Dipartimento d'Ingegneria

The capabilities of manipulating matter at the molecular scale has inspired a huge research effort for many years and has led to the design and implementation of sophisticated devices, commonly referred to as nanomachines. The potentials of these devices span numerous areas, including medical science, environmental control, and material science.
Although decades of research and implementation activities has lead to remarkable nanomachines capabilities, especially in the medical field, their networked coordination is still at an early stage of research. Recently, some possible solutions for allowing nanomachines to exchange information have been proposed.

The completion of the human genome sequencing project represented a major milestone in the field of biological and medical sciences. It happened about ten years ago in the framework of the US project Human Genome. It has been the results of years of expensive research activity. At that (recent) time, although the importance of that result was clear, the possibility of handling the human genome as a commodity was far from imagination due to cost and complexity of sequencing and analyzing complex genomes.
Today the situation is very much different, since the order of magnitude of the cost necessary for sequencing a human genome is rapidly reducing.

The Networks and Services Laboratory is a research laboratory covering aspects such as IP networking (architectures, QoS, pricing, resource discovery, network management and fault localization, mobility), wireless LANs, satellite networks, service deployment architectures for the Future Internet, overlay networks (Content Distribution Networks, including digital cinema distribution systems), positioning and navigation systems using LANs & GPS, distributed computing, and, more recently, biological nano-network communication systems.

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