Mascolo

	Saverio Mascolo
	Professore Ordinario (Full Professor) IEEE Fellow

Contacts

Direttore (Chair) del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Bari, ITALY

Tel: +39-080-5963621

Lab: +39 080 5963851

Fax: +39-080-5963410

Email: mascolo at poliba.it

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Orario di ricevimento

Mercoledi’ 8.30.00-10.30 o per appuntamento

Quotes

• L’Automazione, dal greco αὐτόματος «che si muove da sé», riguarda lo studio e la progettazione di macchine che si muovono, agiscono, scelgono, decidono da sé, cioè senza l’intervento diretto dell’uomo. I sistemi automatici moderni sono costituiti da algoritmi eseguiti su microcontrollori, computers o datacenters* S. Mascolo :)​
• Nessuna umana investigazione si può dimandare vera scienza, se essa non passa per le matematiche dimostrazioni; e se tu dirai che le scienze, che principiano e finiscono nella mente, abbiano verità, questo non si concede, ma si nega per molte ragioni; e prima, che in tali discorsi mentali non accade esperienza, senza la quale nulla dà di sè certezza* Leonardo Da Vinci
• Io Galileo, figlio di Vincenzo Galileo, da Fiorenza, della età di anni settanta... Abiura di Galileo
• Io mi son un che, quando Amor mi spira, noto, ed in quel modo ch'ei detta dentro, vo significando, Purgatorio XXIV, Dante
• Sia invece il vostro parlare sì, sì; no, no; il di più viene dal maligno, Matteo, Vangeli
• Chi ha maestri altri dalla Natura, maestra de li maestri, invano s'affanna, Leonardo Da Vinci
• Misura ciò che è misurabile e rendi misurabile ciò che non lo è, sconosciuto
• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies, Winston Churchill

Short Curriculum

Professor of Automatic Control, he has been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Science (2015-2021).
He is IEEE Fellow for "contributions to modeling and control of congestion in packet networks" (2018), senior member of ACM and member of the IFAC technical committee "Networked systems".
He has been Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. he is Associate Editor of Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier.

In 2013, he has been the recipient of the Cisco University Research Program Award for the research entitled "Architecture for Robust and Efficient Control of Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP". In 2014, he has been the recipient of the Google Faculty Award for the research entitled "Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)".
Saverio Mascolo received the Laurea degree, cum laude, in electronics engineering in 1991 and the Ph.D in 1994, both from the Technical University of Bari, Italy.

He has been post-doc in 1995 and visiting researcher in 1999 at the University of California Los Angeles and visiting consultant at the University of Uppsala, Sweden from 2002 to 2006.

He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in international journals, books or conferences. He is author and assignee of 4 US patents and 3 Italian patents. His current research interests focus on the Future internet, in particular in the topic of real-time communication over the Web. He has worked on congestion control in data networks (TCP and ATM), end-to-end protocols for multimedia traffic, QoS support over the wired and wireless Internet, Voice and Video over IP, analysis and design of data networks using control theory, adaptive live streaming, manufacturing systems, deadlock avoidance, chaotic systems, synchronization of chaotic systems using observers, crypto communications using observers.

Research topics

• Mobile Robotics
• Indoor Localization
• Controllo di motori elettrici per guida autonoma
• Low Delay Protocols
• Reducing HTTP latency with Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC)
• Congestion control for real-time flows:
  • Google Congestion Control for Web Real-time Communication (WebRTC)
  • Skype audio/video congestion control
• Adaptive Live Video Streaming
• Load Balancing and Resource allocation for Cloud-based multimedia delivery networks
• SIP Overload Control
• TCP congestion control:
  • TCP Westwood+ over UMTS and HSDPA
  • TCP Congestion Control for gigabit networks
• Quality of service over IEEE 802.11e

Research Projects

• "a Cloud-based pLatform for Immersive adaPtive video Streaming (CLIPS)" - Funded by MISE (2017-2020)
• "Congestion control algorithm for Web real-time communication (WebRTC)." - Google Faculty Award 2014
• "Progetto PAC MAIVISTO (Massive Adaptive Video STreaming over the Internet Using the Cloud)" - Funded by MIUR (2014-2016)
• "Architecture for Robust and Efficient Control of Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP." - Cisco Academy Research Award (CG #574954) March 2013.
• "PLATform for INnOvative services in future internet" PON PLATINO, 2012-2015, funded by MIUR
• "RES Novae" (Reti, Edifici, Strade - nuovi obiettivi virtuosi per l'ambiente e l'energia), 2012-2015, funded by MIUR
• "End-to-end protocols for video over IP", 2008-2009, funded by Financial Tradeware plc
• FAMOUS (PRIN)
• "End-to-End protocols for audio/video over Internet protocol", 2005-2006, funded by Financial Tradeware plc
• TCP Westwood+ This protocol was an outcome of the TANGO project
• Cost 290
• WIP (Wireless Internet Protocol)

Editorial Activity

• Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• Area Editor of Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier
• Formerly Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Insegnamenti

• Metodi di Controllo per le Telecomunicazioni
• Fondamenti di Automatica I (Ing. Telecomunicazioni)
• Fondamenti di Automatica II (Ing. Telecomunicazioni)
• Elementi di Teoria dei Sistemi (Ing. Ambientale e del Territorio)
• Controllo dei Processi II (Ing. Informatica)
• Moduli didattici sperimentali

Esami

Date esami e risultati

Selected publications

( Complete list of publications )

• L. De Cicco, G. Cofano, and S. Mascolo
  Local SIP Overload Control: Controller Design and Optimization by Extremum Seeking
  IEEE CDC 2013, Firenze, Italy, December 2013 (PDF)

• L. De Cicco, G. Carlucci, and S. Mascolo
  Experimental Investigation of the Google Congestion Control for Real-Time Flows
  ACM SIGCOMM 2013 Workshop on Future Human-Centric Multimedia Networking, Hong Kong, China, to appear (PDF)

• L. De Cicco and S. Mascolo
  An Adaptive Video Streaming Control System: Modeling, Validation, and Performance Evaluation
  IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, in press (PDF)

• L. De Cicco, G. Cofano, and S. Mascolo
  Local SIP Overload Control
  WWIC 2013, S. Petersburg, Russia, June, 2013, to appear

• L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo, and D. Calamita
  A Resource Allocation Controller for Cloud-based Adaptive Video Streaming
  IEEE ICC'13 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking and Services (MCN), Budapest, Hungary, June, 2013 (PDF) (Slides:PDF)

• L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo, V. Palmisano
  Feedback Control for Adaptive Live Video Streaming
  ACM Multimdia Systems, San Jose, CA, Feb 23-25,2011 (PDF)

• L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
  An Experimental Investigation of the Akamai Adaptive Video Streaming
  in Proc of USAB 2010, special session Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA), Klagenfurt, Austria, 3-4 November 2010, LCNS 6389, pp. 447-464, Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5 (PDF)

• 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)

• 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, Oct. 13-16, 2009

• G. Boggia, P. Camarda, L. A. Grieco, S. Mascolo
  Feedback-based Control for Providing Real-time Services using the 802.11e MAC
  IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking - April, 2007 (PDF)

• L.A. Grieco, S. Mascolo,
  Adaptive Rate Control for Streaming Flows over the Internet
  ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Regular paper, Volume 9, Issue 6, pp. 517 - 532, Jun. 2004 (PDF)

• L. A. Grieco, S. Mascolo
  Performance evaluation and comparison of Westwood+, New Reno and Vegas TCP congestion control
  ACM Computer Communication Review, Volume 34, Issue 2, Apr. 2004 (PDF)

• C. Casetti, M. Gerla, S. Mascolo, M. Sanadidi, R. Wang
  TCP Westwood: end-to-end bandwidth estimation for enhanced transport over wireless links
  ACM Wireless Networks, vol. 8, no. 5, pp.467-479. Kluwer Academic Publisher., Sept. 2002 (PDF)

• M. Gerla, R. Locigno, S. Mascolo, W. Weng
  Generalized Window Advertising for TCP Congestion Control
  European Transactions on Telecommunications, no. 6, pp. 549-562., Nov/Dec. 2002. (PDF)

• Saverio Mascolo, Claudio Casetti, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi, Ren Wang
  TCP Westwood: Bandwidth Estimation for Enhanced Transport over Wireless Links
  ACM Mobicom 2001, Rome, Italy, July 16-21 2001 (PDF)

• S. Mascolo
  Smith's Principle for Congestion Control in High Speed Data Networks
  IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 358-364., Feb 2000, (PDF)

• S. Mascolo
  Congestion control in high-speed communication networks using the Smith principle
  Automatica, vol. 35, no. 12, Dec. 1999, pp. 1921-1935. Special Issue on “Control methods for communication networks”. (PDF)

• M.P. Fanti, B. Maione, S. Mascolo, B. Turchiano
  Event-based Feedback Control for deadlock Avoidance in Flexible Production Systems
  IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, vol. 13, No. 3, June 1997 (PDF)

• G. Grassi, S. Mascolo
  Nonlinear observer design to synchronize hyperchaotic systems via a scalar signal
  IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Special Issue on Chaos Synchronization, Control, and Applications, vol. 44, no. 10, October 1997 (PDF)