Assistant Professor
Giang T. Nguyen has been, since July 2021, an Assistant Professor and the Head of the Haptic Communication Systems research group. He is a principal investigator in interdisciplinary research projects, such as CeTI (Center of Excellence for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop) and 6G-life. Previously, he co-founded and worked at Wandelbots, a robotic startup, programming industrial robots via demonstration. Between 2016 and 2019, Giang Nguyen was a postdoc researcher at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks (ComNets), leading the NFV/SDN research group. Simultaneously, he is working on the Highly Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing (HAEC) path of cfaed, coordinating the Architecture group of projects.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications at Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST, Vietnam) in 2001, Master’s degree also in Telecommunications at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Thailand) in 2005. He was a Ph.D. student of Professor Thorsten Strufe at the Peer-to-Peer Networks group (TU Darmstadt, Germany) and then the Chair for Privacy and Data Security (TU Dresden, Germany). In March 2016, he successfully defended his dissertation titled “Contributions to the resilience of Peer-to-Peer video streaming against Denial-of-Service attacks.”
Phone: (0351) 463-34141 Email: giang.nguyen AT tu-dresden DOT de Web: Haptic Communication Systems
I am passionate about making communication networks and networked systems fast, flexible, and resilient. In particular, my research interests cover the following topics:
I have been giving selective lectures on the following courses:
Xiang, Zuo; Gabriel, Frank; Nguyen, Giang T.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Latency Measurement of Service Function Chaining on OpenStack Platform Inproceedings
In: 2018 IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) (LCN 2018), Chicago, USA, 2018.
Abstract
@inproceedings{Gabr1810:Latency, title = {Latency Measurement of Service Function Chaining on OpenStack Platform}, author = {Zuo {Xiang} and Frank {Gabriel} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-10-04}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) (LCN 2018)}, address = {Chicago, USA}, abstract = {Service Function Chaining allows the flexible and efficient deployment of network functions for different applications. With Network Function Virtualization the elements of the chain can be provisioned in virtual environments on any COTS hardware. This introduces the question of where to position the individual network functions within the virtualization environment. This problem of network function placement has been studied in theory as an optimization problem on a graph. However it is challenging to apply theoretical work on practical deployments. In this paper, we perform a measurement campaign to study the delay introduced by Service Function Chaining. We propose placement heuristics and evaluate the performance on OpenStack. With the proposed heuristics, the service delay can be reduced by more than 20%. We measured the overhead introduced by a network function implemented in user space. The processing delay in user space can be twice as much as the same function in kernel space. More interestingly, we identified a service interruption of more than 1 second after activation of the chain.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
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Cabrera, Juan A.; Schmoll, Robert-Steve; Nguyen, Giang T.; Pandi, Sreekrishna; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Softwarization and Network Coding in the Mobile Edge Cloud for the Tactile Internet Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018.
@article{cabrerasoftwarization5g, title = {Softwarization and Network Coding in the Mobile Edge Cloud for the Tactile Internet}, author = {Juan A. {Cabrera} and Robert-Steve {Schmoll} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Sreekrishna {Pandi} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-26}, urldate = {2018-09-26}, booktitle = {IEEE}, journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE}, abstract = {Future communication systems, such as those enabling the tactile internet, will face disruptive changes compared to the state of art systems, which are i.) highly dynamic topology changes, ii.) replacement of the end to end paradigm with real mesh topologies, and iii.) a massive number of devices. To overcome those disruptive changes, future communication systems are substituting specialized hardware with generic hardware boxes and the softwarization paradigm. Furthermore, this approach allows for quick deployment of new services, which was known to cloud service already. In this paper, we will introduce the most prominent candidates for softwarization such as software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) and explain the importance of those technologies for the upcoming 5G communication system and tactile internet applications realizing novel mobile edge computing, storage, and networking solutions. Specifically, we will discuss use cases of SDN/NFV such as network coding as a service, and ultra-reliable distributed edge caching. Finally, we will describe our holistic testbed at 5G Lab Germany as a fundamental step towards creating an experiment infrastructure that anticipates the 5G communication systems and tactile internet applications.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} }
Leiva-Mayorga, Israel; Torre, Roberto; Pandi, Sreekrishna; Nguyen, Giang T.; Boscà, Vicent Plà; Martinez-Bauset, Jorge; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
A Network-coded Cooperation Protocol for Efficient Massive Content Distribution Inproceedings
In: IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Conference Proceedings, pp. 7, Technische Universität Dresden IEEE, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2018.
@inproceedings{nccnet-model, title = {A Network-coded Cooperation Protocol for Efficient Massive Content Distribution}, author = {Israel {Leiva-Mayorga} and Roberto {Torre} and Sreekrishna {Pandi} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Vicent {Pl\`{a} Bosc\`{a}} and Jorge {Martinez-Bauset} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-08-15}, booktitle = {IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Conference Proceedings}, volume = {1}, number = {1}, pages = {7}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Dubai, United Arab Emirates}, organization = {Technische Universit\"{a}t Dresden}, series = {1}, abstract = {Massive content delivery in cellular networks is in the spotlight of the research community as data traffic is increasing at an incredibly fast pace. The existing LTE-A implementation for content broadcast presents several issues such as indoor coverage, along with low energy and spectral efficiency. Therefore, novel systems that provide efficient massive content delivery and reduced energy consumption are needed. In this paper we present a massive content distribution protocol that combines the benefits of cooperative mobile clouds (CMCs) with Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) through multicast WiFi links. Our main goal is to offload data traffic from the LTE-A link and to reduce the energy consumption at the cooperating UEs. We solve the problem of excessive signaling that oftentimes arises in cooperative approaches by eliminating feedback messages within the CMCs. Instead, we provide a simple but accurate analytic model to correctly configure the number of coded transmissions to be performed within the CMCs. Results show that energy savings of more than 37 percent can be achieved with our protocol when compared to direct content download from the cellular base station. Furthermore, bandwidth utilization at the LTE-A link is sharply reduced.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Nguyen, Vu; Nguyen, Giang T.; Gabriel, Frank; Rötter, Daniel E. Lucani; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Integrating sparsity into Fulcrum codes: Investigating throughput, complexity and overhead Inproceedings
In: IEEE ICC, Kansas City, US, 2018.
@inproceedings{vu2018sparsefulcrum, title = {Integrating sparsity into Fulcrum codes: Investigating throughput, complexity and overhead}, author = {Vu {Nguyen} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Frank {Gabriel} and Daniel E. {Lucani R\"{o}tter} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-05-20}, booktitle = {IEEE ICC}, address = {Kansas City, US}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Doan, Tung V.; Nguyen, Giang T.; Kropp, Alexander; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
APMEC: An Automated Provisioning Framework for Multi-access Edge Computing Online
2018.
Links
@online{Doan2018, title = {APMEC: An Automated Provisioning Framework for Multi-access Edge Computing}, author = {Tung V. {Doan} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Alexander {Kropp} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09251}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-05-09}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {online} }
Wu, Huanzhuo; Nguyen, Giang T.; Chorppath, Anil K.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Network Slicing for Conditional Monitoring in the Industrial Internet of Things Journal Article
In: 2018.
@article{Wu2018, title = {Network Slicing for Conditional Monitoring in the Industrial Internet of Things}, author = {Huanzhuo {Wu} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Anil K. {Chorppath} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, url = {https://sdn.ieee.org/newsletter/january-2018/network-slicing-for-conditional-monitoring-in-the-industrial-internet-of-things}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-02-01}, urldate = {2018-02-01}, organization = {IEEE Software Defined Networks, IEEE Softwarization, Jan. 2018}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} }
Gabriel, Frank; Nguyen, Giang T.; Schmoll, Robert-Steve; Cabrera, Juan A.; Mühleisen, Maciej; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Practical deployment of network coding for real-time applications in 5G networks Inproceedings
In: CCNC, Las Vegas, 2018.
@inproceedings{Gabriel-2017, title = {Practical deployment of network coding for real-time applications in 5G networks}, author = {Frank {Gabriel} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Robert-Steve {Schmoll} and Juan A. {Cabrera} and Maciej {M\"{u}hleisen} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-12}, urldate = {2018-01-12}, booktitle = {CCNC}, address = {Las Vegas}, abstract = {The 5G communication system will provide flexible and programmable networks by leveraging softwarization technologies such as NFV and SDN. That advanced feature of 5G networks will be demonstrated in the context of real-time video surveillance for public safety. Specifically, we demonstrate for the first time a practical deployment of Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) with NFV and SDN technologies to improve video quality against packet loss due to congestion at the core network and signal impairment of lossy channels at network edges. The demonstration implements NFV and SDN applications on COTS devices to prove its flexibility and portability.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Pandi, Sreekrishna; Torre, Roberto; Nguyen, Giang T.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Massive Video Multicasting in Cellular Networks using Network Coded Cooperative Communication Inproceedings
In: 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) (CCNC 2018), Las Vegas, USA, 2018.
@inproceedings{Pand1801:Massive, title = {Massive Video Multicasting in Cellular Networks using Network Coded Cooperative Communication}, author = {Sreekrishna {Pandi} and Roberto {Torre} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, booktitle = {2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC) (CCNC 2018)}, address = {Las Vegas, USA}, abstract = {The sharp increase in the video traffic and handheld devices in the last decade warrant for new paradigms of applications including massive video multicasting, such as in the football stadiums, or concert halls where multiple angles of the live feed could be multicasted to the users' smartphones or tablets. However, the current state-of-the-art cellular solution is simply individually unicast the video stream to each node, which is extremely resource-inefficient. In this demo, we show how we perform reliable massive video multicasting over standard LTE links by combining the principle of cooperative networking and Random Linear Network Coding. We offload the majority of the traffic from LTE onto Wifi multicasts, thus increasing the efficiency of the LTE channel usage by multiple orders of magnitude. This demo has been demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress 2017 as a part of Nokia's booth to demonstrate the 5G stadium experience.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Nguyen, Giang T.; Cabrera, Juan A.; Schmoll, Robert-Steve; Pandi, Sreekrishna; Radeke, Rico; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Theory that Matters! Problem-based learning towards 5G Communication System and Standards Inproceedings
In: KuVS Fachgespräch "Network Softwarization" – From Research to Application, pp. 2, 2017.
@inproceedings{Nguyen-2017, title = {Theory that Matters! Problem-based learning towards 5G Communication System and Standards}, author = {Giang T. {Nguyen} and Juan A. {Cabrera} and Robert-Steve {Schmoll} and Sreekrishna {Pandi} and Rico {Radeke} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10900/78148}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-10-12}, urldate = {2017-10-12}, booktitle = {KuVS Fachgespr\"{a}ch \"Network Softwarization\" \textendash From Research to Application}, pages = {2}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Matthiesen, Bho; Pfennig, Stefan; Bielert, Mario; Ilsche, Thomas; Lonnstrom, Andrew; Li, Tao; Cabrera, Juan A.; Scheunert, Christian; Franz, Elke; Santini, Silvia; Strufe, Thorsten; Jorswieck, Eduard A.; Nagel, Wolfgang E.; Nguyen, Giang T.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Secure and Energy-Efficient Interconnects for Board-to-Board Communication Inproceedings
In: Workshop on Broadband Wireless Communication between Computer Boards (Atto-Nets), IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB), pp. 7, Salamanca, Spain, 2017.
@inproceedings{Matthiesen-2017, title = {Secure and Energy-Efficient Interconnects for Board-to-Board Communication}, author = {Bho {Matthiesen} and Stefan {Pfennig} and Mario {Bielert} and Thomas {Ilsche} and Andrew {Lonnstrom} and Tao {Li} and Juan A. {Cabrera} and Christian {Scheunert} and Elke {Franz} and Silvia {Santini} and Thorsten {Strufe} and Eduard A. {Jorswieck} and Wolfgang E. {Nagel} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-09-12}, urldate = {2017-09-12}, booktitle = {Workshop on Broadband Wireless Communication between Computer Boards (Atto-Nets), IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)}, journal = {Workshop on Broadband Wireless Communication between Computer Boards (Atto-Nets), IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)}, pages = {7}, address = {Salamanca, Spain}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Cabrera, Juan A.; Nguyen, Giang T.; Rötter, Daniel E. Lucani; Pedersen, Morten V.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Taking the Trash Back In: Practical Joint Channel and Network Coding for Improving IEEE 802.11 Networks Inproceedings
In: European Wireless 2017; 23th European Wireless Conference, pp. 1-5, 2017.
@inproceedings{Cabrera2017, title = {Taking the Trash Back In: Practical Joint Channel and Network Coding for Improving IEEE 802.11 Networks}, author = {Juan A. {Cabrera} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Daniel E. {Lucani R\"{o}tter} and Morten V. {Pedersen} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=\&arnumber=8011333\&isnumber=8011282}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-05-01}, urldate = {2017-05-01}, booktitle = {European Wireless 2017; 23th European Wireless Conference}, pages = {1-5}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Nguyen, Giang T.; Roos, Stefanie; Schiller, Benjamin; Strufe, Thorsten
SWAP: Protecting pull-based P2P video streaming systems from inference attacks Inproceedings
In: 2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), pp. 1-9, 2016.
@inproceedings{Nguyen-2016, title = {SWAP: Protecting pull-based P2P video streaming systems from inference attacks}, author = {Giang T. {Nguyen} and Stefanie {Roos} and Benjamin {Schiller} and Thorsten {Strufe}}, doi = {10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523509}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-06-01}, booktitle = {2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)}, pages = {1-9}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Nguyen, Giang T.; Roos, Stefanie; Strufe, Thorsten; Fischer, Mathias
RBCS: A resilient backbone construction scheme for hybrid Peer-to-Peer streaming Inproceedings
In: IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pp. 1-8, 2015.
@inproceedings{Nguyen-2015, title = {RBCS: A resilient backbone construction scheme for hybrid Peer-to-Peer streaming}, author = {Giang T. {Nguyen} and Stefanie {Roos} and Thorsten {Strufe} and Mathias {Fischer}}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-10-01}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)}, pages = {1-8}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Roos, Stefanie; Nguyen, Giang T.; Strufe, Thorsten
Integrating churn into the formal analysis of routing algorithms Inproceedings
In: 2015 International Conference and Workshops on Networked Systems, NetSys 2015, Cottbus, Germany, March 9-12, 2015, pp. 1-5, 2015.
@inproceedings{DBLPconfkivsRoosNS15, title = {Integrating churn into the formal analysis of routing algorithms}, author = {Stefanie {Roos} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Thorsten {Strufe}}, url = {httpdx.doi.org10.1109NetSys.2015.7089070}, doi = {10.1109NetSys.2015.7089070}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, booktitle = {2015 International Conference and Workshops on Networked Systems, NetSys 2015, Cottbus, Germany, March 9-12, 2015}, pages = {1-5}, crossref = {DBLPconfkivs2015}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Schiller, Benjamin; Nguyen, Giang T.; Strufe, Thorsten
Resilient tree-based live streaming for mobile scenarios Inproceedings
In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom 2014 Workshops, Budapest, Hungary, March 24-28, 2014, pp. 160-162, 2014.
@inproceedings{Schiller-2014, title = {Resilient tree-based live streaming for mobile scenarios}, author = {Benjamin {Schiller} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Thorsten {Strufe}}, url = {httpdx.doi.org10.1109PerComW.2014.6815187}, doi = {10.1109PerComW.2014.6815187}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom 2014 Workshops, Budapest, Hungary, March 24-28, 2014}, pages = {160-162}, crossref = {DBLPconfpercom2014w}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Nguyen, Giang T.; Fischer, Mathias; Strufe, Thorsten
On the Resilience of Pull-Based P2P Streaming Systems against DoS Attacks Book Chapter
In: Felber, Pascal; Garg, Vijay (Ed.): Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, vol. 8756, pp. 33-47, Springer International Publishing, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-11763-8.
@inbook{Nguyen-2014, title = {On the Resilience of Pull-Based P2P Streaming Systems against DoS Attacks}, author = {Giang T. {Nguyen} and Mathias {Fischer} and Thorsten {Strufe}}, editor = {Pascal {Felber} and Vijay {Garg}}, doi = {10.1007978-3-319-11764-5_3}, isbn = {978-3-319-11763-8}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, booktitle = {Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems}, volume = {8756}, pages = {33-47}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} }
Fischer, Mathias; Grau, Sascha; Nguyen, Giang T.; Schäfer, Günter
Resilient and underlay-aware P2P live-streaming Journal Article
In: Computer Networks, vol. 59, no. 0, pp. 122-136, 2014, ISSN: 1389-1286.
@article{Fischer-2014, title = {Resilient and underlay-aware P2P live-streaming}, author = {Mathias {Fischer} and Sascha {Grau} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and G\"{u}nter {Sch\"{a}fer}}, url = {httpwww.sciencedirect.comsciencearticlepiiS1389128613003617}, doi = {httpdx.doi.org10.1016j.comnet.2013.10.005}, issn = {1389-1286}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, journal = {Computer Networks}, volume = {59}, number = {0}, pages = {122-136}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} }
OSSim A Generic Simulation Framework for Overlay Streaming Inproceedings
In: Summer Computer Simulation Conference, 2013.
@inproceedings{Nguyen-2013, title = {OSSim A Generic Simulation Framework for Overlay Streaming}, author = {Giang T. {Nguyen} and Mathias {Fischer} and Thorsten {Strufe}}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-07-01}, booktitle = {Summer Computer Simulation Conference}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
Resilient tree-based live streaming in reality Inproceedings
In: 13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE P2P 2013, Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 2013, Proceedings, pp. 1-2, 2013.
@inproceedings{Schiller-2013, title = {Resilient tree-based live streaming in reality}, author = {Benjamin {Schiller} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Thorsten {Strufe}}, url = {httpdx.doi.org10.1109P2P.2013.6688735}, doi = {10.1109P2P.2013.6688735}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-01-01}, booktitle = {13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE P2P 2013, Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 2013, Proceedings}, pages = {1-2}, crossref = {DBLPconfp2p2013}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} }
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