Fabio Picconi

Group: Lab members
Position: Researcher
Website: http://www.thlab.net/~picconi
Email: email
Phone Number: +33 1 41 86 69 12

Office Address:
1 rue Jeanne d'Arc
92443 Issy les Moulineaux cedex - France

Short Bio:

I received my PhD in Computer Science in 2006 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, France. My PhD thesis focused on a new P2P file system called Pastis. Before graduate school I studied Electrical Engineering at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina. I also spent a couple of years in the industry working in R&D departments of Siemens Argentina and Schlumberger France (now called Gemalto).

Research interests:

My research interests lie in the field of distributed systems, particularly peer-to-peer systems and cloud computing. In the past, I've worked mainly on peer-to-peer storage. My current research focuses on peer-to-peer streaming and cloud computing systems. I also participate to IETF activities, mainly in the PPSP and ALTO working groups.

Publications:

Proceedings:

Is there a future for mesh-based live video streaming? Fabio Picconi, Laurent Massoulié P2P 2008 IEEE Computer Society, January 2012 [BibTex]

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    abstract = {{Peer-to-peer live streaming systems allow a bandwidth-constrained source to broadcast a video feed to a large number of users. In addition, a design with high link utilization can achieve high stream rates, supporting high-quality video. Until now, only tree-based designs have been shown to achieve close-to-optimal rates in real-life conditions, leaving the question open as to the attainable efficiency of completely unstructured mesh-based approaches. In this paper we answer that question by showing that a carefully-designed mesh-based system can achieve close-to-optimal stream rates. Specifically, we implement and evaluate a design based on a mesh-based algorithm called DP/LU. Contrary to tree-based designs, DP/LU uses an unstructured overlay, which is easier to construct and is highly resistant to churn. In addition, we introduce mechanisms for overlay rewiring and source scheduling that lead to significant performance improvements. Our experimental evaluation shows that our design achieves 95% of the maximum achievable stream rate in a static environment, and 90% under high churn. This demonstrates that mesh-based designs are an excellent choice for scalable and robust high-quality peer-to-peer live streaming.}},
    author = {Picconi, Fabio and Massoulie, Laurent},
    booktitle = {Peer-to-Peer Computing , 2008. P2P '08. Eighth International Conference on},
    citeulike-article-id = {3360909},
    citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2008.18},
    citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4627291},
    doi = {10.1109/P2P.2008.18},
    journal = {Peer-to-Peer Computing , 2008. P2P '08. Eighth International Conference on},
    keywords = {heter, steaming},
    pages = {289--298},
    posted-at = {2009-04-10 15:44:47},
    priority = {2},
    title = {{Is There a Future for Mesh-Based live Video Streaming?}},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2008.18},
    year = {2008}
}

Service hosting gateways: a platform for distributed service deployment in end user homes Martin May, Christophe Diot, Pascal Le Guyadec, Fabio Picconi, Joris Roussel, Augustin Soule Demonstration @ ACM SIGCOMM 2011 ACM, August 2011 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{May:2011:SHG:2018436.2018529,
 author = {May, Martin and Diot, Christophe and Le Guyadec, Pascal and Picconi, Fabio and Roussel, Joris and Soule, Augustin},
 title = {Service hosting gateways: a platform for distributed service deployment in end user homes},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference on SIGCOMM},
 series = {SIGCOMM '11},
 year = {2011},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-0797-0},
 location = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
 pages = {476--477},
 numpages = {2},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2018436.2018529},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2018436.2018529},
 acmid = {2018529},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {nano datacenters},
}

ISP-friend or foe? Making P2P live streaming ISP-aware Fabio Picconi, Laurent Massoulié ICDCS 2009 IEEE Computer Society, June 2009 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{citeulike:6129346,
    abstract = {{Current peer-to-peer systems are network-agnostic, often generating large volumes of unnecessary inter-ISP traffic. Although recent work has shown the benefits of ISP-awareness on bulk transfer applications, no studies have focused on optimizing P2P live streaming systems. These are harder to design, as data must be diffused to all receivers within short delays. In this paper we propose a novel scheme for ISP-friendly mesh-based live streaming. Each peer maintains two distinct sets of overlay neighbors, used respectively for local and global stream propagation. A dynamic unchoke mechanism minimizes inter-ISP traffic in normal operation, enabling it promptly when local diffusion is impaired, e.g., when fast local sources become suddenly unavailable. Our scheme is independent of the chunk scheduling algorithm, and thus can be applied to a wide range of existing systems. We have integrated our ISP-friendly scheme to our P2P live streaming prototype, and evaluated its performance through emulation and Planetlab experiments. Our results show that our scheme adapts quickly to churn and dynamic network conditions, and achieves up to a ten-fold reduction in transit traffic.}},
    address = {Washington, DC, USA},
    author = {Picconi, Fabio and Massoulie, Laurent},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems},
    citeulike-article-id = {6129346},
    citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1584339.1584606},
    citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2009.37},
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    day = {26},
    doi = {10.1109/ICDCS.2009.37},
    isbn = {978-0-7695-3659-0},
    journal = {Distributed Computing Systems, 2009. ICDCS '09. 29th IEEE International Conference on},
    keywords = {isp_traffic, p2p, streaming, vod},
    location = {Montreal, Quebec, Canada},
    month = jun,
    pages = {413--422},
    posted-at = {2010-11-13 17:36:16},
    priority = {2},
    publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
    series = {ICDCS '09},
    title = {{ISP Friend or Foe? Making P2P Live Streaming ISP-Aware}},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2009.37},
    year = {2009}
}

Is There Life in Second Life? Matteo Varvello, Fabio Picconi, Christophe Diot, Ernst Biersack CoNEXT 2008 ACM, December 2008 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{EURECOM+2680, doi = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544013}, year = {2008}, title = {{I}s there life in {S}econd {L}ife?}, author = {{V}arvello, {M}atteo and {P}icconi, {F}abio and {D}iot, {C}hristophe and {B}iersack, {E}rnst {W}}, booktitle = {{C}o{NEXT} 2008, 4th {ACM} {I}nternational {C}onference on emerging {N}etworking {E}xperiments and {T}echnologies, {D}ecember 9, 2008, {M}adrid, {S}pain }, address = {{M}adrid, {ESPAGNE}}, month = {12} }

An analytical estimation of durability in DHTs Fabio Picconi, Bruno Baynat, Pierre Sens ICDCIT 2007 Springer, December 2007 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{Picconi:2007:AED:1782474.1782497,
 author = {Picconi, Fabio and Baynat, Bruno and Sens, Pierre},
 title = {An analytical estimation of durability in DHTs},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Distributed computing and internet technology},
 series = {ICDCIT'07},
 year = {2007},
 isbn = {3-540-77112-3, 978-3-540-77112-8},
 location = {Bangalore, India},
 pages = {184--196},
 numpages = {13},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1782474.1782497},
 acmid = {1782497},
 publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
 address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
}

Predicting durability in DHTs using Markov chains Fabio Picconi, Bruno Baynat, Pierre Sens ADSS 2007 October 2007 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{predictingdurability,
    author = {Picconi, Fabio and Baynat, Bruno and Sens, Pierre},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Intl. Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM)},
    citeulike-article-id = {7571118},
    posted-at = {2010-08-04 11:15:55},
    priority = {2},
    title = {{Predicting durability in DHTs using Markov chains}},
    year = {2007}
}

Probabilistic data validation for V2V traffic information systems Fabio Picconi, Nishkam Ravi, Marco Gruteser, Liviu Iftode VANET 2006 ACM, September 2006

Using incentives to increase availability in a DHT Fabio Picconi, Pierre Sens Hot-P2P 2006 IEEE Computer Society, April 2006 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{Picconi:2006:UII:1898699.1898934,
 author = {Picconi, Fabio and Sens, Pierre},
 title = {Using incentives to increase availability in a DHT},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing},
 series = {IPDPS'06},
 year = {2006},
 isbn = {1-4244-0054-6},
 location = {Rhodes Island, Greece},
 pages = {373--373},
 numpages = {1},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1898699.1898934},
 acmid = {1898934},
 publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
 address = {Washington, DC, USA},
}

Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System. Jean-Michel Busca, Fabio Picconi, Pierre Sens Euro-Par 2005 September 2005 [BibTex]

@inproceedings{fic:rep:1589,
    address = {Lisboa, Portugal},
    author = {Busca, Jean-Michel and Picconi, Fabio and Sens, Pierre},
    booktitle = {Euro.\ Conf.\ on Parallel and Dist.\ Comp.\ (Euro-Par)},
    citeulike-article-id = {8196877},
    citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Jean-Michel.Busca/papers/pastis.europar05.pdf},
    editor = {Cunha, Jose and Medeiros, Pedro},
    keywords = {bib, fic, rep},
    month = aug,
    pages = {1173--1182},
    posted-at = {2010-11-04 15:25:18},
    priority = {0},
    publisher = {{S}pringer-{V}erlag},
    series = {Lecture Notes in Comp.\ Sc.},
    title = {{Pastis: a Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System}},
    url = {http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Jean-Michel.Busca/papers/pastis.europar05.pdf},
    volume = {3648},
    year = {2005}

Exploiting network locality in a decentralized read-write peer-to-peer file system Fabio Picconi, Jean-Michel Buscar, Pierre Sens ICPADS 2004 July 2004 [BibTex]

@INPROCEEDINGS{Picconi04exploitingnetwork,
    author = {Fabio Picconi and Jean-Michel Busca and Pierre Sens},
    title = {Exploiting Network Locality in a Decentralized Read-write Peer-to-peer File System},
    booktitle = {10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2004},
    year = {2004},
    pages = {289--296},
    publisher = {Society Press}
}