ANTONIO PESCAPè

Teaching

 

Teaching
 

The following is a list of the courses I'm teaching or I have taught:

  • - a. a. 2013-2014 Reti di Calcolatori I (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (75 ore, 9 CFU), Informatica (32 ore, 6 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2012-2013 Reti di Calcolatori I (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (75 ore, 9 CFU), Informatica (32 ore, 6 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2011-2012 Reti di Calcolatori I (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (75 ore, 9 CFU), Informatica (32 ore, 6 CFU), Architetture e tecnologie dei sistemi telematici (30 ore) al Master di II Livello - Innovazione ICT: progettazione e gestione di servizi di nuova generazione e cloud computing;
  • - a. a. 2010-2011 Reti di Calcolatori I (50 ore, 6 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2009-2010 Reti di Calcolatori (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (75 ore, 9 CFU), Progettazione e Produzione Multimediale (28 ore, 4 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2008-2009 Reti Logiche (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (75 ore, 9 CFU), Progettazione e Produzione Multimediale (28 ore, 4 CFU); 
  • - a. a. 2007-2008 Reti di Calcolatori (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (50 ore, 6 CFU), Informatica (25 ore, 4 CFU), Progettazione e Produzione Multimediale (32 ore, 4 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2006-2007 Calcolatori Elettronici I (50 ore, 6 CFU), Informatica (25 ore, 4 CFU), Progettazione e Produzione Multimediale (32 ore, 4 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2005-2006 Informatica (25 ore, 4 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2004-2005 Informatica (25 ore, 4 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2003-2004 Laboratorio di Informatica (24 ore, 3 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2001-2002 Elementi di Informatica (50 ore, 6 CFU), Calcolatori Elettronici I (50 ore, 6 CFU);
  • - a. a. 2000-2001 Fondamenti di Informatica I (50 ore, 6 CFU), Reti Logiche (50 ore, 6 CFU).

Thesis Proposals and Projects for Students

New: thesis available in the context a research project in collaboration with Google. Send me an e-mail if you are interested in this opportunity.

New: positions available for (self-funded) Internships and Thesis at CAIDA (San Diego, USA). Send me an e-mail if you are interested in this opportunity.

New: Internships and Thesis for Italian Students at the following Institutions:

  • - CTTC, theses available on self-organized networks -- NEW !!!!
  • - CAIDA, San Diego, CA, USA - NEW !!!!
  • - FTW, Vienna - NEW !!!!
  • - ParisTelecom, Paris - France
  • - Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis - France
  • - University of Creta (Greece)
  • - University of Coimbra (Portugal)
  • - UCL, University of Louvain-la-neuve (Belgium)
  • - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
  • - AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow, Poland)

Please, send me an e-mail if you are a student interested in one of the above mentioned positions.

Old: Thesis @ Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin in collaboration with Dr. Roger Karrer. Click here to see the description of work. In the field of the collaboration with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (DT Labs) other topics are available. Please, send me an e-mail if you are interested in a thesis/project in Berlin at DT Labs.

For further details please refer to COMICS web site. Other thesis proposals are available.

Please, send me an e-mail if you are a student interested in thesis and projects falling in my research activities. There is room for new ideas and fresh brainstorming... No need to be an Italian Student/Researcher.

I had the privilege to supervise/co-supervise the activities and research of several PhD students.

PhD Students 


I have been invited as member of the PhD Jury of several PhD defenses.

PhD Jury 

  • - April 2013: PhD Jury at Eurecom (France) for the PhD defense of Heng Cui. See the picture of the event.
  • - November 2008: PhD Tribunal at University of Luxembourg Secan Lab; for the PhD defense of Foued Melakessou

I had the privilege to supervise the research of several graduate students.

Students @ University of Napoli Federico II (since 2000) - Not updated since 2008

Currently, I'm supervising the following MS and BS Theses:

  • Paolo Federico, Malware Traffic Analysis and Characterization
  • Giuseppe Aceto, Algorithms and Tools for Network Monitoring
  • Raffaele Ruggiero, Platforms for Mobile Gaming
  • Franco Sergio, Platforms for Traffic Classification
  • Gaetano Nugnes, Comparing Traffic Classifiers
  • Parmentola Maurizio, Remote Control of Internet Box
  • A. Sarnataro, Remote Control of Network Devices
  • Raffaele Amodio, Platforms for document identification
  • Nicola Grasso, Platforms for image identification

I supervised the following MS and BS Theses.

MS Thesis:

  • Alessandro De Peppo, Unwanted Traffic Characterization
  • Walter De Donato, Topology Discovery Tools
  • Stefano Silvestri, Games Community and Traffic Analysis of Handheld Games
  • Fabio Ben Toumia, Path Covering Models for Distributed Monitoring Systems
  • Luigi Diana, SCTP traffic generation
  • Fabio Ercolino, DCCP traffic generation
  • Francesco Rendine, Network Applications over IXP platforms

BS Thesis:

  • Pietro Marchetta, Multiplayer Online Games traffic capturing, analysis and characterization
  • Marco Ghidelli, Multiplayer Online Games traffic simulation and generation
  • Salvatore D'Auria, Multi-Sources Approaches to Topology Discovery
  • Vincenzo Siressi, Traffic Generation over IXP platforms
  • Vincenzo Bergantino, Models for Network Traffic
  • Lucio Tufari, IPTV traffic analysis
  • Luca Esposito, Performance Analysis of Traffic Generation Tools
  • Marco Miraglia, Classification of Network Traffic

 

I co-supervised the following MS and BS Theses.

BS Thesis:

  • Domenico Crimaldi, Security in Wireless Lan
  • Vincenzo Pirone, Bin-Packing Algorithms
  • Pasquale Ascione, A Decision Support System
  • Antonio Angrisani, MES Planning and Implementation
  • Michele Bruno, Traffic Characterization of Network Games Traffic (Warcraft III and Command & Conquer: Generals)
  • Alessandro Ferraiuolo, On the Quality of Internet Traffic Generators
  • Tommaso Guglielmi, DDoS Traffic Analysis

MS Thesis:

  • Riccardo De Petris, IP Telephony Infrastructures
  • Ivan Vignola, VLAN configuration for supporting real time traffic
  • Francesco Serpe, Middlebox Communication (MidCom) Protocol
  • Stefano Avallone, MPLS and DiffServ internetworking
  • Caterina La Salvia, GPRS Simulator
  • Vito Covito, MPLS and Traffic Engineering
  • Francesco Chierchia, ATM and Ethernet integration: a networking lab
  • Francesco Russo: Dynamic Configuration of MPLS networks
  • Saverio Masino, Traffic Generators: theory and practice
  • Rosario Bosco, Hign Performance Internet Traffic Generators
  • Giuseppe Giannini, Attacks Against Routing Protocols
  • Giuseppe Panariello, Available Bandwidth and Capacity Estimation Tools
  • Domenico Dichiarante, Network Topology Discovery Tools
  • Salvatore Attanasio, IPSec over 802.11b
  • Alessio Botta, Performance Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  • Paolo Buccigrossi, Performance Evaluation of WLAN 802.11b
  • Antonio Campani, Cross-layered performance evaluation of 802.11b networks (part I)
  • Giuseppe Galeone, Network Games Traffic Characterization (Counter Strike and Starcraft)
  • Alberto Dainotti, Packet Capturing platforms and HTTP Traffic Characterization
  • Marco Cancello Tortora, Cross-layered performance evaluation of 802.11b networks (part II)
  • Mario Toscano, State of the Art in Anomaly Detection Systems
  • Jessica Di Toto, QoS degradation over wireless channels
  • Saverio Pisaniello, Anomaly Detection in IP network traffic
  • Massimo Messore, Statistical Analysis of Network Game Traffic (Counter Strike Server and Age of Mythology)
  • Flavio De Simone, Measuring the Capacity of Wireless Links
  • Carmine Strigaro, Wavelet Based approach to Anomaly Detection (Part I)
  • Gianfranco D’Angelis, Web-Based Traffic Generators
  • Daniela Macchia, Rule Based Techniques for Anomaly Detection
  • Stefania Narducci, Modeling the behavior of e-mail traffic exchange
  • Gennaro Cirillo, Path Diversity and Packet Interleaving
  • Giuseppe Riccardi, Techniques for the Reduction of Network Traffic Data Sets
  • Sirio Antonellini, Wavelet Based approach to Anomaly Detection (Part II)

Students @ other Universities (since 2006)

  • Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Comsats Institute of Information Technology Wah Campus (Pakistan): SCTP performance evaluation
  • Subbaram Bandi, S.R.M University, Chennai (India) - Embedded Network Monitoring System
  • Vinh Bui, The University of New South Wales (Australia) - Delay and Packet Loss Prediction

 

Links:

- University of Napoli Federico II
- DIETI
- COMICS Research Group
- Traffic Research Group
- Official Teaching Website (Italian)

Projects:

D-ITG
Bismark
HoBBIT
TIE
Merlin