SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:
Research Topics
PRIMARY RESEARCH TOPICS
- Architectures and systems to support mobile, context-aware, and pervasive applications
- Middleware for dynamic and adaptive mobile services in pervasive computing scenarios and integrated wired-wireless systems in general. Application domains:
- Integrated management of networks, systems, and services
- Federation of cloud infrastructures and resources, with special focus on Quality of Service and dynamic resource migration
- Efficient and scalable integration, with exploitation of dynamically determined localities, of sensors/actuators and cloud computing for Cyber Physical Systems, with special focus on edge/fog computing techniques
- Online stream processing of big data for cloud-Internet of Things environments
- Wireless sensor networks and smart space services, with special focus on smart buildings and high scalability in wide-scale urban environments
- Opportunistic and completely decentralized urban monitoring via vehicular ad-hoc sensor networking
- Resource replication and dissemination in mobile ad-hoc and dense networks
- Framework extensions and services for scalability in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and, more in general, for cloud-based virtual network functions in 4G/5G ecosystems
- Provisioning of continuous and context-aware services with guarantees/indications of Quality of Service towards mobile users and devices, e.g., by considering predictive and proactive management of horizontal/vertical handovers
- Opportunistic and cooperative sharing of resources in highly decentralized and heterogeneous environments (integration/federation of heterogeneous subnetworks, simultaneous exploitation of different network interfaces, sharing incentives, …)
- Mobile agent systems and related standards for open and interoperable programming environments
The above research topics are covered also via the coordination and supervision work of a research group, namely Mobile Middleware Research Group – http://middleware.unibo.it [http://middleware.unibo.it/] . This group, which is coordinated by Antonio Corradi and me, consists of around 6-8 people, including Ph.D. students, PostDoc collaborators and research grant staff, who actively contribute to our research activities and projects, as demonstrated by the list of co-authored publications included in the following parts of this cv.
For additional in-depth details about the current research
topics of major interest, please refer to the personal Web pages
and the short cv linked from there.
Home Page: http://lia.disi.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/
On-line cv (in pdf):
http://lia.disi.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/engshortCV.pdf
