ENVISION:
Co-optimisation of overlay applications and underlying networks

An EU FP7 project

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ENVISION passed its final review on 29 January 2013, being ranked an excellent project.

Future Networks 11th FP7 Concertation meeting, 27-28 February 2013, Brussels.

Future Internet Assembly, 8-10 May 2013, Dublin.

Future Network and Mobile Summit, 3-5 July 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.

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ENVISION is an FP7 project funded by the European Commission.

The partners are:
- UCL
- Alcatel-Lucent
- LaBRI
- FTR&D/Orange
- Telefonica
- LiveU

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March 2013

Publications

R. G. Clegg, J. Araujo, R. Landa, E. Mykoniati, D. Griffin and M. Rio, On the Relationship between Fundamental Measurements in TCP flows, ICC 2013, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling Symposium, June 2013.

S. Ellouze, B. Mathieu and T. Lemlouma, A Bidirectional Network Collaboration Interface for CDNs and Clouds Services Traffic Optimization, ICC 2013, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling Symposium, June 2013.

B. Mathieu, A. Chari, S. Ellouze, I. Grosclaude, E. Mykoniati and N. Schwan, Collaboration Interface for Network Services Invocation by Cloud Management Systems, CloudNet, 2012, 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, November 2012.

L. Gyarmati and R. Stanojevic, M. Sirivianos, and N. Laoutaris, Sharing the Cost of Backbone Networks: Cui Bono?, IMC 2012, Internet Measurement Conference, November 2012.

Selim Ellouze, Bertrand Mathieu, Tayeb Lemlouma, A proposal for improving Network-aided CDN server selection, Notere/CFIP 2012, Colloque francophone sur l’ingénierie des protocols, Nouvelles Technologies de la Répartition, October 2012.

R. Nossenson and N. Amram, Packet Scheduling in Multi-Channel Layered-Video Streaming over Wireless Networks, WiMob 2012, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, October 2012.

A. Bradai, U. Abbasi, R. Landa and T. Ahmed, An Efficient Playout Smoothing Mechanism for Layered Streaming in P2P Networks, P2P Networking and Applications Special Issue on Multimedia P2P Networking: Protocols, Solutions and Future Directions, September 2012.

A. Bradai and T. Ahmed, Differentiated Bandwidth Allocation in P2P Layered Streaming, CAMAD, 2012, 17th IEEE International Workshop on Computer- Aided Modeling Analysis of Design of Communication Links and Networks, September 2012.

R. Ohayon, B. Altman, N. Amram, Mobilfunkbonding - Einblicke in eine neue Übertragungstechnik, FKT, Die Fachzeitschrift für Fernsehen, Film und elektronische Medien, August 2012.

R. Landa, E. Mykoniati, D. Griffin, M. Rio, N. Schwan and I. Rimac, Overlay Consolidation of ISP-Provided Preferences, CCCSO 2012, International Workshop on Cross-Stratum Optimization for Cloud Computing and Distributed Networked Applications, July 2012.

U. Abbasi and T. Ahmed, Smooth Delivery of Layered Video Stream in P2P Networks, Symposium on Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications (CSSMA), IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'12), Ottowa, June 10-15, 2012.

A. Bradai and T. Ahmed, On the Optimal Scheduling in Pull-based Real-Time P2P Streaming Systems: Layered and Non-Layered Streaming, Symposium on Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications (CSSMA), IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'12), Ottowa, June 10-15, 2012.

S. Ellouze, B. Mathieu, T. Ahmed, N. Schwan, Towards the Collaboration between Networks and Applications in the Future Internet, book chapter in Media Networks; Architectures, Applications, and Standards, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), ISBN 9781439877289, June 2012.

R. Landa, E. Mykoniati, R. G. Clegg, D. Griffin, and M. Rio, Modelling the Tradeoffs in Overlay-ISP Cooperation, Networking 2012, International conference of the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems, Prague, 21 – 25 May 2012.

S. Traverso, K. Huguenin, I. Trestian, V. Erramilli, N. Laoutaris and K. Papagiannaki, TailGate: Handling long-tail content with a little help from friends, WWW'12, 21st International World Wide Web Conference, Lyon, 16-20 April 2012.

R. Ohayon, Bonding 4G LTE/3G for HD Quality Live Video Transmission, NAB 2012, Broadcast Engineering Conference, April 2012.

L. Gyarmati, M. Sirivianos, N. Laoutaris, Sharing the Cost of Backbone Networks Simplicity vs. Precision, NetEcon12, 7th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, in conjunction with INFOCOM'12, 25-30 March 2012, Orlando.

J. Otto , R. Stanojevic, N. Laoutaris, Temporal Rate Limiting: cloud elasticity at a flat fee, NetEcon12, 7th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, in conjunction with INFOCOM'12, 25-30 March 2012, Orlando.

C. Pluntke and M. Rio, TCP-friendly Rate Control for non-TCP Multipath Flows, mini paper and poster, 8th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), 10-13 December 2011, Nice. [Winner of the Best Poster award]

N. Schwan, K. Satzke, D. Griffin, B. Mathieu and T. Ahmed, Fostering Cooperation between Overlay Applications and Underlying Networks, Bell Labs Technical Journal, special issue on Application Enablement, Vol. 16, No. 2, September 2011.

Samir Medjiah, Toufik Ahmed, Eleni Mykoniati and David Griffin, Scalable Video Streaming over P2P Networks: A Matter of Harmony?, 16th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD 2011), 10-11 June 2011, Kyoto.

B. Mathieu, S. Ellouze, N. Schwan, D. Griffin, E. Mykoniati, T. Ahmed and O. Ribera Prats, Improving end-to-end QoE via close cooperation between applications and ISPs, IEEE Communications Magazine, special issue on Future Media Internet, March 2011.

U. Abbasi, G. Simo and T. Ahmed, Differentiated Chunk Scheduling for P2P Video-on-Demand System, 8th IEEE International Consumer Communication & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, 9-12 January 2011.

A. Bradai and T. Ahmed, An Efficient Algorithm for Selection and Management of Island Multicast, 8th IEEE International Consumer Communication & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, 9-12 January 2011.

Future Media Networks Research Challenges 2010, publication of the Future Media Networks cluster with contributions from ENVISION, European Commission, October 2010.

U. Abbasi and T. Ahmed, K-overlay: A Kautz Tree Structure for Video on Demand System, 9th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, 15-17 July 2010.

T. Zahariadis, P. Daras, J. Bouwen, N. Niebert, D. Griffin, F. Alvarez and G. Camarillo, Towards a Content-Centric Internet, book chapter in Towards the Future Internet, Emerging Trends from European Research, Tselentis et al (ed), IOS Press, Netherlands, ISBN 978-1-60750-538-9.