• Leandro Fiorin, Alberto Ferrante, Konstantinos Padarnitsas, Francesco Regazzoni, Security Enhanced Linux on Embedded Systems: a Hardware-accelerated Implementation, accepted for publication at the 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2012. Jan. 30- Feb. 2, 2012, Sydney, Australia.

• Christian Gamrat, Jean-Marc Philippe, Chris Jesshope, Alex Shafarenko, Labros Bisdounis, Umberto Bondi, Alberto Ferrante, Joan Cabestany, Michael Hübner, Juha Pärsinnen, Jiri Kadlec, Martin Danek, Benoit Tain, Susan Eisenbach, Michel Auguin, Jean-Philippe Diguet, Eric Lenormand, and Jean-Luc Roux, AETHER: Self-Adaptive Networked Entities: Autonomous Computing Elements for Future Pervasive Applications and Technologies, in Reconfigurable Computing, From FPGAs to Hardware/Software Codesign, Cardoso, João M. P.; Hübner, Michael (Eds.),1st Edition., 2011, ISBN 978-1-4614-0060-8, Chapter 7, pp. 149-184.

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Marcello Mura and Alberto Ferrante, Dynamic Adaptation of Security and QoS in Energy-harvesting Sensors Nodes  in LNCS Springer/Verilag (IN PRESS, 2011).

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Luis Germán García Morales and Alberto Ferrante, A Framework For Security and Workload Gradual Adaptation in proceedings of SECRYPT 2011, Sevilel, Spain, July 2001.

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Luis Germán García Morales, Alberto Ferrante, System Policies for Gradual Tuning of Security and Workload in Wireless Sensor Networks in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (WTS), New York, USA, April, 2011. Presentation (pdf).

• Leandro Fiorin, Alberto Ferrante, Konstantinos Padarnitsas, Stefano Carucci, Hardware-assisted Security Enhanced Linux in Embedded Systems: a Proposal in the proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS), Scottsdale, AZ, US, October 2010. Full text (pdf)

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Marcello Mura and Alberto Ferrante, QoS and Security in Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, in proceedings of SECRYPT 2010, Athens, Greece, July 2010. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Laura Micconi, and Alberto Ferrante, Gradual Adaptation of Security for Sensor Networks, in IEEE WoWMoM 2010: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Montreal, Canada, June 2010.

• Onur Derin and  Alberto Ferrante, Scheduling Energy Consumption With Local Renewable Micro-generation and Dynamic Electricity Prices.  In  CPSWEEK/GREEMBED 2010: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Green and Smart Embedded System Technology: Infrastructures, Methods and Tools,  Stockholm, Sweden,  April 2010. Full text (pdf)

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, Security and Packets Delivery Trade-off for WSN, in prooceedings of CCNC 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 09-12 January 2010.

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Pierpaolo Marcon, and Alberto Ferrante, Negotiation of Security Services: a Multi-criteria Decision Approach. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Embedded Systems Security, Grenoble, France, October 2009.

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo and Alberto Ferrante, Run-time Selection of Security Algorithms For Networked Devices. In 5th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009.

• O. Derin and A. Ferrante, Enabling Self-adaptivity in Component-based Streaming Applications, APRES ’09: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems, Grenoble, France, October 11 2009. Full text (pdf)

• O. Derin and A. Ferrante, Simulation Of a Self-adaptive Run-time Environment With Hardware and Software Components, in SINTER ’09: Proceedings of the 2009 ESEC/FSE workshop on Software integration and evolution @ runtime. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ACM, August 2009, pp. 37–40. Full text (pdf)

• O. Derin, A. Ferrante, and A. V. Taddeo, Coordinated management of hardware and software self-adaptivity, J. Syst. Archit., vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 170–179, 2009. Published online on July 2008. Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. Full text (pdf)

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, A Security Service Protocol for MANETs, in proceedings of CCNC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 10-13 January 2009.

• Alberto Ferrante, Roberto Pompei, Anastasia Stulova, Antonio Taddeo, A Protocol For Pervasive Distributed Computing Reliability. In proceedings of SecPri_WiMob 2008, Avignon, France, October 12, 2008. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Alberto Ferrante, Satish Chandra, and Vincenzo Piuri, IPSec Database Query Acceleration, in Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, M. S. O. Joaquim Filipe, Ed., vol. 23. Springer, 11 2008, pp. 188–200. Full text (pdf).

• Alberto Ferrante, Satish Chandra, and Vincenzo Piuri, A Query Unit for the IPSec Databases, in SECRYPT-2007, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2007. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Luigi Dadda, Alberto Ferrante, and Marco Macchetti, A Memory Unit for Priority Management in IPSec Accelerators, in ICC 2007. Glasgow, Scotland: IEEE Communications Society, 24 June 2007. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Alberto Ferrante, Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Mariagiovanna Sami, Fabrizio Mantovani, and Jurijs Fridkins, Self-adaptive Security at Application Level: a Proposal, in ReCoSoC 2007. Montpellier, France, Jun. 2007. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf) | Video of the presentation (conference website)

• Alberto Ferrante and Vincenzo Piuri, High-level Architecture of an IPSec-dedicated System on Chip, in NGI 2007. Trondheim, Norway: IEEE Press, May 2007, pp. 159-166. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, Scheduling Small Packets in IPSec Multi-accelerator Based Systems, in Journal of Communications (JCM). Academy Publisher, Mar. 2007, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 53–60. Full text (pdf)

• Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, and Vincenzo Piuri, Scheduling Small Packets in IPSec-based Systems, in CCNC 2006. Las Vegas, NV, USA: IEEE, 8 Jan. 2006. Full text (pdf)

• Alberto Ferrante, Vincenzo Piuri, and Fabien Castanier, A QoS-enabled Packet Scheduling Algorithm for IPSec Multi-accelerator Based Systems. In proceedings of Computing Frontiers 2005. Ischia, Italy: ACM, May 2005, pp. 221-229. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Alberto Ferrante, Vincenzo Piuri, and Jeff Owen, IPSec Hardware Resource Requirements Evaluation, in proceedings of NGI 2005. Rome, Italy: EuroNGI, 18 Apr. 2005. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Alberto Ferrante, Giuseppe Piscopo, and Stefano Scaldaferri, Application-driven Optimization of VLIW Architectures: a Hardware-Software Approach, in proceedings of  Real-Time and Embedded Technology Applications 2005. San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 7 Mar. 2005, pp. 128-137. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Alberto Ferrante, Uljiana Boiko, Antonietta Lo Duca, and Vincenzo Piuri, A Testing Methodology for IPSec-based Systems, in proceedings of  SoftCOM 2004.Dubrovnik and Split, Croatia, Venice, Italy: University of Split, Oct. 2004, pp. 22-26. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

• Fabien Castanier, Alberto Ferrante, and Vincenzo Piuri, A Packet Scheduling Algorithm for IPSec Multi-Accelerator Based Systems, in ASAP 2004. Galveston, TX, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, Sept. 2004, pp. 387-397. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

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Theses

• PhD Thesis (University of Milano):

A Design Methodology for HW/SW Security Protocols

Advisors: Prof. Vincenzo Piuri (Università degli Studi di Milano), Prof. Luigi Dadda (ALaRI - University of Lugano), Dr. Jeff Owen (ST Microelectronics)

Final dissertation will be on March 6-7, 2006 at the Computer Science department of the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano).

Full text of Introduction and Chapter 1-2 (pdf) | Thesis summary (pdf) | Presentation in Italian (pdf)

• MSc Thesis (Politecnico di Milano):

Security Association Caching of a Dedicated IPSec Crypto-processor: Dimensioning the Cache and Software Interface

Advisors: Prof. Roberto Negrini (Politecnico di Milano), Dr. Jefferson Owen (ST Microelectronics)

Discussed on June 19, 2002 at the Como seat of Politecnico di Milano.

Full text (pdf) | Presentation in Italian (pdf)

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Given Talks

• On October 9, 2008 he partecipated at the AMWAS08 Workshop, held in Lugano. Presentation.
• On April 4, 2007 he was an invited speaker at the Lugano Communication Forum, held in Lugano. Presentation in Italian.
• On Semptember 8, 2004 he participated at the Microsoft Embedded Systems RFP Final Workshop held at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK). His poster presentation was titled ``IPSec in a Mobile IPv6 Environment''.
• On October 10, 2001 he spoke at the Technology Leadership Day 2001 organized by the MicroSwiss Network at EIA-FR, Fribourg (CH). The tile of his presentation is ``The Smart Card Project: from Plastic Money To Mobile Transaction Support''.