L’Usine Nouvelle nicely summarizes the SOGRID project, in which Ecole Polytechnique has been an enthusiastic partner. In summary, the pilot of the SmartGrid of tomorrow, which the ADEME SOGRID produced, includes 1000 households, 35 km of electricity grid, 300 “grid…
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After two intense days, WSPLC2016 – the 10th workshop on power-line communication – has concluded. Ecole Polytechnique has been proud to be hosting this extremely exciting event, and its ~80 attendees, for these past two days. It is always enriching to be…
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The 10th Workshop on Power-Line communications, at Ecole Polytechnique is off to a flying start this morning. With more than 80 participants, 20 technical presentations of high standards on topics including channel characterization, routing, test and PLC network simulation software,…
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One very, very, very (,very, very, very, …) common type of papers in my scientific domain is “protocol comparisons”. Such papers are very, very, very often of the form: Pick a domain (e.g., sensor networking, MANET, multicast…) and a topic (e.g.,…
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The SOGRID SmartGrid project, in which my research group at Ecole Polytechnique has been a partner, is – after three exciting years of hard, gratifying, and at times frustrating, work (as “working with the real world” sometimes can be) – coming…
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This afternoon, I am thrilled to be having professor Avi Mendelson from Technion Israel Institute of Technology visiting Ecole Polytechnique. I visited Technion in the spring of this year (2016) with a small delegation from Ecole Polytechnique. This was my first…
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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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Just a heads that while WSPLC 2016 Is filling up, there are some spots left and there’s still time to register and join us mid October at Ecole Polytechnique for this exciting two-day event. Don’t wait too long to sign…
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With the recent publication of RFC7939, I wrote in a previous blog entry that: This is, to some extend, the final piece of the core OLSRv2 (the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2) puzzle – which is also therefore the…
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Just a quick reminder that registrations for WSPLC 2016 are open. Join us at Ecole Polytechnique for this exciting two-day event covering PLC from channels to application and with interesting site visits to EDF R&D and ENEDIS.