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20142025
most citedVNF Placement and Resource Allocation for the Support of Vertical Services in 5G Networks

134 citations · 397 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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50 papers

cs.NI2025

XR Offloading Across Multiple Time Scales: The Roles of Power, Temperature, and Energy

Francesco Malandrino, Olga Chukhno, Alessandro Catania +2

Extended reality (XR) devices, commonly known as wearables, must handle significant computational loads under tight latency constraints. To meet these demands, they rely on a combi…

cs.NI2024

Eavesdropping with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces: Near-Optimal Configuration Cycling

Francesco Malandrino, Alessandro Nordio, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communication security and privacy. In this work, we focus on th…

cs.LG2024

Dependable Distributed Training of Compressed Machine Learning Models

Francesco Malandrino, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Marco Levorato +1

The existing work on the distributed training of machine learning (ML) models has consistently overlooked the distribution of the achieved learning quality, focusing instead on its…

cs.NI2024

Human-Centric Decision-Making in Cell-Less 6G Networks

Emma Chiaramello, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino +3

In next-generation networks, cells will be replaced by a collection of points-of-access (PoAs), with overlapping coverage areas and/or different technologies. Along with a promise…

cs.NI2022

Unexpectedly Useful: Convergence Bounds And Real-World Distributed Learning

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Convergence bounds are one of the main tools to obtain information on the performance of a distributed machine learning task, before running the task itself. In this work, we perfo…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Matching DNN Compression and Cooperative Training with Resources and Data Availability

Francesco Malandrino, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Armin Karamzade +2

To make machine learning (ML) sustainable and apt to run on the diverse devices where relevant data is, it is essential to compress ML models as needed, while still meeting the req…

cs.NI2022

Virtual Service Embedding with Time-Varying Load and Provable Guarantees

Gil Einziger, Gabriel Scalosub, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini +1

Deploying services efficiently while satisfying their quality requirements is a major challenge in network slicing. Effective solutions place instances of the services' virtual net…

cs.NI2022★ 6 cited

Choose, not Hoard: Information-to-Model Matching for Artificial Intelligence in O-RAN

Jorge Martín-Pérez, Nuria Molner, Francesco Malandrino +3

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is an emerging paradigm, whereby virtualized network infrastructure elements from different vendors communicate via open, standardized interfaces.…

cs.NI2022

Performance and EMF Exposure Trade-offs in Human-centric Cell-free Networks

Francesco Malandrino, Emma Chiaramello, Marta Parazzini +1

In cell-free wireless networks, multiple connectivity options and technologies are available to serve each user. Traditionally, such options are ranked and selected solely based on…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Efficient Distributed DNNs in the Mobile-edge-cloud Continuum

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Giuseppe Di Giacomo

In the mobile-edge-cloud continuum, a plethora of heterogeneous data sources and computation-capable nodes are available. Such nodes can cooperate to perform a distributed learning…

cs.NI2022

Flexible Parallel Learning in Edge Scenarios: Communication, Computational and Energy Cost

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Traditionally, distributed machine learning takes the guise of (i) different nodes training the same model (as in federated learning), or (ii) one model being split among multiple…

cs.NI2021

Eavesdropping with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces: Threats and Defense Strategies

Francesco Malandrino, Alessandro Nordio, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have several prominent advantages, including improving the level of wireless communications security and privacy. In this work, we focus on t…

cs.NI2021

Edge-powered Assisted Driving For Connected Cars

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Gian Michele dell'Aera

Assisted driving for connected cars is one of the main applications that 5G-and-beyond networks shall support. In this work, we propose an assisted driving system leveraging the sy…

cs.NI2021

Towards Node Liability in Federated Learning: Computational Cost and Network Overhead

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Many machine learning (ML) techniques suffer from the drawback that their output (e.g., a classification decision) is not clearly and intuitively connected to their input (e.g., an…

cs.IT2021

Optimization of IRS-aided Sub-THz Communications under practical design constraints

Alberto Tarable, Francesco Malandrino, Laura Dossi +3

We consider the optimization of a smart radio environment where meta-surfaces are employed to improve the performance of multiuser wireless networks working at sub-THz frequencies.…

cs.NI2021★ 67 cited

Dynamic VNF Placement, Resource Allocation and Traffic Routing in 5G

Morteza Golkarifard, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino +1

5G networks are going to support a variety of vertical services, with a diverse set of key performance indicators (KPIs), by using enabling technologies such as software-defined ne…

cs.NI2021★ 1 cited

Federated Learning at the Network Edge: When Not All Nodes are Created Equal

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Under the federated learning paradigm, a set of nodes can cooperatively train a machine learning model with the help of a centralized server. Such a server is also tasked with assi…

cs.NI2021★ 12 cited

Network Support for High-performance Distributed Machine Learning

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Nuria Molner +1

The traditional approach to distributed machine learning is to adapt learning algorithms to the network, e.g., reducing updates to curb overhead. Networks based on intelligent edge…

cs.NI2020

Scheduling of Emergency Tasks for Multiservice UAVs in Post-Disaster Scenarios

Cristina Rottondi, Francesco Malandrino, Andrea Bianco +2

Single-task UAVs are increasingly being employed to carry out surveillance, parcel delivery, communication support, and other specific tasks. When the geographical area of operatio…

cs.NI2020

An Edge-powered Approach to Assisted Driving

Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Gian Michele Dell'Aera

Automotive services for connected vehicles are one of the main fields of application for new-generation mobile networks as well as for the edge computing paradigm. In this paper, w…

cs.NI2020

Graph-based Model for Beam Management in Mmwave Vehicular Networks

Zana Limani Fazliu, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino +1

Mmwave bands are being widely touted as a very promising option for future 5G networks, especially in enabling such networks to meet highly demanding rate requirements. Accordingly…

cs.NI2020★ 1 cited

Mmwave Beam Management in Urban Vehicular Networks

Zana Limani, Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini +1

Millimeter-wave (mmwave) communication represents a potential solution to capacity shortage in vehicular networks. However, effective beam alignment between senders and receivers r…

cs.NI2020

Active Learning-based Classification in Automated Connected Vehicles

Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino

Machine learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling connected, automated vehicles to autonomously cruise the streets and react to unexpected situations. A key challen…

cs.NI2020

Characterizing Delay and Control Traffic of the Cellular MME with IoT Support

Christian Vitale, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino +1

One of the main use cases for advanced cellular networks is represented by massive Internet-of-things (MIoT), i.e., an enormous number of IoT devices that transmit data toward the…