Benoît PARREIN@work

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Polytech Nantes
rue Christian Pauc
BP50609 – 44306 Nantes cedex 3
France

e-mail: benoit parrein-at-polytech.univ-nantes.fr
phone: +33 (0)2.40.68.30.50
office: D102, Polytech Nantes

Short bio (in few dates)

01/2017    New research team: RIO (Networks for Internet of Things) at LS2N Lab

06/2015    Defense of my 'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches' (HDR), University of Nantes (qualified in CNU 27 section in February 2016)

04/2010    Visiting researcher at Monash University (School of Physics)

09/2004    Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Polytech Nantes, University of Nantes

12/2002    Post-doctoral position at Paris Sud Telecom (medical imaging interaction over low bit rate networks)

11/2001    PhD in Computer Science about Multiple Description Coding by Mojette Transform (University of Nantes, France)

09/1998    Master degree in Medical Imaging and Signals (from University of Angers, France)

09/1997    Bachelor in Physics and Applications (University of Paris VII)

02/1975    Birth in Normandy


Research

Topics

computer networks, mobile ad hoc networks, networks of robots, Internet of Things, Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), error control coding, machine learning, information theory

Projects

Blue IoT Eolia (Région Pays de la Loire), Sept 2019 - June 2022 (24 mois): Underwater networks to monitor offshore wind turbine fields, Partners: Kopadia (lead), LS2N, SEM-REV (Centrale Nantes).

COWIN (RFI ATL 2020 and Wise Grant), Sept 2018 - Sept 2021 (36 months): COgnitive Wireless networks for Industrial applicatioNs, Partners: LS2N, IETR (Guillaume Andrieux, SysCom team).

FEC4Cloud (ANR Grant, 12-EMMA-0031-01), Jan. 2013 – June 2015 (30 months) : new erasure codes for distributed storage architecture. Partners: IRCCyN (head), ISAE (with Jérôme Lacan), SATT Ouest Valorisation, Rozo Systems. Project coordinator. More details here.

P2PWeb (Région Pays de Loire / OSEO Grant), March 2010 – Dec. 2012 (30 months) : hybrid model (client-server and P2P) for a new web browsing. Application to live video streaming (P2PWeb-Live). Partners: TMG (head), LINA (with Patricia Serrano-Alvarado), IRCCyN. It is now EasyBroadcast (a startup hosted in Nantes).

SEREADMO (ANR-RNRT Grant, ANR-05-RNRT-0028), Sept. 2006 – Nov. 2009 (36 months) : secure routing for mobile ad hoc networks. Partners: Thales (head with Eric Grall), XLIM-SIC (University of Poitiers), Keosys, IRCCyN. Main results MP-OLSR (now RFC8218 at IETF).

Selected Publications

                Alexis Bitaillou, Benoît Parrein, Guillaume Andrieux. Latency filtering for Q-routing on wireless networks. 17th Int. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference - IWCMC 2021, Jun 2021, Harbin, China.

                Hussein Mroue, Benoît Parrein, Sofiane Hamrioui, Przemyslaw Bakowski, Abbass Nasser, et al.. LoRa+: An extension of LoRaWAN protocol to reduce infrastructure costs by improving the Quality of Service. Internet of Things, Elsevier, 2020, 9, pp.100176. ⟨10.1016/j.iot.2020.100176⟩. ⟨hal-02491408⟩

                Q-routing: from the algorithm to the routing protocol. Alexis Bitaillou, Benoît Parrein, Guillaume Andrieux. Second IFIP International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, Dec 2019, Paris, France (link).

                Data Location Management Protocol for Object Stores in a Fog Computing Infrastructure, B. Confais, B. Parrein, A. Lebre. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management ; Ed. IEEE, July 2019 (link).

                Performance Analysis of Object Store Systems in a Fog and Edge Computing Infrastructure. Bastien Confais, Adrien Lebre, Benoît Parrein. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2017, Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXXIII, <10.1007/978-3-662-55696-2_2>. (link)

                Multipath Extension for the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2). Jiazi Yi, Benoît Parrein. RFC 8218, Category Experimental, WG MANET, IETF. August 2017.

Multipath Optimized Link State Routing for Mobile ad hoc Networks, Yi, Jiazi; Adnane, Hassiba Asmaa; David, Sylvain; Parrein, Benoît, 10.1016/j.adhoc.2010.04.007 Ad Hoc Networks, (2011-01-01) 9 1 28-47.

More on HAL, (Google Scholar)...

PhD Students

Ongoing

Ons AOUEDI (MESR funds, starting September 2019), co-advised with Kandaraj Piamrat-Lerebours (LS2N), topic: machine learning for traffic classification and software-defined networking.

Alexis BITAILLOU (Regional funds from RFI ATL2020 and Wise starting in September 2018), co-advised with Guillaume Andrieux (IETR), Topic: Cognitive wireless networks for industrial applications.

Defended

03/12/2019 - Hussein MROUE (CIFRE Spie City Networks starting in November 2016), co-advised with Eduardo Motta-Cruz and Sofiane Hamrioui from IETR, Topic: Heterogeneous wireless networks in Smart Cities.

10/07/2018 - Bastien CONFAIS (CNRS fellowship starting in October 2015), co-advised with Adrien Lebre. Topic: Data sharing in a Fog computing infrastructure.

22/04/2016 - Dimitri PERTIN (CIFRE with Rozo Systems starting in April 2013), co-advised with Nicolas Normand. Topic: Discrete geometrical erasure coding for the Cloud storage (now at STACK team as post-doc with Adrien Lebre).

27/09/2012 - Dan RADU, co-advised by Adina Astilean from Cluj-Napoca Technical University (Romania). Efficient communication strategies for mobile ad hoc networks (now at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania).

09/11/2010 - Jiazi YI, co-advised with Jeanpierre Guédon. Multiple paths routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (now at LiX as permanent researcher with Thomas Clausen).

12/02/2010 - Fadi BOULOS, co-advised with Patrick Lecallet. Audiovisual traffic with QoE: error characterization, associated discomfort and protection mechanisms.


Post-doctoral fellows

Fekher Khelifi (affected on Blue IoT Eolia for underwater ad hoc networks).

Asmaa ADNANE (security on ad hoc networks), now Senior Lecturer at University of Derby, UK.

Majd GHAREEB (video over P2P networks), now at Lebanese International University, Lebanon.

Alexandre VAN KEMPEN (erasure code and distributed storage), now in STACK team, LS2N.

Dan RADU (video transport over MP-OLSR), now at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Roumania.

       
Events and Editorial boards

Editorial board member: Elsevier Journal of "Internet of Things; Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems". Editor in Chief: Fatos XHAFA from Univertitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Spain.

Reviewer Board of MDPI Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220, IF=2.677).

Organizer: IEEE ISIVC 2012 (one special session), colloque stockage informatique (JSUN 2016), Rescom 2017 Summer School (at Le Croisic, France), Journées RSD 2020 (at LS2N, Nantes).

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair: EIDWT 2018 (IoT and Fog Computing track),

TPC member: ICCVE 2013, 2014, TAPEMS 2016, ICA3PP 2016, ICFEC 2017, IOV 2018, ICIN 2020, ICC'20 NGNI 2020

Attendee: Rescom Summer School 2016, 2018, Compas 2016, ICFEC 2017, Globecom 2018...

Teaching

Networks: example of one course (in French) given at Polytech Nantes, SRT department (L3 level): "Réseaux, Internet et Routage"

Cryptography: one course (in French) given at Polytech Nantes, Computer Sciences department (M1 level): "Cryptographie et systèmes sécurisés"

Distributed storage: one course (in French) given at Polytech Nantes, Computer Sciences department (M2 level): "Outils pour le stockage distribué"

Out of work

Sailing (2 transatlantics), diving (instructor), drums.

I am also on Linkedin, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Twitter...

Last Update July 21, 2021