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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

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Juventus

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TNG at-a-glanceTNG at-a-glanceFOR MORE INFO...

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Telecommunication group staff• 6 full professors• 12 associate professors• 11 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 - FacultyMarco Ajmone Marsan - Full Professor Guido Albertengo - Associate Professor Andrea Bianco - Associate Professor Claudio Casetti - Assistant Professor Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini - Associate

ProfessorPaolo Giaccone – Assistant ProfessorEmilio Leonardi - Associate Professor Marco Mellia – Assistant ProfessorMichela Meo - Associate Professor Maurizio Munafò – Assistant Professor Fabio Neri - Full Professor

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NETWORKS GROUP

11 faculty members:• 2 full professors• 5 associate

professors• 4 assistant

professors

2 Post-Docs 15 PhD Students

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TNG at-a-glance – non TNG at-a-glance – non facultyfaculty

Post Docs• Vito De Feo • Alessandro

Nordio

Research Assistant:• Dario Bonfiglio

PhD students:• Robert Birke • Gloria Bogliolo• Diego Borsetti• Giovanna

Carofiglio• Daniele Croce• Luca Chiaraviglio• Delia Ciullo• Davide Cuda• Marco Fiore

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PhD students:• Antonieta Garcia• Guido Gavilanes• Luca Giraudo• Valentina

Martina • Francesco

Mininni• Michele Petracca

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

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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

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Research topics - IIIResearch 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

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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 tomography

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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

Vodafone-Omnitel Cisco Topix Alcatel CSP IBM Labs Zurich Alenia Telecom Italia British Telecom NEC Europe Lucent Bell Labs

Research Agencies• EU:

• FP7: NAPA-WINE (STREP), FEDERICA (I3), BONE (NoE), NEWCOM++ (NoE), EURO-NF (NoE)

• 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) • 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) • 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) • 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, Prof. Devavrat

Shah) • 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, …

• 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 (planned)

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ConclusionsConclusionsContacts:• TNG home page

http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it

• TNG email addresslastname@tlc.polito.it

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