Luca Muscariello

Short Bio

Luca Muscariello works at Orange Labs (former France Telecom R&D) on performance evaluation of communication networks. His research interests include simulation and analytical modeling of wired and wireless networks. He graduated from Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy) in 2002 in Communication Engineering (MS equivalent). He has a PhD in Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, his graduate research has been performed at Politecnico di Torino and in France Telecom R&D in the area of Internet traffic measurement, characterization and modeling.

Some co-authors

Marco Ajmone Marsan, Andrea Bianco, Thomas Bonald, Giovanna Carofiglio, Paolo Giaccone , Marco Mellia , Michela Meo , Sara Oueslati , Diego Perino, Jim Roberts, Dario Rossi,

Conference and journal activities

• Steering Committee: IEEE INFOCOM 2012 Workshop NOMEN .
• Technical program commitee: IEEE PIMRC 2008,2011; IEEE INFOCOM 2011,2012.
• Journal reviews: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Elsevier Computer Networks.

Opening Positions

• PhD position on modeling, simulation, experimentation in Content Centric Networking (CCN) (contact by email).
• Internship on experimentation in Content Centric Networking (CCNx http://www.ccnx.org) (contact by email).

Projects

• Content-Oriented Networking: a New Experience for Content Transfer: CONNECT(2011-2012).

• Scalable & Adaptive Internet soLutions: SAIL(2010-2012).

• Network aware P2P applications over a Wise network: NAPA-WINE(2008-2011).

• Clean slate design of the future Internet: 4WARDs(2008-2010).

Code

• CCN packet level simulator CCN simulator.

• Quality of Experience Estimation using Random Neural Networks QoE-RNN.

• ModelNet with Traffic Engineering ModelNet-TE.

• TCP STatistic and Analysis Tool Tstat.

Publications

Journals


• Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello On the impact of TCP and per-flow scheduling on Internet performance (extended version), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 2011.
• Robert Birke, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia, Arpad Bakay, Tivadar Szemethy, Fabien Mathieu, Luca Muscariello, Saverio Niccolini, Jan Seedorf, Giuseppe Tropea Architecture of a Network-Aware P2P-TV Application: the NAPA-WINE Approach, IEEE Communication Magazine, June 2011.
• Andrea Bianco, Gianluca Mardente, Marco Mellia, Maurizio M. Munafo, Luca Muscariello, Web User-session Inference by Clustering Techniques, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2009.
• Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Passive Analysis of TCP Anomalies Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 52, No. 14, October 2008.
• Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia, Akos Horvath, Luca Muscariello, Saverio Niccolini and Dario Rossi, Building a Cooperative P2P-TV Application over a Wise Network: The Approach of the European FP-7 STREP Napa-Wine, IEEE Communication Magazine, April 2008.
• Luca Muscariello, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, TCP anomalies: identification and analysis, in Davoli, F; Palazzo, S; Zappatore, S (Editor), Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Networking, Instrumentation, and Measurements, Springer, 'Signals and Communication Technology', ISBN: 0-387-29811-8, 2006
• Luca Muscariello, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Renato Lo Cigno, Markov Models of Internet Traffic and a New Hierarchical MMPP Model, Computer Communications - Elsevier Science, Vol.28, No.16, pp.1835-1851, 2005

Workshops and Conferences


• Massimo Gallo, Bruno Kauffmann, Luca Muscariello, Alain Simonian, Christian Tanguy, Performance Evaluation of the Random Replacement Policy for Networks of Caches, poster at ACM SIGMETRICS, London, UK, June 2012. ( 14 pages ver. )
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Massimo Gallo, Luca Muscariello, ICP: Design and Evaluation of an Interest Control Protocol for Content-Centric Networking, IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on emerging design choices in name oriented networking, Orlando, USA, March 2012.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Massimo Gallo, Luca Muscariello, Bandwidth and storage sharing performance in information centric networking, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on information centric networking, Toronto, Canada, August 2011.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Massimo Gallo, Luca Muscariello, Diego Perino, Modeling data transfer in content-centric networking, ITC23, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2011.
• Thomas Bonald, Luca Muscariello, Norberto Ostallo, Self-Prioritization of Audio and Video Traffic, IEEE ICC, Kyoto, Japan, 5-9 June 2011.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Silvio Valenti, The quest for LEDBAT fairness, IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, Florida, USA, 6-10 December 2010.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Claudio Testa, A Hands-on Assessment of Transport Protocols with Lower Than Best Effort Priority, IEEE LCN, Denver, Colorado, USA, 11-14 October 2010.
• Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Claudio Testa, Silvio Valenti, LEDBAT: the new BitTorrent congestion control protocol, IEEE ICCCN, Zurich, Switzerland, 2-5 August 2010.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, On the impact of TCP and per-flow scheduling on Internet performance, IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, USA, 15-19 March 2010.
• Luca Muscariello, Diego Perino, Modeling multi-path routing and congestion control under FIFO and Fair Queuing , IEEE LCN, Zurich, Switzerland, 20-23 October 2009.
• Luca Muscariello, Diego Perino, Evaluating the performance of multi-path routing and congestion control in presence of network resource management, IEEE ICUMT, St. Petersbourg, Russia, 12-14 October 2009.
• Luca Muscariello, Bruno Nardelli, Diego Perino, Towards real implementations of dynamic robust routing paradigms exploiting path diversity , IEEE ICUMT, St. Petersbourg, Russia, 12-14 October 2009.
• Ali Ibrahim, Luca Muscariello, James Roberts, A Single Channel Signalling Mechanism for Power/Rate Control in WLANs, NGI 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, 1-3 July 2009.
• Luca Muscariello, Diego Perino, Dario Rossi, Do Next Generation Networks need Path Diversity ? IEEE ICC, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18 2009.
• Thomas Bonald, Luca Muscariello, Opportunistic scheduling of voice and data traffic in wireless networks EURO-FGI Workshop on IP QoS and Traffic Control, Lisbon, Portugal, December 6-7 2007.
• Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Passive Identification and Analysis of TCP Anomalies, IEEE ICC, Istanbul, Turkey June 11-15 2006
• Luca Muscariello, On Internet Traffic Measurements, Characterization and Modelling, Ph.D. Thesis - Politecnico di Torino, March 2006
• Andrea Bianco, Gianluca Mardente, Marco Mellia, Maurizio M. Munafo, Luca Muscariello, Web User Session Characterization via Clustering Techniques, IEEE GLOBECOM, St. Louis, MO, USA, 28 November - 2 December 2005
• Jorma Kilpi, Pasi Lassila, Luca Muscariello, On the Properties of Internet Flow Traffic, 2nd EuroNGI Workshop on New Trends in Modelling, Quantitative Methods and Measurements, November 22-23 2005
• Abdesselem Kortebi, Luca Muscariello, Sara Oueslati, James Roberts, Minimizing the overhead in implementing flow-aware networking, IEEE/ACM ANCS, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, October 26-28, 2005
• Abdesselem Kortebi, Luca Muscariello, Sara Oueslati, James Roberts, Evaluating the Number of Active Flows in a Scheduler Realizing Fair Statistical Bandwidth Sharing, ACM SIGMETRICS 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 6-10, 2005
• Andrea Bianco, Gianluca Mardente, Marco Mellia, Maurizio M. Munafo, Luca Muscariello, Exploiting Clustering Techniques for Web User-session Inference, 3rd International Workshop on Internet Performance, Simulation, Monitoring and Measurement IPS (MoMe 2005), Warsaw, Poland, March 14-15, 2005
• Abdesselem Kortebi, Luca Muscariello, Sara Oueslati, James Roberts, On The Scalability of Fair Queueing, ACM SIGCOMM HotNets III: Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, San Diego, CA, USA, November 15-16, 2004
• Luca Muscariello, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Renato Lo Cigno, Marco Ajmone Marsan, An MMPP-Based Hierarchical Model of Internet Traffic, IEEE ICC, Paris - France, June 20-24 2004
• Dario Rossi, Luca Muscariello, Marco Mellia, On the Properties of TCP Flow Arrival Process, IEEE ICC, Paris - France, June 20-24, 2004
• Paolo Giaccone, Marco Mellia, Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Switches under Real Internet Traffic, IEEE HPSR 2004, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 18-21 April 2004.

Technical Reports

• Massimo Gallo, Bruno Kauffmann, Luca Muscariello, Alain Simonian, Christian Tanguy, Performance Evaluation of the Random Replacement Policy for Networks of Caches, Orange Labs - Technical Report, February 2012.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Massimo Gallo, Luca Muscariello, Diego Perino, Modeling data transfer in content-centric networking (extended version), Orange Labs - Alcatel Lucent Technical Report, May 2011.
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Dario Rossi, Claudio Testa, Silvio Valenti, Rethinking Low Extra Delay Background Transport Protocols, arXiv:1010.5623v1, September 2010
• Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello On the impact of TCP and per-flow scheduling on Internet performance (extended version) Orange Labs - Alcatel Lucent Technical Report, August 2009.
• Luca Muscariello, Diego Perino, Early Experiences in Traffic Engineering Exploiting Path Diversity: A Practical Approach INRIA Technical Report No.6474, February 2008.

• Dario Rossi, Luca Muscariello, Marco Mellia, Analyzing TCP Flow Arrivals.COST279 , Technical Document, No.TD(04)013, 2004.
• Luca Muscariello, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Renato Lo Cigno, Marco Ajmone Marsan, A Simple Markovian Approach to Model Internet Traffic at Edge Routers. COST279 , Technical Document, No.TD(03)032, 2003.

Patents

• Thomas Bonald, Luca Muscariello, Technique for processing data streams in a communication network, 2010.

• Ali Ibrahim, Luca Muscariello, James Roberts Technique d'emission par un noeud d'un reseau de communication,2009.

• Thomas Bonald, Luca Muscariello, Apparatus and associated methodology of processing a network communication flow,2008.

• James Roberts, Abdessellem Kortebi, Luca Muscariello, Method for scheduling a packet belonging to flows and equipment for carrying out said method, 2006.

Demonstrations

• Thomas Bonald, Luca Muscariello, Implicit service differentiation via shortest queue first, The 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) October 2009.

PhD candidates

Max Gallo, Telecom ParisTech, (2009-2012).

Interns

Eric Locci, Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France and Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2011)

Deepesh Raj, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (2010)

Paolo Viotti, Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France and Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2010) pdf

Feng Liu, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France (2009).

Changlin Liu, Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France (2009).

Max Gallo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2009).

Eugenio Alessandria, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2009).

Norberto Ostallo, Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France and Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2008): pdf

Bruno Nardelli, University of Trento, Italy (2008).