Walter de Donato

          Last updated on 26/12/2011 
About me Projects Publications Professional
activities
Personal Contacts
Walter de Donato received his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 from the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy. In 2006 he became a member of the COMICS (COMputers for Interaction and CommunicationS) research group directed by Prof. Giorgio Ventre at Department of Computer Engineering and Systems of the University of Napoli "Federico II".

From February to July 2010 he visited the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, working on the evaluation of broadband access network performance from the home gateway point of view. Such activity brought to the launch of the BISmark project, which has been partially funded by Google, Intel and NSF.

In 2011 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Systems from the same university, where he currently works as a Post-Doc. His research interests mainly concern methodologies, techniques, and distributed architectures for measuring, analyzing, classifying, and monitoring network traffic and for discovering network topologies at IP layer.

He closely cooperates with Antonio Pescapè, Alessio Botta, Alberto Dainotti, Giuseppe Aceto and Pietro Marchetta
He is member of IEEE Communications Society and ACM.
International
  • BISMark: Broadband Internet Service benchMark
  • NetQoS: Robust and Efficient traffic Classification in IP nEtworks
National
  • RECIPE: Robust and Efficient traffic Classification in IP nEtworks

  • Denaro Media: Modular and Integrated Multi-channel Multimedia Editorial System (SEMMIM) for the production, transformation, storge, indexing, search and multi-channel delivery of multimedia contents.
Internal
  • HoBBIT: a research project for measuring broadband Internet access quality in Italy

  • Traffic: a research project focusing on Network Traffic

  • Hynetd: hybrid network level topology discovery platform

  • TIE: traffic identification engine

  • D-ITG: distributed traffic generation platform

  • Plab: software platform for packet capture and analysis

Book Chapters
  • 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

International Conferences and Workshops
  • Walter de Donato, Pietro Marchetta, Antonio Pescapè,
    Conferences A Hands-on Look at Active Probing using the IP Prespecified Timestamp Option,
    to appear in PAM 2012, Vienna, Austria, March 12-14, 2012

  • Srikanth Sundaresan, Walter de Donato, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira, Sam Crawford, Antonio Pescapè,
    Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada, August 15-19, 2011

  • Srikanth Sundaresan, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira, Anthony Tang, W. Keith Edwards, Rebecca E. Grinter, Marshini Chetty, Walter de Donato,
    Helping Users Shop For ISPs with Internet Nutrition Labels:,
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networks proceedings, Toronto, ON, Canada, August 15-19, 2011

  • G. Aceto, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè,
    PortLoad: taking the best of two worlds in traffic classification,
    IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Work in Progress (WiP), San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-19, 2010

  • V. Carela-Español, P. Barlet-Ros, M. Solè-Simò, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè,
    K-dimensional trees for continuous traffic classification,
    2nd International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA'10), Zurich, Switzerland, April 7, 2010.

  • V. Manetti, R. Canonico, A. Mauthe, G. Tyson, W. de Donato, G. Ventre,
    Next Generation CDN services for Community Networks,
    NGMAST'09, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 15-18 September, 2009

  • 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, Aachen (Germany), May 2009

  • A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè and P.S. Rossi,
    Classification of Network Traffic via Packet-Level Hidden Markov Models,
    Globecom 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, December, 2008
    download*

  • A. Botta, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè and G. Ventre,
    Networked Embedded Systems: a Quantitative Performance Comparison,
    Globecom 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, December, 2008
    download*

  • A. Botta, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè and G. Ventre,
    Discovering Topologies at Router Level: Part II,
    Globecom 2007, Washington, D.C., 26-30 November, 2007
    download*

Posters
  • W. de Donato, S. Sundaresan, N. Feamster, R. Texeira, A. Pescapè,
    BISMark: A Platform for Studying Home Networks,
    USENIX NSDI'11, Boston, MA, USA, 30 Marzo - 1 Aprile, 2011.

  • W. de Donato, A. Pescapè,
    On the Characterization of Multi-Channel Applications,
    CoNEXT Student Workshop'09, Rome, Italy, 1 December, 2009.

Technical Reports
  • A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè and G. Ventre,
    TIE: a community-oriented traffic classification platform,
    Technical Report Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Napoli Federico II (TR-DIS-10-2008) October 2008
    download*

  • A. Botta, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè and G. Ventre,
    Design, Implementation, and Testing of a Hybrid Tool for Network Topology Discovery,
    Technical Report Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Napoli Federico II (TR-DIS-TD-3-2007) March 2007
    download*

Deliverables
  • A. Ferro, C. De Falco, L. Rubolino, N. Esposito, W. de Donato, H. Zukanovic, V. Bernardini,
    Progetto delle applicazioni di authoring/publishing da sviluppare e del database per i contenuti multimediali,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``Denaro Media'' research project, March 2009

  • A. Ferro, C. De Falco, L. Rubolino, N. Esposito, W. de Donato, H. Zukanovic, V. Bernardini,
    Requisiti, architettura del sistema, CMS di base e progetto del middleware,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``Denaro Media'' research project, March 2009

  • A. Ferro, C. De Falco, L. Rubolino, N. Esposito, W. de Donato, F. Manzone, A. Troise,
    Rapporto scientifico sullo stato dell'arte,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``Denaro Media'' research project, March 2009

  • G. Aceto, W. de Donato, V. Manetti, R. Canonico, G. Ventre,
    Estensione al supporto del video streaming di un sistema di CDN innovativo,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``ITS-ECM'' research partnership, March 2009

  • G. Aceto, W. de Donato, V. Manetti, R. Canonico, G. Ventre,
    Estensione al supporto della content adaptation di un sistema di CDN innovativo,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``ITS-ECM'' research partnership, March 2009

  • G. Aceto, W. de Donato, V. Manetti, R. Canonico, G. Ventre,
    Test e validazione di un prototipo del sistema di CDN,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``ITS-ECM'' research partnership, March 2009

  • G. Aceto, W. de Donato, V. Manetti, R. Canonico, G. Ventre,
    Progettazione ed implementazione di un sistema di CDN innovativo,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``ITS-ECM'' research partnership, March 2009

  • V. Manetti, W. de Donato, R. Canonico, G. Ventre,
    Un'analisi dello stato dell'arte dei sistemi di Content Delivery su Internet,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``ITS-ECM'' research partnership, October 2008

  • A. Amirante, F.P. D'Elia, W. de Donato, R. Canonico, G. Ventre,
    Test e validazione del prototipo di CDN On-Demand,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``Engineering OD-CDN'' research partnership, July 2008

  • V. Manetti, W. de Donato, R. Canonico, S. D'Antonio, S. Avallone, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre,
    Architettura di un sistema di CDN On-Demand,
    University of Napoli Federico II, deliverable for ``Engineering OD-CDN'' research partnership, May 2008

  • A. Amirante, F.P. D'Elia, W. de Donato, R. Canonico, S. D'Antonio, S. Avallone, G. Ventre,
    Implementazione e testing di un sistema di CDN On-Demand, University of Napoli Federico II,
    deliverable for "Engineering OD-CDN" research partnership, May 2008

  • V. Manetti, W. de Donato, R. Canonico, S. D'Antonio, S. Avallone, G. Ventre,
    Architettura di un sistema di CDN On-Demand, University of Napoli Federico II,
    deliverable for "Engineering OD-CDN" research partnership, May 2008

  • V. Manetti, W. de Donato, R. Canonico, S. D'Antonio, S. Avallone, G. Ventre,
    Sistemi di Content Delivery su Internet: un'analisi dello stato dell'arte, University of Napoli Federico II,
    deliverable for "Engineering OD-CDN" research partnership, October 2007

  • A. Botta, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, G. Venturi,
    Architettura di sistema della piattaforma NIA-MASSE, University of Napoli Federico II,
    deliverable for "NIA-MASSE" research partnership, April 2007

  • A. Botta, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, G. Venturi,
    Architettura di rete della piattaforma NIA-MASSE, University of Napoli Federico II,
    deliverable for "NIA-MASSE" research partnership, April 2007

  • A. Botta, A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, G. Ventre, G. Venturi,
    Architettura applicativo della piattaforma NIA-MASSE, University of Napoli Federico II,
    deliverable for "NIA-MASSE" research partnership, April 2007


* Copyright Notice
Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE, ACM, Elsevier or the other copyright holders.
By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it

Research experience
  • From 11/2008 to 11/2011
    PhD student at the Informatica e Sistemistica Department of the University of Napoli Federico II

  • From 4/2008 to 1/2009
    Continuative collaboration with CINI (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica) at University of Napoli Federico II on COSMIC project

  • From 5/2007 to 4/2008
    Continuative collaboration with DIS (Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica) at University of Napoli Federico II on traffic analysis, measurement & classification, distributed topology discovery and content delivery networks.

  • From 12/2006 to 2/2007
    Collaboration with DIS (Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica) at University of Napoli Federico II on a research project on:
    • Study and prototipal project of a model for network systems performance analysis
    • Network Processor platforms analysis

Teaching experience
  • Advised Master Theses
    • Un CMS per l'editoria multimediale: integrazione con i processi editoriali tradizionali ed analisi prestazionale
      Advisor: Prof. G. Ventre - Candidate: Nicola Esposito - academic year 2008/09
    • Progetto e realizzazione di una CDN con capacit\'a di adattamento dei contenuti
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Andrea Brandi - academic year 2007/08
    • Valutazione di un sistema di Video CDN su Testbed geografici
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Giovanni Cascone - academic year 2007/08
    • Un sistema di Content Delivery per video streaming in formato flash
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Antonino Segreto - academic year 2007/08
    • Un'Architettura per la Misura Automatica di Banda Disponibile su Reti IP Eterogenee
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Giuseppe Aceto - academic year 2007/08
    • Valutazione di un'applicazione di Content Delivery sulla piattaforma Planetlab
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Marco Albano - academic year 2007/08

  • Advised Bachelor Theses
    • Analisi Architetturale e Protocollare di Applicazioni Multicanale: il Caso Skype
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Valerio Persico - academic year 2008/09
    • Analisi di meccanismi di redirezione per reti CDN
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Carmine Donadoni - academic year 2007/08
    • Analisi e sperimentazione di una piattaforma per il topology discovery distribuito
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Salvatore D'Auria - academic year 2006/07

Reviewer for
  • IEEE Globecom 2011 - IEEE INFOCOM WIP 2010 - IEEE ICC 2010 - ACM Conext 2009 Student Workshop - IEEE Globecom 2009 - IEEE ICC 2009 - IEEE ICONS 2008 - IEEE LCN 2008 - IEEE ICCCN 2008 - WNM 2008 - IEEE Globecom 2008 - COMNET Special Issue on Traffic Classification
Other activities
  • "Il Denaro" newspaper IT consultant from May 2008 to August 2009
Coming soon...
Walter de Donato - PhD

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
University of Napoli "Federico II"
Via Claudio 21 -- 80125 Napoli (Italy)
Phone: +39 081 76 83821 - Fax: +39 081 76 83816
Email: walter.dedonato [at] unina.it