Fabio Hecht

Contact Information

University of Zurich
Department of Informatics (IFI), BIN 2.E.05
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zurich
Switzerland

• Phone: +41 44 635 71 29
• VoIP: sip:hecht@(no-spam!) ifi.uzh.ch
  
• Fax: +41 44 635 68 09
• E-mail: hecht@(no-spam!) ifi.uzh.ch

Research Interests

• Distributed Systems
• Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming
  
• Peer-to-Peer Storage
• Incentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks
  

Projects

• EMANICS: European Network of Excellence on Management of the Internet and Complex Services (06/2007 - today)
  
• SmoothIT: Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies (01/2008 - today)
• Daidalos II: Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services (06/2007 - 12/2008)

Publications

Please refer to the publications page.

Teaching

2009 Fall Semester

• Informatik I
• Seminar: Mobile Systems

2009 Spring Semester

• Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications
• Seminar: Communication Systems

2008 Fall Semester

• Informatik I
• Seminar: Internet Economics

2008 Spring Semester

• Kommunikationssysteme
• Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications
• Seminar: Mobile Systems

2007 Fall Semester

• Informatik I
• Seminar: Communication Systems

Theses

Open Theses

Take a look in the thesis page for suggestions. If you have another idea, write me.

Assigned Theses

• Design and Implementation of a Light Mobile Video Streaming Application for Google Android assigned to Lukas Keller
• Investigation and Evaluation of Distributed Storage Strategies for Video Streaming Application assigned to Alexander Schäfer
• Managing Single and Multiple Publishers in a P2P Electronic Program Guide assigned to Roger Peyer

Completed Theses

• Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for LiveShift Application assigned to Roger Peyer
• Implementation of Scalable Video Coding on LiveShift Application assigned to Alexander Schäfer
• Implementation of PSH Reputation Mechanism in LiveShift Application assigned to Kevin Leopold
• Investigation and Documentation of Economic Network Management Approaches for Overlay Networks and Systems by Franziska Wirz
• Design and Implementation of an Economically-driven Network Management Mechanisms for Overlay Networks by Martin Hochstrasser
• Live P2P Streaming Using Multiple Description Coding by Stefan Zehnder
• Distributed Peer-to-peer FastSS Indexing by Dalibor Peric

Other Professional Activities

2009

• Reviewer, ICC 2010
• Reviewer, NOMS 2010
  
• Reviewer, FMN 2009
• Reviewer, P2P'09
• Reviewer, PIK Special Issue "Mobile Ad-hoc Networks"

2008

• Reviewer, P2P'08
• Reviewer, MMNS 2008
• Reviewer, IM 2009