Ldc home.jpg Luca De Cicco
Associate Professor, PhD

Contact

DEE,Politecnico di Bari, ITALY
Tel: +390805963851
Email: ldecicco AT gmail DOT com
My Public Key
CV (Eng), CV (Ita)

Very Large Array, Socorro, NM
Jardin Rodin, Paris 7eme, France

Short Curriculum

Luca De Cicco has graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 with honors. He received the PhD in Information Engineering in July 2008 from Politecnico di Bari (advisor Prof. Saverio Mascolo) defending his thesis entitled: "Modeling, design and implementation issues in Multimedia Congestion Control Algorithms". He is currently post-doc at Politecnico di Bari under the Apulia Region funded strategic project "Telecommunication Facilities and Wireless Sensor Networks in Emergency Management". His main interests range from modeling and design of congestion control algorithms for multimedia transport to performance evaluation of congestion control algorithms on live 3G networks and future internet paradigms. During the third year of his PhD program he covered a visiting scholar position at ECE Department at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA) collaborating in the FIND (Future INternet Design) project under the supervision of Prof. Chaouki Abdallah. Moreover he has been a visiting scholar at L2S (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes) École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France under the supervision of Prof. Silviu Niculescu.

Research Projects

  • "Telecommunication Facilities and Wireless Sensor Networks in Emergency Management", strategic Project, funded by Apulia Region
  • "End-to-end protocols for video over IP", 2007-2008, funded by Financial Tradeware plc
  • "The Transient Network Architecture (TNA)", Future INternet Design (FIND), funded by NSF, University of New Mexico, 2007 (See this poster for an outline of the project)
  • FAMOUS "Fluid Analytical Models Of aUtonomic Systems" (PRIN)
  • "End-to-End protocols for audio/video over Internet protocol", 2005-2006, funded by Financial Tradeware srl, Rome
  • "Implementation and measurement of congestion control protocols over GPRS and UMTS", 2003 in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino

News

CfP. Special issue on 'Control in Computing' Journal of Control Science and Engineering, Hindawi

Control theory has had a productive but limited relationship with computing theory and systems. In recent years, there has been an increased interest among researchers to apply control theory to computing and information science and technology problems. Examples of such problems include managing power consumption for data centers, smart grids, managing resources in cloud computing applications, congestion control, and quality of experience in Internet real-time applications such as videoconference and adaptive video streaming. The goal of this special issue is to bring together such a synthesis combining control theoretic approaches with traditional computing approaches to design systems that provide stable and predictable dynamics. Such theoretical foundations are increasingly important as the criticality, scale, and complexity of computing and information multiplies.

Guest Editors: Chaouki T. Abdallah, Saverio Mascolo, Joud Khoury, Luca De Cicco Manuscript Due: May 1, 2011 Publication Date: November 1, 2011

For more information and authors' guidelines please consult the CfP

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

2009 Nov In this paper we derive a mathematical model of the Skype VoIP congestion control in order to evaluate properties such as efficiency in network utilization while avoiding congestion, which is particularly detrimental for VoIP traffic.

  • L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
    A Mathematical Model of the Skype VoIP Congestion Control Algorithm
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, n. 3, pp. 790-795, Mar 2010 (PDF)

IEEE ICNP 2009

  • L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
    A Mismatch Controller for Implementing High-Speed Rate-based Transport Protocols
    in Proc of 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '09), Princeton, NJ, USA (Accept. rate = 18%), Oct. 13-16, 2009

Software

  • PI Networking Layer (FIND project)
  • Libnetmeas Automatically logging TCP flows
  • Lorenz Matlab scripts for Lorenz Attractor drawing
  • TCP Westwood+ patch for linux kernel 2.6.16.18
  • Experimental patches to allow logging of TCP Westwood+ estimated bandwidth (applies to 2.6.16.18)
Ldc home.jpg Luca De Cicco
Associate Professor, PhD

Contact

DEE,Politecnico di Bari, ITALY
Tel: +390805963851
Email: ldecicco AT gmail DOT com
My Public Key
CV (Eng), CV (Ita)

Very Large Array, Socorro, NM
Jardin Rodin, Paris 7eme, France

Short Curriculum

Luca De Cicco has graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 with honors. He received the PhD in Information Engineering in July 2008 from Politecnico di Bari (advisor Prof. Saverio Mascolo) defending his thesis entitled: "Modeling, design and implementation issues in Multimedia Congestion Control Algorithms". He is currently post-doc at Politecnico di Bari under the Apulia Region funded strategic project "Telecommunication Facilities and Wireless Sensor Networks in Emergency Management". His main interests range from modeling and design of congestion control algorithms for multimedia transport to performance evaluation of congestion control algorithms on live 3G networks and future internet paradigms. During the third year of his PhD program he covered a visiting scholar position at ECE Department at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA) collaborating in the FIND (Future INternet Design) project under the supervision of Prof. Chaouki Abdallah. Moreover he has been a visiting scholar at L2S (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes) École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France under the supervision of Prof. Silviu Niculescu.

Research Projects

News[edit]

CfP. Special issue on 'Control in Computing' Journal of Control Science and Engineering, Hindawi

Control theory has had a productive but limited relationship with computing theory and systems. In recent years, there has been an increased interest among researchers to apply control theory to computing and information science and technology problems. Examples of such problems include managing power consumption for data centers, smart grids, managing resources in cloud computing applications, congestion control, and quality of experience in Internet real-time applications such as videoconference and adaptive video streaming. The goal of this special issue is to bring together such a synthesis combining control theoretic approaches with traditional computing approaches to design systems that provide stable and predictable dynamics. Such theoretical foundations are increasingly important as the criticality, scale, and complexity of computing and information multiplies.

Guest Editors: Chaouki T. Abdallah, Saverio Mascolo, Joud Khoury, Luca De Cicco Manuscript Due: May 1, 2011 Publication Date: November 1, 2011

For more information and authors' guidelines please consult the CfP

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

2009 Nov In this paper we derive a mathematical model of the Skype VoIP congestion control in order to evaluate properties such as efficiency in network utilization while avoiding congestion, which is particularly detrimental for VoIP traffic.

  • L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
    A Mathematical Model of the Skype VoIP Congestion Control Algorithm
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, n. 3, pp. 790-795, Mar 2010 (PDF)

IEEE ICNP 2009

  • L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
    A Mismatch Controller for Implementing High-Speed Rate-based Transport Protocols
    in Proc of 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '09), Princeton, NJ, USA (Accept. rate = 18%), Oct. 13-16, 2009

Software[edit]