Stefano Secci

Short bio

Stefano Secci obtained a dual Ph.D. in ICT from Télécom ParisTech (ENST), France, and from Politecnico di Milano (2009), working in the respective networking groups (ENST's and PoliMi's), and a M.Sc. in telecommunication engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2005). Before his Ph.D., he worked as research associate at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (GERAD), Canada, and at Politecnico di Milano (DEI), and as network engineer for Fastweb. His research activities concerned Internet routing, network design and optimization. Since fall 2009, his postdoctoral activities are about future Internet routing resiliency, and are conducted at Télécom ParisTech, NTNU (Q2S), Norway, and George Mason University (CNL), USA.

Research

My current research interests are:

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

network design, dimensioning, reliability,
traffic engineering, routing optimisation, routing games,
future Internet routing, policy and mobility.

Service

Brunilde SansòMassimo TornatoreFederico MalucelliAchille PattavinaAruna Prem BianzinoJean-Louis RougierAlberto CeselliMichal PioroRamon CasellasPatrone FioravanteBjarne Emil HelvikBijan Jabbari

I am or have been member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of:

2011 IEEE Internation Conference in Communications (ICC 2011) - Communications QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium
2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010) - Next Generation Networking Symposium
2010 6th EuroNF Conference on Next Generation Internet (NGI 2010).
2009 Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingenierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2009) - shadow TPC

and reviewer for:

IEEE: Communications Magazine, Transactions on Communications, Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
Elsevier: Computer Networks, Computer Communications.
Springer: Telecommunication Systems, Annals of Telecommunications.
OSA: Journal of Optical Networking, Optics Express.
IEEE-IFIP conferences: ICC 06+07+09+11, GLOBECOM 07+09+10, NGI 08+10, NTMS 2007, HPSR 2008, ONDM 2009, CFIP 2009, DRCN 2009.

and session chair for TRIDENTCOM 2009, HPSR 2008, IT-NEWS (QoS-IP) 2008 and NAEC 2006.

Projects

ETICS: Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services
Funded by EU FP7. Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2013.
TIGER2: Together IP, GMPLS and Ethernet Reconsidered – Phase 2
Funded by CELTIC Initiative. July 2008 - June 2010.
I-GATE: Internet – Game-theoretical Analysis of Traffic Engineering mechanisms
Funded by Institut Télécom. Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2009.
INCAS: INter-Carrier Alliance Strategies
Funded by FP7 Euro-NF JRA.S.7. Sep. 2008 - Aug. 2009.
TEIDE: Traffic Engineering Inter-Domain Extensions.
Funded by FP6 Euro-FGI JRA.S.30. Jun. 2007 - May. 2008.
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.
PETAWEB: Conception and design of the Petaweb transport network.
Funded by Nortel Networks (2004 - 2005).

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

Five selected publications:

[J7] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER,
"Peering Equilibrium MultiPath Routing: a game theory framework for Internet peering settlements",
to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011.
[ISSN: 1063-6692] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J4] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA,
"AS-level source routing for multi-provider connection-oriented services",
Computer Networks, Vol. 54, No. 14, pp: 2453-2467, Oct. 2010.
[ISSN: 1389-1286] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[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)]
[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)]

Journals - peer review

[J7] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER, "Peering Equilibrium MultiPath Routing: a game theory framework for Internet peering settlements", to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011.
[ISSN: 1063-6692] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J6] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, Fioravante PATRONE, Guido MAIER, "Multi-Exit Discriminator Game for BGP Routing Coordination", to appear in Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 48, No. 1-2, Sept. 2011.
[ISSN: 1018-4864] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J5] Stefano SECCI, Brunilde SANSÒ, "Survivability and Reliability of a Composite-Star Transport Network with Disconnected Core Switches", Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 46, No.1, Jan. 2011.
[ISSN: 1018-4864] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[J4] Stefano SECCI, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Achille PATTAVINA, "AS-level source routing for multi-provider connection-oriented services", Computer Networks, Vol. 54, No. 14, pp: 2453-2467, Oct. 2010.
[ISSN: 1389-1286] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]
[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)]

International Conference Proceedings - peer review

2010

[C14] Stefano SECCI, Huaiyuan MA, Bjarne Emil HELVIK, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, "A Resilient Routing Policy for Peering Management", in Proc. of 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), 6-10 Dec. 2010, Miami, USA.
[paper(PDF)]
[C13] Eric ELENA, Jean-Louis ROUGIER, Stefano SECCI, "Characterisation of AS-level Path Deviations and Multipath in Internet Routing", in Proc. of 2010 6th Conference on Next Generation Internet (NGI 2010), 2-4 June 2010, Paris, France.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-8167-5] [DOI] [Abstract] [paper(PDF)]

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.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-4148-8] [DOI] [Abstract] [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.
[ISBN: 978-1-4244-5047-3] [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, Portugal.
[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)] ]
[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)]

Other Conferences, Workshops and Invited

[O4] 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)]
[O3] 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)]
[O2] 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)]
[O1] 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)]

Dissertations

[T3] Ph.D. dissertation, Multi-Provider Service and Transport Architectures,
Advisors: Jean-Louis Rougier, Achille Pattavina. 2009. In the central libraries of Telecom ParisTech, Politecnico di Milano, and in the national libraries of Rome and Florence.
[thesis(PDF)]
[T2] Minor research Ph.D. dissertation, Game theory for Internetworking,
Advisor: Fioravante Patrone. In the library of Electronics and Information Dept., 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. In the Central Library of Politecnico di Milano, 2005; Inv.: 0TN900009185, Coll. T.D.L. 12427.
[OPAC PoliMi] [Tesi on-line]

Teaching

From 2006 to 2010 I've taught mainly for networking courses at Télécom ParisTech, EFREI, UTEC and Univ. di Pavia, for a total of roughly 275h of courses, 25h of exercises and 260h of labs (610h eq. TD). See below for details.

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]

UTEC - 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, 1980.
July 1999, high school diploma "Maturità scientifica" at Liceo Antonio Banfi, Vimercate, Italy.
Sep. 1999 - Oct 2005, M.Sc. (laurea VO) in Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Nov. 2000 - Jan. 2002, ICT consultant (part-time) for GMonline, Milan, Italy.
Sep. 2002 - Sep. 2003, Erasmus exchange student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Oct. 2003 - Feb. 2004, CC consultant (part-time) for Sky TV, Milan, Italy.
Mar. - June 2004, IT consultant (EU Leonardo da Vinci II program) for Archive Systems, Bucharest.
Jan. - Sep. 2005, research associate at the GERAD, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.
Nov. 2005 - Mar. 2006, research associate at the CNIT, Politecnico di Milano.
Mar. - May 2006, network engineer at Fastweb Italia, Milan, Italy.
June 2006 - Dec. 2009, research engineer at Télécom ParisTech (ENST), France.
Oct. 2006, enrolled in a dual Ph.D program at Télécom ParisTech and Politecnico di Milano.
Since Feb. 2007, external lecturer (roughly 90 h/year) at EFREI, Villejuif, France.
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 (Télécom ParisTech, NTNU and GMU).
Starting by Oct. 2010, Associate Professor at LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Paris VI.

Languages

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

For a detailed CV please contact me: stefano.secci 'AT' telecom-paristech.fr

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