Patrick Loiseau's Publications

Patrick Loiseau

Publications / Talks / Demos

PhD thesis

Contributions to the Analysis of Scaling Laws and Quality of Service in Networks: Experimental and Theoretical Aspects.

Patrick Loiseau

PhD thesis, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (prepared within the INRIA team RESO, at LIP lab.)

Advisors: Paulo Gonçalves and Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet

Committee: Christophe Diot, Daniel Kofman, Jean-Yves Le Boudec (reviewer), Rudolf Riedi (reviewer) and Philippe Robert (reviewer)
[abstract | thesis (pdf) | defense (pdf, in french) | bibtex]

Articles

Articles in refereed journals
- Large deviations for the local fluctuations of random walks
  
  Julien Barral and Patrick Loiseau
  
  Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 121(10):2272--2302, 2011
  [arXiv:1004.3713 | pdf]
- A long-range dependent model for network traffic with flow-scale correlations
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, Paulo Gonçalves
  
  Stochastic Models, 27:333--361, 2011
  [pdf]
- Application of cardiac autonomous indices in the study of neurogenic erectile dysfunction
  
  Edmundo Pereira de Souza Neto, Elmer Andrés Fernández, Patrice Abry, Béatrice Cuzine, Patrick Loiseau, Christian Baude, Jean Frutoso, Claude Gharib, and Xavier Martin
  
  Urologia Internationalis, 86(3):290--297, 2011
  [pdf]
- Investigating self-similarity and heavy-tailed distributions on a large scale experimental facility
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Guillaume Dewaele, Pierre Borgnat, Patrice Abry, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(4):1261--1274, August 2010
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]
- Empirical mode decomposition to assess cardiovascular autonomic control in rats
  
  Edmundo Pereira de Souza Neto, Patrice Abry, Patrick Loiseau, Jean-Christophe Cejka, Marc-Antoine Custaud, Jean Frutoso, Claude Gharib, Patrick Flandrin
  
  Fundamental & Clinical Pharmacology, 21(5):481--496, October 2007
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]
Articles in international refereed conferences
- Congestion Pricing Using a Raffle-Based Scheme
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Galina Schwartz, John Musacchio, Saurabh Amin, S. Shankar Sastry
  
  Netgcoop 2011, October 2011, Paris, France
- Incentive Schemes for Internet Congestion Management: Raffles versus Time-of-Day Pricing
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Galina Schwartz, John Musacchio, Saurabh Amin
  
  Allerton 2011, September 2011, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
- On the Impact of the Flow-Size Distribution's Tail Index on Network Performance with TCP Connections
  
  Oana Goga, Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves
  
  IFIP Performance 2011, October 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  [abstract | pdf (preprint) | bibtex]
- Modeling TCP Throughput: an Elaborated Large-Deviations-Based Model and its Empirical Validation
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Julien Barral, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  IFIP Performance 2010, November 2010, Namur, Belgium
  Best Paper Award Runner-up
  [abstract | pdf (preprint) | bibtex]
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Flow Size Distribution Tail Index from Sampled Packet Data
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Stéphane Girard, Florence Forbes, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  ACM Sigmetrics/Performance 2009, June 2009, Seattle, WA, USA
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]
- Metroflux: A high performance system for analyzing flow at very fine-grain
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Romaric Guillier, Matthieu Imbert, Yuetsu Kodama, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  TridentCom 2009, April 2009, Washington DC, USA
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]
- How TCP can kill Self-Similarity
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  Euro-NF workshop: Traffic Engineering and Dependability in the Network of the Future, VTT, Finland, September 2008
  [pdf | bibtex]
- Metroflux: A fully operational high speed metrology platform
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Yuetsu Kodama, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  Euro-NF workshop: New trends in modeling, quantitative methods and measurements, In cooperation with NET-COOP, Thomson Paris Research Labs, France, September 2008
  [pdf | bibtex]
- A comparative study of different heavy tail index estimators of the flow size from sampled data
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  MetroGrid workshop, GridNets-07, October 17-19 2007, Lyon, France
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]
National communications
- Metroflux: a high performance system for very fine-grain flow analysis
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Romaric Guillier, Matthieu Imbert, Oana Goga, Yuetsu Kodama, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  Grid'5000 Spring School, Nancy, France, April 2009
- Vérification du lien entre auto-similarité et distributions à queues lourdes sur un dispositif grande échelle
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Guillaume Dewaele, Pierre Borgnat, Patrice Abry, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  9 ième Atelier en Evaluation de Performances, Aussois, France, June 2008
  [pdf (in french) | bibtex]
Research reports
- Impact of the Correlation between Flow Rates and Durations on the Large-Scale Properties of Aggregate Network Traffic
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  INRIA Research Report 7100, November 2009
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]
- Investigating self-similarity and heavy tailed distributions on a large scale experimental facility
  
  Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Guillaume Dewaele, Pierre Borgnat, Patrice Abry, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet
  
  INRIA Research Report 6472, March 2008
  [abstract | pdf | bibtex]

Software demonstrations

Automated traffic measurements and analysis in Grid5000

Patrick Loiseau, Romaric Guillier, Oana Goga, Matthieu Imbert, Paulo Gonçalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet.

ACM Sigmetrics/Performance demonstration contest, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2009.
Best Student Demonstration Award
[pdf]

Talks

Incentive Schemes for Network Decongestion: Raffles and Time-of-Day Pricing

NetEcon group meeting, UC Berkeley, April 2011.
TCP traffic modeling using an almost-sure large-deviations result

Invited speaker, Orange Labs (France Telecom), Sophia-Antipolis, France, March 2011.
Principe de grandes déviations presque-sur et applications

Invited speaker, University of Nice, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné (Séminaire de Probabilités et Statistiques), Nice, France, March 2011.
Almost-sure large deviations and application to TCP traffic

Invited speaker, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories (Mathematics of Networks and Communications Research Department), Murray Hill, NJ, USA, March 2011.
Large deviations and application to fine TCP modeling

Invited speaker, University of Waterloo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering invited seminar), October 2010.
Large deviations and application to fine TCP modeling

Invited speaker, UC Berkeley (Networking, Communications and DSP seminars), September 2010.
Large deviations and application to fine TCP modeling

Invited speaker, Caltech (RSRG Seminars), September 2010.
Heavy-tails and correlations in network traffic

Invited speaker, Politecnico di Torino (Telecommunication Network Group), May 2010.
Large deviations and application to TCP performance

Invited speaker, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (RAP team), November 2009.
[http]
Maximum likelihood estimation of the flow size distribution tail index from sampled packet data

ACM Sigmetrics/Performance, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2009.
[pdf]
How TCP can kill Self-Similarity

Traffic Engineering and Dependability in the Network of the Future, Annual Euro-NF workshop IA 7.3, Septembre 22-23, 2008, VTT, Espoo, Finland
Investigating self-similarity and heavy-tailed distributions on a large-scale experimental facility

9 ième Atelier en Evaluation de Performances, Aussois, France, June 2008
[pdf]
Metrology platform: A first experimental study -- Investigating self-similarity and heavy tailed distributions from grid traffic

EC-GIN Meeting, March 2008, Beijing, China
A comparative study of different heavy tail index estimators of the flow size from sampled data

MetroGrid workshop, GridNets-07, October 17-19 2007, Lyon, France
[pdf]
A comparative study of different heavy tail estimator from sampled packet flows

EC-GIN Meeting, July 09-11 2007, Poros, Greece
[pdf]

Student works

Complex wavelets for the analysis of scaling phenomena : Numerical and theoretical study of a wavelet-based estimation of the scaling parameters

Patrick Loiseau, Supervisors : P. Abry, P. Borgnat, P. Gonçalves

M.S. research work, Physics Lab., ENS Lyon, May-July 2006
[thesis in french (pdf) | presentation in french (pdf)]