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Alessio Botta

Short resume

I am a postdoc at the Computer Science Department of the University of Napoli Federico II, where I received my MS degree in 2004, and my PhD in 2009, under the guidance of Prof. Giorgio Ventre and Dr. Antonio Pescapè.
I am member of COMICS, a research group on networking headed by Prof. Giorgio Ventre. I am also member of the CINI-Item research group.
From February to August I have been at Eurecom Institute in Sophia Antipois (FR) as a visiting scholar under the guidance of Prof. Ernst Biersack.

My research interests fall in the area of networking, and, in particular, of performance measurement and improvement, with a specific focus on wireless and heterogeneous systems.

Projects

Traffic Project
D-ITG A software platform for traffic generation and analysis. It allows for accurate network measurements.
UANM Unified Architecture for Network Measurement.
TimeD Time and Path diversity in IP networks.
Hynetd A hybrid software tool for network level topology discovery.

Publications*

International Journals
	Giuseppe Aceto, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Maurizio D'Arienzo, "Unified Architecture for Network Measurement: the case of available bandwidth", Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, accepted for publication.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Claudio Guerrini, Marin Mangri, "A customer service assurance platform for mobile broadband networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.49, no.10, pp.101-109, Oct. 2011.
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	Alessio Botta, Roberto Canonico, Giovanni Di Stasi, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, Serge Fdida, "Integration of 3G Connectivity in PlanetLab Europe", ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, Volume 15, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 344-355.
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	Vinh Bui, Weiping Zhu, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "A Markovian Approach to Multi-path Data Transfer in Overlay Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol.21, no.10, pp.1398-1411, Oct. 2010.
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	Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, Antonio Pescapè, "Do You Trust Your Software-based Traffic Generator?", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.48, no.9, pp.158-165, Sept. 2010.
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	Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, Kavè Salamatian, "Traffic Analysis of Peer-to-Peer IPTV Communities", Computer Networks, Volume 53, Issue 4, 18 March 2009, Pages 470-484, Elsevier.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "An approach to the identification of network elements composing heterogeneous end-to-end paths", Computer Networks, Volume 52, Issue 15, 23 October 2008, Pages 2975-2987, Elsevier.
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	Roger P. Karrer, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "High-speed backhaul networks: Myth or reality ?", Computer Communications, Volume 31, Issue 8, 25 May 2008, pp. 1540-1550, Elsevier.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Quality of Service Statistics over Heterogeneous Networks: Analysis and Applications", EJOR special Issue on Performance Evaluation of QoS-aware Heterogeneous Systems, Volume 191, Issue 3, 16 December 2008, Pages 1075-1088, Elsevier.
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	Alessio Botta, Donato Emma, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Systematic Performance Modeling and Characterization of Heterogeneous IP Networks", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 7, Performance modelling and evaluation of computer systems, November 2006, Pages 1134-1143, Elsevier.

Book Chapters
	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Roger Karrer, "Wireless Networks Test-beds: when heterogeneity plays with us", in "Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks, Architectures and Protocols", Springer, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-09776-3. A preview is available on Google Books.

International Conferences
	Giuseppe Aceto, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Cedric Westphal "An efficient storage technique for network monitoring data", IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N 2011), Capri, Italy, October 2011.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "IP packet interleaving: bridging the gap between theory and practice", 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications (ISCC), Kerkyra (Corfu), Greece, June 2011.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "Monitoring and measuring wireless network performance in the presence of middleboxes", The 8th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Bardonecchia (TO), Italy, January 2010. (Download the poster).
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giuseppe Aceto, Maurizio D'Arienzo, "UANM: a platform for experimenting with available bandwidth estimation tools", 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications (ISCC), Riccione, Italy, June 2010. (Best paper award - local category).
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, Ernst Biersack, Stefan Rugel, "Performance footprints of heavy-users in 3G networks via empirical measurement", 6th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (Winmee) 2010, Avignon, France, May 2010.
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	Alessio Botta, Roberto Canonico, Giovanni Di Stasi, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Providing UMTS connectivity to PlanetLab nodes", 3rd International Workshop on Real Overlays & Distributed Systems, collocated with ACM CoNEXT 2008, Madrid, Spain, 9 - 12 December, 2008.
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	Alessio Botta, Walter de Donato, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Networked Embedded Systems: a Quantitative Performance Comparison", IEEE Globecom 2008, New Orleans (LA), USA, 30 November - 4 December, 2008.
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	Vinh Bui, Weiping Zhu, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "An MDP-based Approach for Multipath Data Transmission over Wireless Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, 19 - 23 May 2008.
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	Alessio Botta, Walter de Donato, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Discovering Topologies at Router Level: Part II", IEEE Globecom 2007, Washington D.C., 26-30 November, 2007.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, Roger P. Karrer, "High-speed wireless backbones: measurements from MagNets", Fourth IEEE International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (Broadnets), Raileigh, North Carolina (USA), 10 - 14 September 2007.
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	Vinh Bui, Weiping Zhu, Antonio Pescapè, Alessio Botta, "Long Horizon End-to-End Delay Forecasts: A Multi-Step-Ahead Hybrid Approach", IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Aviero, Portugal, 1 - 4 July 2007.
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	Roger P. Karrer, Istvan Matyasovszki, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "MagNets - experiences from deploying a joint research-operational next-generation wireless access network testbed", International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM), Orlando, Florida (USA), 21 - 23 May 2007.
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	Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Reducing Network Traffic Data Sets", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, 24 - 28 June 2007.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Identification of Network Bricks in Heterogeneous Scenarios", First IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements,Tampa, Florida, 14 - 17 November 2006.
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	Roger Karrer, Istvan Matyasovszki, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "Experimental Evaluation and Characterization of the Magnets Wireless Backbone", 1st ACM MobiCom 2006 International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2006), Los Angeles, California (USA), 29 September 2006.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "On the Statistics of QoS Parameters over Heterogeneous Networks", IFIP Networking 2006 Workshop Towards the QoS Internet (To-QoS'2006), Coimbra, Portugal, 15 - 19 May 2006.
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	Leopoldo Angrisani, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Michele Vadursi, "Measuring Wireless Links Capacity", IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2006, Puket, Thailand, 16 - 18 January 2006.
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "On the Performance of Bandwidth Estimation Tools", IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks (ICHSN 2005), Montreal, Canada, 14 - 17 August 2005
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	Alessio Botta, Donato Emma, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Systematic Performance Modeling and Characterization of Heterogeneous IP Networks", IEEE Workshop on Performance Modelling in Wired, Wireless, Mobile Networking and Computing (PMW2MNC'05), Fukuoka, Japan, 20 - 22 July 2005. (An extended version of this aricle is present in a Special Issue of Journal of Computer and System Sciences)
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	Alessio Botta, Salvatore D'Antonio, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "BET: A Hybrid Bandwidth Estimation Tool", IEEE Workshop on Performance Modeling and Analysis of Communication in Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Networks (PMAC-PDG'05), Fukuoka, Japan, 20 - 22 July 2005.

Posters
	Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, and Antonio Pescapè, "Do you know what you are generating?", ACM Conext 2007 Student Workshop, New York (USA), December 2007.
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	Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, "Searching for invariants in network games traffic", ACM Conext 2006 Student Workshop, Lisbon, December 2006.

Technical Reports
	Alessio Botta, Ernst Biersack, Antonio Pescapè ,"New generation cellular networks: performance measures from an operational deployment", (TR-DIS-CEL-9-2009) University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and Eurecom (France), September 2009
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè ,"Packet interleaving from theory to practice", (TR-DIS-INT-7-2009) Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Napoli Federico II, July 2009
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	Alessio Botta, Walter De Donato, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre " Design, Implementation, and Testing of a Hybrid Tool for Network Topoly Discovery", (TR-DIS-TD-3-2007) Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Napoli Federico II, March 2007
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	Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, "How to set up and configure StarEast in Access Point Mode with Intel 2200 Wireless Network Interfaces ", (TR-DIS-NP-2-2007) Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Napoli Federico II, February 2007.
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	Alessio Botta, Istvan Matyasovszki, Antonio Pescapè, Roger Karrer, "Results of the Experimentation of Magnets Wireless Backbone", (TR-DTLab-UoN-2006) University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin (Germany), June 2006.
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	Alessio Botta, Donato Emma, Salvatore Guadagno, and Antonio Pescapè, "Performance Evaluation of Heterogeneous Network Scenarios", (TR-DIS-102004) Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Napoli Federico II, October 2004.

Others
	Antonio Pescapè, Alberto Dainotti, Alessio Botta, "On Internet Measurement Research", 1st Newsletter of the IEEE Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling, November 2006
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	Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, Antonio Pescapè, "Multi-protocol and multi-platform traffic generation and measurement", IEEE INFOCOM 2007 DEMO Session, May 2007, Anchorage (Alaska, USA)

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Professional activities

Member of the Technical Program Committee of :

Publicity Chair of :

International Conference on Communications in Computing 2006.

Reviewer for :

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer.
Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier.
IEEE Communications Magazine.
IEEE Network.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier.
Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier.
IET Communications Journal.

IEEE INFOCOM WiP track 2010.
IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications, ISCC 2011.
Sixth IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements.
Third IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements.
Second IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements.
First IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements.
IEEE Globecom 2011, Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium.
IEEE Globecom 2010, Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium.
IEEE Globecom 2009, Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium.
IEEE Globecom 2008, Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium.
IEEE Globecom 2007, Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium.
IEEE Globecom 2006, Wireless Communications & Networking.
IEEE Globecom 2006, Network Security Systems.
IEEE ICC 2009, Communications QoS, Reliability, and Performance Modeling Symposium.
IEEE ICC 2008, Communications QoS, Reliability, and Performance Modeling Symposium.
International Conference and Exhibition on NEXT GENERATION MOBILE APPLICATIONS, SERVICES and TECHNOLOGIES 2007 (NGMAST 2007)
European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks 2007.
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007.
International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology 2006.
2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'06).
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2006
ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications 2006.
IEE Mobility 2005.
IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2005.

Contact information

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (DIS)
Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Napoli Federico II,
Via Claudio, 21 - 80125 - Napoli
Tel: +39 081 768-3865 Fax: +39 081 768-3816
email: a.botta[a t]unina.it

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Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica (ITeM - CINI "Carlo Savy" Lab),
Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo
Edificio Centri Comuni
Via Cinthia - 80126 - Napoli
email: alessio.botta[a t]consorzio-cini.it

Last update October 18, 2011.