Prof. Fabrice Valois Telecommunications Dpt., Inria Agora, CITI research lab., INSA Lyon Snail address: Bât. Claude Chappe - 6, Avenue des Arts, 69621 Villeurbanne, France (map) Location: Inria Antenne Lyon La Doua (Bât. CEI-2), 56, Bd Niels Bohr, 69100 Villeurbanne, France (map) Tel: +33 4 7243 6418 Mail: fabrice . valois @ insa-lyon . fr twitter: _fval_

Since september 2008, Fabrice Valois is full professor in INSA Lyon, where he was associate professor from 2000 to 2008. In january 2000, he received a Ph.D. in computer science about Performance Evaluation of Hierarchical Cellular Networks from University of Versailles. In november 2007, he received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from University of Lyon I and INSA Lyon about Self-organisation of wireless multi-hop networks. From september 2018 to august 2019, he was a researcher/temporary assigment (aka délégation in French...) at Inria to work on dense and dynamic wireless networks.

He gives courses mainly about wireless networks (e.g. Wi-Fi, wireless sensor networks), cellular networks (e.g. 2G, 3G, 4G) and networking (e.g. TCP/IP, LAN, mobility management, routing protocols) in the Telecommunications department. He also gave courses on autonomic networking, and on performance evaluation tools applied to networking and telecommunications (e.g. Markov chains, queueing theory, simulation tools).

Co-founder and former director of the CITI research laboratory, Fabrice Valois is now a member of the Agora Inria research team. His research interests are in the area of dynamic, dense and autonomous wireless networks (e.g. networks for IoT, wireless sensor networks, wireless mobile ad hoc networks). More particularly, his research works are focused on networking protocols design and performance evaluation. He is co-author of 3 chapter books, 95+ international publications and he holds 4 international patents.

• More details can be found in this very detailed CV! :-) (but only in french... updated on April 2021)

• Research topics:
• Wireless sensor networks, wireless multi-hop networks, cellular networks, low power and wide area networks
  
• Networking protocols design & performance evaluation, for wireless/cellular networks
• Dense networks and networking issues of IoT
  
• Data-aggregation to save energy and capacity in wireless networks
  
• Self-organisation, self-configuration, self-*, autonomous networking mechanisms

• (main) Academic duties:
• Head of the CITI research laboratory from 2014 to 2017 (90+ members)
• Co-founder of the Federation d'Informatique de Lyon, with Prof. M.-S. Hacid (LIRIS) and Prof. G. Hanrot, (LIP) in 2016
  
• Member of the scientific council of the Labex IMU since 2016
• Definition of the research project of the CITI research laboratory, Humans connected to the Digital Society, which drives the development of the CITI since 2013
  
• Elected member of the scientific council of the CITI research laboratory from 2012 to 2014
• Head of the international affairs of the CITI research laboratory from 2011 to 2014
  
• Vice-head of the CITI research laboratory in 2008
• Leader of the networking research group (7 permanent researchers, ~10 PhD students) from 2006 to 2010
• Involved in the definition of the research projects of Inria ARES (2001), Inria SWING (2009), Inria Urbanet (2015) and Inria Agora (2018)
  
• Co-founder of the CITI research laboratory, with Prof. S. Frenot, Prof. J.-M. Gorce, Prof. F. Naït-Abdesselam, Prof. S. Ubéda, in 2000

• Publications:
• Check on Inria HAL
• ... or on DBLP
• ... or on Google Scholar

• Current Ph.D. Students:
• Gwendoline Hochet-Derevianckine, Faisabilité et performances d’un réseau LoRaWAN dans la bande ISM 2.4 GHz, with Prof. A. Guitton (UCA) and Dr. O. Iova, since 2021
  
• Camille Moriot, DDos Attacks and their impacts on the Internet Architecture, with Dr. F. Lesueur and Dr. N. Stouls, since 2020
  
• Kawtar Lasri, Aggregated data collection in LPWAN networks, with Dr. O. Iova, since 2019
  
• Romain Pujol, Building the connectivity of self-deployable networks, with Dr. R. Stanica, since 2018
  
• Mihai Popescu, Mobility of fleet of drones under connectivity constraints, with Prof. O. Simonin and Dr. A. Spalanzani, since 2015
  

• Current resarch collaborations & research projects:
• Scientific leader of the international associated team IOTA(i) (Inria Agora, LIRIMA) about machine learning applied to wireless networking challenges (2021-2024)
  
• Involved in a bilateral cooperation with Semtech on Faisability and performance of LoRa 2.4GHz with Prof. A. Guitton (UCA) and Dr. O. Iova (2021-2024)
  
• Involved in the PHC ConsoSmart on Energy saving in smart building applications, with INPT Rabat (Marocco) (2019-2022)
  
• Scientific leader for INSA Lyon of the PSPC Fed4PMR (Federation of 4G Professionnal Mobile Radio networks) (2015-2020)
  

• Visiting positions:
• Invited professor, University of Waterloo (Canada), Prof. C. Rosenberg (4 weeks, 2019)
  
• Visiting professor, Université de Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon), Prof. M. Tchuente (1 week, 2014)
• Invited professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), Prof. Guo (7 months, 2011)
  
• Visiting professor, Northwestern Polytechnic University of Xi'an (China), Prof. Li Bo (1 week, 2008)
• Invited professor, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada), Prof. S. Pierre (4 months, 2007)

• Former Ph.D. Students:
• Rodrigue Domga Komguem, Wireless sensor networks for intersection management, 2020 (co-advisor with Dr. R. Stanica and Prof. M. Tchuente). Now, associate professor at Univ. of. Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.
  
• Jad Oueis, Radio access and core functionnalities in self-deployable mobile networks, 2018 (co-advisor with Dr. R. Stanica). Now, research engineer, Econocom, France.
  
• Guillaume Gaillard, How to operate IoT networks with contracts of quality of service (Service Level Agreements), 2016 (co-advisor with Dr. F. Theoleyre and D. Barthel). Now, research engineer, IRIT, France.
  
• Jin Cui, Data-aggregation in wireless sensor networks, 2016. Now, lecturer, Northwestern Polytechnical University of Xi'an, China.
  
• Quentin Lampin, QoS constraints and time constraints in wireless sensor networks, 2014 (co-advisor with Dr. I. Augé-Blum and D. Barthel). Now, research engineer, Orange Labs, France.
  
• Anis Ouni, Capacity and ressources management in wireless mesh networks, 2014 (co-advisor with Dr. H. Rivano).  Now, Wi-Fi integration engineer, Intel Corportation, France.
  
• Alexandre Mouradian, Proposition and formal verification of real-time wireless sensor networks protocols, 2013 (co-advisor with Dr. I. Augé-Blum). Now, associate Professor, Université Paris-Sud, France.
  
• Ochirkhand Erdene-Ochir, Resilient networking security for wireless sensor networks, 2013 (co-advisor with Dr. M. Minier and A. Kountoris). Now, patent examiner, European Patent Office, Germany.
  
• Ibrahim Amadou, Towards zero control packets in wireless sensor networks for energy saving, 2012.  Now, research engineer, Inria, France.
  
• Bilel Romdhani, Energy-efficient networking protocols for wireless sensors and actuators networks, 2012 (co-advisor with D. Barthel). Now, M2M telecom engineer, ERDF, France.
  
• Karel Heurtefeux, Self-organisation schemes for large scale wireless sensor networks, 2009.  Now, lead application engineer, Infineon Technologies, Germany.
  
• Jia-Liang Lu, Impacts of Self-organized Mechanisms in wireless sensor networks, 2008. Now, associate professor, Shanghaï Jiao Tong University, China.
• Fabrice Theoleyre, Self-organisation for mobile ad hoc networks and hybrid networks: concepts & applications, 2006. Now, CNRS research scientist  in LSIIT, Strasbourg, France.
• Houda Khedher, Performance evaluation of cellular networks: from measurements to optimization, 2004 (co-advisor with Prof. S. Ubéda, and Prof. S. Tabbane). Now, associate professor in Sup'Com, Tunis, Tunisia.

• Previous projects:
• Member of the PHC Dronem on Monitoring using fleet of drones, with Cluj-Napoca University (Romania) (2017-2018)
• DGA CLOTHO project (Energy-efficient devices tracking) (2016-2018, scientific leader for INSA Lyon)
• Member of the Inria Project Lab on Smart Cities (2015-2018)
• ANR IDEFIX, Intelligent design for future mobile Internet for enhanced experience (2013-2016)
• External research program (CRE) with Orange Labs, Quality of service support in wireless sensor networks (2012-2016, scientific leader)
• External research program (CRE) with Orange Labs, Data-aggregation in wireless sensor networks (2013-2016, scientific leader)
• ANR ARESA2, Advanced wireless sensor networks w/ IPv6 and security support (2010-2013, scientific leader for Inria)
• ANR ECOSCELLS about Efficient Cooperating Small Cells (2009-2012)
• ANR UBIQUEST, Ubiquitous Quest : declarative approach for networking and data management in multi-hop wireless networks (2009-2012)
• External research program (CRE) with Orange Labs France, Quality of service in wireless sensor networks (2009-2012, scientific leader)
  
• External research program (CRE) with Orange Labs France, Security resilient properties in wireless sensor networks (2009-2012, scientific leader)
• External research program (CRE) with Orange Labs France, Wireless sensor and actuators networks (2008-2011, scientific leader)
• ANR ARESA, Smart wireless sensor networks (2006-2009, scientific leader for Inria)
  
• Joint research project (PRA) with S. Grumbach (LIAMA, China) about Data query processing for wireless sensor networking (2006-2008, scientific leader)
• External research program (CRE) with Orange Labs France, Self-organisation for wireless sensor networks (2004-2008, scientific leader)
• Member of the CARMA ARC project focused on Capacity of wireless mesh networks (2006-2007)
• Member of the IRAMUS ARC project focused on Radio Interfaces for Multi-hop Wireless Networks (2004-2005)
• Joint research project (STIC-Tunisia)  with Prof. S. Tabbane (Sup'Com, Tunis, Tunisia) about Mobility models for mobile ad hoc networks (2004-2006, scientific leader)

• Conferences & research school (chairing):
• General co-chair w/ Prof. C. Julien, EWSN (International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks), 2020, France (100+ attendees)
  
• Organization committee of the LPWAN Days #1, 2019, France (60+ attendees)
  
• General co-chair w/ Dr. F. Rousseau, CoRes (Rencontres Francophones sur la conception de protocoles, l'évaluation de performance et l'expérimentation des réseaux de communication), 2016, France (30+ attendees)
  
• General co-chair w/ Prof. T. Noël, IEEE WiMob (International Conference On Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications), 2013, France (110+ attendees)
• General chair, Digital society for e-human, Pavillon France, Shanghai Expo, 2010 (80+ attendees)
• Vice-chair, Mobile & Wireless Networks Track, IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile and Radio Communications Symposium, 2008, France (800+ attendees)
• General co-chair w/ Prof. T. Noël, Workshop on Mobility Models, IEEE Wimob, Canada, 2007 (30+ attendees)
• General co-chair w/ Prof. G. Pujolle & Prof. S. Ubéda, CNRS EcoTel Summer School on Mobile Networks, 2004, Tunisia (60+ attendees)
• Organisation chair, MS3G (Mobile Services and 3G networks, Entretiens Jacques Cartier), 2001, France (60+ attendees)

• Conferences & workshops (TPC involvement):
  
• ICC, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
• WCNC, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conferences, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
• WiSARN, International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016,
• ICT, International Conference on Telecommunications, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016
• Globecom, IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
2014
• IWCMC, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2020, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007
• VTC Spring, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2011
• PIMRC, IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile and Radio Communications Symposium, 2017, 2012, 2009
  
• ISCC, IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications, 2017
• AINA, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
• WiMob, IEEE International Conference On Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
• SensorCom, International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
• Mesh, International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks, 2013, 2012
• WPMC, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2012, 2011
• UrbaNe, ACM Workshop on Urban Networking, 2012
  
• ADHOCNETS, Second International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, 2010
• PE-WASUN, ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, 2007, 2006
• IWWAN, International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, 2006
  
• EPEW, European Performance Evaluation Workshop, Septembre 2005

• Misc.:
• 20+ invited talks on mobile ad hoc networks, self-organization, wireless sensor networks, network architectures and protocols for smart cities, wireless networking form experimentation point of view, networking challenges in IoT, etc.
• Reviewer of 40+ PhD thesis & HDR since 2007
• Examiner of 25+ PhD thesis & HDR defenses since 2007
• Member of 30+ recruitment committees for assistant professor position, associate professor positions, full professor positions, since 2001
  
• External reviewer for ANR (until 2009), for ANRT (since 2013)
• Cited in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  

• More details can be found in this very detailed CV! :-) (but only in french... updated on April 2021)

• Current teaching topics (~220h/year):
• MAC protocols and local area networks (bachelor level)
  
• TCP/IP stack (bachelor level)
• Cellular and mobile networks(master level)
• Markov chains and queueing theory applied to network performance evaluation (master level)
• Involved in the macSUP project with the Museum of Modern Art of Lyon (MAC Lyon) about creativity in arts, sciences and technologies
  

• Past teaching topics (~220h/year):
• Autonomous networking (master level)
• Introduction to Internet and networking protocols for high-school teachers (ISN option, BAC)
  
• Simulation tools applied to network architectures design (master level)
  
• Simulation and stochastic tools for performance evaluation of networks (master level)
• Wireless sensor networks: from theory to practise (master level)

• (main) Teaching duties:
• Since 2014, Professor at ISTEAH (Institut des Sciences, des Technologies et des Etudes Avancées d'Haïti)
• From 2011 to 2018, head of the Networking teaching group (8 permanents, 5 non permanents) in the Telecommunications Dpt. of INSA Lyon
  
• From 2011 to 2017, elected member of the department council of the Telecommunications Dpt. of INSA Lyon
  
• From 2006 to 2014, leader of the SPE-T program of INSA Lyon
  
• From 2006 to 2008, vice-head of the international affairs of the Telecommunications Dpt. of INSA Lyon
  
• In 2006, founder of the Special Engineering Program about Telecommunications (SPE-T, 6 months) in China for INSA Lyon with Shanghaï Jiao-Tong University and EM Lyon, including the departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications of INSA Lyon (one semester, ~20 master students)
  
• From 2000 to 2008, leader of a teaching program about Mobile & Wireless Networks (architectures, services, applications) for the departments Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications of INSA Lyon (150h., 25+ master students)
  

• Former students:
• Supervision of  15+ master students
  
• Supervision of 35+ R&D master internships