Profile
Teaching
Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti
- Fondamenti di Programmazione (Cod. 862II) per Laurea in Ingegneria informatica
- Cloud Computing (Cod. 876II) per Laurea Magistrale in Artificial intelligence and data engineering
Research
Research interests
Puliafito's research lies in distributed systems and computer networks, with a specific focus on the cloud-edge continuum. His contributions span architectures, algorithms, protocols, and experimental platforms. His work focuses in particular on service continuity and cloud-edge orchestration.
Unlike the relatively stable cloud, the continuum is highly dynamic: resources are constrained, nodes move, workloads fluctuate, and connectivity may be intermittent. Maintaining application-level correctness and performance in these conditions requires mechanisms for service continuity, namely ensuring seamless execution despite failures, mobility, or overloads. In this area, he has contributed a number of solutions, including but not limited to: approaches based on container migration for session-state transfer, server-side QUIC connection migration, and distributed proxy orchestration using HTTP Alternative Services. He also co-developed MobFogSim, a simulator for mobility-aware service migration in cloud-edge environments, and he has recently investigated TLS 1.3 features, including session resumption and post-quantum chryptography, to support fast and secure service continuity.
More recently, his research has broadened toward cloud-edge orchestration and execution support, including serverless computing in the cloud-to-edge continuum, compute/network-aware traffic steering, and predictive resource management based on foundation models. Taken together, these works position his profile at the intersection of distributed systems, service continuity, and adaptive cloud-edge control.
Publications
- Fast and Secure Service Continuity in the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A Study of TLS 1.3 Resumption and Post-Quantum Key Exchange (Catoni, Lorenzo; Puliafito, Carlo; Dini, Gianluca - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- A Computing-Aware Framework for Dynamic Traffic Steering in the Edge-Cloud Computing Continuum (Perrone, Federica; Lemmi, Laura; Puliafito, Carlo; Virdis, Antonio; Mingozzi, Enzo - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Service Continuity in Edge Computing Through Edge Proxies and HTTP Alternative Services (Giorgi, Lorenzo; Puliafito, Carlo; Virdis, Antonio; Mingozzi, Enzo - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Serverless computing in the cloud-to-edge continuum (Puliafito, C.; Rana, O.; Bittencourt, L. F.; Wu, H. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Live Migration of Multi-Container Kubernetes Pods in Multi-Cluster Serverless Edge Systems (Poggiani, Leonardo; Puliafito, Carlo; Virdis, Antonio; Mingozzi, Enzo - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- SRv6-Based Edge Service Continuity in 5G Mobile Networks (Lemmi, Laura; Puliafito, Carlo; Virdis, Antonio; Mingozzi, Enzo - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Balancing local vs. remote state allocation for micro-services in the cloud-edge continuum (Puliafito, C; Cicconetti, C; Conti, M; Mingozzi, E; Passarella, A - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- End-to-end network slicing in vehicular clouds using the MobFogSim simulator (Goncalves, D. M.; Puliafito, C.; Mingozzi, E.; Bittencourt, L. F.; Madeira, E. R. M. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Stateful Function-as-a-Service at the Edge (Puliafito, Carlo; Cicconetti, Claudio; Conti, Marco; Mingozzi, Enzo; Passarella, Andrea - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Server-side QUIC connection migration to support microservice deployment at the edge (Puliafito, Carlo; Conforti, Luca; Virdis, Antonio; Mingozzi, Enzo - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Design and evaluation of a fog platform supporting device mobility through container migration (Puliafito, C.; Vallati, C.; Mingozzi, E.; Merlino, G.; Longo, F. - 2021 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Extending the QUIC protocol to support live container migration at the edge (Conforti, L.; Virdis, A.; Puliafito, C.; Mingozzi, E. - 2021 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- MobFogSim: Simulation of mobility and migration for fog computing (Puliafito, C.; Goncalves, D. M.; Lopes, M. M.; Martins, L. L.; Madeira, E.; Mingozzi, E.; Rana, O.; Bittencourt, L. F. - 2020 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Fog computing for the Internet of Things: A survey (Puliafito, C.; Mingozzi, E.; Longo, F.; Puliafito, A.; Rana, O. - 2019 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Container migration in the fog: A performance evaluation (Puliafito, C.; Vallati, C.; Mingozzi, E.; Merlino, G.; Longo, F.; Puliafito, A. - 2019 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)