László Toka

László Toka
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E-mail:
toka_at_tmit_dot_bme_dot_hu
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Current Research

  • Bigdata
  • Network economics
  • SDN
  • Cloud ## Awards

Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship 2014 September – exp. 2017 Aug

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
    • Topic: Economic Modeling of Distributed Systems

Post-doctoral Scholarship 2014 September – exp. 2016 Aug

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
    • Topic: Design of Distributed and Self-organizing IT Systems

Outstanding PhD Student Award 2011

  • High Speed Networks Laboratory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics

BMe Research Grant 2010

  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics
    • Topic: Safe data backup for free ## Journal Review
  • Elsevier Computer Networks (ComNet), impact factor: 1.282

Scinetific Membership

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Telecommunications Scientific Committee (MTA TTB) 2014 -
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2007 - 
  • IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) 2007 -

Publications

2020

  • [PDF] [DOI] L. Csikor, M. Szalay, G. Rétvári, G. Pongrácz, D. P. Pezaros, and L. Toka, “Transition to SDN is HARMLESS: Hybrid Architecture for Migrating Legacy Ethernet Switches to SDN,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 28, iss. 1, 2020.
    [Bibtex]

2019

  • [PDF] [DOI] D. Haja, B. Vass, and L. Toka, “Towards making big data applications network-aware in edge-cloud systems,” in 2019 IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2019, pp. 1-6.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{haja2019towards,
author={Haja, D\'avid and Vass, Bal\azs and Toka, L\'aszl\'o},
booktitle={2019 IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)},
title={Towards making big data applications network-aware in edge-cloud systems},
year={2019},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-6},
doi={10.1109/CloudNet47604.2019.9064109}}
  • [PDF] [DOI] D. Haja, B. Vass, and L. Toka, “Improving Big Data Application Performance in Edge-Cloud Systems,” in 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2019, pp. 187-189.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{haja2019improving,
author={Haja, D\'avid and Vass, Bal\'azs and Toka, L\'aszl\'o},
booktitle={2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)},
title={Improving Big Data Application Performance in Edge-Cloud Systems},
year={2019},
volume={},
number={},
pages={187-189},
doi={10.1109/CLOUD.2019.00039}}

2018

  • B. Sonkoly, M. Szabó, B. Németh, A. Majdán, G. Pongrácz, and L. Toka, “FERO: Fast and Efficient Resource Orchestrator for a Data Plane Built on Docker and DPDK,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Honolulu, USA, 2018.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{sonkoly2018fero,
AUTHOR="Bal\'azs Sonkoly and M\'arton Szabó and Bal\'azs N\'emeth and
Andr\'as Majd\'an and Gergely Pongr\'acz and Laszlo Toka",
TITLE="{FERO:} Fast and Efficient Resource Orchestrator for a Data Plane Built on
Docker and {DPDK}",
BOOKTITLE={Proc. IEEE INFOCOM},
ADDRESS="Honolulu, USA",
DAYS=15,
MONTH=apr,
YEAR=2018,
KEYWORDS="5G and Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization and top"
}
  • [PDF] L. Csikor, L. Toka, M. Szalay, G. Pongrácz, D. P. Pezaros, and G. Rétvári, “HARMLESS: Cost-Effective Transitioning to SDN for Small Enterprises,” in Proceedings of IFIP Netwoking, 2018.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{csikor2018networking,
author = {Csikor, Levente and Toka, L\'{a}szl\'{o} and Szalay, M\'{a}rk and Pongr\'{a}cz, Gergely and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. and R{\'e}tv\'{a}ri, G\'{a}bor},
title = {HARMLESS: Cost-Effective Transitioning to SDN for Small Enterprises},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IFIP Netwoking},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Software Defined Networking and Switch design and Migration}
}
  • [DOI] L. Csikor, C. Rothenberg, D. P. Pezaros, S. Schmid, L. Toka, and G. Rétvári, “Policy Injection: A Cloud Dataplane DoS Attack,” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference on Posters and Demos, New York, NY, USA, 2018, pp. 147-149.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{csikor2018sigcomm2,
author = {Csikor, Levente and Rothenberg, Christian and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. and Schmid, Stefan and Toka, L\'{a}szl\'{o} and R{\'e}tv\'{a}ri, G\'{a}bor},
title = {Policy Injection: A Cloud Dataplane DoS Attack},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference on Posters and Demos},
series = {SIGCOMM '18},
year = {2018},
isbn = {978-1-4503-5915-3},
location = {Budapest, Hungary},
pages = {147--149},
numpages = {3},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3234200.3234250},
doi = {10.1145/3234200.3234250},
acmid = {3234250},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Cloud security and DoS and OVS and policy injection},
}

2017

  • [DOI] M. Szalay, L. Toka, G. Rétvári, G. Pongrácz, L. Csikor, and D. P. Pezaros, “HARMLESS: Cost-Effective Transitioning to SDN,” in Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, New York, NY, USA, 2017, pp. 91-93.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{csikor2017sigcomm,
author = {Szalay, M\'{a}rk and Toka, L\'{a}szl\'{o} and R{\'e}tv\'{a}ri, G\'{a}bor and Pongr\'{a}cz, Gergely and Csikor, Levente and Pezaros, Dimitrios P.},
title = {HARMLESS: Cost-Effective Transitioning to SDN},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Posters and Demos},
series = {SIGCOMM Posters and Demos '17},
year = {2017},
isbn = {978-1-4503-5057-0},
location = {Los Angeles, CA, USA},
pages = {91--93},
numpages = {3},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3123878.3131997},
doi = {10.1145/3123878.3131997},
acmid = {3131997},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Migration and Software Defined Networking and Switch design}
}
  • L. Toka, J. Tapolcai, G. Darzanos, and B. Sonkoly, “On Pricing of 5G Services,” in Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2017. acceptance rate 35\%
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2017pricing5G,
author = {L\'aszl\'o Toka and J\'anos Tapolcai and George Darzanos and Bal{\'a}zs Sonkoly},
title = {On Pricing of 5G Services},
booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
year = {2017},
comment = {acceptance rate 35\%},
keywords = {5G and Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking}
}
  • [PDF] L. Toka, A. Lajtha, É. Hosszu, B. Formanek, D. Géhberger, and J. Tapolcai, “A Resource-Aware and Time-Critical IoT Framework,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Atlanta, USA, 2017.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2017infocom,
AUTHOR="Laszlo Toka and Andr{\'a}s Lajtha and {\'E}va Hosszu and Bence Formanek and
D{\'a}niel G{\'e}hberger and J{\'a}nos Tapolcai",
TITLE="A {Resource-Aware} and {Time-Critical} {IoT} Framework",
BOOKTITLE={Proc. IEEE INFOCOM},
ADDRESS="Atlanta, USA",
DAYS=1,
MONTH=may,
YEAR=2017,
KEYWORDS="Internet of Things and cloud and top"
}

2015

  • L. Toka and G. Biczok, “On Pricing Online Data Backup,” in Smart Data Pricing (SDP), 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop, 2015.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka_2015_backup,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Biczok, Gergely},
title = {On Pricing Online Data Backup},
booktitle = {Smart Data Pricing (SDP), 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop},
year = {2015}
}
  • [DOI] M. Dell’Amico, P. Michiardi, L. Toka, and P. Cataldi, “Adaptive redundancy management for durable P2P backup,” Computer Networks, vol. 83, pp. 136-148, 2015.
    [Bibtex] 
    @article{DellAmico2015136,
title = "Adaptive redundancy management for durable {P2P} backup",
journal = "Computer Networks",
volume = "83",
number = "0",
pages = "136 - 148",
year = "2015",
issn = "1389-1286",
doi = "10.1016/j.comnet.2015.03.006",
author = "Matteo Dell'Amico and Pietro Michiardi and Laszlo Toka and Pasquale Cataldi",
keywords = "{P2P} and Peer-to-peer and {E}conomics of {N}etworked {S}ystems and Backup and Storage and Redundancy"
}
  • A. Csoma, L. Toka, and A. Gulyás, “On Lower Estimating Internet Queuing Delay,” in Proc. International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{csoma2015tsp,
author = {Attila Csoma and L\'aszl\'o Toka and Andr\'as Guly\'as},
title = {On Lower Estimating Internet Queuing Delay},
booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)},
year = {2015},
address = {Prague, Czech Republic},
keywords = {network, delay}
}
  • [PDF] L. Csikor, M. Szalay, S. Balázs, and L. Toka, “NFPA: Network Function Performance Analyzer,” in IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks Demo Track (NFV-SDN), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2015, pp. 17-19.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{csikor2015nfvsdn,
title={{NFPA}: Network Function Performance Analyzer},
author={Levente Csikor and M\'ark Szalay and Sonkoly Bal{\'a}zs and L\'aszl\'o Toka},
booktitle={IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks Demo Track (NFV-SDN)},
pages={17--19},
year={2015},
address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
keywords = {Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization and demo}
}

2012

  • L. Toka, P. Cataldi, M. Dell’Amico, and P. Michiardi, “Redundancy management for P2P backup,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2012, pp. 2986-2990.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2012redundancy,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Cataldi, Pasquale and Dell'Amico, Matteo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {Redundancy management for P2P backup},
booktitle = {Proc. IEEE INFOCOM},
year = {2012},
pages = {2986--2990},
organization = {IEEE},
keywords = {peer to peer}
}

2011

  • G. Biczók, L. Toka, A. Gulyás, T. A. Trinh, and A. Vidács, “Incentivizing the global wireless village,” Computer Networks, vol. 55, iss. 2, pp. 439-456, 2011.
    [Bibtex] 
    @ARTICLE{biczok2011incentivizing,
author = {Bicz\'ok, Gergely and Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Guly\'as, Andr\'as and Trinh, Tuan A and Vid\'acs, Attila},
title = {Incentivizing the global wireless village},
journal = {Computer Networks},
year = {2011},
volume = {55},
pages = {439--456},
number = {2},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems},
publisher = {Elsevier}
}
  • G. Szabó, Z. Turányi, L. Toka, S. Molnár, and A. Santos, “Automatic protocol signature generation framework for deep packet inspection,” in Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, 2011, pp. 291-299.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{szabo2011automatic,
author = {Szab\'o, G\'eza and Tur\'anyi, Zolt\'an and Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Moln\'ar, S\'andor and Santos, Alysson},
title = {Automatic protocol signature generation framework for deep packet
inspection},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Performance
Evaluation Methodologies and Tools},
year = {2011},
pages = {291--299},
organization = {ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications
Engineering)}
}
  • L. Toka and P. Michiardi, “Analysis of user-driven peer selection in peer-to-peer backup and storage systems,” Telecommunication Systems, vol. 47, iss. 1-2, pp. 49-63, 2011.
    [Bibtex] 
    @ARTICLE{toka2011analysis,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {Analysis of user-driven peer selection in peer-to-peer backup and
storage systems},
journal = {Telecommunication Systems},
year = {2011},
volume = {47},
pages = {49--63},
number = {1-2},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems},
publisher = {Springer US}
}
  • L. Toka, M. Dell’Amico, and P. Michiardi, “Data transfer scheduling for p2p storage,” in Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, 2011, pp. 132-141.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2011data,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Dell'Amico, Matteo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {Data transfer scheduling for p2p storage},
booktitle = {Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2011 IEEE International Conference
on},
year = {2011},
pages = {132--141},
organization = {IEEE},
keywords = {peer to peer}
}

2010

  • L. Toka, A. Korosi, and A. Vidács, “On distributed dynamic spectrum allocation for sequential arrivals,” in New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum, 2010 IEEE Symposium on, 2010, pp. 1-12.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2010distributed,
author = {Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Korosi, Attila and Vid\'acs, Attila},
title = {On distributed dynamic spectrum allocation for sequential arrivals},
booktitle = {New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum, 2010 IEEE Symposium on},
year = {2010},
pages = {1--12},
organization = {IEEE},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems}
}
  • L. Toka, M. Dell’Amico, and P. Michiardi, “Online data backup: A peer-assisted approach,” in Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2010 IEEE Tenth International Conference on, 2010, pp. 1-10.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2010online,
author = {Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Dell'Amico, Matteo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {Online data backup: A peer-assisted approach},
booktitle = {Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2010 IEEE Tenth International Conference
on},
year = {2010},
pages = {1--10},
organization = {IEEE},
keywords = {peer to peer}
}

2009

  • G. Biczók, L. Toka, A. Vidács, and T. A. Trinh, “On incentives in global wireless communities,” in Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking: challenges and opportunities, 2009, pp. 1-6.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{biczok2009incentives,
author = {Bicz\'ok, Gergely and Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Vid\'acs, Attila and Trinh, Tuan A},
title = {On incentives in global wireless communities},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking:
challenges and opportunities},
year = {2009},
pages = {1--6},
organization = {ACM},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems}
}
  • P. Michiardi and L. Toka, “Selfish neighbor selection in peer-to-peer backup and storage applications,” in Euro-Par 2009 Parallel Processing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 548-560.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INCOLLECTION{michiardi2009selfish,
author = {Michiardi, Pietro and Toka, Laszlo},
title = {Selfish neighbor selection in peer-to-peer backup and storage applications},
booktitle = {Euro-Par 2009 Parallel Processing},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
year = {2009},
pages = {548--560},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems}
}
  • L. Toka and A. Vidács, “Distributed dynamic spectrum management,” 32nd International Conference Telecommunication and Signal Processing (Dunakiliti, Hungary), pp. 26-27, 2009.
    [Bibtex] 
    @ARTICLE{toka2009distributed,
author = {Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Vid\'acs, Attila},
title = {Distributed dynamic spectrum management},
journal = {32nd International Conference Telecommunication and Signal Processing
(Dunakiliti, Hungary)},
year = {2009},
pages = {26--27},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems}
}
  • L. Toka and A. Vidács, “General distributed economic framework for dynamic spectrum allocation,” Computer Communications, vol. 32, iss. 18, pp. 1955-1964, 2009.
    [Bibtex] 
    @ARTICLE{toka2009general,
author = {Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Vid\'acs, Attila},
title = {General distributed economic framework for dynamic spectrum allocation},
journal = {Computer Communications},
year = {2009},
volume = {32},
pages = {1955--1964},
number = {18},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems},
publisher = {Elsevier}
}
  • L. Toka and P. Michiardi, “Uncoordinated peer selection in P2P backup and storage applications,” in INFOCOM Workshops 2009, IEEE, 2009, pp. 1-6.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2009uncoordinated,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {Uncoordinated peer selection in P2P backup and storage applications},
booktitle = {INFOCOM Workshops 2009, IEEE},
year = {2009},
pages = {1--6},
organization = {IEEE},
keywords = {peer to peer}
}

2008

  • P. Maillé and L. Toka, “Managing a peer-to-peer data storage system in a selfish society,” Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on, vol. 26, iss. 7, pp. 1295-1301, 2008.
    [Bibtex] 
    @ARTICLE{maille2008managing,
author = {Maill\'e, Patrick and Toka, L\'aszl\'o},
title = {Managing a peer-to-peer data storage system in a selfish society},
journal = {Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on},
year = {2008},
volume = {26},
pages = {1295--1301},
number = {7},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems},
publisher = {IEEE}
}
  • L. Toka and P. Michiardi, “Analysis of user-driven peer selection in peer-to-peer backup and storage systems,” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, 2008, p. 7.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2008analysis,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {Analysis of user-driven peer selection in peer-to-peer backup and
storage systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Performance Evaluation
Methodologies and Tools},
year = {2008},
pages = {7},
organization = {ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications
Engineering)},
keywords = {peer to peer}
}
  • L. Toka and P. Michiardi, “A dynamic exchange game,” in Proceedings of the twenty-seventh ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing, 2008, pp. 428-428.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INPROCEEDINGS{toka2008dynamic,
author = {Toka, Laszlo and Michiardi, Pietro},
title = {A dynamic exchange game},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the twenty-seventh ACM symposium on Principles of
distributed computing},
year = {2008},
pages = {428--428},
organization = {ACM},
keywords = {game theory}
}

2007

  • L. Toka and P. Maillé, “Managing a peer-to-peer backup system: Does imposed fairness socially outperform a revenue-driven monopoly?,” in Grid Economics and Business Models, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 150-163.
    [Bibtex] 
    @INCOLLECTION{toka2007managing,
author = {Toka, L\'aszl\'o and Maill\'e, Patrick},
title = {Managing a peer-to-peer backup system: Does imposed fairness socially
outperform a revenue-driven monopoly?},
booktitle = {Grid Economics and Business Models},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
year = {2007},
pages = {150--163},
keywords = {Economics of Networked Systems}
}