Arnaud Legout's Research Page

Publications

Journals

[EI2022]
Yanis Boussad, Xi (Leslie) Chen, Arnaud Legout, Augustin Chaintreau, Walid Dabbous. Longitudinal study of exposure to radio frequencies at population scale. Environment International, Volume 162, April 2022, 107144, ISSN 0160-4120, doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107144. download
Author version of this paper.

[TIM20]
Yanis Boussad, M. Naoufal Mahfoudi, Arnaud Legout, Leonardo Lizzi, Fabien Ferrero, Walid Dabbous. Evaluating Smartphone Accuracy for RSSI Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, pp. 1-12, 2021, Art no. 5501012, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2020.3048776. download
Author version of this paper.

[TechScience15]
Rao A, Kakhi A, Razaghpanah A, Li A, Choffnes D, Legout A, Mislove A, Gill P. Meddle: Enabling Transparency and Control for Mobile Internet Traffic. Technology Science. 2015103003. October 30, 2015. download

[ERCIM12]
Arnaud Legout and Walid Dabbous. Linking a Social Identity to an IP Address. ERCIM News 90. July 2012. download

[COMNET10]
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. download
Author version of this paper.
A former version is available as an INRIA Technical Report (inria-00343822, version 2 - 12 May 2009), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, May 2009.

[NetworkMag02]
A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack. Revisiting the Fair Queueing Paradigm for End-to-End Congestion Control. IEEE Network Magazine, 16(5), September 2002. download

[ToN01]
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. download
An extended version is available as Eurecom Technical Report, April 2001.

Conferences, Workshops, Posters

[PETS22]
Imane Fouad, Cristiana Santos, Arnaud Legout, Nataliia Bielova. My Cookie is a phoenix: detection, measurement, and lawfulness of cookie respawning with browser fingerprinting. In Proc. of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2022), July 11–-15, 2022. Sydney, Australia. download
award Received an Honorary Mention for the Student Paper Award for the Future of Privacy Forum’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers.

[WPES21]
Vera Wesselkamp, Imane Fouad, Cristiana Santos, Yanis Boussad, Nataliia Bielova, Arnaud Legout. In-Depth Technical and Legal Analysis of Tracking on Health Related Websites with ERNIE Extension. In Proc. of WPES'21, November 15, 2021. Seoul, South Korea. download
The ERNIE extension is available here or on github.

[APS20]
Yanis Boussad, Mohamed Naoufal Mahfoudi, Arnaud Legout, Fabien Ferrero, Leonardo Lizzi, Walid Dabbous. Open-Source 4G Experimental Setup. In Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (AP-S), July 5--10 2020, Montréal, Canada. download

[PETS20]
Imane Fouad, Nataliia Bielova, Arnaud Legout, Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic. Missed by Filter Lists: Detecting Unknown Third-Party Trackers with Invisible Pixels. In Proc. of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2020), July 14--18, 2020, Montréal, Canada. download
This paper is accepted for presentation at PrivacyCon 2021 on July 27th, 2021.

[MOBISYS16]
Jingjing Ren, Ashwin Rao, Martina Lindorfer, Arnaud Legout, David Choffnes. ReCon: Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic. In Proc. of ACM MobiSys 2016, June 26--30, 2016, Singapore. download

[SIGMETRICS16]
Maksym Gabielkov, Arthi Ramachandran, Arnaud Legout, Augustin Chaintreau. Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter? In Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS 2016, June 14--18, 2016, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France. download

[NetSciCom14]
Giovanni Neglia, Xiuhui Ye, Maksym Gabielkov, and Arnaud Legout. How to Network in Online Social Networks. In Proc. of IEEE NetSciCom'14, May 2, 2014, Toronto, Canada. download

[SIGMETRICS14]
Maksym Gabielkov, Ashwin Rao, and Arnaud Legout. Studying Social Networks at Scale: Macroscopic Anatomy of the Twitter Social Graph. In Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'14, June 16--20, 2014, Austin, Texas, USA. download

[P2P13]
Claudio Testa, Darrio Rossi, Ashwin Rao, and Arnaud Legout. Data Plane Throughput vs Control Plane Delay: Experimental Study of BitTorrent Performance. In Proc. of IEEE P2P'13 (short paper), Sep. 9--11, 2013, Trento, Italy. download

[CONEXT12stud1]
Maksym Gabielkov, Arnaud Legout. The Complete Picture of the Twitter Social Graph. In Proc. of ACM CoNEXT'12 Student Workshop, Dec. 10, 2012, Nice, France. download

[CONEXT12stud2]
Ashwin Rao, David Choffnes, Justine Sherry, Arnaud Legout, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Walid Dabbous. Meddle: Middleboxes for Increased Transparency and Control of Mobile Traffic. In Proc. of ACM CoNEXT'12 Student Workshop, Dec. 10, 2012, Nice, France. download

[IWCMC12]
Best Paper Award K. Avrachenkov, P. Gonçalves, A. Legout, M. Sokol. Classification of Content and Users in BitTorrent by Semi-Supervised Learning Methods. In Proc. of IEEE IWCMC'2012, TRAC Workshop, Aug. 27--31, 2012, Limassol, Cyprus. download

[TMA12]
Claudio Testa, Dario Rossi, Ashwin Rao and Arnaud Legout. Experimental Assessment of BitTorrent Completion Time in Heterogeneous TCP/uTP swarms. In Proc. of Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA) Workshop 2012, 12 March, 2012, Vienna, Austria. download
A former version is available as a Technical Report.

[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. download

[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. download

[NETWORKING11]
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. download

[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. download
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)

[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. download

[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. download
An extended version of this work is available in [LLL_TR10].

[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, France. download

[ICCCN09]
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. download

[IPTPS08]
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. download

[SIGMETRICS07]
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. download
An older version is available as INRIA Technical Report (inria-00112066, version 1 - 21 November 2006), Sophia Antipolis, November 2006.

[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. download
An extended version is available as INRIA Technical Report (inria-00001111, version 3 - 6 September 2006), Sophia Antipolis, September 2006.

[NOSSDAV00]
A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack. Pathological Behaviors for RLM and RLC. In Proc. of NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2000. download

[SIGMETRICS00]
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. download
An extended version is available as Eurecom Technical Report, March 2000.

[INFOCOM99]
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. download

Technical Report

[TechReport_NDA23]
Gregory Ninot, Emeline Descamps, Ghislaine Achalid, Sébastien Abad, Fabrice Berna, Christine Belhomme, Pierre-Louis Bernard, François Carbonnel, Patrizia Carrieri, Patricia Dargent-Molina, Frederic Fiteni, Alice Guyon, Aude-Marie Foucaut, Beatrice Lognos, Nicolas Molinari, Arnaud Legout, Julien Nizard, Michel Nogues, Pierrick Poisbeau, François Paille, Lise Rochaix, Bruno Falissard. NPI Model: Standardised Framework for Evaluating Non-Pharmacological Interventions in the French Health Context Authors. Technical Report (hal-04360550, 21 december 2023), December 2023. download

[TechReport_B21]
Yanis Boussad, Xi Chen, Arnaud Legout, Augustin Chaintreau, Walid Dabbous. Longitudinal Study of Exposure to Radio Frequencies at Population Scale. Technical Report (hal-03361556, version 1 - 1 October 2021), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, October 2021. download

[TechReport_B20]
Yanis Boussad, Mohamed Naoufal Mahfoudi, Arnaud Legout, Leonardo Lizzi, Fabien Ferrero, Walid Dabbous. Evaluating Smartphone Accuracy for LTE Power Measurement. Technical Report (hal-02320342, version 3 - 14 April 2020), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, April 2020. download

[TechReport_TRL_19]
Mathieu Thiery, Vincent Roca, Arnaud Legout. Privacy implications of switching ON a light bulb in the IoT world. Technical Report (hal-02196544, version 1 - 29 July 2019), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, July 2019. download

[TechReport10]
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. download

[TechReport07]
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. download

[TechReport05]
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. download

Thesis

[HDR12]
A. Legout. Efficacité et vie privée : de BitTorrent à Skype. HDR thesis, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, January 2012. download

[PHD00]
A. Legout. Contrôle de congestion multipoint pour les réseaux best effort. PhD thesis, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Institut Eurecom, October 2000. download

Course Material

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[CoursWriting]
Arnaud Legout. The Art and Science of Writing. How to write easy-to-read text?. Course material. Slides (cel-00879035, version 2, - 22 January 2015), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, January 2015. download
[CoursTalk]
Arnaud Legout. How to Give a Good Talk?. Course material. Slides (cel-00529505, version 7, - 22 January 2015), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, January 2015. download
[CoursP2P]
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. download

Talks

[paldec17]
A. Legout. Internet et vie privée. Est-ce la fin de la vie privée ?. Talk at Palais de la découverte, May 2017, Paris, France. download

[dagstuhl17]
A. Legout. Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter?. Talk at the Dagstuhl School, April 2017, Dagstuhl, Germany. download

[twit_sig]
A. Legout. Information propagation in social networks. Talk at the Winter School on Complex Graph , January 2017, Sophia Antipolis, France. download

[recon_ucn]
A. Legout. ReCon: Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Systems. Talk at the Sigmetrics workshop UCN, June 2016, Juan les Pins, France. download

[BB_jrssi]
A. Legout. Protection de la vie privée dans Internet : quels risques aujourd'hui ? Invited talk, JRSSI'2012, November 2012, Paris, France. download

[BB_Wash]
A. Legout. Bluebear: Exploring Privacy Threats in the Internet. Invited talk, University of Washington, October 2012, Seattle, USA.

[BB_fetesci]
A. Legout. Risques d'atteinte à la vie privée sur Internet, ou qu'est-ce que votre voisin peut savoir sur vous ?. Invited talk, Fête de la science, October 2012, Sophia Antipolis, CIV, France.

[BB_Euro]
A. Legout. Bluebear: Exploring Privacy Threats in the Internet. Invited talk, Europol, July 2012, The Hague, The Netherlands.

[BB_SEE]
A. Legout. Protection de la vie privee dans Internet : quels enjeux aujourd'hui et où allons nous ?. Invited talk, SEE, April 2012, Nice, France.

[BB_Fab]
A. Legout. Bluebear: Exploring Privacy Threats in the Internet. Invited talk, Fabelier, June 2012, Paris, France.

[BB_KTH]
A. Legout. Bluebear: Exploring Privacy Threats in the Internet. Invited talk, KTH, December 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.

[BB_techni]
A. Legout. Bluebear: Exploring Privacy Threats in the Internet. Invited talk, Technicolor Palo Alto, September 2011, Palo Alto, USA.

[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. download

[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. download

[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. download

[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. download

[L_plm00:sem_INRIA]
Arnaud Legout. The FS Paradigm and Its Practical Validation: PLM. Presented at Séminaire Réseaux INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2000. download

[L:Sigmetrics00]
Arnaud Legout. PLM: Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes. Presented at ACM SIGMETRIC'2000, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 2000. download

[L_patho00:NOSS00]
Arnaud Legout. Pathological Behaviors for RLM and RLC. Presented at NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2000. download

[L_plm99:NGC99]
Arnaud Legout. PLM: Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes. Poster session at the NGC'99, Pisa, Italy, November 1999. download

[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. download

[L:INFOCOM99]
Arnaud Legout. Bandwidth Allocation Policies for Unicast and Multicast Flows. Presented at IEEE INFOCOM'99, New York, NY, USA, March 1999. download

Patents

[PAT0302]
A. Legout, L. Anliker, J. Hummes. "Process for selecting a server in a content delivery network". EP1322094A1, Granted September 2004.

[PAT0301]
A. Legout, J. Hummes. "A process for providing access of a client to a content provider server under control of a resource locator server". EP1278112B1, Granted May 2003. JP2003122724, Published Application July 2003.