Future Internet Applications & Overlays

Research Interests

Performance evaluation and optimization of overlays and P2P architectures
Modeling of Social Networks and Internet Dynamics
"Crowdsourcing" and Web 2.0 technologies
QoE assessment of interactive applications in Cloud Computing, like Cloud Gaming
Management of the Future Internet: Network Control, Network Management, Autonomic Networking, Economic Traffic Management
IPTV and P2PTV: Live streaming and video-on-demand
Quality of Experience
Controlling QoE of Scalable Video Codecs for Future Video Streaming Systems
Design of new P2P mechanisms and P2P architectures
Mobile P2P and Multi-Homing
Traffic Characterization and Identification
Modeling of Application and User Behavior
Technologies: structured and unstructured overlays, content distribution systems; Chord, CAN, Pastry, Kademlia, Gnutella, eDonkey, BitTorrent, Skype, Joost, PPLive, Zattoo…
Methodologies: measurement, simulation, and mathematical analysis, experiments in large-scale testbeds, e.g. evaluation within G-Lab

mPlane - Building and Intelligent Measurement Plane for the Internet
Identifying trustworthy crowdworkers using social context
QoE of interactive services and cloud applications (with FTW)
Strategies for Caching of P2P traffic in multi-swarm scenarios (with KTH)
Modeling of P2P content distribution (with University of Osaka and Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Dependable P2P services and applications
Edge-based applications like Skype or PPLive and feedback between network and users/applications
Robust cooperation strategies for P2P based content distribution networks
Car2Car communication (with BMW)
Routing in sensor networks (with Siemens AG)
Adaptive control for P2P overlays (with University of Passau)
Virtualization (with University of Vienna)
Enterprise Mobile P2P Applications and Services (with Hanoi University of Technology)
Simulation of large-scale P2P networks with ProtoPeer (with EPFL Lausanne)

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