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The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino

The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino Outline Politecnico di Torino TNG people TNG research topics, tools and labs TNG research contracts and international collaborations TNG editorial activities FOR MORE INFO... http://www.polito.it Politecnico di Torino

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The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino

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  1. The Telecommunication Networks Groupof Politecnico di Torino

  2. Outline • Politecnico di Torino • TNG people • TNG research topics, tools and labs • TNG research contracts and international collaborations • TNG editorial activities

  3. FOR MORE INFO... http://www.polito.it Politecnico di Torino The Holy Shroud Architecture and Engineering school • Staff+admin: 2,000 • Students: 26,000 • Courses: 1,000 • Teaching hours: 70,000 h/year TURIN The Egyptian Museum 2006 Winter Olympic Games Juventus

  4. FOR MORE INFO... Dipartimento di Elettronica Telecommunication Group Optical Communication Group Networks Group Transmission and Coding Group Digital Signal Processing Group http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it TNG at-a-glance Politecnico di Torino Telecommunication group staff • 6 full professors • 12 associate professors • 11 assistant professors

  5. FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it TNG at-a-glance - Faculty NETWORKS GROUP 11 faculty members: • 2 full professors • 5 associate professors • 4 assistant professors • ~5 Post-Docs • ~25 PhD Students Marco Ajmone Marsan - Full Professor Guido Albertengo - Associate Professor Andrea Bianco - Associate Professor Claudio Casetti - Assistant Professor Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini - Associate Professor Paolo Giaccone – Assistant Professor Emilio Leonardi - Associate Professor Marco Mellia – Assistant Professor Michela Meo - Associate Professor Maurizio Munafò – Assistant Professor Fabio Neri - Full Professor

  6. Research topics - I • P2P Networks • Characterization of P2P traffic • Study of the impact of overlay topology in P2P streaming systems • Analysis of scheduling algorithms for P2P streaming systems

  7. Research topics - II • Switching architectures • Input-queuing architectures • Throughput and delay analysis of scheduling and matching algorithms • QoS support • Multicast scheduling • PC-based (software) routers • Storage virtualization for disaster recovery

  8. Research topics - III • Wireless networks • Ad-hoc and sensor networks • Wireless LANs (802.11b, 802.11e) and Bluetooth • Vehicular and mobile ad-hoc networks • Energy efficiency, QoS provisioning and cooperation • Delay Tolerant Networks • Satellite networks • Performance analysis • GPRS, UMTS • Ad hoc and sensor networks

  9. Research topics - IV • Optical networks • Optical switching architectures • Passive Optical Networks (PONs) • WDM metro networks • MAC protocols • Wavelength-routed networks: • Logical topology design • Routing and wavelength assignment

  10. Research topics - V • IP Traffic measurement • Traffic characterization • Traffic classification • Traffic anomaly detection • Passive measurement tools and techniques • Internet tomography

  11. Research topics - VI • IP networks • Energy Efficient Networks • Voice and Video over IP • Routing algorithms • Congestion management • New, improved versions of the TCP protocol • TCP models

  12. Research tools • Stochastic modeling • Queuing systems • Markovian models • Generalized stochastic Petri nets • Lyapunov theory • Fluid models • Game theory • Simulation • Internally developed tools • Add-on modules for standard simulators (ns2, Omnet++)

  13. Research tools • Advanced optimization techniques • Tabu search • Simulated annealing • Genetic algorithms • Measurement Tools • IP and TCP oriented tools • Tstat: traffic traces analysis tool (detailed TCP and UDP analysis)

  14. Laboratories • INLAB (Integrated Networks LABoratory), jointly with CSP • LAQ (High-Quality Laboratories) sponsored by Politecnico di Torino: • LIPAR (Laboratory on Internet: Network Protocols and Architectures) • PhotonLab, jointly with other groups working on optical technologies

  15. Main research contracts • Research Agencies • EU: • FP7: NAPA-WINE (STREP), FEDERICA (I3), BONE (NoE), NEWCOM++ (NoE), EURO-NF (NoE), STRONGEST (IP) • FP6: e-Photon/One (NoE), EURO-NGI (NoE), NEWCOM (NoE), NOBEL (IP) • MIUR (the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific Research) • Regional (Piedmont) Research Funding • CNR (the Italian National Research Council) • ASI (the Italian Space Agency) Industry • Alcatel-Lucent • Alenia • British Telecom • Cisco • CSP • Fastweb • IBM Labs Zurich • NEC Europe • Telecom Italia • Topix • Vodafone-Omnitel

  16. Current international collaborations • Boston University, Boston, MA (Prof. Ibrahim Matta)) • CISCO, USA (Dr. Flavio Bononi) • Columbia University, New York, NY (Prof. Luca Carloni) • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai, India (Prof. D. Manjunath) • Institut Eurécom, France (Prof. Fethi Filali) • Narus, USA (Dr. Antonio Nucci) • MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (Prof. Eytan Modiano) • Purdue University (Prof. Sanjay Rao) • Rice University, Houston, TX (Prof. Ed Knightly) • University of California San Diego, USA (Prof. Ramesh Rao) • University of California Davis, USA (Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee)

  17. Past international collaborations • Alcatel, France (Francesco Masetti now at Alcatel China) • 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) • IBM Zurich, Switzerland (Dr. Ronald Luijten, Dr. Cyriel Minkenberg) • Intel Labs, Cambridge, UK (Dr. Christophe Diot, now at Thompson) • Lucent Bell Labs (Dr. Andrea Francini) • 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 Massachusetts (UMass) (Prof. Jim Kurose, Prof. Don Towsley)

  18. Editorialactivities • Editorial boards • ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking. IEEE Communications Letters, Elsevier AdHoc Networks Journal, … • TPC participation • IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ACM MOBICOM, ACM MOBIHOC, ECOC, … • Conference organization • IT-NEWS (QoS-IP) 2008, QoS-IP 2005, HPSR 2003, ONDM 2002, … • ECOC 2010 (in Turin), INFOCOM 2013 (planned)

  19. Conclusions Contacts: • TNG home page http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it • TNG email addresslastname@tlc.polito.it • Publications online http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it/database/

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