Francesco Ferreri

Phone: +39 06 44486.386
e-mail: f.ferreri@caspur.it

I was born in Rome, Italy, in 1977. I received my degree "summa cum laude" in Informatics Engineering from University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in April, 2004. I developed my dissertation in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Computing of the Italian National Research Council (IAC-CNR) and CASPUR.

I'm currently CTO at NaMeX an Internet Exchange and Interconnection Point based in Rome, an important node for national Internet backbone infrastrucure. I'm in charge of overall technical supervision for the exchange, my activities include system and network management, software design, implementation and integration. I'm also involved in research activities regarding IPv6 and VoIP technologies.

Teaching: Laboratorio di Sistemi Operativi II (in italian)

Professional interests:

• Software design and development

• Object Technology and Object-Oriented software analysis and design

• Eiffel and Design by Contract development methodologies

• Programming: mostly C, Ruby and Eiffel

• Network architectures, switching and routing

• System integration

• System and network security: firewalls, cryptography, policies and practices

• System and network management, administration and monitoring

Publications:

• F. Ferreri, M. Bernaschi, L. Valcamonici, "Access Points vulnerabilities to DoS attacks in 802.11 networks", in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Atlanta, GA (USA), March 21-25 2004.

• F. Ferreri, M. Bernaschi, L. Valcamonici, "Access Points vulnerabilities to DoS attacks in 802.11 networks", published in Wireless Networks, Springer Netherlands, October 2006.