Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Roberta D'Amico

Luciana Costa

Madalina Baltatu

Paolo De Lutiis

Rosalia D'Alessandro

Jovan Golic

Manuel Leone

Maurizio Valvo

Paolo Solina

Luca Viale

Dario Lombardo

Massimo Tistarelli

Enrico Grosso

Manuele Bicego

A method of protecting the exchange of privacy-sensitive data in a wireless communication network, the method including generating and providing a public cryptographic key to a first entity, possessing the data to be sent to the network through a wireless connection; generating and providing a private secret cryptographic key to a second entity, being the intended recipient of the data, the private key being bound to the public key and being associated to privacy support context information to identify the network; having the network send to the first entity respective wireless network privacy support context information; having the first entity receive the information and encrypt the data using the public key and the received information to obtain protected, encrypted privacy-sensitive data; having the first entity send to the second entity through the network the encrypted data; and having the second entity decrypt the encrypted data exploiting the private key.

Protection of privacy in wireless telecommunication networks

A method for security in a passive optical network is disclosed. The method includes, at an optical line termination (OLT): detecting an optical termination device and establishing a connection with the device; generating a first authentication message including a first random number; and transmitting the first authentication message through the established connection. At the optical termination device, the method may include: receiving the first authentication message; calculating a first authentication code by using the first random number and a secret code stored at the device; and generating and transmitting to the OLT a second authentication message including the first authentication code. The method may further include, at the OLT: receiving the second authentication message; calculating a second authentication code by using the first random number and a secret code stored at the OLT; and authenticating the optical termination device if the first authentication code matches the second authentication code.

Method for increasing security in a passive optical network

An automatic biometric identification method based on face recognition and support vector machines, includes enrolling a user to generate a user's reference template; and identifying the user based on the user's reference template, wherein generating a user's reference template includes acquiring a number of user's face images, and training a one-class support vector machine based on the user's face images only.

Automatic biometric identification based on face recognition and support vector machines

A method for localizing an optical network termination (ONT) of a passive optical network is disclosed. The passive optical network comprises an optical line terminal (OLT) and an optical distribution network (ODN) having a plurality of optical links. The ONT is connectable to the OLT by a given optical link of the optical distribution network. The method includes the steps of detecting that the ONT has been connected to the OLT by an optical link of the optical distribution network; determining length information indicative of a length of the optical link; comparing the length information with a reference length information indicative of a length of the given optical link; and if the length information matches the reference length information, localizing the ONT by confirming that it is connected to the OLT by the given optical link.

Method for localizing an optical termination device in a passive optical network

A user authentication method based on the use of identification biometric techniques, including the steps of generating a reference biometric template from a first biometric image of a user to be authenticated; splitting the reference biometric template into a first and a second reference biometric template portion that can be physically separated; signing and enciphering the first and the second reference biometric template portion; storing the signed and enciphered first and second reference biometric template portion into different memories.

User authentication method based on the utilization of biometric identification techniques and related architecture

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Turin, Italy

Roberta D'Amico