Alberto Dainotti

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I'm working as Post-Doc in the COMICS group, a research group on Networking headed by Prof. Giorgio Ventre at the Computer Science and Engineering Department (Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica) of University of Napoli (UoN) "Federico II", where I received my PhD in 2008 defending a thesis entitled "Understanding Internet Traffic: Can We Classify the Unknown?".

My main research interests are on traffic measurements, analysis, modeling and classification, and on network security. I usually work closely together with Antonio Pescape' and Alessio Botta, who are also great friends.

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From July'07 to February'08, I was visiting scholar in CAIDA/UCSD, doing research in some fields of network traffic analysis related to network security and on network traffic classification. This activity was co-sponsored by my PhD student grant at UoN and by CAIDA/UCSD. Please check my caida web page for news and to see how california makes hair grow.

Projects

List of Publications

Journals

A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, “Do You Trust Your Software-based Traffic Generator?", IEEE Communications Magazine, In Press.
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “A Cascade Architecture for DoS Attacks Detection Based on the Wavelet Transform", Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 17, Issue 6, pp. 945-968
T. Silverston, O. Fourmaux, A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, G. Ventre, K. Salamatian, "Traffic Analysis of Peer-to-Peer IPTV Communities", Computer Networks (Elsevier). Volume 53, Issue 4, 18 March 2009, Pages 470-484.
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre, "Internet traffic modeling by means of Hidden Markov Models" ,Computer Networks (Elsevier). Volume 52, Issue 14, 9 October 2008, Pages 2645-2662
A. Dainotti, S. Loreto, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, "SCTP performance evaluation over Heterogeneous Networks" ,Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) , Vol 19, Issue 8 (June 2007), Special Issue on Performance Analysis and Enhancements of Wireless Networks. pp. 1207 - 1218 .

Conferences

G. Aceto, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, PortLoad: taking the best of two worlds in traffic classification, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 - WIP Track - March 2010, San Diego (CA, USA)
A. Dainotti, F. Gargiulo, L. Kuncheva, A. Pescapè, C. Sansone, Identification of traffic flows hiding behind TCP port 80, IEEE ICC 2010 - May 2010, Capetown (South Africa)
A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, "Classification of Network Traffic via Packet-Level Hidden Markov Models", IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - Dec 2008, New Orleans (LA, USA)

A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “Worm Traffic Analysis and Characterization", IEEE ICC 2007 - Jun 2007, Glasgow (Scotland)

A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “Reducing Network Traffic Data Sets", IEEE ICC 2007 - Jun 2007, Glasgow (Scotland)

A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “Wavelet-based Detection of DoS Attacks", 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM - Nov 2006, San Francisco (CA, USA)

A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, G. Iannello, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre, “An HMM Approach to Internet Traffic Modeling", 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM - Nov 2006, San Francisco (CA, USA)

A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre,“A Packet-level Characterization of Network Traffic”, 11th IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2006) - Trento (Italy), June 2006

A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, “A packet-level model of Starcraft traffic”, IEEE Second International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems 2005 (co-located with IEEE Mobiquitous 2005) – pp. 244-253, 0-7695-2417-6/05 - July 2005, San Diego (CA, USA)

Book Chapters

V. Carela-Espanol, P. Barlet-Ros, M. Solé-Simò, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, K-dimensional trees for continuous traffic classification, International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'10) @ PAM 2010 - April 2010, Zurich (Switzerland)
A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, TIE: a Community-Oriented Traffic Classification Platform", International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'09) @ IFIP Networking 2009 - May 2009, Aachen (Germany)
G. Aceto, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, F. Gargiulo, A. Pescapè C. Sansone, "Combining Multiple Traffic Classification Techniques within a Single Platform", RECIPE Robust and Efficient traffic Classification in IP nEtworks, Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, pp.1-16, ISBN:978-88-833-8081-5, Napoli, Italy, 2009

Posters

A. Dainotti, A. Botta, A. Pescapè, "Do You Know What You Are Generating?" , Poster at ACM Co-Next 2007 Student Workshop. 2-pages abstract published in Co-Next '07 Proceedings .
A. Dainotti, A. Botta, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, "Searching for Invariants in Network Games Traffic" , Poster at ACM Co-Next 2006 Student Workshop. 2-pages abstract published in Co-Next '06 Proceedings .

Technical Reports

A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, "TIE: a community-oriented traffic classification platform", Technical Report TR-DIS-102008-TIE, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", October 2008, Italy
A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, "Plab: a packet capture and analysis architecture", Technical Report TR-DIS-122004, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", December 2004, Italy

Other..

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

Professional activities

Technical Program Committee member of:IARIA/IEEE ECUMN 2009, SERSC/IEEE CSA 2008, IEEE ICC 2007 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium.

Reviewer for: Computer Networks (Elsevier), International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), IEEE Globecom 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, IEEE LCN WNM 2008, 2007, 2006, IT-NEWS (QOS-IP) 2008, IEEE ICN 2007, IEEE ICNS 2007, IEEE NGMAST 2007, IEEE ECUMN 2007, IEEE ISWPC 2007, IEEE Spects 2006, ACS/IEEE AICCSA 2006, ICMU 2006, IEE Mobility 2006, IEEE WTS 2005, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2005

I'm a member of the IEEE Communications & Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) , of the IEEE Technical Committe on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIMTC), and of the IEEE Communication Society.

Projects Funded by the European Union

CONTENT Network of Excellence