MAESTRO Research team

Models for the performance analysis and the control of networks

Team presentation

The project-team is concerned with the modeling, performance evaluation, optimization and control of discrete-event dynamical systems (DEDS), with a particular emphasis on networks and their applications. The scientific contributions are both theoretical, with the development of new modeling formalisms, and applied with the development of software tools for the performance evaluation of DEDS.

Research themes

The research activities are organized around the following themes:
  • IP networks (TCP, service differentiation, forward error correction, ...)
  • Wireless communications (satellite/cellular/local area networks)
  • Overlay networks and their applications (peer-to-peer networking, content distribution systems, multimedia delivery, mobile applications, ...)
  • Multiagent optimization in networking (fairness, theory of cooperative games, competition between agents)
  • Theory of discrete-event systems (trafic modeling, queueing theory, real-time system analysis, ...)
  • Control of stochastic processes (singular perturbations, Markov decision theory, ...).

International and industrial relations

The members of MAESTRO have a long lasting collaboration with several groups at France Telecom R&D. The ongoing cooperations bear on the analysis of resource allocation strategies in UMTS networks and on the analysis of traffic in IP networks.

The project is a member of the Network of Excellence EuroNGI and is involved in several international scientific cooperations (The Netherlands within a Van Gogh project, Israël (Arc-En-Ciel project), United Kingdom (British Council), Russia (Institut Lyapounov), USA (NSF ITR), ...).

Keywords: Performance evaluation Stochastic processes Queueing theory Markov decision theory Game theory Networks (IP Wireless Ad hoc Peer-to-peer Etc.)

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