Stefano Secci

Short bio

Stefano Secci is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Télécom ParisTech - ENST, France. He obtained a Ph.D. from the same school, a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano, working in the respective telecommunication networks groups (ENST's and PoliMi's). His Ph.D. and M.Sc. research activities mainly concerned Internet routing, network design and optimization, and future Internet architectures. He worked as research associate in 2005 at the Research Center in Decision Analysis (GERAD) in the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada, and in 2006 at CNIT-DEI in Politecnico di Milano. He also worked as xDSL service engineer for Fastweb Italia. His research interests and activities currently cover Future Internet routing, traffic engineering, and network neutrality. He is recipient of the NGI 2009 Best Paper Award.

Research

Since late 2004, my activities have been focused on network optimisation and traffic engineering. For the M.Sc. degree I worked on optical network design at the GERAD - Ecole Polytecnique de Montreal with Prof. Brunilde Sansò. I continued at PoliMi with Proff. A. Pattavina, F. Malucelli, A. Ceselli and Dr. M. Tornatore. During the Ph.D. I have been involved in projects focused on QoS and traffic engineering (both intra-domain and inter-domain) - with Proff. Jean-Louis Rougier, Achille Pattavina, Guido Maier and many colleagues from the industry and those projects. At PoliMI, I also worked on a minor Ph.D. research theme, game theory application to inter-carrier peering and alliance models, in collaboration with Prof. Patrone Fioravante.

To summarize, my current research interests are:

operations research, graph theory,
game theory, multi-agent and multi-objective decision theory,

network design and dimensioning,
Internet traffic engineering, routing optimisation, routing games
telecommunication policies and Internet economics.

I have been reviewer for:

IEEE: Communications Magazine, Transactions on Communications, Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
Elsevier: Computer Networks, Computer Communications; Springer: Telecommunication Systems.
OSA: Optics Express, Journal of Optical Networking.
IEEE and IFIP conferences: ICC 2006+2007+2009, GLOBECOM 2007+2009, NTMS 2007, HPSR 2008, NGI 2008, ONDM 2009, CFIP 2009, DRCN 2009.

Projects

ETICS: Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services
Funded by EU FP7. Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2013.
With Alcatel-Lucent, RAD, Marben Products, Nextworks, BT, DT, Doruknet, Orange, Telefonica, Telenor, AUEB, Tel. Research Vienna, PoliMi, PRISM, Technion.
TIGER2: Together IP, GMPLS and Ethernet Reconsidered – Phase 2
Funded by CELTIC Initiative. July 2008 - June 2010.
With Alcatel-Lucent, IBBT, FORTH-ICS, Net Tech., Virtual Trip, RAD, DorukNet, T-Systems, UniGirona, INTERCOM.GI, BUTE.
I-GATE: Internet – Game-theoretical Analysis of Traffic Engineering mechanisms
Funded by Institut Télécom, ICF Networks of the Future Lab. Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2009.
With Télécom ParisTech, PoliMi, UniGenova.
INCAS: INter-Carrier Alliance Strategies
Funded by FP7 Euro-NF JRA.S.7. Sep. 2008 - Aug. 2009.
With Télécom ParisTech, PoliMi, Alcatel-Lucent, WUT.
TEIDE: Traffic Engineering Inter-Domain Extensions.
Funded by FP6 Euro-FGI JRA.S.30. Jun. 2007 - May. 2008.
With Télécom ParisTech, PoliMi, CoRiTel, WUT.
Euro-NGI, Euro-FGI, Euro-NF Networks of Excellence
Funded by FP6 and FP7 (2003 - 2010).
ACTRICE: inter-domain traffic engineering under economic contraints.
Funded by ANR/RNRT. June 2006 - Sep. 2008.
With Télécom ParisTech, Orange FT, Alcatel-Lucent, Transatel, PRISM/UniVersailles and CREM/UniRennes.
PETAWEB: Conception and design of the Petaweb transport network.
Funded by Nortel Networks (2004 - 2005).
With Télécom ParisTech, BroadLAB/EPM and OR/PoliMi.

Download, Links

Database for AS-level topologies
[Tar-Gzip archive(12MB)]
MPEG Motion Estimation Simulator
[Webpage (JRE 5 needed)]
IP2ASN tool, see Layer Four Traceroute (LFT) and WhoB
IP2AS tool
Other sources of inspiration...

Publications

Selected list

[J3] Anne REINERT, Brunilde SANSÒ, Stefano SECCI,
"Design Optimization of the Petaweb Architecture",
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 332-345, Feb. 2009.
[ISSN: 1063-6692] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J2] Richard DOUVILLE, Jean-Louis LE ROUX, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Stefano SECCI,
"A Service Plane over the PCE Architecture for Automatic Multidomain Connection-Oriented Services",
IEEE Communications Magazine , Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 94-102, June 2008.
[ISSN: 0163-6804] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C10] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER,
"ClubMED: Coordinated Multi-Exit Discriminator Strategies for Peering Carriers",
in Proc. of 2009 5th Euro-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI 2009), 1-3 July 2009, Aveiro, Portugal. Best Paper Award
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-4245-4] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C8] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"AS Tree Selection for Inter-Domain Multipoint MPLS Tunnels",
in Proc. of 2008 IEEE Int. Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), pp. 5863-5868, 19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-2075-9] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C4] Stefano SECCI, Alberto CESELLI, Federico MALUCELLI, Achille PATTAVINA, Brunilde SANSÒ,
"Direct optimal design of a quasi-regular composite-star core network",
in Proc. of 2007 IEEE 6th Int. Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2007), 07-10 October 2007, La Rochelle, France.
[ISBN: 2-912328-45-4] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]

Copyright Notice: these papers are published, the copyright has been transferred to respective publishers. Therefore, the papers cannot be duplicated for commercial purposes without the written permissions from the respective publishers.

Articles in International Journals

[J4] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
"Survivability and Reliability of a Composite-Star Transport Network with Disconnected Core Switches",
to appear in Telecommunication Systems (Springer), Vol. 46, No.1, Jan. 2011.
[ISSN: 1018-4864] [DOI]
[J3] Anne REINERT, Brunilde SANSÒ, Stefano SECCI,
"Design Optimization of the Petaweb Architecture",
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 332-345, Feb. 2009.
[ISSN: 1063-6692] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J2] Richard DOUVILLE, Jean-Louis LE ROUX, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Stefano SECCI,
"A Service Plane over the PCE Architecture for Automatic Multidomain Connection-Oriented Services",
IEEE Communications Magazine , Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 94-102, June 2008.
[ISSN: 0163-6804] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J1] Stefano SECCI, Massimo TORNATORE, Achille PATTAVINA,
"Optimal Design for Survivable Backbones with End-to-End and Subpath Wavebanding",
OSA Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 6, No. 1., pp. 1-12, Dec. 2006.
[ISSN: 1536-5379] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]

Papers in International Conference Proceedings

2009

[C12] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER,
"PEMP: Peering Equilibrium MultiPath routing",
in Proc. of 2009 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2009), 30 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2009, Honolulu, USA.
[paper(PDF)]
[C11] Mariusz MYCEK, Stefano SECCI, Michal PIORO, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Artur TOMASZEWSKI, Achille PATTAVINA,
"Cooperative Multi-Provider Routing Optimization and Income Distribution",
in Proc. of 2009 7th Int. Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2009), 25-28 Oct. 2009, Washington, USA.
[DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C10] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER,
"ClubMED: Coordinated Multi-Exit Discriminator Strategies for Peering Carriers",
in Proc. of 2009 5th Euro-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI 2009), 1-3 July 2009, Aveiro, Portugal. Best Paper Award
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-4245-4] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C9] Aruna Prem BIANZINO, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Stefano SECCI, Ramon CASELLAS, Ricardo MARTINEZ, Raul MUNOZ, Nabil Bachir DJARALLAH, Richard DOUVILLE, Hélia POUYLLAU,
"Testbed Implementation of Control Plane Extensions for Inter-Carrier GMPLS LSP Provisioning",
in Proc. of 2009 5th Int. Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2009), 6-8 April 2009, Washington, USA.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-2847-2] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]

2008

[C8] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"AS Tree Selection for Inter-Domain Multipoint MPLS Tunnels",
in Proc. of 2008 IEEE Int. Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), pp. 5863-5868, 19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-2075-9] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C7] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"Comparison of Quasi-Regular Composite-Star and Multi-Hop Structures for Core Networks",
in Proc. of 2008 IEEE Int. Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2008), 15-17 May 2008, Shanghai, China.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-1982-1] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)] [slides(PDF)]
[C6] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"On the Selection of Optimal Diverse AS-Paths for Inter-Domain IP/(G)MPLS Tunnel Provisioning",
in Proc. of 2008 IEEE 4th Int. Telecommunication Networking Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks (IT-NEWS 2008, former QoS-IP), pp. 235-241, 13-15 Feb. 2008, Venezia, Italy.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-1845-9] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]

2007

[C5] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"Constrained Steiner Problem with Directional Metrics",
in Proc. of 2007 EuroFGI Workshop on IP QoS and Traffic Control, 7-9 Dec. 2007, Lisbon.
[ISBN: 978-972-8469-67-2] [paper(PDF)]
[C4] Stefano SECCI, Alberto CESELLI, Federico MALUCELLI, Achille PATTAVINA, Brunilde SANSÒ,
"Direct optimal design of a quasi-regular composite-star core network",
in Proc. of 2007 IEEE 6th Int. Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2007), 07-10 October 2007, La Rochelle, France.
[ISBN: 2-912328-45-4] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[C3] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
"Upgrade of a Composite-Star Optical Network",
in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP NTMS 2007, 2-4 May 2007, Paris, France, as book chapter in New Technologies, Mobility and Security, pp. 281-296, Springer Netherlands, 2007.
[ISBN: 978-1-4020-6269-8] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)] [slides(PDF) ]

2006

[C2] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
"Optimization of a Dedicated Path Protected PetaWeb Architecture",
in Proc. of IFIP/INFORMS NAEC 2006, October 19-22, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy.
[ISBN: 0-9716253-9-5] [paper(PDF)] [slides(PDF) ]
[C1] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
"Design and Dimensioning of a Novel Composite-star WDM Network with TDM Channel Partitioning",
in Proc. of 2006 IEEE 3rd Int. Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2006) , October 1-5, 2006, San José, CA, USA.
[ISBN: 1-4244-0425-8] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)] [slides(PDF)]

Papers in Workshop and National Conference Proceedings

[WN4] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER,
"Peering Games for Critical Internet Flows",
in Proc. of 2009 EuroNF 5th Int. Workshop on Traffic Management and Engineering for the Future Internet, 7-8 Dec. 2009, Paris, France.
[paper(PDF)]
[WN3] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Mariusz MYCEK, Michal PIORO, Artur TOMASZEWSKI
"Connection-oriented Service Management in Provider Alliances: a Shapley Value Perspective",
in Proc. of 2009 EuroNF 5th Int. Workshop on Traffic Management and Engineering for the Future Internet, 7-8 Dec. 2009, Paris, France.
[paper(PDF)]
[WN2] Mariusz MYCEK, Michal PIORO, Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"A Shapley value-based Incentive Scheme for Cooperative Multi-Provider Traffic Management",
in Proc. of 2009 16th Polish Teletraffic Symposium (PTS 2009), Lódz, Poland, 24-25 September, 2009.
[ISBN: 978-83-7283-317-4] [paper(PDF)]
[WN1] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA
"Routage inter-domaine en mode connecté",
in Proc. of RESCOM 2008 summer school, 16-21 June 2008.
[short paper(PDF)]

Research reports

[R6] Stefano SECCI,
Broadband for All via Industrial Cluster in Fast Developing European Regions,
D.2.4 deliverable for the INTERREG III.A project "Adriatic Cooperation for Industrial Development"
[ACInD]
[R5] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
A Survivable Composite-Star Optical Transport Network with Disconnected Core Switches,
Les Cahiers du GERAD, G-2007-28, April 2007
[ISSN: 0711–2440] [Les Cahiers du GERAD] [paper(PDF)]
[R4] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
Upgrade of a Composite-Star Optical Network ,
Les Cahiers du GERAD, G-2007-15, Mars 2007
[ISSN: 0711–2440] [Les Cahiers du GERAD] [paper(PDF)]
[R3] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER,
A constrained Internet graph for interdomain circuit transit,
ENST research report, SR:IGR-06
[R2] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ,
Design and Dimensioning of a Novel Composite-Star WDM Network with TDM Channel Partitioning,
Les Cahiers du GERAD, G-2006-35, May 2006
[ISSN: 0711–2440] [Les Cahiers du GERAD] [paper(PDF)]
[R1] Anne REINERT, Brunilde SANSÒ, Stefano SECCI,
Design Optimization of the Petaweb Architecture ,
Les Cahiers du GERAD, G-2006-86, Revised in Decembre 2006
[ISSN: 0711–2440] [Les Cahiers du GERAD] [paper(PDF)]

Thesis

[T3] Ph.D. thesis, Stefano Secci,
Multi-Provider Network and Service Architecture,
Advisors: Jean-Louis Rougier, Achille Pattavina. 2009. Available in the central libraries of Telecom ParisTech and Politecnico di Milano, and in the national libraries of Rome and Florence.
[T2] Minor research Ph.D. thesis, Stefano Secci,
Game theory for Internetworking,
Advisor: Fioravante Patrone. Available at the library of Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Nr: 2008.21.
[Tesi on-line]
[T1] Master thesis,
Design and optimisation of a novel composite-star TDM/WDM network architecture: the Petaweb,
Advisors: Achille Pattavina, Brunilde Sansò. Published at the Central Library of Politecnico di Milano, 2005. Inv.: 0TN900009185, Coll. T.D.L. 12427.
[OPAC PoliMi] [Tesi on-line]

Teaching

Télécom ParisTech

2006-2009 - Assistant and lecturer for "Introduction aux Réseaux (1ère partie)" - INFRES721.
2006-2009 - Assistant for "Principe et architecture des réseaux IP" - RES240.
2006-2010 - Assistant and lecturer for "Nouvelles Techno. de l'IP et l'Internet du futur" -RES343
[Course website] [TP BGP]
2008-2009 - Lecturer for "Réseaux IP: les nouvelles technologies" - Continuining education
2006-2009 - Assistant and lecturer for "BCI Réseaux" - RES101, RES200
[TP Topologie Internet]

EFREI

The EFREI is a school of engineering and management for ICT in the south of Paris.
Roughly 90h/year.

2007-2010 - External Lecturer for "Internet Architecture" (graduate M1 level), in english and french
[Course website]
2007-2010 - External Lecturer for "Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence" (graduate M2 level), in english and french
[Course website]

Université de Marne la Vallée

2008-2010 - External lecturer for "Data Warehouse" (undergraduate pro) at the "Informatique & Nouvelles Technologies" department of UTEC (Université Technologique d'Enseignement Consulaire) @ Université de Marne la Vallée. 12h/year.

Expertise

Access networks, xDSL networks, IP convergence;

Core networks, optical WDM networks, IP/MPLS/G-MPLS networking;

IGP and EGP routing, BGP, VoIP, IP-TV, VoD, VPN, PCE;

Network design, planning, optimisation, traffic engineering;

Operations Support Systems, Network Inventory, Data Warehouse, Web Service architectures.

Learning tracks] [Unités enseignement réseaux]

CV

Chronological curriculum vitae

born in Milano, the 19th of February.
July 1999, high school diploma "Maturità scientifica" at Liceo Antonio Banfi.
Sep. 1999, enrolled in a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy ('vecchio ordinamento', i.e., 5 years full-time courses + 1 year of research internship).
Nov. 2000 - Jan. 2002, ICT consultant for GM online, Milan, Italy.
Sep. 2002 - Sep. 2003, exchange student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Mars 2004 - June 2004, ad interim IT Director at Archive Systems in Bucharest, Romania, for the EU Leonardo da Vinci II program.
Jan. 2005 - Sep. 2005, visiting researcher at the GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis) of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.
Oct. 2005: M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.
Till Mars 2006, associate researcher for the CNIT (Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications) at Politecnico di Milano.
Till May 2006, service infrastructure engineer at Fastweb Italia, Milan, Italy.
June 2006 - Dec. 2009, research engineer at Télécom ParisTech (ENST), France.
Oct. 2006, enrolled in a special franco-italian dual Ph.D program at Télécom ParisTech (ENST) and Politecnico di Milano.
Since Feb. 2007, external lecturer at EFREI school of management and ICT (roughly 100 h/year).
Sept. 2007, visiting researcher at Warsaw University of Technology.
Nov. 2009, visiting researcher at Norvegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Dec. 2009: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Networks at Télécom ParisTech (ENST).
Dec. 2009: Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies at Politecnico di Milano.
Since Dec. 2009, postdoctoral research associate at Télécom ParisTech (ENST), France.

Languages

Italian (mother language), French (fluent), English (fluent), Roumanian (basis)

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Department of Network and Computer Science
Télécom ParisTech
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