Contact Information
Roberto Riggio, Ph.D.
CREATE-NET
Network & Security Solutions for Pervasive Computing Systems (iNSPIRE)
Senior Researcher
Via alla Cascata 56/D - 38123 Povo Trento (Italy)
Email: roberto.riggio@create-net.org
Office: (+39) 0461 408400 - ext. 1708
Fax: (+39) 0461 421157
Research Interests
My current work include investigating novel network control and management as a service architectures as well as tackling green networking related challenges in heterogeneous wireless networks. Moreover I'm working on network virtualization using Openflow-enabled networks and exploiting software defined networking concepts.
About Me
- I am currently Senior Researcher staff member in the iNSPIRE team at CREATE-NET.
- From May 2007 to November 2007 I was a visiting researcher at the Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINET) at the University of Florida. Advisor: Prof. Yuguang Fang.
- I received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication science from the University of Trento (Italy), in 2008, with a thesis entitled Cross-layer Design in Wireless Mesh Networks. Advisor: Prof. Imrich Chlamtac.
- I received the M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering with a 110/110 cum laude votation from the School of Engineering of the Università degli Studi "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria (Italy), in July 2004. The title of the thesis was “Managing Model Interoperability in Enterprise Modelling: an XMI-based Approach. Advisor: Prof. Domenico Ursino.
- I received the B.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the School of Engineering at the Università degli Studi "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria (Italy), in December 2001. Advisor: Prof. Domenico Ursino.
- I was born in Melito di Porto Salvo, Reggio di Calabria (Italy) on September 3rd, 1979
Current Research Projects
- Outsmart. The project aims at developing five innovative smart-city ecosystems. These ecosystems will facilitate the creation of novel services as well as enable sustainable utility provisioning through increased efficiency and lower strain on resources and on the environment. I'm tackling the issue of water leakages detection and in particular of the optimal deployment of wireless sensors (which can be quite expensive).
- Ofelia. The project aims building a European-wide facility for experimentally driven research on Future Internet. The project employs OpenFlow to allow virtualization and control of the networking environment. I'm designing and developing the virtual topology planner, a key component in providing logical topologies that are completely decoupled from the underlying physical network.
- Energino. Energino aims at optimizing the energy consumption of WiFi network by combining software defined networking concepts (OpenFlow) with an Arduino-based energy consumption monitoring toolkit. The aim is to selectively turning on/off the Access Point according the the actual network conditions in terms of both users and traffic. The challenge is to do so without disrupting network connectivity.
- LOCOS. A commercial project about localization and tracking of mobile users in indoor environment using WiFi technology.
Past Research Projects
- ACKA: An industry funded project focusing on the development of a novel network management solutions for large scale wireless networks.
- Obelix: An industry funded project focusing on the development of a distributed network management solutions for wireless mesh networks.
- SMART-NET: SMART-antenna multimode wireless mesh Network, EU-FP7-223937 (2008-2011).
- WING: Wireless Mesh Networks for Next Generation Internet, joint Italy-Israel project, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
Patents
- PCT/FR2011/051071, Administration of a wireless mesh network