Prof. Thomas Heide Clausen

Thomas Heide Clausen, cand.polyt, PhD : Professor

Thomas Heide Clausen, cand.polyt, PhD

Professor

A graduate of Aalborg University, Denmark (M.Sc., PhD – civilingeniør, cand.polyt), Thomas spent a number of years at INRIA where he, among other things, developed and standardised OLSR – the predominant routing protocol for community, mesh, and tactical networks.

In 2004 he joined faculty at Ecole Polytechnique, France’s premiere technical and scientific university, where he is currently a professor. He leads the computer networking research group, and enjoys working with with some of France’s best students.

Thomas has developed, and coordinates, the computer networking curriculum at Ecole Polytechnique, teaches several core classes therein. He’s the academic director of the elite and multidisciplinary Master of Science and Technology programme “IoT: Innovation and Management”.

In terms of research, Thomas is, particularly, interested in “keeping the Internet connected”, even when faced with the immense influx of “new devices” and “new uses”. Thus, his work has emphasized development of algorithms, protocols, and architectures for the (immodestly) termed “future internet”: the Internet of Things (IoT), personal-area networks (PANs), ubiquitous networks, rendering the current Internet routing more “robust” and “adaptive”, as well as for securely supporting new services across the Internet. Thomas has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed academic publications, which have attracted more than 16000 citations.

With a particular affinity for “applicable research”,  Thomas remains an active contributor to standardisation. He  served as co-chair of the MANET AUTOCONF working group from 2005 until its closure in 2012, within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – the international standardization body behind the Internet and behind protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP etc. Also within the IETF, he has served on the Routing Area Directorate, an advisory group of routing experts providing final document reviews as part of the standardization process, as well as other expert advice on routing-related topics. Thomas has authored, edited, and contributed substantially to 24 published IETF standards. He has also consulted for the development of IEEE 802.11s, as well as contributed the routing portions of the recently ratified ITU-T standard G.9903 for G3-PLC networks – the international standard upon which, e.g., the SmartGrid/ConnectedEnergy initiatives are built.

Thomas maintains long-standing formal industrial research collaborations with, e.g., Hitachi (Japan), Fujitsu (USA), Toyota (Japan), Qualcomm (USA), EDF (France), ERDF (France), and Sagemcom (France). He also maintains close collaborative relations with peers in industry, including BAE Systems (UK), Cisco Systems (USA & France), and Alcatel-Lucent (France). He was involved in the  ADEME “SOGrid” project, on the future French national “Smart Grid”. Thomas holds the Cisco endowed “Internet of Everything” academic chaire at Ecole Polytechnique.

Thomas is a senior member of the IEEE, and was named an “IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor”, as part of the inaugural 2021 class.

 

Thomas.Clausen@polytechnique.edu


Latest Posts Mentioning Thomas

Paper: IEEE Access – DNN partitioning for inference throughput acceleration at the edge

Intro I am very excited to present this work, published in the IEEE Access journal, which presents an alternative to standard AI workload acceleration mechanisms at the edge (hardware acceleration, model compression, cloud off-loading). This work, in collaboration with Cisco,…
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Paper: Investigating data broadcast performance in mobile ad-hoc networks

We investigate broadcasting in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). We define broadcasting as being the process of delivering one packet, originated at one node, to (ideally) all other nodes in the MANET. We present specific problems related to broadcasting in MANETs,…
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Paper: Combining Temporal and Spartial Partial Topolgy for MANET Routing – Merging OLSR and FSR

In this paper, we propose an extension to the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol, a proactive link-state routing protocol optimized for mobile ad-hoc networks, in-troducing temporal partial topology as a mechanism for re-ducing control traffic overhead. The extension is…
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Thomas’ Publications

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2013

Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas; Igarashi, Yuichi

Evaluation of Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks: LOADng and RPL Proceedings Article

In: 2013 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors, 2013.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Constrained Networks, LLN, LOADng, Performance Evaluation, RPL, Sensor Networks, Smart Grid, SOGRID

Clausen, Thomas; de Verdiere, Axel Colin; Yi, Jiazi

Performance analysis of Trickle as a flooding mechanism Proceedings Article

In: IEEE 15th International Conference on Communication Technology, 2013.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Constrained Networks, LLN, Performance Evaluation, RPL, Sensor Networks, Trickle

2011

Herberg, Ulrich; Clausen, Thomas

Study of Multipoint-to-Point and Broadcast Traffic Performance in the 'IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks' (RPL) Journal Article

In: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, ISSN 1868-5137, Volume 2, Number 4, 2011, (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12652-011-0046-2).

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Broadcast, Constrained Networks, LLN, LLN Broadcast, Multicast, Performance Evaluation, RPL, Sensor Networks

Herberg, Ulrich; Clausen, Thomas

A Comparative Performance Study of the Routing Protocols LOAD and RPL with Bi-Directional Traffic in Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLN) Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN), 2011.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Constrained Networks, LLN, LOADng, Performance Evaluation, RPL, Sensor Networks

Clausen, Thomas; Herberg, Ulrich; Philipp, Matias

A Critical Evaluation of the “IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks” (RPL) Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & Communication (WiMob), 2011.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Constrained Networks, IPv6, LLN, RPL, Sensor Networks

Clausen, Thomas; Herberg, Ulrich

Some Considerations on Routing in Particular and Lossy Environments Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 1st Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet Workshop, 2011.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Constrained Networks, LLN, RPL

Levis, Phil; Clausen, Thomas; Hui, Jonatan; Gnawali, Omprakash; Ko, JeongGil

RFC6206: The Trickle Algorithm Miscellaneous

2011, (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6206).

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: IETF, LLN, RFC, RPL, Sensor Networks, Standard, Trickle

2010

Clausen, Thomas; Herberg, Ulrich

Comparative Study of RPL-Enabled Optimized Broadcast in Wireless Sensor Networks Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2010.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Broadcast, Constrained Networks, LLN, Multicast, Performance Evaluation, RPL, Sensor Networks

Clausen, Thomas; Herberg, Ulrich

Multipoint-to-Point and Broadcast in RPL Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Frontiers in Ubiquitous Computing, Networking and Applications (NeoFUSION 2010), 2010.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Broadcast, Constrained Networks, LLN, LLN Broadcast, Multicast, RPL, Sensor Networks