Computer Networks

Research Group

The Computer Networks Group of the Institute of Informatics at UFRGS is recognized both nationally and internationally.

It was responsible for the organization of the first edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), in 1983. The group stands out for forming well-qualified human resources (in Undergraduate, M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels) and, most importantly, for its excellence in research, with a wide array of publications in top tier-conferences and journals and a high number of citations. Among its members, four are CNPq research fellows. Moreover, many have been, historically, leading highly relevant research projects and collaborations with Brazilian and international partners (including countries such as the United States, England, Canada, France, Israel, Russia, and others) as well as actively participating in the coordination of several Brazilian scientific conferences (e.g., SBRC 1983, 1989, 2004, 2010 and 2019, and SBSeg 2008), in addition to international ones (e.g., LANOMS 2005, CNSM 2014, and SIGCOMM 2016). Moreover, members of the group participate in the technical program committee of major conferences and compose the editorial board of a wide range of journals in the area.

OUR TOPICS OF INTEREST

Security

Software
Defined
Networking

Management

Wireless

Information
Centric
Networking

Cloud

Internet
Measurement

IoT

Machine
Learning

PUBLICATIONS

Foxhound: Server-Grade Observability for Network-Augmented Applications

Castanheira, Lucas; Schaeffer-Filho, Alberto; Benson, Theophilus A.

Foxhound: Server-Grade Observability for Network-Augmented Applications Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems, pp. 18–32, Association for Computing Machinery, Rome, Italy, 2023, ISBN: 9781450394871.

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Orchestra: A Customizable Split-Aware NFV Orchestrator for Dynamic Cloud Radio Access Networks

Dalla-Costa, Ariel Galante; Bondan, Lucas; Wickboldt, Juliano Araujo; Both, Cristiano Bonato; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti

Orchestra: A Customizable Split-Aware NFV Orchestrator for Dynamic Cloud Radio Access Networks Journal Article

In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1014–1024, 2020.

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FENDE: Marketplace-Based Distribution, Execution, and Life Cycle Management of VNFs

Bondan, Lucas; Franco, Muriel F.; Marcuzzo, Leonardo; Venancio, Giovanni; Santos, Ricardo L.; Pfitscher, Ricardo J.; Scheid, Eder J.; Stiller, Burkhard; Turck, Filip De; Duarte, Elias P.; Schaeffer-Filho, Alberto E.; Santos, Carlos R. P.; Granville, Lisandro Z.

FENDE: Marketplace-Based Distribution, Execution, and Life Cycle Management of VNFs Journal Article

In: IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG), vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 13–19, 2019.

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Integrating dynamic spectrum access and device-to-device via cloud radio access networks and cognitive radio

Marotta, Marcelo Antonio; Faganello, Leonardo Roveda; Kist, Maicon; Bondan, Lucas; Wickboldt, Juliano Araujo; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti; Rochol, Juergen; Both, Cristiano Bonato

Integrating dynamic spectrum access and device-to-device via cloud radio access networks and cognitive radio Journal Article

In: International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1–11, 2018, (e3698 dac.3698).

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Booter list generation: The basis for investigating DDoS-for-hire websites

Santanna, José Jair; de Vries, Joey; Schmidt, Ricardo O.; Tuncer, Daphne; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti; Pras, Aiko

Booter list generation: The basis for investigating DDoS-for-hire websites Journal Article

In: International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1–17, 2018, (e2008 nem.2008).

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PROJECTS