- Dr Marjan Falahrastegar has passed her PhD viva with a thesis entitled “The Complex Third-Party Tracking Ecosystem: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective“. Congratulations (December)!
- Paper “Internet Scale User-Generated Live Video Streaming: The Twitch Case” by Jie Deng, Dr. Gareth Tyson, Dr. Felix Cuadrado and Prof. Steve Uhlig has been accepted in the Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM’17). This is one of the top conferences for Internet measurements research, with an acceptance rate of 23% (December).
- The ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2017 will be hosted at Queen Mary University of London! The general chair is Prof. Steve Uhlig, the local chair is Dr. Gareth Tyson, the sponsorship chair is Dr. Richard Clegg, the social chair is Dr. Ignacio Castro and the web chair is Timm Böttger (November).
- Dr. Gareth Tyson has been awarded a grant (alongside University of Cambridge) for bootstrapping a new measurement infrastructure in Africa: AIMO. The pump-priming project will last 6 months, and will support initial deployments in South Africa (October).
- Dr. Hamed Haddadi will be on the organising committee for the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Conference (September).
- The Connected Seeds project, co-managed by Dr. Hamed Haddadi, has released new sensor hardware design and code as open source (August).
- Paper “FLICK: Developing and Running Application-Specific Network Services” by Dr. Richard Clegg and collaborators has been published in the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). This is the premier conference for systems research with an acceptance rate of 17.7% (July).
- Research by Dr. Gareth Tyson, Dr. Hamed Haddadi and collaborators has been widely covered in the media, including by MIT Tech Review, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Business Insider, Elle, Repubblica and New York Magazine. The articles are based on a paper recently published at IEEE/ACM ASONAM on user activity in Tinder (July).
- Paper “FairCache: Introducing Fairness to ICN Caching” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and collaborators has been accepted at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP). This is one of the premier conferences for networks research, with an acceptance rate of 20% (July).
- Timm Böttger has won this year’s Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize for his presentation at MSN’16 about his recent research on Netflix (July).
- Research by Timm Böttger, Dr. Felix Cuadrado, Dr. Gareth Tyson, Dr. Ignacio Castro and Prof. Steve Uhlig has been covered by several news outlets, including the Daily Mail, IEEE Spectrum, and The Register. The article is based on research performed at Queen Mary looking at the Netflix delivery infrastructure (June).
- Paper “LazyCtrl: A Scalable Hybrid Network Control Plane Design for Cloud Data Centers” by Prof. Steve Uhlig and collaborators has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), with an impact factor of 2.66 (June).
- Dr. Gareth Tyson has been awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award at the 10th AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). This is the premier conference for social media research (May).
- Prof. Steve Uhlig has been appointed as Area Editor for IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking. Congratulations (April)!
- The Networks Group will be leading organisation of the next Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM) – Prof. Steve Uhlig will be the TPC chair of PAM 2017, hosted in Sydney (April).
- Paper “Pub Crawling at Scale: Tapping Untappd to Explore Social Drinking” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and collaborators has been accepted in the 10th AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). This is the premier conference for social media research with an acceptance rate of 17% (March).
- Paper “Fetishizing Food in Digital Age: #foodporn Around the World” by Dr. Hamed Haddadi and collaborators has been accepted in the 10th AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). This is the premier conference for social media research with an acceptance rate of 17% (March)
- Paper “Privacy-aware Multipath Video Caching for Content-Centric Networks” by Dr. Gareth Tyson, Prof. Steve Uhlig and collaborators has been accepted in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). This is one of the highest impact journals in the field, with an impact factor of 3.45 (February).
- Paper “Tracking Personal Identifiers Across the Web” by Marjan Falahrastegar, Dr. Hamed Haddadi, Prof. Steve Uhlig and collaborators has been accepted in the Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM). This is one of the top conferences for Internet measurements research (January).
- Paper “Pushing the Frontier: Exploring the African Web Ecosystem” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and collaborators has been accepted in the ACM World Wide Web Conference (WWW’16). This is the premier conference for web research, with an acceptance rate of 16% (January).
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