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Spring is here — and, so is the PhD-defence of Zhiyuan Yao: May 17, at 10:00 at Ecole Polytechnique

All good things must come to an end … and so, after about 3 years of scientific collaborations, a global pandemic, and 10 or so scientific papers published or in the pipeline, my PhD student Zhiyuan Yao is preparing to…
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New Academic Year – New Colleague: welcome to prof. Kevin Jiokeng

It’s September … also known as “Academic New Year”: new classes, new students … and, once in a while, also a new colleague. This year, I’m thrilled to welcome dr. Kevin Jiokeng, who will be joining my group as an…
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Office Hours
In order to remain available for students, regardless of the current CoVid-19 situation at Ecole Polytechnique, I will be maintaining regular, virtual, office hours, by way of WebEx. I will try to make myself available, on weekdays at the following…
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RFC7182: Integrity Check Value and Timestamp TLV Definitions for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)

This document revises, extends, and replaces RFC 6622. It describes general and flexible TLVs for representing cryptographic Integrity Check Values (ICVs) and timestamps, using the generalized Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) packet/message format defined in RFC 5444. It defines two…
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Well, isn’t this a pleasant way of ending the week….

Just got news today, that our paper “Reliable BIER with Peer Caching” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management — available in IEEE eXplorer Early Access, — but, as the IEEE also encourages hosting…
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Security is a journey — Seminar by Jean-Charles Griviaud from Cisco at Ecole Polytechnique

This morning, Jean-Charles from Cisco France stopped by Ecole Polytechnique, to give a master-class on Cybersecurity for our 2nd year students. It’s always entertaining when Jean-Charles is lecturing — as well as frightening, when in 2019 we’re reminded of both…
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“Interference Pattens, the Key to Quantum Computing” – talk by Prof. Rodney Van Meter

During a quick visit in France, prof Rodney Van Meter from KEIO University, found time to come to Ecole Polytechnique to give a quantum computing tutorial, to present some of his latest research within that field — and to help…
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Paper: Chasing Linux Jitter Sources for Uncompressed Video

Beyond the transport of uncompressed video over IP networks, defined in standards such as ST2022-6, the ability to build software-based Video Processing Functions (VPF) on commodity hardware and using general purpose Operating Systems is the next logical step in the…
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