Lorenzo obtained a master's degree in electronic engineering at Roma Tre University and later a Ph.D in networking at the same institution with a thesis on Internet topology discovery using active probing. He has performed research on IPv6, Internet topology discovery, interdomain routing, and BGP anycast. He is currently working on Internet performance metrics and routing optimization.
An Active Approach to Measuring Routing Dynamics Induced by Autonomous Systems, Samantha Lo, Rocky K. C. Chang, Lorenzo Colitti, Workshop of Experimental Computer Science (ExpCS), 2007.
Investigating prefix propagation through active BGP probing, Lorenzo Colitti, Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, Maurizio Pizzonia, Massimo Rimondini, Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 31, no. 7 (2007), pp. 460-474.
Analyzing and improving GNOME startup time, Lorenzo Colitti, Proceedings of SANE 2006.
Evaluating the effects of anycast on DNS root name servers, Lorenzo Colitti, Erik Romijn, Henk Uijterwaal, Andrei Robachevsky, 2006.
Investigating prefix propagation through active BGP probing, Lorenzo Colitti, Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, Maurizio Pizzonia, Massimo Rimondini, Proceedings of IEEE ISCC 2006.
Visualizing interdomain routing with BGPlay, Lorenzo Colitti, Giuseppe Di Battista, Federico Mariani, Maurizio Patrignani, Maurizio Pizzonia, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, vol. 9 (2005), pp. 117-148.
Discovering IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels in the Internet, Lorenzo Colitti, Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2004.
IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel discovery: methods and experimental results, Lorenzo Colitti, Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management (eTNSM), vol. 1 (2004), pp. 2-10.