Swiss and French
Married with 2 kids
Living in Switzerland
Welcome to my personal website where you will find information about my current and past professional activities. My primary interest rely on research and teaching activities around the emerging digital transition aspects covering the Internet of Things, cellular Networks, Augmented reality, Blockchain and Machine Learning. Teaching is deeply integrated into my missions, with more than 1000h of teaching experience in both Accademia and Industry. Finally, I'm also involve into Industrial Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serving as CEO of KB DIGITAL AG and CTO of Blumenlab.
Year | Diploma | Specialty | Institution |
2014 | French National Assistant Professor Qualification | Sections: 27 (Computer Science) and 61 (Electronics and Automation). | delivered by the CNU |
2013 | Doctorate in Computer Science | Network Communication and Algorithmics | UPMC - Paris |
2005 | Master of Science in Computer Science | Major: Electronics, Sensors and Telecommunication | UPMC - Paris |
2003: | Bachelor of Science | Applied Physics | UPMC - Paris |
Network Science: | Internet (TCP/IP, Routing, BGP), Wireless (WiFi, LTE, LPWAN, 5G), Cloud (OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes),Cybersecurity (Cryptography, Threat Detec- tion, Risk Prevention), Future Internet (ICN, SDN, SDR). |
Computer Science: | Programming Skills (C/C++, Python, Java), Algorithmics (Combinatorics, Graph), Web (PHP, NodeJS), Mobile (Android, React Native), OSes (Windows, Macintosh et UNIX), Blockchain (Distributed Ledger, Smart Contract),Machine Learning (Classification, Clustering, Neuronal Networks) ,VR/AR (Unity, Card- board, A-Frame). |
Electronics: | Analog (Micro-Controlers, PCB design), Digital (FPGA, DSP, verilog), Instru- mentation (Ultrasonic, Electrowave, IR), Signal (Filtering, Processing). |
Management: | Method (Agile, DevOps, Design Thinking, CMMI), Projects (H2020, Horizon Europe, ANR, BPI), Standardization (IETF, IGF, ITU). |
Languages: | French (Native), English (Oral/written fluency), German (Oral knowledge) |
Networking
Digital
Electronics
Year | Project Name | Topic | My Contribution |
2016 - 2017 | EU EUREKA CareWare | IoT solution for elderly’s health monitoring. | Research on wearable and IoT communication data vulnerability analysis. |
2012 - 2013 | EINS (FP7-ICT) | Multidisciplinary Network of Excellence in Internet Science. | Participate in workshop and working group about Social tracking with IP. |
2011 - 2013 | OpenLab (FP7-ICT) | Extend experimental facilities through federation. | Research on federation mechanism for measurement systems |
2008 - 2011 | OneLab2 (FP7-ICT) | Sustainable large-scale shared experimental facility. | Work package Leader: Monitoring tools for network experiments. |
2007 - 2008 | OneLab (FP6-IST) | Development of a large-scale and heterogeneous testbed. | Engineer working at developing and deploying OneLab testbed in Europe. |
OneLab is a European project funded by FP6 and FP7 program that aims to run and develop testbeds for research and experimentation on future internet technologies. The core testbed is PlanetLab Europe, the European arm of the global PlanetLab system. It is powered by PlanetLab code, for which OneLab is the co-developers with Princeton University. Around this core, OneLab has extend PlanetLab into New environment facilities (Wireless, Emulation, UMTS, Multi homing, SAC, Content), deepen the monitoring with active and passive measurement tools. Among others I've been involve in: Administrating PlanetLab Europe platform (support, deployment, legal) Validating the new environment components of the testbed before the production release. Developing the Topology information component (TopHat) as a standard service for PlanetLab users Deploying active measurement tools to fill TopHat with topological information Disseminating OneLab on several talks and technical reports.
Active measurements was my principal focus as research area during my PhD. I've been working on setting up a Topology information component that aims at studying the Internet dynamism at the IP level. This component propose an API that can serve the research community to query its database for retrieving topological information. The active measurement are done with new and inovative tools that resolve measurement artifacts (paris-traceroute) and enhance distributed measurement with DHT (traceroute@home). Bellow is a short description of these components: TopHat provides a measurement service that continuously performs distributed measurements at the IP interface level and makes those measurements available to applications that need them. The idea is to provide an open and public topology information service, providing data from both the present and the past. Applications that require topology information (such as p2p systems and overlays) can use TopHat instead of conducting the measurements themselves. Writers of these applications focus on developing what they know best, while TopHat assures timely, high-quality measurements. Researchers use the historic data to explain application behavior and to better understand the network. Traceroute@home is a measurement tool that allows multiple distributed probing agents to share their measurement data in order to probe more efficiently by reducing the redundancy in their work. Lowering redundancy allows a fixed number of agents to carry out larger scale measurements or more rapid measurements. Traceroute@home uses Bamboo DHT to share information among agents. Paris Traceroute: Recent studies have found that traceroute does not work correctly when probing paths that pass through load balancing routers. It yields measurement artifacts such as links, diamonds, loops, and cycles that are not in fact part of the underlying network topology. A new tool Paris Traceroute has been developed to correctly trace the multiple network paths between a source and a destination without generating the artifacts. Recently, we've proposed a new algorithm to resolve measurement artifacts when probing to per-packet load balancers. We will integer it in a future release of Paris Traceroute.
Nowadays, the internet has grown into an heterogeneous network that use a large range of technologies from its edges to its core. On the user side, a large choice of devices has arrise and the interoperability of between all these technologies is an actual challenge. Since a long time I'm convince that all technologies should live together. As I'm involve into Topology discovery, I would like to propose a topological map that would show this heterogeneity. This could lead to track the evolution of each technologies and understand/propose new routing protocols. My interest is mainly focused on some technologies: Wired: This is my actual work with TopHat HomeNetworking: Using PLC technologies at home is known to be a great solution to deploy a large range of services through the home electrical grid. A large set of devices can be connected through an home electrical grid. Thus providing a topological map of in home devices could provide a better performances and usage of in home services. IoT: New objects are implemented to be able to communicate among each other. Thus they need to know the underlying "Object" topology to reach each other. Overlay objects, Privacy, Naming convention and new measurement tools are needed to provide such object maps. It can be also a starting point to build new routing protocols for the IoT
Projects
Entrepreneurship
Consulting
Scope: Assist clients and institutions on their digital transformation projects either by providing consulting, training, coaching or prototype adapted to their needs in area such as Web, IoT, Blockchain, Machine Learning. Customers: ORSYS, Hager, SNCF, Alcatel-Enterprise, SETEC
Scope: French startup developing cutting edge solution for building Virtual and Augmented Reality products. Research area focuses on establishing an immersive editing tool (RIAM CNC Grant) Customers: SNCF, RATP, Galeries Lafayette.
Consulting: Network infrastructure deployment, Secure Data flow, Haptical systems (Renault, Atos), Training: IoT, Network Architecture, Web Development (Practical and theoretical sessions).
Teaching
Industry
@inproceedings{IoT-Architecture-2019, Author = {Pawar, Nahit and Bourgeau, Thomas and Chaouchi, Hakima}, Booktitle = {IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)}, Date-Added = {2019-01-20 16:31:08 +0000}, Date-Modified = {2019-01-20 16:57:03 +0000}, Pages = {116-220}, Editor = {IEEE}, Title = {IoT Architecture and Study of IoT Applications Invariant Functionalities (Submitted)}, Year = {2019}} @inproceedings{PrIoT-2018, Author = {Pawar, Nahit and Bourgeau, Thomas and Chaouchi, Hakima}, Booktitle = {2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)}, Date-Added = {2019-01-20 16:28:13 +0000}, Date-Modified = {2019-01-20 16:29:16 +0000}, Editor = {IEEE}, Pages = {216-223}, Title = {PrIoT: Prototyping the Internet of Things}, Year = {2018}} @book{MDPI-IoT-18, Author = {Chaouchi, Hakima and Bourgeau, Thomas}, Date-Added = {2019-01-20 16:23:59 +0000}, Date-Modified = {2019-01-20 16:35:09 +0000}, Editor = {IOT Journal}, Pages = {1-6}, Publisher = {MDPI - open access journal}, Title = {Internet of Things: Building the New Digital Society}, Year = {2018}} @book{bourgeau-M2M, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas and Chaouchi, Hakima and KIRCI, Pinar}, Booktitle = {{Next-generation wireless technologies : 4G and beyond}}, Date-Added = {2019-01-20 16:18:01 +0000}, Date-Modified = {2019-01-20 16:27:07 +0000}, Pages = {221-241}, Publisher = {{Springer}}, Series = {Computer Communications and Networks}, Title = {{Machine-to-machine communications}}, Year = {2013}, Bdsk-Url-1 = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00830590}, Bdsk-Url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5164-7%5C_11}} @book{VanIterative2016, Author = {Giambene, Giovanni and Le, Van Anh and Bourgeau, Thomas and Chaouchi, Hakima}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 11:42:41 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:24:35 +0200}, Journal = {Transactions on Wireless Communications}, Publisher = {IEEE}, Pages = {216-223}, Title = {Iterative Multi-level Soft Frequency Reuse with Load Balancing for Heterogeneous LTE-A Systems}, Year = {2016}} @book{CPLIndoor2010, Author = {Carcelle, Xavier and Bourgeau, Thomas}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 11:42:41 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:24:35 +0200}, Journal = {Techniques de l'Ing{\'e}nieur}, Publisher = {Ed. Techniques de l'Ing{\'e}nieur}, Pages = {34-45}, Title = {Technologies CPL Indoor}, Year = {2010}} @book{CPL2010, Author = {Carcelle, Xavier and Bourgeau, Thomas}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 11:42:41 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:24:10 +0200}, Journal = {Ed. Techniques de l'Ing{\'e}nieur}, Publisher = {Ed. Techniques de l'Ing{\'e}nieur}, Pages = {32-40}, Title = {Technologies CPL (Courants Porteurs en Ligne)}, Year = {2010}} @inbook{M2M2013, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas and Chaouchi, Hakima and Kirci, Pinar}, Chapter = {Machine to Machine communications}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 11:42:22 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:22:34 +0200}, Publisher = {Springer}, Pages = {134-145}, Title = {Wireless Technologies: 3G and Beyond}, Year = {2013}} @inbook{PLC2013, Author = {Chaouchi, Hakima and Bourgeau, Thomas}, Chapter = {Internet of Things: From real to virtual world}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 11:42:22 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:22:57 +0200}, Publisher = {Springer}, Pages = {14-20}, Title = {Wireless Technologies: 3G and Beyond}, Year = {2013}} @inbook{IoT2013, Author = {Carcelle, Xavier and Bourgeau, Thomas}, Chapter = {Power Line Communication Technology Overview}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 11:42:22 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:23:22 +0200}, Publisher = {Ed. John Willey and Sons}, Pages = {122-145}, Title = {The Internet of Things: Connecting Objects}, Year = {2013}} @inproceedings{Algotel2009, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas and Friedman, Timur}, Booktitle = {Algotel}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 10:48:18 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:28:40 +0200}, Title = {True link detection in presence of PPLB}, Pages = {56-62}, Year = {2009}} @inproceedings{CNSM2011, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas}, Booktitle = {Network and Service Management (CNSM)}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 10:46:41 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2019-01-21 13:43:49 +0000}, Keywords = {Internet;protocols;telecommunication network topology;IP-level network topology dynamism;Internet protocol;measurement system;measurement time granularity;topology size;traceroute-based measurement;Extraterrestrial measurements;Frequency measurement;Internet topology;Network topology;Time measurement;Topology;Active measurements;Monitoring;Network topology dynamism}, Pages = {1-5}, Publisher = {IEEE}, Title = {Monitoring network topology dynamism of large-scale traceroute-based measurements}, Year = {2011}} @inproceedings{Trident2010, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas and Aug{\'e}, Jordan and Friedman, Timur}, Booktitle = {ICST TRIDENTCOM}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 10:44:07 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:33:27 +0200}, Pages = {542-557}, Publisher = {Springer}, Title = {TopHat: Supporting Experiments through Measurement Infrastructure Federation}, Volume = {46}, Year = {2011}, Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_41}} @inproceedings{CoNEXT2012, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas and Friedman, Timur}, Booktitle = {ACM CoNEXT student workshop}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 10:39:44 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:29:47 +0200}, Keywords = {complex networks, measurement systems, traceroute}, Pages = {5--6}, Publisher = {ACM}, Series = {CoNEXT Student '12}, Title = {Toward fast and efficient IP-level network topology capture}, Year = {2012}, Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2413247.2413252}, Bdsk-Url-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2413247.2413252}} @inproceedings{PAM2013, Author = {Bourgeau, Thomas and Friedman, Timur}, Booktitle = {Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM)}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 10:32:01 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:31:07 +0200}, Pages = {11--20}, Publisher = {Springer}, Title = {Efficient IP-level Network Topology Capture}, Volume = {7799}, Year = {2013}} @inproceedings{ICC2015, Author = {Giambene, Giovanni and Le, Van Anh and Bourgeau, Thomas and Chaouchi, Hakima}, Booktitle = {International Conference on Communcations (ICC)}, Date-Added = {2013-05-10 10:32:01 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2013-05-13 01:31:07 +0200}, Publisher = {IEEE}, Pages = {213-221}, Title = {Soft Frequency Reuse Schemes for Heterogeneous LTE Systems}, Year = {2015}} @inproceedings{bou2016extended, Author = {Bou Abdo, Jacques and Bourgeau, Thomas and Demerjian, Jacques and Chaouchi, Hakima}, Booktitle = {Mobile Information Systems}, Publisher = {Hindawi Publishing Corporation}, Title = {Extended Privacy in Crowdsourced Location-Based Services Using Mobile Cloud Computing}, Pages = {158-166}, Volume = {2016}, Year = {2016}}