Theses

Mode Detection using UAV/USRP platforms

GOAL: to detect which technologies are being used in an area; to analyze trade-offs between on-board processing and cloud-based solutions

Study of cloud radio access network and edge computing in High-Altitude Platforms and nanosatellites

Co-Advisor: Riccardo Bassoli (TU Dresden) - GOAL: to design and simulate technologies for cloud radio access network and edge computing for HAPs

Developing a monitoring service for SDN networks of virtual machines

GOAL: to develop an application to operate on Software Defined Network controllers capable of collecting information about the state of the network and to install traffic probes

ACP Edge continuous deployment for automatic nightly system and integration testing

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Development of ETSI NFV compliant interfaces for mobile core network orchestration

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Development of a network data analytics function (NWDAF) for 5G and beyond mobile core networks

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Development of traffic-type aware UPF for 5G mobile core networks

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Self-aware Softwarized Networks

Implementing and running the digital twin of a network (automated topology identification, sync)

Developing an automated network slicing provisioning system based on templates

GOAL: to build a system where Kubernetes is used to automate the management of networks slices

Auction-based Service Orchestration in Multi-domain 5G Networks

Rasoul Behravesh (FBK). Goal: To propose an auction-based service function chain placement solution where inter-operator interactions and network resources exchange for service orchestration

Throughput, delay and jitter measurement in a 5G virtualized network environment

GOAL: to deploy a container-based architecture to perform KPI measurements in a 5G Service Based Architecture scenario

Energy-aware multi-access edge cloud

GOAL: to define algorithms capable of enabling energy-aware MEC operation, e.g. in presence of renewable energy sources

Evaluating the energy consumption of a virtualized infrastructure

GOAL: to build a framework for analyzing the energy consumption of a virtualized infrastructure

Orchestration layer for eNB/UE simulator for LTE testing with automatic deployment

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Measurements of Clock Drifts in Federated Networks

VICOMTECH, Spain

Federation of SDR and Virtualized Core Networks

VICOMTECH, Spain

Build and setup of a Raspberry PI-based Spectrum Monitoring system

Developing demonstrators on ComNetsEmu software platform

GOAL: to introduce new functionalities within the ComNetsEmu SDN/NFV emulator

Lambda Function for reserved instance manager

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Simulating vehicular traffic integrating a Trento city scenario within SUMO mobility simulator

Sensing human activity using WiFi signals

GOAL: Select from (1) To build a ML solution to recognize human activity based on existing measurements; or (2) to build a measurement database to test existing methods

Implementing a 5G testbed using OpenAirInterface and NI USRPs X310

Build and setup of a Raspberry PI-based Spectrum Monitoring system

Developing demonstrators on ComNetsEmu software platform

GOAL: to introduce new functionalities within the ComNetsEmu SDN/NFV emulator

Lambda Function for reserved instance manager

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Simulating vehicular traffic integrating a Trento city scenario within SUMO mobility simulator

Sensing human activity using WiFi signals

GOAL: Select from (1) To build a ML solution to recognize human activity based on existing measurements; or (2) to build a measurement database to test existing methods

Implementing a 5G testbed using OpenAirInterface and NI USRPs X310