Walter de Donato
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Walter de Donato received his M.S. degree in computer engineering in 2006 from the from the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy. Since 2006 Walter de Donato is a member of the COMICS (COMputers for Interaction and CommunicationS) research group directed by Prof. Giorgio Ventre at the Department of Computer Engineering and Systems of University of Napoli "Federico II".

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 activity mainly concerns methodologies, techniques, and distributed architectures for measuring, analyzing, classifying, and monitoring network traffic and also covers the following topics: network topology discovery and mapping, Linux-based embedded systems, network processor architectures, and content distribution networks. Such activity has been conducted in the context of international collaborations with several research groups.

From February to July 2010 he visited the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, working on the evaluation of broadband access network performance from the home gateway point of view and founding the BISmark project.

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
Posters
Technical Reports
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

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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
    • Real-Time statistics at different aggregation levels for large-scale measurement platform
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Francesco Cannavacciuolo - academic year 2010/11
    • A CMS for multimedia publishing: integration with traditional publishing processes and performance analisys
      Advisor: Prof. G. Ventre - Candidate: Nicola Esposito - academic year 2008/09
    • Design and Implementation of a CDN system with content adaptation ability
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Andrea Brandi - academic year 2007/08
    • Evaluation of a Video CDN system over geographic Testbeds
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Giovanni Cascone - academic year 2007/08
    • A Content Delivery System for Video Streaming using Flash
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Antonino Segreto - academic year 2007/08
    • An Architechture for the Automatic Measurement of Available Bandwidth in Heterogeneous IP Networks
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Giuseppe Aceto - academic year 2007/08
    • Evaluation of a Content Delivery Application over PlanetLab
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Marco Albano - academic year 2007/08

  • Advised Bachelor Theses
    • Analysis, Design and Testing of a Measurement Client for a Platform to Evaluate Broadband Internet Access Performance
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Luciano Esposito - academic year 2010/11
    • Analysis, Design and Testing of a Management Server for a Platform to Evaluate Broadband Internet Access Performance
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Luca Esposito - academic year 2010/11
    • An Analysis of Architectures and Protocols of Multi-Channel Applications: the Skype Case
      Advisor: Prof. A. Pescapè - Candidate: Valerio Persico - academic year 2008/09
    • Analysis of Redirection Mechanisms for CDN systems
      Advisor: Prof. R. Canonico - Candidate: Carmine Donadoni - academic year 2007/08
    • Analysis and Testing of a Distributed Topology Discovery Platform
      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