Salvatore Pontarelli

Postdoc Researcher

I’m a member (postdoctoral research associate) of the Defect and Fault Tolerance Group (DFTGroup) coordinated by Prof. Adelio Salsano, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
I received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1999 and the Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2003. My research mainly focuses on fault tolerance, on-line testing and error correction codes (for more details on these topics see the research page of my site group research).
Since 2009 I cooperate with the netgroup in the perspective of an interdisciplinar cooperation between digital electronic design and networking. In particular, I’m studying the use of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) for development of wire-speed network monitoring applications.
Finally, I’m also interested in the use of Bloom filters for error detection in Content Addressable Memories. For this research I recently received a CISCO Research Award.

Contacts

  • E-mail: salvatore.pontarelli at uniroma2.it
  • Netgroup Lab (map)
  • Landline telephone number: +39 067259 7768

Research interests

  • Real Time Network Monitoring
  • FPGA implementation of string matghing algorithms
  • FPGA implementation of hash based structures (Bloom filters, ecc)

Selected list of pubblications

  • G Bianchi, M Bonola, G Picierro, S Pontarelli, M Monaci, “StreaMon: A software-defined monitoring platform”, Teletraffic Congress (ITC), 2014 26th International, 2014
  • S Pontarelli, G Bianchi, S Teofili, “Traffic-Aware Design of a High-Speed FPGA Network Intrusion Detection System”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 62 (11), 2322-2334
  • S. Teofili, E. Nobile, S. Pontarelli, G. Bianchi, “IDS Rules Adaptation for Packets Pre-filtering in Gbps Line Rates”, in Trustworthy Internet, 303-316
  • S. Pontarelli, S Teofili “Anti-evasion Technique for Packet Based Pre-filtering for Network Intrusion Detection Systems”, Traffic Monitoring and Analysis 2011, 185-188
  • S. Pontarelli, S. Teofili, G. Bianchi, “Hardware-Based “on-the-fly” Per-flow Scan Detector Pre-filter”, Traffic Monitoring and Analysis 2011, 181-184
  • S. Pontarelli, C. Greco, E. Nobile, S. Teofili, G. Bianchi, “Exploiting Dynamic Reconfiguration for FPGA based Network Intrusion Detection Systems”, Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2010
  • C. Greco, E. Nobile, S. Pontarelli, S. Teofili, “An FPGA based architecture for complex rule matching with stateful inspection of multiple TCP connections”, Programmable Logic Conference (SPL), 2010

This is the list of papers related to the cooperation with the netgroup. An almost complete and automatically updated publication list is available at Google Scholar Citations