Me!

 Dr. Franck Legendre Senior researcher and Lecturer
Communication Systems Group
TIK Laboratory
ETH Zurich
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich - Switzerland
 

Office: H-84
Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 70 51
Gsm: +41 (0) 76 217 69 56
Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 10 35
email: Legendre [dot] tik [dot] ee [dot] ethz [dot] ch

   
Bio  

Since March 2007 I'm a senior researcher and lecturer in the Communication Systems Group at ETH Zurich lead by Prof. Bernhard Plattner.
I was born in France on February 14th, 1978. I received degrees in Telecommunication engineering from the Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) , Evry and a MS in Computer Networks from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris Universitas, in 2002.
I received my Ph.D from Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris Universitas in 2006. Ph.D works were conducted in the Networks and Performance Analysis team under supervision of Professor Serge Fdida and CNRS research scientist Marcelo Dias de Amorim.
My research interests are in the area of content dissemination, mobility measurements, and mobility modeling.
Education:

2006 - Ph.D in Computer Science, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
 2002 - MS in Computer Networks, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
 2002 - MS in Telecommunications, Institut National des Télécommunications (INT Evry).
   
Research Interests  
Opportunistic and Delay-tolerant Networks
Mobility Modeling and Prediction
Complex Network Analysis
Future Internet Architecture
   
Publications  

Journals

  • SIMPS: Using Sociology for Personal Mobility [pdf|bib]
    Vincent Borrel, Franck Legendre, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, and Serge Fdida
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), October 2009.

  • Link Quality Prediction in Mesh Networks [pdf|bib]
    Karoly Farkas, Theus Hossmann, Franck Legendre, Bernhard Plattner, and Sajal K. Das
    Elsevier Computer Communications SI on Wireless Mesh Networks, Spring/Summer 2008.

  • Reconsidering Microscopic Mobility Modeling for Self-Organizing Networks [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Vincent Borrel, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, and Serge Fdida
    IEEE Network Magazine, December 2006.

Conferences and Worshops

  • Adding a Pinch of Delay to Extend the Lifetime of Opportunistic Content Dissemination Networks [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre
    ExtremeCom 2010, Dharamsala, India, September 2010.

  • Using Public Transportation as a DTN Backbone: Mobility Properties and Performance Analysis [pdf|bib]
    Leo Den Hartog, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, and Franck Legendre
    IEEE AOC'10, Montreal, Canada, June 2010.

  • Performance of Opportunistic Content Distribution [pdf|bib]
    Olafur R. Helgason, Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Gunnar Karlsson
    European Wireless Conference (EW), Lucca, Italy, April 2010.

  • Know Thy Neighbor: Towards Optimal Mapping of Contacts to Social Graphs for DTN Routing [pdf|bib]
    Theus Hossmann, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, and Franck Legendre
    IEEE INFOCOM 2010, March 2010.

  • Social Trust in Opportunistic Networks [pdf|bib]
    Sascha Trifunovic, Carlos Anastasiades, and Franck Legendre
    IEEE NetSciCom'10 (co-located with IEEE INFOCOM'10), San Diego, CA, March 2010.

  • From Contacts to Graphs: Pitfalls in Using Complex Network Analysis for DTN Routing [pdf|bib]
    Theus Hossmann, Franck Legendre, and Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
    IEEE NetSciCom'09 (co-located with INFOCOM 2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April, 2009.

  • Narrowcasting: An Empirical Performance Evaluation Study [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Gunnar Karlsson
    ACM MOBICOM CHANTS'08 Workshop, September 2008.

  • The Limits of Theory: Pragmatic Challenges in Mobile Ad Hoc Systems (Invited Paper) [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Gunnar Karlsson
    IEEE PIMRC'08, September 2008.

  • Generic Mobility Simulation Framework (GMSF) [pdf|bib]
    Rainer Baumann, Franck Legendre, and Philipp Sommer
    ACM MOBIHOC MobilityModels'08 Workshop, Mai 2008.

  • Modeling Mobility with Behavioral Rules: the Case of Incident and Emergency Situations [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Vincent Borrel, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, and Serge Fdida
    Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC'06)
    Bangkok, Thailand - November, 2006.

  • Context-aware Inter-networking for Wireless Networks [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, and Serge Fdida
    IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks (MWCN'04)
    Paris, France - October, 2004. [pdf|bib]

  • Some Requirements for Autonomic Routing in Self-organizing Networks [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, and Serge Fdida
    International Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC'04)
    Berlin, Germany - October, 2004

  • Implicit Merging of Overlapping Spontaneous Networks [pdf|bib]
    Franck Legendre, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, and Serge Fdida
    IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Fall'04 (VTC-Fall 04)
    Los Angeles, CA - September, 2004

Technical Report

  • Trust in Opportunistic Networks [pdf|bib]
    Sascha Trifunovic and Franck Legendre
    TR-318, ETH Zurich, December 2009
Teaching/Enseignements  

Advanced Topics in Communication Networks (ATCN (HS10)), Fall 2010, ETHZ
Together with Prof. B. Plattner, Dr. X. Dimitropoulos, Dr. W. Muehlbauer, Dr. T. Spyropoulos.

Advanced Topics in Communication Networks (ATCN (HS09)), Fall 2009, ETHZ
Together with Prof. B. Plattner, Dr. X. Dimitropoulos, Dr. T. Spyropoulos.

Advanced Topics in Communication Networks (ATCN (HS08)), Fall 2008, ETHZ
Together with Prof. B. Plattner, Dr. M. Karaliopoulos, Dr. T. Spyropoulos.
Projects  

Service platform for soCial Aware Mobile and Pervasive computIng (SCAMPI)
European Union (EU) Information and Communication Technologies FP7 (FIRE STREP initiative)

An Open Federated Laboratory for Future Internet Research (OneLab2)
European Union (EU) Integrated Project IST FP7 (FIRE initiative)

Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA)
European Union (EU) Information Societies Technology Future Emerging Technologies (IST-FET)

An Opportunistic Content Dissemination Architecture (PodNet)
Internal project in collaboration with KTH, Stockholm

I was the webmaster of EuronetLab, a joint research laboratory of LiP6 (Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6), the ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), Thales, and BluWan dedicated to Next-Generation Internet Technologies.
Misc  
Some of my holidays pics can be found on the gallery section at www.kerahla.com a musician friend's homepage.
My soccer team in L. league AS Bon Conseil, one of the most highest competing french football league (L. stands for "Leisure" ;-), an official FFT league for not too serious players).
My Website on cyclotourisme here.