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ANR BottleNet
Participants : Isabelle Chrisment [contact] , Antoine Chemardin, Thibault Cholez.
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Title: Understanding and Diagnosing End-to-End Communication Bottlenecks of the Internet
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Others Partners: Inria Muse, Inria Diana, Lille1 University, Telecom Sud-Paris, Orange, IP-Label.
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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 FLIRT
Participants : Rémi Badonnel [contact] , Olivier Festor, Thibault Cholez, Jérôme François, Abdelkader Lahmadi, Laurent Andrey.
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Others Partners: TELECOM Nancy, Institut Mines-Télécom, Airbus, Orange, the MOOC Agency, Isograd
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Abstract: FLIRT (Formations Libres et Innovantes Réseaux & Télécom) is an applied research project leaded by the Institut Mines-Télécom, for an (extended) duration of 5 years. It includes 14 academic partners (engineering schools including Telecom Nancy), industrial partners (Airbus, Orange) and innovative startups (the MOOC agency, and Isograd). 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.
ANR MOSAICO
Participants : Thibault Cholez [contact] , Olivier Festor.
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Title: Multi-layer Orchestration for Secured and low lAtency applICatiOns
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For several years, programmability has become increasingly important in network architectures. The last trend is to finely split services into micro-services. The expected benefits relies on an easier development and maintenance, better quality, scalability and responsiveness to new scenarios than monolithic approaches, while offering more possibilities for operators and management facilities through orchestration. As a consequence, it appears that network functions, such as routing, filtering, etc. can be split in several micro-services, implemented through different means, according to the software environments, and at different topological locations, thus opening the way to fully end-to-end programmable networks. This need for multi-level and multi-technology orchestration is even more important with the emergence of new services, such as immersive services, which exhibit very strong quality of service constraints (i.e. latency cannot exceed a few milliseconds), while preserving end-to-end security. The MOSAICO project proposes to design, implement and validate a global and multi-layer orchestration solution, able to control several underlying network programmability technologies (SDN, NFV, P4) to compose micro-services forming the overall network service. To reach this objective, the project will follow an experimental research methodology in several steps including the definition of the micro-services and of the global architecture, some synthetic benchmarking, the design of orchestration rules and the evaluation against the project use-case of a low latency network application.
The kick-off meeting of MOSAICO took place the 03/12/2019 in Orange Gardens. Our current work consists in surveying the latest technologies around NFV and Open Networking.
Inria joint Labs
Inria-Orange Joint Lab
Participants : Jérôme François [contact] , Olivier Festor, Matthews Jose, Paul Chaignon.
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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] , Jérôme François, Thomas Lacour, Frédéric Beck.
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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.
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Title: Lightweight Cryptography Protocols and Algorithms for IoT (Protocoles et Algorithmes Cryptographiques Légers pour l'Internet des Objets)
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Others Partners: Sophia Conseil, Université de Limoges, Cea tech, Trusted Objects, Rtone, Saint Quentin En Yvelines.
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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.
Inria Project Lab
IPL BetterNet
Participants : Isabelle Chrisment [contact] , Antoine Chemardin, Frederic Beck, Thibault Cholez.
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Others Partners: Inria MiMove, Inria Diana, Inria Spirals, Inria Dionysos, ENS-ERST and IP-Label
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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] .
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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.