4th International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking (MSPN'2018)
Invited speaker : Gérard Le Lann
Title: Autonomic Vehicular Networks: Safety, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Societal Issues
Abstract
Contrary to widespread belief, safety, efficiency, privacy, and cybersecurity can be achieved jointly in self-organizing networks of communicating vehicles of various automated driving levels. The underlying approach, solutions and novel results are briefly exposed. We explain why we are faced with a crucial choice regarding motorized society and cyber surveillance.
Biography
Dr. Gérard Le Lann holds French degrees, a M.S. in Applied Mathematics (University of Toulouse), an Engineering Degree in Computer Science (ENSEEIHT, Toulouse), and a Ph.D in Computer Science (University of Rennes). He started his career at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland). At Stanford University (1973-74), working with Professor Vint Cerf, he was involved in the design of what became known as the Internet TCP/IP protocol (http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/155670).
He has spent most of his professional career as a Research Director with IRIA (now INRIA). In 1977, he published one of the founding papers on distributed fault-tolerant computing. In the early 80’s, he published innovative results on non-blocking concurrency control in distributed databases. In the mid 80’s, he co-patented a deterministic version of the Ethernet protocol, which became a French Navy standard. His other major areas of research were safety-critical dependable real-time computing and networking, and proof-based system engineering. The latter work was successfully applied to the analysis of the failure of the Ariane 5 maiden flight. More recently, he started working on safety, efficiency, privacy and cybersecurity issues that arise with connected automated vehicles and autonomic vehicular networks.
His major publications can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerard_Le_Lann . Besides its current affiliation with INRIA as Research Director Emeritus, G. Le Lann is an international consultant. He has conducted a number of audits and managed more than 60 contracts in his research areas, for US, European, and French organizations and companies.
In 2012, G. Le Lann has received the Willis Lamb Prize from the French Academy of Sciences for his work applicable to defense systems.