Traffic Engineering - Callegati, Franco

Franco Callegati received his Master and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and 1992 from the University of Bologna, Italy. He joined the University of Bologna as assistant professor in 1995 and since 2001 he has been serving as associate professor. Since 2013 he is Director of the Center for industrial research in ICT of the University of Bologna. He was research scientist at the Teletraffic Research Centre of the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1993, at Fondazione U. Bordoni, (Italy) in 1994 and at the University of Texas at Dallas (USA) in 1998. His research interests are in the field of teletraffic modeling and performance evaluation of telecommunication networks. He worked in the field of all optical networking investigating optical burst and packet switching, participating in several research projects funded by the EU, such as ACTS KEOPS, IST DAVID and the networks of excellence e-photon/ONe, e-Photon/ONe+ and BONE, often coordinating work packages and activities. More recently he focused on automation issues of the network control plane, starting with very early applications to GMPLS for optical networks and now on focusing on applications of SDN for dynamic NFV in edge networks. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on Networking at the University of Bologna since 1994. He also taught the course of Teletraffic Theory at the University of Dallas (Texas) in 1998 and was invited to give seminars in Universities abroad. He served as General Chair for the 14th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling in 2011 and as TPC member in main telecommunication conferences such as IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. He co-edited and contributed to the book Enabling Optical Internet with Advanced Network Technologies published by Springer in 2009. He is senior member of the IEEE. He is currently co-chairing the Education committee of the IEEE SDN initiative.

Walter Cerroni obtained the Ph.D. inElectrical and Computer Engineering in July 2003 from the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1999 he was a Junior Researcher with Alcatel, Dallas, Texas, USA. From May 2003 to April 2005 he was a Research Associate at the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy. Since April 2005, he is an Assistant Professor of Communication Networks at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2008 he was a visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. His most recent research interests include: design, implementation and performance evaluation of virtual network function chaining in cloud computing platforms (e.g. OpenStack)...