Andrea Fumagalli

Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering
Politecnico di Torino - 1992

Laurea - Electrical Engineering
Politecnico di Torino - 1987

I. Cerutti, A. Fumagalli, and P. Gupta, Delay Model of a One-Way Cooperative ARQ Protocol in Slotted Radio Networks with Poisson Frames Arrivals, to appear in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. N/A - Publication

M. Tacca, P. Monti, and A. Fumagalli, Cooperative and Reliable ARQ Protocols for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 2519-2529, July, 2007. 2007 - Publication

I. Cerutti, A. Fumagalli, R. Hui, P. Monti, A. Paradisi, and M. Tacca, Plug and Play Optical (PPO) Nodes: Network Functionalities and Built-in Fiber Characterization Techniques, OSA Journal of Optical Networking, vol. 6, n. 6, pp. 642-653, June 2007. 2007 - Publication

Z. Pandi, M. Tacca, A. Fumagalli, and L. Wosinska, Dynamic Provisioning of Availability-Constrained Optical Circuits in the Presence of Optical Node Failures, in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 3268-3279, September, 2006. 2006 - Publication

A. Fumagalli and M. Tacca, Differentiated Reliability (DiR) in Wavelength Division Multiplexing Rings, in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 159-168, February 2006. 2006 - Publication

Z Pandi, M. Tacca, and A. Fumagalli, Efficient Computation of Multi-Component Failure Stratum Probabilities, in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 939-941, October 2005. 2005 - Publication

I. Cerutti, A. Fumagalli, Traffic Grooming in Static Wavelength Division Multiplexing Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 101-107, January 2005. 2005 - Publication

P. Monti, M. Tacca, A. Fumagalli, Resource Efficient Path Protection Schemes and Online Selection of Routes in Reliable WDM Networks, OSA Journal of Optical Networking (JON), vol. 3, pp. 183-203, April 2004. 2004 - Publication

Head of Telecommunications Engineering Program
The University of Texas at Dallas [2007–Present]

Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2005–Present]

Visiting Researcher
University of Massachusetts [1994–1995]

Assistant Professor
Politecnico di Torino [1992–1998]

A Threshold-based Blocking Differentiation Mechanism for Networks with Wavelength Continuity Constraint

2005–2005 Unicamp, Campinas (San Paolo), Brazil, November 2005

The Plug and Play Optical Node Project and a Threshold-based Blocking Differentiation Mechanism for Networks with Wavelength Continuity Constraint

2005–2005 Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden, August 2005

Cooperative ARQ Protocols in Radio Networks

2005–2005 Universita di Trento, Trento, Italy, July 2005

Destination-Initiated Wavelength Weighted Reservation (DW2R) Mechanism

2003–2003 Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden, June 2003

Differentiated Reliability and the OMEGA Test-bed

2002–2002 Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, December 2002

Honors and Awards

• Best Teaching Award, Electrical Engineering, UTD, 2002.
• Best Thesis Award to Ph.D. Advisee Isabella Cerutti, 2002.
• On a Distinguished Lecturer Tour for IEEE ComSoc, 2000.
• Best Paper Award - I. Chlamtac, A. Fumagalli, J. Carruthers, G. Wedzinga, An Optimal Design Algorithm for Photonic Slot Routing Networks Migrating to Optical Packet Switching, in Proc. SPIE vol. 3843 Boston, MA, September 1999.

UT Dallas Expert Leads Effort to Forge Future Internet Paths

Dr. Andrea Fumagalli, a telecommunications expert from The University of Texas at Dallas, has been chosen to lead a subset of an international collaboration to create the computer network architecture of the future — preparing for a time when trillions of devices are expected to be connected to the Internet.

It’s expected that home electrical appliances will be controlled by smartphones in other locations, or cars will communicate with other vehicles to automatically avoid collisions. If these types of technological applications, the so-called "Internet of Things," are to become widespread, a more efficient and flexible Internet architecture needs to be created.

UTD Engineering Professor Wins $300,000 Grant For Telecommunications Reliability Research

RICHARDSON, Texas (Oct. 18, 2001) - A faculty member at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has won a $300,000, 18-month grant to develop a unique method of provisioning reliability in optical telecommunications networks, a promising development for the “next generation Internet.”

The grant was made by FUNDACAO CPqD, a non-profit scientific research foundation in Campinas, Brazil, to Dr. Andrea Fumagalli, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and head of the Optical Networking Advanced Research (OpNeAR) Lab at UTD [http://opnear.utdallas.edu].

UTD to Join Italian Research Project On Grid Computing, High-Speed Networking

RICHARDSON, Texas (Oct. 29, 2002) - The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has been selected to join a consortium of university and government researchers in Italy studying grid computing and high-speed networking.

The project is the first substantive manifestation of an agreement concluded last February between UTD and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, a university in Pisa, Italy. The agreement provides for joint research on advanced telecommunications networks and an exchange of faculty members and students of the two institutions.

The project is funded by the Italian government and involves researchers from the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), as well as UTD. The only non-Italian entity involved in the research, UTD is a subcontractor on the project and will be paid 200,000 Euros (slightly less than U.S. $200,000) for its services over the next three years.