Academic process
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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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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A Rough Start on 2019 – Peer Reviews and Academic Community Service

One of my students recently asked “what do you guys actually do when you are not teaching classes?”. While answering “research”, and pointing him to the scientific publications on the website of my team was a good answer, it still…
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Brave New Worlds, the Internet of Things — Interview with our own Juan-Antonio Cordero Fuertes from Ecole Polytechnique…

Oh, look, an interview with our own Juan-Antonio Cordero Fuertes, on the IoT, on Security, and on the Digitised Society — well worth a read for an informed perspective on societal impacts of those 21th century technologies: Interview in English…
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Paper: Stateless Load-Aware Load Balancing in P4

Together with my students, Benoit Pit–Claudel (X15) and Yoann Desmouceaux (X11), as well as my colleague Mark Townsley, and my good friend Pierre Pfister (X08), I have committed a paper entitled “Stateless Load-Aware Load Balancing in P4” — part of…
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All inked up, and ready to review first draft of my PhD students’ thesis
First talk after lunch at the IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium was Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes challenging us with “Rebuild but don’t break: the challenge of content centric networking”

First talk after lunch at the IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium was Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes challenging us with “Rebuild but don’t break: the challenge of content centric networking” — touching on the challenge of evolving the core Internet infrastructure, on…
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