Professor Saverio Mascolo gives two talks in the Department

Oct 01, 2010

The recognized professor Saverio Mascolo, from the University of Bari, will give two talks in the Department on Monday 4^th and Tuesday 5^th of October, in the telematics seminar (in the C3 building in Campus Nord). The abstracts of the talks and the CV of Dr. Mascolo are shown next.

Monday 4th Oct 14.00 – 16.00

Modelling congestion control in the internet: the case of TCP

The Internet is a shared store-and-forward packet communication network. Being e resource sharing system, each connection is both flow controlled and congestion controlled. We show how this resource shared system can be modelled using simple integrators, gains and delays and how flow and congestion control can be modeled by using a Smith predictor and input shaping. Aldo an application to rate-based control is shown.

Tuesday 5th Oct. 14.00 – 16.00

QoS in IEEE 802.11

The Internet is evolving from being originally only a data delivery platform to one including the delivery of real-time audio and video. This shift poses a number of challenges. This talk will show how feedback control can be used at MAC link layer in wireless 802.11e to provide QoS.

Saverio Mascolo graduated cum laude from Politecnico di Bari with a Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Electronic and Automatic Control in 1995. He has been visting researcher at the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995 and 1999. Since 2001, he is External Academic Consultant at Uppsala University, Sweden (2001-present). He is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Bari since 2001 where he established the Control, Communication and Computing Lab (http://c3lab.poliba.it. He is senior member of IEEE and member of ACM. Currently he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and of Computer Networks, Elsevier. He has written more than 100 journal and conference papers and has several pending or granted patents.”