Alessandro Russo - Homepage

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Sommarive 14 - Povo, 38123 Trento (TN) - Italy

Short Bio

Alessandro Russo was born in 1983 in Catania, Sicily.
He received the BSc in Computer Science from the University of Catania in 2004, under the supervision of Prof. Salvatore Riccobene.
He received the MSc in Computer Science from the University of Trento in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Renato Lo Cigno.
He is a Ph.D. student of the ICT International Doctoral School at the University of Trento, under the supervision of Prof. Renato Lo Cigno.
Now, he is a visiting Ph.D. student at UCLA under the supervision of Prof. Izhak Rubin in EE-Department, and he loves L.A.!

Research

Alessandro is a member of Networking group at the University of Trento.
His main research interests include distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, overlay networks, simulators and scheduling algorithms for multimedia applications.
He is currently involved in EU Project Napa-ine on Network aware P2P streaming.
He is working on large scale P2P systems for live streaming applications, designing and implementing P2P protocols for PeerSim simulator.
He worked in PROFILES research project supported by Italian government on P2P Streaming.

Publications

R. Lo Cigno, A. Russo and D. Carra, On Some Fundamental Properties of P2P Push/Pull Protocols.
IEEE Communications and Electronics, HoiAn City, Vietnam, June, 4--6 (2008). Second International Conference on (2008), pp. 67-73. [pdf]
A. Russo and R. Lo Cigno, Push/Pull Protoocls for Streaming in P2P Systems.
Extend abstract accepted at the Infocom Student Workshop 2009, Infocom 2009, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April, 19--25 (2009). [pdf]
A. Russo and R. Lo Cigno, Delay-Aware Push/Pull Protocols for Live Video Streaming in P2P Systems.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May, 23--27 (2010). [pdf]
L. Abeni, C. Kiraly, A. Russo, M. Biazzini, and R. Lo Cigno, Design and implementation of a generic library for P2P streaming.
In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks
and social networking (AVSTP2P '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 43-48. [pdf]

Work experiences

Scholarship under the PRIN Profiles at the University of Trento, Italy. Apr. 2008 - Oct. 2008.
Installation and configuration of an Asterisk server at the Faculty of Science, University of Trento, Italy.
The system operates with the H323 Cisco's telephony system and conference tool Marratech. Apr. 2007 - Sep. 2007.
Research internship under the supervision of Prof. Izhak Rubin at UCLA, CA - U.S.A. on multicastiong across
mobile ad hoc wireless networks and networking methods using Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular networks.
Teaching Assistant, Operating Systems 1, A.A. 2009-2010.
Teaching Assistant, Operating Systems 1, A.A. 2010-2011.