Projects

Research Interest
Vehicular Networks and mobile computer network environments, including both wired and wireless (ad hoc) networks, with a focus on the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of network protocols in mobility situations.
Distributed systems, including Internet information systems, replication, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, with an emphasis on mobility applications.

Recent Publications

Conference Papers

"FairCast: Fair Multi-Media Streaming in Ad Hoc Networks through Local Congestion Control",
Gustavo Marfia, Paolo Lutterotti, Stephan Eidenbenz, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla,
MSWiM, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October. 2008

"Remote Medical Monitoring Through Vehicular Ad Hoc Network",
Hyduke Noshadi, Eugenio Giordano, Hagop Hagopian, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla, Majid Sarrafzadeh,
International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications, (WiVeC 2008), Calgary, Canada, September. 2008

"A Survey on P2P Streaming Clients: Looking at the End-User",
Alexandro Sentinelli, Luca Celetto, Damien Lefol, Claudio Palazzi, Giovanni Pau,
International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008), Maui, HI, November. 2008

"C-VeT, the UCLA Vehicular Testbed: An Open Platform for Vehicular Networking and Urban Sensing",
Paolo Lutterotti, Giovanni Pau, Daniel Jiang, Mario Gerla, Luca Delgrossi,
International Conference on Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE 2008), Dearborn, MI, December. 2008

"Survey on P2P Overlay Streaming Clients",
Alexandro Sentinelli, Luca Celetto, Damien Lefol, Claudio Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, Theodore ZAHARIADIS, Ahola JARI,
The Future of the Internet Conference, Prague, Czech Rep, May. 2009

"Two Ray or not Two Ray this is the price to pay",
Eugenio Giordano, Raphael Frank, Abhishek Ghosh, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla,
In IEEE MASS Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networks (InVeNET 2009), Macau, P.R.C., October. 2009

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Journal Papers

"Efficient Peer-to-peer File Sharing using Network Coding in MANET",
Uichin Lee, Joon-Sang Park, Seung-Hoon Lee, Won W. Ro, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla,
Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), Special Issue on Network Coding , , November. 2008

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Posters

"C-VeT an open research platform for VANETs: Evaluation of Peer to Peer Applications in Vehicular Net",
Eugenio Giordano, Andrea Tomatis, Abhishek Ghosh, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla,
International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2008), Calgary, Canada, September. 2008

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PPT Presentations

"Mesh Networks and Vehicular Support: the UCLA MobiMesh case Study",
Mario Gerla, Eugenio Giordano, Giovanni Pau,
Workshop on Carrier Grade Mesh Networks, Santander, Spain, June. 2009