The Swiss press model. Democracy, concentration and digital diversification

Switzerland is a country where the press is key. Democracy is at the heart of the Swiss press, characterized by multilingualism, diversity of the press and a long tradition of newspapers readership. But the paid-for daily printed press has been faced with a crisis for the last decade with the development of the free press, the rise of Internet and a decline in advertising revenues. Consequently, the Swiss press model is evolving. With the help of various indicators, this paper highlights an increasingly strong concentration of the Swiss daily press between 2005 and 2014. Moreover, it analyses the strategies of the two main Swiss press groups, Tamedia and Ringier, towards profitable digital diversification. It shows that the Swiss press remains strong, contrarily to the French press, for example. Thus, the evolution of the Swiss press model is illustrative of a new economic model. However, the paper also emphasizes that the Swiss press is now faced with increasing competition from the world digital leaders, such as Google and Facebook

Parameter study and characterization of wireless nanonetworks through simulation (Invited Paper)

International audience—Nanowireless electromagnetic communication networks in the Terahertz band have raised interest in the networking community these very last years. However, if detailed studies have been published on analytical modelling of these networks, no simulation have been run to study in detail the characteristics of the transmission medium. We have designed Vouivre, a standalone nanowireless simulator, which is interfaced with two micro-robots simulator DPRSim and VisibleSim. This paper describes briefly Vouivre and presents first metrics of the communication channel using a communication paradigm called TS-OOK (Time Spread On-Off Keying)

Efficient Simulation Environment of Wireless Radio Communications in MEMS Modular Robots

International audienceModular robots needs networking for coordination and it is particularly true for MEMS micro robots. A promising communication technology is nanowireless networking which could be integrated directly into MEMS micro robots, in our case, the catoms of the Claytronics project. A first step towards this objective is to design a wireless simulator able to deal with modular robots. This simulator called Vouivre is integrated in DPRSim a modular robot simulator developed by Intel Research. This paper describes Vouivre and its integration in DPRSim which is an interesting case of integrating different timelines in one simulator. Experiments validate our design and show the interest of using wireless communication in modular robots