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Walter Cerroni

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi"

Academic discipline: ING-INF/03 Telecommunications

Curriculum vitae

Short 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. Since 2020 he is an Associate Professor of Communication Networks at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering "G. Marconi" (DEI) of the University of Bologna, School of Engineering, Cesena Campus, Italy.

In 1999 he was a Junior Researcher with Alcatel, Dallas, Texas, USA, partly funded with a grant as Visitor Researcher from the University of Texas at Dallas. From 2003 to 2005 he was a Research Associate at the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy. From 2005 to 2020 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2008 he was a visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

 

Teaching experience

Walter Cerroni's teaching experience is related to different aspects of communication networks. In Italy, he has been involved in teaching at different educational 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 vocational training courses at other local Institutions. Internationally, Walter Cerroni was responsible for a graduate course at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA, where he was also in charge of redesigning the local Computer Networking Laboratory and the related course content.

General topics of Cerroni's teaching activity include: communication and computer networks, TCP/IP protocol stack, routing protocols, QoS in the Internet, Software Defined Networking, queuing theory, and network security. Most of the classes he teaches are integrated with laboratory sessions on real network equipment, to provide the students with a clear view of the many practical issues behind the operations of a communication network.

Walter Cerroni served as supervisor of PhD, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Bologna, and as internship supervisors at local companies working in the field of communication networks.

 

Research experience

Walter Cerroni's recent research interests are related to several aspects of next generation network design, control, management, resource optimization, performance evaluation, and experimentation. In particular, he has gained technical and scientific competence on the following relevant topics:

  • design, implementation and experimental analysis of network slicing and traffic isolation techniques on open-source software platforms for SDN and NFV environments;
  • design, implementation and experimental analysis of intent-based interfaces for multi-domain virtualized network infrastructure management;
  • design, implementation and experimental analysis of resource orchestration and service management systems in fog computing infrastructures;
  • design and implementation of stateful and service-aware control plane solutions for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV);
  • experimental assessment of NFV and SDN solutions in production-level software platforms for Cloud Computing, such as OpenStack.

He has contributed to several national and international research projects.

Further details about Walter Cerroni's research activities are available in the specific web page.

 

Other services

Walter Cerroni is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2016 (Member since 2001). He has been or is actively involved in the following IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Technical Committees:

  • Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS);
  • Optical Networks (ONTC);
  • Communication Switching and Routing (CSR);
  • Network Operations and Management (CNOM).

He currently serves as TAOS Vice-Chair for the 2021-2022 term, and served as TAOS Secretary for the 2019-2020 term and as TAOS representative member of the Selection Committee for the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition in 2016, 2015, and 2014.

Walter Cerroni is currently serving or has served as:

  • Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) for the 2023-2025 term;
  • Secretary for the IEEE P1916.1 Working Group on Standard for Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization Performance;
  • Series Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, Series on Network Softwarization and Management;
  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters;
  • Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine;
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (Vol. 2, No. 3, Sept. 2018) on “Standards for Major Internet Disruptors: Blockchain, Intents, and Related Paradigms;”
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the Wiley International Journal of Network Management on the best papers presented at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2017);
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) on the best papers presented at the Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium and the Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) Workshop in the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016);
  • TPC Co-Chair for the 26th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2023), technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE, to be held in Paris, France, March 6-9, 2023;
  • TPC Co-Chair for the 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2020), technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications and Computer Societies and IFIP, to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, October 31 – November 4, 2022;
  • General Co-Chair for the 24th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2021), technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, held online, March 1-4, 2021;
  • TPC Co-Chair for the 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2020), held online, June 29 - July 3, 2020;
  • TPC Co-Chair for the 23rd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2020), technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE, held in Paris, France, February 24-27, 2020;
  • Co-Chair for the Track on Grid, Cloud, Internet and Middleware Computing and Communication (GCIM) in the 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2019), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, held in Valencia, Spain, July 29 - August 1, 2019;
  • Co-Chair for the Symposium on Next Generation Networking and Internet (NGNI) in the IEEE 2017 Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017), to be held in Singapore, December 2017;
  • Co-Chair for the Symposium on Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) in the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016.

He is/was also involved in the Organizing Committee and Technical Program Committee of several IEEE or IEEE-sponsored conferences and workshops.

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