• Project Data

    European FP7 Project
    The CONVERGENCE project is funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme
    Collaborative Project
    Grant agreement n. FP7-257123



    Coordinator
    CNIT (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni)
    Contact:
    Prof. Nicola Blefari Melazzi
    blefari@uniroma2.it

    Community contribution to the project
    2,989,140 Euro

    Project start date
    June, 1, 2010

    Project end date
    May, 31, 2013

CNIT TEAM

 

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Nicola Blefari Melazzi

Full Professor of Telecommunications, Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering

blefari@uniroma2.it

http://blefari.eln.uniroma2.it/


Nicola Blefari-Melazzi is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He is the Director of the Department of Electronic Engineering. Dr. Blefari-Melazzi has participated in over 20 international projects and is or has been the coordinator of three EU-funded projects. He has been an evaluator for many research proposals (both in the 6th and in the 7th EU FPs) and has been a reviewer for numerous EU and ITEA sponsored projects. He is author/co-author of about 160 papers, in international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests lie mainly in the performance evaluation, design and control of telecommunications networks.

Relevant Publications:
  1. A. Baiocchi, N. Blefari-Melazzi, M. Listanti, A. Roveri, R. Winkler: “Loss performance analysis of an ATM multiplexer loaded with high speed on-off sources”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 9, N. 3, April 1991, pp. 388-393.
  2. N. Blefari-Melazzi, D. Di Sorte, M. Femminella, G. Reali: “Autonomic Control and Personalization of a Wireless Access Network”, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Volume 51, Issue 10, 11 July 2007, pp. 2645-2676.
  3. G. Bianchi, N. Blefari Melazzi, L. Bracciale, F. Lo Piccolo, S. Salsano: “Streamline: an Optimal Distribution Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Real-time Streaming”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems., ISSN: 1045-9219, doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2009.114, June 2010.

 

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Stefano Salsano
Assistant Professor

stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it

 

Area of Expertise: His current research interests include Pervasive Computing, Content Centric Networks, Peer to Peer architectures, B3G Systems, Wireless LANs.

Relevant Publications:
  1. S. Salsano, C. Mingardi, S. Niccolini, A. Polidoro, L. Veltri “SIP-based Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communication, Vol. 15, Issue 2, April 2008
  2. N. Blefari-Melazzi, A. Detti, I. Habib, A. Ordine, S. Salsano, “TCP Fairness Issues in IEEE 802.11 Networks: Problem Analysis and Solutions Based on Rate Control”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 6, Issue 4, April 2007
  3. S. Salsano, L. Veltri, D. Papalilo, “SIP security issues: The SIP Authentication Procedure and its Processing Load”, IEEE Networks Nov/Dec 2002

 

image Andrea Detti
Assistant Professor

andrea.detti@uniroma2.it

 

Area of Expertise: Network design, routing protocols, transport protocols, analytical modeling, simulation and experimental performance evaluation.

Relevant Publications:
  1. A. Detti, N. Blefari-Melazzi ; Main issues and challenges in the design of a future content-centric Internet; in 21st Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications. Ponza, Italy, September 6-8 2010
  2. A. Detti, N. Blefari-Melazzi, I. Habib, A. Ordine; Per-Station Throughput Fairness in a WLAN Hot-Spot with TCP traffic; Elsevier COMPUTER NETWORKS, in press 2011
  3. A. Detti, N. Blefari-Melazzi; On the buffer occupancy of an IEEE 802.11 station in a hot-spot;. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 8; p. 580-585, ISSN: 1536-1276, 2009

 

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Research consultant

 

Giuseppe.tropea@cnit.it

Area of Expertise: Neural networks, P2P and software modelling, semantic ontologies and models for privacy protection. Natural language parsers and text data mining.

Relevant Publications:
  1. L. Abeni, A. Bakay, M. Biazzini, R. Birke, E. Leonardi, R. Lo Cigno, C. Kiraly, M. Mellia, S. Niccolini, J. Seedorf, T. Szemethy, G. Tropea; Network Friendly P2P-TV: The Napa-Wine Approach; IEEE P2P’10 Conference, August 25 – 27, 2010, Delft, Netherlands.
  2. Koutsoloukas, Nikolas L. Dellas, Fabio Testa, Markus Blanchebarbe; A Framework for Adapting Services’ Design and Execution to Privacy Regulations; in proceedings of Mobilesummit 2007 Conference, July 1-5, 2007, Budapest, Hungary.
  3. Alfredo Salvador, Jorge E. López de Vergara, Giuseppe Tropea, Nicola Blefari Melazzi, Ángel Ferreiro; Ontology design and implementation for IP networks monitoring; in proceedings of The First International Workshop on Web & Semantic Technology; September 08-11, 2009, Wrexham, North East Wales, UK.

 

 

 

Nicola Blefari-Melazzi is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He is the Director of the Department of Electronic Engineering. Dr. Blefari-Melazzi has participated in over 20 international projects and is or has been the coordinator of three EU-funded projects. He has been an evaluator for many research proposals (both in the 6th and in the 7th EU FPs) and has been a reviewer for numerous EU and ITEA sponsored projects.

He is author/co-author of about 160 papers, in international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests lie mainly in the performance evaluation, design and control of telecommunications networks. He is also conducting research on multimedia, mobile and personal communications, quality of service in the Internet, reconfigurable systems and networks, service personalization, and autonomic computing.