Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

INRIA International Partners

St. Petersburg State University

Participant : Konstantin Avrachenkov.

Maestro has a continuing collaboration with St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg State University is a partner in Inria Internship International programme. In particular, Maestro hosts every year several intern students from St. Petersburg State University. The collaboration with L. Petrosyan and A. Garnaev is on the application of game theory to resource allocation in networks. The collaboration with V. Dobrynin is on data clustering.

Visits of International Scientists

Professors

• Augustin Chaintreau (from November 4, 2011 until November 9, 2011)

  • Institution: Columbia University, New York (USA)

• Andrey Garnaev (from May 8, 2011 until May 13, 2011)

  • Institution: St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation)

• Richard Gibbens (from April 4, 2011 until April 10, 2011)

  • Institution: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

• Evsey Morozov (from March 23, 2011 until March 28, 2011)

  • Institution: Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)

• Charles Pearce (from September 25, 2011 until September 30, 2011)

  • Institution: University of Adelaide (Australia)

• Karl Sigman (from March 25, 2011 until March 26, 2011)

  • Institution: Columbia University, New York (USA)

• Don Towsley (from March 28, 2011 until June 27, 2011)

  • Institution: University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA)

• Uri Yechiali (from March 27, 2011 until April 4, 2011)

  • Institution: Tel Aviv University (Israel)

Post-doctoral fellows

• Josu Doncel (from July 9, 2011 until July 16, 2011)

  • Subject: Multiarmed Bandit Problems

  • Institution: Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Derio (Spain)

• Nicolas Gast (from October 23, 2011 until October 25, 2011)

  • Institution: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

• Jasper Goseling (from November 14, 2011 until November 18, 2011)

  • Institution: University of Twente (The Netherlands)

• Peter Jacko (from July 9, 2011 until July 16, 2011)

  • Subject: Multiarmed Bandit Problems

  • Institution: Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Derio (Spain)

Ph.D. students

• Eugenio Martin Della Vecchia (from July 11, 2011 until July 19, 2011)

  • Subject: Rolling Horizon stochastic control

  • Institution: National University of Rosario (Argentina)

• Ana Maria Galindo (from September 15, 2011 until December 15, 2011)

  • Institution: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) (Spain)

• Naveen K. P. (from October 11, 2011 until October 20, 2011)

  • Subject: Self Organization in Wireless Networks

  • Institution: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India)

• Sulan Wong (from May 2, 2010 until July 31, 2011)

  • Subject: Intellectual property and human rights : Patent law interference in the exercise of the scientific research freedom, the right to life and the right to health

  • Institution: University of A Coruña (Spain)

Graduate students

• Tejas Bodas (from October 17, 2011 until October 20, 2011)

  • Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India)

Internships

• Adam Abeshouse (from June 1, 2011 until July 21, 2011)

  • Subject: Simulator for visualization of evolutionary games

  • Institution: Brown University (USA)

• Bogdan Augustin Benga (from April 1, 2011 until September 30, 2011)

  • Subject: Monte Carlo Methods for Centrality Measures in Online Social Networks

  • Institution: West Timisoara University (Romania)

• John Boreiko (from June 1, 2011 until July 21, 2011)

  • Subject: Simulator for visualization of replicator dynamics in evolutionary games

  • Institution: Brown University (USA)

• Vladimir Fux (from March 17, 2011 until June 15, 2011)

  • Subject: Framework for crawling and analyzing web and social networking graphs

  • Institution: St. Petersburg State University (Russia (Russian Federation))

• Alexey Mishenin (from February 23, 2011 until March 25, 2011)

  • Subject: Random walks based clustering techniques

  • Institution: St. Petersburg State University (Russia (Russian Federation))

• Harshil Mittal (from May 30, 2011 until August 26, 2011)

  • Subject: Study of network capacity sharing in contents distribution networks

  • Institution: LNM Institute of Information Technology (India)

• Larissa Spinelli (from April 18, 2011 until July 15, 2011)

  • Subject: Consensus algorithms in complex networks

  • Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Participation in International Programs

STIC Tunisie

Participants : Eitan Altman, Majed Haddad.

E. Altman and M. Haddad have been collaborating with I. Mabrouki (Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et des Techniques de Communication, Tunisia) on intelligent jamming in wireless networks, i.e. jamming in which the jammer is aware of the protocol used by the network.

Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR)

Participants : Eitan Altman, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal.

Within project 4000-IT on “Emerging Strategies for Wireless Communication Networks,” E. Altman and M. K. Hanawal (also with Univ. Avignon/LIA) have been collaborating with V. Kavitha (Univ. Avignon/LIA), R. Sundaresan and C. Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India) on evaluating and optimization issues in wireless networks. They also worked on network neutrality issues.