LABS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Energy efficient network management
• Optical networks
• Peer to peer (P2P) streaming
• Switching architectures
• Traffic measurements and charaterization
• Wireless networks (Ad hoc networks, Inter-vehicle communications, Delay tolerant networks, Mesh networks, Sensor networks)

• Simulation
• Stability analysis
• Stochastic processes (Markov Chains, Petri nets, Point processes)
• Fluid and brownian models
• Advanced optimization techniques
• Measurement Tools
• Differential calculus and numerical techniques

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONS

• Boston University, USA (Prof. Ibrahim Matta)
• CISCO, USA (Dr. Flavio Bononi)
• Columbia University, New York, NY (Prof. Luca Carloni)
• IBM Zurich, Switzerland (Dr. Ronald Luijten, Dr. Cyriel Minkenberg)
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai, India (Prof. D. Manjunath)
• Institut Eurécom, France (Prof. Fethi Filali)
• Narus, USA (Dr. Antonio Nucci)
• Rice University, Houston, TX (Prof. Ed Knightly)
• University of California San Diego, USA (Prof. Ramesh Rao)

• Alcatel, France (Francesco Masetti)
• Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (Prof. Martin Reisslein)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Prof. Hui Zhang)
• Centre de Recherche sur les Transports of Montreal, Canada (Prof. Gabriel Crainic)
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec)
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Prof. Edmundo de Souza e Silva)
• France Telecom, Paris, France (Prof. Jim Roberts)
• Intel Labs, Cambridge, UK (Dr. Christophe Diot, now at Thompson)
• Lucent Bell Labs (Dr. Andrea Francini)
• MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (Prof. Eytan Modiano)
• SprintLabs, Burlingame, CA (Christophe Diot now at Thompson, Dr. Antonio Nucci now at Narus)
• Stanford University, USA (Prof. Nick Mc Keown, Prof. Balaji Prabhakar)
• Technical University of Budapest, Hungary (Prof. Laszlo Jereb, now at Sopron University, Hungary)
• University of California Berkeley, USA (Prof. Ion Stoica)
• University of California Los Angeles, USA (Prof. Mario Gerla)
• University of California, San Diego (Prof. Ramesh Rao)
• University of Massachusetts (UMass) (Prof. Jim Kurose, Prof. Don Towsley)

SELECTED ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

• BONE. The BONE-project is about people, integration and collaboration in the field of optical networks. BONE stimulates discussions, mobility and interchange of ideas amongst researchers working at 49 institutes around Europe.
• STRONGEST Its main goal is to design and demonstrate an evolutionary ultra-high capacity multilayer transport network, based on optimized integration of Optical and Packet nodes, and equipped with a multi-domain, multi-technology control plane, overcoming the problems of current networks that still provide limited scalability, are not cost-effective and do not properly guarantee end-to-end quality of service.
• EFFICIENT: Energy eFFIcient teChnologIEs for the Networks of Tomorrow. The concept of "green" and energy-efficient networking has begun to spread over the past few years, gaining increasing popularity and interest among service and network providers, as well as equipment manufacturers. Besides a more widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, such interest also springs from heavy and critical economical needs, since both energy cost and network electrical requirements show a continuous growth, with an alarming trend over the past years. A widespread opinion is that the sole introduction of low consumption silicon elements may not be sufficient to effectively curb tomorrow's network energy requirements. The specific challenge for telecoms, network equipment manufacturers and the networking research community nowadays mainly regards the introduction of innovative criteria and technologies, able to save energy by dynamically adapting network capacities and resources to current traffic loads and requirements. The EFFICIENT project focuses on innovative solutions, mechanisms and architectures, able to disruptively boost the network energy efficiency and to explicitly control and manage energy saving by exploiting network-specific features. The project will face the energy efficiency issue through three main research activities, which will aim to study and to develop: i) innovative mechanisms and architectures to reduce energy consumption in next generation network devices (e.g., sleeping/idle optimizations, power management mechanisms, smart buffering/shaping schemes, etc.); ii) protocols, algorithms and policies for dynamic network planning and resource allocation that exploit traffic variation to reduce energy consumption; iii) network and services' dynamic virtualization.
• CARITAS: funded by the Italian Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (Funding: Industria 2015), CARITAS concerns the design and prototyping of a train car equipped with technologically advanced aid and support for impaired people.
• MYMED: Research Project funded by the European Community within the FP7 Program. The project aims at the development and implementation of a network platform for content sharing and user mobility in geographical regions at the border between France and Italy. The project partners are: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée (coordinator), Politecnico di Torino, Università di Torino, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Gir Malalpin, VuLog PME a.
• ISBUL: funded by AGCOM, the Italian Authority for Communication, it addressed the upcoming challenges in the designing and regulating of Wide- and UltraWide-band Access Networks
• NAPA-WINE
• FEDERICA
• EURO-NGI
• NEWCOM++

Research contracts

• FASTWEB
• RESI Informatica

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