Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Maestro members are involved in the Inria Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs joint laboratory and participate in several ADRs (Action de Recherche/Research Action). The joint laboratory consists of three ADRs in its first phase (2008–2012) and six ADRs in its second phase (starting October 2012).

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 Altcatel-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. Three joint Inria Acatel-Lucent patents have been filed already, one in 2009 (inventors for Inria : S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, D. Carra, P. Nain) and two in 2010 (inventors for Inria : S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, A. Blanc).

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

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

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

This ADR is a follow-up of the ADR “Self Optimizing Wireless Networks” from the first phase. Two joint Inria Acatel-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).

Many key features in mobile access networks rely on user velocity information in order to reinforce the perception of performance stability during mobility. Based on the analytical framework elaborated during the first phase that show the need for an efficient method of user speed estimation, the first objective of the research activity (strongly supported by the Wireless Business Unit) is to devise a procedure for user speed estimation or classification.