Publications

2008

Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure, Mike Shand, Stewart Bryant and Stefano Previdi. Loop-free convergence using oFIB. Internet Draft, February 2008. draft-ietf-rtgwg-ordered-fib-02.    

Pierre Francois, Bruno Decraene and Cristel Pelsser. Graceful BGP session shutdown. Internet Draft, March 2008. draft-francois-bgp-gshut-00.    

Dimitri Papadimitriou and Pierre Francois. IP Multicast Fast Reroute Framework. February 2008. draft-dimitri-rtgwg-mfrr-framework-00.txt.    

2007

Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. Avoiding transient loops during the convergence of link-state routing protocols. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(6):1280-1932, December 2007.    

Olivier Bonaventure, Clarence Filsfils and Pierre Francois. Achieving Sub-50 Milliseconds Recovery Upon BGP Peering Link Failures. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(5):1123 - 1135, October 2007.    

Pierre Francois, Pierre-Alain Coste, Bruno Decraene and Olivier Bonaventure. Avoiding disruptions during maintenance operations on BGP sessions. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 4(3):1-11, 2007.    

Pierre François, Mike Shand and Olivier Bonaventure. Disruption-free topology reconfiguration in OSPF Networks. IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, USA, May 2007. INFOCOM 2007 Best Paper Award.    

Pierre Francois. Improving the Convergence of IP Routing Protocols. PhD thesis. Université catholique de Louvain, October 2007.    

Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure, Mike Shand, Stewart Bryant and Stefano Previdi. Loop-free convergence using oFIB. Internet Draft, July 2007. draft-ietf-rtgwg-ordered-fib-01.txt.    

Ang Li, Pierre Francois and Xiaowei Yang. On Improving the Efficiency and Manageability of NotVia. proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, 2007.