The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino 1 Outline • Politecnico di Torino • TNG people • TNG research topics, tools and labs • TNG research contracts and international collaborations • TNG editorial activities 2 FOR MORE INFO... http://www.polito.it Politecnico di Torino TURIN The Holy Shroud The Egyptian Museum Architecture and Engineering school Staff+admin: 2,000 Students: 26,000 Courses: 1,000 Teaching hours: 70,000 h/year 2006 Winter Olympic Games Juventus 3 FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it TNG at-a-glance Telecommunication group staff • 6 full professors • 12 associate professors Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Elettronica • 11 assistant professors Telecommunication Group Networks Group Digital Signal Processing Group Optical Communication Group Transmission and Coding Group 4 FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it TNG at-a-glance - Faculty NETWORKS GROUP Marco Ajmone Marsan - Full Professor 11 faculty members: Guido Albertengo - Associate Professor • 2 full professors • 5 associate professors • 4 assistant professors 2 Post-Docs 15 PhD Students 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 5 FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it TNG at-a-glance – non faculty Post Docs PhD students: PhD students: • Vito De Feo • Robert Birke • Antonieta Garcia • Alessandro Nordio • Gloria Bogliolo • Guido Gavilanes • Diego Borsetti • Luca Giraudo • Giovanna Carofiglio • Daniele Croce Research Assistant: • Luca Chiaraviglio • Dario Bonfiglio • Delia Ciullo • Valentina Martina • Francesco Mininni • Michele Petracca • Davide Cuda • Marco Fiore 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 Industry 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), EURONGI (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) 16 Current international 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) 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) • 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) 18 Editorial 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) 19 Conclusions Contacts: • TNG home page http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it • TNG email address [email protected] • Publications online http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it/database/ 20