1st year
- Visit of Anthony Anthony in RESIST, Ms. Student, from June 4 to August 26 2018
- Main contributor to the new scheduler for micro-service based VNF (details in section 2)
- Visit of Shihabur Chowdhury in RESIST, PhD Student, from June 4 to August 26 2018
- Contribution to the new scheduler for micro-service based VNF, especially guidance on the implementation with DPDK
- Contribution to the intelligent traffic engineering. While this research was initiated by Inria, Shihabur particularly helps in designing, configuring and executing experiments
- Visit of Prof Raouf Boutaba in RESIST, under the umbrella of the associate team and Inria International Chair
- Advise on the design of the new scheduler for micro-service based VNF and the paper redaction
- Inaugural seminar in the context of the Inria International Chair
2nd year
- Visit of Shihabur Chowdhury in RESIST, PhD Student, 1 week (in the context of his trip to IEEE LCN)
- Preparation of LCN conference presentation
- Discussion with A. Laraba to refine her evaluation methodology
- Preparation of LCN conference presentation
- Visit of A. Laraba at the University of Waterloo, PhD Student, 2 weeks
- Presentation of his PhD thesis subject and initial work
- Visit of Prof Raouf Boutaba in RESIST, under the umbrella of the associate team and Inria International Chair, 3 months
- Visit of J. François at the University of Waterloo, 2 * 1 week
- Updated of associate team workplan
- Exchanges with Waterloo students
- Meetings on data-analytics for anomaly detection
- Visit of A. Lahmadi at the University of Waterloo, 1.5 week
- Exchanges with Waterloo students
- Presentation of a micro-service based full protocol stack
3rd year
- Visit of J. François (Inria) at the University of Waterloo, 1 week
- Scientific work on extending the virtual network function scheduler
- Keynote to an IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo communication chapter seminar
