Luca Vassio

TL;DR: A new measure of node centrality in social networks, the Harmonic Influence Centrality (HIC), which emerges naturally in the study of social influence over networks is proposed using an intuitive analogy between social and electrical networks.

TL;DR: This work collects more than 200 packet traces under different application settings and network conditions from a broadband network to poor mobile network conditions, for 3 cloud gaming services, namely Stadia from Google, GeForce Now from NVIDIA and PS Now from Sony, and analyses the employed protocols and the workload that they impose on the network.

TL;DR: This work considers the design of a Free Floating Car Sharing (FFCS) system based on Electric Vehicles, and faces the problems of finding the optimal placement of charging stations, and thedesign of smart car return policies, i.e, how many and where to place charging stations.

TL;DR: An anonymized dataset of HTTP traces captured in a large ISP, where thousands of households are connected, is evaluated and a methodology to identify actual URLs requested by users from the massive set of requests automatically fired by browsers when rendering web pages is proposed.

TL;DR: This work characterize three distinct car-sharing systems which operate in Vancouver (Canada) and nearby regions, gathering data for more than one year, and uncovers patterns of users’ habits and demands for these services.