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 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, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless 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.

Fabrice Valois is also a member of the CITI laboratory and he is involved in the SWING INRIA research team. He is the leader of the networking group. 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 for MANET and WSN. He has also interests about performance analysis of MAC layer for MANET using a Markov Process Algebra (PEPA) and simulation tools.

• Last publications:
• I. Amadou, F. Valois, Performance Evaluation of Distributed Self-Organization Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM PE-WASUN, Bodrum, Turkey, October 2010.
• J.-L. Lu, F. Valois, M. Dohler, Optimized Data Aggregation in WSNs using Adaptive ARMA, SensorComm, Venice, Italy, July 2010.
• I. Amadou, F. Valois, Pizza Forwarding: Beacon-less routing protocol designed for realistic radio assumptions, SensorComm, Venice, Italy, July 2010.
• A. Ouni, H. Rivano, F. Valois, Capacity of wireless mesh networks: determining elements and insensible characteristics, International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks, In conjunction with IEEE WCNC'10, Sydney, Australia, April 2010.
• O. Erdene-Ochir, M. Minier, A. Kountouris, F. Valois, Resiliency of Wireless Sensor Networks: Definitions and Analyses, 17th International Conference on Telecommunications 2010 (ICT2010), Doha, Qatar.
  
• Q. Lampin, D. Barthel, F. Valois, Efficient Route Redundancy in DAG-based wireless sensor networks, WCNC'10, Sydney, Australia, April 2010.
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• Involved in the following technical committees: Globecom'10, WiMob'10, ACM Mobility'10, ADHOCNETS'10, SensorComm'10, IWCMC'10, ICC'10, WiCON'10, JDIR'10

• 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 did 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:
  
• 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)
• Quality of service paradigm in wireless sensor networks w/ Quentin Lampin, Isabelle Augé-Blum and Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs collaboration)

• Thinking about:
  
• Data-aggregation strategies according to the data-flow properties and spatial/temporal distribution w/ Cédric Lauradoux, Jia-Liang Lu and Hervé Rivano
• Large scale address allocation schemes using universal hash functions w/ Marco Fiore, Cédric Lauradoux and Marine Minier

• Teaching:
  
• Theoretical tools for performance evaluation of networks
• Cellular networks
  
• Performance evaluation of networks
• The Special Engineering Program about Telecommunications (SPE-T) is on going... (joint program with INSA Lyon and SJTU, Shanghai, China)
  

• Building a new titanium MTB frame and biking an old one
  

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