Ernst BIERSACK

Name: Ernst BIERSACK Service: Eurecom - Networking and Security  Function: Professor Email: Ernst.Biersack at eurecom.fr Phone: 04 93 00 81 11 Fax: 04 93 00 82 00 Office: 383 Web site:www.eurecom.fr/~erbi

Research

Current research topics

• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Network Tomography

Current research interests

• His areas of research are distributed systems and computer networks, with emphasis on scalability. In the past he has been working transport protocol design, video server architectures, large multicast distribution, web caching and content distribution, and scheduling.
• His current research is in peer-to-peer systems and their applications such as video streaming or massive multi-player games.

Current research memberships

• He is currently an associate editor of the "IEEE Networking Magazine" and the ACM "Computer Communication Review".
• He was conference co-chair of several international conferences and member of PC of numerous international conferences and guest editor of a special issue of "IEEE Journal in Selected Areas in Communications".
• He has organised numerous conferences. Most recently he has been General Co-chair of ACM Sigcomm 2009 and TPC co-chair of Co-Next 2009.
• He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Selected publications

• 2011 - Reducing repair traffic in P2P backup systems: Exact regenerating codes on hierarchical codes
• 2011 - Exploring Second Life
• 2010 - Hierarchical codes : a flexible trade-off for erasure codes in peer-to-peer storage systems
• 2009 - Long term study of peer behavior in the KAD DHT
• 2004 - Dissecting BitTorrent: five months in a torrent's lifetime
• 2004 - Performance analysis of LAS-based scheduling disciplines in a packet switched network
• 2002 - Dynamic parallel-access to replicated content in the Internet
• 1998 - Parity-based loss recovery for reliable multicast transmission