Lorenzo Saino

Lorenzo Saino

Director of Engineering at Fastly
Honorary lecturer at University College London

Bio

I am a director of engineering at Fastly, where I manage the teams responsible for designing and building the systems that control and optimize Fastly network infrastructure. I joined Fastly in 2016 and during my tenure I built systems solving problems related to load balancing, distributed health checking, routing resilience, traffic engineering and network telemetry. From 2011 to 2015 I did my Ph.D. at University College London. My thesis investigated design issues in networked caching systems. For my research, I was awarded the Fabrizio Lombardi prize in 2016. From 2008 to 2011 I was a research engineer at Orange Labs. During this period I filed five patent applications and for one of them I received the Orange Labs best patent of the year award in 2011. I received a B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in 2007, where I graduated top of my class, and an M.S. in Telecommunications with Distinction from University College London in 2008. I am a reviewer for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, Elsevier Computer Networks and Elsevier Computer Communications. I served on the program committee of O'Reilly Velocity EU in 2017 and 2018. I am an honorary lecturer at University College London and a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Publications

  1. Raul Landa, Lorenzo Saino, Lennert Buytenhek and João Taveira Araújo
    Staying Alive: Connection Path Reselection at the Edge
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '21), April 2021
    Acceptance ratio: 15.68%
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  2. Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou
    Framework and Algorithms for Operator-managed Content Caching
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2020
    Impact factor: 4.682
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  3. Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras, Emilio Leonardi and George Pavlou
    Load Imbalance and Caching Performance of Sharded Systems
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2020
    Impact factor: 3.597
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  4. João Taveira Araújo, Lorenzo Saino, Lennert Buytenhek and Raul Landa
    Balancing on the edge: transport affinity without network state
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '18), Renton, WA, USA, April 2018
    Acceptance ratio: 15.87%
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  5. D. Kirchner, R. Ferdous, R. Lo Cigno, L. Maccari, M. Gallo, D. Perino and L. Saino
    Augustus: a CCN Router for Programmable Networks
    ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN '16), Kyoto, Japan, September 2016
    Acceptance ratio: 27.27%
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  6. Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras, Lorenzo Saino and George Pavlou
    Efficient Hash-routing and Domain Clustering Techniques for Information-Centric Networks
    Computer Networks, Volume 103, July 2016
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  7. Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou
    Understanding Sharded Caching Systems
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '16), San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2016
    Acceptance ratio: 18.25%
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  8. Lorenzo Saino
    On the design of efficient caching systems
    Ph.D. thesis, Department of Electronic Engineering, University College London, December 2015
    Fabrizio Lombardi prize 2016
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  9. Rodrigo Mansilha, Lorenzo Saino, Marinho Barcellos, Massimo Gallo, Emilio Leonardi, Diego Perino and Dario Rossi
    Hierarchical Content Stores in High-speed ICN Routers: Emulation and Prototype Implementation
    ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN '15), San Francisco, CA, USA, October 2015
    Acceptance ratio: 33%
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  10. Ioannis Psaras, Lorenzo Saino and George Pavlou
    Revisiting Resource Pooling: the Case for In-Network Resource Sharing
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2014), Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 2014
    Acceptance ratio: 21.48%
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  11. Konstantinos Katsaros, Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou
    On Information Exposure through Named Content
    International Workshop on Quality, Reliability and Security in ICN (Q-ICN), Rhodes, Greece, August 2014
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  12. Ioannis Psaras, Lorenzo Saino, Mayutan Arumaithurai, K.K. Ramakrishnan and George Pavlou
    Name-Based Replication Priorities in Disaster Cases
    IEEE Workshop on Name Oriented Mobility (NOM '14), Toronto, Canada, April 2014
    Acceptance ratio: 35%
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  13. Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou
    Icarus: a Caching Simulator for Information Centric Networking (ICN)
    International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTOOLS '14), Lisbon, Portugal, March 2014
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  14. Lorenzo Saino, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou
    Hash-routing Schemes for Information Centric Networking
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Information-Centric Networking (ICN '13), Hong Kong, China, August 2013
    Acceptance ratio: 17.5%
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  15. Lorenzo Saino, Cosmin Corora and George Pavlou
    CCTCP: A Scalable Receiver-driven Congestion Control Protocol for Content Centric Networking
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013
    Acceptance ratio: 39.1%
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  16. Lorenzo Saino, Cosmin Cocora and George Pavlou
    A Toolchain for Simplifying Network Simulation Setup
    International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTOOLS '13), Cannes, France, March 2013
    Acceptance ratio: 27%
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Talks

Software

Patents

  1. João Taveira Araújo, Lennert Buytenhek, Lorenzo Saino and Raul Landa
    Fast reroute for connections over outbound paths
    Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application WO/2020/061168, filed Sep. 18, 2018
    US patent 11,128,562, issued Sep. 21, 2021
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  2. Massimo Gallo, Diego Perino and Lorenzo Saino
    Method for managing a distributed cache
    Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application WO/2017/005761, filed Jul. 6, 2015
    European patent 3115904, issued Feb. 28, 2018
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  3. Jean-Sebastien Meurisse and Lorenzo Saino
    Application server for controlling a telephone conference
    European patent 2538646, filed Jun. 22, 2011, issued Feb. 23, 2022
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  4. Lorenzo Saino
    System and method for remotely triggering actions on a mobile device
    Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application WO/2012/084965, filed Dec. 22, 2010
    US patent 9,338,640, issued May 10, 2016
    Orange Labs best patent of the year 2011
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  5. Louis-Marie Le Saux, Lorenzo Saino and Elise Vennegues
    Method of operating a communication device and related communication device
    Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application WO/2012/072585, filed Nov. 30, 2010
    US Patent 10,481,950, issued Nov. 19, 2019
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  6. Lorenzo Saino and Louis-Marie Le Saux
    Data processing for securing local resources in a mobile device
    Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application WO/2012/055786, filed Oct. 29, 2010
    European patent 2633716, issued Dec. 17, 2014
    US patent 9,094,823, issued Jul. 28, 2015
    Chinese patent 103201998, issued Apr. 27, 2016
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  7. Lorenzo Saino
    Method of and apparatus for handover of a mobile station between networks
    Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application WO/2011/101431, filed Feb. 22, 2010
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Service

Honors and Awards