Keynote Speaker: Anis Laouiti, Telecom SudParis, IMT, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Keynote Title: Use of blockchain for future 6G 

Abstract: Researchers from academia and industrial sectors have already begun focusing their efforts on developing the overall 6G vision, which includes needs, essential enabling technologies, performance indicators, and applications, even though 5G is still in the early stages of global implementation. It seems that, from their early results, 6G networks will become very open and flexible softawrized  networks that will allow various parties to get invovled at different stages. As a result, 6G networks will unquestionably become more adaptable, quick, independent, intelligent. However, because to its programmability and openness, 6G networks will be more vulnerable to problems with security, privacy. To cope with these issues a deep integration of blockchain technology with 6G networks should emerge. In this talk, and based on few recent publications we first present a rapid overview of the future 6G networks and blockchain technology. Then, we explore different scenarios of the integration of blockchain technology within the 6G networks to show their advantages and the challenges that should overcome while integrating them in 6G.

Biography: Anis Laouiti received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Versailles University, France, in 2002. He had been doing his doctoral and posdoctoral research at the INRIA Rocquencourt. He then joined the Telecom SudParis, France, as an Associate Professor in 2006, and he is currently a Full Professor. His research covers different aspects related to wireless adhoc, wireless mesh, and IoT networks including protocol design, performance evaluation and implementation testbed. His current research interest include several domains like VANETs and UAV communication, networks and secure communication for Industy 4.0/5.0 (Smart Industry, Smart farming, Smart Health, ..), Blockchain. He was involved in the IETF-MANET working group and he is one of the co-authors of the OLSR routing protocol (RFC3626). He was involved in several national and European research projects.

Keynote Speaker: Cedric Adjih, INRIA Paris, France

Keynote Title: From TinyML to Distributed Architectures: The Evolution of Machine Learning in IoT 

Abstract: The integration of Machine Learning (ML) with the Internet of Things (IoT) is forging a new era of smart devices. Central to this transformation is TinyML, which focuses on embedding intelligent algorithms directly within resource-constrained devices. Edge Intelligence (Edge IA) advances this concept, pushing computation closer to data sources for faster and more efficient processing. Our discussion will primarily concentrate on the facets of TinyML and will also touch upon the broader paradigms of split computing, split learning, and federated learning. These advanced methodologies address the challenges of training and inference in decentralized IoT networks, striving to find a balance between on-device computation and collaborative cloud efforts. 

Biography: Cedric Adjih is currently a research scientist in Inria, Saclay, France - in the TRiBE Team. He received his doctoral degree in 2001 from the University of Versailles (France). He graduated from the ECP in 1994. His research interests have focused on all aspects of wireless multi-hop networks (ad-hoc networks, mesh networks, sensor networks): performance evaluation, conception, implementation, and experimentation, with a specific focus on multi-hop routing, and also additional aspects such as quality of service, auto-configuration, security, multicast, broadcast, resilience…. More recently, he has focused on Internet of Things (IoT), and modern methods and architectures of communications, such as network coding, and information centric networking (mostly applied to IoT), 5G-and-beyond communication, Blockchain technology and Machine Learning for IoT. He is one of the co-authors of the OLSR protocol (for ad-hoc networks), of the protocol DRAGONCAST (for network coding) and a contributor to the OPERA/OCARI protocol stack (for wireless sensor networks). 

Keynote Speaker: Saadi Boudjit, Université Paris 13, France

Keynote Title: Vehicular Adhoc Networks: Security and Location Privacy Concerns

Abstract: Location privacy protection in vehicular networks has been a primary priority to ensure because of its direct impact on human physical safety. Leakage and violation of road users’ location privacy may be perilous beyond simple curiosity, as it may scale to cyber-stalking and tracking. This may lead to road users being subjected to mental and physical distress, from blackmailing to targeted advertising, and trap planning. Over the past 15 years, location privacy protection mechanisms for vehicular networks have been actively investigated and pseudonym change strategies have been considered as the most appropriate solution that maintains the trade-off between ease of application, good protection level and the correct functionality of the network. In this talk, I will highlight some existing location privacy preserving solutions in the recent literature and discuss their performance. Then I’ll present a camouflage-based solution we have proposed to prevent the linkability of pseudonyms upon their update even within low-density roads where the tracking chances are high.

Biography:  Saadi Boudjit is Associate Professor (Maître de conferences - HDR) and member of the L2TI laboratory at the university Sorbonne Paris Nord. He is working on wireless ad hoc architectures and was involved in several national and international research projects (International project QNRF NPRP8-140-2-065, Paris region project THD, RIAM project SoundDelta, ANR project R2M, European project IPANEMA, RNRT project PRIMA, ... etc). He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from INRIA and was a research fellow with Telecom ParisTech. Dr. Boudjit is the initiator and Co-chair of ACM MobileHealth workshop, which aims at providing a forum for the interaction of multiple areas related to pervasive wireless healthcare systems. He also acted or still acts as TPC member of several IFIP, ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops (HealthCom, MobileHealth, ICC, Globecom, CAMAD, WCNC, WONS, Wireless Days, ...). His research interests include wireless networks, parallel and distributed computing, protocols and architecture design for mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, and eHealth systems.

Keynote Speaker: Badii Jouaber, Telecom SudParis, IMT, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Keynote Title: Beyond 5G networks: expectations and research directions

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.

Keynote Speaker: Philippe Jacquet, INRIA Paris, France

Keynote Title: The performance paradoxes of wireless networks due to physical constraints 

Abstract: Wireless networks are the most interesting embodiment of telecommunication technologies. Wireless networks are those most influenced by the physics of space and time. The medium of information transport is the electromagnetic field, which interacts strongly with the environment and can undergo rapid variations, given the mobility of users and the variability of their environment. In the wired world of the Internet, a transmission link is stable. It can fail, but this event is so infrequent that the line restoration protocol is cumbersome and cannot be invoked too frequently. In a mobile wireless network, mobile users may not be within range of each other, so connectivity will be ensured by internal routing between mobile users. In this context, the appearance and disappearance of a link is a natural and frequent event, so the network must constantly monitor its topology, and the resulting performance is highly dependent on mobility. We present two theoretical consequences of this situation. The spatial capacity paradox, where it is shown that an increase in user density can increase the network's transport capacity, i.e. the amount of information that can be transported in the network per unit time. This unexpected result, which occurs without modifying the information carrier, seems quite counter-intuitive. Total capacity varies as n^(1-1/D) where n is the total number of users and D the dimension of the integration space (1, 2 or 3). Note that each user's share decreases in n^(-1/D), which means that if the volume of the cake increases, the individual shares decrease. The time capacity paradox shows a similar phenomenon, but linked to time. In simple terms, networks based on internal routing transmit packets as soon as they are received. By introducing time delay, transport capacity is increased, as the geometry of the network can evolve and become more favorable to the transmission of information. Under certain (sometimes unrealistic) conditions of mobility, with infinite tolerance to delays (a packet can take months to be delivered), total capacity can be increased to the order of n, i.e. the individual shares of the cake no longer decrease. 

Biography:   I have been with Inria, Rocquencourt-Paris center until 2011. In 2012 I spent an extended sabbatical with Nokia Bell Labs. In 2019 I am back in Inria as research director in the Saclay-Ile-de-France center, in the research team TRIBE. Meanwhile I have been professeur charge' de cours in Ecole Polytechnique (France) from 2006 to 2016. My current scientific interests are the analysis of algorithms, information theory, wireless telecommunication and artificial intelligence. I was lucky enough to witness the rise of wireless local area networks, with WiFi and HIPERLAN, and the advent of mobile ad hoc networks with OLSR. I am an IEEE Fellow in the Information Theory Society.