Dr. Pierre François

E-Mail: Pierre.Francois (at) uclouvain.be

Position: Former member
Current affiliation: IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain

Publications

2016

Juan Camilo Cardona, Stefano Vissicchio, Paolo Lucente and Pierre Francois. "I Can’t Get No Satisfaction": Helping Autonomous Systems Identify Their Unsatisfied Inter-domain Interests. IEEE Transactions on Network and System Management (TNSM), 13(1):43-57, March 2016.

2015

Renaud Hartert, Stefano Vissicchio, Pierre Schaus, Olivier Bonaventure, Clarence Filsfils, Thomas Telkamp and Pierre Francois. A Declarative and Expressive Approach to Control Forwarding Paths in Carrier-Grade Networks. SIGCOMM, 2015.

Francois Clad, Stefano Vissicchio, Pascal Merindol, Pierre Francois and Jean-Jacques Pansiot. Computing Minimal Update Sequences for Graceful Router-wide Reconfigurations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 23(5):1373 - 1386, Oct 2015.

2013

M. Shand, S. Bryant, S. Previdi, C. Filsfils, P. Francois and O. Bonaventure. Framework for Loop-Free Convergence Using the Ordered Forwarding Information Base (oFIB) Approach. RFC,(6976), July 2013. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6976.

Francois Clad, Pascal Merindol, Jean-Jacques Pansiot, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. Graceful Convergence in Link-State IP Networks: A Lightweight Algorithm Ensuring Minimal Operational Impact. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, 2013. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6512633 or contact Olivier Bonaventure for a preprint.

Francois Clad, Pascal Mérindol, Stefano Vissicchio, Jean-Jacques Pansiot and Pierre Francois. Graceful Router Updates in Link-State Protocols. ICNP, 2013.

Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever, Cristel Pelsser, Luca Cittadini, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 21(3):990-1002, June 2013. IETF ANRP (Applied Networking Research Prize) 2013.

2012

Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio, Cristel Pelsser, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. Lossless Migrations of Link-State IGPs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(6):1842-1855, December 2012.

2011

Pascal Mérindol, Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure, Stéphane Cateloin and Jean-Jacques Pansiot. An efficient algorithm to enable path diversity in link state routing networks. Computer Networks, 55(1):1132-1149, April 2011. See http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2010.11.005 or technical report at http://clarinet.u-strasbg.fr/~merindol/uploads/Research/TBFH_TR2010-01.p....

Clarence Filsﬁls, Pradosh Mohapatra, John Bettink, Pranav Dharwadkar, Peter De Vriendt, Yuri Tsier, Virginie Van Den Schrieck, Olivier Bonaventure and Pierre Francois. BGP Prefix Independent Convergence (PIC) Technical Report. Tech. Rep. 2011. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps5763/bgp_pic_techni....