Prof. Fabrice Valois INRIA SWING / CITI, INSA-Lyon 6, Avenue des Arts - Bât. Claude Chappe, 69621Villeurbanne, France Room: 2.35, 2nd floor (map) Tel: +33 4 7243 6418 Mail: fabrice . valois @ insa-lyon . fr

Since september 2008, Fabrice Valois is full professor in INSA-Lyon where he was associate professor between 2000 and 2008. In january 2000, he obtained a Ph.D. in computer sciences about Performance Evaluation of Hierarchical Cellular Networks from University of Versailles. In november 2007, he obtained the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from University of Lyon I and INSA-Lyon about Self-organisation of multi-hop wireless networks.

He gives courses mainly on wireless networks (cellular networks, Wi-Fi, ad hoc & sensor networks, ...) and networking (mobility management, routing protocols, ...) in the Telecommunications department. He also gives courses on performance evaluation tools (Markov chains, queueing theory, simulation tools, etc.). Others courses are given in the Master of Sciences MASTria about i) fundamentals tools for performance evaluation of networks and ii) autonomic networking. He launched in 2008 an international teaching program on new wireless and networking technologies in collaboration with Shanghai JiaoTong University.

Fabrice Valois is also a member of the CITI laboratory and is involved in the INRIA SWING research team. He is the leader of the networking group since 2004. His research interests are in the area of mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks. More particularly, his research works are focused on self-organisation, self-configuration, ... self-* generally speaking. He works also on MAC protocols, (zero control)-routing protocols and topology control for mutli-hop wireless networks (including WSN). Recently, he focuses a part of his work on green networking for wireless mesh networks. He has also interests about performance analysis of MAC layer for MANET using a Markov Process Algebra (PEPA) and simulation tools.

In 2007, Fabrice Valois was invited professor in Ecole Polytechnique (Montréal, Canada) and visiting professor in Northwestern Polytechnical University of Xi’an (China). He was invited professor in the prestigious university of Shanghai JiaoTong University in 2011 for 6 months to work on data-aggregation and routing protocols for wireless sensor networks.

• 5 Last publications:
• K. Heurtefeux, F. Valois, Is RSSI a good choice for localization in Wireless Sensor Network?, 26th IEEE AINA, Fukuoka, Japan, March 2012.

• O. Erdene-Ochir, M. Minier, F. Valois, A. Kountouris, Enhancing Resiliency Against Routing Layer Attacks inWireless Sensor Networks: Gradient-based Routing in Focus, IARIA International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services, Volume 4, Number 1-2, pp. 38-54, 2011.

• K. Heurtefeux, F. Maraninchi, F. Valois, AreaCast: a Cross-Layer Approach for a Communication by Area in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE ICON, Singapore, December 2011.

• I. Amadou, G. Chelius, F. Valois, Energy-Efficient Beacon-less Protocol for WSN, IEEE PIMRC, Toronto, Canada, September 2011.
• A. Ouni, H. Rivano, F. Valois, Wireless Mesh Networks: Energy - Capacity Tradeoff and Physical Layer Parameters, IEEE PIMRC, Toronto, Canada September 2011.

• Involved in the following technical program committees: ICC'12, AINA'12, GlobeCom'11, WiMob'11, SensorComm'11, Mesh'11, Algotel'11, CFIP'11, VTC'11, ICC'11,   ... 

• Co-chair w/ Prof. B. Tourancheau of the next edition of IP and Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, CITI Laboratory, INSA Lyon, 12-13 January 2011. Details are available on: http://ipcapteurs.conf.citi-lab.fr/

• General chair of the 1-day conference about Challenges for Digital Society for e-Human during Shanghai Expo'10, 13 May 2010, Pavillon France, Shanghai, China. More information with the french flyer or the english flyer or the chinese flyer! And the final program... For this conference, I done the interview (in french) of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of State to the Prime Minister, with responsability of the development of the Digital Economy:

• Working on (w/ Ph.D. Students) :
  
• Zero-control routing protocols w/ Ibrahim Amadou and sometimes w/ Guillaume Chelius
  
• Energy/capacity trade-off in wireless mesh networks w/ Anis Ounis and Hervé Rivano (ANR VERSO ECOSCELLS)
• Wireless networks of sensors & actuators w/ Bilel Romdhani and Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs collaboration)
• Resilient security property of networking protocols w/ Ochirkhand Erdene-Ochir, Marine Minier and Apostolos Kountoris (ANR VERSO ARESA2, Orange Labs collaboration)
• QoS and time-constrained WSN Networks w/ Quentin Lampin, Isabelle Augé-Blum and Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs collaboration)
• Understanding and exploiting mobility in wireless networks w/ Sandesh Uppoor and Marco Fiore (ADR Selfnet Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA)
• Real-time prootocols for WSN and the validation of their temporal constraints w/ Alexandre Mouradian and Isabelle Augé-Blum (ANR VERSO ARESA2)

• Thinking about:
  
• Data-aggregation strategies according to the data-flow properties and spatial/temporal distribution w/ Jia-Liang Lu
• Large scale address allocation schemes using universal hash functions w/ Marco Fiore
• IPv6 over Wireless Sensor Networks w/ B. Tourancheau

• Teaching:
  
• Simulation Tools and Performance evaluation of Networks and Systems (lectures @ SJTU, Master level)
• Theoretical tools for performance evaluation of networks
• Cellular networks
• Performance evaluation of networks
• The Special Engineering Program about Telecommunications (SPE-T) (joint program with INSA Lyon and SJTU, Shanghai, China)
  

• Riding an amazing titanium MTB hardtail (Sirius Ti) from Pipedream (from U.K.)
  

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