Research

Awards and honors

Teachers-researchers of Telecom SudParis are regularly distinguished for the value of their work and the national and international influence of their activities.

November 2011  

Senior Member SEE

Tulin Atmaca was admitted as Senior Member SEE.

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award of ICTSS'11, the "23rd IFIP Int. Conference on Testing Software and Systems", was given to:

• Ana Cavalli (LOR department)
• Amel Mammar (LOR department)

The Paper was about "Using testing techniques for vulnerability detection in C programs".

They share the award with Willy Jimenez, Wissam Mallouli and Edgardo Montes de Oca.

Abstract of the Paper : "Dynamic code analysis attempts to find errors or vulnerabilities while a program is executing on a real or virtual processor. The objective of dynamic analysis is to reduce debugging time by automatically pinpointing and informing on errors as they occur. The use of dynamic analysis tools can reduce the need for the developer to recreate the precise conditions under which an error, a vulnerability or a security flow occurs. This paper presents a formal approach to detect software vulnerabilities in C programs relying on formalmodels of vulnerabilities causes called "Vulnerability Detection Conditions" (VDCs). These models provide a formal interpretation of a vulnerability to facilitate its automatic detection using dynamic code analysis tool. To illustrate our approach, a prototype tool TestInv-Code has been developed. It allows to detect the presence of vulnerabilities by checking the VDCs on the execution trace of the studied C program. By traces we mean here the disassembled instructions that are being executed. The tool has been applied on an open source application XINE that contains a known vulnerability to demonstrate its effectiveness".

The ICTSS'11 is the successor of ICTSS'10 in Natal, Brazil and previous (joint) conferences TESTCOM and FATES. ICTSS'11 aims at being a forum for researchers, developers, testers, and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts, theories, methodologies, tools, and experiences in the field of testing of communicating systems and general software.

Since testing, if done systematically, is known to be a laborious and very cost-intensive task, the ICTSS series of international conferences addresses the conceptual, theoretic, and practical problems of testing software systems, including communication protocols, services, distributed platforms, middleware, controllers and security infrastructures.

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October 2011

Best Presentation Award

The Best Presentation Award of "ITEA & ARTEMIS Co-summit 2011" Symposium, was given for the DIAMONDS project especially to:

• Ana Cavalli (LOR department)
• Stéphane MAAG (LOR department) 

"DIAMONDS" seams "Development and Industrial Application of Multi-Domain Security Testing Technologies".

On 25-26 October, the ITEA & ARTEMIS Co-summit 2011 was held in the Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland. It was the 4th edition of the Co-summit, expecting over 600 participants from industry, academia, public authorities and press.

Once again the project exhibitions of ITEA and ARTEMIS were the pivotal elements of the event with over 75 innovative and market-oriented R&D projects showcasing themselves. This year, the exhibitions also had a direct link to the theme with a special focus area on clean technologies. The plenary programme and parallel sessions were geared to the Co-summit 2011 theme as well. Furthermore, the programme included plenary family sessions of ITEA & ARTEMIS and presentations of the Achievement Award 2011 nominees.

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July 2011

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award of WINSYS/ICETE 2011 « International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems » Conference was given to:

• Jorge A. Pardinas-Mir (CITI department),
• Muriel Muller (EPH department),
• Roger Lamberti (CITI departement),
• Claude Gimenes

The Paper was about:

« Experimental validation for TR-UWB systems By Time Delayed Sampling and Correlation (TDSC) »

 

The purpose of WINSYS 2011, the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of wireless networks and mobile technologies.
Information systems and information technology are pervasive in the whole communications field, which is quite vast, encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from practical issues to the more abstract theoretical aspects of communication; from low level protocols to high-level networking and applications; from wireless networking technologies to mobile information systems; many other topics are included in the scope of WINSYS.

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Best Paper Award

Noël Crespi and Gyu Myoung Lee won the Best Paper Award in the ICNS-9 Conference for the paper "Efficient Mobile IP Location Update Mechanism for Idle Terminals in Optical Wireless Integrated Access Networks".

They share the award with:

• S.H. Shah Newaz, PhD in Telecom SudParis RS2M department
• Raja Usman Akbar, lecturer, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad (Pakistan)
• Youngmi Lim
• JunKyun Choi

ICNS-9 is is the 9th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors. It's a leading international forum for reporting advances in group III - nitride semiconductors such as gallium nitride and indium nitride. Both fundamental research and applications are fully covered, with sessions focussing on topics such as Epitaxial Growth, Bulk Crystal Growth, Theory and Simulation, Optical and Electronic Devices (LEDs, lasers, transistors, etc), Material Characterization and Development and Nanostructures involving Nitride Semiconductors.

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May 2011

Olivier Berger, Research Engineer, "Computer Science" Department of Telecom SudParis, just been admitted official Debian Developer, after having successfully passed the "New Maintainer" process.

The Debian Project is an association of people who have made ​​common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called "Debian GNU / Linux".

An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that can operate a computer. At the heart of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer, it makes all the basic management of resources and make possible to run other programs.

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel.

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October 2010  

Gold Medal

Frédérique Silber-Chaussumier and the G2 team from INF department which participated in this project, received the gold medal for the ParMA project, presented at ITEA2 Symposium (26-27 October, Ghent).

The ITEA2 ParMA project objective was to allow high performance computing (HPC) applications and traditional applications, to take full advantage of the power of multicore architectures that are deployed, and facilitate the emergence of a new embedded applications type of high power consuming processors whose volume and heat dissipation have been so reduced to take place aboard an aircraft.
To achieve this objective, the project has developed advanced technology to exploit the parallelism both of HPC systems on the MPSoC (Multi-Processor on Chip) processor-based multicore.

The main results of the project were

• construction and the provision of UNITE package contains all the measurement and performance analysis tools, validated in many contexts;
• delivery of a new software infrastructure, including enhancements developed under the project, for the Bull bullx system, recognized as the best supercomputer in the world;
• new performance gains achieved by all applications for many of them have already resulted in obtaining new contracts.

Telecom SudParis is involved in this project through the INF Department G2 team. Our contribution has focused particularly on increasing the productivity of parallel applications development by providing, from a paradigm of high-level programming, to derive optimized programs for the target architecture.

 

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Silver Medal

Marc Girot-Genet and two of his Phd, received the silver medal for the CAM4HOME project, presented at ITEA2 Symposium  (26-27 October, Ghent).  

Best Exhibition Awards

Noël Crespi and his team won the Best Exhibition Award for the DiYSE (Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences) project, presented at ITEA2 Symposium (26-27 October, Ghent).

The DiY Smart Experiences project aims to create a sustainable marketplace for user-generated applications and services. It supports non-technically-skilled people to create and share their own smart environment involving interactive objects, devices and media.

August 2010  

Best Paper Award

Noël Crespi won the Best Paper Award in the 2010 ICSEA Conference for the paper "Business and Information System Alignment: A Formal Solution for Telecom Services".

"The main aim of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to master the development and the evolutions of Information Systems (IS). The EA process consists in designing on several views the IS target architecture, according to the company strategy. The business view represents the target organization of the considered company. The functional view focuses on the target functional architecture of the considered IS. In this paper, we propose a new formal solution to analyze the consistency between the target functional view and the target business view of telecom services. This solution is based on the definition of a strategic alignment of the target functional view with the target business view. Alignment is illustrated with a real case study achieved with Orange - France Telecom on their messaging service. An alignment measure completing this analysis provides an estimation of the gap between a target functional view and a target business view."

May 2010  

"Ordre National du Mérite"

The "Ordre National du Merite" is a french national prestigious distinction.

Bernadette Dorizzi is "Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite", class 2010, May.

Best thesis Awards

Sraddha Adhikari, student of MSc COMNets Telecom SudParis/AIT MSc COMNets, awards the AIT 2010 Master's Thesis competition in the category of ICT.

Fifty five students participated in the fifth Master’s Thesis Competition at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The event, organized on 17 May, was witnessed by experts from International and regional organizations, partner universities as well as the private sector who acted as judges in various categories.

Sraddha Adhikari was co-directed by Mehdi Mani and Noël Crespi - two teachers of Telecom SudParis department RS2M - on the subject « Content Discovery Using People Social Pattern in Peer-to-Peer Networks ».

March 2010

On 16th and 17th of March, Noel Crespi was appointed to the Advisory Board of Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna).

Alongside him in Advisory board: Prof. Dr. Ernst Biersack (EURECOM), Prof. Dr. Angela Sasse (Univ. College London) and Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei (ETH Zürich).

On 2011, May 4 and 5 it was the second time that the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) visited FTW. The main focus this time was to evaluate the recommendations given last year as well as the recommendations of the 4-year-evaluation. Furthermore the FTW PhD program was discussed.

January 2010  

"Palmes académiques"

The "Palmes académiques" class is a french national prestigious distinction.

Ana Cavalli is "Officier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques", class 2010, January.

ASTI CNRS Award

The "ASTI 2009" thesis jury awarded a special mention to Laetitia Souchon Foll (Computing Department, UMR SAMOVAR) for multidisciplinary work, about economics and environmental sciences, contributing to a better understanding of the economic and environmental impact of ICT. Her thesis entitled "TIC et Énergétique : Techniques d'estimation de consommation sur la hauteur, la structure et l'évolution de l'impact des TIC en France" was directed both Telecom SudParis and Telecom Business School.

Aoyagi Prize

 

Congratulations to Suneth Namal Karunarathna who receives the Aoyagi Prize in recognition of his outstanding academic performance in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. Mr. Karunarathna, a Sri Lankan citizen, obtained his B.Eng. degree, major in Computer Engineering from
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2007. He was admitted to the AIT Master's program (joined with the Msc program of Telecom SudParis) in August 2008 and completed his M.Eng. degree with a thesis entitled Technology Challenges for Context Aware Multimedia Services.' Prior to joining AIT, he worked as a Teaching Faculty as an Engineer in Sri Lanka Telecom, Sri Lanka. The Aoyagi Prize was established from funds provided in 1994 by Prof. Yukio Aoyagi, former AIT faculty member.

October 2009

Best Paper Award

Tülin Atmaca won the Best Paper Awards of ECUMN'2009 Symposium, October 2009, Malta

September 2009  

Best Paper Award

Samir Tata won the Best Paper Award in the Business Process Management Conference (Ulm, Germany - 2009/09). This conference is the reference area of services and workflows (an A rating in the Australian ranking CORE).
Samir Tata has developed a matching algorithm (business and behavioral) for Web compounds services choreography. It significantly improves the state of the art because it is polynomial in the number of services constituting the composite so that the solutions proposed up to now have an exponential complexity.

July 2009  

"Palmes académiques"

The "Palmes académiques" class is a french national prestigious distinction.

Guy Bernard is "Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques", class 2009, July.

March 2009  

Best Demo Awards

Noël Crespi, Mehdi Mani and Anh Minh Nguyen won the Best Demo Award at the PerCom 2009 conference (Galveston, USA - 2009/03).

January 2009  

"Palmes académiques"

The "Palmes académiques" class is a french national prestigious distinction.

Tülin Atmaca is "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques", class 2009, January.

Aoyagi Prize

Jagadish Ghimire received the Aoyagi Prize in recognition of his outstanding academic performance in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. Mr. Ghimire, a Nepali citizen, obtained his B.Eng. degree, major in Electronics and Communication from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2007. He was admitted to the AIT Master's program (joined with the Msc program of Telecom SudParis) in August 2007 and completed his M.Eng. degree with a thesis entitled 'Analysis of Supernode based Peer-to-Peer System for IP Telephony over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.' Prior to joining AIT, he worked as a Teaching Faculty at Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Nepal. The Aoyagi Prize was established from funds provided in 1994 by Prof. Yukio Aoyagi, former AIT faculty member.

December 2008  

Best Paper Award

Tülin Atmaca won the Best Paper Awards of Fitramen'2008 Conference, 11-12 December 2008, Portugal