantum information theory: The quantum version of information theory is already well established (quantum channels, quantum noise modeling, etc.), but there...
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Overview The LINCS is strongly involved in research related to AI, from the most theoretical aspects (learning theory, sample complexity, information-theoretic bounds) to the development of open-source software (see the Python package scikit-network for graph analysis) and the application to real use cases (cyber-security, anomaly detection, automatic classification...
Content Distribution and Services
Content Distribution and Services Overview Internet content distribution has, over the recent years, undergone profound and radical changes. Aside the traditional client-server mode of diffusion, lacking a wide support for IP multicast that is made complex by group management issues, new paradigms such as Content diffusion networks (CDN) or Peer-to-peer...
Internet of Things
Internet of Things Overview Several teams are conducting research on the topic of Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, WSAN at LINCS. The team from UPMC is currently looking at fault and attack tolerance in self-organized distributed systems and networks, i.e. systems that must operate without human intervention. They are particularly...
Metrology
Metrology Overview More details will be added soon, please come back on this website or contact the LINCS staff for more information.
Network Theory
Network theory Communication networks have always been a remarkable source of inspiration for mathematicians and computer scientists. The works of Erlang on telephone networks gave birth to queuing theory, for instance, while those of Shannon on the first digital communications are considered as the starting point of information theory. Conversely,...
Wireless Networks
Wireless Networks Overview This domain of research is expanding very fast. Members of LINCS played a pioneering role in developing spatial stochastic models of wireless networks. The approach consists in casting information-theoretic principles of communications into a random geometric context in order to obtain adequate stochastic-geometric or graph-theoretic models of...