Research projects:

·        Network diagnosis by means of collaborative monitoring. Supported by the CMON ANR project.

·        Adaptive traffic sampling. Supported by the ECODE FP7 project.

·        Content sharing in wireless networks. Supported by the ITEA Expeshare project. More details on this link including the code of our solution BitHoc.

·        Scheduling and resource control in Delay Tolerant Networks.

·        Understanding the Properties of the BitTorrent Overlay. Initially supported by the OSCAR ANR project.

·        Scalable solutions for data collection. Visit TICP web site for more details.


Professional activities:

·        Guest editor for a JSAC special issue on Sampling the Internet: Techniques and Applications.

·        Area editor for ACM Computer Communication Review (2005 - ).

·        Steering committee member for PAM workshop (Passive and Active Measurement).

·        PC co-chair for the ResCom 2007 summer school on the future Internet and Autonomous Networks.

·        PC co-chair for the SAMPLING 2005 workshop.

·        General chair for WiOpt 2005 workshops.

·        General chair for PAM 2004.

·        Technical Program Committee member for Infocom 2010, Comsnets 2010, NSTools 2009, Algotel 2009, ITC 2009, Infocom 2009, WNS 2008, WinMee 2008, PFLDnet 2008, BroadNets 2008, NSTools 2007, SECON 2007, WWIC 2007, IWQoS 2006, WWIC 2006, WONS 2006, WiNMee 2006, IMC 2005, ICNP 2005, PAM 2005, WONS 2005, INFOCOM 2005, ASWN 2004, GI&NGN symposium at Globecom 2004, PAM 2004, INFOCOM 2004, ASIAN 2002, ICNP 2002.

·        Invited speaker at ETH (Zurich) – 2009, Bell-Labs (NJ) – 2009, Brunel Univ (London) – 2008, COST 285 final symposium (Surrey, UK) – 2007, Asian school (Bangkok) - 2005, E-next school (Louvain) - 2005, KTH (Stockholm) - 2005, ENSI (Tunis) – 2003…2007, MIT (Boston) - 2004, UMASS (Amherst) - 2004, Boston University (Boston) - 2004, Intel Research Cambridge - 2004, ENSI (Tunis) - 2004, Asian school (Bangkok) - 2003, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) - 2003, Ecole d'été Internet Nouvelle Génération (Porquerolles) - 2003, ENSI (Tunis) - 2003, EPFL Summer Research Institute (Lausanne) - 2002, IBM (Zurich) - 2001.

·        Speaker in the following conferences: IMC 2009 (Chicago), SECON 2008 (San Francisco), CoNext 2006 (Lisboa), CoNext 2005 (Toulouse), WiOpt 2003 (Paris), PFLDnet 2003 (Geneva), IMW 2002 (Marseille), ICN 2001 (Colmar), INFOCOM 2001 (Alaska), QofIS 2000 (Berlin), SIGCOMM 2000 (Stockholm), SIGMETRICS 2000 (Santa Clara), NETWORKING 2000 (Paris), GLOBECOM 1999 (Rio).

·        Member of the recruitment committee at the computer science department of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, member of the directorial board for the Master RSD of the University of Nice, and responsible of the internship program at the latter Master.

·        (Co)Organizer of Mistral seminars (1999-2001), of Planète seminars (2003 - ), of "seminar croisé Réseau" (October 2003) and of INRIA ComB evaluation seminar (November 2007).


Teaching activities:

·        Course on Understanding Networks, 30 hours, Master IFI, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (site of the course).

·        Course on Internet Measurement and Traffic Analysis, 15 hours, (i) Networking and Distributed Systems Master at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2004-2007, (ii) Master RIM, ENSI, Tunis, 2003-present, and (iii) Master Telecom ParisTech, 3 hours, 2009.

·        Course on Wireless Networking, 7 hours, Master RTM, IUP Avignon, 2009-present.

·        General course on TCP/IP, 20 hours, Licence Professionnelle LPSIL, IUT of the UNSA, 2006-2008.

·        Course on local area networks, 15 hours + 7.5 hours practical work, first year, IUT of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2007.

·        Course on Voice over IP, 7 hours, (i) Ecole d'Ingénieur Internet, Marseille, 2003, (ii) Master TIM, UNSA, 2007-2008, (iii) Master RTM, IUP Avignon, 2008.

·        Course on Inference of Internet Topology, 7 hours, Master RTM, IUP Avignon, 2006-2007.

·        A course on ns-2, the Network Simulator, 7 hours, at the Networking and Distributed Systems DEA of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and at the Master RTM at IUP Avignon. The course is followed by practical exercises on the simulation of real scenarios (slides and exercises in English, slides in French).

·        Exercises on Performance Evaluation in Networking, 6 hours, Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, 2003.

·        Course on TCP/IP, 6 hours, Maitrise Informatique, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France, 2003.

·        Exercises on Networking, Doctoral School, DSC-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001.

·        Course with research projects on Internet over Satellites, 6 hours, Networking and Distributed Systems DEA, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France, 2000. (slides).

·        Courses in physics in some Lebanese high schools, 1997.


Selected talks:

·        On message drop and scheduling in Delay Tolerant Networks, Brunel Univ, London, April 2008 (slides).

·        Issues related to the modelling of the TCP protocol, E-next school, Louvain, November 2005 (slides).

·        Scalable solutions for information collection, KTH, Stockholm, September 2005 (slides).

·        On TCP performance in heterogeneous networks, Summer Research Institute, Lausanne, July 2002 (slides).


Supervised Postdocs/Engineers:

·        Amir Krifa. Expert Engineer starting from May 2008. Main focus on the Expeshare and ECODE European Projects. Graduated from ENSI-Tunis.

·        Roberto Cascella. Postdoc INRIA starting from Jan 2009. Main focus on network troubleshooting. Graduated from the University of Trento.

·        Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos. Postdoc INRIA from Sep 2006 to Aug 2007. Co-supervised with Thierry Turletti. Main focus on Delay Tolerant Networks. Graduated from USC. Now with ETH Zurich.

·        Anwar Al Hamra. Postdoc INRIA from Jul 2006 to Jul 2007. Co-supervised with Arnaud Legout. Main focus on the structure of P2P networks. Graduated from Eurecom. Now with the Hariri Canadian University – Lebanon. 


PhD students:

·        Amir Krifa. Started in May 2009. Thesis title: Towards a better understanding and support of new collaborative content-rich applications.

·        Imed Lassoued. Started in September 2008. Funded by the ECODE FP7 project. Thesis title: Adaptive Monitoring and Management of Internet Traffic.

·        Karim Sbaï. Co-supervided with Walid Dabbous. Funded by the ITEA Expeshare project. Started in June 2007. Thesis title: Architecture for data sharing in mobile wireless networks.

·        Mohamad Jaber. Co-supervised with Philippe Nain. Started in October 2007. Funded by the French ministry and supported by the CMON ANR project. Thesis title: Detection and troubleshooting of Internet anomalies.

·        Mohammad Malli. Graduated in September 2006. Thesis title: Revisiting Internet Topology: Application-Centric Approach (Dissertation).

·        Victor Ramos. Co-supervised with Eitan Altman. Graduated in December 2004. Thesis title: Reliable and robust transmission of multimedia contents over the Internet (Dissertation).


 Complete list of publications (pdf, ps)

Papers in Refereed Journals

·        Karim Sbai and Chadi Barakat, “Experiences on enhancing data collection in large networks’’, in Computer Networks, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1073-1086, May 2009.

·        Mohammad Malli, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, « CHESS: An application-aware space for enhanced scalable services in overlay networks », Computer Communications Journal, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1239-1253, April 2008.

·        T. Tansupasiri, K. Kanchanasut, Chadi Barakat, Philippe Jacquet, "Using Active Networks Technology for Dynamic QoS", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1692-1709, August 2006.

·        Chadi Barakat, Mohammad Malli, Naomichi Nonaka, "TICP: Transport Information Collection Protocol", Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 61, no. 1-2, pp. 167-192, January-February 2006.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Arzad-Alam Kherani, Balakrishna Prabhu, "Analysis of MIMD Congestion Control Algorithm for High Speed Networks", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 972-989, August 2005.

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Victor M. Ramos R., "Analysis of AIMD protocols over paths with variable delay", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 960-971, August 2005.

·        Imad Aad, Qiang Ni, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "Enhancing IEEE 802.11 MAC in Congested Environments", Computer Communications Journal, vol. 28, no. 14, pp. 1605-1617, September 2005.

·        Gion Reto Cantieni, Qiang Ni, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "Performance Analysis under Finite Load and Improvements for Multirate 802.11", Computer Communications Journal, special issue on Performance Issues of Wireless LANs, PANs, and Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1095-1109, June 2005.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, "A Stochastic Model of TCP/IP with Stationary Random Losses", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 356- 369, April 2005.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Parijat Dube, "Performance Analysis of AIMD Mechanisms over a Multi-State Markovian Path", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 307-326, February 2005.

·        Antonio Nucci, Nina Taft, Chadi Barakat, Patrick Thiran, "Controlled Use of Excess Backbone Bandwidth for Providing New Services in IP-over-WDM Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1692-1707, November 2004.

·        Chadi Barakat, Alaeddine Al Fawal, " Analysis of link-level hybrid FEC/ARQ-SR for wireless links and long-lived TCP traffic", Performance Evaluation Journal, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 423-500, August 2004.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, " A Markovian Model for TCP Analysis in a Differentiated Services Network", Telecommunication Systems, vol. 25, no. 1,2, pp. 129-155, January 2004.

·        Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Philippe Nain, " Optimal Estimation of Multicast Membership", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing - Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 2165-2176, August 2003.

·        Chadi Barakat, Patrick Thiran, Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, Philippe Owezarski, "Modeling Internet backbone traffic at the flow level", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing - Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 2111-2124, August 2003.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "On ACK filtering on a slow reverse channel", International Journal of Satellite Communications, vol. 21, pp. 241-258, 2003.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Rudesindo Núñez-Queija, "State-dependent M/G/1 type queueing analysis for congestion control in data networks", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 789-808, August 2002.

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Victor Ramos, "Queuing analysis of simple FEC schemes for voice over IP", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 185-206, June 2002.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "Bandwidth tradeoff between TCP and link-level FEC", Computer Networks Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 133-150, June 2002.

·        Chadi Barakat, "TCP modeling and validation", IEEE Network, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 38-47, May 2001.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, "TCP in Presence of Bursty Losses", Performance Evaluation Journal, vol. 42, no. 2-3, pp. 129-147, October 2000.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, Walid Dabbous, "On TCP Performance in a Heterogeneous Network : A Survey", IEEE Communication Magazine, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 40-46, January 2000. A detailed version: INRIA Research Report RR-3737, July 1999.

Papers in Proceedings of Refereed Conferences

·        Karim SBAI, Chadi BARAKAT, "Revisiting content sharing in wireless ad hoc networks", in proceedings of the fourth workshop on self-organizing systems (IWSOS), Zurich, December 2009.

·        Karim Sbai, Emna Salhi, Chadi Barakat, "A membership management protocol for mobile P2P networks", in proceedings of the ACM Mobility Conference, Nice, September 2009.

·        Luigi Alfredo Grieco and Chadi Barakat, "An Analysis of Packet Sampling in the Frequency Domain", in proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, November 2009 (Slides).

·        Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Laurent Mathy, Chadi Barakat, Kave Salamatian, Thierry Turletti, and Walid Dabbous, "Certified Internet Coordinates", in proceedings of IEEE ICCCN conference, San Francisco, August 2009.

·        Anwar Al-Hamra, Nikitas Liogkas, Arnaud Legout, Chadi Barakat, "Swarming Overlay Construction Strategies", in proceedings of IEEE ICCCN conference, San Francisco, August 2009.

·        Emna Salhi, Karim Sbai, and Chadi Barakat, "Neighborhood selection in mobile P2P networks", in proceedings of the 11th Algotel conference, Carry-Le-Rouet, France, June 2009.

·        Mohamad Jaber and Chadi Barakat, ’’Enhancing Application Identification By Means Of Sequential Testing’’, in proceedings of IFIP/TC6 Networking Conference, Aechan, Germany, May 2009.

·        Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat, Jaeyoung Choi, Anwar Al Hamra, and Thierry Turletti, « Adapting BitTorrent to wireless ad hoc networks », in proceedings of the AdHoc-Now Networks and Wireless conference, Sophia Antipolis, September 2008.

·        Amir Krifa, Chadi Barakat, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, “An Optimal Joint Scheduling and Drop Policy for Delay Tolerant Networks”, in proceedings of the WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications, Newport Beach (CA), June 2008.

·        Amir Krifa, Chadi Barakat, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, “Optimal Buffer Management Policies for Delay Tolerant Networks”, in proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008), San Francisco, June 2008 (Slides). Best paper.

·        Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Laurent Mathy, Chadi Barakat, Kave Salamatian, Thierry Turletti, Walid Dabbous, “Securing Internet Coordinate Embedding Systems”, in proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.

·        Niels Moller, Chadi Barakat, Konstantin Avrachenkov, and Eitan Altman, "Inter-protocol fairness between TCP New Reno and TCP Westwood+", in proceedings of NGI 2007 (Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks), Trondheim, Norway, May 2007.

·        Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat, "Transport Information Collection Protocol with clustering of information sources", in proceedings of NTMS 2007 (Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security), Paris, May 2007.

·        G. Boggia, P. Camarda, A. D’Alconzo, L.A. Grieco, S. Mascolo, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, “Modeling the AIADD Paradigm in Networks with Variable Delays”, in proceedings of CoNext, Lisboa, Portugal, December 2006.

·        Gion Reto Cantieni, Gianluca Iannaccone, Chadi Barakat, Christophe Diot, Patrick Thiran, “Reformulating the monitor placement problem: Optimal Network-wide Sampling”, in proceedings of CoNext, Lisboa, Portugal, December 2006 (Slides).

·        Marc Liberatore, Brian Levine, Chadi Barakat, “Maximizing Transfer Opportunities in DTN”, in proceedings of CoNext, Lisboa, Portugal, December 2006 (Slides).

·        Anwar Al Hamra, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks: A Case Study", in proceedings of WoWMoM, Buffalo-NY, June 2006.

·        Mohammad Malli, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, « Application-level versus Network-level Proximity », in proceedings of the AINTEC conference, Bangkok, December 2005.

·        Chadi Barakat, Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, "Ranking flows from sampled traffic", in proceedings of CoNEXT, Toulouse, October 2005 (Slides).

·        Hossein Manshaei, Gion Reto Cantieni, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC and Physical Layer Protocol", in proceedings of WoWMoM, Taormina, June 2005.

·        Imad Aad, Qiang Ni, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "Enhancing IEEE 802.11 MAC in Congested Environments", in proceedings of the Applications and Services in Wireless Networks workshop (AWSN), Boston, August 2004.

·        Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Philippe Nain, "On the dynamic estimation of multicast group sizes", in proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Leuven, Belgium, July 2004.

·        Fatma Louati, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, "Adaptive Class-based Queuing for handling Two-Way traffic in Asymmetric Networks", in proceedings of the conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC), Toulouse, France, July 2004.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Arzad-Alam Kherani, Balakrishna Prabhu, "Analysis of Scalable TCP", in proceedings of the conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications ( HSNMC), Toulouse, France, July 2004.

·        Mohammad Malli, Qiang Ni, Thierry Turletti, Chadi Barakat, « Adaptive Fair Channel Allocation for QoS Enhancement in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs », in proceedings of IEEE ICC, Paris, June 2004.

·        Raja Abdelmoumen, Chadi Barakat, "Analysis of TCP latency over wireless links supporting FEC/ARQ-SR for error recovery", in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, June 2004. (ns-2 code)

·        Hung Nguyen, Patrick Thiran, Chadi Barakat, "On the correlation of TCP traffic in backbone networks", in proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Vancouver, Canada, May 2004.

·        Chadi Barakat, Gion Reto Cantieni, "A distance-aware model of 802.11 MAC layer", in proceedings of WiOpt workshop: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (extended abstract), Cambridge (UK), March 2004.

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Victor M. Ramos R., "Analysis of AIMD protocols over paths with variable delay", in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, March 2004.

·        Qiang Ni, Imad Aad, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "Modeling and Analysis of Slow CW Decrease for IEEE 802.11 WLAN", in proceedings of the International Symposium on Personnel, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Beijing, China, Septembre 2003.

·        Urtzi Ayesta, Kostya Avranchenkov, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Parijat Dube, "Multilevel Approach for Modeling Short TCP Sessions", in proceedings of ITC-18, Berlin, September 2003.

·        Victor Ramos,Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "A Moving Average Predictor for Playout Delay Control in VoIP", in proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2003), Monterey, CA, June 2003.

·        Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Philippe Nain, "Estimating Membership in a Multicast Session", in proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, San Diego, CA, June 2003.

·        Alaeddine Al Fawal, Chadi Barakat, "Simulation-based study of link-level hybrid FEC/ARQ-SR for wireless links and long-lived TCP traffic", in proceedings of WiOpt'03: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Sophia Antipolis, France, March 2003 (Slides).

·        Rares Serban, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, "Dynamic Resource Allocation in Core Routers of a Diffserv Network", in proceedings of the Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2002.

·        Chadi Barakat, Patrick Thiran, Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, Philippe Owezarski, "A flow-based model for Internet backbone traffic", in proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, Marseille, France, November 2002 (Slides).

·        Chadi Barakat, Patrick Thiran, Gianluca Iannaccone, Christophe Diot, "On Internet backbone traffic modeling", extended abstract in proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Marina Del Rey, California, June 2002.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, ``TCP network calculus: The case of large bandwidth-delay product'', in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, NY, June 2002.

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Victor Ramos, ``On the utility of FEC mechanisms for audio applications'', in proceedings of the international workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS), Coimbra, Portugal, September 2001.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Rudesindo Nunez Queija, "TCP modeling in the presence of nonlinear window growth", in proceedings of ITC-17, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, September 2001.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "Bandwidth Tradeoff between TCP and Link-Level FEC", in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Networking (ICN), Colmar, France, July 2001 (Slides).

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Rudesindo Nunez Queija, "State-dependent M/G/1 Type Queueing Analysis for Congestion Control in Data Networks", in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001 (Slides). A detailed version: CWI report PNA-R0005, July 2000.

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Victor Ramos, ``Queueing Analysis of Simple FEC Schemes for IP Telephony'', in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001 (Slides).

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Emanuel Laborde, Patrick Brown, Deni Collange, ``Fairness Analysis of TCP/IP", in proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (ICDC), Sydney, Australia, December 2000.

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Parijat Dube, "TCP over a Multi-State Markovian Path", in proceedings of the international conference on the Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking (P&QNet), Nagoya, Japan, November 2000.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "On ACK Filtering on a Slow Reverse Channel", in proceedings of the first international workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS), Berlin, Germany, September 2000 (Slides). Best PhD student paper.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "A Markovian Model for TCP Analysis in a Differentiated Services Network", in proceedings of the first international workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS), Berlin, Germany, September 2000 (Slides).

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, "A Stochastic Model of TCP/IP with Stationary Random Losses", in proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000 (Slides, Traces).

·        Eitan Altman, Kostya Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, "TCP in Presence of Bursty Losses", in proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Santa Clara, California, June 2000 (Slides).

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "Performance of Short TCP Transfers", in proceedings of Networking 2000 (Performance of Communication Networks), Paris, May 2000 (Slides).

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "Analysis of TCP with Several Bottleneck Nodes", in proceedings of IEEE Globecom (Global Internet Symposium), Rio, Brazil, December 1999 (Slides). A detailed version: INRIA Research Report RR-3620, February 1999.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "Analysis of the Phenomenon of Several Slow Start Phases in TCP", an extended abstract in proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Santa Clara, California, June 2000 (Slides). A detailed version: INRIA Research Report RR-3574, December 1998.

·        Chadi Barakat, Nesrine Chaher, Walid Dabbous, Eitan Altman, "Improving TCP/IP over Geostationary Satellite Links", in proceedings of IEEE Globecom (General Conference), Rio, Brazil, December 1999 (Slides). A detailed version, INRIA Research Report RR-3573, December 1998.

Papers in Proceedings of Non-Refereed Conferences and Magazines

·        Amir Krifa, Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "A standalone content sharing application for spontaneous communities of mobile handhelds”, demo description in proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM MobiHeld Workshop, Barcelona, August 2009.

·        Amir KRIFA, Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti, "BitHoc: A content sharing application for Wireless Ad hoc Networks", demo description in proceedings of the IEEE Percom conference, Galveston, Texas, March 2009 (Slides).

·        Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, Kartikeya Chandrayana, "Multi-level approach for the modeling of large TCP/IP networks", invited to the Symposium on Recent Advances for Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communications Networks and Services, organized by COST 285 in Surrey, UK.

·        Chadi Barakat, "Evaluation des performances des réseaux WIFI 802.11", Techniques de l'Ingénieur, Lettre réseaux sans fil, Numéro Novembre-Décembre 2006.

·        Gion Reto Cantieni, Gianluca Iannaccone, Chadi Barakat, Christophe Diot, Patrick Thiran, “Reformulating the monitor placement problem: Optimal Network-wide Sampling”, invited to the Conference on Information Science (CISS), Princeton NJ, March 2006.

·        Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, S. Mascolo, N. Moller, and J. Sun, "Analysis of TCP Westwood+ in high speed networks", in proceedings of PFLDnet'06: workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance networks, Nara, Japan, February 2006.

·        Rares Serban, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, "Enhancing CBQ with a Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Module", in proceedings of Setit 2003, Tunisia, March 2003.

·        Urtzi Ayesta, Kostya Avranchenkov, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Parijat Dube, "Multilevel Approach for Modeling TCP/IP", in proceedings of PFLDnet'03: workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance networks, CERN-Geneva, Switzerland, February 2003.

·        Kostya Avratchenkov, Urtzi Ayesta , Eitan Altman, Philippe Nain, Chadi Barakat, "The effect of router buffer size on the TCP performance", in proceedings of LONIIS workshop on Telecommunication Networks and Teletraffic Theory, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 2002.

·        Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, "Impact of Network Buffers on TCP Start-Up", in proceedings of IEEE Middle East Workshop on Networking, Beirut, Lebanon, November 1999 (Slides).

·        Chadi Barakat, Jean-Louis Rougier, "Optimization of Hierarchical Multicast Trees in ATM Networks", in proceedings of IFIP ATM'98, Ilkley, UK, July 1998.

Thesis

·        Chadi Barakat, “Solutions efficaces pour la métrologie de l’Internet”, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Informatique, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, January 2009 (manuscript, slides).

·        Chadi Barakat, "Performance Evaluation of TCP Congestion Control", PhD Thesis in Computer Sciences, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, April 2001.

o   English version (ps , pdf).

o   English version with an introduction in French (ps , pdf).

o   Slides.

·        Chadi Barakat, "Le Routage Multicast Hiérarchique", DEA Thesis, ESSI, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France, June 1998 (Slides).

·        Chadi Barakat, Rani Makki, Hayan Mahfouz, "Design and Implementation of a Video Tracker", Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, July 1997.

Patents

·        Takatani Yukihiro, Nonaka Naomichi, Barakat Chadi, “Information Collecting Protocol”, Application Number EP20030290255, Publication Number EP1443704 (A1), Publication Date 2004-08-04.


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