I am an Associate Professor at the Ca’ Foscari university of Venice and I do research on networks.
In the first part of my career I mainly focused on network security, while currently I am modelling, understanding, and improving large scale distributed wireless networks, such as Community Networks or next generation wireless backhauls. I work on the routing protocols, the scalability and on various networking aspects.
I was also among the founders of Tracking4Fun, a start-up that provides localization devices for athletes.
You are very welcome to roam through my website, and contact me if you are interested in my work. You can contact me at leonardo.maccari@unive.it.
I become an Associate Professor at the Ca'Foscari University of Venice, in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS)
I was at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the university of Trento (DISI), first as a Marie Curie fellow, then as an Assistant Professor
I spent a year in the labs of Selex Communications (now Leonardo Finmeccanica) in a joint project between Selex and the University of Florence
In the Master of Computer Science I am professor of a Network Security course.
In the Bachelor of Computer Science, I teach Computer Networks.
In the Data Management Bachelor degree in H-Farm, I am professor of a security course.
OR2AN2G is a cooperation project between Ca'Foscari University of Venice and the North Eastern University of Boston. Our works on the topology modelling of mmWave backhaul networks is tested on the Colosseum testbed to study, for the first time, multi-hop backhaul networks on 5G/6G in realistic conditions.
netCommons was an Horizon2020 project proposing a novel transdisciplinary methodology to promote and support the creation of network infrastructures as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, democracy, self-determination, and social integration. It lasted for the period 2016-2019 and I was the technical WP coordinator.
PAF-FPE was my Marie Curie project, which studied wireless pervasive networks (such as multi-hop ad-hoc social networks and wireless community networks) to realise new security techniques aimed at improving their security
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the glue that binds pieces of the Internet and keeps global communications in tune. BGP has a slow convergence: two configuration parameters have a high impact on BGP convergence speed, but there is no consensus on how to change their default value to a better one. IoF addresses this problem in the Fed4Fire+ open call #5.
The goal of POPROW was to test and enhance “Pop-Routing”, a technique for wireless mesh link-state routing protocols that tunes the generation frequency of control messages independently for each node of a wireless mesh network as the result of real-time graph analysis performed on the network topology. POPROW was financed by the WiSHFUL FIRE project.
RiseApp was an idea financed by the CHEST project. It produced the design of a mobile app to share and publish media in risky situations (protests and manifestations) when Internet connectivity is filtered or temporarily blocked.
A multi-disciplinary effort to study the legal implications of the use and the mis-use of a WCN and to produce technical countermeasures applicable in the loosely-organized social environment of a WCN in order to strengthen the legal position of the people in the community when a user of the network misbehaves. Financed by the University of Trento via a an internal competitive call
Confine was a FP7 FIRE project devoted to the study of Wireless Community Networks. We entered the project via a call for sub-projects with the OSPS proposal, that dealt with live video streaming on community networks.
A project financed by the Caritro foundation to perform a multi-disciplinary study on wireless community networks. It involved the Law department of our university, and the sociology department of the university of Padua.
Information-aware data plane for programmable networks is project that started in 2015 with the goal to contribute to the deployment of a high-quality/cost-effective network infrastructure via an enhanced data-plane, which is able to serve the increasing traffic demand generated by a variable set of applications. Financed by EIT-ICT labs.
The main objective of the FP7 NI2S3 project was to research and implement a reference methodology for developing security systems based on network enabled capabilities information and integration services for critical infrastructures
ESSOR goal was to provide the architecture of Software Defined Radio (SDR) for military purposes and a military. It involved major European universities and industries.
I had/have several activities with the group of professor Tommaso Melodia: papers, visits, shared students.
I had/have several activities with the group of professor Leandro Navarro: papers, visits, shared students.
In the context of the netCommons project I started a cooperation with the CNRS group of Melanie Dulong de Rosnay on the definition of the legal status of community networks.
In the context of the netCommons project I started a cooperation with the lab of Iordanis Koutsopoulos of AUEB with whom we are working on the application of centrality metrics to community networks analysis.
In the context of the netCommons project I started a cooperation with Christian Fuchs on the definition of a suitable sustainability concept for community networks.
With the Pastis group of social science research in the university of Padua, we published 3 inter-dsciplinary publications dealing community networks.
I have been visiting prof. Pablo Neira several times. Pablo is the main developer of the netfilter, the linux firewall, and we published a few joint papers on firewalling.
For an EIT project I cooperated with Alcatel-Lucent (Paris) to test and develop their high-performance programmable networking module.
Telecom Italia is the largest Italian ISP. I participated to two projects financed by TiLab that lead to publications and patents.
Selex is one of the largest Italian producer of telecommunication devices for professional markets. I participated to several projects and I am co-author of two patents.