Issue 17 - March 2012

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1. Highlight: SITILabs establishes Scientific Advisory Board

Starting from 2012, SITILabs shall be evaluted by an external international panel, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). SITILabs's SAB is an external panel that shall assist SITILabs in achieving its excelence goals, by evaluating the unit according to an international standard. The SAB for 2012-2015 is composed of three international experts: Prof. Dr. Roch Guérin from Universtiy of Pennsylvania; Dr. Chirstophe Diot, from Technicolor; Mr. Peter Gits, from CISCO.

Prof. Dr. Roch Guérin received an engineer degree from ENST, Paris, France, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. He joined the Electrical and System Engineering department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications Networks. Prior to joining Penn, he spent many years at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in a variety of technical and management positions. From 2001 to 2004 he was on partial leave from Penn, starting Ipsum Networks, a company that pioneered the concept of route analytics for managing IP networks.
Dr. Guérin has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences, and holds over 30 patents.  Prof. Dr. Guérin has been an editor for multiple ACM and IEEE publications and in 2009 became the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has also served as General Chair or Program co-Chair for several ACM and IEEE sponsored conferences. Dr. Guérin is an ACM (2006) and IEEE (2001) Fellow. In 1994 he received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on traffic management. He received the IEEE TCCC Outstanding Service Award in 2009, and was the recipient of the 2010 INFOCOM Achievement Award for “Pioneering Contributions to the Theory and Practice of QoS in Networks.” He was on the Technical Advisory Board of France Telecom for two consecutive terms from 2001 till 2006 and on the Technical Advisory Board of Samsung Electronics in 2003-2004. He joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Simula in 2010.

Dr. Christophe Diot received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INP Grenoble in 1991. With INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (93-98), Diot pioneered diffserv, single source multicast, and peer-to-peer online games. At Sprint (98-03), he pioneered Internet measurements. Diot was with Intel Research from 2003 to 2005, and then joined Thomson where he started two research labs: Paris in 2006 and Palo Alto in 2011. Diot's research activities now focus on content delivery architectures and personalization. Diot has around 20 patents and more than 300 publications in major conferences and journals. Thomson became Technicolor in 2010. Diot is currently Chief Scientist at Technicolor. He is an ACM fellow.

Peter Michael Gits has been at Cisco since 1997:  Some of his major accomplishments are: over 90 Patent Submissions, 10 Issued, 10 Pending, and 1 Published.  Gits has contributed to efforts such as the first distributed VOIP SIP implementation at Cisco based on Jini from Sun Microsystems, cofounder of the Cisco Angel Network, inventor of "network presence", "transparent walls", and "digital graffiti".  Today he is responsible for a project named NetLurkers where he has facilitated a partnership with multiple cross-bu teams, 3rd party mobile developers, and Cisco employee's contributing their 20% innovation time to seed ideas, innovations, and 1.0 mobile prototypes creating a shared revenue model that showcases the power of the network through augmented reality.

THIS EDITION:

1. SITILabs ESTABLISHES SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

2. RESEARCHER WITH INVITED PAPER

3. ULOOP HELD ITS THIRD PLENARY

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4. SITILabs  WELCOMES TWO NEW RESEARCHERS

2. SITILabs Researcher with Invited Paper in IEEE Latin America Transactions

Waldir Moreira  has had its paper entitled "Assessment Model for Opportunistic Routing " invited to  be submitted to the journal IEEE Latin America Transctions. The paper, originally submitted to IEEE LatinCom 2011, has as co-authors Paulo Mendes (SITILabs, University Lusófona) and Susana Sargento (IT/University of Aveiro).

Waldir Moreira was born in November 1980 in Macapá/AP, Brazil. He got his Bachelor's degree (05) in Computer Science from Universidade da Amazonia, Brazil, having spent three semesters at University of Lethbridge, Canada. He holds an MSc (08) in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Brazil. He was a member of the Research Group on Computer Networks and Multimedia Communications (GERCOM) at UFPA. He was (2008-2010) a researcher at the Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) area, Unit of Telecommunications and Multimedia, INESC Porto. Currently, he is a researcher at SITILabs ( IAN) and a PhD student. His research interests include routing in delay-tolerant networks.

3.Project ULOOP held its Third Technical Plenary

The EU IST FP7 project ULOOP held its third technical plenary during 13-16th March 2012 in Villarceaux, premises of Alcatel-Lucent BellLabs France (ULOOP coordinator).
During 3 days, the ULOOP consortium got together to discuss the final steps of the ULOOP functional blocks specification as well as final part of the initial ULOOP implementation.

ULOOP shall provide a first demo of its results on the ULOOP second industrial worlshop, expected to occur co-located to ICIN 2012, in Berlin, 8-11 October 2012.

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4. SITILabs Welcomes Two New Researchers

SITILabs welcomes two new researchers! Christian Pereira and Luís Amaral Lopes have recently joined SITILabs to work within the context of the EU IST FP7 ULOOP project, within the fields of resource management and trust management.

 Christian Pereira got his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Universidad Central de Venezuela (2009) and his Masters of Science in Telecommunication Engineering at Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (2011).Worked in Venezuela and Italy as a Telecommunications Engineer.

Luís Amaral Lopes got his BEng and MSc (2009) in Electrical Engineering by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he developed work in ad-hoc networking, multiple access schemes.