Awards

• 2023 Outstanding Contributions Award, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC).
• Best Demo Award. International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2018)
• Runner-up Demo Award. IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CNCC 2017)
• Runner-up Demo Award. IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2016)
• Best Research Paper Award. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2011)
• Best artifact award. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2023)
• Best short paper award. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2022)

Responsibilities

• Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) depuis Janvier 2023.
• Membre du IEEE Award Committee for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Mid-career Researchers, Early-career Researchers & Outstanding Ph.D Thesis.

Participation in editorial boards

• Wiley Internet Technology Letters , depuis 2017 (ITL)
• Journal on Network and System Management, depuis 2015 (JNSM)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT), depuis 2018 (IEEE IoTJ)
• Smart Science Journal, depuis 2018 (Smart Science)
• International Journal of Digital Signals and Smart Systems,  depuis 2016 (IJDSSS)
• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, depuis 2023
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, depuis 2022
• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, depuis 2016

Organization of international conferences

General Chair :

• The 22nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC). Tunis, Tunisa, Nov. 2024 (icsoc.org)
• The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2024, Sousse, Tunisia, nov. 2024.
• Symposium on Solutions for Smart Cities Challenges (SSCC2021), Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
• 30th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises(IEEE WETICE 2021)
• 29th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises(IEEE WETICE 2020)

TPC Chair :

• The 19th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (IEEE UIC 2022), Haikou China, Décember 2022.
• The IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (IEEE Wetice 2021), conférence virtuelle, octobre 2021.
• The 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2019), Saint-Petersbourg, Russian Federation, October, 2019.
• The 17th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC). October 28-31, 2019. Toulouse,France (icsoc.org)
• The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2019, Abou Dhabi, EAU, novembre 2019.

Program Committee member

• ACM SIGMETRICS (https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2024/), ACM IMC (https://www.sigcomm.org/events/imc-conference), IEEE UIC 2023 (https://ieee-smart-world-congress.org/program/uic2023/overview), ICSOC (https://icsoc.org), ECSA (https://ecsa-conferences.org/series/)

Organization of international workshops

• 13th IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2023) St Petersburg, Florida, USA.
• 12th IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2022), Lyon France.

International cooperation

The SARA team fosters global research partnerships and acknowledges the valuable contributions of international colleagues to the SARA team's scientific endeavours. It recognizes international collaborators who work closely with its members.

To be considered eligible, these collaborators must:

• Be affiliated within a research institution outside of France,
• Have visited or conducted a stay at LAAS in Toulouse within the past five years,
• Have co-authored scientific publications or have co-supervised a PhD Thesis with the team members.

The process for appointing SARA Research Fellows involves three steps:

1. The team members nominate potential candidates,
2. The team scientific council reviews and validates the nominations,
3. The team leader validates officially the final appointment decision.
   

2024 SARA Research Fellows

• Saúl Eduardo Pomares Hernández - Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico
  

5G platform: Experimental platform based on servers and USRPs for hardware, and above all Open Air Interface (OAI) software. It enables up to two gNodeBs (5G antennas) and two users to be set up for experiments. The aim is to implement new approaches to resource management, security, etc., so that they can be evaluated in a real environment. It completes the study spectrum by enabling us to evaluate real-life implementations of the new techniques we are developing for 5G.

OptiCloudNRJ: OpenStack-based Cloud platform comprising 4 servers, one of which is front-end AC-powered and energy-monitored by a PDU; 2 servers are located in the ADREAM building and are DC-powered via a dedicated photovoltaic panel array. By taking advantage of the DC bus supervision system in the ADREAM building, the idea is to be able to deploy task/virtual machine scheduling algorithms/heuristics that take into account quality of service and energy consumption parameters. As part of the building's energy supply comes from photovoltaic panels, the platform enables different scheduling solutions to be evaluated, taking into account the solar energy available and the amount of energy available in the storage elements, for a given server load. The platform also enables offline scenarios to be replayed.

Smart city model: Model of a smart, connected city with roads, RSUs, edge computing nodes (raspberry, telephones, etc.), pedestrians (playmobil) and signaling (traffic lights, signs, etc.), with NFV/SDN-based infrastructure. For the moment, the prototype is being used to implement, validate and evaluate QoS management actions in a dynamic, mobile environment (placement, migration, scheduling, (re)configuration, etc.) for the services deployed. (e.g., trust/recommendation, security/privacy, AI/ML, etc.).

QoS-Aware NFV-enabled IoT service platform: This is an extension of our M2M/IOT service platform (OM2M), adding dynamic deployment of virtualized network functions (VNF) for end-to-end traffic management. The original idea is to replace the cloud approach of "systematic scale-out" with solutions that reduce the cost of platform deployment while maintaining acceptable quality of service. We have demonstrated a 60% reduction in deployment costs by developing solutions based on the virtualization of traffic management functions in a way suited to end-to-end deployment in M2M/IoT platforms.