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Sara Alouf
Inria - Équipe-Projet NEO
2004 Route des Lucioles
B.P. 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

Office: L115
Email: Sara (dot) Alouf (at) inria (dot) fr
Phone: +33 (0)4 9238 7199
Position Associate researcher
Organization Inria
Research center Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée
Theme Networks and Telecommunications
Project-Team NEO
Profiles ResearchGate, Google Scholar

Biography

I am an Associate Researcher at Inria and vice-head of the Network Engineering and Operations group. Prior to joining Inria in March 2004, I held a post-doctoral position at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, within the Optimization of Business Processes group. I received my Habilitation in 2017 from the Université Côte d'Azur, my Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2002 and 1999, respectively. I hold an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree from the Lebanese University, obtained in 1998. While at Inria, I have been involved in the common labs between Inria and Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) and between Inria and Alstom Transport. I have co-authored three patents. I was in the board of directors of ACM Sigmetrics (July 2019 - June 2023) and serve/served in the technical program committees of ACM Sigmetrics and MobiHoc, Performance, IEEE Infocom and Globecom, ITC, Valuetools, and WIOPT. I was the general co-chair and treasurer of the ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance 2016 conference. I am a member of the ACM and ACM Sigmetrics and serve as Associated Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Elsevier Computer Communications. My research interests include stochastic modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks.

Research

My main research interests are:

  • stochastic modeling;
  • renewable energy in networks and data centers;
  • performance evaluation in general.

Past research interests include:

  • networks of caches;
  • power saving in wireless networks;
  • evolving forwarding schemes in delay-tolerant networks;
  • peer-to-peer storage networks;
  • the medium access control in wireless networks.

PhD students:

Publications

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Journals

Book Chapters

Conferences/Workshops

Patents

Theses

Reports

Teaching

Course Level University Language Year Responsabilities
Performance Evaluation of Networks Master University of Nice Sophia Antipolis English Fall 2024, Winter 2022-2021, Fall 2019, 2017-2012 In charge, lectures + homeworks
Probabilities and Statistics Bac+3 University of Nice Sophia Antipolis French Spring 2017, 2015-2012 In charge, lectures + assignments (with Giovanni Neglia)
Spring 2010 and 2009 In charge, lectures + assignments (with Alberto Blanc and Giovanni Neglia)
Spring 2007 and 2006 assignments + homeworks (lectures by Pierre Bernhard)
Performance Analysis of Communications Networks Master Free University at Amsterdam English Fall 2004 lecturer (with Rob van der Mei and Thilo Kielmann) + homeworks
Optimization of Business Processes Master Free University at Amsterdam English Spring 2003 lecturer (with Ger Koole) + homeworks
Performance evaluation Bac+4 Institut Eurécom French Spring 2002, 2001 and 2000 assignments + lab work (lectures by Philippe Nain in 2002 and 2001, and by Jacques Labetoulle in 2000)

Public outreach

Giving interviews to journalists

  • 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.

    • Delivering conferences

  • In high schools (six times between 2011 and 2016).
  • At the Albert Camus Public Library of Antibes on 20 May 2011.

    • Professional service

    • I was elected to the Board of Directors of ACM SIGMETRICS for the two-year term July 2019 - June 2021, extended for July 2021 - June 2023.
    • I was in the Conference Advisory Committee and the Equality and Diversity Committee of ACM SIGMETRICS in the period July 2019 - June 2023.

    Editorial Board member

    • Associated Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, since September 2024.
    • Lead Guest Editor for Elsevier Performance Evaluation Special Issue on ITC 35, 2024.
    • Area Editor for Elsevier Computer Communications, since May 2021.
    • Executive Editor for Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, July 2016 - August 2020.

    Technical program committee member

    Conference organization

    Community service (at Inria)

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