Samuli Aalto

Senior University Lecturer, Docent, PhD

Aalto University
Department of Communications and Networking
P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
email: samuli.aalto@aalto.fi

Presentations

Tutorials

• Recent advances in age and size-based scheduling,
  ITC 24, 24th International Teletraffic Congress, Krakow, Poland, September 2012

Invited talks

• Optimal control of finite capacity batch service queues with general holding costs,
  EURO XVI, 16th European Conference on Operational Research, Brussels, Belgium, July 1998
• M/G/1/MLPS queue: mean delay analysis,
  EURO XXI, 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2006
• Recent sojourn time results for Multilevel Processor-Sharing scheduling disciplines,
  The 10th Anniversary of EURANDOM, Eindhoven, August 2008
• Control and optimization of single-server queues: the Gittins index approach revisited (invited talk),
  NET-COOP'10, 4th Workshop on Network Control and Optimization, Ghent, Belgium, November/December 2010
• Combining optimally opportunistic and size-based scheduling in scalable queues,
  INFORMS APS 2011, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011
• Size-aware MDP approach to dispatching problems,
  EURO-INFORMS 2013, 26th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, Italy, July 2013
• Performance-energy trade-off in multi-server queueing systems with setup delay,
  LCCC Workshop in Cloud Control, Lund, Sweden, May 2014
• Optimal trade-off between size-based and opportunistic scheduling: Whittle index approach,
  INFORMS APS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2015

Scientific conferences

• Output from an A-M-S type fluid queue,
  ITC 14, 14th International Teletraffic Congress, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, June 1994
• Basic packet routing problem,
  NTS-13, 13th Nordic teletraffic seminar, Trondheim, Norway, August 1996
• Required work in the M/M/1 queue,
  INFORMS TELECOM, Fourth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Boca Raton, FL, March 1998
• Tandem fluid queues fed by homogeneous on-off sources,
  BOCA 2000, Fifth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Boca Raton, FL, March 2000
• Combinatorial algorithm for calculating blocking probabilities in multicast networks,
  NTS-15, 15th Nordic Teletraffic Seminar, Lund, Sweden, August 2000
• Blocking probabilities of two-layer statistically indistinguishable multicast streams,
  ITC 17, 17th International Teletraffic Congress, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, December 2001
• Flow level models of DiffServ packet level mechanisms,
  NTS-16, 16th Nordic Teletraffic Seminar, Espoo, Finland, August 2002
• Mean delay analysis of Multi Level Processor Sharing disciplines,
  IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006
• Mean delay optimization for the M/G/1 queue with Pareto type service times (poster),
  ACM SIGMETRICS 2007, San Diego, CA, June 2007
• Flow-level stability and performance of channel-aware priority-based schedulers,
  NGI 2010, 6th EURO-NF Conference on Next Generation Internet, Paris, France, June 2010
• On the optimal trade-off between SRPT and opportunistic scheduling,
  ACM SIGMETRICS 2011, San Jose, CA, June 2011
• Load balancing of elastic data traffic in heterogeneous wireless networks,
  ITC 25, 25th International Teletraffic Congress, Shanghai, China, September 2013
• Round-Robin routing policy: Value functions and mean performance with job- and server-specific costs,
  ValueTools 2013, 7th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Torino, Italy, December 2013
• Whittle index approach to size-aware scheduling with time-varying channels,
  ACM SIGMETRICS 2015, Portland, OR, June 2015
• Opportunistic scheduling with flow size information for Markovian time-varying channels,
  ECQT 2016, Toulouse, France, July 2016
• Whittle index approach to energy-aware dispatching,
  ITC 30, Vienna, Austria, September 2018

Scientific workshops

• An approximative filtering algorithm for a doubly stochastic Poisson process ,
  7th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 1991
• Optimal control of batch service queueing systems,
  Symposium on Stochastic Processes in Engineering Applications, VTT, Otaniemi, Finland, April 1992
• Dynamic resource allocation for virtual path connections,
  COST257 research seminar (1st Finnish Teletraffic Seminar), VTT, Otaniemi, Finland, December 1997
• Optimal control of batch service queues with finite capacity and general holding costs,
  Queueing Colloquium, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 1999
• New algorithms for calculating blocking probabilities in multicast networks,
  COST257/COM² research seminar (4th Finnish Teletraffic Seminar), VTT, Otaniemi, Finland, February 2001
• Teletraffic analysis of multicast networks,
  Fifth Diderot Mathematical Forum, Mathematics and Telecommunications, HUT, Otaniemi, Finland, November 2001
• Teletraffic analysis of multicast networks,
  Stochastics in Finland, University of Helsinki, Department of Mathematics, Helsinki, Finland, January 2002
• Load balancing in cellular networks using first policy iteration,
  COST279/FIT research seminar (5th Finnish Teletraffic Seminar), HUT, Otaniemi, Finland, February 2002
• Multilevel processor-sharing scheduling disciplines: mean delay analysis,
  FGSS (Finnish Graduate School in Stochastics) Seminar, HUT, Otaniemi, Finland, January 2004
• Multilevel processor-sharing scheduling disciplines: mean delay analysis,
  COST279/FIT research seminar (7th Finnish Teletraffic Seminar), HUT, Otaniemi, Finland, February 2004
• Mean delay comparison among MLPS scheduling disciplines,
  PAN-NET research seminar (8th Finnish Teletraffic Seminar), VTT, Otaniemi, Finland, April 2005
• SRPT applied to bandwidth-sharing networks,
  StoPeRA, EuroNGI Workshop, CWI, Amsterdam, November 2006
• P2P VoD Systems: Modelling and Performance,
  FI SHOK WP 3.2 Workshop, Otaniemi, Finland, June 2010
• How impatience affects the performance and scalability of P2P video-on-demand systems,
  MAMA 2011, The Thirteenth Workshop on MAthematical Performance Modeling and Analysis, San Jose, CA, USA, June 2011
• Optimal scheduling problem for scalable queues,
  Dagstuhl Scheduling Seminar, Wadern, Germany, March 2013
• Performance-energy trade-off in queueing systems with setup delay,
  ACM Sigmetrics TPC Workshop, New York, NY, USA, February 2016

Other scientific presentations

• Output from an A-M-S-type fluid queue (II),
  COST 242 Management Committee Meeting, Leidchendam, The Netherlands, April 1993
• Required work in the M/M/1-FIFO queue,
  COST 242 Management Committee Meeting, Leidchendam, The Netherlands, April 1993
• Basic packet routing problem,
  COST 242 Management Committee Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, May 1994
• Jonojen matematiikkaa,
  Lectio praecursoria, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, May 1998
• Research topics,
  EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, January 1999
• Characterization of the output process for some fluid queues,
  University of Twente, Twente, The Netherlands, May 1999
• Characterization of the output process for some fluid queues,
  EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 1999
• An exact algorithm for calculating blocking probabilities in multicast networks,
  COST 257 Management Committee Meeting, Larnaca, Cyprus, September 1999
• Practical algorithm for calculating blocking probabilities in multicast networks,
  COST 257 Management Committee Meeting, Kjeller, Norway, May 2000
• Combinatorial algorithm for calculating blocking probabilities in multicast networks with multiple connection classes,
  Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Telecommunications Technology, Otaniemi, Finland, August 2000
• Calculating blocking probabilities of multicast connections with dynamic membership,
  Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Telecommunications Technology, Otaniemi, Finland, November 2000
• Flow model for a TCP/SIMA-like system with two NBR-classes,
  Helsinki University of Technology, Networking Laboratory, Otaniemi, Finland, March 2001
• Scheduling problem: Differentiation between short and long TCP flows,
  VTT, Otaniemi, Finland, October 2003
• M/G/1/MLPS compared to M/G/1/PS,
  Insitut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2004
• Mean delay comparison among MLPS scheduling disciplines,
  COST 279 Management Committee Meeting, Antalya, Turkey, February 2005
• SRPT applied to bandwidth sharing networks,
  Comnet Research Seminar, Otaniemi, Finland, March 2008
• Multi-user scheduling in HSDPA systems,
  Euro-NF JRA 2.3 meeting, Trondheim, Norway, October 2008
• Recent sojourn time results for Multilevel Processor-Sharing scheduling disciplines,
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, March 2009
• On the Gittins index in the M/G/1 queue,
  INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, March 2009
• Peer-to-peer systems: Modelling and performance,
  BCAM, Bilbao, Spain, February 2010
• P2P VoD systems: Modelling and performance,
  FI SHOK WP 3.2 Workshop, Otaniemi, Finland, June 2010
• P2P VoD systems: Modelling and performance,
  UCB-IEOR Seminar, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 2010
• Dispatching problems in multi-server queueing systems,
  LAAS, Toulouse, France, May 2014