Section: Dissemination

PhD Theses and Internships

HDR defended in 2009

1. Chadi Barakat defended his accreditation to supervise research (HDR) on January 2009 [1] . The title of his HDR thesis is “Solutions efficaces pour la métrologie de l'Internet”.

PhDs defended in 2009

1. Diego Dujovne has defended his PhD in May 2009. He worked on “Enhancing Experimentation in Wireless Networks” [2] .

2. Aurélien Francillon defended his PhD in October 2009. He worked on “Attacking and Protecting Constrained Embedded Systems from Control Flow Attacks” [3] .

3. Mate Soos defended his PhD in October 2009. He worked on “Privacy-preserving Security Protocols for RFIDs” [4] .

Ongoing PhDs

1. Sana Ben Hamida works on “Embedded System Security”.

2. Mathieu Cunche works on “Forward Error correction codes for the erasure channel ”.

3. Diego Dujovne works on “Wireless Experimental Test-beds”.

4. Aurélien Francillon works on “WSN security”.

5. Amine Ismail works on “Optimisation of IP Protocols and Applications over Broadcast Links”.

6. Mohamad Jaber works on “Detection and Troubleshooting of Internet Anomalies”.

7. Mathieu Lacage works on “An IP-level network topology and link characteristic measurement tool”.

8. Imed Lassoued works on “Adaptive Sampling”.

9. Stevens Le Blond works on “Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures”.

10. Pere Manils works on “Security of the TOR network”.

11. Daniele Perito works on “Critical Infrastructure Protection”.

12. Naveed Bin Rais works on “Adaptive Communication Mechanisms for Networks with Episodic Connectivity”.

13. Mohamed Karim Sbai works on “Architecture for data sharing in wireless network”.

14. Mate Soos works on“RFID Security”.

15. Shafqat Ur Rehman works on “`Benchmarking Methodology for Network Protocols Evaluation”.

Training activities

1. Emiliano De Cristofaro worked on an Internet Privacy project. Duration of the stay: 4 months. Prepared degree: Phd Degree in Computer Science. Affiliation: University of California, Irvine.

2. Abdelberi Chaabane worked on Unstructured Overlay Security. Duration of the stay: 6 months. Prepared degree: Master Thesis in Computer Science. Affiliation: ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia.

3. Giuseppe PIRO worked on Optimising WiMax scheduling algorithms for the ns-3 simulator. Duration of the stay: 2 months. Prepared degree: PhD. Affiliation: Politechnico di Bari, Italy.

4. Martin Hernan Ferrari worked on Using Independent Simulators, Emulators, and Testbeds for Easy Experimentation. Duration of the stay: 6 months. Affiliation: Buenos Aires University.

5. Cao Cuong GNO worked on Internet monitoring via active probes on PlanetLab. Duration of the stay: 6 months. Prepared degree: Master. Affiliation: Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique, Hanoi, Viet Nam.

6. Ludovic Fardel worked on Content distribution infrastructure. Duration of the stay: 6 months. Prepared degree: EPFL Engineer. Affiliation: EPFL, Lausanne, Swtizerland.

7. Guillaume Séguin worked on Multicore Network Simulation. Duration of the stay: 2 months and a half. Prepared degree: Computer Science degree at Ecole Normale Supérieure. Affiliation: ENS Ulm, Paris.

8. Mariem Abdelmoula worked on Simulation of the IEEE 802.16 WiMax Packet CS convergence layer. Duration of the stay: 4 months. Prepared degree: Engineering diploma. Affiliation: Supcom, Tunisia.

9. Maher Ben Yahmed worked on Validation with experimentation if innovative MAC mechanisms for WiFi. Duration of the stay: 4 months. Prepared degree: Engineering diploma. Affiliation: ENSI, Tunisia.

10. Marcel Sutter worked on New Services for the Internet. Duration of the stay: 5 months. Prepared degree: Engineering diploma. Affiliation: EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

11. Adrien Gallais worked on the deployment of a wireless experimental platform. Duration of the stay: one month and a half. Prepared degree: Engineering diploma. Affiliation: Ecole Centrale d'Electronique, Paris.

12. Gaël Grimaud worked on the deployment of a wireless experimental platform. Duration of the stay: 2 months. Prepared degree: DUT. Affiliation: University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.