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Since summer 2008, I'm senior researcher at Thomson Paris Research lab where I'm leading the activities in the wireless homenetworking domain, Futur Internet, as well as in opportunistic communication. In these two domains, we are running a couple of very interesting projects like Haggle, WIP (finished end of 2008), or OpNex.
Besides these activities, I'm also coordinating a FP6 research project in future networking architectures - ANA - and am also very active in multiple conferences liek ACM CoNext or ACM MobiHoc. Since last year, I'm also area editor in CCR, the ACM SIGCOMM newsletter, as well as in the Computer Communication Journal published by Elsevier.
Research Interests
Over the last years, I change quite a bit my focus of interest. While during my PhD I was mainly working on QoS aspects of the Internet, I later moved towards different archtiectures like overlay networking and more recently, clean slate approaches for Futur Internet Architectures.
Within Thomson, we focus on how to provide new communication services on the Internet, and what communication architecture needs to be deployed side by side with the Internet to support these new communication services. The research on wireless home networking can be seen as the natural extension of these concepts.
- Future Internet Architectures
- Opportunistic networks and content dissemination
- Wireless home networking
- Network security, measurements, and anomaly detection
Projects
Haggle
Haggle is a communication architecture that enables opportunistic communication between networked devices. We named the Haggle communication paradigm "Pocket Switched Network" as data take advantage of both network availability and device mobility to achieve communication services. The Haggle implementation called MobiClique is going to be soon available on windows mobile and symbian phones.
OneLab2
OneLab2 will establish a competitive and federated facility with international visibility and a broad
set of customers. Onelab2s vision and research contributions will materialise in PlanetLab Europe,
the European arm of the worlds most widely used research networking test bed, with the freedom
to innovate on behalf of European industrial and academic research priorities. This will give
European Internet stakeholders a means to experiment at the network and application layers and
accelerate the design of advanced networking technologies for the future Internet.
OpNex
OPNEX delivers a first principles approach to the design of architectures and protocols for multi-hop wireless networks. Systems and optimization theory is used as the foundation for algorithms that provably achieve full transport capacity of wireless systems. Subsequently a plan for converting the algorithms termed in abstract network models to protocols and architectures in practical wireless systems is given. Finally a validation methodology through experimental protocol evaluation in real network test-beds is proposed.
NaDa
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Nano Data Center project is a new content delivery paradigm where content is stored on the home gateways in a way that it can be accessed quickly and securely by customers. We expect NaDa to save 90% capital investment to ISPs, and also 90 to 95% energy in the data delivery process. NaDa, thanks to its "managed Peer-to-peer" communivation infrastructure, will allow a large range of new services to be deployed quickly and safely such as P2P games, User generated Services, VoD, Catch-up TV, etc.
ANA
The ANA Project aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel autonomic network architecture that enables flexible, dynamic, and fully autonomous formation of network nodes as well as whole networks. Universities and research institutes from Europe and Northern America are participating in this project.
Short Bio
Martin May received the Master degree in computer science from the
University of Mannheim in 1996. In 1999, he received his Ph.D.
degree at INRIA Sophia Antipolis from the University of Nice,
France. He did most of his thesis work on Internet QoS mechanisms at
INRIA, but was also technical staff member of Lucent Bell-Labs
Research, Holmdel, USA and Sprintlabs, Burlingame, USA.
Until beginning of 2000, he continued his research as a
post-doctoral member of the research staff at Sprintlabs,
Burlingame, US. In 2000, he founded a start up company
in France where he worked in the field of Content Networking.
After selling the company end of 2003, he went back to academia where
he joined the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) as a
senior research associate. His research interests are in Future Internetworking
Architectures and network security. Since 2006, he coordinates a
large EU-funded project on Future Internet Technologies with the goal
to develop new networking paradigms
and node architectures for the Future Internet - the ANA project.
In 2008, Dr. May joined the Thomson Research Lab in Paris where
he leads the research activities in mobile networking and
Future Internet technologies.
Dr. May is a member of the IEEE, ACM and the Internet Society. He is
an area editor of ACM Sigcomm Computer Communication Review as well as of the Computer Communication Journal published by elsevier, has
chaired multiple workshops and conferences and also served on
technical Program committees for many top tier networking conferences.
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