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 My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiohecht Research Interests Distributed Systems Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming Peer-to-Peer Storage Incentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Main Research Projects

• Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming with Distributed Time-Shifting (LiveShift) (06/2008 - today)
• SmoothIT: Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies (01/2008 - 03/2011)
• EMANICS: European Network of Excellence on Management of the Internet and Complex Services (06/2007 - 03/2010)
  
• 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

2011 Fall Semester

• Informatik I
• Seminar: Internet Economics

Theses

Open Theses

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

Assigned Theses

• Development and Implementation of B-Tracker on a BitTorrent Client assigned to Andri Lareida

Completed Theses

• Game Theoretical Study of LiveShift Using Congestion Games by Simon Poltier
• Securely Measuring Peer Contribution in LiveShift by Andreas Volkart
• Preparing LiveShift for Public Trial by Roman Studer
• Investigation and Evaluation of Upload and Download Allocation Strategies for P2P Video Streaming by Michael Ammann
• Investigation of Playback Policies for P2P Live and On-Demand Video Streaming by Mengia Zollinger
• Design and Implementation of a Public-Key Infrastructure for the LiveShift Applicationby Andreas Volkart
• Managing Single and Multiple Publishers in a P2P Electronic Program Guide by Roger Peyer
• Investigation and Evaluation of Distributed Storage Strategies for Video Streaming Application by Alexander Schäfer
• Design and Implementation of a Light Mobile Video Streaming Application for Google Android by Lukas Keller
• Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for LiveShift Application by Roger Peyer
• Implementation of Scalable Video Coding on LiveShift Application by Alexander Schäfer
• Implementation of PSH Reputation Mechanism in LiveShift Application by 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 Activities Within IFI

• Maintenance of the VoIP Infrastructure.
• Responsible for IPTV broadcasts for special events.

Other Professional Activities

2011

• Reviewer, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal
• Reviewer, AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics and Communications
• Reviewer, AIMS 2011
• Reviewer, NETWORKING 2011

2010

• Reviewer, CCNC 2011
• Reviewer, IJNMS Special Issue on ETM
• Reviewer, AIMS 2010
• Reviewer, P2P'10

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