Publications

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Journal Articles

  1. M. Polese, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, P. Johari, D. Villa, S. Velumani, R. Gangula, M. Tsampazi, C. P. Robinson, G. Gemmi, A. Lacava, S. Maxenti, H. Cheng, and T. Melodia, "Colosseum: The Open RAN Digital Twin," IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 5452-5466, August 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  2. J. Groen, S. D’Oro, U. Demir, L. Bonati, M. Polese, T. Melodia, K.R. Chowdhury, "Implementing and Evaluating Security in O-RAN: Interfaces, Intelligence, and Platforms," IEEE Network Magazine, pp. 1-7, July 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  3. D. Villa, I. Khan, F. Kaltenberger, N. Hedberg, R. Soares da Silva, S. Maxenti, L. Bonati, A. Kelkar, C. Dick, E. Baena, J.M. Jornet, T. Melodia, M. Polese, and D. Koutsonikolas, "X5G: An Open, Programmable, Multi-vendor, End-to-end, Private 5G O-RAN Testbed with NVIDIA ARC and OpenAirInterface," arXiv:2406.15935 [cs.NI], pp. 1-15, June 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  4. M. Tsampazi, S. D’Oro, M. Polese, L. Bonati, G. Poitau, M. Healy, M. Alavirad, and T. Melodia, "PandORA: Automated Design and Comprehensive Evaluation of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents for Open RAN," arXiv:2407.11747 [cs.NI], pp. 1-18, May 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  5. P. Brach del Prever, S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, M. Polese, M. Tsampazi, H. Lehmann, and T. Melodia, "PACIFISTA: Conflict Evaluation and Management in Open RAN," arXiv:2405.04395 [cs.NI], pp. 1-12, May 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  6. J. Groen, S. D’Oro, U. Demir, L. Bonati, D. Villa, M. Polese, T. Melodia, and K. Chowdhury, "Securing O-RAN Open Interfaces," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-13, April 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  7. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, P. Brach del Prever, and T. Melodia, "5G-CT: Automated Deployment and Over-the-Air Testing of End-to-End Open Radio Access Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 1-7, April 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  8. D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, C. P. Robinson, L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, "Colosseum as a Digital Twin: Bridging Real-World Experimentation and Wireless Network Emulation," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-17, January 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  9. S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, "OrchestRAN: Orchestrating Network Intelligence in the Open RAN," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-16, December 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  10. C. Fiandrino, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, M. Polese, T. Melodia, and J. Widmer, "EXPLORA: AI/ML EXPLainability for the Open RAN," Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, vol. 1, no. CoNEXT3, pp. 1-26, December 2023. AR 18.8%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  11. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "NeutRAN: An Open RAN Neutral Host Architecture for Zero-Touch RAN and Spectrum Sharing," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-13, August 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  12. M. Polese, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "Understanding O-RAN: Architecture, Interfaces, Algorithms, Security, and Research Challenges," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, pp. 1-23, January 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  13. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "OpenRAN Gym: AI/ML Development, Data Collection, and Testing for O-RAN on PAWR Platforms," Computer Networks, vol. 220, pp. 1-11, January 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  14. S. D’Oro, M. Polese, L. Bonati, H. Cheng, and T. Melodia, "dApps: Distributed Applications for Real-time Inference and Control in O-RAN," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 52-58, November 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  15. M. Polese, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "ColO-RAN: Developing Machine Learning-based xApps for Open RAN Closed-loop Control on Programmable Experimental Platforms," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-14, July 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  16. L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, M. Polese, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "Intelligence and Learning in O-RAN for Data-driven NextG Cellular Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 21-27, October 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  17. S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Restuccia, and T. Melodia, "Coordinated 5G Network Slicing: How Constructive Interference Can Boost Network Throughput," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1881-1894, August 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  18. L. Ferranti, S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Cuomo, and T. Melodia, "HIRO-NET: Heterogeneous Intelligent RObotic Network for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 4367-4380, May 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  19. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "Open, Programmable, and Virtualized 5G Networks: State-of-the-Art and the Road Ahead," Computer Networks, vol. 182, pp. 1-28, December 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

  20. L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, A. Al-shawabka, S. D’Oro, F. Restuccia, and T. Melodia, Tommaso, "Arena: A 64-antenna SDR-based Ceiling Grid Testing Platform for Sub-6 GHz 5G-and-Beyond Radio Spectrum Research," Computer Networks, vol. 181, pp. 1-17, November 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

  21. L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "CellOS: Zero-touch Softwarized Open Cellular Networks," Computer Networks, vol. 180, pp. 1-13, October 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

Conference Proceedings

  1. H. Cheng, S. D’Oro, R. Gangula, S. Velumani, D. Villa, L. Bonati, M. Polese, T. Melodia, G. Arrobo, C. Maciocco, "ORANSlice: An Open Source 5G Network Slicing Platform for O-RAN," in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Open AI and Open RAN (Open AI RAN), Washington, D.C., USA, November 2024. [pdf]

  2. L. Bonati, R. Shirkhani, C. Fiandrino, S. Maxenti, S. D’Oro, M. Polese, T. Melodia, "Twinning Commercial Network Traces on Experimental Open RAN Platforms," in Proceedings of ACM WiNTECH, Washington, DC, USA, November 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  3. S. Maxenti, S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, M. Polese, A. Capone, and T. Melodia, "ScalO-RAN: Energy-aware Network Intelligence Scaling in Open RAN," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2024. AR 19.6%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  4. M. Tsampazi, S. D’Oro, M. Polese, L. Bonati, G. Poitau, M. Healy, and T. Melodia, "A Comparative Analysis of Deep Reinforcement Learning-based xApps in O-RAN," in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  5. D. Villa, D. Uvaydov, L. Bonati, P. Johari, J.M. Jornet, and T. Melodia, "Twinning Commercial Radio Waveforms in the Colosseum Wireless Network Emulator," in Proceedings of ACM WiNTECH, Madrid, Spain, October 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  6. A. Pinto, A. Ashdown, T. Hassan, H. Cheng, F. Esposito, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, T. Melodia, and F. Restuccia, "Hercules: An Emulation-Based Framework for Transport Layer Measurements over 5G Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of ACM WiNTECH, Madrid, Spain, October 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  7. C. P. Robinson, L. Bonati, T. Van Nieuwstadt, P. Johari, M. Polese, H. Nguyen, C. Watson, and T. Melodia, "eSWORD: Implementation of Wireless Jamming Attacks in a Real-World Emulated Network," in Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Glasgow, UK, March 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  8. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "Intelligent Closed-loop RAN Control with xApps in OpenRAN Gym," in Proceedings of IEEE European Wireless, Dresden, Germany, September 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  9. S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, "OrchestRAN: Network Automation through Orchestrated Intelligence in the Open RAN," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Virtual Conference, May 2022. AR 19.9%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  10. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "OpenRAN Gym: An Open Toolbox for Data Collection and Experimentation with AI in O-RAN," in Proceedings of IEEE WCNC Workshop on Open RAN Architecture for 5G Evolution and 6G, Austin, TX, USA, April 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  11. L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Mohanti, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, D. Villa, S. Shrivastava, C. Tassie, K. Yoder, A. Bagga, P. Patel, V. Petkov, M. Seltser, F. Restuccia, A. Gosain, K.R. Chowdhury, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "Colosseum: Large-Scale Wireless Experimentation Through Hardware-in-the-Loop Network Emulation," in Proceedings of IEEE DySPAN, Virtual Conference, December 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  12. B. Casasole, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, A. Capone, and T. Melodia, "QCell: Self-optimization of Softwarized 5G Networks through Deep Q-learning," in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Madrid, Spain, December 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  13. T. Melodia, S. Basagni, K.R. Chowdhury, A. Gosain, M. Polese, P. Johari, and L. Bonati, "Colosseum, the World’s Largest Wireless Network Emulator," in Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, New Orleans, LA, USA, October 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  14. L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, B. Stefano, T. Melodia, "SCOPE: An Open and Softwarized Prototyping Platform for NextG Systems," in Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, Virtual Conference, June 2021. AR 21.7%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  15. M. Tehrani-Moayyed, L. Bonati, P. Johari, T. Melodia, and S. Basagni, "Creating RF Scenarios for Large-Scale, Real-Time Wireless Channel Emulators," in Proceedings of IEEE MedComNet, Virtual Conference, June 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  16. L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, F. Restuccia, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "SteaLTE: Private 5G Cellular Connectivity as a Service with Full-stack Wireless Steganography," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Virtual Conference, May 2021. AR 19.7%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  17. S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Restuccia, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, and T. Melodia, "Sl-EDGE: Network Slicing at the Edge," in Proceedings of ACM Mobihoc, Virtual Conference, October 2020. AR 15%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  18. M. Polese, L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, A. Gosain, and T. Melodia, "An Experimental mmWave Channel Model for UAV-to-UAV Communications," in Proceedings of ACM mmNets, London, United Kingdom, September 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

  19. L. Ferranti, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, and T. Melodia, "SkyCell: A Prototyping Platform for 5G Aerial Base Stations," in Proceedings of IEEE SwarmNet, Virtual Conference, August 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

  20. L. Bertizzolo, S. D’Oro, L. Ferranti, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, T. Melodia, and S. Pudlewski, "SwarmControl: An Automated Distributed Control Framework for Self-Optimizing Drone Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Virtual Conference, July 2020. 19.8%. [pdf] [bibtex]

  21. F. D’Alterio, L. Ferranti, L. Bonati, F. Cuomo, and T. Melodia, "Quality Aware Aerial-to-Ground 5G Cells through Open-Source Software," in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019. [pdf] [bibtex]

  22. L. Bertizzolo, M. Polese, L. Bonati, A. Gosain, M. Zorzi, and T. Melodia, "mmBAC: Location-Aided mmWave Backhaul Management for UAV-Based Aerial Cells," in Proceedings of ACM mmNets, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019. [pdf] [bibtex]

  23. L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "Arena: A 64-Antenna SDR-Based Ceiling Grid Testbed for Sub-6 GHz Radio Spectrum Research," in Proceedings of ACM WiNTECH, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019. Best Paper Award. [pdf] [bibtex]

  24. L. Ferranti, S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, F. Cuomo, and T. Melodia, "HIRO-NET: Self-Organized Robotic Mesh Networking for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios," in Proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM, Washington, D.C., USA, June 2019. Best Paper Award. [pdf] [bibtex]

  25. L. Bonati, A.F. Gambin, and M. Rossi, "Wireless Power Transfer under the Spotlight: Charging Terminals amid dense Cellular Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM, Macau, China, June 2017. [pdf] [bibtex]

Demo Papers

  1. R. Gangula, A. Lacava, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Kaltenberger, P. Johari, and T. Melodia, "Listen-While-Talking: Toward dApp-based Real-Time Spectrum Sharing in O-RAN," in Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference, Washington, DC, USA, October 2024. [pdf]

  2. D. Villa, D. Uvaydov, L. Bonati, P. Johari, J.M. Jornet, and T. Melodia, "Intelligent Radar Detection in CBRS Band in the Colosseum Wireless Network Emulator," arXiv:2309.08861 [cs.NI], September 2023. [pdf]

  3. L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "Arena: A 64-Antenna SDR-Based Ceiling Grid Testbed for Sub-6 GHz Radio Spectrum Research," in Proceedings of ACM WiNTECH, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019. [pdf] [bibtex]

Editorials
  1. L. Bonati, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "Editorial: Advances in Experimental Wireless Platforms and Systems," Computer Networks, vol. 203, pp. 1-2, February 2022.
Research Reports
  1. O-RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG), "Research Report on Digital Twin RAN Use Cases (Report ID: RR-2024-07)," pp. 1-30, May 2024. [pdf]
Ph.D. Dissertation
  1. L. Bonati, "Softwarized Approaches for the Open RAN of NextG Cellular Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, Northeastern University, August 2022. [pdf]
Patents

  1. T. Melodia, S. D’Oro, M. Polese, and L. Bonati, "Intelligence and Learning in O-RAN for 5G and 6G Cellular Networks," U.S. Patent No. 12,127,059. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, October 2024. [link]

  2. S. D’Oro, T. Melodia, F. Restuccia, and L. Bonati, "Methods for Multi-Access Edge Computing Network Slicing in 5G Networks," U.S. Patent No. 12,127,006. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, October 2024. [link]

  3. T. Melodia, L. Bonati, S. D’Oro, and F. Restuccia, "Private 5G Cellular Connectivity as a Service Through Full-Stack Wireless Steganography," U.S. Patent No. 12,120,096. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, October 2024. [link]

Patent Applications

  1. S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, M. Polese, and T. Melodia, "Open RAN Adapter for Use of Open RAN Technologies on Legacy RAN Systems," Patent Application Publication US 2024-0235960, December 2023. [link]

  2. L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, and T. Melodia, "Radio Access Network (RAN) System for Optimized Spectrum Sharing," Patent Application Publication US 2024-0236691, August 2023. [link]

  3. T. Melodia, L. Bonati, and S. D’Oro, "Operating System for Software-Defined Cellular Networks," Patent Application Publication US 2022-0248238, October 2022. [link]