Scientist

Patents and Publications. Systems and Networks

I have been very lucky to stand on the shoulders of giants, with great mentors, and collaborators over my scientific life time. Below some links to my research in areas ranging from decentralised systems, edge computing, p2p, privacy and data science.

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Highlighted Projects

Predicting Human Behavior (2014)
Privacy and Data Neutrality (2013)
Personal Data (2011)
Energy Efficiency (2011)
F.C. Barca: Soccer and Science (2011)
El Bulli Foundation: Gastronomy and Technology (2011)
Scaling Databases for Online Social Networks (2010)
Distributed Social Search Engine: Porqpine (2008)
ClubADSL: Bundling Wireless Connections (2008)
Hermes: Bulk Data Transfers on the Internet (2008)
Apollo: Network Transparency from the Edge (2008)
Kangaroo: a P2P VoD system with VCR capabilities (2008)
Understanding how people watch Television (2008)
MC2: Multipath Code Casting in Wireless Mesh Networks (2007)
YouTube Data Analysis (2007)
RedCarpet: VoD in P2P Swarming systems (2006)
The Microsoft Windows Update System (2006)
Can ISPs and P2P networks work together? (2005)
DeltaCast: Efficient Point-to-Multipoint Differential Updates (2005)
Avalanche: P2P File Swarming with Network Coding (2004): please see here or here.
MAR: A Commuter Router Infrastructure for the Mobile Internet (2004)
Wireless Performance Enhancing Proxies (2003)
Parallel Downloads (a.k.a. swarming) (1999)
Continuous Multicast Push: Data Carrousel with Interleaved FEC (1998)

Privacy, Data, and Social Networks

“For Sale : Your Data By : You”, C. Riederer, V. Erramilli, A. Chaintreau, P. Rodriguez, and B. Krishnamurthy, ACM/HOTNETS 2011.
“The Little Engine(s) that could: Scaling Online Social Networks.” in Proc. of ACM/SIGCOMM’10 (also IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking’12)

Greening the Internet

“Insomnia in the Access or How to Curb Access Network Related Energy Consumption”, ACM/SIGCOMM
“Reducing energy consumption in IPTV networks by selective pre-joining of channels”. ACM/SIGCOMM’10 workshop on Green Networking.

Delay Tolerant Networks

“Inter-Datacenter Bulk Transfers with NetStitcher”, ACM/SIGCOMM
“Fair Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks”, J. Pujol, A. Toledo, P. Rodriguez, IEEE/INFOCOM’09, Brasil. April 2009.

Peer-to-Peer and Content Distribution

“Deep Diving into BitTorrent Locality”, N. Laoutaris, X. Yang, G. Siganos, P. Rodriguez, R. Cuevas, IEEE/INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, 2011.
“Monitoring the Bittorrent Monitors: A bird’s eye view“, G. Siganos, J. Pujol, P. Rodriguez. PAM’09, Seoul. April 2009.
“I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World’s Largest User Generated Content Video System“, Meeyoung Cha, Haewoon Kwak, Pablo Rodriguez, Yon-Yeol Ahn, Sue Moon. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC’07 San Diego, Oct 2007. *best paper award* (traces)
“Is High-Quality VoD Feasible using P2P Swarming?“, S. Guha, S. Annapureddy, C. Gkantsidis, D. Gunawardena, and P. Rodriguez, World Wide Web Conference, Canada, May 2007.
“Exploring VoD in P2P Swarming Systems“, S. Guha, S. Annapureddy, C. Gkantsidis, P. Rodriguez, and D. Gunawardena , IEEE/INFOCOM’07, Alaska , May 2007.
“Comprehensive view of a Live Network Coding P2P system“, C. Gkantsidis, J. Miller, P. Rodriguez, ACM/USENIX IMC’06, Brasil. Oct 2006.
“Planet Scale Software Updates”, C. Gkantsidis, T. Karagiannis, P. Rodriguez, M. Vojnovic, ACM/SIGCOMM’06, Pisa. Sep 2006.
“Should ISPs fear Peer-Assisted Content Distribution?“, T. Karagiannis, P. Rodriguez, D. Papagiannaki, ACM/USENIX IMC’05, Berkeley, October 2005
“Network Coding for Large Scale Content Distribution“, C. Gkantsidis, P. Rodriguez, IEEE/INFOCOM’05, Miami. March 2005. (MSR-TR-2004-80).
“Performance Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Networks for File Distribution“, E.W.Biersack, P. Rodriguez, and P. Felber, Journal of Computer Networks’06, Barcelona, Sept 04.
“A Technique for User Specific Request Redirection in a Content Delivery Network“. S. Rangarajan, S. Mukherjee, P. Rodriguez, WCW’03, Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, New York. Sep, 2003.
“Dynamic Parallel-Access to Replicated Content in the Internet“. P. Rodriguez, E.W.Biersack, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking’02 (TON), August 2002.

Wireless Networks

“Fair WLAN Backhaul Aggregation”, Domenico Giustiniano, Eduard Goma, Alberto Lopez Toledo, P. Rodriguez, ACM/MOBICOM’10, September 2010.
“DeltaCast: Efficient File Reconciliation in Wireless Broadcast Systems“, J. Chesterfield, P. Rodriguez, ACM/MOBISYS’05, Seattle. June 2005.
“Exploiting Diversity to Enhance Multimedia Streaming Over Cellular Links“, J. Chesterfield, R. Chakravorty, I. Pratt, S. Banerjee, P. Rodriguez, IEEE/INFOCOM’05, Miami. March 2005.
“Experiences with multimedia streaming over 2.5G and 3G networks“, J. Chesterfield, R. Chakravorty, J. Crowcroft, P. Rodriguez, S. Banerjee, Journal ACM/MONET’04, June 2004.
“Performance Optimizations for Wireless Wide-Area Networks: Comparative Study and Experimental Evaluation“. R. Chakravorty, S. Banerjee, P. Rodriguez, J. Chesterfield, I. Pratt, ACM/MOBICOM’04, Philadelphia. Sept 2004.
“MAR: A Commuter Router Infrastructure for the Mobile Internet“. P. Rodriguez, R. Chakravorty, J. Chesterfield, I. Pratt, S. Banerjee, ACM/MOBISYS’04, Boston. June 2004.
“Session Level Techniques for Improving Web Browsing Performance over Wireless Links“. P. Rodriguez, S. Rangarajan, S. Mukherjee, World Wide Web Conference, New York. May 2004. (*Best Paper Award Nominee*).
“Measurement Approaches for Multi-layer Performance Optimizations over Wide-Area Wireless Networks“. Rajiv Chakravorty, Julian Chesterfield, P. Rodriguez, Suman Banerjee, PAM’04, Antibes, France. April 2004.
“Transport Level Optimizations for Streaming Media Over Wire-area Wireless networks“. Julian Chesterfield, Rajiv Chakravorty, Suman Banerjee, P. Rodriguez, Ian Pratt, Jon Crowcroft, WIOPT’04, Cambridge, UK. March 2004.
“Performance of PEPs in Cellular Wireless Networks“. P. Rodriguez, V. Fridman, WCW’03 Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, New York. Sep, 2003.

Web Caching and Multicast

“Analysis of Web Caching Architectures: Hierarchical and Distributed Caching“. P. Rodriguez, C. Spanner, E.W.Biersack, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking’01 (TON), August 2001.
“Improving the Latency in the Web: Caching or Multicast?”, P.Rodriguez, E.W.Biersack, K.W.Ross, WCW’98, International Caching Workshop, Manchester, England. June, 1998.
“TPOT: Translucent Proxying of TCP“. P. Rodriguez, S.Sibal, O.Spatscheck, WCW’00, International Caching Workshop, Lisbon. Also in journal of Computer Communications, 2000.
“SPREAD: Scalable Platform for Reliable and Efficient Automated Distribution“. P. Rodriguez, S.Sibal, World Wide Web Conference World Wide Web Conference. Amsterdam. May 2000.

Patents

METHOD FOR DNS RESOLUTION OF CONTENT REQUESTS IN A CDN SERVICE Publication number: 20150288647
WEB CACHING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Publication number: 20150229733
METHOD AN A SYSTEM TO PERFORM A DISTRIBUTED CONTENT ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK Publication number: 20140325577
METHOD AND A TRACKER FOR CONTENT DELIVERY THROUGH A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK Publication number: 20140215059
METHOD AND END POINT FOR DISTRIBUTING LIVE CONTENT STREAM IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK Publication number: 20140165118
METHOD FOR CONTENT DELIVERY IN A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Publication number: 20140149548
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION INTERNETWORKING Publication number: 20140052822
Offering incentives under a flat rate charging system Patent number: 8446821
Topology management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds Patent number: 8364758
METHOD OF MONITORING A BITTORRENT NETWORK AND MEASURING DOWNLOAD SPEEDS Publication number: 20120209911
Security for network coding file distribution Patent number: 8140849
Secure content descriptions Patent number: 8108362
Offering Incentives under a Flat Rate Charging System Publication number: 20120008494
Content management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds Patent number: 8090861
Peer-to-peer message format data structure Patent number: 7912948
Connection management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds Patent number: 7849196
Content distribution using network coding Patent number: 7756051
Content publication Patent number: 7680937
Topology Management in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Clouds Publication number: 20090265473
Content Management in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Clouds Publication number: 20090198825
Secure Content Descriptions Publication number: 20090138486
Authorisation and Authentication Publication number: 20080320300
Peer-To-Peer Message Format Data Structure Publication number: 20080301246
Connection Management in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Clouds Publication number: 20080294779
Content Publication Publication number: 20070150596
Method of anchoring flows Patent number: 7190668

Public Data Sets

YouTube Data set, 2 Million video entries. 2007. [traces]

Professional Activities

Recent Program Committees: SIGCOMM 2017, SIGCOMM 2015, NetMob 2015, IMC 2013, Hotnets 2012, SIGCOMM 2012, MOBISYS 2012, HotMobile 2012, FOCI 2011, IMC 2011, MOBISYS 2011, SIGCOMM 2010, HotMobile 2011, SIGCOMM 2009 – NSDI 2008 – IPTPS 2010, IPTPS 2009 – WOSN 2008, 2009 – Infocom 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 – IMC 2007, 2008 – CONEXT 2007, 2008 – Nossdav 2007 – HotWeb 2006, 2008 – Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution 2003, 2004, 2005 – World Wide Web Conference 2005, 2006, 2010 – WiTMeMo 2005-2006 – IEEE/Global Internet Symposium 2005, 2006 – WiOpt 2005
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science, Advisory Board
IMDEA Networks Scientific Council
Telefonica Disruptive Innovation Council
Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
General Chair ACM/SIGCOMM’09 (Barcelona)
Area Editor for the ACM Computer Communications Review SIGCOMM/CCR
Steering Committee member: HotWeb
PC Chair of the 2nd Student Workshop at INFOCOM/2006 (Barcelona).
PC Chair of 2006 IEEE/Global Internet (in conjunction with INFOCOM/2006)
Member of IEEE and Marie Curie Organization
Member NSF FIND (Future Internet Design) Planning Committee