I'm a PhD student in CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) at IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca
I'm a research associate at IIT (Institute for Informatics and Telematics) at CNR (National Research Council) in Pisa
My PhD research activity focuses on opportunistic routing for wireless mesh networks. My research interests include also network coding, cross-layer techniques, cooperative forwarding, admission control.
Education
August 2011
- January 2012
Research activity on the "Evaluation of solutions that guarantee communication reliability, low latency and energy efficiency in wireless multi-hop networks"
Department of Information Engineering
March 2008
– December 2011
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at IMT - Lucca.
Research topic: Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks.
Supervisors: Prof. Luciano Lenzini, Dr. Marco Conti.
September - November 2010
Visiting PhD student at Prasant Mohapatra's Network Research Group
Computer Science
Department
University of California
Davis, CA
Master Degree in Computer Engineering - University of Pisa.
January – July 2006
Erasmus period - University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
March 2004
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering - University of Pisa.
Contacts:
maddalena.nurchis AT imtlucca DOT it
Room A25 IIT - CNR - Pisa
Phone: +39 050 315 21 95
Research Interest
My PhD research activity focuses on opportunistic routing in wireless mesh networks. My research interests include
- wireless networks
- opportunistic routing
- network coding
- cross-layer techniques
- cooperative forwarding
- machine learning techniques
Publications
R. Bruno, M. Conti and M. Nurchis, “RELADO: RELiable and
ADaptive Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh
Networks”, to appear in IGI International Journal of Adaptive,
Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS), IGI Global, 2011
M. Nurchis, R. Bruno, M. Conti and L. Lenzini, “A Self-Adaptive
Routing ParadigmforWirelessMeshNetworks Based on Reinforcement
Learning”, Proc. of ACM MSWiM2011, November 2011
R. Bruno, M. Conti and M. Nurchis, “Opportunistic Packet Scheduling and Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks”, Wireless Days Conference (WD), Venice, October 20-22, 2010
R. Bruno, M. Conti, and M. Nurchis, "MaxOPP: a novel opportunistic routing for wireless mesh networks", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), June 22 -25, 2010
R. Bruno and M. Nurchis, "Survey on diversity-based routing in wireless mesh networks: Challenges and solutions", Computer Communications, vol.33, pp. 269-282, February 2010. doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2009.09.003
Projects
EU-MESH: Enhanced, Ubiquitous, and Dependable Broadband Access using Mesh Networks.
http://www.eu-mesh.eu/
Activities
Publicity Co-Chair at the 16th European Wireless
Conference (EW2010)
http://www.ew2010.org/
Publicity Chair at the 3rd IEEE
International Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking (HotMESH
2011)
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mesh2011/index.html
Awards
SIGCOMM 2010 Travel Grant
Reviews
Computer Communications Journal (COMCOM),
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC),
IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking (IEEE MeshTech.)
IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom)
Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks Journal (AHSWN)
Ad Hoc Networks Journal
Courses
The Science of Complex Networks and the Internet: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics - Dr. Walter Willinger.
Research Area at National Research Council (CNR), Pisa.
20 -24 July 2009
Future Internet Summer School, University of Bremen, Germany.
13 - 26 July 2008
International School for Computer Science Researchers "Algorithms: Science and Engineering".
Lipari School, Lipari, Siciliy.
9 -13 May 2008
Data dissemination in VANETs and mobile sensor networks - Prof. Guohong Cao.
Faculty of Engineering, University of Pisa.
IMT courses