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Guillaume URVOY-KELLER Assistant-Professor

Email	Guillaume URVOY-KELLER
Phone	04 93 00 81 89
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Resume

Education

Guillaume Urvoy-Keller received the Engineer Diploma from Institut National des Télécommunications in 1995, the Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) in Computer Science from University Paris 6, in 1995 and the PhD degree from University Paris 6 in December 1999.
He was awarded the «Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches» (French qualification for conducting Phd theses) from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 2006.

Teaching

He is responsible for the courses on Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems and Network Design. Since 2004, he is co-responsible for the Networking track in the EURECOM curriculum.

Industrial experience
Guillaume Urvoy-Keller is very actively involved in many collaborative research projects with industry in the area of peer to peer applications.

Major research interests

- Traffic analysis: TCP, measurement methods and measurement tools;
- Peer-to-peer content replication;
- Size-based scheduling for wired and wireless networks.

Visibility, membership, committee
Guillaume Urvoy-Keller is an ACM member.

Additional information

Current research topics

Traffic analysis: root cause analysis of TCP, measurement methods and measurement tools;
Peer-to-peer applications: content replication, p2p in a corporate network;
Size-based scheduling: improving the best-effort service of the Internet

Distinctions

Luis Garces-Erice, Keith W. Ross, Ernst W. Biersack, Pascal A. Felber, and Guillaume Urvoy-Keller *Topology-Centric Look-Up Service*. NGC/ICQT Best Paper Award for the best paper of the Networked Group Communication Conference 2003.

Selected publications

I. Rai, E. W. Biersack, and G. Urvoy-Keller “Size-based Scheduling to improve the Performance of Short TCP Flows” IEEE Network Magazine 2005.
M. Siekkinen, G. Urvoy-Keller, E. Biersack, and T. En-Najjary “Root Cause Analysis for Long-Lived TCP Connections” In ACM CoNEXT, Toulouse, France, October 2005.
G. Urvoy-Keller “On the Stationarity of TCP Bulk Data Transfers” In Passive and Active Measurements 2005, Juan Les Pins, France, March 2005.
I. A. Rai, G. Urvoy-Keller, and E. W. Biersack “Analysis of LAS Scheduling for Job Size Distributions with High Variance” In ACM Sigmetrics 2003 pages 218–228 June 2003.
G. Urvoy-Keller, G. Hébuterne, and Y. Dallery “Traffic Engineering in a Multipoint-to- point Network”. IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications 20(4):834–849 May 2002.

Publications

Eurecom Reference	2009
2901	Pietrzyk, Marcin;Costeux, Jean-Laurent;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;En-Najjary, Taoufik Challenging statistical classification for operational usage : the adsl case IMC 2009, 9th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, November 4-6, 2009, Chicago, IL, USA Details BibTeX
2962	Heusse, Martin; Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume; Duda, Andrzej Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 mechanisms for improving TCP performance in 802.11 wireless lans ITC 2009, 21st International Teletraffic Congress, September 15-17, 2009, Paris, France , pp 1-8 Details BibTeX
2798	Hafsaoui, Aymen;Collange, Denis; Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Revisiting the performance of short TCP transfers Networking 2009, 8th IFIP International Conference on Networking, May 11-15, 2009, Aachen, Germany, also published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", Vol 5550, p.260-273, 2009 , pp 260-273 Details BibTeX File request
2767	Pietrzyk, Marcin;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Costeux, Jean-Laurent Revealing the unknown ADSL traffic using statistical methods COST 2009 : Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop 2009 \| Also published as Springer : "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", Vol 5537, 2009. ISBN : 978-3-642-01644-8 , pp 75-83 Details BibTeX DOI
2714	Croce, Daniele;En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Fast available bandwidth sampling for ADSL links : rethinking the estimation for larger-scale measurements PAM 2009, 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement. April 1-3rd, 2009, Seoul, South Korea, also published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", Vol 5448 , pp 67-76 Details BibTeX DOI
2673	Hafsaoui, Aymen;Collange, Denis;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Revisiting the performance of short TCP transfers Rapport de recherche RR-09-233 Details BibTeX File request
Eurecom Reference	2008
2590	Trabelsi, Slim;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Roudier, Yves On the impact of DoS attacks on secure service discovery NCUS 2008, 4th IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Centric Ubiquitous Systems, December 17-20, 2008, Shanghai, China , pp 532-537 Details BibTeX DOI
2605	Croce, Daniele;En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Capacity estimation of ADSL links CoNEXT 2008, 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, December 9, 2008, Madrid, Spain Details BibTeX DOI
2587	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Beylot, André-Luc Improving flow level fairness and interactivity in WLANs using size-based scheduling policies MSWiM'08, 11th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, October 27-31, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , pp 333-340 Details BibTeX DOI
2588	Plissonneau, Louis;En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Revisiting web traffic from a DSL provider perspective : the case of YouTube 19th ITC Specialist Seminar 2008 on Network Usage and Traffic (ITC SS 19), October 8-9, 2008, Berlin, Germany Details BibTeX File request
2589	Auchmann, Matthias;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume On the variance of the least attained service policy and its use in multiple bottleneck networks NET-COOP 2008, 2nd Workshop on Network Control and Optimization, September 8-10, 2008, Paris, France Details BibTeX File request
2542	Pietrzyk, Marcin;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Costeux, Jean-Laurent Digging into KAD users’ shared folders SIGCOMM 2008, ACM annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communications, August 18-22, 2008, Seattle, USA Details BibTeX
2467	Pham, Van-Hau;Dacier, Marc;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;En-Najjary, Taoufik The quest for multi-headed worms DIMVA 2008, 5th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, July 10-11th, 2008, Paris, France \| Also published as LNCS Volume 5137 , pp 247-266 Details BibTeX DOI
2479	Siekkinen, Matti;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W;Collange, Denis A root cause analysis toolkit for TCP Computer Networks. Volume 52, Issue 9, June 2008 , pp 1846-1858 Details BibTeX DOI
2529	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Rouibia, Soufiane;Vayn,Jonathan;Beauvais,Olivier Early stage denial of service attacks in BitTorrent: an experimental study COPS 2008, WETICE Workshop on Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 23-25, 2008, Roma, Italy , pp 141-142 Details BibTeX DOI
2459	En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Passive capacity estimation: comparison of existing tools SPECTS 2008, 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, June 16-18, 2008, Edinburgh, UK , pp 346-352 Details BibTeX
2475	Heusse, Martin;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Duda, Andrzej An experimental comparison of layer 2 and 3 mechanisms for improving user perceived performance of 802.11 wireless LANs Rapport de recherche RR-08-220 Details BibTeX
2497	Auchmann, Matthias;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume On the variance of the least attained service policy and its use in multiple bottleneck networks Rapport de recherche RR-08-224 Details BibTeX
2444	Trabelsi, Slim;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Roudier, Yves A performance based approach to selecting a secure service discovery architecture MWNS 2008, The Mobile and Wireless Networks Security Workshop joint with IFIP Networking 2008, May 5 - 9, 2008, Singapore Details BibTeX
2455	Croce, Daniele;En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Non-cooperative available bandwidth estimation towards ADSL links Infocom 2008, 11th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2008, April 18, 2008, Phoenix, USA Details BibTeX
2439	Trabelsi, Slim;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Roudier, Yves A Markovian performance model for secure service discovery systems Rapport de recherche RR-08-214 Details BibTeX
2413	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;En-Najjary, Taoufik;Sorniotti, Alessandro Operational comparison of available bandwidth estimation tools ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 38 N°1, January 2008 , pp 39-42 Details BibTeX DOI
Eurecom Reference	2007
2373	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume; Beylot, Andre-Luc Improving flow level fairness and interactivity in WLANs using size-based scheduling policies Rapport de recherche RR-07-206 Details BibTeX
2357	En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Passive capacity estimation: comparison of existing tools Rapport de recherche RR-07-204 Details BibTeX
2179	Siekkinen, Matti;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W On the interaction between Internet applications and TCP ITC 20, 20th International Teletraffic Congress, June 17-21, 2007, Ottawa, Canada Details BibTeX
2148	Siekkinen, Matti;Collange, D;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Performance limitations of ADSL users: a case study PAM 2007, 8th Passive and Active Measurement conference, April 5 - 6, 2007, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium Details BibTeX
2177	Biersack, Ernst W;Schroeder, Bianca;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Scheduling in practice Performance evaluation review Volume 34 Issue 4, Special issue on new perspectives in scheduling - March 2007 , pp 21-28 Details BibTeX DOI
2160	Sorniotti, Alessandro;En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume On the operational comparison of available bandwidth estimation tools Rapport de recherche RR-07-186 Details BibTeX
2102	Michiardi, Pietro;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Performance analysis of cooperative content distribution for wireless ad hoc networks IEEE/IFIP WONS 2007, 4th Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services, January 24-26, 2007, Obergurgl, Austria Details BibTeX DOI
Eurecom Reference	2006
2124	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume De la qualité de service à l'analyse de trafic Habilitation à diriger des recherches (French qualification for conducting Phd theses) Details BibTeX
2125	Ferrero, Diego;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Size-based scheduling to improve fairness and performance in 802.11 networks Rapport de recherche RR-06-183 Details BibTeX
2019	Legout, Arnaud;Urvoy-keller, Guillaume;Michiardi, Pietro Rarest first and choke algorithms are enough IMC'2006, ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX conference, October 25-27, 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Details BibTeX DOI
2073	Siekkinen, Matti;Collange, Denis;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Application-level performance of ADSL users Rapport de recherche RR-06-178 Details BibTeX
2528	Ferrero, Diego;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume A size-based scheduling to improve fairness and performance in 802.11 networks SIGCOMM 2006, ACM conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication, September 11-15, 2006, Pisa, Italy Details BibTeX DOI
2007	Michiardi, Pietro;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Performance analysis of cooperative content distribution for wireless ad hoc networks Rapport de recherche RR-06-172 Details BibTeX
1888	Pouget, Fabien;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Dacier, Marc Time signatures to detect multi-headed stealthy attack tools 18th Annual FIRST Conference, June 25-30, 2006, Baltimore, USA Details BibTeX
1927	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Michiardi, Pietro Impact of inner parameters and overlay structure on the performance of BitTorrent 9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006 in conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2006, 28-29 April 2006, Barcelona, Spain Details BibTeX DOI
1887	En-Najjary, Taoufik;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume PPrate: a passive capacity estimation tool E2EMON 2006, 4th IEEE/IFIP Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services, April 3, 2006, Vancouver, Canada , pp 82-89 Details BibTeX
1721	Plagemann, Thomas;Goebel, Vera;Mautheb, Andreas;Mathyc, Laurent;Turletti, Thierry;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume From content distribution networks to content networks — issues and challenges Computer Communications, E-NEXT Special Issue, Volume 29 N°5, 6 March 2006 , pp 551-562 Details BibTeX DOI
1932	Legout, Arnaud;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Michiardi, Pietro Rarest first and choke algorithms are enough INRIA Research report (inria-00001111, version 1 - 13 February 2006) Details BibTeX DOI
Eurecom Reference	2005
1933	Legout, Arnaud;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Michiardi, Pietro Understanding BitTorrent: an experimental perspective INRIA Research report (inria-00000156, version 3-9 November 2005) Details BibTeX DOI
1761	Siekkinen; Matti;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W;En-Najjary, Taoufik Root cause analysis for long-lived TCP connections Co-NEXT 2005, 1st ACM/e-NEXT International Conference on Future Networking Technologies, 24-27 October, 2005, Toulouse, France Details BibTeX DOI
1778	Siekkinen, Matti;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W On the interaction between Internet applications and TCP Rapport de recherche RR-05-147 Details BibTeX
1636	Siekkinen, Matti;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Goebel, Vera;Plagemann, Thomas InTraBase: integrated traffic analysis based on a database management system E2EMON, Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services, 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May 15-19, 2005, Nice, France Details BibTeX DOI
1653	Siekkinen; Matti;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W;En-Najjary, Taoufik Disambiguating network effects from edge effects in TCP connections Rapport de recherche RR-05-139 Details BibTeX
1704	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume On the stationarity of TCP bulk data transfers PAM 2005, 6th International Workshop on Passive and Active Network Measurement, March 31 - April 1, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Also published in LNCS Volume 3431 , pp 27-40 Details BibTeX DOI
1129	Rai, Idris A;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Size-based scheduling to improve the performance of short TCP flows IEEE Network magazine Volume 19 N° 1, January-February 2005, p 12-17 Details BibTeX DOI
1678	Felber, Pascal A;Ross, Keith W;Biersack, Ernst W;Garcés-Erice, Luis;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Structured peer-to-peer networks: faster, closer, smarter IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin Volume 28 N° 1, March 2005, Special Issue on In-Network Query Processing , pp 55-65 Details BibTeX DOI
Eurecom Reference	2004
1323	Rai, Idris A;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume LAS scheduling approach to avoid bandwidth hogging in heterogeneous TCP networks HSNMC'04, 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications, June 30 - July 2, 2004, Toulouse, France [ Also published as LNCS Volume 3079 , pp 179-190 Details BibTeX DOI
1386	Al Hamra, Anwar;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume A pull-based approach for a VoD service in P2P networks HSNMC'2004, 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications, June 30 - July 2, 2004, Toulouse, France - Published in LNCS Volume 3079 , pp 995-1006 Details BibTeX DOI
1464	Rai, Idris A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Vernon, Mary K;Biersack, Ernst W Performance models of LAS based scheduling policies in a packet switched network ACM Sigmetrics - Performance 2004, Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 12-16, 2004, New York, USA Details BibTeX DOI
1370	Siekkinen, Matti;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst Towards a quantitative T-RAT Rapport de recherche RR-04-106 Details BibTeX
1348	Izal, Mikel;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W;Felber, Pascal A;Al Hamra, Anwar;Garces-Erice, Luis Dissecting BitTorrent: five months in a torrent's lifetime PAM'2004, 5th annual Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, April 19-20, 2004, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France - Published in LNCS Volume 3015 , pp 1-11 Details BibTeX DOI
1349	Plagemann, Thomas;Goebel, Vera;Bergamini, Andrea;Tolu, Giacomo;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Using data stream management systems for traffic analysis - a case study PAM'2004, 5th annual Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, April 19-20, 2004, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France / Also Published in LNCS Volume 3015 Details BibTeX DOI
1292	Garces-Erice, Luis;Felber, Pascal A;Ross, Keith W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Data indexing in peer-to-peer DHT networks ICDCS 2004, IEEE 24th international conference on distributed computing systems, March 23-26, 2004, Tokyo, Japan Details BibTeX DOI
Eurecom Reference	2003
1350	Garces-Erice, Luis;Biersack, Ernst W;Ross, Keith W;Felber, Pascal A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Hierarchical peer-to-peer systems Parallel Processing Letters (PPL) Volume 13 N°4, December 2003 , pp 643-657 Details BibTeX DOI
1328	Al Hamra, Anwar;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Architectural choices for video-on-demand systems IWCW'2003, IEEE 8th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, 29 September - 1 October 2003, New York, USA Details BibTeX DOI
1205	Garces-Erice, Luis;Ross, Keith W;Biersack, Ernst W;Felber, Pascal A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Topology-centric look-up service NGC'03, 5th International Workshop on Networked Group Communications, September 16-19, 2003 - Munich, Germany Best paper award Details BibTeX
1186	Garces-Erice, Luis;Biersack, Ernst W;Felber, Pascal A;Ross, Keith W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Hierarchical peer-to-peer systems Euro-Par'03, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 26th - 29th August 2003 - Klagenfurt, Austria Details BibTeX DOI
1130	Rai, Idris A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Analysis of LAS scheduling for job size distributions with high variance ACM SIGMETRICS 2003, International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 10-14, 2003, San Diego, USA , pp 218-228 Details BibTeX DOI
1254	Garces-Erice, Luis;Felber, Pascal A;Ross, Keith W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Data indexing in peer-to-peer DHT networks Rapport de recherche RR-03-091 Details BibTeX
1322	Rai, Idris A;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Analyzing the performance of TCP flows under LAS schedulers Rapport de recherche RR-03-075 Details BibTeX
1320	Biersack, Ernst W;Al Hamra, Anwar;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Choi, David;Traganitis, Apostolos Algorithms for scalable content distribution COST 263 Final Report, Quality of Future Internet Services \|Also Published as LNCS Volume 2856 , pp 207-262 Details BibTeX DOI
Eurecom Reference	2002
1149	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Hébuterne, Gérard EBBPS: an efficient weight assignment process for GPS servers Annales des Télécommunications Volume 57 N°11-12, Novembre- Décembre 2002 , pp 1226-1243 Details BibTeX DOI
1041	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W A congestion control model for multicast overlay networks and its performance NGC'2002, 4th international workshop on network group communication, 23-25 October, 20002 - Boston, USA Details BibTeX
1040	Choi, David;Biersack, Ernst W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Cost optimal dimensioning of a large scale video on demand system NGC'2002, 4th international workshop on network group communication, 23-25 October, 20002 - Boston, USA Details BibTeX DOI
1042	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Hébuterne, Gérard;Dallery, Yves Traffic engineering in a multipoint-to-point network IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 20, N°4, May 2002 , pp 834-849 Details BibTeX DOI
1036	Rai, Idris A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Size based scheduling with differentiated services to improve response time of highly varying flow ITC'2002, 15th specialist seminar on Internet traffic engineering and traffic management, July 22-24, 2002 - Würzburg, Germany Details BibTeX
1131	Rai, Idris A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W An efficient scheduling policy for edge routers to speedup the Internet access Rapport de recherche RR-02-073 Details BibTeX
1132	Rai, Idris A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W On reducing response time for VPN traffic Rapport de recherche RR-02-072 Details BibTeX
1103	Ross, Keith W;Biersack, Ernst W;Felber, Pascal A;Garces-Erice, Luis;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Topology centric lookup service Working paper Details BibTeX
1104	Felber, Pascal A;Biersack, Ernst W;Garces-Erice, Luis;Ross, Keith W;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume Data indexing and querying in P2P DHT networks Rapport de recherche RR-03-073 Details BibTeX
Eurecom Reference	2001
776	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Hébuterne, Gérard Guaranteeing deterministic QoS in a multipoint-to-point network ITC 17, International Teletraffic Congress, December 2-7, 2001 - Salvador da Bahia, Brazil Details BibTeX
1133	Rai, Idris A;Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume;Biersack, Ernst W Comparison of PS, SRPT, and FB scheduling policies under exponential and heavy tail job sizes Rapport de recherche RR-01-063B Details BibTeX
742	Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume; Biersack, Ernst W DSS: a deterministic and scalable QoS provisioning scheme COST 263, 2nd International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services QofIS, September 24-26, 2001, Coimbra, Portugal \|Also available as LNCS Volume 2156 , pp 310-323 Details BibTeX DOI