Shock tube study at High-pressure of Oxygenated fuels for Chemical Kinetic. The project will start in September 2013 and end in September 2015. Fundamental data such as ignition delay times and species profiles at practical conditions are invaluable for the improvement and extension of chemical kinetics models to engine applications. High pressure shock tubes are ideal to perform such measurements and have been used during last decades. This device has been already used in France however never built to reach engines relevant conditions and used in this purpose. The project aim is to develop a unique high pressure shock tube for autoignition measurements. First step will be to obtain measurements and compare them with literature results to validate the tube, and then the apparatus will be operated to study and characterize oxygenated compounds which would be used as fuel. This is a research area of very high impact in renewable energy and combustion science and technology. High pressure combustion has been recognised as central for clean and efficient advanced combustion energy technologies. This research program will be divided into three main parts: - The first part consists in the design and manufacture of a high-pressure shock tube; - The second part consists in the validation of the high-pressure shock; - The third part is based on the use of the shock tube in order to study the oxidation process of different fuels. All results of this project will be published in peer-reviewed journals and all work content will be disseminated through international conferences. The team is consists of five people. Dr. Lefort is the project leader, Associate Professor and is involved at 95% in the project. Dr. Kéromnés, Associate Professor, is involved at 85%. Pr. Le Moyne, Professor, is involved at 15%. M. Erard is a technician and involved at 20%. The post-doctoral researcher will be hired for this project and involved at 100%.The partners for this project are highly complementary thanks to their different backgrounds which cover all the physical and chemical aspects of the combustion process, including mixture preparation, combustion initiation, propagation and chemical kinetics. Moreover, they have a strong experimental background in both the development of experimental devices and the development of analysis tools and/or methods in order to study the combustion process. Finally, they also cover a large numerical background thanks to 3D modelling, 0D modelling and the development of chemical kinetics mechanisms. This project is to create a new research field into the DRIVE laboratory. The grant requested is 228800 €. There is no doubt that the results of this project will be very valuable to the project team to build collaborations leading to breakthroughs in the field. Keys words: high pressure shock tube, autoignition, biofuel, chemical kinetic combustion.

Network slicing is considered as the key technology of an agile Vehicle-to-everything use-case deployment. However, most deployments in Europe focus on evaluating the network performance and ignore the security and privacy aspects, notably in a cross-border scenario. Building on key 5G technologies (SDN, NFV) and machine learning algorithms (federated and deep learning), 5G-INSIGHT aims at: (a) proposing new techniques for traffic prediction, thus allowing the early detection of intrusions and anomalies within 5G vehicular slices; (b) enforcing security-by design and privacy-preserving slicing policies for attack mitigation and personal data anonymization, respectively; and (c) developing resource orchestration and management across multiple potential providers using federated slicing. Proposed approaches will be validated by simulations as well as by an experimental platform (proof-of-concept) that integrates the specific characteristics of the France-Luxembourg cross-border area.