Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Startup Falco wins the Innovation Competition at the Paris Nautic Show (200.000 visitors), December 2019

• Startup Falco wins the Favorite Startup Pitch battle at MassChallenge, Boston, November 2019

• Startup Falco wins the Amplify Pitch battle, October 2019

• Startup Falco awardee of the prestigous Netva “Deeptech North America” program, June 2019

• Startup Falco awardee of the prestigous WILCO/WILCOMET accelerator program

• Amar Abane and Paul Muhlethaler receive the best student paper award at PEMWN 2019 for the paper “Modeling and Improving Named Data Networking over IEEE 802.15.4”

• Abdallah Sobehy, under the supervision of Paul Muhlethaler and Eric Renault from EVA, secured the first place in the Indoors Positioning Competition held during the IEEE’s Communication Theory Workshop 2019, Selfoss, Iceland. The objective was to localize a transmitter using Channel State Information (CSI) received at a Massive MIMO antenna which is one of the main drivers of the 5G. The contesters were provided with training data to develop algorithms that predict the transmitter’s position from CSI. On the competition day, the teams were given 2000 CSI readings to predict the corresponding positions using the developed algorithms. The evaluation criterion is the Mean Square Error (MSE) of the predicted positions. The proposed method relies on CSI preprocessing and Deep Learning (Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network). With an MSE of 2.3 cm, the proposed solution clinched the first place among 8 teams from top universities around the world such as: University of Toronto (Canada), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). Heriot-Watt University (England), University of Padova (Italy), IMdea networks institute (Spain), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Yuan Ze University (Taiwan).

• Abdellah Sobehy receives the “Le premier prix du jury” during the fifth edition of` “la journée doctorants de Samovar”

Transfer

• Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) approval of draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-security to be published as RFC

• Malisa Vucinic named co-chair of the IETF LAKE standardization working group

• Thomas Watteyne co-chairs IETF working group 6TiSCH

• Thomas Watteyne co-chairs IETF design team of fragment forwarding

• Thomas Watteyne part of the IETF IoT directorate

• Startup Falco had a booth at the Paris Nautic Show (Dec 2019, 200.000 visitors)

• Startup Falco had a booth at the Cap d'Agde Nautic Show (Oct-Nov 2019, 50.000 visitors)

• Startup Falco selected to join the Parisian Incubator Agoranov, April 2019