MobilE Applications & future InterneT

MEgAbIT

Research Activity

Igor Bisio, Carlo Braccini, Franco Davoli, Aldo Grattarola, Fabio Lavagetto, Mario Marchese, Sandro Zappatore

MobilE Applications & future InterneT [MEgAbIT] Description

The MEgAbIT research unit focuses its activities in the areas of mobile signal processing and internetworking of heterogeneous networks. The research unit operates over three laboratories: Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Satellite Communication and Networking (SCNL) and Multimedia Communications (MC).

Research topics • Mobile Signal Processing; • QoS over Heterogeneous Networks; • Nanosatellite Networks; • Software Defined Networks; • Network Security;

Reference people Fabio Lavagetto, fabio.lavagetto@unige.it Mario Marchese, mario.marchese@unige.it Igor Bisio, igor.bisio@unige.it Sandro Zappatore, sandro.zappatore@unige.it

MobilE Applications & future InterneT [MEgAbIT] Description

The MEgAbIT research unit focuses its activities in the areas of mobile signal processing and internetworking of heterogeneous networks. The research unit operates over three laboratories: Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Satellite Communication and Networking (SCNL) and Multimedia Communications (MC).

Research topics • Mobile Signal Processing; • QoS over Heterogeneous Networks; • Nanosatellite Networks; • Software Defined Networks; • Network Security;

Reference people Fabio Lavagetto, fabio.lavagetto@unige.it Mario Marchese, mario.marchese@unige.it Igor Bisio, igor.bisio@unige.it Sandro Zappatore, sandro.zappatore@unige.it

Staff Composition

• 3 Full Professors; • 3 Associate Professors; • 1 Assistant Professor • 3 Post Doc. Research Fellows; • 4 Ph. D. Students; • Senior and Junior Engineers.

Research Laboratories

• Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (DSP)

– www.dsp.dist.unige.it

• Satellite Communications and Networking Laboratory (SCNL)

– www.scnl.dist.unige.it

• Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MC)

Research Activities

• Networking – Quality of Service over Heterogeneous

Networks • Software Defined Networking • Nanosatellite DTN Networks • QoS Mapping • Vertical Handover • Power/Bandwidth Allocation over Satellite • CAC and Traffic Control for LTE Networks

Research Activities

• Signal Processing – Measuring, interpreting and influencing

Human personal eXperiences (HX) with smart devices: processing, communications, storing and energy limits

• Multimedia Flows over Heterogenous Communications Systems

• Context-Aware Services over Smartphones : Audience Detection, Activity Detection, Emotion Detection, Localization Detection, Audio Processing for Safety

Research Activities

• Security – Honeypot Design and Attack Analysis – Study and Development of an Intrusion

Detection System – Audio figerprint based copy detection

Quality of Service over Heterogeneous Networks: from the Application to the Physical Layer

Sensor NetworkServices: Telemedicine, Teleteaching, Teletraining

Cable Network

Satellite Network

Gateway

Gateway Aeronautical Network

Services: Sensor Measure Processing, Remote Control, Command and Control

Services: Monitoring and Measures

Mobile Station

Software Defined Networking

Research Challenges Load Balancing in SDN multicontroller (w Bell Labs, New York University) Re-routing in SDN networks (w CNR) Application on Terabit Satellite Networks

Nanosatellite DTN Networks

Research Challenges Hot Spot selection mechanism Design of the cold spot architecture for a transparent communication

Delay-Disruption Tolerant Networks

Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs

Average Packet Delivery Delay

Measuring, interpreting and influencing Human personal eXperiences (HX) with smart devices: processing, communications, storing and energy limits

Other Users’ Environments

User’s Environment(Bluetooth and/or WiFi covered Area)

Access Point

Radio Base Station

BAN

Smartphone

Camera

Temperature Sensor

Other Smart Devices

Internet

Input Information to the HX model

Multimedia Flows over Heterogenous Communications Systems

Context-Aware Services over Smartphones

Audio Environment Recognition

Audience Detection

Advanced digital signal processing methods together with pattern recognition approaches are applied to implement Context-Aware applications with limited computational load and energy consumption.

Emotion Detection

Activity Detection

Localization Detection

Audio Filtering for Safety

Research Activities

• Security – Honeypot Design and Attack Analysis – Study and Development of an Intrusion

Detection System – Audio figerprint based copy detection

Honeypot Design and Attack Analysis Study and Development of an Intrusion Detection

System

Research Results (journals 2008-2014) • I. Bisio, M. Marchese, “Performance Evaluation of Bandwidth Allocation Methods in Geostationary

Satellite Channel in Presence of Internet Traffic,” Computer Networks, vol. 52, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 275-291.

• M. Marchese, M. S. Obaidat, “Guest Editorial – Recent Advances in Global Navigation and Communication Satellite Systems”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 3-6.

• T. de Cola, M. Marchese, “High Performance Communication and Navigation Systems for Interplanetary Networks”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 104-113.

• I. Bisio, M. Marchese, “Efficient Satellite-Based Sensor Networks for Information Retrieval”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 464-475.

• M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, “Vertical QoS Mapping over Wireless Interfaces”, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 16, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 37-43.

• C. Caini, T. De Cola, R. Firrincieli, M. Gerla, D. Lacamera, M.Marchese, C. Marcondes, M. Y. Sanadidi, “Analysis of TCP Live Experiments on a Real GEO Satellite Testbed”, Elsevier Performance Evaluation, vol. 66, no. 6, June 2009, pp. 287-300.

• T. de cola, M. Marchese, “Reliable Data Delivery over Deep Space Networks: Benefits of Long Erasure Codes over ARQ Strategies”, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 17, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 57-65.

• F. Davoli, M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, “A Measurement-Based Adaptive Control Mechanism for Pricing in Telecommunication Networks,” Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 12, no. 3, June 2010, pp. 253-265.

Research Results (journals 2008-2014) • M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, "Reference Chaser Bandwidth Controller for Wireless QoS Mapping

under Delay Constraints," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2010, February 2010, pp. 1-8.

• M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, "Adaptive Call Admission and Bandwidth Control in DVB-RCS Systems," Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 12, Issue 6, December 2010, pp. 568-576.

• M. Marchese, R. Surlinelli, S. Zappatore, "Monitoring unauthorized internet accesses through a 'honeypot' system", International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 24, Issue 1, January 2011 pp. 75–93.

• M. Marchese, “Interplanetary and Pervasive Communications”, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 26, Issue 2, February 2011, pp. 12-18.

• M. Cello, G. Gnecco, M. Marchese, M. Sanguineti, "CAC with nonlinearly-constrained feasibility regions", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, Issue 4, April 2011, pp. 467 - 469 .

• C. Caini, H. Cruickshank, S. Farrell, M. Marchese, “Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN): An Alternative Solution for Future Satellite Networking Applications”, Proceedings of the IEEE, Invited Paper, Vol. 99, Issue 11, July 2011, pp. 1980-1997.

• M. Cello, G. Gnecco, M. Marchese, M. Sanguineti, "A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.16, No.6, June 2012, pp. 862-865.

Research Results (journals 2008-2014)

• I. Bisio, M. Marchese, "Power Saving Bandwidth Allocation over GEO Satellite Networks", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.16, No.5, May 2012, pp. 596-599.

• M. Cello, G. Gnecco, M. Marchese, M. Sanguineti, “Optimality Conditions for Coordinate-Convex Policies in CAC With Nonlinear Feasibility Boundaries”, IEEE Transactions on Networking, Volume: 21 , Issue: 5, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TNET.2012.2222924, 2013 , pp. 1363 - 1377.

• I. Bisio, F. Lavagetto, M. Marchese, A. Sciarrone, “GPS/HPS- and Wi-Fi Fingerprint- based Location Recognition for Check-In Applications over Smartphones in Cloud-based LBSs”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume: 15 , Issue: 4, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2239631, 2013 , pp. 858 - 869.

• F. Davoli, M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, “Non-linear coding and decoding strategies exploiting spatial correlation in wireless sensor networks”, IET Communications, Special Issue on Energy Aware Wireless Network Protocols, published on line, doi: 10.1049/iet-com.2011.0799, pp. 2198 - 2207.

• I. Bisio, A. Delfino, F. Lavagetto, M. Marchese, “A Television Channel Real-Time Detector using Smartphones”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume: PP , Issue: 99 , Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TMC.2013.79, 2013 , pp. 1-14.

Research Results (journals 2008-2014)

• I. Bisio, A. Delfino, F. Lavagetto, M. Marchese, A. Sciarrone, “Gender-driven Emotion Recognition through Speech Signals for Ambient Intelligence Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Volume: PP , Issue: 99, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TETC.2013.2274797, 2013 , pp. 1-14.

• I. Bisio, M. Marchese, “The Concept of Fairness: Definiton and Use in Bandwidth Allocation Applied to Satellite Environments”, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2014, pp. 8-14.

• M. Cello, G. Gnecco, M. Marchese, M. Sanguineti, “Narrowing the search for optimal call-admission policies via a nonlinear stochastic knapsack model”, JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, 2013, accepted for the publication.

• M. Cello, G. Gnecco, M. Marchese, M. Sanguineti, “Evaluation of the average packet delivery delay in highly-disrupted networks: the DTN and IP-like protocol cases”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 18 , Issue 3, 2014, pp. 519-522.

Scientific Awards

• IEEE Communications Society, Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) Technical Committee, “2008 Satellite Communications Distinguished Service Award” in “recognition of significant professional standing and contributions in the field of satellite communications technology”. Mario Marchese

• IEEE International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications 2006 (IWSSC 2006), Best Ph. D. Paper Award Winner: – Igor Bisio, Mario Marchese, Giancarlo Portomauro, “Multi Attribute

Sink Selection Techniques in Satellite Sensor Networks: Study and Performance Evaluation”.

• IEEE Global Communications Conference 2006 (GLOBECOM 2006), Best Student Paper Award Winner (Category Physical Communication System): – Igor Bisio, Mario Marchese, Giancarlo Portomauro, “Performance

Evaluation of Sink Selection Techniques in Satellite Sensor Networks”.

• First International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications 2009 (SPACOMM 2009), Best Paper Award Winner: – Igor Bisio, Giuseppe Araniti, Mauro De Sanctis, “Towards the

Reliable and Efficient Interplanetary Internet: a Survey of Possible Advanced Networking and Communications Solutions”.

Scientific Awards

• Second International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications 2010 (SPACOMM 2010), Best Paper Award Winner: – Igor Bisio, Fabio Lavagetto, Mario Marchese, “Introduction to Multi

Attribute Decision Making-Based Application Layer Joint Coding for Image Transmission over Deep Space Channels”.

• IEEE Global Communications Conference 2012 (IEEE GLOBECOM 2012), Best Paper Award Winner (Selected Area in Communications Symposium): – Igor Bisio, Stefano Delucchi, Fabio Lavagetto, Mario Marchese,

“Capacity Bound of MOP-based Allocation with Packet Loss and Power Metrics in Satellite Communications Systems”.

• Fifth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications 2013 (SPACOMM 2013), Best Paper Award Winner: – Igor Bisio, Stefano Delucchi, Fabio Lavagetto, Mario Marchese,

“Capacity Saving Analysis of Lp-problem based Allocation with Packet Loss and Power Metrics in GEO-Satellite Communications Channels”.

• IEEE International Communications Conference 2014 (IEEE ICC 2014), Best Paper Award Winner (Symposia Paper): – Igor Bisio, Aldo Grattarola, Fabio Lavagetto, Giulio Luzzati, Mario

Marchese, “Performance Evaluation of Application Layer Joint Coding for Video Transmission with Smartphones Over Terrestrial/Satellite Emergency Networks”

Patents

Patents • Igor Bisio, Vincenzo Gesmundo, Mario Marchese, Giancarlo Portomauro, “Architettura e Metodi

di Gestione del Traffico di una Rete di Sensori di Sorveglianza”, brevetto congiunto DIST Università degli Studi di Genova e Selex Communications S.p.A., depositato presso la Camera di Commercio di Torino, 16 maggio 2008, TO 2008 A 370.

• Igor Bisio, Vincenzo Gesmundo, Mario Marchese, Giancarlo Portomauro, “Architecture and Method for Traffic Management of a Monitoring Sensor Network”, joint patent between DIST-Università degli Studi di Genova and SELEX COMMUNICATIONS S.p.A., depositato presso Stati Uniti il 19 novembre 2009 (United States Patent Application Publication, Pub. No. 2009/0258154A1).

• Alberto Civardi, Mario Marchese, Maurizio Mongelli, Giancarlo Portomauro, Achille Sogliani e Luca Spinacci, "PROCEDIMENTO DI GENERAZIONE DI UN ALBERO DI COPERTURA DEI COLLEGAMENTI TRA NODI DI UNA RETE DI COMUNICAZIONE, CON MIGLIORATO TEMPO DI REAZIONE", depositato presso la Camera di Commercio di Torino il 2 Dicembre 2009 (TO2009A000947).

• M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, V. Gesmundo, “Measurement-based Bandwidth Control of Layer 3 to Layer 2 QoS Mapping over Gateway Devices”, brevetto congiunto DIST Università degli Studi di Genova e Selex Communications S.p.A., depositato presso la Camera di Commercio di Torino il 24 Maggio 2010 (TO2010A000429).