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Biography

Walter Cerroni graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy, in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 and received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same University in 2003.

During 1999 he was a visitor researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas, collaborating with the Alcatel Corporate Research Center in Richardson, TX, USA.

From 2003 to 2005 he has been working as a Research Associate at the Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT).

Since 2005 he is Assistant Professor of Communication Networks at the Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, School of Engineering, Cesena Campus, Italy.

During 2008 he was on short leave as Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Teaching

Walter Cerroni's teaching experience is related to different aspects of communication networks. He has been involved at different education levels, including undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Bologna, a graduate course at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a few personnel training courses.

Topics include TCP/IP protocol stack, routing protocols, QoS, queuing theory, network security and Wi-Fi security, most of them integrated with lab exercises and simulations.

Walter Cerroni also served as student advisor at the University of Bologna both for final theses and internships at local companies working in the field of communication networks.

Research

Walter Cerroni's current research interests include performance evaluation of optical packet/burst-switched networks, focusing in particular on contention resolution mechanisms, and signalling protocols for grid services over dynamic optical networks, with special emphasis on the deployment of the SIP protocol to bring application-aware functions to optical nodes.

He collaborates to the IST e-Photon/ONe+ and BONE European Networks of Excellence. He is also involved in Italian national projects on optical networking.

He served as TPC member for BroadNets and ChinaCom conferences and as referee for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications and international conferences such as ICC, Globecom, Infocom, Opticomm, ONDM, QoS-IP. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society.

Publications

Books and book chapters

  1. M. L. Merani, M. Casoni, W. Cerroni, Hands-On Networking. From Theory to Practice, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2009, ISBN-13: 9780521869850.
  2. C. Raffaelli, S. Aleksic, F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Maier, A. Pattavina, M. Savi, Optical Packet Switching, in Enabling Optical Internet with Advanced Network Technologies, J. Aracil, F. Callegati editors, Springer, UK, 2009, pp. 31-85, ISBN: 978-1-84882-277-1.
  3. C. M. Gauger, S. Bjornstad, M. Nord, E. Baert, F. Callegati, D. Careglio, W. Cerroni, J. Cheyns, D. Colle, P. Demeester, C. Develder, D. R. Hjelme, G. Junyent, M. Klinkowski, M. Kowalewski, M. Lackovic, M. Marciniak, M. Pickavet, C. Raffaelli, J. Solé-Pareta, N. Stol, E. Van Breusegem, P. Zaffoni, Optical Burst Switching and Optical Packet Switching, in Advanced Infrastructure for Photonic Networks - Extended Final Report of COST Action 266, R. Inkret, A. Kuchar, B. Mikac editors, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2003, pp. 115-154.

Journals

  1. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, M. Ramilli, Man-in-the-Middle Attack to the HTTPS Protocol, IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 78-81, January/February 2009.
  2. G. Zervas, Y. Qin, R. Nejabati, D. Simeonidou, F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, SIP-enabled Optical Burst Switching architectures and protocols for application-aware optical networks, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 2065-2076, July 16, 2008.
  3. N. Ciulli, G. Carrozzo, G. Giorgi, G. Zervas, E. Escalona, Y. Qin, R. Nejabati, D. Simeonidou, F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, B. Belter, A. Binczewski, M. Stroinski, A. Tzanakaki, G. Markidis, Architectural approaches for the integration of the service plane and control plane in optical networks, Optical Switching and Networking, Elsevier, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, pp. 94-106, June 2008.
  4. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, M. Savi, QoS differentiation in Optical Packet-Switched Networks, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 855-864, April 24, 2006.
  5. F. Callegati, D. Careglio, W. Cerroni, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, J. Solé-Pareta, P. Zaffoni, Keeping the Packet Sequence in Optical Packet-Switched Networks, Optical Switching And Networking, Elsevier, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 137-147, November 2005.
  6. F. Callegati, C. Develder, W. Cerroni, M. Pickavet, G. Corazza, P. Demeester, Scheduling algorithms for a slotted packet switch with either fixed or variable length packets, Photonic Network Communications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 163-176, September 2004.
  7. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, Wavelength and time domain exploitation for QoS management in optical packet switches, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 569-582, March 15, 2004.
  8. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, Dynamic Wavelength Assignment in MPLS Optical Packet Switches, Optical Networks Magazine, SPIE/Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 41-51, September 2003.
  9. L. Dittmann (editor), C. Develder, D. Chiaroni, F. Neri, F. Callegati, W. Koerber, A. Stavdas, M. Renaud, A. Rafel, J. Solé-Pareta, W. Cerroni, N. Leligou, Lars Dembeck, B. Mortensen, M. Pickavet, N. Le Sauze, M. Mahony, B. Berde, G. Eilenberger, The European IST project DAVID: A viable approach towards optical packet switching, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1026-1040, September 2003.
  10. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Corazza, Optimization of Wavelength Allocation in WDM Optical Buffers, Optical Networks Magazine, SPIE/Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp.66-72, November 2001.

Conferences

  1. W. Cerroni, B. Martini, M. Gharbaoui, A. Campi, F. Baroncelli, P. Castoldi, F. Callegati, Experimental Validation of a SIP-Based Platform for Service Oriented Optical Network, Proc. of 2010 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC 2010), San Diego, CA, March 2010.
  2. F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, A Practical Approach to Scheduler Implementation for Optical Burst/Packet Switching, Proc. of 14th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2010), Kyoto, Japan, February 2010.
  3. W. Cerroni, G. Monti, G. Moro, M. Ramilli, Network Attack Detection Using Peer-to-Peer Data Mining Based on SNMP, Proc. of 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2009), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 2009.
  4. C. E. Caicedo, W. Cerroni, Design of a Computer Networking Laboratory for Efficient Manageability and Effective Teaching, Proc. of 39th annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FiE 2009), San Antonio, TX, October 2009.
  5. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, A framework for evaluating the cost of optical packet switching nodes, Proc. of 2009 International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS 2009), Poster Session, Pisa, Italy, September 2009.
  6. F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, Complexity/performance trade-off in optical packet switches, Proc. of 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2009), Island of São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, July 2009.
  7. P. Pavon-Marino, J. Veiga-Gontan, A. Ortuno-Manzanera, W. Cerroni, J. Garcia-Haro, PI-OBS: a Parallel Iterative Optical Burst Scheduler for OBS networks, Proc. of 2009 International Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2009), Paris, France, June 2009.
  8. A. Campi, W. Cerroni, G. Corazza, F. Callegati, B. Martini, F. Baroncelli, V. Martini, P. Castoldi, SIP-based Service Architecture for Application-aware Optical Network, Proc. of 2nd International Conference on ICT and Accessibility (ICTA 2009), Hammamet, Tunisia, May 2009.
  9. P. Menon, W. Cerroni, N. Reimer, Overflow Traffic Modeling in Hybrid Optical Circuit/Burst Switching Nodes with Service Differentiation, Proc. of 2009 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC 2009), San Diego, CA, March 2009.
  10. B. Martini , A. Campi, F. Baroncelli, V. Martini, K. Torkman, F. Zangheri, W. Cerroni, P. Castoldi, F. Callegati, SIP-Based Service Platform for On-Demand Optical Network Services, Proc. of 2009 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC 2009), San Diego, CA, March 2009.
  11. C. Caicedo, A. Aksu, W. Cerroni, A Cooperative Approach to Lab-Based, Multi-Team Courses in an iSchool, i-Conference 2009, Poster session, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2009.
  12. F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, H-SIP: Hybrid SIP Network, Proc. of 2008 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2008), New Orleans, LA, December 2008.
  13. G. Zervas, Y. Qin, R. Nejabati, D. Simeonidou, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, F. Callegati, Demonstration of Application Layer Service Provisioning Integrated on Full-Duplex Optical Burst Switching Network Test-Bed, Proc. of 2008 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC 2008), Post-deadline paper, San Diego, CA, February 2008.
  14. D. Simeonidou, G. Zervas, R. Nejabati, F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, SIP-enpowered OBS Network Architecture for Future IT Services and Applications (Invited Paper), Proc. of 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (IEEE Broadnets 2007), Raleigh, NC, September 2007.
  15. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. S. Pavani, Key Parameters for Contention Resolution in Multi-Fiber Optical Burst/Packet Switching Nodes (Invited Paper), Proc. of 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (IEEE Broadnets 2007), Raleigh, NC, September 2007.
  16. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, D. Vigo, Optimization of wavelength allocation in GMPLS-based optical packet-switched networks, Proc. of 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2007), Rome, Italy, July 2007.
  17. F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, A cost-effective approach to optical packet/burst scheduling, Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.
  18. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, A. Campi, G. Zervas, R. Nejabati, D. Simeonidou, Application Aware Optical Burst Switching Test-bed with SIP Based Session Control, Proc. of 2007 Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2007), Orlando, FL, May 2007.
  19. A. Campi, W. Cerroni, F. Callegati, G. Zervas, R. Nejabati, D. Simeonidou, SIP Based OBS networks for Grid Computing, Proc. of 2007 Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2007), Athens, Greece, May 2007.
  20. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, L. H. Bonani, F. R. Barbosa, E. Moschim, G. Pavani, Congestion Resolution in Optical Burst/Packet Switching with Limited Wavelength Conversion, Proc. of 49th annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
  21. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, Impact of Optical Packet Loss and Reordering on TCP Performance, Proc. of 49th annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
  22. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, Which trade-off between time and wavelength congestion resolution in Optical Burst or Packet Switching?, Proc. of 2006 International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS 2006), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, pp. 48-50, October 2006.
  23. E. Bonada, F. Callegati, D. Careglio, W. Cerroni, M. Klinkowski, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, J. Solé-Pareta, SCWS Technique for QoS Support in Connection-Oriented Optical Packet Switching Network, Proc. of 8th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2006), Nottingham, UK, Vol. 4, pp. 1-56, June 2006.
  24. F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, Efficient Implementation of Scheduling Algorithms for Optical Burst/Packet Switching, Proc. of 2006 Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2006), Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2006.
  25. G. Sousa Pavani, H. Waldman, F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, Adaptive Routing in Optical Packet Switching Networks using Ant Colony Optimization, Proc. of 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2006), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 2006.
  26. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, Exploitation of Dynamic routing for Optical Packet-Switched Network Reliability, Proc. of 10th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2005), London, UK, pp. 217-224, July 2005.
  27. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, Routing Techniques in Optical Packet-Switched Networks, Proc. of 7th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2005), Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 175-178, July 2005.
  28. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, A framework for performance evaluation of OPS congestion resolution, Proc. of 2005 Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2005), Milan, Italy, pp. 243-250, February 2005.
  29. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, A Framework for the Analysis of Delay Jitter in Optical Packet Switched Networks, Proc. of 1st IFIP Optical Networks and Technologies Conference (OpNeTec 2004), Pisa, Italy, October 2004.
  30. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, QoS Routing in DWDM Optical Packet Networks, Proc. of 5th International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QofIS 2004), Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.
  31. F. Callegati, D. Careglio, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, J. Solé-Pareta, P. Zaffoni, Keeping the Packet Sequence in Optical Packet-Switched Networks, Proc. of 9th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2004.
  32. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Muretto, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, Adaptive Routing in DWDM Optical Packet Switched Network, Proc. of 8th IFIP Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2004), Gent, Belgium, pp. 71-86, February 2004.
  33. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, Performance Issues in All-Optical Packet Networks, Invited Paper, Proc. of International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS 2003), Versailles, France, ref. PS.Mo.C1, September 2003.
  34. S. Bjornstad, M. Nord, D.R. Hjelme, N. Stol, F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, C.M. Gauger, C. Develder, J. Cheyns, E. Van Breusegem, E. Baert, D. Colle, M. Pickavet, P. Demeester, M. Lackovic, D. Careglio, G. Junyent, M. Klinkowski, M. Marciniak, M. Kowalewski, Optical Burst and Packet Switching: Node and Network Design, Contention Resolution and Quality of Service, Proc. of 7th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2003), Zagreb, Croatia, Vol. 2, pp. 775-782, June 2003.
  35. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, DWDM for QoS management in optical packet switches, in Proc. of 2nd International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks (QoS-IP 2003), M.A. Marsan et al. editors, LNCS 2601, Springer-Verlag, pp. 447-459, 2003.
  36. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, P. Zaffoni, Dynamic DWDM Exploitation in Connection-Oriented Optical Packet Switches, in Next Generation Optical Network Design and Modelling, Proc. of 6th IFIP Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2002), A. Bianco and F. Neri editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 151-166, 2003.
  37. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, Time-Wavelength Exploitation in Optical Feedback Buffer with Trains of Packets, 3rd International Conference on Optical Networking and Communications (OptiComm 2002), Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4874, pp. 274-285, 2002.
  38. F. Callegati, D. Careglio, W. Cerroni, J. Solé-Pareta, Assessment of Packet Loss for an Optical Feedback Buffer Node using Slotted Variable-Length Packets and Heavy-Tailed Traffic, Proc. of 4th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2002), Warsaw, Poland, Vol. 1, pp. 51-56, April 2002.
  39. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Corazza, C. Raffaelli, MPLS over Optical Packet Switching, Proc. of 2001 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC 2001), S. Palazzo editor, LNCS 2170, Springer-Verlag, pp. 26-37, 2001.
  40. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Corazza, C. Raffaelli, Wavelength Multiplexing of MPLS Connections, Proc. of 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2001), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Vol. 3, pp. 258-259, September 2001.
  41. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, Wavelength Allocation Algorithms in Optical Buffers, Proc. of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2001), Helsinki, Finland, Vol. 2, pp. 499-503, June 2001.

Other publications and presentations

  1. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, Key Parameters and Cost Estimation for Contention Resolution in Optical Packet/Burst Switching Nodes, 2009 Italian Networking Workshop, Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, January 2009.
  2. A. Campi, W. Cerroni, G. Corazza, F. Callegati, B. Martini, F. Baroncelli, V. Martini, P. Castoldi, SIP-based Service Architecture for Application-aware Optical Network, 2009 Italian Networking Workshop, Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, January 2009.
  3. F. Callegati, A. Campi, W. Cerroni, A Practical Approach to Optical Burst Switching, 2007 Italian Networking Workshop, Bardonecchia, Italy, January 2007.
  4. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, A. Campi, G. Zervas, D. Simeonidou, Signalling in Optical Networks, 2007 Italian Networking Workshop, Bardonecchia, Italy, January 2007.
  5. M. Ramilli, W. Cerroni, IENA: un approccio aperto e distribuito alla sicurezza e alla service exploitation prevention, ICT Security, Vol. 5, No. 43, Nuovo Studio Tecna, Rome, Italy, pp. 32-40, March 2006.
  6. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, G. Corazza, C. Raffaelli, Optical Packet Switching: A Network Perspective, 2006 Italian Networking Workshop, Courmayeur, Italy, January 2006.
  7. W. Cerroni, DWDM Photonic Packet-Switched Networks, PhD Thesis, Tecnoprint, Bologna, Italy, 2003.
  8. F. Callegati, W. Cerroni, C. Raffaelli, Congestion Resolution in the Wavelength and Time Domain in Optical Packet Switched Networks, in Business Briefing: Global Optical Communications 2002, World Markets Research Centre, London, UK, 2002.