In Europe's leading research institute

Thanks to its top-quality researchers and numerous international guests, Inria is at the forefront of networking and computer science research. In 2015, Inria was raked #1 company in France for the wellbeing of its employees.

Co-chairing IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE

The EVA team co-chairs the IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE working groups, which standardize the networking technology for the Factory of the Future and the security solutions.

The Home of Berkeley's OpenWSN

Inria-EVA co-leads Berkeley's OpenWSN project, the de-facto open-source implementation of Industry 4.0 standards such as IEEE802.15.4e Time Synchronized Channel Hopping. In 2015, ETSI selected OpenWSN as the reference implementation of 6TiSCH.

Tight Collaboration with Industry

Inria-EVA prouds itself of its defining technology that is used in commercial solutions. We constantly thrive for tight collaboration with the industry, through European and national projects, bilateral agreements or consultancy. Don't hesitate to contact us.

Extensive International Collaboration

Inria-Paris is located at the heart of Europe, and Inria-EVA has strong research collaborations across the Old Continent and the world. Once example in the REALMS associate team between Inria-EVA, UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan.

Designing Tomorrow's Internet of (Important) Things

Inria-AIO is a leading research team in low-power wireless communications. The team is designing Tomorrow's Internet of (Important) Things. It pushes the limits of low-power wireless mesh networking by applying them to critical applications such as robotics, industrial control loops, with harsh reliability, scalability, security and energy constraints. Inria-AIO co-chairs the IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE standardization working group and co-leads Berkeley's OpenWSN project. Inria-AIO is heavily involved in real-world applications, and oversees over 1,000 sensors deployed on 3 continents for smart agriculture, smart city and environmental monitoring applications. The team's research program is organized around 5 pilars: Smart Dust, Low-Power Wireless Networking, Security in Constrained Systems, Swarm Robotics and Vehicle Area Networking. The team is associated with Prof. Pister's team at UC Berkeley, working on Smart Dust.

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Our publications

Pre-Shared Key Authentication with EDHOC: The Security-Performance Tradeoff. Elsa Lopez Perez, Thomas Watteyne, Rafael Marin-Lopez, Cristina Onete, Mališa Vučinić. IEEE Access, to appear in 2025.

IEEE ICRA Paper Accepted!!

Automatic Lighthouse Calibration Using Conics for Indoor Robot Localization. Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexander Abadie, Martina Balbi, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), conference version of the RAL article, Vienna, Austria, 1-5 June 2026.

IEEE TNSM Article Accepted!!

Management of 6TiSCH Networks Using CORECONF: A Clustering Use Case. Fabian Graf, David Pauli, Michael Villnow, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), to appear in 2025.

LOG paper accepted!!

TopoFormer: An Efficient Link-Set Prediction Architecture for Ad Hoc Network Topology Generation. Félix Marcoccia, Victor Fagoo, Gilles Monzat de Saint Julien, Cédric Adjih, Thomas Watteyne, Paul Mühlethaler. Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 10-12 December 2025.

PEMWN paper accepted!!

Experimental Investigation of Bit Errors in Coexisting BLE and IEEE 802.15.4 Channels. Diego Badillo-San-Juan, Alfonso Cortés, Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexandre Abadie, Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. IFIP International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN), Paris, France, November 25-27 2025

talk by Hazem Chaabi

Please join us for a talk by Hazem Chaabi on 20-Nov-2025, 2pm (B308, Al Kindi)! Title: Distributed Multi-Robot Exploration With Connectivity Maintenance Under QoS Constraints Abstract: Over the past few decades, autonomous robotics has witnessed remarkable advancement, driven by the integration of distributed coordination mechanisms, bio-inspired algorithms, and machine learning…

ComMag article Accepted!

What to Expect when Using DECT NR+. Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Michael Villnow. IEEE Communications Magazine, to appear in 2025.

Best demo award at EWSN 2025!

We received the Best Demo Award at the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) 2025 in Leuven, Belgium for the following paper! Demo: Mari Allows Connecting Large Scale Robot Swarms using TSCH over BLE and Multiple Independent Gateways. Geovane Fedrecheski, Alexandre Abadie, Mališa Vučinić, Said Alvarado-Marin, Thomas Watteyne.…

Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán (Pontifica, Chile) is Visiting!

And he is giving a talk! 16-Sep-2025, Inria Paris, B601 “Research at IoT-UC: The Internet of Things Research Lab at UC Chile” This talk presents ongoing research directions at IoT-UC, the new Internet of Things (IoT) research lab at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile led by Prof. Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán.…

Lei Poo and Jackie Hui (Analog Devices) are visiting!

Fantastic welcoming Lei Poo and Jackie Hui from Analog Devices today!

In Europe's leading research institute

Co-chairing IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE

The Home of Berkeley's OpenWSN

Tight Collaboration with Industry

Extensive International Collaboration

Designing Tomorrow's Internet of (Important) Things

Team

Research

Publications

IEEE Access Article Accepted!!

IEEE ICRA Paper Accepted!!

IEEE TNSM Article Accepted!!

LOG paper accepted!!

PEMWN paper accepted!!

talk by Hazem Chaabi

ComMag article Accepted!

Best demo award at EWSN 2025!

Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán (Pontifica, Chile) is Visiting!

Lei Poo and Jackie Hui (Analog Devices) are visiting!