TNG

The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino: 

The Telecommunication Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino

Outline: 

Outline Politecnico di Torino TNG people TNG research topics and tools TNG research contracts TNG international collaborations

Politecnico di Torino: 

Politecnico di Torino Architecture and Engineering school Staff+admin: 2,000 Students: 26,000 Courses: 1,000 Teaching hours: 70,000 h/year FOR MORE INFO... The Holy Shroud 2006 Winter Olympic Games TURIN The Egyptian Museum http://www.polito.it Juventus

TNG at-a-glance: 

TNG at-a-glance FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it Telecommunication group staff 6 full professors 12 associate professors 11 assistant professors Politecnico di Torino

TNG at-a-glance - Faculty: 

TNG at-a-glance - Faculty Marco Ajmone Marsan - Full Professor Fabio Neri - Full Professor Guido Albertengo - Associate Professor Andrea Bianco - Associate Professor Emilio Leonardi - Associate Professor Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini - Associate Professor Michela Meo - Associate Professor Claudio Casetti - Assistant Professor Marco Mellia – Assistant Professor Maurizio Munafò – Assistant Professor Paolo Giaccone – Assistant Professor FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it NETWORKS GROUP 11 faculty members: 2 full professors 5 associate professors 4 assistant professors 3 Post-Docs 6 PhD Students

TNG at-a-glance – non faculty: 

TNG at-a-glance – non faculty Post Docs Vito De Feo Jorge Manuel Finochietto Alessandro Nordio PhD students: Fabio Milan Robert Birke Giovanna Carofiglio Davide Cuda Marco Fiore Michele Petracca FOR MORE INFO... http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it

Research topics - I: 

Research topics - I IP networks Voice and Video over IP Routing algorithms Congestion management New, improved versions of the TCP protocol TCP models P2P networks

Research topics - II: 

Research topics - II Switching architectures Input-queuing architectures Throughput and delay analysis of scheduling and matching algorithms QoS support Multicast scheduling PC-based routers

Research topics - III: 

Research topics - III Wireless networks Ad-hoc and sensor networks Wireless LANs (802.11b, 802.11e) and Bluetooth Performance analysis GPRS, UMTS Ad hoc and sensor networks Energy efficiency, QoS provisioning and cooperation Satellite networks Delay Tolerant Networks

Research topics - IV: 

Research topics - IV All-Optical networks All-optical switching MAC protocols Wavelength-routed networks: Logical topology design Routing and wavelength assignment

Research tools: 

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++)

Research tools: 

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)

Main research contracts: 

Main research contracts Industry Completed: Alcatel Cisco CSP IBM Labs Zurich TILab Omnitel-Vodafone Alenia NEC Europe British Telecom Lucent Bell Labs Research Agencies EU: FP6: e-Photon/One (NoE), EURO-NGI (NoE), NEWCOM (NoE), NOBEL (IP); FP5: 3 projects MIUR (the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific Research) Regional (Piedmont) Research Funding CNR (the Italian National Research Council) ASI (the Italian Space Agency)

International collaborations : 

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) Rice University, Houston, TX (Prof. Ed Knightly) University of California San Diego, USA (Prof. Ramesh Rao)

Past international collaborations : 

Past international collaborations Alcatel, France (Francesco Masetti) 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) 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 California, San Diego (Prof. Ramesh Rao) University of Massachusetts (UMass) (Prof. Jim Kurose, Prof. Don Towsley)

Laboratories: 

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

Conclusions : 

Conclusions Contacts: TNG home page http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it TNG email address lastname@mail.tlc.polito.it Publications online http://www.tlc-networks.polito.it/database/