Section: Overall Objectives

Introduction

TREC is a joint INRIA-ENS project-team. It is focused on the modeling, the control and the design of communication networks and protocols. Its methodological activities are combined with projects defined with industrial partners, notably Alcatel-Lucent, Technicolor, Qualcomm and Orange. The main research directions are:

• modeling and performance analysis of wireless networks: network information theory, coverage and load analysis, power control, evaluation and optimization of the transport capacity, self organization;

• stochastic network dynamics: stability, worst-case performance analysis using the (max,plus) algebra, network calculus, perfect simulation, inverse problems, distributed consensus;

• economics of networks: epidemic risk model, incentives, security, insurance, diffusion of innovations;

• the development of mathematical tools based on stochastic geometry, random geometric graphs and spatial point processes: Voronoi tessellations, coverage processes, random spatial trees, random fields, percolation;

• combinatorial optimization and analysis of algorithms: random graphs, belief propagation.

TREC's web site at Inria http://www.inria.fr/equipes/trec and ENS http://www.di.ens.fr/~trec .