- Indo-French Exchange Grant Cefipra “Monte Carlo” (2015-2017)
This grant has K. Avrachenkov as principal investigator in MAESTRO, and involves IIT Bombay (PI V.S. Borkar) and IIS Bangalore (PI R. Sundaresan). Main topics of the project are stochastic numerical methods for network analytics.
- Inria Associated Team THANES (March 2014 – December 2016)
Thanes (THeory and Application of NEtwork Science) is a joint Brazilian-French research team financially supported for 3 years by Inria and FAPERJ (the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro). The team investigates network science problems with a particular focus on Online Social Networks. The team members include 6 members from Maestro, 4 from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and 1 from Carnegie Mellon University.
- SticAmSud Project DyGaMe (January 2016 – December 2016)
Stochastic Dynamic Game Theory is developing in Engineering sciences and is in need of more theoretical results, algorithms and applications. The DyGaMe (Dynamic Games Methods: theory, algorithmics and applications) project brings together researchers from Applied Mathematics, Operations Research and Economics, with the objective of contributing to
these aspects. It will more specifically concentrate on agent rationality and the game structure, look for efficient solution algorithms by crossing Applied Mathematics and Operations Research techniques, and apply the results to problems originating from, on the one hand, security/conservation concerns, and on the other hand, sustainable development problems. Partners are MAESTRO, CNRS/LIP6 (Paris), CNRS-INRA/LAMETA (Montpellier), Universidad de Chile and Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina).
- PHC Galilée (January 2016 – December 2016)
This grant involves the University of Turin and is about “Renewables for Data Centers”.
- Inria Associated Team GANESH (2012 – 2014)
The GANESH (GAmes, OptimizatioN and Analysis of NEtworkS THeory and Applications) project involved MAESTRO (principal investigator: Eitan Altman), IISc Bangalore (India), IIT Mumbai (India), IIT Madras (India). It aimed at producing outstanding contributions to the foundations of the theory of networks, in game theory, team theory, optimization and analysis. Three areas in networking were used to apply these: (a) economy of networks and network neutrality, (b) scheduling in wireless networks, and (c) distributed optimization issues in ad-hoc networks.
- PHC Tournesol Project “Stochastic modelling of dissemination and epidemic processes on complex networks” (January 2013 – December 2013)
The coordinators of this project were B. Prabhu (LAAS-CNRS) for the French side and D. Fiems for the Belgian side. It involved CNRS/LAAS (France), Ghent Univ. and TELIN (Belgium). The role of MAESTRO was to work on information propagation models in online social network with directed links.
- Inria Associate Team DAWN (2008-2010)
Associate team DAWN (Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks) involved three Inria project-teams teams (MAESTRO, the coordinator, MESCAL and TREC), the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) at Bangalore, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research at Bombay and the University of Pennsylvania. DAWN’s focus was on “Emerging Strategies for Wireless Communication Networks”. More specifically, the project objectives were to model, analyze, optimize and invent protocols for both cellular as well as ad hoc wireless network. This project yielded many exchange visits and the publication of numerous research papers.
- EGIDE ECO-NET Game theory for Wireless Networks (2008-2009)
This project investigated the application of game theory methods to wireless networks. Within this project a number of exchange visits have taken place among the three institutions involved, Inria/MAESTRO, St. Petersburg State University and Erevan State University.
- Australian Research Council Linkage International and Discovery grants (2007-2009)
This was a bilateral collaboration between MAESTRO and the School of Mathematics of the University of South Australia. The topic of this collaboration was the development of new perturbation methods for solving singular operator equations with applications to Statistics and Complex System Analysis.
- Linkage International (2005-2007)
MAESTRO together with CNRS (J.-B. Lasserre, H. Frankowska) , University of Paris Dauphine (J.-P. Aubin), University of Utrecht (A. Gnedin) and University of South Australia (V. Ejov, J. Filar, L. Finlay, V. Gaitsgory, P. Howlett) participates in a three-year (2005-2007) international cooperation grant, Linkage International, of the Australian Research Council on the subject of “Singular Perturbations and Multiscale Models in Optimization and Control”. K. Avrachenkov is the coordinator for MAESTRO.
- Collaboration with Venezuela (2004-2007)
MAESTRO and OASIS project-team are partners in a four-year collaboration with the University of Los Andes (ULA) in Merida, through a funding of the ECOS program. French partners are D. Ros (project-team ARMOR), D. Caromel (project-team OASIS), H. Mounier (University of Orsay), Our Venezuelian partners are R. M ́arquez, L. Leon and J. Aguilar from ULA. E, Altman is the coordinator of this project.
- PAI ECONET (2005-2006)
MAESTRO and the University of Twente (N. Litvak and W. Scheinhardt) are involved in the PAI ECONET project in partnership with V. Dobrynin, A. Garnaev, L. Petrosyan, D. Nemirovsky and S.K. Pham from St. Petersburg State University and A. Dudin and V. Klimenok from Belarussian State University, Belarus. ECONET is devoted to the development of probabilistic and graph theoretical methods in search engines. K. Avrachenkov coordinates this project for MAESTRO.
- Aurora (2005-2006)
MAESTRO together with Institut Eurecom, UniK – University Graduate Center and University of Oslo participates in AURORA, a joint research program funded by the Research Council of Norway and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The objective of this project is to propose advanced optimization tools to design broadband wireless communication systems (OFDM, CDMA, MIMO, and ad hoc networks). N. Bonneau was the MAESTRO contributor to this project.
- Collaboration with India: CEFIPRA (2003-2006)
MAESTRO has been involved in a three and a half-year research grant with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore (A. Kumar and A. Chockalingam) and the TATA Institute in Mumbai (V. S. Borkar). The theme of the cooperation is “New Strategies for Wireless Communication Networks.” Coordinators are A. Kumar and E. Altman for the Indian and French sides, respectively.
- NSF “QoS in the future Internet” (2001-2006)
MAESTRO was involved in a five-year NSF ITR (Information Technology Research) project entitled “QoS in the future Internet”. US partners were R. Gu ́erin (Univ. of Pennsylvania), J. Kurose and D. Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts), Z.-L. Zhang (Univ. of Minnesota). The objective of the project was to develop a theoretical framework within which to evaluate different architectures (diffserv, etc.). P. Nain was the MAESTRO contributor to this project.
- PAI VAN GOGH (2003-2004)
MAESTRO, CWI in Amsterdam (S. Borst, M. Mandjes, R. Núñez Queija), Eindhoven University (O. J. Boxma, J. Resing, B. Zwart) and the University of Twente (N. Litvak, W. Scheinhardt) participated in the PAI VAN GOGH devoted to the mathematical analysis of TCP/IP protocols and the Web structure.
