Best paper award at IEEE MMSP

Hristina Hristova, Xavier Corbillon, Gwendal Simon, Viswanathan Swaminathan (Adobe), and Alisa Devlic (Huawei) received the best paper award at IEEE MMSP 2017. The paper is entitled “Heterogeneous Spatial Quality for Omnidirectional Video”.

See http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~mmsp2018/awards

Best paper award at MMSys 2018

Xavier Corbillon, Francesca De Simone, Gwendal Simon and Pascal Frossard received the best student-paper award at ACM MMSys 2018, a top-ranking conference of multimedia. The paper is entitled “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Multi-Viewpoint Omnidirectional Videos”.

See http://www.mmsys2018.org/program/awards/

PhD defense of Farah Slim on March 13th, 2018

The defense of PhD thesis of Farah SLIM will be held on March 13th at 10:00 at IMT Atlantique, Rennes Campus , Petit Amphi. The thesis title is “Design and Implementation of Resource Allocation Algorithms for a Network Operating System”.

PhD defense of Jialong Duan on 27/11/2017

The defense of PhD thesis of Jialong Duan will be held on November 27th at 10:15 at IMT Atlantique, Rennes Campus , Petit Amphi. The thesis title is “Coordination inside Centralized Radio Access Networks with Limited Fronthaul Capacity”.

PhD defense of Qipeng Song on 07/11/2017

The defense of PhD thesis of Qipeng Song will be held on November 7th at 14:00 at IMT Atlantique, Rennes Campus , Petit Amphi.

The thesis title is “Radio Access Mechanisms for Massive Communication in Long-­Range Wireless networks”.

Visit of Mónica Espinosa Buitrago

Mónica Espinosa Buitrago is at IMT Atlantique from 23th of October 2017 to 21th of December 2017. She is from Bogotá-Colombia. She is lecturer in Santo Tomás University in the telecommunication department and a PhD student in Javeriana University. She is working with professor Xavier Lagrangue on IoT, Television White Spaces and cognitive radio topics.

Visit of Oluwafolake OJO from Nigeria

Oluwafolake OJO, a visiting PhD student from Nigeria has joined ADOPNET from 5th September, 2017 to 16th November, 2017.

She will be working with Dr. Gwendal SIMON on Peer-Assisted 360 Degree Video Technology for Low Capacity Networks and will be based on IMT Atlantique, Rennes campus.

Best paper award at ICC 2017

Xavier Corbillon, Gwendal Simon, Alisa Devlic and Jacob Chakareski (The University of Alabama College of Engineering) received a best paper award at ICC 2017 in category “Communications Software, Service and Multimedia Applications”. The paper is entitled “Viewport-adaptive Navigable 360-Degree Video Delivery”. The work was made when Alisa Devlic was visiting Adopnet.

PhD defense of Souheir Eido on 12/07/2017

The defense of PhD thesis of Souheir Eidowill be held on July 12th at 14:00 at Télécom Bretagne, Campus de Brest, Salle B1/008.

The thesis title is “Traffic Control and IP-based QoS management for LTE networks”.

Arrival of M. Chami

Marwa CHAMI has joined the Adopnet team for a 12-month post-doctoral project. She will be working on REREDO project : Overlay Networks based on SDN for QoS-aware routing and will be based on IMT Atlantique, Brest campus.