LOMBARDO C.

In order to overcome the cloud service performance limits, the INPUT Project aims to go beyond the typical IaaS-based service models by moving computing and storage capabilities from the datacenters to the edge network, and consequently moving cloud services closer to the end users. This approach, which is compatible with the concept of fog...

Multi-core processors optimized for networking applications typically combine general-purpose cores with offloading engines to relieve the processor cores of specialized packet processing tasks, such as parsing, classification, and security. Unfortunately, modern embedded operating systems still lack an effective and advanced hardware...

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks is seen as a key enabler to support the introduction of digital technologies in multiple sectors, empowering different verticals and enabling new business models. Thanks to native capabilities of 5G networks, especially network slicing, edge computing and multi-tenancy, highly integrated telecom...

The need for placing datacenter resources closer to the end-user is inarguable given the rise of computationally heavy services that have stringent latency requirements. This need becomes more straightforward in the expected proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and for the forthcoming 5th generation (5G) mobile networks. However, in...

To effectively support new cloud services and smart device accessibility, current Internet design must move away from its typical TCP/IP-based architecture and evolve towards new paradigms characterized by high degrees of freedom. In particular, Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking have proven to be appropriate...

In order to overcome the cloud service performance limits, the INPUT Project aims to go beyond the typical IaaS-based service models by moving computing and storage capabilities from the datacenters to the edge network, and consequently moving cloud services closer to the end users. This approach, which is compatible with the concept of fog...

Network softwarization has paved the way for 5G technologies, and a wide-range of (radically new) verticals. As the telecommunications infrastructure evolves into a sort of distributed datacenter, multiple tenants such as vertical industries and network service providers share its aggregate pool of resources (e.g., networking, computing, etc.)...