My
current position and activities
I am Director of Research Program in the area of Networks and
Systems at Orange Labs Networks and
Carriers, the corporate unit of France Telecom encompassing
Research & Development.
Presently, my main interests are with the management and engineering
of Future Networks. I am thus concerned with issues like routing and
transport mechanisms (in particular for content delivery), QoS and performance
models, network and service management in the framework of post-IP networks
based on virtualization and autonomic networking, resource management
in heterogeneous networks and their impact on devices and applications.
As such, I am a Member of the Board of the IST FP7 IP Project SAIL,
representing France Telecom.
My
background
I graduated from École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique
de Nantes (now Ecole Centrale de Nantes) in 1975 and obtained
a PhD in control theory in 1978. I joined the then Centre National
d'Études des Télécommunications (CNET, now
Orange Labs R&D) late 1980. I had then been a member of the
Teletraffic and Network Planning Section where I was the Head
of the "Network Management and Traffic Engineering"
Department until the end of 1998. Next, I was Research Program Director
in the area of Traffic Modelling, Network Control and Protocol Evaluation.
During this period, I have been involved in various theoretical research
activities regarding traffic modelling and control. Outcomes have been
implemented in several projects dealing with the design and operations
of telecommunications networks and services, with a specific emphasis
on dynamic routing and network management.
I wrote more than 50 technical
papers published in international journals (See
here
for a list of Journals) or presented
in major conferences, although I have not been very productive
lately ;-) I was lecturing too in engineering schools and for continuing
education in telecommunications.
During this period, I have also initiated
and coordinated several national and international projects related
with routing and network management issues through multi-lateral cooperation.
My
involvement in scientific expertise
I am currently participating
in the Working Group "Future Internet, Internet of Things"
of the Concertation Group on "Mathematics and ICT" (Math-STIC)
set up by the the French Ministry of Research in the context of the French
Strategy for Research and Innovation (SNRI). I am also a member of the
Evaluation Committee of the INFRA (Infrastructures for the Digital
Society) Program of
the National Agency for Research (ANR).
I am involved in the
Research Stream of the ICT
Labs Program that was selected in 2010 by the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology.
In France, I am involved
too in the Research Group on Architecture, Systems & Networks
of CNRS (ASR), and more
specifically in the Communications Networks area (ResCom).
I am also a member
of the Scientific Council of INESC
Coimbra, Portugal, and I am reviewing research projects for various
international agencies.
My contribution to scientific
animation
I have been involved in the organization of several conferences and workshops
(For past activity, see here):
I am currently the Chairman of the International Advisory Committee
(IAC) of the International
Teletraffic Congress (ITC), and a member of the Steering
Committee of theSymposium on Design
of Reliable Communications Networks (DRCN) , of the Conference
on Network and Service Management (CNSM) and of the World
Telecommunications Congress (WTC).
I have had various positions in the organization of many events like formerly
International Switching Symposium (ISS), the International
Communications Conference (ICC) and IEEE Globecom,
the Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS),
the Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM), the IEEE
conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR).
For more details, see here.
Curently, I am the Publicity
Co-Chair of IFIP/IEEE NOMS
2012 (16-20 April 2012, Hawaii, USA) and the Workshop Co-Chair
of ITC 2012.
I am an Associate Technical
Editor of Telecommunications
Systems Journal, of the ICST Journal
on Information-Centric Networking. I am a Member of the Advisory Board
of the Springer Journal of Network and
System Management and a Member of the Scientific Committee of
Annals
of Telecommunications.
Currently ongoing:
Guest Editor of the Feature Topic of IEEE Communications Magazine on Information-Centric
Networking
Publicatuin: July and December 2012
My
activity in standardization
I have no current activity in Standardization although I have been involved
in ITU-T for more than 25 years. In my last position, I have been Vice-Chairman
of the Service
and Network Operations group (SNO) until end of 2008.
For previous standardization activities, see
here.
My previous life
Before joining France Télécom,
I spent one year in 1980 at UMIST,
the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology,
Manchester (UK) on a sabbatical leave granted by INRIA,
the French Institute on Computer Science and Control Engineering.
Previously, right after my PhD, I worked
in 1979 in a subsidiary of the Alstom Group where I coordinated and developed
anti-heaving systems for oil drilling research in the North Sea.
Awards and recognition
- Fellow
Member of the IEEE
(2003)
- Ampère
Medal awarded by SEE,
the French Society of Electronical and Electrical Engineers in
2003 for my involvement in the Scientific Community (2003).
- Fellow
Member of the
SEE (2000).
- Blondel Medal
awarded by SEE for my contribution in traffic engineering
and management (1996)
- Nomination for the "Engineer
of the Year" in France (1995).
I have got several awards
within France Telecom, in particular as a contributor of the Program on
Intelligent Networks which received the CNET
Research Prize in 1995.
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modified: March
2012
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