Education

Professional Experience:

Teaching Experience:


Past Ph.D. students:

I have been advisor of 34 PhD students. 12 of these are now researchers and 12 more are associate or full professors at university. the remaining are either postdoc or work in industry on topics that are not research. The detailed list is available in item Teaching in my homepage.


Current PhD students :

I advise 5 Ph.D. students. The detailed list is in Item Teaching in my homepage.


Industrial contracts:

1993-1994 contract with the French telecommunications company (CNET) on modeling of flow control in High Speed Networks.
1997-2000 Responsible of a contract (C.T.I.) with the French telecommunications company (CNET) on flow control in High Speed Networks.
1998-2001 Participation in an RNRT project on satellite communications. Responsible of the work-package on quality of service of ATM and Internet over satellite.
2001-2003 Responsible of a contract with ALCATEL Space on radio planning for multi-beam satellite systems.
2000-2003 Responsible of a contract (C.T.I.) with the French telecommunications company (CNET) on multicriteria optimization in telecommunication networks.
2002-2005 Responsible of a contract (C.R.E.) of three years with France Telecom on Strategies for resource allocation in UMTS
2005-2007 Responsible of a contract (C.R.E.) of two years with France Telecom on Optimisation and control of resources in wireless cellular networks and wireless local area networks.



Since 2008, member of the Alcatel-Lucent INRIA joint lab.

European Contracts:

2003-2006: Member of EuroNGI network of excellence, and responsible for the Work Package 5.4 there on optimization and control of networks.
2006-2010: Responsible of the INRIA participation in an IST FET Proactive Initiative on Situated and Autonomic Communications entitled BIONETS: BIOlogically-inspired autonomic NETworks and Services (INRIA's budget is of 340 K-Euros over 4 years).
2012-2015: Scientific coordinatoro of a FET European project CONGAS - Dynamics and COevolution in Multi Level Strategic iNteraction GAmeS.

Grants for international scientific cooperation:

1990-1993 Grant 3321190 from the France-Israel Scientific Cooperation (in Computer Science and Engineering) between the French Ministry of Research and Technology and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
1997-1999 Grant from the France-Israel Scientific Cooperation (in telecommunications) between the French Ministry of Research and Technology and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
1998-2000 Participation in a Van-Gogh project of French-Dutch scientific cooperation.
1998-2000 Responsible of a NSF/INRIA grant on control in telecommunications networks, for cooperation with Prof. Basar and Dr. Srikant in Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
2003-2006 Responsible of a collaboration project with IISc Bangalore through CEFIPRA (Centre Franco-Indian pour la Promotion de la Recherche Avanc\'ee)


Professional Activity (ii):

Associate Editor (AE) and member of advisory board of international journals

Past Associate Editor at



·  Co-Editor of
6th Vol. of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games (2001).
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

  • Special Issue on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Part I Jan. 2005 Volume: 23, Issue: 1
  • Special Issue on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Part II March 2005 Volume: 23, Issue: 3
  • Special Issue on Network Economy, 2012.

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    Guest Associate Editor
    4th and 7th Vol. of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games.

     

    Keynote speaker
    1. Game Theoretical Modeling and Optimization Perspectives in Queueing Theory; The Fifth IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Optimization, Aruba, 2005.
    2. On stochastic games arising in wireless communications, 12th Int Symp on Dynamic Games and Appl (2006, Sophia-Antipolis, France).
    3. "Spatial SINR Games Combining Base Station Placement and Mobile Association", First IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRNETS), Cannes, In conjunction with IEEE PIMRC Sept 2008.
    4. Admission control to an M/M/1 queue with partial information. Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA) Ghent, July 2013.
    5. Game models in Complex Systems, International Conference On Principles Of dIstributed Systems (Opodis), Nice, Dec 2013.
    6. Analysis of competition and visibility in complex networks, at WPerformance 2014 workshop, in conjunction with the XXXIV Brazilian Conference of Computer Science (CSBC), Brasilia, Brazil, 29 July 2014
    7. Timelines in Social networks: analysis and competition over influence, IFIP Performance, Torino, 7-9 October, 2014.
    8. Timelines Analysis and competition over popularity, influence and visibility in social networks, at IEEE ICC Workshop on Dynamic SOcial Networks (DySON), London, UK, 8 June 2015
    9. Game theory applied to Protection against SIS Epidemics in Networks. Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, London, Nov 4-5, 2015
    10. Game theory applied to SIS Epidemics in Networks. 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, Casablanca, May 30 - June 1st, 2016.
    11. Dynamic games for analyzing competition in the Internet. 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), 15 Sept 2016, Wuertzburg.




    Last updated on Sept 24, 2016

    • CURRICULUM VITAE (ENGLISH)

    ALTMAN Eitan
    For a French version in pdf, click HERE


    Address: 335 Chemin des Combes, 84140 Montfavet. ,
    Tel: home 04 90 31 19 60, work: 04 92 38 77 86
    Birth: 9 January 1959, Haifa Israel
    Citizenship: Israel and French.
    Family status: Married, two children.

    Best paper awards:
  • A. A. Kherani, R. El-Azouzi and E. Altman, "Stability-throughput tradeoff and routing in multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks", proceedings of IFIP Networking, Coimbra, Portugal, May 15-19, 2006.
  • E. Altman, K. Avrachenkov, N. Bonneau, M. Debbah, R. El-Azouzi and D. Sadoc Menasche, 'Constrained Stochastic Games in Wireless Networks' IEEE Globecom General Symposium, Washington D.C. 2007.
  • A. Azad, S. Alouf, E. Altman, V. Borkar, G. Paschos, "Vacation Policy Optimization with Application to IEEE 802.16e Power Saving Mechanism". IFIP Wireless Days 2009, Paris, France, 15-17 December 2009.
  • Richard Combes, Zwi Altman and Eitan Altman, "Self-Organizing Relays in LTE networks: Queuing analysis and algorithms", 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management, 24-28 October, 2011.
  • Didier Josselin, Abdelberry Saidi, Dorian Roussel, Said Boularouk, Olivier Bonin, Eitan Altman, Driss Matrouf, "Sonorous cartography for sighted and blind people", AGILE’2016, Jun 2016, Helsinki, Finland, 2016.

    Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
  • Veeraruna Kavitha, Salman Anis Memon, Manjesh K Hanawal, Eitan Altman and R Devanand R, User Response Based Recommendations: A Local Angle Approach. COMSNETS, 3-7 January, Bangalore, 2018,

    Second Best paper award
  • Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Andrey Garnaev, "A Jamming game in wireless networks with transmission cost", Net-COOP, Avignon, France June 5-7, 2007.

    Best student paper awards
  • C. Barakat and E. Altman, "On ACK filtering on a slow reverse channel", proceedings of the first international workshop  on Quality of future Internet Services (Qofis), Berlin, Germany, September 2000.
  • P. Dube, O. Ait-Hellal, E. Altman, "On Loss Probabilities in Presence of Redundant Packets with Random Drop,"Proc. of IFIP Networking 2002, May 19-24 2002,
    • Best poster awards:
  • Signalling Game-baed approach to Power Control Management in Wireless Networks; 2013 ACM MSWiM Conference, Barcelona, Nov 3-7, 2013
    Awards and Distinctioins
  • Dec 2017: The Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award awarded by IEEE TC on Big Data conference (TCBD), for « his outstanding technical leadership and achievement in stochastic modeling and big data analysis».
  • 2014: Isaacs Award granted by the society of dynamic games for in recognition for my research on dynamic game theory.
  • 2012: Grand prix of France Telecom, granted by the French Academy of Science.
  • 2009: INRIA award for excellence in research, attributed to around 2% of the researchers each year.
  • Best associate editor award in the journal Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2003.
  • 1990: Volfson Award from the Israeli Academy of Science for a one year postdoc position
  • Ariel Pinzy Award, 1983,
  • Miriam and Aaron Guthwirth Award, 1985 et 1987
  • Award of the Israeli Ministry of Communication, 1986

    Membership in scientific societies:
    Fellow Member of IEEE, Member of 7.3 WG of IFIP on Computer System Modeling, Member of WG 6.3 of IFIP on Performance of Comm Systems


    Professional Activity:

    Chairman of the steering committee and cofounder of the following workshops

  • Workshop on Networking Games Control and Optimization ( NetGcoop)
  • WiOpt: Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks

    • member of the steering committees of the following conferences:

  • Valuetools: International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
  • IOFC (Indoor and Outdoor Femto Cells)
  • Workshop on Telecom Economics, Engineering and Policy see http://www.itc24.net/workshops/TelecomEconEngPolicy/

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    General Chair of

    WiOpt: Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy, April 3-7, 2005

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    Chairman of the Program Committee of

  • the 8th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, July, 1997, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
  • "Networking games and resource allocation" Workshop, 12-15 July 2002, Petrozavodsk, Russia.
  • WiOpt: Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, March 3-5, 2003.
  • First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (Valuetools), 10-14 October, 2006.
  • 2nd Workshop on Network Control and Optimization, (Netcoop), Paris, 10-12 Sept, 2008.
  • WiOpt: Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Avignon, France, 2011
  • Indoor and Outdoor Femto Cells (IOFC), Avignon, France, 2011
  • Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, University of Maryland, College Park, on November 14-15, 2011,

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    Program Committee Member of

  • IEEE INFOCOM
    2000 (Tel-Aviv, Israel, March), 2001 (Anchorage, Alaska, April), 2002 (New-York, April), 2003 (San-Francisco), 2004 (Hong-Kong), 2005 (Miami, Florida, March 13-17). 2006 (Barcelona, Spain, April 23-27). 2009 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25
  • Networking (IFIP working groups WG 6.2, WG 6.3, and WG 6.8.)
    2002 (Pisa, May), 2004 (Greece, May), 2005 (2-6 May, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), 2006 (15-19 May, Coimbra, Portugal), 2008 (4-9 May, Singapore)
  • European Wireless Conference
    EW2004, The 5th European Wireless Conference Mobile and Wireless Systems beyond 3G, Feb. 24 - 27, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
    EW2005, Univ. of Cyprus, April 2005.
    EW2006, Athens, Greece, 2-5, April 2006.
  • Wireless On-demand Network Systems (WONS)
    2004, (Madonna di Campiglio, Trento, Italy, January 21-23, 2004), 2005 (St. Moritz, on January 19-21, 2005), 2006, (Les Menuires, France, January 18th to 20th, 2006).
  • International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications
    7th (Dec., 1996, Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan),
    8th (chairman, 1997, Maastricht, the Netherlands),
    9th (Dec., 2000, Adelaide, Australia),
    10th (July 2002, Saint Petersburg, Russia),
    11th (Dec. 2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA).
    12th (Jul. 2006, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, FRANCE).
    13th (30th June-3rd July, 2008, Wroclaw, Poland).
  • WiOpt: Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks:
    - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, March 3-5, 2003.
    - University of Cambridge, UK, 24th - 26th of March, 2004
    - Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy, April 3-7, 2005
    - Boston, Massachusetts, April 3-7, 2006
  • International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDNET): - CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, February 3-4, 2003; - Lyon, France, February 3-4, 2005; - Nara, Japan, February 2-3, 2006
  • IWQoS: IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service: - Montreal, Canada, June 7-9, 2004; - University of Pasau, Germany, on June 21-23, 2005; - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-21, 2006
  • HET-NET International working conference on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks
    - HET-NETs'03 July, West Yorkshire, U.K., 2003,
    - HET-NETs'04 July, West Yorkshire, U.K., 2004.
  • AdHocNow International Conference on AD-HOC Networks and Wireless - Cancun, Mexico, October 6 - 8 , 2005, - AdHocNow2006, Ottawa, Canada, August 17-19, 2006. ; - INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, Sept 12-14, 2008
  • International Conference on Game Theory and Management GTM2007,  St Petersburg, Russia
    - June 2007, June 2008,
  • Workshop on NS-2 (NStools or WNS2)
    2007, October 22, Nantes, France
    2008, October 23-24, Athens, Greece
  • Game Theory in Communication Networks (Gamecomm)
    2007, 22 October Nantes, France
    2008, October 20, Athens, Greece
  • IEEE CDC 1999, Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 1999
  • Performance 99, the IFIPWG7.3 Conference on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems and Networks, August, 1999, Istanbul, Turqky.
  • International Workshop on Markov Processes and Controlled Markov Chains, Aug., 1999, Changsha, Hunan, China.
  • PQNet2000, International Conference on Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking, Nov. 27 - 30, 2000, Nagoya, Japan.
  • International Conference on Information Society in the 21 Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges. In the University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan, November 3-5, 2000.
  • Conference Internationale Francophone d'Automatique (CIFA), Nantes, July 2002.
  • Game Theory and Applications, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, Aug. 14-17, 2002. (Part of the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2002, Beijing, 2002.)
  • IASTED International Conference Networks, Parallel and Distributed Processing, and Applications (NPDPA 2002), Oct. 1- 4, 2002, Tsukuba, Japan.
  • WICON 2005 First International Wireless Internet Conference July 10-14, 2005, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2002 IEEE VTC Fall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 24-29 September 2002.
  • 3rd Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2004) Bodrum, Turkey, June 27-30, 2004.
  • PWC 2003, Personal Wireless Communications, Sept. 23-25, 2003 - Venice - ITALY.
  • 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) , October 25-27, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  • 15th specialist seminar in Antwerp, Belgium, on the topic "Performance Evaluation of Wireless and Mobile Systems", August 31 - September 02, 2004.
  • 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, August 9-11, 2004, Boston, USA.
  • The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 20-24 June, 2004, Paris.
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2007 (WCNC) Hong-Kong, March 2007,
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2007, Nice, France
  • 2nd International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (Gamenets), May 24-26, 2012, Vancouver Canada.
  • Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, 2010 (22-23 Nov. Berlin), 2011 (Univ of Maryland, College Park, Nov 14-15).
  • W-PIN 2012: The first Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks June 11, 2012, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 (London, UK)
  • 8th Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory, Budapest, 16--18 July, 2012
  • IEEE SECON , Seattle, USA, 22-25 June, 2015.
  • BioSTAR (International Workshop on Bio-inspired Security, Trust, Assurance and Resilience), Fairmont, San Jose, CA, USA, May 26, 2016.
  • NetGCoOp (Networking Games Control and Optimization), 23-25 November, 2016, Avignon, France.
  • ISDG (International Symposium of Dynamic Games) University of Urbino, Italy during July 12-15, 2016.
  • NCC (National Conference on Communications), IIT Madras, 2-4 March, 2017.

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