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PhDecember Part-1: defense on 15/12 by Thomas Feltin
It’s PhDecember, so put on your Santa-hats and end the week with the PhD defense of my soon-to-be-former PhD student Thomas Feltin (X15) this Friday— at Ecole Polytechnique, amphi Gay-Lussac. When and Where: December 15th, 13:00, Amphithéâtre Gay-Lussac, École polytechnique,…
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AIvolution – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Technologies in the EU
Last Thursday, November 16th, we had the conference AIvolution, about AI and digital technologies in the EU, in the Brussels site of the European Parliament (EP). I had the pleasure of organizing and chairing the conference with MEP Eva-Maria Poptcheva…
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Paper: MSWiM’23 – On the Dynamics of Single-Orbit Requester-Provider Systems
Just arrived from Montreal (Canada), where I presented the paper “On the Dynamics of Single-Orbit Requester-Provider Systems“, in the 26th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWiM’2023). MSWiM is a A-ranked, selective (~18%…
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Understanding performance of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
Use of milimeter wave frequency band (mmWave, from 30 to 300 GHz) is one main technological novelties of 5G and 6G mobile data communications. Exploitation of mmWave spectrum enables substantially larger bandwidth and datarates, but such high-frequency bands have a…
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Spring is here — and, so is the PhD-defence of Zhiyuan Yao: May 17, at 10:00 at Ecole Polytechnique
All good things must come to an end … and so, after about 3 years of scientific collaborations, a global pandemic, and 10 or so scientific papers published or in the pipeline, my PhD student Zhiyuan Yao is preparing to…
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Paper: IEEE Access – DNN partitioning for inference throughput acceleration at the edge
Intro I am very excited to present this work, published in the IEEE Access journal, which presents an alternative to standard AI workload acceleration mechanisms at the edge (hardware acceleration, model compression, cloud off-loading). This work, in collaboration with Cisco,…
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Prof. Kevin Jiokeng
Latest Posts Mentioning Kevin Jiokeng Kevin’s Publications
Paper: CIKM’22 – Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Network Load Balancing in Data Center
Intro Glad to announce that, together with my friend at Princeton University, I have pushed a paper on multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms for load balancing problems to CIKM. Extending based on the paper “Reinforced Workload Distribution Fairness” which we have…
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Paper: Aquarius – Enable Fast, Scalable, Data-Driven Service Management in the Cloud
Intro Extending based on the paper Efficient Data-Driven Network Functions which I will physically present in the 30th International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems in Nice, France, we have developed a platform…
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Paper: HLB – Towards Load-Aware Load Balancing
Intro I have been working for a couple of years on the subject of making load balancers in data center networks more “intelligent”–in the sense of making appropriate task allocation according to both the dynamic server load states and the…
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Paper: Learning Distributed and Fair Policies for Network Load Balancing as Markov Potentia Game
Throughout the whole summer vacation, I have been waiting for this moment. Finally! My collaboration with my friend Zihan, who is pursuing his PhD at Princeton University, is acknowledged and accepted in the main conference of the 36th Conference on…
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Paper: MASCOTS 2022 – Efficient Data-Driven Network Functions
Intro Extending based on the paper Towards Intelligent Load Balancing in Data Centers which we have presented last year at the 5th Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS 2021, we have created a framework that allows for developing and…
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Paper: Charon – Load-Aware Load-Balancing in P4
Intro As a PhD student in Cisco, we have the opportunity to take intern students from École Polytechnique for research projects. During the summer in 2021, I took Carmine on board as one of my intern students, and we worked…
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CNSM, IEEE, NetFPGA, PIRL, Zhiyuan Yao
ESORICS 2022 – Continuous Authentication in Secure Messaging
Conferences are in person once again, so I could go to Danemark to present my work on secure messaging schemes at the ESORICS conference. ESORICS has been evaluated as an A-level conference and is seen as a leading European conference…
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Two Papers Accepted — 5th Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS 2021
Intro The 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) — an A* ranking conference on Machine Learning (ML) — took place at ZoomVille in December this year, right before the Xmas holiday. It was a great place to…
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New Academic Year – New Colleague: welcome to prof. Kevin Jiokeng
It’s September … also known as “Academic New Year”: new classes, new students … and, once in a while, also a new colleague. This year, I’m thrilled to welcome dr. Kevin Jiokeng, who will be joining my group as an…
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Alexandre Poirrier
Latest Posts Mentioning Alexandre Alexandre’s Publications
Paper: Chasing Linux Jitter Sources for Uncompressed Video
Beyond the transport of uncompressed video over IP networks, defined in standards such as ST2022-6, the ability to build software-based Video Processing Functions (VPF) on commodity hardware and using general purpose Operating Systems is the next logical step in the…
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Brave New Worlds, the Internet of Things — Interview with our own Juan-Antonio Cordero Fuertes from Ecole Polytechnique…
Oh, look, an interview with our own Juan-Antonio Cordero Fuertes, on the IoT, on Security, and on the Digitised Society — well worth a read for an informed perspective on societal impacts of those 21th century technologies: Interview in English…
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All inked up, and ready to review first draft of my PhD students’ thesis
Three different shades of red, so ready for three different levels of frustration 😀 No, but seriously, all-inclusive, I am looking forward to reading these 213 pages of densely packed science.
First talk after lunch at the IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium was Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes challenging us with “Rebuild but don’t break: the challenge of content centric networking”
First talk after lunch at the IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium was Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes challenging us with “Rebuild but don’t break: the challenge of content centric networking” — touching on the challenge of evolving the core Internet infrastructure, on…
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Last before lunch: Yoann Desmouceaux talking “Cloud Native Datacenters” at our IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium at Ecole Polytechnique
Reviewing state-of-the-art, and introducing our students to some of his own work on application-agnostic, stateless, load-aware load balancing using IPv6 Segment Routing.
Next up at the IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium: Jiazi Yi discussing “The World’s Biggest IoT System” — the SmartGrid
A trip down memory lane of “the grid in France today” — and an overview of the technologies currently being deployed (including Linky)
Paper: Investigating data broadcast performance in mobile ad-hoc networks
We investigate broadcasting in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). We define broadcasting as being the process of delivering one packet, originated at one node, to (ideally) all other nodes in the MANET. We present specific problems related to broadcasting in MANETs,…
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Paper: Combining Temporal and Spartial Partial Topolgy for MANET Routing – Merging OLSR and FSR
In this paper, we propose an extension to the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol, a proactive link-state routing protocol optimized for mobile ad-hoc networks, in-troducing temporal partial topology as a mechanism for re-ducing control traffic overhead. The extension is…
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Paper: Evaluation of routing protocol for low power and Lossy Networks: LOADng and RPL
Routing protocol is a critical component of Low-power and Lossy Networks for Smart Grid. The protocols are used for data forwarding, which includes data acquisition, information dissemination, etc. This paper evaluates two main routing protocols used for Low-power and Lossy…
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If only Slashdot used 6LB …
During my lunch break today, I tried to glean what “news for nerds – stuff that matters” had happened lately — but, when trying to access slashdot.org, I was met with this: While I, admittedly, do not know what infrastructure…
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Three reasons to go to Hawaii in April: It’s Hawaii, INFOCOM2018 is there, and Marceau and colleagues will present an exciting paper…
Marceau Coupechoux, professor at Telecom-ParisTech, and adjunct professor at Ecole Polytechnique – and, thus, in addition to being a good friend, also a good colleague – has conspired with two of his collaborators (A. S. Bedi, K. Rajawat) from IIT…
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Teaser: dr. Jiazi Yi presenting NSx & LoRA – looking promising.
One of our research activites is “quantifying and improving LoRa”, and we’ve published some interesting results in the past on that topic, based on some analytical — and, a lot of experimental — data. We love experimental work, but sometimes…
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Colleagues, IoT, Jiazi Yi, LoRa, networking, Ns3, Research, Simulation
Use ’em or Lose ’em: On Unidirectional Links in Reactive Routing Protocols
My colleagues Jiazi, Juan, and I, just finished the final editorial bits of process on a new paper “Use ’em or Lose ’em: On Unidirectional Links in Reactive Routing Protocols”, published in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks – and with the paper…
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6LB: Scalable and Application-Aware Load Balancing with Segment Routing In IEEE Transactions on Networking
Saturday morning, after a long (and, very constructive) process, came the long-awaited email from the IEEE: our paper “6LB: Scalable and Application-Aware Load Balancing with Segment Routing” was definitely accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Networking. The paper is…
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This week under the snow: interviews with prospective graduate degree students
With heaps of snow outside the windows, I and my colleagues are spending our days going through heaps of applications for the Ecole Polytechnique Graduate Degree program “IoT: Innovation and Management”. This week: interviews with prospective students. A competent engineer…
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Open seminar by Leo Liberti on “Distance Geometry in Data Science”
I just got word that my good friend, on-again-off-again-on-again colleague, and habitual co-conspirator, Leo Liberti, is giving an open seminar on “Distance Geometry in Data Science”, on January the 18, from 14h to 15h30 at SystemX (here’re access directions) at Palaiseau…
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Yay! Bibliometrics – a 20 citations-in-8-months paper
I have previously written about how while bibliometrics may pretend to be “quantifying impact” of a scientist, they really do not. That said, it made me smile the other morning when I got a Google Scholar alert that our paper…
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I guess my students are right….I’m old….
The mail-man came, today, with a plaque from the IEEE making official that I now am a senior citizen member… I guess there’s now no more denying what my students, and former students (I am looking at especially you, Ulrich Herberg!)…
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Paper on-line “SRLB: The Power of Choices in Load Balancing with Segment Routing”
In waiting for the final version to appear at IEEExplorer, and on (surprisingly) popular demand, a preprint of the paper “SRLP: The Power of Choices in Load Balancing with Segment Routing”, which Yoann presented at ICDCS’37 earlier this week, is on-line for your…
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Thus went 2016 – looking back
Back in late October, Mark Townsley and I had a conversation which went something like this: Mark: “I can’t believe it’s only November, given how much has already happened since the summer vacation…” Me: “And I can’t believe its already…
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Making New Friends at Tokyo University (TODAI)
Yesterday my colleague Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes, and I, were visiting the computer science department of Tokyo University. And, got a chance to visit their beautiful, urban, campus in all its fall splendor. And, tomorrow, I will be back (this time…
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Seminar at Ecole Polytechnique by Thibaut Lajoie-Mazenc on “Bitcoin and the Blockchain”
This afternoon a former student, Thibaut Lajoie-Mazenc (X12), came back to Ecole Polytechnique – in part, to simply catch up with old acquaintances – but, also, to present his work on in-depth analysing, and offering an extremely detailed tutorial on, Bitcoin and…
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Welcome to Polytechnique, Juan-Antonio!
Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes is joining Ecole Polytechnique as a research assistant professor today, on September 1, 2016 – and is, as such, joining my research group. Or, more accurately, is “re-joining” my research group: years ago he did his…
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Roundtable 26/02/2016 at “Forum Anzisha” at Ecole Polytechnique: “L’Afrique, le nouvel Eldorado du numérique”
Binet X-Afrique organises Forum Anzisha at Ecole Polytechnique – an Expo-Forum on Entrepreneurship in Africa. Exhibitions, and round-tables, one aptly named “L’Afrique, le nouvel Eldorado du numérique”: Sébastien Crozier, CEO Orange Horizons Thomas Clausen, Porteur de la Chaire « Internet of everything» de l’École polytechnique…
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