Computer Networking @Ecole Polytechnique
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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Since the end of the 20th century, wireless networking is experiencing explosive growth, driven by the popularity of wireless telephony on one hand, and by the development of wireless computer networks on the other hand. Both trends are currently merging…
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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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The long-in-the-process RFC 8116 finally hit the repositories last Friday. The abstract of this document goes: This document analyzes common security threats to the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) and describes their potential impacts on Mobile Ad…
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Aggregate Signatures for Mutable Messages Many protocols rely on generation, exchange and processing of mutable messages, i.e., they base their correct functioning on the recipient of a control message “trusting” that the originator of the message, as well as any…
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Light, Efficient Multicast with B.I.E.R. B.I.E.R. (Bit-Indexed Explicit Replication) is a multicast mechanism wherein the source of the multicast data packet (i.e. the ingress router which injects the multicast data packet into a B.I.E.R. domain) explicitly identifies and indicates (by…
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Introduction The Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol – Next Generation (LOADng) is a routing protocol, derived from AODV and extended for use in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) and Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The LOADng control messages are carried…
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There are few things as fun as “breaking stuff”. Of course, not in the “temper-tantrum throwing toys around” way of an over-stimulated 4-years-old with a sugar-high from trick-or-treat Halloween-candy (belated happy Halloween btw., to those on the other side of…
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LoRa (as developed by the LoRa Alliance) is a long-range, low-power, low-bitrate, wireless telecommunications system, promoted as an infrastructure solution for the Internet of Things: end-devices use LoRa across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s), connected to the Internet…
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With the recent publication of RFC7939, I wrote in a previous blog entry that: This is, to some extend, the final piece of the core OLSRv2 (the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2) puzzle – which is also therefore the…
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RFC7939 has just recently been approved: and published. This is, to some extend, the final piece of the core OLSRv2 (the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2) puzzle – which is also therefore the final piece of a 10+ years adventure of…
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