The IoT – the Internet of Things – is among the focus areas at Ecole Polytechnique, and one where we offer various educational programs, as part of our (traditional, and very French) engineering curriculum, and as a 2 year international,…
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One of our research activites is “quantifying and improving LoRa”, and we’ve published some interesting results in the past on that topic, based on some analytical — and, a lot of experimental — data. We love experimental work, but sometimes…
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My colleagues Jiazi, Juan, and I, just finished the final editorial bits of process on a new paper “Use ’em or Lose ’em: On Unidirectional Links in Reactive Routing Protocols”, published in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks – and with the paper…
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LPWAN – Low-Power Wide Area Networks LPWAN is a family of wireless infrastructure technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT), with the goal of “being to the IoT as WiFi was to home networking” – and specifically designed for deployments…
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Introduction The Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol – Next Generation (LOADng) is a routing protocol, derived from AODV and extended for use in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) and Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The LOADng control messages are carried…
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After 4 long days, the Ecole Polytechnique Executive Education “IoT Level 1” program has come to its end. Covering everything from introductory networking concepts through advanced architectures and a multitude of protocols, the first half of Level-1 of this program was…
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At the time when this posting goes live, I’ll be in the middle of teaching Day-1 of a 4-day marathon in the Ecole Polytechnique Executive Education program in IoT (Internet-of-Things). This program is structured into two “Levels”, which can be followed independently…
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Some time back, I was being recorded for a “talk-show” for ZDnet WebTV – the topic was smart cities, IoT etc. In the same talk show was Olivier Sellès, from Bouygues Immobilier, who is deeply involved in IssyGrid. I did not…
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LoRa (as developed by the LoRa Alliance) is a long-range, low-power, low-bitrate, wireless telecommunications system, promoted as an infrastructure solution for the Internet of Things: end-devices use LoRa across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s), connected to the Internet…
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