Publications

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Journals

[LBLD10]
Stevens Le Blond, Arnaud Legout, and Walid Dabbous. Pushing BitTorrent Locality to the Limit. Computer Networks, doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.09.014, 2010.
The author version of this paper is available here.
A former version is available as an INRIA Technical Report (inria-00343822, version 2 - 12 May 2009), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, May 2009. [.ps, .pdf .tex]
[LB_np02]
A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack. Revisiting the Fair Queueing Paradigm for End-to-End Congestion Control. IEEE Network Magazine, 16(5), September 2002. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[LNB01]
A. Legout, J. Nonnenmacher, and E. W. Biersack. Bandwidth Allocation Policies for Unicast and Multicast Flows. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 9(4), August 2001. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
An extended version is available as Eurecom Technical Report, April 2001. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]

Conferences, Workshops, Posters

[RLB_CONEXT11]
Ashwin Rao, Yeon-sup Lim, Chadi Barakat, Arnaud Legout, Don Towsley, and Walid Dabbous. Network Characteristics of Video Streaming Traffic. In Proc. of ACM CoNEXT'11, Dec. 6--9, 2011, Tokyo, Japan. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[LZL_IMC11]
Stevens Le Blond, Chao Zhang, Arnaud Legout, Keith Ross, and Walid Dabbous. I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing: Exploiting P2P Communications to Invade Users' Privacy. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC'11, Nov. 2--3, 2011, Berlin, Germany. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[ALX_NET11]
Eitan Altman, Arnaud Legout, Yuedong Xu. Network Non-Neutrality Debate: An Economic Analysis. In Proc. of IFIP Networking'11, May 9--13, 2011, Valencia, Spain. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[LML_LEET11]
Stevens Le Blond, Pere Manils, Abdelberi Chaabane, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Claude Castelluccia, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous. One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Exploiting P2P Applications to Trace and Profile Tor Users. In Proc. of LEET'11, March 29, 2011, Boston, MA, USA. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
Former versions of this work were presented at HotPets'2010 (July 2010), and appeared as an NDSI'10 poster (April 2010) and a technical report (April 2010).
[RLD_P2P10]
Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous. Can Realistic BitTorrent Experiments Be Performed on Clusters?. In Proc. of P2P'10, August 25--27, 2010, Delft, Netherlands. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[LLL_LEET10]
Stevens Le Blond, Arnaud Legout, Fabrice Lefessant, Walid Dabbous, Mohamed Ali Kaafar. Spying the World from your Laptop - Identifying and Profiling Content Providers and Big Downloaders in BitTorrent. In Proc. of LEET'10, April 27, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA. [.ps, .pdf, .tex]. An extended version of this work is available in [LLL_TR10].
[RLD_JDIR10]
Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous. BitTorrent Experiments on Testbeds: A Study of the Impact of Network Latencies. In 11es Journées Doctorales en Informatique et Réseaux (JDIR'10), March 24--26, 2010, Sophia Antipolis, F. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[HLLB_09]
Anwar Al Hamra, Nikitas Liogkas, Arnaud Legout, Chadi Barakat. Swarming Overlay Construction Strategies. In Proc. of ICCCN'2009, August 2--6, 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[MLLK_08]
P. Marciniak, N. Liogkas, A. Legout, E. Kohler. Small Is Not Always Beautiful. In Proc. of IPTPS'2008, February 25--26, 2008, Tampa Bay, FL, USA. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[LLKZ_07]
A. Legout, N. Liogkas, E. Kohler, and L. Zhang. Clustering and Sharing Incentives in BitTorrent Systems. In Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'2007, June 12--16, 2007, San Diego, CA, USA. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
An older version is available as INRIA Technical Report (inria-00112066, version 1 - 21 November 2006), Sophia Antipolis, November 2006. [.ps, .pdf]
[LUM_IMC06]
A. Legout, G. Urvoy-Keller, and P. Michiardi. Rarest First and Choke Algorithms Are Enough. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC'2006, October 25--27, 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
An extended version is available as INRIA Technical Report (inria-00001111, version 3 - 6 September 2006), Sophia Antipolis, September 2006. [.ps, .pdf]
[LB_patho00]
A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack. Pathological Behaviors for RLM and RLC. In Proc. of NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[LB_plm00]
A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack. PLM: Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes. In Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'2000, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
An extended version is available as Eurecom Technical Report, March 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[LNB99]
A. Legout, J. Nonnenmacher, and E. W. Biersack. Bandwidth Allocation Policies for Unicast and Multicast Flows. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'99, New York, NY, USA, March 1999. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]

Technical Report

[LLL_TR10]
Stevens Le Blond, Arnaud Legout, Fabrice Lefessant, Walid Dabbous. Angling for Big Fish in BitTorrent. Technical Report (inria-00451282, version 1 - 28 Jan 2010), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, January 2010. [.ps, .pdf, .tex].
[ALC_07]
A. Al Hamra, A. Legout, C. Barakat. Understanding the Properties of the BitTorrent Overlay. Technical Report (inria-00162088, version 1 - 12 July 2007), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, July 2007. [.ps, .pdf .tex]
[LUM_05]
A. Legout, G. Urvoy-Keller, and P. Michiardi. Understanding BitTorrent: An Experimental Perspective. Technical Report (inria-00000156, version 3 - 9 November 2005), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, November 2005. [.ps, .pdf]

Thesis

[L_HDR12]
A. Legout. Efficacité et vie privée : de BitTorrent à Skype. HDR thesis, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, January 2012. [.pdf]
[L_PhD00]
A. Legout. Contrôle de congestion multipoint pour les réseaux best effort. PhD thesis, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Institut Eurecom, October 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]

Course Material

[L_courseP2P10]
Arnaud Legout. Peer-to-Peer Applications : From BitTorrent to Privacy. Course material. Slides (cel-00544132, version 2, - 6 January 2012), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, January 2012. [ .ppt, .pdf]
WARNING: Download the PowerPoint version to get animations.
[L_courseGT10]
Arnaud Legout. How to Give a Good Talk?. Course material. Slides (cel-00529505, version 3, - 6 January 2012), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, January 2012. [ .ppt, .pdf]
WARNING: Download the PowerPoint version to get animations.

Talks

[L_jtg2008_pres]
A. Legout. Impact of Overlay Structure on BitTorrent. Invited talk, Journée thématique dynamiques de graphes, October 13, 2008, Paris, France.
[L_eth2008_pres]
A. Legout. Impact of Overlay Structure on BitTorrent. Invited talk, ETH Zurich, October 6, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland.
[L_iptps2008_pres]
P. Marciniak, N. Liogkas, A. Legout, E. Kohler. Small Is Not Always Beautiful. Presented at IPTPS'2008, February 25--26, 2008, Tampa Bay, FL, USA. [ .ppt]
[L_sigmetrics07_pres]
A. Legout, N. Liogkas, E. Kohler, and L. Zhang. Clustering and Sharing Incentives in BitTorrent Systems. Presented at ACM SIGMETRICS'2007, June 12--16, 2007, San Diego, CA, USA. [ .ppt]
[L_imc06_pres]
Arnaud Legout. Rarest First and Choke Algorithms are Enough. Presented at ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC'2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006. [.ppt]
[L_PhD00_defense]
Arnaud Legout. Contrôle de congestion multipoint pour les réseaux best effort. PhD thesis defense, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Institut Eurecom, October 2000. [.ppt]
[L_np_plm00:seminaire_INRIA]
Arnaud Legout. The FS Paradigm and Its Practical Validation: PLM. Presented at Séminaire Réseaux INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[L_plm00:Sigmetrics00]
Arnaud Legout. PLM: Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes. Presented at ACM SIGMETRIC'2000, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[L_patho00:NOSS00]
Arnaud Legout. Pathological Behaviors for RLM and RLC. Presented at NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2000. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[L_plm99:NGC99]
Arnaud Legout. PLM: Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes. Poster session at the NGC'99, Pisa, Italy, November 1999. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[L_np99:RMRG99]
Arnaud Legout. Beyond TCP-Friendliness: A New Paradigm for End-to-End Congestion Control. Presented at the RMRG'99, Pisa, Italy, June 1999. [.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]
[L_LogRD99:INFOCOM99]
Arnaud Legout. Bandwidth Allocation Policies for Unicast and Multicast Flows. Presented at IEEE INFOCOM'99, New York, NY, USA, March 1999.[.ps, .ps.gz, .pdf]

Patents

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