Practical Networks

Working Group Practical Networks

Presentation

Topic: Networks in real life.

Audience: The reading group Practical Networks is intended for researchers in mathematics and computer science interested in networks, but anyone can attend online.

Practical details: The sessions are held every third Wednesday from 10:30 am to 11:30 pm (Central European Summer Time), in the premises of the LINCS and online. To receive the invitations, register to the mailing list. Videos, slides and notebooks of previous sessions are on the website.

Coordinator: Francesca Bassi (francesca.bassi@irt-systemx.fr).

Description

In the reading group Practical Networks, members present works from the scientific or technical literature to the other members. Our field of interest covers all practical aspects that can be insightful for researchers dealing with real-life networks (telecommunication networks, social networks, power grids, etc).

Here is a non-exhaustive list of topics: content distribution and services, metrology, wireless networks, internet of things, artificial intelligence.

Past sessions

Contributing

As a speaker:

  • You may present a paper, a set of papers, a book chapter, or prepare a short introduction course to a given topic.
  • You do not need to be a specialist of what you present.
  • Please do not present your own work.

Sessions

04 Apr

Optimisation of energy-aware DNS server allocation by Wang & Rose

04/04/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Capucine Barré
The lecture will focus on the paper written by Zheng Wang and Scott Rose, which deals with the allocation of DNS servers by taking energy [...]
14 Mar

Deployment of an end to end 4G/5G testbed based on a single computer

14/03/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Philippe Martins
This presentation will present the deployment and installation procedure of a 4G/5G testbded on single computer. This testbed is based on SRSRAN open source 4G/5G [...]
21 Feb

FjORD: Fair and Accurate Federated Learning under heterogeneous targets with Ordered Dropout

21/02/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ahmad Nasser
Federated Learning (FL) has been gaining significant traction across different ML tasks, ranging from vision to keyboard predictions. In large-scale deployments, client heterogeneity is a [...]
31 Jan

Enhancing Network Efficiency with eBPF/XDP Technology

31/01/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Weichen Tao
eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) and XDP (eXpress Data Path) have revolutionized the way we interact with the Linux kernel, enabling developers to run custom, [...]
10 Jan

Some network emulation tools

10/01/2025    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Guillaume Nibert
In this talk, we will explore various practical methods to obtain a functional network for running applications based on TCP/UDP/IP. We will delve into the [...]
06 Dec

Heroes: Lightweight Federated Learning with Neural Composition and Adaptive Local Update in Heterogeneous Edge Networks

06/12/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Junepyo JUNG
Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models without exposing their private data. However, it is difficult to implement efficient FL due to [...]
15 Nov

Optimizing Energy Consumption and Performance in Modern Cloud Systems

15/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fadel Chbib
In the modern era of data-driven innovation, the challenge of optimizing energy consumption without sacrificing performance in modern cloud system networks has become increasingly important. [...]
18 Oct

Decentralized Federated Policy Gradient with Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Provably Fast Convergence

18/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Alexandre Pham
In Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL), agents aim to collaboratively learn a common task, while each agent is acting in its local environment without exchanging raw [...]
15 May

Navigating 5G Virtualization: Constructing a Kubernetes Cluster for Seamless Deployments

15/05/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Massinissa Ait-Aba
This presentation navigates the intersection of 5G and virtualization, offering  a comprehensive guide to building a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster and configuring the OAI 5G core [...]
13 Mar

Group Signature in Dynamic Clusters

13/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Farah-Emma Braiteh
This talk presents a group signature scheme specifically designed for a cluster of moving vehicles. The group signature enables vehicles to authenticate themselves within dynamic [...]
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