s.vissicchio (at) cs (dot) ucl (dot) ac (dot) uk
University College London
Department of Computer Science
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Globally, I have co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including
7 Transactions on Networking
6 SIGCOMM (acceptance: 15%)
8 INFOCOM (acceptance: 16-20%)
5 Hotnets (acceptance: 22-28%)
3 ICNP (acceptance: 18%)
2 NSDI (acceptance: 15%)
1 CoNEXT (acceptance: 17%)
1 IMC (acceptance: 24%)
E. Costa Molero, S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever. FAst In-Network GraY Failure Detection for ISPs. In Proc. SIGCOMM, 2022. (paper)
S. Gao, M. Handley, S. Vissicchio. Stats 101 in P4: Towards In-Switch Anomaly Detection. In Proc. Hotnets, 2021. (paper)
T. Holterbach, E. Costa Molero, M. Apostolaki, A. Dainotti, S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever. Blink: Fast connectivity recovery entirely in the data plane. In Proc. NSDI, 2019. (paper)
K.-T. Foerster, S. Schmid, S. Vissicchio. Survey of Consistent Software-Defined Network Updates. In IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. 21(2):1435-1461. Secondquarter, 2019. (IEEExplore link) (previous ArXiv paper)
E. Costa Molero, S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever. Hardware-Accelerated Network Control Planes. In Proc. Hotnets, 2018. (paper)
F. Aubry, S. Vissicchio, O. Bonaventure, Y. Deville. Robustly Disjoint Paths with Segment Routing. In Proc. CoNEXT, 2018. (paper)
N. Gvozdiev, S. Vissicchio, B. Karp, M. Handley. On Low-Latency-Capable Topologies, and their Impact on the Design of Intra-domain Routing. In Proc. SIGCOMM, 2018. (paper) (slides) (talk)
P. Merindol, P. David, J.-J. Pansiot, F. Clad, S. Vissicchio. A fine-grained multi-source measurement platform correlating routing transitions with packet losses. In Computer Communications. 129(2018):166-183. Sept 2018. (paper)
O. Tilmans, T. Buhler, I. Poese, S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever. Stroboscope: Declarative Network Monitoring on a Budget. In Proc. NSDI, 2018. (paper) (talk) (Web site)
N. Gvozdiev, S. Vissicchio, B. Karp, M. Handley. Low-Latency Routing on Mesh-Like Backbones. In Proc. HotNets, 2017. (paper)
S. Gay, P. Schaus, S. Vissicchio. REPETITA: Repeatable Experiments for Performance Evaluation of Traffic-Engineering Algorithms. In arXiv:1710.08665, 2017. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini. Safe, Efficient and Robust SDN Updates by Combining Rule Replacements and Additions. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 25(5):3102-3115. Oct 2017. (paper)
T. Holterbach, S. Vissicchio, A. Dainotti, L. Vanbever. SWIFT: Predictive Fast Reroute. In Proc. SIGCOMM, 2017. (paper) (talk) (Web site)
S. Gay, R. Hartert, S. Vissicchio. Expect the Unexpected: Sub-Second Optimization for Segment Routing. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2017. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever, L. Cittadini, G. G. Xie, O. Bonaventure. Safe Update of Hybrid SDN Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 25(3):1649–1662. June 2017. (paper)
O. Tilmans, T. Buhler, S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever. Mille-Feuille: Putting ISP traffic under the scalpel. In Proc. HotNets, 2016. (paper)
O. Tilmans, S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever, J. Rexford. Fibbing in Action: On- Demand Load-Balancing for Better Video Delivery. In Proc. SIGCOMM, demo session, 2016. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini. FLIP the (Flow) Table: Fast LIghtweight Policy-preserving SDN Updates. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2016.
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Selected as INFOCOM 2016 Best Paper Award Runner-up
F. Aubry, D. Lebrun, S. Vissicchio, M. T. Khong, Y. Deville, O. Bonaventure. SCMon: Leveraging Segment Routing to Improve Network Monitoring. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2016. (paper)
C. Cardona, S. Vissicchio, P. Francois, P. Lucente. I Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Helping Autonomous Systems to Identify their Unsatisfied Inter-domain Interests. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). 13(1):43-57. March 2016. (paper)
F. Clad, S. Vissicchio, P. Merindol, P. Francois, J.-J. Pansiot. Computing Minimal Update Sequences for Graceful Router-wide Reconfigurations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 23(5):1373-1386. Oct 2015. (paper)
R. Hartert, P. Schaus, S. Vissicchio, O. Bonaventure. Solving Segment Routing Problems with Hybrid Constraint Programming Techniques. In Proc. CP, 2015. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, O. Tilmans, L. Vanbever, J. Rexford. Central Control over Distributed Routing. In Proc. SIGCOMM 2015.
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Selected as SIGCOMM 2015 Best Paper, awarded with the IRTF Applied Network Research Prize 2016
R. Hartert, S. Vissicchio, P. Schaus, O. Bonaventure, C. Filsfils, T. Telkamp, P. Francois. A Declarative and Expressive Approach to Control Forwarding Paths in Carrier-Grade Networks. In Proc. SIGCOMM 2015. (paper) (talk) (Web site)
S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini, G. G. Xie, O. Bonaventure, L. Vanbever. On the Co-Existence of Distributed and Centralized Routing Control-Planes. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2015. (paper) (talk)
S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini, G. Di Battista. On iBGP Routing Policies. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 23(1):227-240. Feb 2015. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever, J. Rexford. Sweet Little Lies: Fake Topologies for Flexible Routing. In Proc. HotNets, 2014. (paper) (talk)
O. Tilmans, S. Vissicchio. IGP-as-a-Backup for Robust SDN Networks. In Proc. CNSM, 2014. (paper)
N. Laurent, S. Vissicchio, M. Canini. SDLoad: An Extensible Framework for SDN Workload Generation. In Proc. HotSDN, poster session, 2014. (paper)
L. Cittadini, S. Vissicchio, B. Donnet. On the Quality of BGP Route Collectors for iBGP Policy Inference. In Proc. IFIP Networking, 2014. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever, L. Cittadini, G. G. Xie, O. Bonaventure. Safe Routing Reconfigurations with Route Redistribution. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2014. (paper)
D. Lebrun, S. Vissicchio, O. Bonaventure. Towards Test-Driven Software Defined Networking. In Proc. NOMS, 2014. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever, O. Bonaventure. Opportunities and Research Challenges of Hybrid Software Defined Networks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review. 44(2):70- 75. April 2014. (paper)
L. Vanbever, S. Vissicchio. Enabling SDN in old school networks with Software-Controlled Routing Protocols. In Proc. ONS Research Track, 2014. (paper)
M. Canini, D. De Cicco, P. Kuznetsov, D. Levin, S. Schmid, S. Vissicchio. STN: A Robust and Distributed SDN Control Plane. In Proc. ONS Research Track, poster session, 2014. (paper)
F. Clad, P. Merindol, S. Vissicchio, J.-J. Pansiot, P. Francois. Graceful Router Updates for Link-State Protocols. In Proc. ICNP, 2013. (paper)
M. Chiesa, L. Cittadini, G. Di Battista, L. Vanbever, S. Vissicchio. Using Routers to Build Logic Circuits: How Powerful is BGP? In Proc. ICNP, 2013.
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Selected as ICNP 2013 Best Paper
S. Vissicchio, L. Vanbever, C. Pelsser, L. Cittadini, P. Francois, O. Bonaventure. Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 21(3):990-1002. June 2013.
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Awarded with the IRTF Applied Network Research Prize 2013
C. Pelsser, L. Cittadini, S. Vissicchio, R. Bush. From Paris to Tokyo: On the Suitability of ping to Measure Latency. In Proc. IMC, 2013. (paper)
L. Vanbever, S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini, O. Bonaventure. When the Cure is Worse than the Disease: the Impact of Graceful IGP Operations on BGP. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2013. (paper)
L. Vanbever, S. Vissicchio, C. Pelsser, P. Francois, O. Bonaventure. Lossless Migrations of Link-State IGPs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 20(6):1842-1855. Dec 2012. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini, L. Vanbever, O. Bonaventure. iBGP Deceptions: More Sessions, Fewer Routes. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2012. (paper)
L. Cittadini, M. Rimondini, S. Vissicchio, M. Corea, G. Di Battista. From Theory To Practice: Efficiently Checking BGP Configurations for Guaranteed Convergence. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 2011. 8(4):387-400. Dec 2011. (paper)
L. Vanbever, S. Vissicchio, C. Pelsser, P. Francois, O. Bonaventure. Seamless Network-Wide IGP Migrations. In Proc. SIGCOMM, 2011. (paper)
L. Cittadini, G. Di Battista, M. Rimondini, S. Vissicchio. Wheel + Ring = Reel: the Impact of Route Filtering on the Stability of Policy Routing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 19(4):1085-1096. Aug 2011. (paper)
M. Chiesa, L. Cittadini, G. Di Battista, S. Vissicchio. Local Transit Policies and the Complexity of BGP Stability Testing. In Proc. INFOCOM, 2011. (paper)
G. Balestra, S. Luciano, M. Pizzonia, S. Vissicchio. Leveraging Router Programmability for Traffic Matrix Computation. In Proc. PRESTO, 2010. (paper)
L. Cittadini, G. Di Battista, S. Vissicchio. Doing Don’ts: Modifying BGP Attributes within an Autonomous System. In Proc. NOMS, 2010. (paper)
S. Vissicchio, L. Cittadini, M. Pizzonia, L. Vergantini, V. Mezzapesa, M. L. Papagni. Beyond the Best: Real-Time Non-Invasive Collection of BGP Messages. In Proc. INM, 2010. (paper)
L. Cittadini, G. Di Battista, M. Rimondini, S. Vissicchio. Wheel + Ring = Reel: the Impact of Route Filtering on the Stability of Policy Routing. In Proc. ICNP, 2009. (paper)