Michel Le Pallec

Biography

Originally, Michel Le Pallec was an engineer specialized in optoelectronic/semiconductor devices. In 1992, he received his Diploma of Engineering in the field of semiconductor components from the Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble. In 1997, he received, with honors, his PhD from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble. He worked for 6 years within the former Alcatel company, on the development of advanced optoelectronic components (modulators and ILMs). Then, he joined the Alcatel Research & Innovation/Packet Transport Infrastructure strategic project in 2005 and contributed to the backhauling activities in Metro Ethernet networks. He particularly worked on synchronization issues over packet switched networks. Taking a recognize expertise position at the former Alcatel-Lucent level, he actively participated in a cross-BG development effort (feature alignment) and took over an ALU representative role at related standard organizations (IEEE, ITU-T) jointly with IPD (Peter Roberts). This contribution successfully led to many patents and to the transfer of a cross product solution. In the continuity of this contribution, he also investigated End-to-End QoS aspects in the Bell Labs Advanced Internet Research department by addressing stringent end to end latency requirements at the application level (10-100ms). Capitalizing on this rich experience, Michel was involved in the modeling of IoT (Internet of Things) services within the End-to-End Networks and Service Automation (ENSA) Lab, between 2015 and 2018. Within the 10X SAVOC (Self-Adaptive Virtual Object Chaining) project, his research work focused on the identification of IoT services by understanding how connected objects were composed. To this aim, a graph-based composition model (Typed Attributed Graph) was leveraged and the overall approach demonstrated. Since January 2019, Michel has been involved in the management of automated IoT services/ applications by considering a SDN-based architecture. More specifically, he has been leading the new 10X Service Automation project, which addresses the reliable composition and instantiation (IT and network resource provisioning/ allocation) of automated IoT services. This project, supported by an INRIA collaboration, particularly targets the Industrial IoT.

Thanks to this 20- year-career in Research and Innovation, Michel LE PALLEC has participated in many appealing projects. As a result, he has authored or co-authored many scientific publications (>30) and, to date, he owns more than 40 active patents.

Education

PhD, Optoelectronics and Microwaves, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, 1997

Diploma of Engineering, semiconductor components, Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble, 1992

Selected Articles and Publications

A small selection (> 20 publications)

Time and frequency distribution over packet switched networks Pallec, Michel Le ; Bui, Dinh Thai ; Dorgeuille, Francois ; Sauze, Nicolas Le Bell Labs Technical Journal Volume: 14 , Issue: 2 DOI: 10.1002/bltj.20377 Publication Year: 2009 , Page(s): 131 - 153
Protocol agnostic On-Path Supports Dinh Thai Bui ; Le Pallec, M. ; Le Sauze, N. Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement Control and Communication (ISPCS), 2010 International IEEE Symposium
Packet delay variation management for a better IEEE1588V2 performance Dinh Thai Bui ; Dupas, A. ; Le Pallec, M. Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication, 2009. ISPCS 2009. International Symposium on DOI: 10.1109/ISPCS.2009.5340212 Publication Year: 2009 , Page(s): 1 - 6
Cascadability issues in a Multi-Service Optical Packet Ring Network Chiaroni, D. ; Le Pallec, M. ; Simonneau, C. ; Borne, S. ; Bayart, D. ; Hamaide, J.-P. Photonics in Switching, 2007 DOI: 10.1109/PS.2007.4300726 Publication Year: 2007 , Page(s): 25 - 26
A triple channel HEMT on InP (Camel HEMT) for large-signal high-speed applications Maher, H. ; Decobert, J. ; Falcou, A. ; Le Pallec, M. ; Post, G. ; Nissim, Y.I. ; Scavennec, A. Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on Volume: 46 , Issue: 1 DOI: 10.1109/16.737438 Publication Year: 1999 , Page(s): 32 - 37
From Ethernet to Synchronous Ethernet Dinh Thai Bui ; Le Pallec, M. Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2008. ICSPCS 2008. 2nd International Conference on DOI: 10.1109/ICSPCS.2008.4813737 Publication Year: 2008 , Page(s): 1 - 5

Patents

More than 40 active patents and patent applications

A small selection:

Method for advertising storage capabilities accessible via a wireless local area network; access point, terminal, and computer program products for implementing such a method
Method For Presenting Relevant Resources to End-User Communication Equipment Using Network Caching
Method For Providing Information Representative Of Available Resources For End-User Wireless Communication Equipment
Method For Synchronizing Clocks By Separated Tranmissions Of First And Second Data Via At Least One Timing Distribution Protocol, And Associated System And Module
Monitoring Of IEEE 1588V2 Transparent Clock Failure/ Degradation: Architecture And Implementation (M.I.T. )
Peripheral Interface for Residential IaaS
Add And Drop Elements For NTP On-Path-Support And Method For Inter-Operating Between NTP And IEEE-1588 Protocol Domains

Memberships

Industry challenge

The huge growth of the Internet of Things is opening the door to an unprecedented set of new and unanticipated services, unforeseen either by service providers or by end-users themselves. Within this fast evolving environment (up to 500 devices per user in 2022), end users are unable to manage and benefit from this new service space. Delegating this role to ISPs (or OTTs) – letting end-users to compose services they want - raises new issues or concerns in terms of Identification, management and presentation of this larger service space augmented by the emerging IoT market

Approach

The approach relies on a unified management model de-segmenting IT and networking management while Integrating the IoT space where all resources are represented as virtual objects. Considering end-users as virtual objects allows for considering the service composition problem as the management of chains of Virtual Objects. This approach relies on 4 building blocks

Abstraction or modeling of each resources: (IT, network, applications, content, IoT, user) (functional modeling, interfaces, communication requirements)
Graph theory for composing services regarding to the combination of abstracted ‘resources’ (Virtual object)
Semantic analysis for filtering capable compositions regarding to end-user expectations
Competition: all companies working on service composition problems / service chains

Game-changing aspects

While delegating the management role to ISPs (or OTTs) better serving end-user service requests or expectations with expected QoE by providing an unified management tool for all resources to ISPs (or OTTs) . The management of VO (virtual object ) chains is a service composition tool allowing for cleverly combining all hardware and software resources upon end-user service requests/predictions while taking into account expected QoE. As noticeable, this tool might be considered as a brain driving a SDN controller Applies in the NFV problem space by providing the missing automatic composition of NFV chains.

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