XXII Italian Meeting on Electromagnetics – Cagliari, September 3-6, 2018

The XXII Italian Meeting on Electromagnetics will take place in Cagliari, from September 3 to September 6, 2018. It is organized by the Italian Society of Electromagnetism. This prestigious event will be a meaningful opportunity for scientists coming from different universities to meet and exchange their experiences and results. It will also be an opportunity of training for students,

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ReCRED: a new paradigm for a secure and user-friendly authentication

CNIT in collaboration with 11 European partners is carrying out the Horizon2020 project called ReCRED – From Real-world Identities to Privacy-preserving and Attribute-based CREDentials for Device-centric Access Control. Started in 2015, the project aims for solving the main problems of authentication and online identity management through the use of the passwords: the password overload, referring to the inability of

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NFV/SDN/5G technologies: CNIT team wins a challenge of the H2020 SoftFIRE project

The CNIT/Roma Tor Vergata team led by Prof. Stefano Salsano has been awarded the first prize (40K€) in the “Interworking” stream or the SoftFIRE challenge (https://www.softfire.eu/open-calls/softfire-challenge/). The final evaluation of the competing teams took place during the 3rd Fed4FIRE+ Engineering Conference in Paris on March 15th. The work concerns the deployment of arbitrary overlay topologies over multiple testbeds and

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IRIS project breaks new ground in silicon photonic integration

European project IRIS (www.ict-iris.eu) has concluded with the delivery of a ground-breaking device based on silicon-photonic technology. The demonstrated device is a fully-integrated transponder-aggregator for metro networks, and allows switching and routing 12-channel signals from 4 directions to 8 ports. The ground-breaking aspect of the device is its size: everything is reduced to a 8×8 mm2 silicon photonic chip

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Device born in Italy puts the turbo on the internet

The device capable of sending complex signals on optical fibers promises to turbo the internet and telecommunications, making communications much more efficient. It is a revolution comparable to that occurred in electronics thanks to smaller and more powerful chips. Described in Nature Photonics journal, the device was born in Italy, from the Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies (TeCIP) of

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2018 Inter-OSS workshop: Interoperability and Open Source solutions for the IoT

  The project H2020 symbIoTe “symbiosis of smart objects across IoT environments”, in which CNIT is partner, organises the 3rd Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things (InterOSS-IoT) in occasion of the Bilbao IoT week, co- located with the Global IoT Summit in Bilbao. The workshop is co-organised by symbIoTe and Big-IoT as part of

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ITASEC18: the first Italian Conference on Cybersecurity

ITASEC18  is the first Italian Conference on Cyber Security, at its second edition, organized by CINI Cybersecurity National Laboratory and to be held from 6 to 9 February 2018 at the Milan Polytechnic. ITASEC18 aims at putting together Italian researchers and professionals from academia, industry, and government working in the field of cyber security. The conference will be structured into a main

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