Prerequisites
My current research is about large-scale distributed systems and P2P systems. Students of the Laurea Triennale
interested in doing their thesis with me should have already completed the courses on Operating Systems, Computer
Networks, Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Programming. The same requirements apply for students doing their
Master Degree, with the addition of my course on Distributed Systems.
Being overwhelmed by too many requests, I've decided to set a threshold on grade point average (media) before
accepting new students: 28/30.
Available theses
- I currently have too many thesis students and I'm currently out of ideas. If you are still interested, come
back in Winter 2011/2012.
Some of my past students here in Trento...
- Roberto Zandonati worked on his thesis about the slicing problem in peer-to-peer systems. We later cooperated
in writing a paper based on his work. The paper has been accepted here:
Alberto Montresor and Roberto Zandonati. Absolute slicing in peer-to-peer
systems. In Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HotP2P'08),
Miami, FL, USA, April 2008.
- Alessio Guerrieri worked on his thesis on DTNs in cooperation with the Create-Net research center (here in
Povo). A paper based on his work has been accepted here:
Alessio Guerrieri, Alberto Montresor, Iacopo Carreras, Francesco De Pellegrini, and Daniele Miorandi. Distributed
estimation of global parameters in delay-tolerant networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC'09), Kos, Greece, June 2009.
Later, an extended version of this paper was published in a journal: Alessio Guerrieri, Iacopo Carreras, Francesco
De Pellegrini, Daniele Miorandi, and Alberto Montresor. Distributed estimation of global parameters in
delay-tolerant networks. Computer Communications, 2010. To appear.
BTW, Alessio also secured a scholarship of 12.000 euros to participate in a double degree with GeorgiaTech. He
spent the academic year 2009/2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Andrea Dalla Valle worked on a thesis on partition detection in peer-to-peer systems. We have not worked on a
paper yet (my fault!); but again, in the mean time Andrea was the second student to get the Georgiatech
scholarship for 2009/2010.
- Vinay Sachidananda, one of our students of the "Invest your talent in Italy" program, worked on an external
thesis with ArsLogica; I served as internal tutor. Later, part of his work was published here:
Andrey Somov, Vinay Sachidananda, and Roberto Passerone. A Self-Powered Module with Localization and Tracking
System for Paintball. In Proceedings of IWSOS 2008, Vienna, Austria, December 12th 2008. Springer Verlang: LNCS
5343, 182 - 193. As you can guess from the author list, I was not really involved...
- Gabriele Seppi worked on a thesis about "Popularity-based Caching in Underlying Networks With Client Mobility"
working together with DoCoMo (Germany). Gabriele took part in Double Degree with Georgiatech. The work is done
completely by Gabriele and the DoCoMo guys.
- Stella Margonar developed the Java software that is available from my Algoritmi e Strutture Dati course web
page, for the visualization of algorithms and exercises. Her work was later bought by the publisher that printed my
book on the topic.
