DIT - University of Trento

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• DIT - University of Trento
• Computer Networks and Mobility
• http//netmob.unitn.it/
• Dzmitry Kliazovich and Roberto Battiti

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People

• Technical staff
• Alessandro Villani
• Franco Mascia
• Project Consultants
• Stefano Poletti
• Marco Tomazzoni
• Phd Students
• Damiano Carra
• Roberto Gioacchino Cascella
• Csaba Kiss Kalló
• Thang Le Nhat
• Viet Thang Nguyen
• Mikalai Sabel
• Elio Salvadori
• Srinivas Pasupuleti
• Marco Biazzini

• Faculty
• Roberto Battiti (Director of the research
  program)
• Alberto Montresor
• Renato Antonio Lo Cigno
• Fabio Massacci
• Marco Ronchetti
• Mauro Brunato
• Fabrizio Granelli

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Research Areas

• Algorithms for discrete problems and reactive
  heuristics
• Real-world applications require heuristics
• Local search complemented by history-sensitive
  (reactive)
• mechanisms (Reactive Search)

http//www.reactive-search.org/
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Research Areas

• Wireless networks
• Resource assignment and management in wireless
• radio networks
• Greedy, prohibition, and Reactive Search
• Wi-Fi wireless LANs
• Location- and context-aware services (see also
  the WILMA project below).

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Research Areas

• Cross-Layer Design
• Adaptive protocol design
• Closer optimization
• Joint performance improvement

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Research Areas

• Neural networks and pattern recognition,
  location-awareness
• Partial specification and a subsequent training
  (optimization) phase
• Sub-symbolic (inductive) machine learning
• Adapt services to different contexts and
• individual users (sentient computing)

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Research Areas

• Middleware and distributed systems
• Quality of Service models
• Seamless and efficient management of networks and
  of information distributed to the users

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Projects

• ADONIS, Algorithms for Dynamic Optical Networks
  based on Internet Solutions
• GRID.it, An Italian National Research Council
  Project on Grid Computing
• EU integrated projects BIONETS (Create-net),
  CASCADAS
• E-NEXT, EU FP6 Network of Excellence on Internet
  protocols and services
• TWELVE, ToWards Enhancing 802.11 support of
  differentiated service LeVEls
• QuaSAR, "Qualità e Controllabilità dei Servizi di
  Comunicazione su Reti Eterogenee"
• Project WILMA ( http//www.wilmaproject.org )
  PAT funding
• design and management of a sentient computing
  system to support
• mobile users through a wireless Internet (Wi-Fi)
  infrastructure.
• location- and context-aware systems

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OpenLab - The Wilma Project testbed
Indoor layout
Faculty of Science
More than 20 Access Points
Groud floor
First floor
Outdoor layout

• Fiber LAN
• 18 Access Points
• 14 Yagi antennas
• 3 Omni Antennas
• 1 Patch Antennas

City of Trento
Partners
Contact
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DAMASCO

• Ad hoc and peer to peer vehicular Networking
  (STM, ISMB, UCLA, UNITN, UNIBO)
• Unique contribution make existing solutions
  suitable for fast changing vehicle scenarios

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DAMASCO

• Localization and nodes position estimation
  techniques (WiFi, Bluetooth or 802.15.4
  scenarios).

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DAMASCO

• Data collection, processing and presentation
  (HMI) for ad hoc and peer to peer
  applications(UCLA, UNITN, UNIBO)
• Location aware collaborative recommendation
• The use of ad hoc and traditional wireless
  networks (3G)