The 2nd talk after lunch at the IoT & Cybersecurity mini-symposium was by Francois Morain with “WannaCry: a typical modern attack” – including an interesting (historical) taxonomy of attacks Of course, Francois Morain could not resist either “Only those really old…
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First talk after lunch at the IoT and Cybersecurity mini-symposium was Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes challenging us with “Rebuild but don’t break: the challenge of content centric networking” — touching on the challenge of evolving the core Internet infrastructure, on…
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Reviewing state-of-the-art, and introducing our students to some of his own work on application-agnostic, stateless, load-aware load balancing using IPv6 Segment Routing.
… where the 2nd year engineering students developed and demonstrated a multi-player, Tron-inspired, on-line game. Good job gals and guys …
During my lunch break today, I tried to glean what “news for nerds – stuff that matters” had happened lately — but, when trying to access slashdot.org, I was met with this: While I, admittedly, do not know what infrastructure…
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Saturday morning, after a long (and, very constructive) process, came the long-awaited email from the IEEE: our paper “6LB: Scalable and Application-Aware Load Balancing with Segment Routing” was definitely accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Networking. The paper is…
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Tomorrow is a very special day: in the spring semester, I’ll be helping my colleague, Mark Townsley, with his graduate level course at Ecole Polytechnique entitled “From Fundamentals to Reality: How The Internet Really Work — and, how to make…
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Tomorrow is a very special day: in the spring semester, I’ll be helping my colleague, Mark Townsley, with his graduate level course at Ecole Polytechnique entitled “From Fundamentals to Reality: How The Internet Really Work — and, how to make…
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Part of the “fun” of the winter break is, that it gives an occasion to do some “digital housekeeping” – make space on harddrives and memory cards, but also rediscover moments from the year gone by. In this case, the…
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Any business traveler will recognise this: you arrive, tired after a long flight…take a shuttle to your hotel, where you queue to check in, and do all sorts of formalities including most commonly showing picture ID, having your credit card…
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