Systems Research Platform

System Research Platform @ LRE

In Brief

  • Name: SRP - Systems Research Platform @ LRE
  • Scientific and technological challenges: Design and evaluation of secure and sovereign operating systems

Objectives

  • Provide a space dedicated to Systems Research at EPITA
  • Provide physical experimentation platforms
  • Welcome partnerships (currently: Taceo partnership on standby due to lack of technical response)
  • Welcome doctoral students on the subject

Evaluation of conteneur technologies

Staff

  • Lead: Pierre Parrend
  • Teacher-researchers: Marc Espie, David Beserra, Ludovic Perret, Laurent Baudoin, Loïca Avanthey
  • System Administrator: Vincent Gouaze
  • Research students (in 11/2025): paul.ferreira@epita.fr; aurelien.izoulet@epita.fr
  • R&D students (in 11/2025): maxence.bornecque@epita.fr; thibault.colcomb@epita.fr; lucas.dextreit-colombel@epita.fr; alexis.galopin@epita.fr

Resources

  • Available equipment
    • OpenBSD-Build
      • 5 dedicated machines
      • Hardware experimentation machines – driver development (e.g. Wi-Fi)
    • OS-Bench
      • Tower ‘2 cores, 10 GB RAM, 250 GB disk’
      • Tower ‘4-core, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB disk’
      • And various small size equiment, Raspberries, etc.
    • Underwater robotics
      • Reconfigurable chassis and systems (electronic cards, GPS)
      • Prototyping equipment: soldering iron, 3D printer, etc.
    • Project in preparation
      • Quantum key management server
      • Evaluations of post-quantum network protocols (e.g. DNSSec)

Dissemination

Scientific Production

Publications - Journals

  • C. Battarbee, C. Striecks, L. Perret, S. Ramacher, and K. Verhaeghe, “Quantum-Safe Hybrid Key Exchanges with KEM-Based Authentication,” Nature EP Quantum TechnologyJ, p. 1228, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.04030.
  • P. Melo, G. J. da Silva, A. B. Vanderlei, D. Beserra, and J. Araujo, “Performance Evaluation of Containerized Virtualization Platforms,” SN Computer Science, vol. 6, Aug. 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04297-3.
  • L. Avanthey and L. Beaudoin, “Dense In Situ Underwater 3D Reconstruction by Aggregation of Successive Partial Local Clouds,” Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 24, pp. 1–26, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.3390/rs16244737.
  • L. Avanthey and L. Beaudoin, “How to Boost Close-Range Remote Sensing Courses Using a Serious Game: Uncover in a Fun Way the Complexity and Transversality of Multi-Domain Field Acquisitions,” Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1–21, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.3390/rs14040817
  • L. Beaudoin, L. Avanthey, C. Bunel, and C. Villard, “Automatically Guided Selection of a Set of Underwater Calibration Images,” Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE), vol. 10, no. 6, p. 741, May 2022, doi: 10.3390/jmse10060741.
  • L. Beaudoin and L. Avanthey, “How to Help Digital-Native Students to Successfully Take Control of Their Learning: A Return of 8 Years of Experience on a Computer Science e-Learning Platform in Higher Education,” Education and Information Technologies (EIT), vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 5421–5451, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1007/s10639-022-11407-8.

Publications - Conferences

  • N. Meddouri, D. Beserra, L. Salmon, and E. Adja, “Decision rule-based learning of terrorist threats,” in Proceeding of 17th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Oct. 2025.
  • Azin Moradbeikie and Rolando Azevedo and Cristiano Jesus and and David Beserra and Sergio Ivan Lopes, “Indoor Localization in a Collaborative BLE-Based System through Dynamic Path Loss Estimation Via Location Aware Autonomous Mobile Robot,” in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 2025.
  • Azin Moradbeikie and Ivan Amorin and Rolando Azevedo and Cristiano Jesus and and David Beserra and Sergio Ivan Lopes, “Collaborative Indoor Positioning: A Machine Learning Approach for Dynamic Environments with Autonomous Mobile Robots,” in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 2025.
  • A. Sousa, D. Beserra, and J. Araujo, “Evaluating Software Aging Resistance in Serverless Computing under Stress Workloads,” in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 2025
  • D. Beserra and J. Araujo, “An Enhanced Formalism for Resource Management Policies Specification and Fast Evaluation in Pervasive Systems,” in 39th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2025), Apr. 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87766-7_4.
  • H. Oliveira, K. Camboim, D. Beserra, and J. Araujo, “Performance Evaluation of IoT-Enabled Edge Computing Infrastructure for mHealth Services,” in 39th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2025), Apr. 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87766-7_27.
  • A. C. Sousa, D. Beserra, and J. Araujo, “Performance Evaluation of Serverless Computing Infrastructure: Insights from Open-Source Frameworks,” in 39th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2025), Apr. 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87772-8_14.
  • P. Melo, L. Gama, J. Dantas, D. Beserra, and J. Araujo, “Performance Evaluation of Container Management Tasks in OS-Level Virtualization Platforms,” in 31th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Dec. 2023. doi: 10.1109/WETICE57085.2023.10477783.
  • S. Ris, J. Araujo, and D. Beserra, “A Systemic Mapping of Methods and Tools for Performance Analysis of Data Streaming with Containerized Microservices Architecture,” in 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI’2023), Jun. 2023. doi: 10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10211834.

Publications with students

  • A. Izoulet, D. Beserra, M. Espie, P. T. Endo, and J. Araujo, “Performance Evaluation of Proxmox for High-Performance Computing in Resource-Shared Environments,” in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 2025
  • A. Izoulet and D. Beserra, “Performance de Proxmox pour les Applications HPC en Contextes de Partage de Ressources,” in Conférence francophone d’informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (Compas 2025), Jul. 2025.
  • D. Beserra, R. Nantchouang, M. Chau, P. T. Endo, J. Araujo, and M. Espie, “How Effective are OS-level Virtualization Tools for Managing Containers?,” in 39th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2025), Apr. 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87772-8_13.
  • D. Beserra, P. T. Endo, L. Clinckx, T. Clement, B. Guisse, and A. Maugras, “Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computers: Cost/Performance Rela onship Over Time,” in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 2024. doi: 10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10832006.
  • D. Beserra, N. Meddouri, C. Restes, A. N. Zerrad, B. Bouharicha, and A. Duvernoy, “On the historical evolution of the performance versus cost ratio of Raspberry Pi computers,” in Conférence francophone d’informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (Compas 2023), Jul. 2023.
  • D. Beserra et al., “Could the Topology of Virtual Processors Affect the Performance of a BSD-family OS Running in a VM?,” in 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI’2023), Jun. 2023. doi: 10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10211928.

Conferences

White Papers

  • M. Bacou et al., “Journée thématique du GDR RSD : pratiques expérimentales de la communauté systèmes et réseaux,” in Journée thématique du GDR RSD : pratiques expérimentales de la communauté systèmes et réseaux, Jan. 2025

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