Starting November 2018, I am on extended academic leave.
This website, as well as contact information, etc. are no longer up-to-date. Please check
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I am very passionate in my work and always open for new challenges. Currently I put my passion at work on research interests such as Machine learning, Internet traffic measurement, Information centric networks and high speed all-sofware networking. Formerly I also worked on congestion control, green networking, peer-2-peer networks, traffic engineering vehicular networks. To summarize my achievements in these last few years at Telecom ParisTech, I have coauthored 9 patents and 150+ papers in leading conferences (including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT and ACM IMC) and journals (including IEEE JSAC, ACM/IEEE TON, ACM CCR, IEEE TMM).
I am honored to have received distinctions such as the IETF Applied Network Research Prize (2016), and the Google Faculty Research Award (2015) and several other awards (see below). For what matters, Google scholar reports 4700+ citations, with an H-index of 30+ and a i10index of 80+, and more than 10 papers with over 100 citations each.
Whenever possible, I put datasets and code on this Webpage: I am delighted that
our work and had impact on IETF standards LEDBAT WG, that
4000+ people have found ccnSim useful for their research, and that 1000+ people browsed and used our anycast dataset. Do not hesitate to wander throughout the pages in this website, as we keep pushing new stuff!
These achievements wouldn’t have been possible without the help of several MSc, PhD students and PostDocs, which have been funded mainly through European research projects (such as FP7 mPlane, NAPA-WINE, Celtic TIGER, TIGER2 and TRANS, ANR Connect) and industrial grants (with Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, Orange, Google and Cisco to name a few).
In terms of community services, I co-chair the RT2, that federates the Institut Mines-Telecom researchers working on networking domain (about 50 people from 5 schools in France), serve in the Steering committee of ITC and AINTEC, chaired ACM ICN (2016), the last 2 editions of ACM SIGCOMM AINTEC (2013,2014) and of the ACM SIGCOMM PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (2014,2018) and participated in the program committees of 50+ conferences including ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM of which I am Distinguished Member (2015,2016,2017). I am a Senior member of the IEEE (2013) and Senior member of the ACM (2015).
The research stage of François Espinent (X2011) at LINCS was awarded honourable distinction with unanimous congratulations from the jury
Best paper award at the 6th International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and Characterization(TRAC 2015)
Best paper award at the 5th International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and Characterization(TRAC 2014)
Runner up for best paper award at the 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2013)
IEEE Senior member (2013)
Best paper award at the 5th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2012)
Grants and projects
I am grateful to a number of industrial partners, that have sponsored my research work, including:
Cisco Systems
Google Inc
Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs
Orange Labs
Vodafone
Furthemore, I am grateful to the various agencies that
funded over the years. Here are some pointers to the research projects I am/was involved with as technical and management leader for Telecom ParisTech :
NewNet@Paris (2016-), an industrial Chair sponsored by Cisco on making the network great again
mPlane(2013-2015), an FP7 project focused on building an intelligent Measurement Plane for future network and application management
Connect (2011-2013), an ANR project on Content-oriented networking, a new experience for content transfer
NAPA-WiNe (2009-2011), an FP7 strep project titled Network Aware P2p-Application over Wise Networks, with focus on live streaming applications
Trans (2008-2009), a CELTIC Project of the Eureka Cluster Programme titled Traffic Aware Network and Services
Tiger2 (2007-2008), a CELTIC Project of the Eureka Cluster Programme which continues upon the success of Tiger
Tiger (2006-2007), a CELTIC Project of the Eureka Cluster Programme focused on carrier-grade Ethernet that received the Celtic Excellence Award in gold.
Here’s some additional pointers to the research projects I was involved with prior to joining Telecom ParisTech :
Mimosa (2005–2007)
Lead by Prof. A. Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano)
MIUR PRIN, MIsure sperimentali e MOdelli di traffico dati multiServizio a pAcchetto (Experimental Measurements and Traffic Models of Multiservice Packet Networks)
Famous (2005–2007)
Lead by Prof. A. Lombardo (Università di Catania)
MIUR PRIN, Fluid Analytical Models Of aUtonomic Systems
RedLarf (2006–2006)
Prof. I. Norros (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
EuroNGI JRA.S.15, Random Encounter Based Distribution of Large Files
Ipam (2005–2006)
Lead by Prof. R. Valadas (IT Aveiro)
EuroNGI JRA.S.13, Integration of Passive and Active Measurement Platforms
EuroNGI (2004–2006)
Lead by Prof. D. Kofman (Telecom ParisTech)
Network of Excellence on the Next Generation Internet
Pattern (2003–2005)
Lead by Prof. G. Mazzini (Università di Ferrara)
MIUR PRIN, Protocols And cross-layer Techniques To achieve Energy-efficiency in Reconfigurable adhoc and sensor Networks
Tango (2001–2003)
Lead by Prof. M. Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico di Torino)
MIUR FIRB, Traffic models and Algorithms for Next Generation IP networks
Area Chair of ITC29, 29th ITC conference, Area #4 (Measurements and Big Data Analytics), Genoa, Italy, September 2017,
PC Chair of ACM SIGCOMM ICN 2016, 3rd ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2016), 26-28 September 2016
PC Chair of AINTEC 2014, 10th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC), Thailand, November, 2014 held in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM
General Chair of \hrefbf{http://networks.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/tma-2014/
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4th PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, London, UK, 14-16 April 2014
PC Chair of AINTEC 2013
9th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC)
2018 Technical Program Committees
ACM SIGCOMM’18, 32st ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Poster and demo track, August 2018, Budapest, Hungary
IEEE INFOCOM’18, 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, April 2018, Hawaii, US
ITC30, ITC30 Area 2: Network Measurements and Big Data, September 3-7, 2018, Vienna, Austria
FMEC2018, Third International IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC’18), April 23-26, 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
2017 Technical Program Committees
ACM CoNEXT’17, 13th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT’17),
ACM ICN’17, 4th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN’17), Sep. 26-28, Poster and demo session.
ITC29, 29th ITC conference, Area #1 (Networking, Cloud/Fog/Ubiquitous Computing, and Applications, Genoa, Italy, September 2017
BigDAMA’17), 1st ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA’17)
ACM SIGCOMM’17, 31st ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Poster and demo track, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2017
IFIP TMA’17, IFIP Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2017
IEEE INFOCOM’17, 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Atlanta, USA, May 2017 [Distinguished Member Award {
CCDWN, 2nd workshop on Content Delivery and Caching in Wireless Networks (CCDWN’17), co-located with WiOpt 2017, Paris France, May 2017
ACM SIGCOMM ICN’15
2nd ACM conference on Information-centric Networking, San Francisco, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2015.
ICNC’15,
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Anaheim, CA, USA, February 16-19, 2015
PAM’15
Passive and Active Measurement Conference, New York City, NY, March 19-20, 2015
2014 Technical Program Committees
IEEE INFOCOM’14
33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Toronto, Candada, April 27-May 2, 2014
TMA 2014
6th International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA), London, UK,
TRAC 2014
5th International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and Characterization, Nicosia, Cyprus , August 4-8, 2014
EuCNC 2014 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 23-26, 2014.
IEEE Globecom’14
IEEE Global Communication Conference, Austin, Texas, US, 9-12 December, 2014
IEEE CCNC’14
11th Annual IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC 2014), Las Vegas, January, 2014
IEEE ICNC’14
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2014), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 3-6, 2014
2013 Technical Program Committees
ACM CoNEXT 2013
9th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 9-12 December 2013
ITC25
The 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC25), Shanghai, China, September 10-12, 2013.
IEEE TRICANS’13
1st IEEE ICC Workshop on Traffic Identification and Classification for Advanced Network Services and Scenarios (TRICANS), Budapest, June 2013
ACM SAC’13
28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013
IEEE CCNC’13
10th Annual Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, January, 2013
2012 Technical Program Committees
AINTEC 2012
8th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2012, November 14-16, in Bangkok, Thailand.
IEEE CAMAD 2012
IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Barcelona, Spain, 17-19 September 2012
IEEE ISCC 2012
17th IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications,Cappadocia, Turkey, July 1-4, 2012
IEEE GCN 2012
IEEE ICC’12 Workshop on Green Communications and Networking, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15 2012
IEEE ICC 2012
IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15 2012
TMA 2012
4th COST TMA International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, colocated with Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2012), Vienna, Austria, March 12-14, 2012
IEEE CCNC 2012
The 9th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 7-14 January 2012
2011 Technical Program Committees
IEEE GLOBECOM 2011,
IEEE Global Communication Conference, Orlando, Texas, US, 5- 9 December, 2011,
IEEE CSE 2011,
The 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Dalian, China, 24-26 August 2011
IEEE ISCC 2011,
IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications, Corfu, Greece, June 28 - August 1, 2011,
TMA 2011, Third COST TMA International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, co-located with European Wireless 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011
IEEE ICC 2011,
IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kyoto, Japan, 5-9 June 2011
IEEE GLOBECOM’10,
IEEE Global Communications Conference, Miami, FL, USA, 6-10 December 2010
IEEE ISCC’10,
IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications, Riccione, Italy, June 22 - 25, 2010
IEEE ICC’10,
IEEE International Conference on Communications, Capetown, South Africa, 23-26 May, 2010
TMA’10,
2nd Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop, colocated with Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, April 7, 2010,
2009 Technical Program Committees
IEEE ISCC’09,
International Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia, July 5 - 8, 2009,
ITCSS-20,
20th ITC Specialist Seminar (ITCSS-20), Hoi An, Viet Nam, 18-20 May 2009,
TMA’09,
1st Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop, co-located with IFIP Networking 2009, Aachen, Germany, May 11-15, 2009,
IEEE ICC’09,
IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 14-18, Dresden, Germany, 2009,
2008 Technical Program Committees
IEEE MP2P’08,
5th IEEE Workshop on Mobile P2P Computing, held in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’08), Hong Kong, China, March 17 - 21, 2008
IEEE ICC’08,
IEEE International Conference on Communications, Wireless Networking Symposium, Beijing, China, 19-23 May 2008
IEEE IT-NEWS’08,
4th International Telecommunication NEtworking WorkShop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks, February 2008 in Venice, Italy
2007 Technical Program Committees
MoVeNet’07,
International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks, October 12, 2007, Pisa, Italy (Co-Located with IEEE MASS 2007)
IEEE IPCCC’07,
26th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, April 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Alumni
PhD Advisor (ongoing)
F. Salutari (expected graduation 2021), co-advised with A. Bifet, Telecom ParisTech
A. Putina (expected graduation 2021), co-advised with A. Bifet, Telecom ParisTech
T. Green (expected graduation 2020), co-advised with A. Lambert, Orange
M. Enguehard (expected graduation May 2019), co-advised with R. Droms, Cisco
J. Samain (expected graduation Feb 2019), co-advised with G. Carofiglio, Cisco
PhD Advisor (graduated)
D. Cicalese (graduated May 2018), co-advised with T. Friedman, UPMC
T. Zhang (visiting 2017), co-advised with Paolo Giaccone, Politecnico di Torino
E. Bocchi (graduated Apr 2017), co-advised with M. Mellia, Politecnico di Torino
C. Imbrenda (graduated Nov 2016), co-advised with L. Muscariello, Orange
A. Araldo (graduated Oct 2016), co-advised with F. Martignon, LRI
Y. Gong (graduated Mar 2016)
R. Mansilha (visiting 2015), co advised with M. Barcelo, Universidad federal do Rio Grande do Sul
M. Tortelli (visiting 2014), co-advised with G. Boggia, Politecnico di Bari
G. Rossini (graduated Feb 2014)
C. Testa (graduated Nov 2012)
M. Gallo (graduated Nov 2012), co-advised with L. Muscariello, Orange
P. M. Santiago del Rio (visiting 2012), co-advised with J. Aracil, Universidad Autonoma Madrid (UAM)
R. Vilardi (visiting 2012), co-advised with G. Boggia, Politecnico di Bari
P. Veglia (graduated Sep 2011)
S. Valenti (graduated Sep 2011)
P. Bermolen (graduated Feb 2010), co-advised with F. Baccelli, INRIA
PostDocs and Visiting Research Fellows
M. Crovella (Visiting Professor from Boston University, 2018) https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/
R. Rejaje (Visiting Professor from University of Oregon, 2018) https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~reza/
T. Zhang (PostDoc, 2018-)
D. Da Hora (PostDoc, 2017-)
L. Linguaglossa (PostDoc, 2017-)
S. Pontarelli (Visiting researcher from University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2017)
M. Tortelli (2015-2017)
J. Auge (PostDoc, 2014-2015)
D. Zeaiter Joumblatt (PostDoc, 2013-2015)
L. De Cicco (Visiting researcher, 2013-2014)
J. Alcober (Visiting researcher from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2008)