Gwendal SIMON

Short Bio

Gwendal Simon received his Master Degree in Computer Science in 2000 and his PhD degree in Computer Science in December 2004 after three years at both France Telecom R&D and IRISA. During his PhD, he has conceived and developed a distributed shared virtual world, which has received a worldwide attention, including innovation prize, and has turned out to be a start-up.

From 2004 to 2006 he was a researcher at Orange Labs, where he worked on spontaneous networks and social media innovations. Since 2006, he has been Associate Professor at Telecom Bretagne, a graduate engineering school within the Institut Telecom. He is visiting researcher at University of Waterloo since September 2011.

His research interests include large-scale distributed networks, peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks, optimization problems and video delivery systems.

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Recent Publications

Yiping Chen, Erwan Le Merrer, Zhe Li, Yaning Liu and Gwendal Simon. « OAZE: a Network-Friendly Distributed Zapping System for Peer-to-Peer IPTV », Computer Networks, 2011.

Fen Zhou, Miklos Molnar, Bernard Cousin and Gwendal Simon. « Power-optimal design of multicast light-trees in WDM networks », IEEE Communications Letters, Nov. 2011.

Jimmy Leblet, Zhe Li, Gwendal Simon and Di Yuan. « Optimal Network Locality in Distributed Virtualized Data-Centers », Computer Communications, Oct. 2011.

Yaning Liu and Gwendal Simon. « Peer-Assisted Time-Shifted Streaming Systems: Design and Promises », in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), 2011.

Zhe Li and Gwendal Simon. « Time-Shited TV in Content Centric Networks: the Case for Cooperative In-Network Caching », in Proc of IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), 2011.

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