Kickoff workshop of the LINT project

On Thursday, 1st June the first workshop of our STIC-AmSud LINT project took place at INRIA Saclay.

On Thursday, 1st June the first workshop of our STIC-AmSud LINT project took place, hosted by the INRIA TRiBE at INRIA Saclay. The LINT project, ``Leveraging federated mobility learning for tactile Internet services’’ aims at enabling the development of Tactile Internet services, which require ultra-low latency and high availability of cloud-like resources. This requirement is addressed by the Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC): a new paradigm supported by both 5G/6G technologies in order to offer cloud-like resources near the edge of the network, thus users can run applications there that leverage computing resources from nearby hosts, which highly reduces the latency.

In order to guarantee the optimized allocation of necessary resources, this shift towards a Tactile Internet requires to anticipate the users mobility, while preserving the user privacy at the same time. Our project thus aims at predicting users’ mobility with federated learning, and using it to optimally allocate MEC resources.

During this workshop, the members of the LINT project and the local coordinators for each country presented their past related work and agreed on the first lines of action for the project. We were also glad to host an invited presentation by PhD Laetitia Gauvin (Research Director @ IRD and Affiliated Researcher @ ISI Foundation).