{"id":4,"date":"2013-10-01T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queen.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be\/~barbette\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:49:18","slug":"accueil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Barbette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons smallmargin smallpadding is-content-justification-space-between is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-cfe5ce44 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">high-speed networking<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">network function virtualization<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">load-balancing<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Smart NICs<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">operating systems<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">high-performance programming<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/2-years-post-doc-position\/\">News: 2-year fully funded post-doc position available<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justified wp-block-paragraph\">I am an Assistant Professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/uclouvain.be\/en\/research-institutes\/icteam\/ingi\">INGI<\/a> department of the <a href=\"https:\/\/uclouvain.be\/en\/research-institutes\/icteam\">ICTEAM<\/a> institute at <a href=\"https:\/\/uclouvain.be\/en\/index.html\">UCLouvain<\/a> in Belgium. I decided to stay there after a one year post-doc at the <a href=\"https:\/\/inl.info.ucl.ac.be\/\">IP Networking Lab<\/a> of Olivier Bonaventure, following a 3 years post-doc at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/nslab\/\">Networked Systems lab<\/a> of Dejan Kostic at KTH, Sweden. I defended my PhD thesis advised by Laurent Mathy&nbsp;in 2018 at the Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge in Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justified wp-block-paragraph\">I am now leading the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/ensg\/\">Efficiency of Networked Systems Group<\/a><\/em>. We are&nbsp;working on designing, implementing and validating a new but backward-compatible Internet based on the novel programmable network infrastructure, such as SmartNICs and P4. To this end, we&#8217;ll tackle systems problems related to high-speed networking and large scale load-balancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justified wp-block-paragraph\">This website contains information about some posts about my <a title=\"Research project\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=43\" target=\"_blank\">research project<\/a>, about some of the <a title=\"INFO-0940 Operating Systems\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">courses<\/a> I gave, &nbsp;and unrelated posts in some fields I just enjoy like <a title=\"Electronic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=49\" target=\"_blank\">electronic<\/a>,&nbsp;<a title=\"Domotic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=25\" target=\"_blank\">domotic<\/a>, <a title=\"Unix\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=61\">unix<\/a>, or <a title=\"Networking\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=29\" target=\"_blank\">networking<\/a>. I also built multiple Android applications, and in my young years, many websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest research posts<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/pamo-at-middleware25\/\">PAMO at Middleware&#8217;25<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/pamo-at-middleware25\/\" title=\"PAMO at Middleware&#039;25\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1-1024x273.png\" class=\"post_thumbnail\"  alt=\"PAMO at Middleware&#039;25\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nPAMO: Pattern Matching Offload for Intrusion Detection SystemsLuk\u00e1\u0161 \u0160i\u0161mi\u0161, Colin Evrard, Etienne Rivi\u00e8re, Tom Barbette\n\n\nThis week I am going to present PAMO, a modified version of the industry-grade Suricata IDS ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/2-years-post-doc-position\/\">2-years post-doc position<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nORGANISATION\/COMPANY\n\n\nUniversit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain\n\n\nInstitute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM)\n\n\nRESEARCH FIELD\n\n\nNetworking, Systems, High-speed packet processing, SmartNICs, P4, NFV\n\n\nMINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nThe candidate must have obtained a PhD ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/multiend\/\">Multi-End QUIC: A Transport Protocol to Enable One-to-Many Commun&hellip;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/multiend\/\" title=\"Multi-End QUIC: A Transport Protocol to Enable One-to-Many Communications\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png\" class=\"post_thumbnail\"  alt=\"Multi-End QUIC: A Transport Protocol to Enable One-to-Many Communications\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\nhttps:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3769700.3771696\n\n\n\n\nEl Mehdi Makhroute, Quentin De Coninck, Tom Barbette\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Internet has shifted from an end-to-end paradigm to an end-to-ends paradigm, i.e. to serve a provider&#8217;s content (e.g. a web page, an ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/opendesc\/\">OpenDesc at HotNets&#8217;25 !<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/opendesc\/\" title=\"OpenDesc at HotNets&#039;25 !\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-17-16-03-OpenDesc-From-Static-NIC-Descriptors-to-Evolvable-Metadata-Interfaces-OpenDesc-5.pdf-1024x423.png\" class=\"post_thumbnail\"  alt=\"OpenDesc at HotNets&#039;25 !\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nOur paper &#8220;OpenDesc: From Static NIC Descriptors to EvolvableMetadata Interfaces&#8221; will be presented today at HotNets&#8217;25. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn OpenDesc, we propose to use P4 as an interface to define packet descriptors. ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/flexicast-quic-rethinking-multicast-for-the-quic-era-in-sigcomm-ccr\/\">Flexicast QUIC: Rethinking Multicast for the QUIC Era in SIGCOMM &hellip;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/flexicast-quic-rethinking-multicast-for-the-quic-era-in-sigcomm-ccr\/\" title=\"Flexicast QUIC: Rethinking Multicast for the QUIC Era in SIGCOMM CCR\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fcquic-1024x471.png\" class=\"post_thumbnail\"  alt=\"Flexicast QUIC: Rethinking Multicast for the QUIC Era in SIGCOMM CCR\" \/><\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nOur latest paper with Louis Navarre, Quentin de Coninck, Tom Barbette and Olivier Bonaventure has recently appeared in SIGCOMM CCR!\n\n\nIn short: Flexicast QUIC brings multicast back to the Internet by ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll find all our <strong>publications <\/strong>and research in the <a title=\"Research project\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tombarbette.be\/?page_id=43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: 2-year fully funded post-doc position available I am an Assistant Professor at the INGI department of the ICTEAM institute at UCLouvain in Belgium. I decided to stay there after a one year post-doc at the IP Networking Lab of Olivier Bonaventure, following a 3 years post-doc at the Networked Systems lab of Dejan Kostic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tom Barbette&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom Barbette - Tom Barbette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Barbette - Tom Barbette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News: 2-year fully funded post-doc position available I am an Assistant Professor at the INGI department of the ICTEAM institute at UCLouvain in Belgium. 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