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I received an M.Sc. in computer networking and distributed systems in 1999 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2002, both from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. During 2003-2004, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Free University at Amsterdam, within the Optimization of Business Processes research group. Since March 2004, I have been with Inria working as a full time researcher, currently in the NEO project-team. I have been involved in the common labs between Inria and Alcatel-Lucent and between Inria and Alstom Transport. I have served in the technical program committees of ACM Sigmetrics and MobiHoc, IEEE Infocom and Globecom, Performance, ITC, Valuetools, and WIOPT. I was the general co-chair of the ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance 2016 conference. My research interests include modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks.
the medium access control in wireless networks.
Dimitra Politaki (co-supervision by Fabien Hermenier), thesis started in February 2016.
Nicaise Choungmo Fofack (co-supervision with Philippe Nain), graduated on February 2014.
Amar Azad (co-supervised with Eitan Altman and Rachid El-Azouzi), graduated on November 2010.
Abdulhalim Dandoush (co-supervised with Philippe Nain), graduated on March 2010.
S. Alouf, N. Choungmo Fofack, N. Nedkov, "Performance models for hierarchy of caches: Application to modern DNS caches". Performance Evaluation, 97:57-82, March 2016.
Free access to this article is provided until April 22, 2016 through this personal article link.
A. Dandoush, S. Alouf, P. Nain, "Lifetime and availability of data stored on a P2P system: Evaluation of redundancy and recovery schemes". Computer Networks, 64:243-260, May 2014.
S. Alouf, V. Mancuso, N. Choungmo Fofack, "Analysis of power save and its impact on web traffic in cellular networks with continuous connectivity". Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 8(5):646-661, October 2012.
V. Mancuso, S. Alouf, "Analysis of power saving in cellular networks with continuous connectivity". Computer Networks, 56(10):2481-2493, July 2012.
A. Azad, S. Alouf, E. Altman, Analysis and Optimization of Sleeping Mode in WiMAX via Stochastic Decomposition Techniques". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications, 29(8):1630-1640, September 2011.
The full paper lists only one author, this has been corrected here (IEEE JSAC 30(4):846)).
A. Azad, S. Alouf, E. Altman, V. Borkar, G. Paschos, "Optimal Control of Sleep Periods for Wireless Terminals". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications, 29(8):1605-1617, September 2011.
V. Mancuso , S. Alouf, "Reducing costs and pollution in cellular networks". IEEE Communications Magazine, special issue on Green Communications, 49(8):63-71, August 2011.
S. Alouf, G. Neglia, I. Carreras, D. Miorandi, A. Fialho, "Fitting genetic algorithms to distributed on-line evolution of network protocols". Computer Networks, 54(18):3402-3420, December 2010.
S. Alouf, E. Altman, C. Barakat, P. Nain, "Optimal estimation of multicast membership". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, special issue on Signal Processing in Networking 51(8):2165-2176, August 2003.
S. Alouf, F. Huet, P. Nain, "Forwarders vs. centralized server: an evaluation of two approaches for locating mobile agents". Performance Evaluation (Proceedings of Performance 2002 Conference, Rome, Italy) 49(1-4):299-319, September 2002. A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-4440 (33 pages).
S. Alouf, I. Carreras, A. Fialho, D. Miorandi, G. Neglia, "Autonomic Information Diffusion in Intermittently Connected Networks". In Autonomic Computing and Networking, M. K. Denko, L. T. Yang and Y. Zhang (editors), Springer, 2009, pages 411-433, chapter 17 (pdf).
S. Alouf, E. Altman, J. Galtier, J.-F. Lalande, C. Touati, "Quasi-Optimal Resource Allocation in Multi-Spot MFTDMA Satellite Networks". In Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks, M. Cheng, Y. Li and D.-Z. Du (editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006, pages 325-365, chapter 12.
D. Politaki, S. Alouf, "Stochastic Models for Solar Power. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10497:282-297, 2017 (Proceedings of EPEW 2017 , Berlin, Germany, September 2017).
G. Neglia, S. Alouf, A. Dandoush, S. Simoens, P. Dersin, A. Tuholukova, J. Billion, and P. Derouet, "Performance Evaluation of Train Moving-Block Control", QEST 2016, Québec City, Québec, Canada, August 2016. A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-8917.
A. Dandoush, A. Tuholukova, S. Alouf, G. Neglia, S. Simoens, P. Derouet, P. Dersin, "ns-3 Based Framework for Simulating Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) Systems", Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3), Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2016.
I. Dimitriou, S. Alouf, A. Jean-Marie, "A Markovian Queueing System for Modeling a Smart Green Base Station". EPEW 2015, Madrid, Spain, August 2015.
Nicaise Choungmo Fofack , S. Alouf, "Modeling Modern DNS Caches". VALUETOOLS 2013, Turin, Italy, December 2013.
A. Chatzipapas, S. Alouf, V. Mancuso , "On the Minimization of Power Consumption in Base Stations using on/off Power Amplifiers". IEEE GreenCom'11, online conference, September 2011.
V. Mancuso , S. Alouf, "Power save analysis of cellular networks with continuous connectivity". IEEE WoWMoM 2011, Lucca, Italy, June 2011.
D. Carra, K. Avrachenkov, S. Alouf, A. Blanc, P. Nain, G. Post, "Passive Online RTT Estimation for Flow-Aware Routers using One-Way Traffic". IFIP/TC6 NETWORKING 2010, Chennai, India, May 2010. A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-7124.
A. Azad, S. Alouf, E. Altman, V. Borkar, G. Paschos, "Optimal Sampling for State Change Detection with Application to the Control of Sleep Mode". IEEE CDC 2009, Shanghai, China, December 2009. A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-7026.
G. Neglia, G. Reina, S. Alouf, "Distributed Gradient Optimization for Epidemic Routing: a Preliminary Evaluation". IFIP Wireless Days 2009, Paris, France, December 2009.
A. Azad, S. Alouf, E. Altman, V. Borkar, G. Paschos, "Vacation Policy Optimization with Application to IEEE 802.16e Power Saving Mechanism". IFIP Wireless Days 2009, Paris, France, December 2009. Best paper award. A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-7017.
A. Dandoush, S. Alouf, P. Nain, "A realistic simulation model for P2P Storage Systems" (invited paper). NsTools 2009, Pisa, Italy, October 2009.
A. Dandoush, S. Alouf, P. Nain, "Simulation analysis of download and recovery processes in P2P storage systems". ITC-21 2009, Paris, France, September 2009.
A. Dandoush, S. Alouf, P. Nain, "Performance analysis of centralized versus distributed recovery schemes in P2P storage systems". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5550:676-689, 2009 (Proceedings of IFIP/TC6 Networking 2009, Aachen, Germany, May 2009).
S. Alouf, E. Altman, A. Azad, "Analysis of an M/G/1 Queue with Repeated Inhomogeneous Vacations with Application to IEEE 802.16e Power Saving Mechanism". Proceedings of QEST 2008 Conference, Saint-Malo, France, pages 27-36, September 2008. A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-6488 (31 pages).
S. Alouf, E. Altman, A. Azad, "M/G/1 Queue with Repeated Inhomogeneous Vacations Applied to IEEE 802.16e Power Saving". Performance Evaluation Review (Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2008 Conference, Annapolis, Maryland), 36(1):451-452, June 2008.
S. Alouf, I. Carreras, D. Miorandi, G. Neglia, "Embedding evolution in epidemic-style forwarding". BioNetworks 2007 Workshop, Pisa, Italy, October 2007 (Proceedings of MASS 2007). A more detailed version is available as INRIA research report RR-6140.
S. Alouf, A. Dandoush, P. Nain, "Performance analysis of peer-to-peer storage systems". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4516:642-653, 2007 (Proceedings of ITC-20 2007, Ottawa, Canada, June 2007). A preliminary version is available as INRIA research report RR-6044.
M. Ibrahim, S. Alouf, "Design and Analysis of an Adaptive Backoff Algorithm for IEEE 802.11 DCF mechanism". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3976:184-196, 2006 (Proceedings of IFIP/TC6 Networking 2006 Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2006).
S. Alouf, E. Altman, J. Galtier, J.-F. Lalande, C. Touati, "Quasi-optimal bandwidth allocation for multi-spot MFTDMA satellites". Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2005 Conference, Miami, Florida, March 2005.
S. Alouf, E. Altman, C. Barakat, P. Nain, "On the dynamic estimation of multicast group sizes" (invited paper). Proceedings of MTNS 2004 Conference, Leuven, Belgium, July 2004.
S. Alouf, E. Altman, C. Barakat, P. Nain, "Estimating membership in a multicast session". Performance Evaluation Review (Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2003 Conference, San Diego, California), 31(1):250-260, June 2003.
S. Alouf, E. Altman, P. Nain, "Optimal on-line estimation of the size of a dynamic multicast group". Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2002 Conference, New York City, New York, volume 2, pages 1109-1118, June 2002.
S. Alouf, F. Huet, P. Nain, "Forwarders vs. centralized server: an evaluation of two approaches for locating mobile agents (extended abstract)". Performance Evaluation Review (Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2002 Conference, Marina Del Rey, California), 30(1):278-279, June 2002.
S. Alouf, P. Nain, D. Towsley, "Inferring network characteristics via moment-based estimators". Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2001 Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, volume 2, pages 1045-1054, April 2001.
A. Blanc, S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, G. Post, "Flow Aware Congestion Avoidance Method and System". Filed as European patent, publication number EP2413542, publication date 1 Feb 2012.
A. Blanc, S. Alouf, K. Avrachenkov, G. Post, "Binary Search Method And System For Congestion Avoidance". Filed as European patent, publication number EP2413543, publication date 1 Feb 2012.
D. Carra, K. Avrachenkov, S. Alouf, P. Nain, G. Post, "Method for Estimating a Round Trip Time of a Packet Flow". Filed as European patent, publication number WO/2010/100151, publication date 10 Sep 2010.
S. Alouf, "From Wireless Networks to Green IT - A Journey Through Stochastic Models and Tools", HDR thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, France, December 2017.
S. Alouf, "Parameter estimation and performance analysis of several network applications", Ph.D. thesis, Department of Sciences, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, November 2002.
S. Alouf, "Inferring Congestion in the Internet via Moment-Based Estimators", Master thesis, ESSI, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, June 1999.
G. Neglia, S. Alouf, A. Dandoush, S. Simoens, P. Dersin, A. Tuholukova, J. Billion, and P. Derouet, "Performance Evaluation of Train Moving-Block Control", INRIA research report RR-8917, May 2016.
S. Alouf, E. Altman, A. Azad, "Analysis of an M/G/1 queue with repeated inhomogeneous vacations - Application to IEEE 802.16e power saving". INRIA research report RR-6488, March 2008.
A. Dandoush, S. Alouf, P. Nain, "P2P storage systems modeling, analysis and evaluation". INRIA research report RR-6392, December 2007.
S. Alouf, I. Carreras, D. Miorandi, G. Neglia, "Evolutionary epidemic routing". INRIA research report RR-6140, May 2007.
S. Alouf, E. Altman, J. Galtier, J.-F. Lalande, C. Touati, "Un algorithme d'allocation de bande passante satellitaire". INRIA research report RR-5172, April 2004.
Jérôme Colombain, the radio interview aired on France Info on 6 August 2017 (audio + abstract).
Elise Kuntzelmann, the article titled "Internet" has appeared in Savoirs Jeunes on 14 January 2013.
In high schools (six times between 2011 and 2016).
At the Albert Camus Public Library of Antibes on 20 May 2011.
Executive editor for Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies since July 2016.
General co-chair of the ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance 2016 conference.
Co-chair of the 10th edition of Atelier en Evaluation de Performance (AEP 2014).
Publicity co-chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2014 conference.
Publicity chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2010 conference.
Workshops co-chair of Valuetools 2008.
Publication chair of Valuetools 2007 and of its 4 workshops: GameComm 2007, Inter-Perf 2007, SMCtools 2007 and NSTools 2007.
Publicity chair and webmaster of the Performance 2005 conference.
Vice-head and technical manager of project-team Neo.
Training committee member (since Nov 2014).
Doctoral committee member (Feb 2006-Feb 2017).
Member of the scientific popularization and public outreach committee MASTIC (Nov 2011-Dec 2015).
Accounting for the monthly Project-Teams Committee meetings (Feb 2012-Jun 2014).

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