Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

We have currently the following partnerships

1. Inria-Nokia Bell Labs common lab (600k€) : we are involved in two research actions (Analytics, and Network Information Theory), with the funding of two PhDs and 1 postdoc (to be hired) for Maracas.

2. SPIE-ICS (1Meuros, 2017-2021) : The Insa-Spie IoT Chair http://www.citi-lab.fr/chairs/iot-chair/ relies on the expertise of the CITI Lab. The skills developed within the different teams of the lab integrate the study, modelling, conception and evaluation of technologies for communicating objects and dedicated network architectures. It deals with network, telecom and software matters as well as societal issues such as privacy. The chair will also lean on the skills developed at INSA Lyon or in IMU LabEx. The SPIE-ICS / Insa Lyon chaire on IoT has been setup in 2017 by JM Gorce for the benefit of the CITIlab. JM Gorce was the head of this chair from 2016 to 2019 and is now vice-head (Frédéric Le Mouel is heading the chair since sept 2019). The remaining budget for Maracas corresponds to one postdoc to be hired nad overhead costs.

3. Sigfox : we are collaborating with Sigfox for several years. Maracas explored the performance of UNB networks with an emphasis on robust signal processing techniques (PhD defended on Dec 2018) and a new contract is in preparation for a PhD grant to be started in September, 2020.

4. Orange Labs : our research contract ended in 2018 and we are preparing a new contract.