Claudio Cicconetti

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Email:	c.cicconetti@iet.unipi.it
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Phone:	+39 050 2217 452
Fax:	+39 050 2217 600

I am a postdoc at the Information Engineering Department of the University of Pisa. I defended my Ph.D. thesis in the same department on May 25, 2007.

See my publications here.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Organizing committee member of:

• Simutools'09 - Publicity co-chair
• Valuetools'08 - Workshops co-chair
• NSTools'07 - General co-chair
• Valuetools'06 - Webmaster

TPC member of:

• MACOM'08
• IADIS WAC'07/'08
• QoSim'08
• IEEE MeshTech'07/'08

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Topics:

• Wireless Mesh Networks: resource sharing, scheduling, routing
• Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols
• QoS scheduling in wireless networks
• Network simulation and performance evaluation

Technologies:

• IEEE 802.11e - QoS Support
• IEEE 802.11s - Mesh extension
• IEEE 802.16d/WiMAX - PMP and Mesh modes
• IEEE 802.16e/WiMAX - Mobility support
• 3GPP Long Term Evolution

PROJECTS

International projects:

• End-to-end Quality of Service support over heterogeneous networks (EuQoS) [past project] The key objective of EuQoS is to research, integrate, test, validate and demonstrate end-to-end QoS technologies to support the infrastructure upgrade for advanced QoS-aware applications - voice, video-conferencing, video-streaming, educational, tele-engineering and medical applications - over multiple, heterogeneous research, scientific and industrial network domains.

National projects in the framework of the PRIN program (Italy):

• Design and assessment of protocols and distributed algorithms for Quality of Service mesh networks (NADIR) The project is aimed at promoting research in the field of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN), based on either standard or emerging technologies. Such infrastructures have been recently devised to allow mobile users an ubiquitous, QoS-based access to I networks, such as the Internet, or metropolitan networks, or corporate networks of private and public companies.
• Quality and Controllability of Communication Services over Heterogeneous Networks (QuaSAR) [past project] The project is aimed at investigating the development of technologies and methodologies to offer communication services with controllable quality in higly heterogeneous distributed systems, characterized by a large variety of available network infrastructures, typologies of user terminals and applications.