Section: Other Grants and Activities
Joint Bell Labs INRIA Laboratory
Participants : Eric Fabre, Albert Benveniste.
Started January 2008.
The Joint Bell Labs INRIA Laboratory is the ongoing framework for the overall research cooperation between Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and INRIA. This joint Laboratory was launched in January 2008. It is a virtual lab, meaning that researchers remain hosted by their home institutions. The lab has the general area of self-organizing networks in its central focus. It is organized into three Actions de Recherche (ADR) :
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SelfNets (Self-Organizing networks), headed by Olivier Marcé (BellLabs) and Bruno Gaujal (INRIA);
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Semantic Networking, headed by Ludovic Noirie (BellLabs) and Pascale Vicat-Blanc (INRIA);
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High Manageability, HiMa, headed by Pierre Peloso (BellLabs) and Eric Fabre (INRIA, DistribCom).
Overall, the joint lab involves about 50 people. It is jointly headed by Olivier Audouin (BellLabs, president), and Albert Benveniste (INRIA, president of the Scientific Committee). The lab organizes bi-yearly seminars with progress reports and keynotes by key engineers from Alcatel-Lucent — the first one was about LTE (Long Term Evolution) by Denis Rouffet and the second one was about optical networks, by Paolo Fogliata, both from business divisions.
