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cbrand on PostDoc position at Telecom Bretagne

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:44:16 +0000

posted by forum administrator on behalf of Sandrine Vaton, Télécom Bretagne

Post Doc or Research Engineer Position

« Network Traffic Monitoring for Intrusion Detection at the InterDomain Level »

Location:

Télécom Bretagne, Brest, France

Web page: http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/

Description:

A one-year post-doc or research engineer position is offered at
Télécom Bretagne (Brest, France) in the framework of the FP7 Call 5
Integrated Project DEMONS (Decentralized, cooperative and privacy
preserving MONitoring for trustworthinesS, public Web site: http://fp7-demons.eu/).

The DEMONS project adresses cooperative inter-domain network
monitoring and mitigation. Within the DEMONS project our research group
is involved on workpackage WP3 on the design and development of the
inter-domain trafic monitoring layer. We will contribute to the design
and implementation of programmable trafic probes in collaboration with
other partner institutions.

Skills:

Excellent programming skills (C++, Python, …)
Previous experience on Intrusion Detection Systems
English

Dates:

This is a one-year position. To start as soon as possible.

Contact:

Dr Sandrine Vaton

Associate Professor

Télécom Bretagne (Brest, France)

Email: sandrine [dot] vaton <at> telecom-bretagne [dot] eu

+33 2 29 00 10 29

Personal Web page: http://perso.telecom-bretagne......rinevaton/

rschatz on Quality of Experience (QoE) Researcher Position at FTW

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:53:54 +0000

The Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW) is a dynamic company with an international atmosphere that carries out application-oriented research in telecommunications. Our mission is to fill

the gap between science and industry, pursuing a challenging research program in collaboration with both academic and industrial partners. In this context, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is one of the core research fields pursued at FTW, where engineers, psychologists, sociologists and economists collaborate in interdisciplinary teams with the goal of increase the user friendliness of future telecommunication services and applications.

Currently we are hiring for the following position:
Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

We are seeking an ambitious researcher with experience in user testing and the development of interactive systems who is willing to contribute to strategic and application-oriented research activities in the area of Quality of Experience for Future Communication Services and Networks.

Tasks:

Conceive and conduct user studies on perceived quality of communication systems
Develop tools and test environments for user-centric quality assessment
Perform statistical analysis of user study and network traffic data
Scientific collaboration within national and European research projects
Reporting of results at project meetings and scientific conferences
Contribute to proposal writing and industry partner relationship activities

Required Skills:

Bachelor or Master degree in a relevant technical field (e.g. Computer Science, Communications Engineering, Business Informatics)
Experience in the technical development of desktop and Web applications
Practical experience in design, performance and evaluation of user trials of advantage
Independent and goal oriented working style
Ability to combine theoretical reasoning with practical applications and experimentations
Ability to integrate in a multinational research team
Fluency in German and English

Please send your complete application (CV, covering letter, certificates) to:

FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien GmbH

attn.: Mag. Ulrike Gemassmer

Donau-City-Strasse 1

A-1220 Vienna

Austria

or via Email to jobs_HCI ftw [dot] at

cbrand on Junior Faculty Position in Networking at Eurecom

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:25:28 +0000

posted by forum administrator on behalf of Ernst Biersack, Eurecom

JUNIOR FACULTY POSITION IN NETWORKING

The Networking and Security Department of EURECOM invites applications for a tenured position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of networking. Research and teaching of the Networking and Security Department of EURECOM currently focuses on two directions:

Protocols and applications for the Internet
Communications and systems security.

The new faculty is expected to undertake research in the area of networking. Candidates with a proven track record of academic research in the following areas are particularly encouraged to apply:

Performance analysis and modeling applied to networking
Network tomography and data mining of networking data

While targeting practical application scenarios in his/her research, the new faculty is also expected to carry out fundamental research. The candidates must have a Ph.D. in computer science or electrical engineering with a solid background in networking or distributed systems.

Qualified applicants should send a resume including a publication list indicating the three most important publications, a four-page statement of research and teaching activities proposed by the candidate and the names and addresses of three references by e-mail under reference MDCNW2011 to recruitment-nw@eurecom.fr.

The screening will start on January 15, 2011.

EURECOM Eurécom (http://www.eurecom.fr) is a graduate school in communication systems founded in 1992 by Telecom Paristech and EPFL. Eurécom's activity includes research and graduate-level teaching in networking, security, multimedia and mobile communications. Eurécom currently counts about 22 professors, 12 post-docs, 65 Ph. D., and 170 M.S. students. Eurécom is located in Sophia Antipolis, a vibrant science park on the French Riviera whose cosmopolitan population and unique geographic location provide a quality of life without equal.

rschatz on CFP: QoE Technical Session at COST Meeting Sep 20-21 2010, Zagreb

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:01:33 +0000

Dear QoE-interested TMA members!

Once again, we are going for a dedicated QoE-related Technical Session at the TMA COST action’s upcoming MC-Meeting in Zagreb (Sep 20-21). The session will be (again) a great opportunity for learning about each other’s current activities in the field of QoE (including STSMs) and for fostering joint activity.

By now we envisage a series of short presentations plus discussion, following a format similar to what we had in Zurich. (However, this time we’ll take care of a more relaxed pace that allows for going more in-depth, leaving sufficient breathing space for the discussion part ). In order to facilitate planning and get a rough idea about the amount and nature of participation, I ask you to briefly send a mail to schatz(AT)ftw.at with the following infos:

1) Do you plan to attend the session? (if not: somebody else from your institution?)

2) If yes, do you want to give a presentation about your (group’s) QoE-related activities?

3) If yes, what will be the nature/content of your presentation?

Ideas so far are: Institutional Overview [IO], Technical Presentation [TP], STSM, or a combination of them.

4) What is your preferred scheduling of the QoE session?

Options: a) Mo Morning, b) Mo Afternoon, c) Tu Morning

5) Do you have any further questions, comments or suggestions?

Since the holiday season is approaching at the speed of light with planning activities more and more urgent, I ask all people interested in attending/presenting for a quick reply/mail to schatz(AT)ftw.at until Thu June 24^th ! (sorry for the short notice)

Thank you for your input and see you in Zagreb, Raimund Schatz

vaton on PostDoc Position on Traffic Classification at Télécom Bretagne (Brest, France)

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:02:58 +0000

Open Post Doc Position

Télécom Bretagne (Brest, France)

1 year, to be filled as soon as possible

A post doc position on traffic measurement and analysis is open at Télécom

Bretagne (Brest, France). This post doc position is open in the

framework of the VIPEER project funded by the French national

research agency.

The candidate will participate to the deployment of a traffic measurement

and analysis testbed. The goal is to automate the classification of

traffic per application or per category of application (P2P,

streaming video, bulk data transfer, etc.) This classification will

not be based on port numbers or Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) but on a

statistical analysis of some traffic descriptors.

The candidate will propose and implement innovative methods for

statistical traffic classification. He/she will also integrate these

methods in a measurement testbed based on a DAG sniffing card to

enable online traffic classification. This measurement testbed will

be part of a global monitoring infrastructure distributed between the

partners of the VIPEER project.

Please send your CV, relevant publications, recommendations and motivation letter to:

sandrine [dot] vaton [at] telecom-bretagne [dot] eu

Sandrine VATON,

Associate professor, Télécom Bretagne

Tools and skills

DAG network monitoring card (Endace society)
NetFPGA platform (Stanford university)
C/C++, Java, Matlab, GTK, …
English: full professional proficiency
A previous experience in network monitoring will be highly appreciated.

gillesTredan on How to become contributor?

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:41:40 +0000

Oops, I have not seen the edit buttons.

It's perfect then

Thanks & sorry for noise.

Gilles

cbrand on How to become contributor?

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:00:38 +0000

you can do that already.

-christof

gillesTredan on How to become contributor?

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:44:21 +0000

Hi !

I would like to post a short descripion of TU berlin in the participants lists...

Thanks

Gilles

cbrand on How to become contributor?

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:34:19 +0000

AngelFerreiro said:

Hello!

I ´d also like to contribute to this portal.

Thanks

you are now able to edit the pages.

AngelFerreiro on How to become contributor?

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:21:12 +0000

Hello!

I ´d also like to contribute to this portal.

Thanks

johnwolf on How to become contributor?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:11:31 +0000

Thanks Christof.

added my 2 cents to the "trace collection" page ...

/wolfgang

cbrand on How to become contributor?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:38:01 +0000

Hi Wolfang,

i upgraded your permissions.

regards,

christof (admin)

johnwolf on How to become contributor?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:09:16 +0000

Hi!

I would like to add a link to a rather important Resource in terms of Trace Collections you are missing right now.

I wonder if there is a way to move me to the status "contributer"?

regards,

Wolfgang

sbeker on PhD position offering at Orange Labs - Quality of Experience (QoE)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:27:47 +0000

Orange Labs Technical Coordinator: Sergio Beker

Technical coordinator email address: sergio.beker@orange-ftgroup.com

Site: Sophia Antipolis, France

Doctoral Thesis Subject (Title): Modeling Quality of Experience measuring functions for service composition SLA.

Global context and state of the art

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) have historically been defined in terms of technical service implementation parameters. In the classical sense, an SLA includes a list of parameters related to the network performance and in which the objectives are defined as individual thresholds on those parameters. In the context of business services market, the evolution towards on-line service platforms (i.e. in SaaS, ASP or application outsourcing modes) and the associated composite service offerings makes the SLA hard to define and implement. The diversity of services and actors is one of the main causes of such complexity. Currently, the SLAs are tailored to each customer, often composing vertical service levels on metrics related to the technical service implementation rather than the global user perception or the service utility. Those solutions, besides of being costly for the service provider, do not correspond to the current market needs. Economies of scale are made difficult because of the low degree of reuse of the different service definitions. The current solutions on the service level management (SLM) domain lack of tools and methodologies on the elaboration phase of the SLA life cycle.

A number of studies have however shown that meeting the individual service levels on the service performance metrics does not guarantee the final user satisfaction. The user perceived quality depends not only on the set of performance parameters, but also on the human factors related to the usage context of the service. The SLAs must then evolve to take into account those metrics for Quality of Experience (QoE).

A methodology for SLA creation, allowing for identifying the service components and attaching the corresponding QoS performance metrics has been developed within the DIAM laboratory. A QoE Framework, issued from the same research efforts, allows for a homogeneous usage of QoS and QoE terminology, identifying reference interfaces, actors and roles of the intended SLAs. However, the expressions for QoS and QoE as a function of network performance metrics are only available for a small set of component services (e.g. mostly related to voice or video services). On the other hand, the SLA elaboration methodology for composite services evolves in a multitenant and hybrid environment (i.e. services are composed following a business process view: components are not all provided by the same actor and are of different nature).

Thesis Objectives/Expected Results/Scientifical and Technical Challenges

Models for QoS and QoE for composite services and network services in general are a difficult scientific challenge that needs to be addressed. Analytically determining measuring functions translating QoS into QoE is extremely complex due to the number and the different nature of intervening parameters, as well as their interdependence. The subjective tests methodologies could greatly benefit from service models capable of taking into account the more subjective factors of quality appreciation alongside the more technical ones. This thesis aims at:

characterizing the different applications according to service types/categories (for example those proposed by ITU-T),
validating and proposing evolutions to existing models for QoS and QoE for the service types/categories (e.g. web services, interactive applications, etc.),
validating and proposing evolutions to existing metric composition rules for QoE,
validate and propose evolutions for existing subjective test methodologies allowing to unveil the dependencies among the different human factors from the service models and the user quality appreciation in a more systematic way.
Depending on the results obtained for the service models and the corresponding QoE estimators, the PhD candidate would be encouraged to develop a testbed for automating the process of obtaining the QoE estimators for a given application from the corresponding service model. Obtaining the parameters characterizing the estimator would also need the definition of the corresponding subjective tests, as well as the tools necessary to analyze the results.

Methodological approach proposed by the technical coordinator

In a context of service composition, the first objective is to obtain individual models for QoS and QoE in terms of performance parameters for the different service categories. Then the measuring functions for the QoS and QoE for the composite service would be obtained from the metrics associated to the component services through composition rules.

The doctoral thesis is in synergy with the current work within the RDU SPO around the perceived quality through the contribution to different projects about evolved SLA elaboration for composite services and the corresponding QoS/QoE. In particular, a QoE framework and a composition methodology are being defined from existing results and current standardization efforts (ITU-T, ETSI) which take into account the human factors in modelling the perceived quality. This general framework aims at obtaining homogeneous definitions of QoS and QoE, situating the different models relative to the different service categories. It is mainly oriented to setting a reference for the different works on the domain (QoS, QoE, anomaly detection, etc.). A normalization effort around the framework needs to be discussed, depending on the group strategy and the current efforts within the RO "QoS in the Network".

The candidate for this doctoral thesis is expected to have good knowledge on the following topics:

Performance evaluation and network dimensioning, queuing theory
Statistics, probabilities
Basic knowledge on network protocols and architectures
Model engineering (MDA, PIM PSM, UML)
A user oriented vision (human factors) is a plus.

Global Planning

The doctoral thesis will be mainly structured as follows:

A bibliographic study detailing the methods available on the research community and standardization bodies, relevant to the work currently being carried out within the RO. This study would constitute a baseline for the proposition and benchmarking of measuring functions for QoS and QoE for the different service categories.
Conducting simulations and subjective tests in order to make appear the impact of the different intervening parameters. This phase would be conducted in collaboration with other projects within the RO more oriented to the user modelling and the subjective aspects of quality.
Study the relationship between the QoS and QoE indicators from the data obtained through the experiments. The correlations might be studied via different analytical and statistical methods. The target is to propose models for the measuring functions of QoS and QoE for the different studied service categories, and to validate the theoretical models obtained through the composition methodology we have developed.
Propose and validate the necessary evolutions to the metric composition methodology.
Plan and develop (at least specify) a plat-form implementing the service models and characterization tools for the service types/categories studied.

Other Contributions (contribution to collaborative projects if any)

Contribution to the WebQoE Project currently active around the modelling of QoS -> QoE measuring functions for Web Services.
Participation to COST actions (SIG QoE within the COST-TMA action and a new QoE COS action: QUALINET recently submitted).
Contribution to future projects to be defined.

nglthu on Special Interest Group on "Quality of Experience (QoE)"

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:31:24 +0000

Happy to see a QoE forum in somewhere:)