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Sebastien Ardon




sebastien ardon 

Contact:

NICTA
Locked bag 9013
Alexandria NSW 1430
Australia

Deliveries:

NICTA
Bay 15, Locomotive workshop
Australian Technology Park
Eveleigh NSW, 2015
Australia


Tel: +61 2 8374 5206
Fax: +61 2 8374 5531
Email: sebastien.ardon - AT - nicta.com.au

Graduate Students:

  • Feiselia Tan
  • Youmna Borghol
Some other hats I like to wear:
  • Technical Program committee
  • Pervasive 2008 demo chair

Short Bio 

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, at the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6). During my PhD, I visited the rodeo group at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and spent most of my time at the school of EE&T, University of New South Wales in Sydney.

I then held a research fellow appointment at the University of New South Wales in Sydney for 3 years, working on the Centie project in collaboration with the TIP/CSIRO. I then worked for one year at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Ingenieurs de Constructions Aeronautique (ENSICA), working as a visiting researcher in the Computer Science and applied mathematics department. I finally joined the Network and Pervasive Computing group in NICTA in january 2006.

Research Interests

My research interests spans from pervasive computing, P2P and generally distributed systems:

  • Modeling and Mobility models for simulating Delay Tolerant and Opportunistic Networks. As the networking research community comes up with new routing/dissemination algorithms and new applications for opportunistic networks, the need for accurate mobility models to evaluate those algorithms becomes evident. I am working at applying dynamic network analysis to provide accurate models to the research community.

  • I initiated and am involved in the UbiStore project. The project is about building an opportunistic backup architecture. We set to exploit consistency and patterns in human activities on sufficiently large time and space scale, to adapt the backup decisions. The goal is to increase the system reliability, load balance storage load, and take advantage of free short-range communication to minimise communication costs. Two students are also involved in this project: Feiselia Tan is currently working on building a suitable mobility model, on large time/space scale, i.e. reflecting people's "daily lives", and Youmna Borghol is currently working on he simulator design. We use JIST+SWANS java-based simulation.

  • I was the XQoS project leader. The XQoS project is deeply associated with the EU-funded EuQoS project. Our contribution was to propose and deploy a QoS-aware congestion controlled reliable transport protocol, to allow applications to actually benefit from network-level QoS resource reservations at the application layer.

    Within the XQoS project, we are also designing more generally the next-generation transport protocols, for specific network applications. The EuQoS project aims to design, specify and implement an end-to-end QoS system. Deployment over the pan-european GEANT core network is underway. With a project team consisting of both academics, software industry and telecommunication operators partners, the EuQoS project has the ambition to make use of 20 years of network QoS research, fill the gaps (especially in the inter-ISP signalling part) and deliver a working system. Standardization and education is also an important aspect of the project.
  • I am still pursuing some peer-to-peer threads of thought which I would need more time to work on: load balancing in DHTs, and programmable peer-to-peer substrate. I still have some ideas for  a P2P based high capacity video content distribution system which I haven't had time to pursue.
  • In an attempt to smarten up and brush up my math skills, I am looking into Dynamical Systems and their applicability to model and (hopefully) derive some interesting properties of peer-to-peer systems. I am also looking at chaotic properties of TCP congestion control.

Conference and Journal Publications

Articles & Journals

  • F. Tan, S. Ardon, Y. Borghol. EMO: A Statistical Encounter-based Mobility MOdel for Simulating Delay Tolerant Networks. To appear in Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2008)
  • E. Tan, J. Chen, S. Ardon, E. Lochin. Video TFRC. Submitted to  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008)
  • F. Tan, S. Ardon, R. Hsieh. The Impact of User Mobility Patterns on Opportunistic Content Distribution Network. To appear in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2007), Adelaide, Australia, October 2007.
  • S. Zhou, G. Rogers, M. Hogan, S. Ardon, T. Hu, A. Seneviratne. An Incentive Based Routing Algorithm for Improving Message Forwarding in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks. To appear in Proc. of 2nd Australian Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications (AusWireless 2007), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2007.
  • L. Dairaine, G. Jourjon, E. Lochin, S. Ardon. IREEL: Remote Experimentation with Real Protocols and Applications over Emulated Network. ACM Inroad SIGCSE Bulletin, vol 39, num 2, June 2007
  • F. Tan, S. Ardon, M. Ott. UbiStore: Ubiquitous and Opportunistic Backup Architecture, IEEE ICMAN workshop. In Proc. Of Fifth Annual IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, ICMAN Workshop (PerCom 2007), White Plains, NY, USA, March 2007
  • S. Ardon, M. Portmann, T. Rakotarivelo, P. Senac, S. Zhou, M. Hogan and A. Seneviratne. OPENDIR: An Open Distributed Service Directory. In: Proc. Of Third International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 05), Perth, Australia, 2005
  • T. Rakotarivelo, P. Sénac, S. Ardon, A. Seneviratne: TOP: A Transport Overlay Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Applications. In: Proc. of International Conference on Internet Computing 2004 pp. 272-275
  • M. Portmann, S. Ardon, P. Sénac and A. Seneviratne. PROST: A Programmable Structured Peer-to-peer Overlay Network. In: Proc of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’04). Zurich, Switzerland, August 2004
  • T. H. Hu, S. Ardon and A. Seneviratne. Semantic-laden Peer-to-Peer Service Directory. In: Proc. of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing. (P2P ‘04), Zurich Switzerland, August 2004
  • M. Portmann, S. Ardon and A. Seneviratne. Mitigating Routing Misbehavior of Rational Nodes in CHORD. In: Proc. of IEEE-CS SAINT 2004 International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Internetworking, Tokyo, Japan, January 2004.
  • S. Ardon, P. Gunningberg, B. Landfeldt, Y. Ismailov, M. Portmann, and A. Seneviratne. MARCH: A Distributed Content Adaptation Architecture. In: International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, [16], 97-115. October 2002.
  • S. Ardon. Intégration de l'Utilisateur dans la Gestion de la Qualité de Service pour des Environnements Hétérogènes. PhD Dissertation, LIP6 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, September 2002.
  • P. Sookavantana, S. Ardon, and K. S. A. Wongrujira. Discovery Services in Multiple Administrative Domain of Adaptive Network Environment. In: Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT '2002), Beijing, China. September 2002.
  • S. Ardon, P. Gunningberg, Y. Ismailov, B. Landfeldt, M. Portmann, A. Seneviratne, and B. Thai. Mobile Aware Server Architecture: A distributed proxy architecture for content adaptation. In: Proc. of INET 2001, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2001.
  • M. Portmann, P. Sookavantana, S. Ardon, and A. Seneviratne. The Cost of Peer Discovery and Searching in the Gnutella Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Protocol. In: Proc. of ICON 2001, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2001.
  • S. Ardon, C. Diot, B. Landfeldt, and A. Seneviratne. Resource Reservation in a Reactive QoS Scheme. In: Proc. of GLOBECOM 99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1999.
  • R. d. Silva, B. Landfeldt, S. Ardon, A. Seneviratne, and C. Diot, Managing Application-level Quality of Service through TOMTEN, In: Computer Networks journal, Elsevier, vol. 31 pp. 727-739, 1999.
  • R. De Silva, B. Landfeldt, S. Ardon, and A. Seneviratne. TOMTEN, TOtal Management of Transmissions for the ENd-user, a framework for user control of applications behavior. In: Proc. of International Workshop on High Performance Protocol Architectures (HIPPARCH '98), June 1998

Book Chapters

  • M. Portmann, S. Ardon, P. Senac, Peer-to-Peer networks: promises and challenges. To be published in Ambient Intelligence, Wireless Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. Artech House publishing. 2005

Patents

  • Accessing distributed proxy configurations for Internet server applications that provides automatic way to avoid failing host link, B. Landfeldt, A. Seneviratne, S. Ardon, M. Portmann, P. Gunningberg, Patent Numbers: WO200284972-A; WO200284972-A2; US2002156841-A1; AU2002246477-A1
  • Server-to-user delivery of data stream to create distributed proxy configurations associated with server that avoids need for user to manually configure client when connecting to network, B. Landfeldt, A. Seneviratne, P. Gunningberg, S. Ardon, M. Portmann , Patent Numbers: WO200284973-A; WO200284973-A2; US2002165928-A1; GB2390002-A; AU2002251653-A1