Grant Agreement Number : 216366
Project Acronym : Euro-NF
Project Title : Anticipating the Network of the Future
– From Theory to Design
Funding Scheme : Network of Excellence
Start Date of Project : 01 January, 2008
Duration : 54 months (originally 36)
Deliverable Number : D.IA.5.1.1
Version Number : 1.0
Title of Deliverable : Synthesis report summarising the
Euro-NF PhD courses programme
Contractual Due Date : June, 2012
Actual Date of Completion : June, 2012
Workpackage contributing to the Deliverable : IA 5.1 – European Graduate Course
Programme for PhD students
Lead Contractor for this Deliverable : Inesc-ID (partner 30)
Editor{s} : Augusto Casaca
Nature of the Deliverable : (R/P/D/O)* R
Dissemination Level : (PU, PP, RE, CO)** PU
*Nature: R-report, P-prototype, D-demonstrator, O-other
**Dissemination: PU-public, PP-restricted to programme, RE- restricted to a group, CO-confidential
Project URL: http://www.euronf.org
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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With contributions of the following partners:
Partner
Number Partner Acronym Contributor Name Contributor e-mail address
30 Inesc-ID Augusto Casaca [email protected]
33 UPVLC Jorge Martinez [email protected]
12 U PASSAU Richard Holzer [email protected]
04 UNI WIEN Kurt Tutschku [email protected]
27 NTNU Yuming Jiang [email protected]
11 BTH Adrian Popescu [email protected]
33 UPVLC Vicente Casares [email protected]
17 POLIMI Matteo Cesana [email protected]
01 GET Jean Louis Rougier [email protected]
01 GET Stefano Secci [email protected]
16 POLITO Marco Mellia [email protected]
24 HWU Stan Zachary [email protected]
29 WUT Michael Pioro [email protected]
34 AU Wolfgang Kleinwachter [email protected]
11 BTH Markus Fiedler [email protected]
12 U PASSAU Andreas Fischer [email protected]
01 GET Sandrine Vatton [email protected]
02 TUKL Paul Muller [email protected]
13 AUEB-RC George Polyzos [email protected]
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CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION 4
2 EURO-NF PHD COURSES 4
2.1 Summary of Achievements 4
2.2 Lectured PhD Courses 4
2.3 Technical Coverage 7
2.4 Attendance 8
2.5 Assessment 10
3 CONCLUSION 12
REFERENCES 12
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1 INTRODUCTION
The aim of the workpackage was to implement a virtual campus of excellence on Future Internet
Design. To achieve this high level objective a set of graduate courses on design, analysis and
engineering of future Internet was created. The course materials have been disseminated by
electronic means using the project tools. To evaluate the quality of the courses and their impact, a
quality assessment program was established to guarantee the permanent quality monitoring as
well as the adaptation of the programme. To this end, an opinion poll on the quality of
training was carried out at every PhD course by distributing a questionnaire to the
participants. In addition, the coordinator of each PhD course had to provide the list of
participants to the PhD course with affiliation, contact details and signature of the students.
This was done for both, Euro-NF members and external attendants. Also, the coordinator had
to provide the list of lecturers participating, the PhD course program, the main scientific
objective of the course, and the assessment of the event as perceived from organisers.
2 EURO-NF PHD COURSES
2.1 Summary of Achievements A total of 25 PhD courses have been lectured from 2008 to 2012. They covered several of the
technical workpackages of Euro-NF. Two PhD courses were lectured in 2008, seven in 2009,
eight in 2010, four in 2011 and four in 2012. The initial objective was to lecture 20 PhD
courses in total, which means that Euro-NF has surpassed the initial objective.
It was requested that every PhD course should have a minimum of 20 hours in lectures.
Actually, the courses had different durations between 20 and 40 hours. The students could get
a certificate of attendance when requested. It was up to the University to which the student
belonged to consider or not the course for units of credit in their PhD programme. All the
courses had an associated web site. The courses have been lectured in 12 different countries
and, mostly, at the universities that integrated the NoE.
2.2 Lectured PhD Courses The complete list of the twenty five lectured courses is displayed in Table 1.
The table indicates the course number, the related JRA workpackage covered, the name of the
course, a web link, the main organizer(s), as well as the location, duration and dates.
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Table 1 - List of lectured Euro-NF PhD courses
Course
number
Related
JRA WP Name Link Organizers Location Duration Dates
1 1.1
Cognitive
Radio/Dynamic
Spectrum
Access
Networks
http://antlab.elet
.polimi.it/index.
php?option=co
m_content&task
=view&id=166
&Itemid=172
Ian Akyildiz
Politecnico
di Milano,
Italy
22 hours October
6-10
2008
2
1.1
2.1
2.2
2.3
Cross-layer
Design in Multi-
hop Wireless
Networks
http://antlab.elet
.polimi.it/index.
php?option=co
m_content&task
=view&id=172
&Itemid=178
Tommaso
Melodia
Politecnico
di Milano,
Italy
20 hours December
9-12
2008
3 1.5
1.7
Modeling and
Control of
Complex Self-
Organizing
Systems
http://www.net.f
im.uni-
passau.de/mcsos
Richard
Holzer
Univ.
Passau,
Germany
28 hours March 30-
April 3
2009
4 1.6
Stochastic
Simulation of
Telecommunica
tion Networks
http://fc.cs.univi
e.ac.at/phd
Krys
Pawlikowski
Univ. of
Vienna,
Austria
20 hours April
16-22
2009
5 2.6
Traffic Analysis
of
Communication
Networks
http://www.item
.ntnu.no/fag/tm8
102
Yuming
Yang
NTNU,
Norway
28 hours May
11-15
2009
6 1.1
Seamless
Roaming
http://www.bth.
se/tek/ats.nsf/sid
or/seamless-
roaming
Adrian
Popescu,
Vicente
Casares
BTH,
Karlskrona,
Sweden
20 hours May
25-29
2009
7 1.5
Research
Challenges in
Wireless Sensor
Networks
http://antlab.elet
.polimi.it/index.
php?option=co
m_content&task
=view&id=228
&Itemid=225
Ian Akyildiz
Politecnico
di Milano,
Italy
20 hours October
6-9
2009
8 2.4
Routing and
Resource
management in
Broadband
Networks
http://groups.go
ogle.com/group/
QoSRouting_Re
sourceManagem
ent?hl=en
Sebastià
Sallent,
Cristina
Cervelló
UPC
(possible
attendance
via
videoconfere
nce
(SIP/H.323
clients),
Barcelona,
Spain
30 hours
(4 hours/
week,
Monday
and
Wednesday)
October 7– December 21 2009
9 2.7
Discrete
Optimization
with
Application in
Wireless
Networks
http://antlab.elet
.polimi.it/index.
php?option=co
m_content&task
=view&id=229
&Itemid=226
Di Yuan Politecnico
di Milano,
Italy
21 hours October
19-23
2009
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10 2.7
Game Theory
and
Applications
http://www.infre
s.enst.fr/wpmufr
/nms/2009/10/0
6/gt/
Jean Louis
Rougier,
Stefano
Secci
Telecom
ParisTech,
France
30 hours January
18-22
2010
11 2.6
IP Traffic
Characterization
and Anomaly
Detection
http://www.tma-
portal.eu/cost-
tma-action/phd-
schools/1st-
winter-school-
torino-italy-feb-
8-12-2010/
Marco
Mellia,
Fulvio
Risso, Ernst
Biersack,
Udo Krieger
Politecnico
di Torino,
Italy
24 hours February
8-12
2010
12 2.7
Game Theory
and
Applications
(2nd
edition)
http://www.infre
s.enst.fr/wpmufr
/nms/2009/10/0
6/gt/
Jean Louis
Rougier,
Stefano
Secci
Telecom
ParisTech,
France
30 hours February
15-19
2010
13 2.3
2.7
Main Trends in
Teletraffic
Modelling
http://www.girb
a.upv.es/PhDCo
urse/
Jorge
Martinez
Univ.
Politecnica
de Valencia,
Spain
30 hours March
8-12
2010
14 2.7
Stochastic
Processes in
Communication
Networks
http://www.icms
.org.uk/calendar
/2010
Stan
Zachary,
Serguei Foss
Heriot-Watt
University,
Edimburgh,
UK
20 hours June
7-11
2010
15 1.6
Network
Virtualization,
Overlays and
Performance
Issues
http://fc.cs.univi
e.ac.at/phd_201
0
Kurt
Tutschku
Univ. of
Vienna,
Austria
20 hours July
9-14
2010
16 2.5
Integer
Programming in
Survivable
Telecommunica
tion Network
Design and
Routing
http://ztit.tele.p
w.edu.pl/EuroN
F-PhD/
Michal Pioro Univ. of
Warsaw,
Poland
40 hours October
25-29
2010
17 3.1
Internet
Governance
http://www.med
ienstadt-
leipzig.org/euro
nf/phd-course-
aarhus/
Wolfgang Kleinwachter
Univ. of
Aarhus,
Denmark
20 hours November
26-28
2010
18 2.3
2.7
Main Trends in
Teletraffic
Modelling
(2nd
edition)
http://www.girb
a.upv.es/PhDCo
urse/
Jorge
Martinez
Univ.
Politecnica
de Valencia,
Spain
30 hours
March
7-11
2011
19 3.2
Quality of
Experience
http://www.bth.
se/com/ccs.nsf/p
ages/ph-d-
course-euronf-
qoe
Markus
Fiedler
BTH,
Sweden
20 hours June
20-24
2011
20
2.1
2.5
3.4
Network
Resilience
http://www.resu
menet.eu/course
/index
Andreas
Fischer
(joint course
with
Resumenet)
Univ. of
Passau,
Germany
(course
given in
ETH Zurich)
20 hours September
26-28
2011
21 2.4
3.2
Economics and
Technologies
for inter-Carrier
Services
https://conferenc
es.telecom-
bretagne.eu/phd
course/
Olivier
Dugeon
(joint course
with ETICS)
Telecom
Paris, France
20 hours October
17-21
2011
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22
1.2
1.3
1.4
Future Network
Architectures
and
Experimentation
http://www.icsy.
de/studium/semi
nar/ws1112/
Paul Muller Kaiserslautern
Germany 40 hours March
5-9
2012
23 3.1
The Governance
and Privacy
Dimension of
the Internet of
Things
http://www.med
ienstadt-
leipzig.org/euro
nf/phd-course-
aarhus_2012/
Wolfgang
Kleinwächter,
Avria Doria
Aarhus,
Denmark
20 hours April
13-15
2012
24 2.3
2.7
Main Trends in
Teletraffic and
Economic
Modelling
(3rd
edition)
http://www.girb
a.upv.es/PhDCo
urse
Jorge
Martinez
Bauset
Valencia,
Spain
30 hours April
23-27
2012
25 1.3
1.5
Information-
centric
Networking
http://icn-phd-
course.euro-
nf.net/
George
Polyzos
Athens,
Greece
20 hours May
14-18
2012
The files sent by the course organizers to the Euro-NF management are available at the
following URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13870914/List-of-Participants.zip
2.3 Technical Coverage The lectured courses covered a number of the JRA technical workpackages. Each JRA
workpackage was covered by the courses indicated next.
JRA 1.1 – Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Access Technologies
- Courses nº 1, 2, 6
JRA 1.2 – Metro and Core Architectures
- Course nº 22
JRA 1.3 – Beyond IP Networking
- Course nº 25
JRA 1.4 – New Management Architectures
- Course nº 22
JRA 1.5 – New Networking Paradigms
- Courses nº 3, 7, 25
JRA 1.6 – Overlays for Network Control and Support of Evolved Services
Infrastructures
- Courses nº 4, 15
JRA 1.7 – New Service Architecture and Self-Organization
- Course nº 3
JRA 2.1 – Reliable and Efficient Communication in Self-Organized Networks
- Courses nº 2, 20
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JRA 2.2 – Traffic Engineering, Mechanisms and Protocols for Controlled Bandwidth
Sharing
- Course nº 2
JRA 2.3 – QoS in Multiservice Multitechnology Wireless Networks
- Courses nº 2, 13, 18, 24
JRA 2.4 – Routing and Traffic Management in a Multi-Provider Context
- Courses nº 8, 21
JRA 2.5 – Design of Optimal Highly Dependable Networks
- Courses nº 16, 20
JRA 2.6 – Measurement and Traffic Awareness
- Courses nº 5, 11
JRA 2.7 – Advanced Quantitative Methods
- Courses nº 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 24
JRA 3.1 – Internet Governance: Towards a New Cooperation Model
- Courses nº 17, 23
JRA 3.2 – SLAs, Pricing, Quality of Experience
- Courses nº 19, 21
JRA 3.3 – Cost Models
- (not covered)
JRA 3.4 – Trust, Privacy and Security
- Course nº 20
2.4 Attendance The student attendance to the Euro-NF PhD courses is indicated in Table 2.
Table 2 - Student attendance to the PhD courses
Course number Name of Course Students from
Euro-NF
Students from
outside Euro-NF
Total nº of
students
1
Cognitive
Radio/Dynamic
Spectrum Access
Networks
20 23 43
2 Cross-layer Design in
Multi-hop Wireless
Networks 6 10 16
3 Modeling and Control
of Complex Self-
Organizing Systems 12 5 17
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4 Stochastic Simulation
of Telecommunication
Networks 10 10 20
5 Traffic Analysis of
Communication
Networks 15 0 15
6 Seamless Roaming 13 0 13
7 Research Challenges in
Wireless Sensor
Networks 17 6 23
8 Routing and Resource
management in
Broadband Networks 16 22 38
9 Discrete Optimization
with Application in
Wireless Networks 15 9 24
10 Game Theory and
Applications 53 7 60
11 IP Traffic
Characterization and
Anomaly Detection 14 46 60
12 Game Theory and
Applications
(2nd
edition) 33 14 47
13 Main Trends in
Teletraffic Modelling 14 2 16
14 Stochastic Processes in
Communication
Networks 17 24 41
15 Network Virtualization,
Overlays and
Performance Issues 14 2 16
16
Integer Programming in
Survivable
Telecommunication
Network Design and
Routing
12 3 15
17 Internet Governance 3 1 4
18 Main Trends in
Teletraffic Modelling
(2nd
edition) 7 3 10
19 Quality of Experience 21 0 21
20 Network Resilience 13 3 16
21 Economics and
Technologies for inter-
Carrier Services 21 7 28
22 Future Network
Architectures and
Experimentation 17 0 17
23 The Governance and
Privacy Dimension of
the Internet of Things 8 0 8
24
Main Trends in
Teletraffic and
Economic Modelling
(3rd
edition)
12 6 18
25 Information-centric
Networking 3 1 4
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2.5 Assessment The assessment of the courses was done through the distribution of questionnaires to the
students and respective analysis of the answers. The rating scale is: Excellent (3), Good (2),
Satisfactory (1), Not Satisfactory (0). The average results are shown in Table 3.
Table 3 - Average assessment of the PhD courses
Course number Name of
Course
Overall
evaluation of
the course
Overall
evaluation of
the instructor
Number of
respondents
1
Cognitive
Radio/Dynamic
Spectrum Access
Networks
2.56 2.77 43
2 Cross-layer Design
in Multi-hop
Wireless Networks 2.73 2.70 16
3
Modeling and
Control of
Complex Self-
Organizing Systems
1.88 2.35 17
4
Stochastic
Simulation of
Telecommunication
Networks
2.30 2.50 10
5 Traffic Analysis of
Communication
Networks 2.57 2.64 14
6 Seamless Roaming 2.46 2.69 13
7
Research
Challenges in
Wireless Sensor
Networks
2.44 2.56 18
8
Routing and
Resource
management in
Broadband
Networks
1.53 1.67 38
9
Discrete
Optimization with
Application in
Wireless Networks
2.50 2.75 16
10 Game Theory and
Applications 1.97 1.94 34
11
IP Traffic
Characterization
and Anomaly
Detection
2.09 2.13 43
12 Game Theory and
Applications
(2nd
edition) 2.22 2.21 19
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13 Main Trends in
Teletraffic
Modelling 2.5 2.63 8
14
Stochastic
Processes in
Communication
Networks
3 3 5
15
Network
Virtualization,
Overlays and
Performance Issues
2.69 2.77 13
16
Integer
Programming in
Survivable
Telecommunication
Network Design
and Routing
2.60 2.67 15
17 Internet Governance 3.00 3.00 4
18
Main Trends in
Teletraffic
Modelling
(2nd
edition)
2.33 2.44 9
19 Quality of
Experience 2.50 2.56 18
20 Network Resilience 2.21 2.28 15
21
Economics and
Technologies for
inter-Carrier
Services
2.10 2.19 21
22 Future Network
Architectures and
Experimentation 2.33 2.47 15
23
The Governance
and Privacy
Dimension of the
Internet of Things
3.00 3.00 7
24
Main Trends in
Teletraffic and
Economic
Modelling
(3rd
edition)
2.79 2.86 14
25 Information-centric
Networking 3.00 3.00 4
Averages over
all Euro-NF
PhD courses
2.31 2.42 17.2
The assessment of the courses and instructors was very good, which reflects the high quality
of the courses provided. For the courses with a small number of students, the statistical
significance of the results offers less confidence than for the others. This has been taken into
account when computing the averages.
We have used the following formula to calculate the contribution of course m to the global
average for the k-th question:
coursesPhDalltsparticipannumbertotal
mtsparticipannumbermkmark
_____
__),(
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where mark(k,m) is the mark obtained by the course m in the k-th question,
number_participants_m is the number of participants in the course m, and
total_number_participants_all_PhD_courses is the sum of number_participants_m for all m
(that is, the TOTAL number of participants that attended all the Euro-NF PhD courses).
3 CONCLUSION
The PhD courses provided in the Euro-NF NoE were a total of 25. Most of them had a very
good attendance and the assessment made by the students was generally very good (2.31 out
of 3). The PhD courses have covered all, but one, the technical areas of the NoE. They have
been evenly distributed along the years of the project so that the students had always available
some course to be taken. In conclusion, we consider that the objectives of work package
IA 5.1 were fully achieved and that the experience gained can be very useful for the structure
of a future virtual school for graduate students in Internet Architecture.
REFERENCES
[1] Synthesis report summarising the Euro-NF PhD courses programme
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13870914/Euro-NF_PhD_courses_Quality.pdf