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F. In-sophia-antipolis, He received the best paper award in the Networking in IFIP Wireless Days 2009 and in CNSM 2011 (Paris) conferences. His areas of interest include Network Engineering Games, social networks and their control. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2010, He received in 2012 the Grand Prix de France Telecom from the French Academy of Sciences, 2006.