Nicolas Herbaut | Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / CRI Lab

NFV and SDN

I Implemented and deployed several of Virtual Network Functions during the FP7 EU T-NOVA Project.

During this project, I got my hands dirty with OpenStack, OpenDayLight and the TeNOR Orchestrator, and cloud platform EC2, GAE

I got familiar with the current standards of ETSI NVF, IETF Service Function Chaining and other supporting technologies such as ONOS, Ruy SDN controllers.

publications: RACNT16, PhD Thesis

Software Engineering

I proposed and implemented a network-aware extension to the traditional SOA architecture allowing Home Gateways to host Surrogate Virtual Network Functions which lifecycle is bound to the availability of VNF deployed in the operator network.

I also studied new patterns for developping, testing and releasing microservice architecture with containers

published in: NOF2015, JDEV2015

Multimedia Content Delivery

I study Content Delivery, especially static video contents over large scale Content Delivery Networks. The originality of my approach resides on the deployment schemes:

CDNs are implemented and deployed as Virtual Network Functions
CDNs are deployed within the ISP Network
I implemented and simulated several Collaboration Schemes to create a win-win ecosystem that benefits Content Providers, Internet Service Providers and Content Delivery Networks while improving End-Users' Quality of Experience

On top of proposing a Model, I formalized the Virtual CDN allocation problem and proposed several Heuristics to tackle both Service Chain creation and Service Embedding with both online and offline optimization processes.

published in: IEEE Multimedia, IEEE ICC2017

Interdisciplinarity

I studied both Economic and Legal aspects of content delivery and related technologies.

I study the distribution of added value along the Content Delivery value chain, and propose disruptive models that fairly balance the revenue between every stakeholders. I proposed a competition-oriented architecture that allows the end-user to express its high-level needs and implements hist Content Streaming Sessions through an on-line brokering mechanism.
I'm interested in the impacts on net-neutrality of new content distribution models
I teamed-up with law coauthors to propose a trust and sincerity improvement mechanism for blockchain and smart contracts.

published in: IEEE GLOBECOM2016, Ateliers Convergeance droit et numérique, BigBlockChain Theory 2017