Monday, June 26


Room: TBD

09:00 – 09:15  Introduction and welcome by the PhD school chairs


09:15 – 10:45Tutorial I (1) – Network Monitoring 

Stuart Clayman is a Principal Research Fellow, in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK. His tutorial will get students exposed to the challenges of building and deploying a distributed monitoring system. He will start by presenting the pros and cons of centralized versus decentralized monitoring. He will then provide hands-on training on configuring the different components of a distributed monitoring architecture, based on the testbed implementation he has been running for the last 10 years as part of different European projects.


10:45 – 11:15   Coffee Break


11:15 – 12:45   Tutorial I (2) – Network Monitoring


12:45 – 14:00   Lunch Break & Poster Session: Group 1


14:00 – 15:30Tutorial II (1) – Measuring Routing Performance, a P4 practice with Source Routing 

Pascal Méridol is an Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. His research interests fall in the area of IP measurements and monitoring, Internet mapping, and routing. His tutorial will be about Measuring Routing Performance (Measuring Routing Performance, a P4 practice with Source Routing (SR)). Indeed, Measuring routing systems is complex for many reasons, in particular when probing the whole Internet and its numerous domains. However, not only their scale is a challenge, the protocols in use are difficult to predict and monitor as they evolve in time and can involve complex effects. In this lecture, students will take the example of SR and how it can implement basic segment lists in P4 (emulation with BMv2 and mininet). They will first review options enabled with SR and P4, looking at many routing problems and use-cases. The idea will be to develop basic primitives to monitor paths deployed with SR, i.e., verify connectivity, routes, latency and check the protocol performance and behavior in general.


15:30 – 16:00   Coffee Break


16:00 – 17:30   Tutorial II (2) Measuring Routing Performance, a P4 practice with Source Routing


17:30 – 18:30   Interactive session with students and speakers


19:00 – 22:00   PhD social event


Tuesday, June 27


Room: TBD


09:00 – 10:30Tutorial III (1) – Privacy-preserving Data Processing 

Luca Vassio is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. His research interests include big data analysis, complex networks, machine learning and data mining. During his tutorial he will introduce to students the basic concepts of privacy-preserving data processing, introducing the main motivations, challenges, and opportunities of anonymization techniques. He will focus on k-anonymity (and its variants) as a classical approach to anonymizing tabular data, and give an overview of differential privacy as a flexible technique for performing privacy-preserving queries. During the tutorial, students will get their hands on a real case-study and learn how to anonymize a dataset before publishing or querying it using Python code and modern libraries.


10:30 – 11:00   Coffee Break


11:00 – 12:30   Tutorial III (2) – Privacy-preserving data processing


12:30 – 14:00Lunch Break & Poster Session: Group 2


14:00 – 15:30   Tutorial IV (1) – Future of Network Monitoring

Kevin Vermeulen is a Full Researcher at Laboratoire d’analyse et d’architecture des systèmes (LAAS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France. His work focuses on building networked measurement systems to better understand and improve the Internet. His lecture will focus on novel techniques for network monitoring.


15:30 – 16:00   Coffee Break


16:00 – 17:30   Tutorial IV (2) – Future of Network Monitoring


17:30 – 17:45   PhD school closing and Poster Awards