LAB

THE BROADCOMLAB

1. General information on the BroadComLab

• Location: the laboratory of Broadband Communication Systems (the BroadComLab) is located in room n° 101, at the first floor of the DIET Department of Sapienza University, Via Eudossiana n° 18, Building B, 00184 Rome

• Main research area: broadband communication and computing systems

• Web page: BroadComLab

• Coordinator: Prof. Enzo Baccarelli

• Permanent people: Prof. Enzo Baccarelli, Prof. Lorenzo Piazzo, Dr. Alireza Momenzadeh

A view of the BroadComLab at the DIET Department of Sapienza University of Rome

2. Main research areas covered by the BroadComLab

• Energy-saving 4G and 5G radio communication systems

• Broadband wired communication systems

• Green virtualised networking-computing infrastructures

• Fog-assisted vehicular networking

• Broadband networking for the support of Big Data services

• Fog-aided broadband networking for Industry 4.0 services

• Networked Fog computing platforms for IoT applications

The logo of the BroadComLab

3. Main HW and SW equipments of the BroadComLab

• Servers and PCs

• Middle-size testbed for the emulation of Cloud and Fog computing platforms

• Matlab, Opnet, Xen, VMM

4. Main research activities supported by the BroadComLab and related research projects

• Design of WiMax networking architectures (PRIN project “WOMEN”)

• Design of hybrid 3G/4G communication systems for the support of QoS-demanding broadband multimedia services (PRIN project “WORLD”)

• Design of Fog-supported broadband distributed networked computing architectures for the support of IoT applications (PRIN project: “GAUChO”)

5. Educational activity and support to the students at the BroadComLab

Master and PhD students may carry out their Master and PhD thesis by leveraging the HW/SW equipments of the BroadComLab under the supervision of the corresponding permanent staff.

Educational activity at the BroadComLab