RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION IN NETWORK TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Starting from the mid of May, competition in network traffic analysis was organized targeting Bachelor students of “Fundamentals of Internet and Networks” course held at Politecnico di Milano.
Organizers prepared a network traffic dataset, which participants had to analyze and provide required results.
The structure of the competition defining tasks for the students was organized in three phases:
- Analysis of obligatory tasks, which were defined by the competition organizers;
- Creative analysis, where students had the freedom to perform any analysis of the provided dataset, relevant from the network point of view;
- Presentation of results.
***More details about the competition can be found here.
In the end, the jury created by the two Ph.D. students and professors from the “Fundamentals of Internet and Networks” course, decided the winners.
Three winning categories are:
- Total performance
- Best research work
- Best code development work
Winners
After the final phase of the competition was done, the jury decided the winners based on everything candidates had shown. These are the winners in all categories:
| Member 1 | Member 2 | Professor | |
| Total Performance | Marco Fasanella | Nicola Dean | prof. Achille Pattavina |
| Total Performance | Giorgio Buttiglieri | Simone Baselice | prof. Antonio Capone |
| Total Performance | Emilio Corigliano | Elisabetta Fedele | prof. Achille Pattavina |
| Best research work | Davide Maioli | prof. Francesco Musumeci | |
| Best development work | Niccolo Didoni | Francesco Ferrari | prof. Achille Pattavina |
For the winners of the competition, we provided awards of various Polimi gadgets.
Presentations
In order to encourage the next generations to participate in similar kinds of competitions we are listing some of the final presentations of participants (which wanted to share their work):
The competition was fully funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions project named SPOTLIGHT.