*       Eitan ALTMAN    


·  Organisation: INRIA

·  Research Unit: Sophia Antipolis

·  Service: Projet Maestro

·  E-mail: Eitan.Altman@sophia.inria.fr

·  Phone: +33 4 92 38 77 86

·  Fax: +33 4 92 38 78 58


* Where I work, how to get there


I am a researcher of INRIA at Univ of Avignon at the Agroparc campus.
For details on how to get there click here.
For more details (maps, bus time-tables etc) clicke here or download a file in word.
I recommend the following hotels in Avignon:
Hotel Magnan, 63 r Portail Magnan, 84000 Avignon, tel 04 90 86 36 51.
Hotel d'Angleterre, 29, bd Raspail, 84000 Avignon, tel. 04 90 86 34 31
Hotel du Palais des Papes 04 90 86 04 13



* Past and Present Collaborative Research Programs:

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My main areas of research include the performance evaluation and control of telecommunication networks, the optimal control, and stochastic games. You will find below my publications on line. For downloading material, please consult first the Copyright Notice.


My research activities:

*1. Telecommunication and queueing networks:

*TCP/IP and Flow control
* Noncooperative networks, networking games, equilibria and fairness
*Wireless networks
* Access to knowledge and culture: The interplay between legislation, Economics and information technology,
*Voice over IP
*Performance evaluation of telecommunication networks
*Local area networks
*Traffic models, measurement and estimation
*Polling systems and queues with vacations

*2. Stochastic Processes, Control and Stability:

*Control of Markov chains: General theory, constrained MDPs
*Control of Markov chains: Applications
*Non Markovian stochastic control
*Stochastic games
*Control and performance evaluation of systems with delayed information
*Hybrid control
*Stochastic stability

*3. Biology Inspired Paradigms for Complex Systems

*Evolutionary Games
* Branching Processes and Stochastic recursive equations: theory and applications
* Other

*Monographs

* J. Galtier, E. Altman, A. Ferreira, Reseaux satellitaires de telecommunications, in French), Dunod, Nov., 1999.

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* E. Altman, B. Gaujal and A. Hordijk, Discrete-event control of stochastic networks: Multimodularity and Regularity (Copyrights: Springer Verlag) Springer Verlag, Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2003, XIV, 313 p., Softcover ISBN: 3-540-20358-3.

*E. Altman, Constrained Markov Decision Processes, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1999.


Courses:

24 hours DEA (that's French for ``graduate'') courses at the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis:

*Architecture and performance evaluation of Local area networks
*Satellite Communications

15 hours course in a DEA OJME (Optimisation, Games, and Economical Modelisation) (jointly with Univ. Paris 6, Univ. Paris 10, Ecole Polytechnique) on

*Equilibria and optimisation in networks.

Courses at Facultad de Ing., U.L.A., Mérida, Venezuela , on

*Modeling information systems and telecommunications, in Spanish. ( pdf file ) (28 hours). It contains material on queueing theory, local area networks and analysis of Internet protocols.
*NS simulator course for beginners (lecture notes in English) A 48 hours course.


Current and past Ph.D. students:

* Omar Ait-Hellal Thesis: Flow control in high speed networks Graduated on Nov. 1998.
* Chadi Barakat Thesis: Performance evaluation of TCP congestion control Graduated on Apr. 2001. Today: researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
* Parijat Dube Thesis: "Performance Evaluation of Congestion Phenomena in Communication Networks", Graduated on Sept. 2002. Today: researcher at IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY.
*Thomas Boulogne Thesis: Strategic non-atomic games with applications in networks (in french). Graduated on Dec. 2004.
* Corinne Touati Thesis: Fairness Principles Applied to Telecommunication Networks. Graduated on Sept. 2003. Researcher at INRIA Grenoble, France
* Victor Ramos-Ramos Thesis: Robust and reliable multimedia transmission over the Internet. Graduated on Dec. 2004. Today Research associate UAM- Iztapalapa Mexico
* Balakrishna Prabhu Thesis: Markov Chains and Decision Processes for Congestion Avoidance and Power Control. Graduated on Oct. 2005. Researcher in LAAS, CNRS, Toulouse
*Ahmad Al-Hanbali , "Performance Evaluation of Mobile Wireless Networks", Ph.D. thesis, Department of Sciences, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France 20 November 2006.
* Gregory Miller Thesis: The Problems of Filtering and Control in Discrete-Continuous Systems with Uncertainties, in co-tutelle: Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), Russia, and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, December 2006. Today he is a senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics Problems, Russia.
* Dinesh Kumar Thesis: Optimization and Control in Wireless and Computer Networks. Graduation on November 26, 2008.
* Nicolas Bonneau
, PhD Thesis: Centralized and Decentralized Multiuser Schemes for Wireless Communications. Graduated on sept 2007.
* Hamidou Tembine. PhD Thesis: Population Games with Networking Applications. Graduated on 18th sept 2009.
* Alonso Silva.
* Alberto Suarez
* Amar Prakash Azad
* Sreenath Ramanath
* Dinil Mon Divakaran




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MUSIC

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J'ai aussi une page en français!
Tengo también una página en español!


Last modified: December 2007

Eitan Altman