Thomas Bonald

traffic modeling and performance evaluation

short bio

Thomas Bonald works at Orange Labs on performance evaluation and design of control mechanisms for communication networks. His research interests include queueing theory and stochastic models of wired and wireless networks.

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) in 1994 and qualified as an engineer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris, France) in 1996, including a corporate communication specialization at Eurécom (Sophia-Antipolis, France). He has a PhD in applied mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique, his graduate research being performed at INRIA in the area of network flow control.

honours

• Best paper award of SIGMETRICS / Performance 2004, with Alexandre Proutière

• Member of the Program Committee of GLOBECOM 2002, INFOCOM 2003, 2004, SIGMETRICS 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, Performance 2005, 2007, technical Area Chair for INFOCOM 2009, program co-chair of ACM SIGMETRICS / Performance 2009 with Jason Nieh

• Guest editor of Performance Evaluation Review special issue on Performance 2005 posters

• Associate editor of Queueing Systems

• Associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

patents

• Score-based scheduler [html]

• Inter-sector scheduling [html]
  with N. Hegde and A. Proutière

• Shortest queue first [html]
  with L. Muscariello

teaching

• Traffic, queues and networks (in french) [html]

applets

• Erlang formula [html]

• multirate systems (circuit traffic) [html]

• multirate systems (elastic traffic) [html]

• packet delay [html]

publications

Web pages of some co-authors: F. Baccelli, S. Borst, M. Feuillet, N. Hegde, L. Massoulié, L. Muscariello, S. Oueslati, A. Proutière, J. Roberts, J. Virtamo

wireless networks

• Traffic capacity of multi-cell WLANs [pdf]
  with A. Ibrahim and J. Roberts, Proc. of SIGMETRICS 2008

• Flow-level stability of utility-based allocation in non-convex rate regions [pdf]
  with A. Proutière, Proc. of CISS 2006

• Inter-cell coordination in wireless data networks [html]
  with S. Borst and A. Proutière, European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2006

• Conservative estimates of blocking and outage probabilities in CDMA networks [html]
  with A. Proutière, Proc. of Performance 2005

• On the traffic capacity of cellular data networks [pdf]
  with A. Proutière, Proc. of ITC 19, 2005

• Flow-level performance analysis of some opportunistic scheduling algorithms [html]
  European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2005

• A Score-Based Opportunistic Scheduler for Fading Radio Channels [pdf]
  Proc. European Wireless, 2004

• Wireless data performance in multi-cell scenarios [html]
  with S. Borst, N. Hegde and A. Proutière, Proc. of SIGMETRICS / Performance 2004

• How mobility impacts the flow-level performance of wireless data systems [pdf]
  with S. Borst and A. Proutière, Proc. of INFOCOM 2004

• Wireless downlink data channels: User performance and cell dimensioning [pdf]
  with A. Proutière, Proc. of MOBICOM 2003

wired networks

• Is the "Law of the Jungle" sustainable for the Internet? [pdf]
  with M. Feuillet and A. Proutière, Proc. of INFOCOM 2009

• Epidemic live streaming: Optimal performance trade-offs [pdf]
  with L. Massoulié, F. Mathieu, D. Perino, A. Twigg, Proc. of SIGMETRICS 2008

• Throughput performance in networks with linear capacity constraints [pdf]
  Proc. of CISS 2006

• On light traffic and heavy traffic approximations of balanced fairness [html]
  with A. Penttinen and J. Virtamo, Proc. of SIGMETRICS / Performance, 2006.

• A recursive formula for multirate systems with elastic traffic [html]
  with J. Virtamo, IEEE Communications Letters 8-9 (2005) 753-755

• Calculating the flow level performance of balanced fairness in tree networks [html]
  with J. Virtamo, Performance Evaluation 58 (2004) 1-14

• On performance bounds for the integration of elastic and adaptive streaming traffic [html]
  with A. Proutière, Proc. of SIGMETRICS / Performance 2004, Best Paper Award

• Dimensioning high-speed IP access networks [pdf]
  with P. Olivier and J. Roberts, Proc. of ITC 18, 2003

• On performance bounds for balanced fairness [html]
  with A. Proutière, Performance Evaluation 55 (2004) 25-50
  

• Computational aspects of balanced fairness [pdf]
  with A. Proutière, J. Roberts and J. Virtamo, Proc. of ITC 18, 2003

• Insensitive bandwidth sharing in data networks [pdf]
  with A. Proutière, Queueing Systems 44 (2003) 69-100

• Congestion at flow level and the impact of user behaviour [html]
  with J. Roberts, Computer Networks 42 (2003) 521-536

• Impact of fairness on Internet performance [html]
  with L. Massoulié, Proc. of SIGMETRICS / Performance 2001

• Statistical bandwidth sharing: A study of congestion at flow level [html]
  with S. Ben Fredj, A. Proutière, G. Regnié and J. Roberts, Proc. of SIGCOMM 2001

• IP traffic and QoS control: towards a flow-aware architecture [pdf]
  with S. Oueslati and J. Roberts, Proc. of World Telecommunications Congress 2002

• Statistical performance guarantees for streaming flows using Expedited Forwarding [html]
  with A. Proutière and J. Roberts, Proc. of INFOCOM 2001

• Analytical evaluation of RED performance [html]
  with J. Bolot and M. May, Proc. of INFOCOM 2000

• Comparison of TCP Reno and TCP Vegas: efficiency and fairness [html]
  Proc. of Performance 1999

queuing theory and applications

• On Kelly networks with shuffling [pdf]
  with M-A. Tran, Queueing Systems (2008).

• Scheduling network traffic [html]
  with J. Roberts, Performance Evaluation Review 34-4 (2007) 29-35

• Balancing elastic traffic sources [pdf]
  with M-A. Tran, IEEE Communications Letters 2007

• Insensitive queueing models for communication networks [html]
  Proc. of Valuetools 2006
  Discrete Event Dynamic Systems 17-3 (2007) 405-421 [html]

• The Erlang model with non-Poisson call arrivals [html]
  Proc. of SIGMETRICS / Performance 2006

• A queueing analysis of max-min fairness, proportional fairness and balanced fairness [pdf]
  with L. Massoulié, A. Proutiere and J. Virtamo, Queueing Systems 53 (2006) 65-84.

• Insensitive load balancing [html]
  with M. Jonckheere and A. Proutière, Proc. of SIGMETRICS / Performance 2004

• On stochastic bounds for monotonic processor sharing networks [html]
  with A. Proutière, Queueing Systems 47 (2004) 81-106

• Insensitivity in processor-sharing networks [html]
  with A. Proutière, Proc. of Performance 2002

• Window flow control in FIFO networks with cross traffic [html]
  with F. Baccelli, Queueing Systems 32 (1999) 195-231.