The University of Genoa (UNIGE) is an academic and research institution, in which academics, students and administrative/technical staff participate in the exercise of the respective competences, functions and responsibilities. The University of Genoa is now composed of 22 Departments, 5 Schools, 14 Interuniversity Research and Services Centres, 2 Centres of Excellence. UNIGE has a strong participation both in EC Framework Programmes (over 100 projects in FP5, 92 projects in FP6 and over 90 projects in FP7) and in other important European and international research and cooperation programmes (European Structural Funds, Life Programme, Bilateral Scientific Cooperation, etc.). Discoveries, inventions, advances achieved by research activities are successfully commercialized. The structure involved in the proposal is the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, and Naval Architecture (DITEN, www.diten.unige.it): DITEN aims at educational and research excellence, leveraging on the teaching offering and promoting scientific-technological achievements by the members. Deep-rooted tradition is matched with focus on community needs and the development of new scientific-technological skills and know-how. Based on the analysis of community problems and needs, the research lines are continuously reviewed and updated, in compliance with reference guidelines issued by the international scientific community and with the outcomes of their activities.
The Department takes good care of teaching, research, technology transfer assets, equipment, laboratories, and technical skills, by ensuring maximum support to the development and progress of the activities both on a local, domestic and international level. On a local level, DITEN contributes to competitive growth of the local social-industrial fabric, through technology transfer processes, as well as with consulting and promotional activities for social-economic-technological innovation. On a domestic level, it offers specific high-profile education, research, and technology transfer projects with top scientific and strategic value. On an international level, DITEN contributes to European and international education programmes and research and cooperation projects. The University of Genoa is also part of the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), an independent research organization joining 37 universities all over Italy. Staff of the Telecommunication research group at DITEN is also actively involved in research projects managed through CNIT. The Department is strongly characterized by a high degree of multidisciplinarity in both education and research activities, ranging from transportation, energy, automation and ICT. Specifically, the expertise involved in the project regards: satellite networking, Quality of Service (QoS) over heterogeneous networks, smart mobility, energy efficiency, management of network infrastructure, design and configuration of telecommunication networks, network and critical infrastructure security. Research activities are organized in Operating Units and each Operating Unit is structured in Research Laboratories. The Laboratory involved inside the project will be SCNL (Satellite Communications and heterogeneous Networking Laboratory). SCNL has been founded by Prof. Mario Marchese in 1999. He is still currently guiding the laboratory. Most of the scientific activity has been in the field of heterogeneous communications and has been carried out within the framework of research projects funded by public and industrial entities. At the beginning the research activity was devoted to understand the problems of TCP and transport layers over satellite links also providing algorithms and architectural solutions to solve them. SCNL staff has also studied and applied control strategies for telecommunications systems to dynamically assign bandwidth for heterogeneous networks getting scientific results published in the most prestigious journals of the sector. The main reference of SCNL research activity has been and is Quality of
Service (QoS) management over heterogeneous networks, including satellite and wireless network portions, and network and critical infrastructure security issues. The main research topics currently addressed by the SCNL Lab are Satellite Networks and DTN networks, in particular the design of Routing, Scheduling, and Congestion Control algorithms; Network Security, in particular the integration of intrusion detection algorithms in a Software Defined Networking, environment and anomaly detection algorithms in Industrial Control Systems.