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The Telecommunicati

on Networks Group

of Politecnico di Torino

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OutlineOutline

• 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 TorinoPolitecnico di Torino

Architecture and Engineering school

Staff+admin: 2,000

Students: 26,000

Courses: 1,000

Teaching hours: 70,000 h/year

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The Holy Shroud

2006

Winter Olympic Games

TURIN

The Egyptian Museum

http://www.polito.it

Juventus

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TNG at-a-glanceTNG at-a-glance

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Telecommunication group staff• 6 full professors

• 11 associate professors

• 10 assistant professors

Networks Group

Digital Signal Processing Group

Optical Communication Group

Transmission and Coding Group

Telecommunication Group

Politecnico di Torino

Dipartimento di Elettronica

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TNG at-a-glance - FacultyTNG at-a-glance - Faculty

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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NETWORKS GROUP

10 faculty members:

• 2 full professors

• 4 associate professors

• 4 assistant professors

~5 Post-Docs

~25 PhD Students

Research topics - IResearch 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 - IIResearch 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 - IIIResearch 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 - IVResearch 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 - VResearch 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 - VIResearch 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 toolsResearch 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 toolsResearch 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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LaboratoriesLaboratories

• 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 contractsMain research contractsIndustry

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 Current international collaborations 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 Past international collaborations 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)

Editorial activitiesEditorial 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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ConclusionsConclusions

Contacts:

• TNG home pagehttp://www.tlc-networks.polito.it

• TNG email address

lastname@tlc.polito.it

• Publications onlinehttp://www.tlc-networks.polito.it/database/