Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Maestro members are involved in the

• Inria Nokia Bell Labs joint laboratory: the joint laboratory consists of six ADRs (Action de Recherche/Research Action) in its second phase (starting October 2012). Maestro members participate in two ADRs (see §8.1.1 and §8.1.2).

• Inria Alstom joint laboratory: the joint laboratory consists of four projects. Maestro members participate in project P11 (see §8.1.3).

ADR “Self-Organized Networks in Wireless” (July 2008 – September 2016)

Participant : Eitan Altman.

• Contractor: Nokia Bell Labs (http://www.bell-labs.com)

• Collaborator: Laurent Roullet (coordinator).

Coordinator for Inria: Eric Fleury (team Dante ).

ADR “Network Science” (June 2013 – March 2017)

Participants : Konstantin Avrachenkov [coordinator] , Guillaume Huard, Jithin Kazhuthuveettil Sreedharan, Giovanni Neglia.

• Contractor: Nokia Bell Labs (http://www.bell-labs.com)

• Collaborators: Philippe Jacquet (coordinator), Alonso Silva.

“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 are being analyzed in this ADR “Network Science”. In particular, in the framework of this ADR we are interested in efficient network sampling.

Project P11 “Data Communication Network Performance” (December 2013 – May 2016)

Participants : Sara Alouf [coordinator] , Konstantin Avrachenkov, Philippe Nain, Giovanni Neglia, Alina Tuholukova.

• Contractor: Alstom Transport (http://www.alstom.com/transport/)

• Collaborators: Pierre Cotelle, Pascal Derouet (coordinator from November 2015), Pierre Dersin, Sébastien Simoens (coordinator until October 2015).

The objective of this study is to build a simulation platform (see §6.2) and develop an evaluation methodology for predicting Quality of Service and availability of the various applications supported by the data communication system of train networks.

“Hybrid GPS-free Localization Algorithms” (May 2016 – October 2016)

Participants : Giovanni Neglia [coordinator] , Dimitra Politaki.

• Contractor: Lucie Labs (http://www.lucielabs.com/)

• Collaborators: François Mazard.

G. Neglia and D. Tsigkari, together with F. Mazard (Lucie Labs ) did a literature survey of localization algorithms that could be deployed in Lucie Labs entertainment wristbands. They proposed a localization algorithm that combines information from Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity in a centralized way. This activity was partially funded by AMIES (Agence pour les Mathématiques en Interaction avec l’Entreprise et la Société).