Abstract:  From virtual reality and teleportation, to telepresence, augmented reality, holograms, and remotely‑controlled robotics, these future network applications promise an unprecedented development for society, economics and culture by revolutionizing the way we live, learn, work and play. Unfortunately, today’s Internet falls short when it comes to providing the stringent performance requirements imposed by such applications. In this talk, we start by analyzing the characteristics and requirements of future networking applications and highlight the limitations of the current network architecture and protocols. We then draw a rough sketch of FlexNGIA, a Flexible Next-Generation Internet Architecture that is able to satisfy the requirements of future Internet applications and services. We also introduce the FlexNGIA International Testbed, a new effort by the FlexNGIA community towards building and experimenting with future Internet applications and technologies.

Biography:  Mohamed Faten Zhani is currently Assistant Professor with the department of Networks and Multimedia at the Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et des Techniques de Communication (ISITCom, University of Sousse) in Tunisia and founder of the FlexNGIA international project that focuses on the design of future Internet architectures and protocols. Before that, he was Associate Professor with the department of software and IT engineering at l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montreal) in Canada (2015-2023). His research interests include future Internet architectures and protocols, cloud computing, network function virtualization, software-defined networking and resource management in large-scale distributed systems. Faten received the IEEE/IFIP IM 2017 Young Researchers and Professionals Award as a recognition for outstanding research contribution and leadership in the field of network and service management. He is a senior IEEE member.

Abstract: Beyond 5G, networks are expected to provide substantially higher capacity and lower latency,  and to strongly impact our societies with large improvements in different activity domains including industry, telemedicine, imaging, and location aware applications. Although the standardization process is still in its premises, many white papers, academic and industrial research projects already provided initial guidelines for 6G networks. Through this talk, we summarize and discuss some of the promising technologies and research directions that are currently led by the ICT community.  Among others, we will consider reconfigurable Intelligent surfaces (RIS), NOMA access, embedded AI, opportunistic and intelligent spectrum acces and sharing, cell-less and Open RAN architecture as well as semantic communications.

Biography: Badii Jouaber est depuis 2001 professeur à Telecom SudParis (IMT) et à l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Il est également responsable de l’équipe de recherche NeSS (Network Systems and Services) au sein du laboratoire de recherche SAMOVAR. De 1998 à 2000, il avait travaillé pour Alcatel Research & Innovation (aujourd’hui Nokia Bell Labs) et pour Alcatel Mobile Division (aujourd’hui Nokia) où il a contribué sur des travaux pour  l’optimisation, la gestion des ressources et la QoS dans les réseaux cellulaires. Badii Jouaber est titulaire d’un diplôme d’Ingénieur en Informatique (de l'Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l’Informatique, ENSI, 1993) et du grade de Master en Recherche de l'(Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin,1994). Il a ensuite obtenu le doctorat en informatique (de Sorbonne Université, 1998) puis l’Habilitation à Diriger les Recherche (de l'Université Paris Saclay, 2019). Badii travaille actuellement sur l’optimisation pour les réseaux sans fil et cellulaire de prochaine générations en termes d’architectures, de protocoles et d’intelligence. Il dirige le laboratoire commun (LabCom) AIDY-F2N entre Telecom SudParis et  Davidson Consulting (financé par l’ANR: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France). Il a porte et contribue à plusieurs projets de recherche d’envergure dans le domaine des réseaux sans fil.