Section: Other Grants and Activities

International initiatives

• We work with Duke university (USA) on modelling aided by Petri nets.

• We work with the University of Montreal on the development of randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo methods, with applications in telecommunications.

• We have an ECOS SUD research program with Uruguay, with ARMOR involved in pricing and capacity planning activities.

• We also have obtained a one year funding from INRIA to work with Florida State University on Quasi-Monte Carlo methods and their randomizations, with applications in finance and telecommunications.

• We are currently working with the university of Arizona (M. F. Neuts), with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (P. R. Parthasarathy) and AT&T Labs Research (V. Ramaswami) on the analysis of fluid models.

• ARMOR is a partner of the STIC Asia program on IPv6. This program founded by INRIA, CNRS and MAE enhances collaboration between Asian countries (mainly South Korea, Japan and China) and French laboratories to promote research on IPv6 and related protocols. ARMOR is involved in network measurements and mobility.

• In the STIC INRIA - Universities of Tunisia program, we have a common project with ENSI, Tunisia on ``Optimization of dynamic wireless networks''.

• R. Marie is a member of the IFIP working groups 6.3 (Performance of Communication Systems) and 7.3 (Computer System Modelling and Performance Evaluation). G. Rubino is a member of the IFIP working group 7.3.