Massimo Villari

Massimo Villari is an Aggregate Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Messina, Italy. In 2003 he received his PhD in Computer Science School of Engineering. Since 2006 he is an Aggregate Professor at University of Messina. He is actively working as IT Security and Distributed Systems Analyst in cloud computing, virtualization and Storage for the European Union Projects "RESERVOIR" and "VISION-CLOUD". Previously, he was an academic advisor of STMicroelectronics, help an internship in Cisco Systems, in Sophia Antipolis, and worked on the MPEG4IP and IPv6-NEMO projects. He investigated issues related with user mobility and security, in wireless and ad hoc and sensor networks. He is IEEE member. Currently he is strongly involved on EU Future Internet initiatives, specifically Cloud Computing and Security in Distributed Systems. His main research interests include virtualization, migration, security, federation, and autonomic systems. In UniME is also the Cloud Architect of CLEVER; a cloud middleware aimed at federated clouds.

Publications

Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds
Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds
Antonio Celesti, Antonio Puliafito, Francesco Tusa, Massimo Villari. © 2014. 22 pages.
Cloud federation is paving the way toward new business scenarios in which it is possible to enforce more flexible energy management strategies than in the past. Considering...
Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds
Towards Energy Sustainability in Federated and Interoperable Clouds
Antonio Celesti, Antonio Puliafito, Francesco Tusa, Massimo Villari. © 2014. 23 pages.
Cloud federation is paving the way toward new business scenarios in which it is possible to enforce more flexible energy management strategies than in the past. Considering...
Securing the External Interfaces of a Federated Infrastructure Cloud
Securing the External Interfaces of a Federated Infrastructure Cloud
Philippe Massonet, Arnaud Michot, Syed Naqvi, Massimo Villari, Joseph Latanicki. © 2013. 28 pages.
This chapter describes an open source solution for securing the Claudia service manager and the OpenNebula virtual execution environment manager when combined in a federated...
Sensed Data Sharing in Cloud Federation for Advances in Health Information Exchange
Sensed Data Sharing in Cloud Federation for Advances in Health Information Exchange
Antonio Celesti, Maria Fazio, Antonio Puliafito, Massimo Villari. © 2013. 15 pages.
In this paper the authors focus on sensing systems supporting data exchange among several healthcare administrative domains. The challenge in this area is twofold: efficient...
Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice
Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice
Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, Francesco Tusa. © 2012. 489 pages.
Cloud computing presents a promising approach for implementing scalable information and communications technology systems for private and public, individual, community, and...
An Innovative Open Source Middleware for Managing Virtual Resources in Federated Clouds
An Innovative Open Source Middleware for Managing Virtual Resources in Federated Clouds
Francesco Tusa, Maurizio Paone, Antonio Celesti, Massimo Villari, Antonio Puliafito. © 2012. 29 pages.
This chapter describes the CLEVER architecture, focusing on its design process and highlighting the communication mechanisms employed by its entities. The last part of the...
Securing the External Interfaces of a Federated Infrastructure Cloud
Securing the External Interfaces of a Federated Infrastructure Cloud
Philippe Massonet, Arnaud Michot, Syed Naqvi, Massimo Villari, Joseph Latanicki. © 2012. 28 pages.
This chapter describes an open source solution for securing the Claudia service manager and the OpenNebula virtual execution environment manager when combined in a federated...
Credential Management Enforcement and Secure Data Storage in gLite
Credential Management Enforcement and Secure Data Storage in gLite
Francesco Tusa, Massimo Villari, Antonio Puliafito. © 2012. 23 pages.
This article describes new security solutions for Grid middleware, and specifically faces the issues related to the management of users’ and servers’ credentials, together with...
Credential Management Enforcement and Secure Data Storage in gLite
Credential Management Enforcement and Secure Data Storage in gLite
Francesco Tusa, Massimo Villari, Antonio Puliafito. © 2012. 23 pages.
This article describes new security solutions for Grid middleware, and specifically faces the issues related to the management of users’ and servers’ credentials, together with...
Toward Cloud Federation: Concepts and Challenges
Toward Cloud Federation: Concepts and Challenges
Antonio Celesti, Francesco Tusa, Massimo Villari. © 2012. 17 pages.
Federation in cloud computing is an emerging topic. Currently, all over the world in both academia and industry contexts many operators are picking up the advantages of cloud...
CLEVER: A Cloud Middleware Beyond the Federation
CLEVER: A Cloud Middleware Beyond the Federation
Francesco Tusa, Maurizio Paone, Massimo Villari. © 2012. 23 pages.
This chapter describes both the design and architecture of the CLEVER cloud middleware, pointing out the possibilities it offers towards enlarging the concept of federation in...
International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering (IJMTIE)
International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering (IJMTIE)
Ireneusz Jablonski, Md. Zia-Ur- Rahman. Est. 2011.
The International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering (IJMTIE) is a dedicated source for high quality papers on measurement and instrumentation...
Credential Management Enforcement and Secure Data Storage in gLite
Credential Management Enforcement and Secure Data Storage in gLite
Francesco Tusa, Massimo Villari, Antonio Puliafito. © 2010. 22 pages.
This article describes new security solutions for Grid middleware, and specifically faces the issues related to the management of users’ and servers’ credentials, together with...