Section: Other Grants and Activities

European initiatives

NoE EuroNF

Participants : Gerardo Rubino, Bruno Tuffin.

EuroNF Euro-NF is a Network of Excellence on the Network of the Future, formed by 35 institutions (from the academia and industry) from 16 countries. Its main target is to integrate the research effort of the partners to be a source of innovation and a think tank on possible scientific, technological and socio-economic trajectories towards the network of the future. It has started in January 2008 and is ending in December 2010 (see http://euronf.enst.fr/en_accueil.html for details).

Bruno Tuffin is the INRIA team leader in this project.

The group is contributing to the following working packages (Joint Research Activities):

• WP.JRA.2.2: Traffic Engineering, Mechanisms and Protocols for Controlled Bandwidth Sharing;

• WP.JRA.2.4: Routing and Traffic Management in a Multi-Provider Context;

• WP.JRA.2.5: Design of Optimal Highly Dependable Networks;

• WP.JRA.3.2: SLAs, Pricing, Quality of Experience;

• WP.JRA.3.3: Cost Models.

G. Rubino is the leader of the WP SEA 7.1, on Industrial Cooperation between EuroNF and the European industry.

PRECO project

Participant : Bruno Tuffin.

We are members of the PRECO project (Pricing and Regulation in COmpetitive telecommunication networks) within EuroNF NoE, funded for a period of one year Sept. 2008 and Sept. 2009, in collaboration with TELECOM Bretagne and the University of Rome 2.

AMESA project

Participant : Bruno Tuffin.

We are members of the AMESA project (Analysis of MEchanisms for Sponsored search Auctions) within EuroNF NoE, funded for a period of about one year Oct. 2008 and Dec. 2009, in collaboration with Athens University of Economics and Business, the CWI, TELECOM Bretagne and the University of Rome 2.

COST initiative ECON@TEL

Participant : Bruno Tuffin.

Bruno Tuffin is the French national delegate and project coordinator for the EU COST Activity IS0605. The goal of ECONTEL is to develop a strategic research and training network linking key individuals and organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics, to support related R&D-initiatives, and to provide guidelines and recommendations to European players (end-users, enterprises, operators, regulators, policy makers, content providers) concerning the provision to citizens and enterprises of new converged broadband and wireless content delivery networks (see http://www.cost605.org/ ).

Other European collaborations

Participants : Bruno Sericola, Bruno Tuffin, Nizar Bouabdallah, Gerardo Rubino.

• We work with Ad Ridder, from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, on rare event simulation.

• We work with Peter Reichl (FTW, Vienna, Austria) on pricing and security issues.

• We are currently working with Marie-Ange Remiche from the university of Brussels (ULB) on the analysis of stationary fluid queues [25] .

• We also work on fluid queues and on memory constrained queus with Miklos Telek (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary).

• We work with Hamid Nafaa from the University College Dublin (UCD) on the analysis of Video on Demand multi-source streaming architectures.