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Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) - University of Milano-Bicocca
What is NetLab?
The Networking Lab (NetLab) is hosted by the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Building U14, Room T09 (ground floor).
NetLab is dedicated to research on computer networking and cloud computing, with the goal of designing, optimizing, and securing the distributed infrastructures that underpin modern digital services. We investigate how networks and computing systems (with resources spanning from the cloud, through the edge, to emerging non-terrestrial platforms) can be made more flexible, efficient, trustworthy, and autonomous.
Methodologically, NetLab combines analytical modelling, network simulation and emulation, and machine learning.
Research areas
Edge computing
Decentralized Function-as-a-Service architectures; workload distribution and offloading
Programmable networks
SDN- and P4-based data plane programmability; network monitoring; traffic analysis
Network security and trustworthy ML
Distributed machine-learning-based intrusion detection; models' uncertainty quantification
Internet of Things
Collecting data from wearables and resource-constrained sensors; low-power IoT mesh networking
Network Function Virtualization
Resource optimization and placement strategies for virtualized network functions
Satellite and non-terrestrial networks
Routing, load balancing, and resource management for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations