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Address:
Microsoft Research Ltd
7 JJ Thomson
Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 0FB
United Kingdom (office 108)
email: milanv@microsoft.com
Tel. +44 (0) 1223 479 700
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 479 999
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Biography:
Milan Vojnovic is a
researcher with
systems and
networks group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge,
United Kingdom. His research interests are in architecture
and performance of computer systems with particular
interests in mobile systems, information systems, and
control of network resources. He received his PhD in
technical sciences from EPFL,
Switzerland, in 2003, and his MSc and BSc in electrical
engineering from the University
of Split, Croatia, in 1998 and 1995, respectively. He
undertook an internship with Math Center of
Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill, New Jersey, in 2001. He received
ACM
Sigmetrics 05 Best Paper Award (with Laurent Massoulié)
for a work on performance of file swarming systems,
IEEE Infocom 05
Best Paper Award (with Jean-Yves Le Boudec) for a work on
stationarity and perfect simulation of random mobility
models, and
ITC-17 2001 Best Student Paper Award (with Jean-Yves Le
Boudec) for a work on TCP-friendliness of equation-based
congestion control. In 2005, he has been awarded
ERCIM Cor Baayen Award.
resume
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News
- Sampling Strategies for Epidemic-Style Information Dissemination, with Varun Gupta, Thomas Karagiannis, and Christos Gkantsidis, accepted at IEEE Infocom 2008 (MSR Tech Rep MSR-TR-2007-82).
- Notice: This is the technical report version of a paper to be presented at the conference IEEE Infocom 2008, in Phoenix, AZ, on April 15-17, 2008. The paper has attracted some discussion in media following an article published by NewScientist, hence this note. Please note that we are part of the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge conducting basic computer science research which covers topics from improving the performance of individual computers to designing novel distributed systems that can scale to hundreds of thousands of hosts. Our focus is fundamental research on improving the efficiency of data distribution of all types across networks, and is not limited to certain scenarios or types of data, but investigating underlying networking techniques. Using understanding from the field of epidemiology is one of the methods that we are investigating in this area, and we hope that our research will help inform future computer science research and networking technology. This project is a basic computer science research, and there are no current plans to incorporate this into Microsoft products.
Post-doc job opportunities
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Cambridge Systems and Networking group is seeking for outstanding post-doc job applications. I am in particular interested in algorithm design
and analysis in the space of social networking systems such as, for example, information tagging, reputation systems, and various forms of ranking.
Please send me your email & resume if you are interested.
Projects
- My current research focuses on algorithm design and performance evaluation of computer systems and networks. Particular emphasis is on network design that accounts for human
factors such as, for example, social choice in collaborative information systems. The line of research on information dissemination systems includes packet forwarding
for mobile systems of human-carried devices and epidemics-style information dissemination.
- Sample of recent projects:
Sample publications and preprints
- Power law and exponential decay of inter contact times between mobile devices,
with T. Karagiannis, and J-Y. Le Boudec, accepted for ACM MOBICOM 2007 (see project Albatross)
- Ranking and suggesting tags in collaborative tagging applications,
with J. Cruise, D. Gunawardena, and P. Marbach, MSR tech rep, Feb 2007 (see project Tag Booster)
- Planet scale software
updates, with C. Gkantsidis, T. Karagiannis, and P. Rodriguez, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 (tech rep ver with proofs: pdf)
4CP: competitive and considerate congestion control protocol,
with S. Liu and D. Gunawardena, IWQoS 2007
Coupon replication systems, with L. Massoulie,
accepted for IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 2007 (conf ver ACM SIGMETRICS 05)
On the race of worms, alerts and patches, with
A. Ganesh, journal submission, 2006 (conf ver ACM WORM 05)
The random trip model: stability, stationary regime, and perfect simulation, with J.-Y. Le
Boudec, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Dec 06 (conf ver IEEE INFOCOM 2005)
Farsighted users harness network time-diversity, with P. Key and L. Massoulie, IEEE INFOCOM 2005
On the long-run behavior of equation-based rate control,
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Dec 05 (conf ver ACM SIGCOMM 2002)
For a list of publications, click here.
Professional service
Tutorials
- Random Trip Mobility Models, with J.-Y. Le Boudec, ACM Mobicom 06
- Reactive patching: a viable worm defense strategy? (slides),
with A. Ganesh, Performance 05
Talks
- Ranking and Suggesting Candidate Items (Powerpoint show file),
presented at Workshop at ENS Paris, June 21-22, 2007,
and INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, July 9-11, 2007.
- Power Law and Exponential Decay---Mobile Devices, invited talk HyNet Colloquium, University of Maryland, Mar 07,
talk slides
- File Swarming Systems, INFORMS 2006,
Stochastic Networks: Algorithms and Analysis (invited talk), Nov 06
- The Random Trip Model, Charles University, Prague, Oct 06
- On the Origins of Powers Laws in Mobility Systems,
Workshop on
clean-slate network design, Cambridge, UK, Sept 06
- 4CP: Competitive and
Considerate Congestion Control (slides), Microsoft
Research Cambridge, May 06
- Parallel TCP Sockets (slides),
Infocom 06
- File Swarming Systems (slides),
Lecture at Charles University, Prague, Dec 05
- Farsighted Congestion Controllers (slides), CSAIL,
MIT, Nov 05
- On the Effectiveness of Automatic Patching (slides),
WORM 05, Fairfax, VA, USA, Nov 05
- A Rucksack of Networking Problems (slides),
ERCIM, Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, Oct 05
Teaching
- Selected topics in computer networking, University of Split,
Croatia, Spring 05-07
Intern projects
- TagBooster user study, with Fabian Souchanek (Max-Planck fur Informatik) Summer 07
- Information tagging, with James Cruise (University of Cambridge), Summer 06
- Sampling strategies for information dissemination, with Varun Gupta (CMU), Summer 06
- Parallel TCP sockets, with Dhiman Barman (University of Boston) (INRIA intern), Summer 05
- Planet-scale software updates, with Thomas Karagiannis (UC Riverside; now with Microsoft Research), Summer 05
- 4CP, with Shao Liu (UIUC; now a post-doc at Princeton), Summer 05
- Random trip model, with Santashil PalChaudhuri (Rice University) (EPFL intern), Summer 05
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