Author Archives: spadaro

FIBRE – Future Internet Testbeds Experimentation between Brazil and Europe
(FP7-288356)
November 2011 – March 2014
Role: Technical Coordinator for the Optical Communications group of UPC

FIBRE is about building and operating a federated large-scale experimental Future Internet facility distributed between Brazil and Europe, to foster the generation of new Brazilian-European partnerships that innovate in Future Internet infrastructure and applications. This overall goal can be broken down into the following objectives:
– Build a shared large-scale experimental facility that enables experimentation on network infrastructure and distributed applications, consisting in a new testbed in Brazil and an enhancement of the FP7 OFELIA facility – currently under development – and the basic wireless facility of FP7 OneLab, the UTH NITOS testbed, both in Europe.
– Federate the Brazilian and European facilities, to allow researchers to use resources of both testbeds in the same experiment.
– Showcase the potential of the facility by demonstrating experimental network-enabled applications deployed on top of the federated facilities resources.
– Enhance the collaboration and exchange of knowledge between European and Brazilian researchers in the field of Future Internet.

EULER – Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing
(FP7-258307)
October 2010 – June 2014
Role: Technical Contributor

The main objective of the EULER exploratory research project is to investigate new routing paradigms so as to design, develop, and validate experimentally a distributed and dynamic routing scheme suitable for the future Internet and its evolution. The resulting routing scheme(s) is/are intended to address the fundamental limits of current stretch-1 shortest-path routing in terms of routing table scalability but also topology and policy dynamics (perform efficiently under dynamic network conditions). Therefore, this project will investigate trade-offs between routing table size (to enhance scalability), routing scheme stretch (to ensure routing quality) and communication cost (to efficiently and timely react to various failures). The project will develop appropriate tools to evaluate the performance of the proposed routing schemes on large-scale topologies (order of 10k nodes). Prototype of the routing protocols as well as their functional validation and performance benchmarking on the iLAB experimental facility and/or virtual experimental facilities such as PlanetLab/OneLab will allow validating under realistic conditions the overall behaviour of the proposed routing schemes.