Objectives
Joint academic/industrial applied research on common interest topics:
- bring state-of-the-art methods, techniques and tools to state-of-the-practice
- evaluate and validate original research results in real world context
- explore innovative research directions for potentiality and feasibility
- case studies, pilot projects, technology transfer actions.
Training of young researchers and personnel on strategic themes:
- Master theses, PhD courses, one-year research fellowship grants
- hands-on involvement in the research projects
- work interaction with senior researchers and industrial personnel
- advanced on-site tutorials for industrial new hired employee
Establishing a privileged direct communication channel between industry and
academia:
- continuous know-how transfer and scientific consultancy
- research projects naturally exposed to real world problems and constraints
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Scope
Lab performs research on software for telecommunications. Main areas of interest are software engineering methods and tools, software architectures, networks, real time systems, and protocols.
The research spans on both methodological approaches and tools for software architecture specification, design and test, and on the novel applications and features of specific interest for the industrial telecommunication sector, such as protocols for wireless internet access,
as well as real time and embedded multiprocessor systems used for switch operative control.
The research activity is organized into strategic
projects
that involve personnel from
ISTI,
Pisa
University,
Scuola
S. Anna, and
ERI.
A number of young researchers will work full time in the laboratory, and will
act as the connecting agents between the senior researchers from academia and
industry. These projects will consider real world case studies and problems
provided by ERI, and develop and experiment on them innovative ideas and techniques.
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Projects
Pisatel objectives will be pursued through the joint conduction by the academia and ERI of a set of strategic research projects, that will be selected on an annual basis.
On the one hand, these projects will show up the complex problems and constraints faced by the industrial partner, while on the other, they will provide an effective benchmark for the validation and refinement of the latest research results from the academic labs.
The projects will consider real world case studies and problems provided by
ERI, and, although the researchers will be free to experiment innovative ideas and techniques, they will be monitored and reviewed at short term intervals.
Young researchers are recruited to work on the strategic projects.
Current Projects:
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Passed Project:
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Integrating Wireless, Wireline and Internet Networks
Three communication networks, namely the emerging "mobile" wireless, the classical "fixed" wireline, and the alternative"computer-centric" internet, are evolving in a relatively independent way. However, their interactions increase day by day.
It is of paramount importance to investigate how these three systems could be integrated so to form a common unique communication space, in which the users of any one of the above networks can easily and "transparently" access the other two.
The main purpose of this project is to investigate such an integration. The initiative is inside the JAIN MAP API international project.
The activities include the implementation of a Java interface for the MAP protocol for wireless networks, and the addition of new services/primitives to JAIN MAP for integrating the three networks into a single communication space.
Addition of new services/primitives to JAIN MAP for integrating the three networks
into a single communication space.
Contacts:
Maurizio Bonuccelli,
bonucce at di dot unipi dot it
Francesca Martelli,
francesca dot martelli at isti dot cnr dot it
Related Publications
- E. Marchetti, F. Martelli, A. Polini, "Refactoring
a Legacy System Using Components", Proc. 4th ACIS International
Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking
and Parallel/Distributed Computing SNPD 2003, Lubeck, Germany,
October, 2003, p. 24-31.
- R. Arrighi, M. A. Bonuccelli, F. Lonetti, F. Martelli, "Integrating GSM Networks and Internet: New Unstructured Services", ERCIM News, no. 54, July, 2003, p. 27-28.
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Analysis and Development of Real Time Software
Many embedded applications have real-time characteristics, as they timely interact with their environment: the response to any event must be provided within a deadline, otherwise some data might be lost.
However, most design methodologies and tools do not currently take into account real-time constraints into the design cycle. Many important design and implementation decisions are still taken based on the designer’s experience.
The objective of this research is to provide a methodology for supporting the design and analysis of real-time applications in the telecommunications domain.
Mathematical model of an event-driven real-time application: a set of concurrent processes communicating through events
An optimization algorithm for exploring the space of parameters (number of distinct processes, priorities, etc.)
Contacts:
Giuseppe Lipari, lipari at sssup dot it
Cesare Bartolini, cesare
dot bartolini at isti dot cnr dot it
Related Publications
- Enrico Bini, Giuseppe Lipari, Carlo Vitucci, "Modeling
event-driven real-time applications usign DAGs", 22nd IEEE Real-Time
Systems Symposium, Work-in-Progress Session, London UK, December 3-6, 2001.
- Cesare Bartolini, Giuseppe Lipari, "An Algorithm for Process Partitioning and Deadline Assignment of a Dataflow Application",
Proc. CAES Workshop, Real-Time Systems Symposium RTSS 2003, Cancun, Mexico, December 2-5, 2003.
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Quality And Validation of Software Architecture
The Software Architecture emerges as a crucial notion to specify and analyze complex systems: SA provides at a high level of abstraction a tractable description of the static and dynamic aspects that are relevant for design decisions and for system-level evaluations
SA = Structure + Behavior
The goal of this project is to develop and experiment rigorous approaches to the early evaluation, testing, and validation of large complex applications centered on the description of the SA.
The investigation also encompasses methods and tools for evaluating the functional and non-functional properties of SAs obtained by the assembly of reused or acquired components, according to the promising paradigm of Component-based Software Engineering.
Emphasis is on the transferability of the proposed methodologies: practical notations, such as UML, and widely used tools are adopted, and prototype tools and technologies are developed.
Schematic view of an environment based on diagrammatic UML - like notations
to support design and testing.
Contacts:
Antonia Bertolino,
antonia dot bertolino at isti dot cnr dot it
Eda Marchetti,
eda dot marchetti at isti dot cnr dot it
Related Publications
- F. Basanieri, P. Iani, G. Lombardi, E. Marchetti, "An
Industrial Experience in Comparing Manual vs. Automatic Test Cases
Generation", Proc. 4th ACIS Int. Conference on Software Engineering,
Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing
SNPD 2003, Lubeck, Germany, October, 2003, p. 218-225.
- E. Marchetti, F. Martelli, A. Polini, "Refactoring
a Legacy System Using Components", Proc. 4th ACIS International
Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking
and Parallel/Distributed Computing SNPD 2003, Lubeck, Germany,
October, 2003, p. 24-31.
- A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti, A. Polini, "Integration
of "Components" to Test Software Components", Proc. International
Workshop on Test and Analysis of Component Based Systems TACOS
2003, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 82,
n. 6, Warsaw, Poland, April 13, 2003.
- F. Basanieri, A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti, "The
Cow_Suite Approach to Planning and Deriving Test Suites in UML Projects",
Proc. Fifth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language - the
Language and its applications UML 2002, LNCS 2460, Dresden, Germany, September
30 - October 4, 2002, p. 383-397.
- F. Basanieri, A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti, A. Ribolini, G. Lombardi, G. Nucera,
"An
Automated Test Strategy Based on UML Diagrams", Ericsson Rational
User Conference, Upplands Vasby Sweden, 10-11 October 2001.
- F. Basanieri, A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti "CoWTeSt: A Cost Weighed
Test Strategy", Escom-Scope 2001, London, England, April 2-4, 2001, p. 387-396.
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Video Transcoding
In the last few years, telecommunication systems are gaining
increasing importance in everyday life. Many new digital multimedia communication
services and devices, such as videomessaging, videoconference, gaming, remote
teaching and digital television, have appeared in the market.
It is needed to adapt the media content to different network characteristics, channel
bandwidth and access terminals in order to enable delivery with acceptable service
quality. Video transcoder's aim is to convey an incoming compressed video bitstream to
the outgoing link without the need of fully decoding and re-encoding (a very time-
and processing-consuming activity).
A typical application of video transcoding process
Video transcoding converts a compressed video bit stream:
- from one format to another format
- from one size to another size (spatial transcoding)
- from a bit rate to another one (quality transcoding)
- from a frame rate to another one (temporal transcoding)
The goal of this project is to develop efficient solutions for achieve an optimal video
quality in real-time video transcoding.
Next (third) generation of mobile telephone systems are based on CDMA radio channel
access technique that adapt dynamically the channel bandwidth according to the number
of users. We investigate new transcoding solutions in order to have a good quality of
the video communications forced to smaller channel bandwidth.
We started with studying MPEG-4 video codec and with implementing two temporal video
transcoding architectures together with new frame skipping policies. Successively we
built an implementation of the same temporal transcoder based on H.263 codec. Moreover,
we done an exaustive testing of all architectures combined with all policies.
Currently, we are studying the new H.264 codec and we try to combine the temporal with
the quality transcoding.
Transcoding in mobile telephony for channel bandwidth reduction
Contacts:
Maurizio Bonuccelli,
bonucce at di dot unipi dot it
Francesca Lonetti,
francesca dot lonetti at isti dot cnr dot it
Francesca Martelli,
francesca dot martelli at isti dot cnr dot it
Network processors
With the growing relevance and pervasiveness of telecommunications, a good deal
of interest has been recently drawn by the study of Network Processors (NPs)
since they play an important role in the design of modern routers.
Our research explores the main characteristics of the existing NP architectures
and the difficulties intrinsic to design software applications for this kind of
platforms.
On the other hand we review the basic principles underlying the well-known
Model-Based Development approach investigating how such techniques can be
applied to embedded systems.
In this context, we have launched a research initiative to investigate the
applicability of models and meta-models in the context of NPs.
Contacts:
Sharareh Afsharian,
sharareh dot afsharian at ericsson dot com
Antonia Bertolino,
antonia dot bertolino at isti dot cnr dot it
Guglielmo De Angelis,
guglielmo dot deangelis at isti dot cnr dot it
Paola Iovanna,
paola dot iovanna at ericsson dot com
Raffaela Mirandola,
raffaela at info dot uniroma2 dot it
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Past events
| VI Workshop Ericsson Lab Italy of 12/09/04, Italian -
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| V Workshop Ericsson Lab Italy of 11/19/03, Italian -
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| IV Workshop Ericsson Lab Italy of 05/27/03, Italian
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| III Workshop Ericsson Lab Italy of 12/12/02, Italian
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ISSTA 2002 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis,
ISSTA 2002 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis July
22 - 24, 2002 Rome, Italy colocated with WOSP 2002 Workshop on Software
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| II Workshop Ericsson Lab Italy of 11/22/01, Italian
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| Inaugurazione Laboratorio 03/12/01, Italian - html
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| Agenda of Kick of Meeting IEI-CNR - Ericsson Lab Italy
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People
Pisatel Lab Staff - Photos -
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PhD Students & Grant Owners:
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Former Collaborators:
| Name | |
Affiliation | |
Role | |
| Piero Lauri | |
Ericsson Lab Italy | |
Researcher | |
| Francesca Basanieri | |
ISTI-CNR | |
Developer | |
| Giovanni Nucera | |
Ericsson Lab Italy | |
Researcher | |
| Enrico Bini | |
Sant'Anna School | |
PhD by ERI Grant | |
| Eda Marchetti | |
ISTI-CNR | |
Researcher | |
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Publications
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- M.A. Bonuccelli, F. Lonetti, F. Martelli, "A fast skipping policy for H.263 video transcoder" , Proc. 12th International Workshop on Systems, Signals & Image Processing, IWSSIP '05, Chalkida, Greece, September 22-24, 2005.
- A. Bertolino, G. De Angelis, R. Mirandola, "UML-based Design of Network Processors Applications", Proc. Euromicro 2005, 30st August-3rd September, 2005, PORTO, Portugal.
- M.A. Bonuccelli, F. Lonetti, F. Martelli, "Temporal Transcoding for Mobile Video Communication", Proc. 2th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous System: Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, July 17-21, 2005.
- M.A. Bonuccelli, F. Lonetti, F. Martelli, "Video Transcoding Architectures for Multimedia Real Time Services", ERCIM News, no. 62, July, 2005, p.39-40.
- Cesare Bartolini, Giuseppe Lipari, "An Algorithm for Process Partitioning and Deadline Assignment of a Dataflow Application",
Proc. CAES Workshop, Real-Time Systems Symposium RTSS 2003, Cancun, Mexico, December 2-5, 2003.
- F. Basanieri, P. Iani, G. Lombardi, E. Marchetti, "An
Industrial Experience in Comparing Manual vs. Automatic Test Cases
Generation", Proc. 4th ACIS Int. Conference on Software Engineering,
Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing
SNPD 2003, Lubeck, Germany, October, 2003, p. 218-225.
- E. Marchetti, F. Martelli, A. Polini, "Refactoring
a Legacy System Using Components", Proc. 4th ACIS International
Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking
and Parallel/Distributed Computing SNPD 2003, Lubeck, Germany,
October, 2003, p. 24-31.
- R. Arrighi, M. A. Bonuccelli, F. Lonetti, F. Martelli, "Integrating GSM Networks and Internet: New Unstructured Services", ERCIM News, no. 54, July, 2003, p. 27-28.
- A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti, A. Polini, "Integration
of "Components" to Test Software Components", Proc. International
Workshop on Test and Analysis of Component Based Systems TACOS
2003, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 82,
n. 6, Warsaw, Poland, April 13, 2003.
- F. Basanieri, A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti, "The
Cow_Suite Approach to Planning and Deriving Test Suites in UML Projects",
Proc. Fifth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language - the
Language and its applications UML 2002, LNCS 2460, Dresden, Germany, September
30 - October 4, 2002, p. 383-397.
- Enrico Bini, Giuseppe Lipari, Carlo Vitucci, "Modeling
event-driven real-time applications usign DAGs", 22nd IEEE Real-Time
Systems Symposium, Work-in-Progress Session, London UK, December 3-6, 2001.
- F. Basanieri, A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti, A. Ribolini, G. Lombardi, G. Nucera,
"An
Automated Test Strategy Based on UML Diagrams", Ericsson Rational
User Conference, Upplands Vasby Sweden, 10-11 October 2001.
- F. Basanieri, A. Bertolino, E. Marchetti "CoWTeSt: A Cost Weighed
Test Strategy", Escom-Scope 2001, London, England, April 2-4, 2001, p. 387-396.
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Contacts
For more information please contact:
Ing. Antonia Bertolino
a dot bertolino at isti dot cnr dot it
Direct +39 050 315 2914
Direct Fax +39 050 315 2924
Webmaster:
SElab-assistant Direct tel. +39 050 315 3466
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Istituto
di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" 
National Research Council 
Ericsson Lab Italy 
Università degli Studi di Pisa 
Scuola Sant'Anna 