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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

ANR BottleNet

Participants : Isabelle Chrisment [contact] , Thibault Cholez, Vassili Rivron.

  • Acronym: BottleNet

  • Title: Comprendre et diagnostiquer les dégradations des communications de bout en bout dans l’Internet

  • Coordinator: Inria

  • Duration: October 2015- March 2018

  • Others Partners: Inria Muse, Inria Diana, Lille1 University, Telecom Sud-Paris, Orange, IP-Label.

  • Abstract: The Quality of Experience (QoE) when accessing the Internet, on which more and more human activities depend on, is a key factor for today’s society. The complexity of Internet services and of users' local connectivity has grown dramatically in the last years with the proliferation of proxies and caches at the core and access technologies at the edge (home wireless and 3G/4G access), making it difficult to diagnose the root causes of performance bottlenecks. The objective of BottleNet is to deliver methods, algorithms, and software systems to measure end-to-end Internet QoE and to diagnose the cause of the experienced issues. The result can then be used by users, network and service operators or regulators to improve the QoE.

ANR Doctor

Participants : Thibault Cholez [contact] , Xavier Marchal, Daishi Kondo, Olivier Festor.

  • Acronym: DOCTOR

  • Title: DeplOyment and seCurisaTion of new functiOnalities in virtualized networking enviRonments

  • Coordinator: Orange Labs (Bertrand Matthieu)

  • Duration: December 2014-December 2018

  • Partners: Orange Labs, Thales, Montimage, UTT and LORIA

  • Site: http://www.doctor-project.org

  • Abstract: The DOCTOR project is an applied research project that advocates the use of virtualized network equipment (Network Functions Virtualization), to enable the co-existence of new Information-Centric Networking stacks (e.g.: Named-Data Networking) with IP, and the progressive migration of traffic from one stack to another while guaranteeing the good security and manageability of the network. Therefore in DOCTOR, the main goals of the project are: (1) the efficient deployment of NDN as a virtualized networking environment; (2) the monitoring and security of this virtualized NDN stack.

ANR FLIRT

Participants : Rémi Badonnel [contact] , Olivier Festor, Thibault Cholez, Jérôme François, Abdelkader Lahmadi, Laurent Andrey.

  • Acronym: FLIRT

  • Title: Formations Libres et Innovantes Réseaux et Télécoms

  • Coordinator: Institut Mines-Télécom (Pierre Rolin)

  • Duration: January 2016-January 2020

  • Others Partners: Institut Mines-Télécom, Airbus, Orange, the MOOC Agency, Isograd

  • Site: http://flirtmooc.wixsite.com/flirt-mooc-telecom

  • Abstract: FLIRT (Formations Libres et Innovantes Réseaux & Télécom) is an applied research project leaded by the Institut Mines-Télécom, for a duration of 4 years. It includes 14 academic partners (engineering schools including Telecom Nancy), industrial partners (Airbus, Orange), innovative startups (the MOOC agency, and Isograd), as well as professional or scientific societies (Syntec Numérique, Unetel, SEE). The project is to build a collection of 10 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in the area of networks and telecommunications, three training programmes based on this collection, as well as several innovations related to pedagogical efficiency (such as virtualization of practical labs, management of student cohorts, and adaptative assessment). The RESIST team is leading a working group dedicated to the building and operation of a MOOC on network and service management. This MOOC covers the fundamental concepts, architectures and protocols of the domain, as well as their evolution in the context of future Internet (e.g. network programming, flow monitoring). It corresponds to a training program of 5 weeks. The main targeted skills are to understand the challenges of network and service management, to know the key methods and techniques related to this area, and to get familiar with the usage and parameterization of network management solutions. We have also performed the maintenance of the different contents of the MOOC, in preparation of the second session, which will start January 2019.

Inria-Orange Joint Lab

Participants : Jérôme François [contact] , Rémi Badonnel, Olivier Festor, Maxime Compastié, Paul Chaignon.

  • Acronym: IOLab

  • Title: Inria - Orange Joint Laboratory

  • Duration: September 2015 - August 2020

  • Abstract: The challenges addressed by the Inria-Orange joint laboratory relate to the virtualization of communication networks, the convergence between cloud computing and communication networks, and the underlying software-defined infrastructures. Our work concerns in particular monitoring methods for software-defined infrastructures, and management strategies for supporting software-defined security in multi-tenant cloud environnements.

Technological Development Action (ADT)

ADT SCUBA

Participants : Abdelkader Lahmadi [Contact] , Thomas Lacour, Frédéric Beck.

  • Acronym: CUBA

  • Duration: January 2018-January 2020

  • Abstract: The goal of this ADT is to develop a tool suite to evaluate the security of industrial and general public IoT devices in their exploitation environment. The Tool suite relies on a set of security probes to collect information through passive and active scanning of a running IoT device in its exploitation environment to build its Security Knowledge Base (SKB). The knowledge base contains all relevant information of the device regarding its network communications, the enumeration of its used hardware and software, the list of its known vulnerabilities in the CVE format associated to their Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) and Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) descriptions. The collected information is used to evaluate the devices associated with their usage scenarios and to identify intrusion chains in an automated way.

FUI

FUI PACLIDO

Participants : Abdelkader Lahmadi [contact] , Mingxiao Ma, Isabelle Chrisment, Jérôme François.

  • Acronym: PACLIDO

  • Title: Lightweight Cryptography Protocols and Algorithms for IoT (Protocoles et Algorithmes Cryptographiques Légers pour l'Internet des Objets)

  • Coordinator: ADS (Airbus Defence and Space)

  • Duration: September 2017- August 2020

  • Others Partners: Sophia Conseil, Université de Limoges, Cea tech, Trusted Objects, Rtone, Saint Quentin En Yvelines.

  • Abstract: The goal of PACLIDO is to propose and develop lightweight cryptography protocols and algorithms to secure IoT communications between devices and servers. The implemented algorithms and protocols will be evaluated in multiple use cases including smart home and smart city applications. PACLIDO develops in addition an advanced security monitoring layer using machine learning methods to detect anomalies and attacks while traffic is encrypted using the proposed algorithms.

FUI HUMA

Participants : Jérôme François [contact] , Soline Blanc, Isabelle Chrisment, Quang Vinh Dang, Abdelkader Lahmadi, Giulia de Santis.

  • Acronym: HuMa

  • Title: L’HUmain au cœur de l’analyse de données MAssives pour la sécurité

  • Coordinator: Intrinsec

  • Duration: September 2015-March 2018

  • Others Partners: ICube, Idemia, Airbus Defence and Space, Wallix, Sydo.

  • Abstract: HuMa targets the analysis of Advanced Persistent Threats. APT are long and complex attacks which thus cannot be captured with standard techniques focused on short time windows and few data sources. Indeed, APTs may be several months long and involve multiple steps with different types of attacks and approaches. The project will address such an issue by leveraging data analytics and visualization techniques to guide human experts, which are the only oned able to analyze APT today, rather than targeting a fully automated approach.

Inria Project Lab

IPL BetterNet

Participants : Isabelle Chrisment [contact] , Thibault Cholez, Vassili Rivron.

  • Acronym: BetterNet

  • Coordinator: RESIST (Isabelle Chrisment)

  • Duration: October 2018-August 2023

  • Others Partners: Inria MiMove, Inria Diana, Inria Spirals, Inria Dionysos, ENS-ERST and IP-Label

  • Site: https://project.inria.fr/betternet

  • Abstract: BetterNet's goal is to build and deliver a scientific and technical collaborative observatory to measure and improve the Internet service access as perceived by users. We will propose new user-centered measurement methods, which will associate social sciences to better understand Internet usage and the quality of services and networks. Tools, models and algorithms will be provided to collect data that will be shared and analyzed to offer valuable service to scientists, stakeholders and the civil society.

IPL Discovery

Participant : Lucas Nussbaum [contact] .

  • Partners: Orange, RENATER

  • Abstract: To accommodate the ever-increasing demand for Utility Computing (UC) resources, while taking into account both energy and economical issues, the current trend consists in building larger and larger Data Centers in a few strategic locations. Although such an approach enables UC providers to cope with the actual demand while continuing to operate UC resources through a centralized software system, it is far from delivering sustainable and efficient UC infrastructures for future needs.

    The DISCOVERY initiative aims at exploring a new way of operating Utility Computing (UC) resources by leveraging any facilities available through the Internet in order to deliver widely distributed platforms that can better match the geographical spread of users as well as the ever increasing demand. Critical to the emergence of such locality-based UC (also referred as Fog/Edge Computing) platforms is the availability of appropriate operating mechanisms. The main objective of DISCOVERY is to design, implement, demonstrate and promote a new kind of Cloud Operating System (OS) that will enable the management of such a large-scale and widely distributed infrastructure in an unified and friendly manner.