The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino

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The Telecommunication Networks Group of
Politecnico di Torino
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Outline

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

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Politecnico di Torino
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The Holy Shroud
TURIN
The Egyptian Museum

• Architecture and Engineering school
• Staffadmin 2,000
• Students 26,000
• Courses 1,000
• Teaching hours 70,000 h/year

2006 Winter Olympic Games
Juventus
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TNG at-a-glance
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Politecnico di Torino

• Telecommunication group staff
• 6 full professors
• 11 associate professors
• 10 assistant professors

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TNG at-a-glance - Faculty
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• NETWORKS GROUP
• 10 faculty members
• 2 full professors
• 4 associate professors
• 4 assistant professors
• 5 Post-Docs
• 25 PhD Students

• Marco Ajmone Marsan - Full Professor
• Guido Albertengo - Associate Professor
• Andrea Bianco Full 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

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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
• Design of P2P-TV applications

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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
• Energy efficiency in switching architectures
• Networks on chip

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Research topics - III

• Wireless networks
• Ad-hoc and sensor networks
• Wireless LANs (802.11a/b/g/e)
• Vehicular and mobile ad-hoc networks
• Energy efficiency, QoS provisioning and
  cooperation
• Delay Tolerant Networks
• Cognitive radio networks
• Optimization and performance analysis (modelling,
  simulation, experimental testbeds)

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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

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Research topics - V

• IP Traffic measurement
• Traffic characterization
• Traffic classification
• Traffic anomaly detection
• Passive measurement tools and techniques
• Internet service characterization
• CDN system analysis
• Cloud based service monitoring

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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Main research contracts

• Industry
• Alcatel-Lucent
• Alenia
• British Telecom
• Cisco
• CSP
• Fastweb
• IBM Labs Zurich
• NEC Europe
• Narus Inc - Boeing
• Telecom Italia
• Topix
• Vodafone-Omnitel

• Research Agencies
• EU
• FP7 TREND (NoE), ECONET (IP), Stamina (FET),
  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)

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Current international collaborations

• 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)

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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)

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Editorial activities

• Editorial boards
• ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, Elsevier
  Computer Networks, Elsevier Optical Switching and
  Networking. IEEE Communications Letters, Elsevier
  AdHoc Networks Journal, , IEEE Transactions on
  Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless
  Communications Magazine, Elsevier Computer
  Communications,
• TPC participation
• IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ACM
  Sigcomm, ACM CoNext, ACM MOBICOM, ACM MOBIHOC,
  IEEE VTC, ECOC,
• Conference organization
• WONS 2012, WONS 2010, MobiHoc 2009, IT-NEWS
  (QoS-IP) 2008, MSWiM 2006, WONS 2006, QoS-IP
  2005, HPSR 2003, ONDM 2002,
• ECOC 2010 (in Turin), INFOCOM 2013 (in Turin)

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Conclusions

• Contacts
• TNG home page
• http//www.tlc-networks.polito.it
• TNG email addresslastname_at_tlc.polito.it
• Publications online
• http//www.tlc-networks.polito.it/database/