ADR “Semantic Networking” (January 2008 – April 2013)

Participants : Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Oussama Habachi, Philippe Nain, Marina Sokol.

Coordinators are Isabelle Guérin Lassous (Inria project-team Reso ) for Inria and Ludovic Noirie for Alcatel-Lucent.

The new paradigm of “semantic networking” for the networks of the future brings together “flow-based networking”, “traffic-awareness” and “self-management” concepts to get “plug-and-play” networks. The natural traffic granularity is the flow. Maestro 's task is to elaborate on the scheduling of flows in routers having in mind the fairness among flows with different round-trip times. A joint Inria Alcatel-Lucent patent has been filed in 2009 (inventors for Inria: S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, D. Carra, P. Nain). Two other patents (inventors for Inria: S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, A. Blanc) were filed in 2010 but withdrawn later by Alcatel-Lucent.

ADR “Self-Organized Networks in Wireless” (October 2012 – )

Participants : Eitan Altman, Majed Haddad, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, Nessrine Trabelsi.

Coordinators are Bruno Gaujal (head of Inria project-team Mescal ) for Inria and Laurent Roullet for Alcatel-Lucent.

This ADR is a follow-up of the ADR “Self Optimizing Wireless Networks” from the first phase. Two joint Inria Alcatel-Lucent patents have been filed during the first phase, one in 2011 (inventors for Inria: E. Altman, S. Ramanath) and one in 2012 (inventors for Inria: E. Altman). Two joint Inria Alcatel-Lucent patents have been filed during the second phase, in 2013 (inventors for Inria: E. Altman, M. Haddad).

Majed Haddad and Eitan Altman have been working with Alcatel-Lucent on mobility issues in cellular networks. Various models have been proposed and developed in close collaboration with the business unit of Alcatel-Lucent.

ADR “Network Science” (January 2013 – January 2016)

Participants : Konstantin Avrachenkov, Jithin Kazhuthuveettil Sreedharan, Philippe Nain, Giovanni Neglia, Marina Sokol.

Coordinators are Philippe Nain and Konstantin Avrachenkov for Inria and Philippe Jacquet for Alcatel-Lucent.

“Network Science” aims at understanding the structural properties and the dynamics of various kind of large scale, possibly dynamic, networks in telecommunication (e.g., the Internet, the web graph, peer-to-peer networks), social science (e.g., community of interest, advertisement, recommendation systems), bibliometrics (e.g., citations, co-authors), biology (e.g., spread of an epidemic, protein-protein interactions), and physics. The complex networks encountered in these areas share common properties such as power law degree distribution, small average distances, community structure, etc. Many general questions/applications (e.g., community detection, epidemic spreading, search, anomaly detection) are common in various disciplines and will be analyzed in this ADR “Network Science”.