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Degree Doctor of Philosophy
Author Rashid Mijumbi
Directors Prof. Joan Serrat, Dr. Juan-Luis Gorricho
Title Self-managed Resources in Network Virtualisation Environments
Defence Date November 06, 2014
Defence Committee Prof. Jose Luis Melus Moreno, Prof. Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Prof. Ramon Aguerro, Dr. Steven Davy, Prof. Xavier Hesselbach-Serra
University Technical University of Catalonia
Field Telecommunications Engineering
Grade Excellent Cum Laude, with International Mention
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2015

Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan Luis Gorricho, Steven Latre, Marinos Charalambides, Diego Lopez
Title Management and Orchestration Challenges in Network Function Virtualization
Journal IEEE Communications Magazine. Accepted for Publication (October 2015).
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan Luis Gorricho, Niels Bouten, Filip De Turck, Raouf Boutaba
Title Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges
Journal IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Accepted for Publication (September 2015).
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Javier Rubio-Loyola and Steven Davy
Title Server Placement and Assignment in Virtualized Radio Access Networks
Conference IEEE/IFIP CNSM, International Workshop on Management of SDN and NFV Systems, Barcelona, Spain. Accepted September 2015
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan Luis Gorricho, Raouf Boutaba
Title A Path Generation Approach to Embedding of Virtual Networks
Journal IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted for Publication (July 2015).
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Authors Yudong Zhao, Ke Xu, Rashid Mijumbi and Meng Shen
Title Design and Evaluation of a Policy-based Security Routing and Switching System for Data Interception Attacks
Conference International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BIGCOM 2015). Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. August 2015. Accepted for Publication.
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Authors Niels Bouten, Rashid Mijumbi
Title Deploying Network Function Virtualization Experiments on the Virtual Wall Test-bed
Conference 9th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2015). University of Ghent, Belgium. June 22-25, 2015. Tutorial and Hands-on Session.
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Niels Bouten, Filip De Turck, Steven Davy
Title Design and Evaluation of Algorithms for Mapping and Scheduling of Virtual Network Functions
Conference IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). University College London. 13-17 April 2015
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Meng Shen, Ke Xu, Kun Yang
Title A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to Self-Management of Virtual Network Resources
Journal Journal of Expert Systems With Applications. Volume 42, Number 3, Pages 1376 - 1390. 2015
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Juan-Luis Gorricho
Title Self-managed Resources in Network Virtualization
Conference IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Ottawa Canada, May 2015. Dissertation Digest Paper.
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Authors Niels Bouten, Jeroen Famaey, Rashid Mijumbi, Bram Naudts, Joan Serrat, Steven Latre, Filip De Turck
Title Towards NFV-based Multimedia Delivery
Conference IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management(IM), Ottawa, Canada, May 2015.
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Authors Li Li, Ke Xu, Dan Wang, Chunyi Peng, Qingyang Xiao, Rashid Mijumbi
Title A Measurement Study on the TCP Behaviors in HSPA+ Networks on High-speed Rails
Conference The 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, May-June 2015.
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2014

Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Javier Rubio-Loyola, Ramon Aguero
Title Survivability-oriented Negotiation Algorithms for Multi-domain Virtual Networks
Conference 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2014. Short Paper.
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Maxim Claeys, Jeroen Famaey, Filip De Turck
Title Neural Network-based Autonomous Allocation of Resources in Virtual Networks
Conference European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat
Title Contributions to Efficient Resource Management in Virtual Networks
Conference 8th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS), Brno, Czech Republic, June 2014.
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Maxim Claeys, Steven Latre, Filip De Turck
Title Design and Evaluation of Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Resource Management in Virtual Networks
Conference IEEE/IFIP Networks Operations and Management Symposium, (NOMS), Krakow, Poland, May 2014. Recipient of Best Student Paper Award.
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Authors John Byabazaire, Benedict Oyo and Rashid Mijumbi
Title Student-Centered Learning in Uganda: The Mwalimu Online Study Tool
Date Accepted, September 2013
Conference 3rd International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT 2014)
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat, Javier Rubio-Loyola, Niels Bouten, Steven Latre, Filip De Turck
Title Dynamic Resource Management in SDN-based Virtualized Networks
Conference IEEE/IFIP CNSM, International Workshop on Management of SDN and NFV Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2015
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat and Juan Luis Gorricho
Title Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Virtualised Networks
Workshop Management of Large Scale Virtualized Infrastructures: Smart Data Acquisition, Analysis and Network and Service Management in the Future Internet, Bologna Italy, May 2014.
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2012


Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat and Juan Luis Gorricho
Title Multi-Agent Based Resource Allocation in Next Generation Virtual Networks
Workshop Proceedings of the 2012 Barcelona Forum on Ph.D. Research in Communication and Information Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, 2012.
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Authors Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat and Juan Luis Gorricho
Title Autonomic Resource Management in Virtual Network
Workshop Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions (SAIL) Summer School Work in Progress Session, Santander, Cantabria, June 2012. Recipient of Best Work in Progress Award
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Selected Contributions to Technical Documents

Authors Anna Sperotto et. al.
Title Network and Service Monitoring, D5.3 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2015
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Authors Gabi Dreo Rodsek et. al.
Title Automated Configuration and Repair, D6.3 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2015
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Authors Radhika Garg et. al.
Title Economic, Legal and Regulative Constraints, D7.3 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2015
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Authors Anna Sperotto et. al.
Title Network and Service Monitoring, D5.2 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2014
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Authors Gabi Dreo Rodsek et. al.
Title Automated Configuration and Repair, D6.2 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2014
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Authors Radhika Garg et. al.
Title Economic, Legal and Regulative Constraints, D7.2 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2014
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Authors Anna Sperotto et. al.
Title Network and Service Monitoring, D5.1 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2013
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Authors Gabi Dreo Rodsek et. al.
Title Automated Configuration and Repair, D6.1 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2013
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Authors Radhika Garg et. al.
Title Economic, Legal and Regulative Constraints, D7.1 Flamingo EU Project
Date 31-10-2013
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Authors Zheng Hu et. al.
Title Reports on Vertical Management of Virtualised Resources, D3.1 and D3.2 of Project EVANS
Date September-2012 and November-2013
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Authors Ning Wang et. al.
Title Reports on Horizontal Management of Virtualised Resources, D4.1 and D4.2 of Project EVANS
Date September-2012 and November-2013
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Authors Joan Serrat et. al.
Title SLM model and use cases - Preliminary version (Deliverable D4.2 of Project gSLM)
Date 01-09-2011
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Invited Talks

Title Network Function Virtualization: Conception, Present and Future. Telecommunications Systems and Software Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Date September 17, 2015
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Title Application of Learning Techniques to Resource Management in Virtual Networks, Future Internet Technologies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.
Date December 17, 2013
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