Luis Rodero-Merino Web Page at GSyC

NOTE: In July of 2008 I moved to Telefónica I+D (Research and Development). The information contained here can be out of date.

This page is only kept for convenience, thanks to the kindness of LADyR and GSyC members.

Luis Rodero-Merino Web Page.
Last mofified: October 2008.
All contents under the GNU Free Documentation License, V 1.2.

I am member of the LADyR and GSyC research groups, and teacher at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

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Contact Info

Teaching

Some of the subjects I taught at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos:

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (Doctor en Informática) - 2007 at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Master of Computer Engineering (Ingeniero en Informática) - 2000 at Universidad de Valladolid.
Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Gestión) - 1998 at Universidad de Valladolid.

Stays

Research stay of three months at the Department of Computer Science of University College London, (September 2003 - December 2003).
Undergraduate (Erasmus Program) - Six months at the Sligo Institute of Technology (October 1997 - March 1998).
Undergraduate (Intercampus Program) - Two months at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán (August 1999 - September 1999).

Professional Bio

Nowadays, I am a Junior Researcher at Telefónica I+D.
Teaching assistant at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (October 2001 - July 2008).
Design Engineer at Ericsson Spain S.A., Research and Development Area (October 2000 - September 2001).
Research Fellowship at Telefónica Research and Development S.A. (March 2000 - September 2000).

Research

Research Topics

Distributed systems, p2p computing, grid computing, wireless networks, free software.

Thesis

Title: "Self-Adaptation Mechanisms for Efficient Resource Location in Peer-to-Peer Systems".

Abstract: One of the main open issues in P2P systems research is how to efficiently locate resources. Recent works conclude that searches by random walks can outperform other mechanisms like flooding, also demanding less resources (bandwidth and processing power). It has been also observed that the efficiency of random walks is strongly related with the topology of the overlay network.
The main contributions of this thesis are:

An analytical model able to predict the performance (e.g., how long will it take to locate resources) of a P2P system that uses random walks.
Introduction of DANTE, a proposal of a P2P system able to adapt its topology to the load conditions. This self-adaptation behavior emerges from the individual work of nodes, that run a reconnection mechanism that does not require neither the intervention of some central coordinator nor global information (as they are not available in pure P2P systems).

Content: The contents of this thesis are released under the GNU Free Documentation License, V 1.2. You can download a PDF version

, or browse a HTML Version.

Simulations code: All experiments were run using our own simulation code, implemented in the Java language. A .tgz file containing the DANTE's simulator source code (.java), binary files (.class) and a configuration sample file can be found here. Please note this code is released under the GPL v2.0 license.

Publications

Journal Papers

"Self-Managed Topologies in P2P Networks"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández Anta, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
Full Paper. Computer Networks, ISSN: 1389-1286. Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems, 2008 - Accepted, to be published. Science Direct link.

Book Chapters

"Anatomy of two GNU/Linux distributions"
Jesús M. González Barahona, Gregorio Robles, Miguel Ortuño Pérez, Luis Rodero-Merino, Jose Centeno González, Vicente Matellán Olivera, Eva Castro Barbero, Pedro de las Heras Quirós.
BC. In book "Free/Open Source Software Development", ISBN: 1-59140-369-3. Chapter 2, pp. 27-58.

Contributions to International Conferences

"Using Random Walks to Find Resources in Unstructured Self-Organized P2P Networks"
Vicent Cholvi, Antonio Fernández, Luis López, Luis Rodero-Merino.
Invited Paper. IEEE Workshop on Dependable Application Support in Self-Organizing Networks (DASSON 2007); Edimburgh, UK, June 2007.
Proceedings of DSN 2007, ISBN: 0-7695-2855-4. Supplemental Volume, pp. 51-56.
"A Topology Self-Adaptation Mechanism for Efficient Resource Location"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández Anta, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
Full Paper. International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2006); Sorrento, Italy, December 2006.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 3-540-68067-5. Volume 4330, pp. 660-671.
"DANTE: A Self-Adapting Peer-to-Peer System"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández Anta, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
Full Paper. Fifth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2006); Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 978-3-540-79704-3. Volume 4461, pp. 31-42.
"Demo of DANTE: A Self-Adaptable Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Network"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández Anta, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
Demo at The 25th Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom 2006); Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Demo proposal available at the Infocom 2006 Conference Web Page..
"Abbreviated Dynamic Source Routing: Source Routing with Non-Unique Network Identifiers"
Miguel A. Ortuño, Vicente Matellán, Luis Rodero-Merino, Gregorio Robles.
Full Paper. The Second Annual Conference on Wireless On Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2005); St. Moritz, Switzerland, January 2005.
Proceedings of WONS 2005, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 0-7695-2290-0, pp. 76-82.
"Robot Localizacion using WiFi Signal without Intensity Map"
Oscar Serrano, José M. Cañas, Vicente Matellán, Luis Rodero.
Full Paper. V Workshop de Agentes Físicos (WAF 2004); Girona, Spain, Mars 2004.
Proceedings of WAF 2004, ISBN: 84-933619-6-8, pp. 79-88.
"Studying the Evolution of Libre Software Projects Using Publicly Available Data"
Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González Barahona, José Centeno, Vicente Matellán, Luis Rodero.
Full Paper. 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering at the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering; Portland, USA, May 2003.
Proceedings only available in electronic format. They can be downloaded at the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering Web Page.

Contributions to National Spanish Conferences

"Framework basado en AOP para la simulación distribuida según el estándar IEEE-1516"
Agustín Santos Méndez, Luis Rodero-Merino, Andrés Leonardo Martínez Ortíz, Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar.
Poster. VI Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (JITEL 2007); Málaga, Spain, September 2007.
Poster description: Proceedings of the VI Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática, ISBN: 978-84-690-6670-6, pp. 649-652.
"Una propuesta de sistema P2P con topología Auto-Adaptativa"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández Anta, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
Full Paper. XIV Jornadas de Concurrencia y Sistemas Distribuidos; San Sebastián, Spain, June 2006.
Proceedings of the XIV Jornadas de Concurrencia y Sistemas Distribuidos, ISBN: 84-689-9292-5, pp. 227-236.
"Topologías dinámicas en redes P2P no estructuradas"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández Anta, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
Full Paper. XV Jornadas Telecom I+D; Madrid, Spain, October 2005.
Proceedings of the XV Jornadas Telecom I+D, ISBN: 48-689-3794-0.
Only available in electronic format.
"Extensión del Patrón Observador para la integración de eventos de componentes heterogéneos"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Miguel A. Ortuño, Luis López Fernández.
Full Paper. II Congreso Javahispano; Móstoles, Spain, December 2004.
Proceedings of the II Congreso Javahispano, ISBN: 84-689-0035-4, pp. 73-77.
"Monitorización de redes 802.11 con Linux"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Miguel A. Ortuño Pérez, Jesús M. González Barahona, Vicente Matellán Olivera.
Contribution. XIII Jornadas Telecom I+D; Madrid, Spain, November 2003.
Proceedings of the XIII Jornadas Telecom I+D, ISBN: 84-89315-28-0.
Only available in electronic format.
"Abbreviated Dynamic Source Routing: Protocolo DSR abreviado para máquinas con pocos recursos"
Miguel A. Ortuño Pérez, Vicente Matellán Olivera, Luis Rodero-Merino, José Centeno González.
Full Paper. IV Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (JITEL 2003); Gran Canaria, Spain, September 2003.
Proceedings of the IV Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática, ISBN: 48-96131-38-6, pp. 385-391.

Technical Reports

"DANTE: Self-Adaptable Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Luis López, Antonio Fernández, Vicent Cholvi.
TR. Reports on Systems and Communications, Volume VII, Number 12, ISSN: 1698-7489, available online.
"Self-adaptable overlays for unstructured peer-to-peer networks"
Luis Rodero-Merino, Antonio Fernández, Luis López, Vicent Cholvi.
TR. Reports on Systems and Communications, Volume V, Number 8, ISSN: 1698-7489, available online.

Research Projects

I am member of the following research projects:

AUTONOMIC - Autonomic reliable distributed and high performance systems
Financed by: Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
2006 - 2009.

Auto-organización en Sistemas de Comunicación Emergentes
Financed by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.
2005 - 2008.

eMAMUTI Extensión de MAMUTI (Módulo de Transmisión Multimedia) Para Sistemas Inalámbricos
Financed by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (now Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia).
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2001 - 2004.

TIER: Transmisión Inalámbrica en Robots Móviles
Financed by: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2002.

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