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Andrea Francini

Andrea Francini

Senior Research Engineer, Network Systems and Security Research

Murray Hill, NJ, USA

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Biography

With Nokia Bell Labs since 1996, Andrea is a broadly recognized expert in traffic management for packet networks. His research contributions have had primary impact on the commercial success of market-leading networking products, on the fundamental development of the traffic management science, and on its subsequent application to new areas, such as energy efficiency and multimedia delivery.

Education
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Communications from Politecnico di Torino, Italy (1998)
  • Italian Laurea in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (1993)
     
Selected Articles and Publications
  • Lightweight Determinism in Large-Scale Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, December 2024. With R. Miller, B. Cilli, C. Payette, and C. Di Martino.
  • Routing-Aware Shaping for Feasible Multi-Domain Determinism, Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2024, Washington DC. With R. Miller,  B. Cilli, and C. Di Martino.
  • uNPE: Unified Network Protocol Encapsulation for Highly Transparent Future Networks, Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy. With L. Hao, B. Erman, B. Cilli, E. Bastug, and C. Di Martino.
  • Design of an Enhanced Bearer Buffer for Latency Minimization in the Mobile RAN, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, Waikoloa, HI. With R. Kumar, S. Panwar, and S. Sharma. 
  • Dynamic Control of RLC Buffer Size for Latency Minimization in Mobile RAN, Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain. With R. Kumar, S. Panwar, and S. Sharma.
  • A Cloud Native Approach to 5G Network Slicing, IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2017. With S. Sharma and R. Miller.
  • Global Synchronization Protection for Bandwidth Sharing TCP Flows in High Speed Links, Proceedings of IEEE HPSR 2015, Budapest, Hungary (Best Paper Award). With W. Lautenschlaeger.
  • Link-Coupled TCP for 5G Networks, Proceedings of IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2017, Vilanova i la Geltru', Spain. With J. Beshay, A. Taghavi Nasrabadi, and R. Prakash.
  • An Assessment of Power-Load Proportionality in Network Systems, Proceedings of IFIP SustainIT 2013, Palermo, Italy (Best Paper Award). With M. Ricca, S. Fortune, and T. Klein.
  • Periodic Early Detection for Improved TCP Performance and Energy Efficiency, Computer Networks 56(13), 2012.
  • Selection of a Rate Adaptation Scheme for Network Hardware, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2012, Orlando, FL.
  • The Swiss Army Smartphone: Cloud-Based Delivery of USB Services, Proceedings of ACM SOSP Mobiheld 2011, Cascais, Portugal. With A. Hari, M. Jaitly, Y.-J. Chang.
  • Evros: A Service-Delivery Platform for Extending Security Coverage and IT Reach, Bell Labs Technical Journal, Fall 2007 Issue. With D. Stiliadis et al.
  • Scalable Electronic Packet Switches, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 486–500, May 2003. With F.M. Chiussi.
  • Providing QoS Guarantees to Unicast and Multicast Flows in Multi-Stage Packet Switches, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 20, Issue 8, pp. 1589–1601, October 2002. With F.M. Chiussi.
  • A Novel Highly-Scalable Matching Policy for Input-Queued Switches with Multi-Class Traffic, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2002, Taipei, Taiwan (High-Speed Networks Symposium Best Paper Award). With F.M. Chiussi, E. Leonardi, et al.
  • Minimum-Latency Dual-Leaky-Bucket Shapers for Packet Multiplexers: Theory and Implementation, Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2000, Pittsburgh, PA. With F.M. Chiussi.
Patents
  1. US-12,199,872: Protocol agnostic cognitive congestion control
  2. US-12,028,265: Software-defined guaranteed-latency networking
  3. US-11,996,989: Method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for network-as-a-service model
  4. US-11,848,863: Universal network protocol encapsulation and methods for transmitting data
  5. US-11,677,666: Application-based queue management
  6. US-11,463,370: Scalable deterministic services in packet networks
  7. US-11,425,592: Packet latency reduction in mobile radio access networks
  8. US-11,336,582: Packet scheduling
  9. US-11,240,169: Packet queuing
  10. US-11,212,687: Method and system for controlling an operation of a communication network to reduce latency
  11. US-10,038,639: Congestion control based on flow control
  12. US-9,619,417: Method and apparatus for remote delivery of managed USB services via a mobile computing device
  13. US-8,842,540: System and method for implementing active queue management enhancements for variable bottleneck rates
  14. US-8,717,875: Condensed-core energy-efficient architecture for WAN IP backbones
  15. US-8,493,856: Energy efficiency with rate adaptation
  16. US-8,441,927: System and method for implementing periodic early discard in on-chip buffer memories of network elements
  17. US-8,340,105: Coordination independent rate adaptation deployment methods and systems
  18. US-7,099,330: Method and apparatus for integrating guaranteed-bandwidth and best-effort traffic in a packet network
  19. US-7,075,934: Method and apparatus for hierarchical bandwidth distribution in a packet network
  20. US-7,031,255: Method and apparatus for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in data packet networks using generalized discrete data transfer rate approach
  21. US-7,027,457: Method and apparatus for providing differentiated Quality-of-Service guarantees in scalable packet switches
  22. US-7,023,857: Method and apparatus of feedback control in a multi-stage switching system
  23. US-6,937,561: Method and apparatus for guaranteeing data transfer rates and enforcing conformance with traffic profiles in a packet network
  24. US-6,904,045: Method and apparatus for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in asynchronous transfer mode networks using pivot sessions
  25. US-6,693,913: Method and apparatus for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in data packet networks using generalized discrete data transfer rate approach
  26. US-6,654,345: Single-bit timestamps for data transfer rate and delay guarantees in a packet network
  27. US-6,618,391: Method and apparatus for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in data packet networks using discrete data transfer rates
  28. US-6,396,843: Method and apparatus for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in data packet networks using logarithmic calendar queues
  29. US-6,075,791: System for guaranteeing data transfer rates and delays in packet networks
     
Memberships
  • Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Frequent reviewer for high-impact international conferences (IEEE Infocom), archive journals (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Elsevier Computer Networks), and magazines (IEEE Communications, IEEE Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications)
     
Awards and Recognition
  • 2021: Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award
  • 2015: Best Paper Award, IEEE HPSR
  • 2013: Best Paper Award, IFIP SustainIT 
  • 2008: Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy induction
  • 2002: Best Paper Award, IEEE GLOBECOM
  • 1999: Bell Labs President’s Gold Award
     

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