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Luis Augusto Dias Knob

Luis Augusto Dias Knob Researcher

Luis Augusto Dias Knob received his MSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, the PhD from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil, and he is a Researcher in Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy.

His research interests include network management, cloud computing, virtualization and containerization, and network security.

Besides the academic field, he also has several Linux/Cloud Computing certifications, including the LPIC-3 Enterprise Professional - Mixed Environment, the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, and the CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Publications

2024

  • Roberto Doriguzzi Corin, Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Luca Mendozzi, Domenico Siracusa, Marco Savi
    Introducing packet-level analysis in programmable data planes to advance Network Intrusion Detection
    In: Computer Networks (DOI)

2021

  • Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Francescomaria Faticanti, Tiago Ferreto, Domenico Siracusa
    Community-based placement of registries to speed up application deployment on Edge Computing
    In: Proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) (DOI)
  • Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Carlos Henrique Kayser, Paulo Silas Severo de Souza, Tiago Ferreto
    Enforcing deployment latency SLA in edge infrastructures through multi-objective genetic scheduler
    In: Proceedings of 14th Ieee/acm International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (DOI)
  • Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Carlos Henrique Kayser, Tiago Ferreto
    Improving Container Deployment in Edge Computing Using the Infrastructure Aware Scheduling Algorithm
    In: Proceedings of 2021 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (DOI)

2018

  • Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Bruno Gomes Xavier, Tiago Ferreto
    An Unikernels Provisioning Architecture for OpenStack
    In: Proceedings of 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (DOI)
  • Rafael de Jesus Martins, Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Eduardo Germano da Silva, Juliano Araujo Wickboldt, Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
    Specialized CSIRT for Incident Response Management in Smart Grids
    In: Journal of Network and Systems Management (DOI)

2017

  • Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Rafael Pereira Esteves, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco
    Mitigating elephant flows in SDN-based IXP networks
    In: Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (DOI)

2016

  • Rafael De Jesus Martins, Vinicius Garcez Schaurich, Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Juliano Araujo Wickboldt, Alberto Schaeffer Filho, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Marcelo Pias
    Performance Analysis of 6LoWPAN and CoAP for Secure Communications in Smart Homes
    In: Proceedings of 2016 IEEE 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) (DOI)
  • Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Rafael Pereira Esteves, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco
    SDEFIX - Identifying elephant flows in SDN-based IXP networks
    In: Proceedings of 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) (DOI)

2015

  • Eduardo Germano da Silva, Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Juliano Araujo Wickboldt, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Alberto Schaeffer-Filho
    Capitalizing on SDN-based SCADA systems: An anti-eavesdropping case-study
    In: 2015 Ifip/ieee International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) (DOI)

Supervised Theses

2024

  • Matteo Rizzi (Master's Thesis, University of Trento, 2024)
    Monitoring the monitor: analysis of eBPF's behavior in virtualised environments
    Supervisors: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisors: Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Matteo Franzil
  • Lorys Mutti (Bachelor's Thesis, University of Trento, 2024)
    Programmable Scenario Simulation for Kubernetes-Related Testing
    Supervisors: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisor: Luis Augusto Dias Knob

Teaching Duties

2019

  • Fog and Cloud Computing
    Level: MSc
    Institution: University of Trento
    Lecturers: Domenico Siracusa, Daniele Santoro, Matteo Franzil, Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Silvio Cretti
    Period: From 2019
    Links: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025