students
My research interests focus on wireless networks, touching theoretical, simulation, and experimental aspects.
PhD Students
- Chiara Rubaltelli (2025 - ): Designing Next-Generation Radio Access Networks
- Viola Bernazzoli (2023 - ): Next-Generation Radio Access Networks for Smart Radio Environments
- Marcello Morini (2022 - ): System level analysis and experimentation of high-frequency access networks with advanced architectures towards 6G
- Paolo Fiore (2021 - ): Resource Management and Optimization for Wireless Networks in Reconfigurable Environments
- Franci Gjeci (2020 - ) (co-advised with Antonio Capone): Programmable Self-Organizing Radio Access Networks
Graduate Students
- Stefano Biccari (2025 - ): 3GPP Wireless Access and Backhaul (WAB)
- Alberto Ceresoli (2025 - ): UE positioning microservices in O-RAN 5G networks
- Melanny Davila (2024 - ): Phase recovery and localization
PhD Alumni
- Eugenio Moro - PhD 2023 (co-advised with Antonio Capone):
- Thesis: A system-level perspective on new services and technologies for radio access networks
- Assistant Professor with Politecnico di Milano
- Bibo Zhang – PhD 2022:
- Thesis: Reinforcement Learning techniques in 5G Networks
- Lecturer with the Ocean College, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
- Francesco Devoti - PhD 2019 (co-advised with Antonio Capone):
- Thesis: Context-aware resource management and network design in 5G millimeter wave access networks
- Senior Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe
- Vincenzo Sciancalepore - PhD 2015 (co-advised with Antonio Capone):
- Thesis: Enhancements in spectrum management techniques for heterogeneous 5G future network
- Principal Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe
Graduate Alumni
- Nadia Sadeghi - MS 2025: Design and Implementation of an Agentic RAG System for Evaluating RFP Responses
- Zahra Asgari - MS 2025: Optimizing 5G IAB Networks in Smart Radio Environments: A Reliability Perspective
- Tugay Ozel - MS 2025: Experimental studies on Transport Protocols in a 5G mmWave network testbed
- Claudia Baz Alvarez – MS 2024: O-RAN-Based Real-Time Positioning in 5G Networks: A Preliminary Analysis Using Uplink SRS
- Niloufar Dinipour – MS 2024: Fronthaul-aware Radio Resource Management in Wireless C-RAN for 5G Networks
- Ecem Izde Kaya – MS 2024: A Preliminary Analysis of 5G Uplink AoA Estimation
- Giuseppe Gattulli – MS 2024: Processing Prioritization of Application Functions in Future 6G Medical RANs
- Viola Bernazzoli – MS 2023: Experimental platform for opportunistic ranging systems in 5G NR Networks
- Konstantinos Marios Roumpeas – MS 2023: Resource allocation strategies for network slicing in self organized cellular networks
- Giuseppe Leone – MS 2022: Network planning models for 6G mmWave IAB Smart Radio Environments”
- Alireza Reshadi – MS 2022: Topology Formation Optimization for mm-Wave 5G Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks
- Filip Muratagikj – MS 2022: A comparative study for mm-Wave access networks planning models with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
- Stefano Scerrato – MS 2021: Analysis of dual-connectivity approaches for mmWave 5G Radio Access through ns-3 network simulator
- Emmanuele Benedetto – MS 2021: Semi-distributed congestion-aware traffic engineering in software defined networks
- Paolo Fiore – MS 2021: Network planning models for RIS-assisted mm-Wave IAB Networks
- Achilles Kiwanuka Machumilane – MS 2020: DASH video streaming in Integrated Satellite-5G networks
- Mert Yuksel – MS 2019: Optimization Algorithms for 5G Millimeter-wave Access Networks with Integrated Access and Backhauling
- Andres Herrera Alvarez – MS 2018: LoRa and Narrow-band IoT Deployment and Radio Access Performance
- Giuseppe Maldari – MS 2018: Node Relocation in 5G Mm-wave Access Networks
- Mohammad Nourifar – MS 2018: Blockage-robust 5G mm-wave access network planning
- Raffaele Pico – MS 2018: Energy saving modelling and prediction in LTE networks
- Fedor Zhukov – MS 2017: 3D directional cell discovery for mm-wave access
- Johanna Bolivar Gonzalez – MS 2017: Cell discovery algorithms for mm-wave access of highly directional devices
- Nicola Rosada – MS 2016: Clustered robust routing solutions in software defined networks