Theses

Mode Detection using UAV/USRP platforms

GOAL: to detect which technologies are being used in an area; to analyze trade-offs between on-board processing and cloud-based solutions

Study of cloud radio access network and edge computing in High-Altitude Platforms and nanosatellites

Co-Advisor: Riccardo Bassoli (TU Dresden) - GOAL: to design and simulate technologies for cloud radio access network and edge computing for HAPs

Development of ETSI NFV compliant interfaces for mobile core network orchestration

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Development of a network data analytics function (NWDAF) for 5G and beyond mobile core networks

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Development of traffic-type aware UPF for 5G mobile core networks

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Self-aware Softwarized Networks

Implementing and running the digital twin of a network (automated topology identification, sync)

Throughput, delay and jitter measurement in a 5G virtualized network environment

GOAL: to deploy a container-based architecture to perform KPI measurements in a 5G Service Based Architecture scenario

Energy-aware multi-access edge cloud

GOAL: to define algorithms capable of enabling energy-aware MEC operation, e.g. in presence of renewable energy sources

Evaluating the energy consumption of a virtualized infrastructure

GOAL: to build a framework for analyzing the energy consumption of a virtualized infrastructure

Orchestration layer for eNB/UE simulator for LTE testing with automatic deployment

Marco Centenaro (Athonet)

Measurements of Clock Drifts in Federated Networks

VICOMTECH, Spain

Federation of SDR and Virtualized Core Networks

VICOMTECH, Spain

Security-as-a-Service

Monokee/Athesys

Performance Evaluations of Orchestration Policies for Edge/Fog systems

Prof. Francesco De Pellegrini (Univ. of Avignon, France)

Network optimization using a Network Digital Twin

GOAL: to apply AI/ML to a simulated copy of a "real network" using the concept of Network Digital Twin.

Performance Evaluation of 5G/6G using a 3D engine and ray tracing propagation module

GOAL: to generate a 3D model of a city area and to emulate communications via ray tracing

A study on energy-efficient O-RAN deployment

Rawlings Ntassah, GOAL: The goal of this project is to analyze an energy-efficient way of deploying and managing the O-RAN.

xApps for slice orchestration and management in the O-RAN architecture

Rawlings Ntassah, GOAL: To develop an xApp for RAN slicing and resource allocation

AI/ML techniques for RAN management

Rawlings Ntassah, GOAL: The goal is to develop AI/ML techniques to optimize RAN functionality for closed-loop RAN management.

Video communications using semantic concepts and object recognition

GOAL: to develop a system for video communications based on semantic concepts provided by YOLO software for object recognition

Network Digital Twin and GPT

GOAL: to use GPT approaches in order to interpret the state and traffic flows of the Physical Twin and understand how to transfer the information to the Network Digital Twin

Implementing a 5G testbed using OpenAirInterface and NI USRPs X310

Building virtual labs for networking experiments in comnetsemu environment (VLANs, routing, ...)

GOAL: to build a set of scripts for the comnetsemu network emulator platform to experiment with IP and SDN networks

Network security in enterprise networks

Maurizio Lombardo

Security-as-a-Service

Monokee/Athesys

From a network to its digital twin

GOAL: to build a network in Comnetsemu environment and then by using the Northbound interface of the controller to build its digital twin in ns-3 environment

Deploying, analyzing and testing a virtualized 5G SA network slicing architecture

Swarms of drones simulation using Webots platform

GOAL: to learn the Webots enviroment and to build the simulator for studying swarms of drones

Generation of the Digital Twin of the University Campus in Povo using the Unreal Engine

GOAL: to build a replica of the road, buildings and people around the University Area in Povo based on OpenStreet data and other databases

Generation of the Digital Twin of a communication system

GOAL: to merge Unreal Engine and Sienna or other channel models to derive communication performance in a 3D virtual world

Using YOLO software to empower semantic communications

GOAL: to implement a solution that provides differential protection/transmission of data based on semantic information captured by YOLO software

Implementing a 5G testbed using OpenAirInterface and NI USRPs X310

Building virtual labs for networking experiments in comnetsemu environment (VLANs, routing, ...)

GOAL: to build a set of scripts for the comnetsemu network emulator platform to experiment with IP and SDN networks

Network security in enterprise networks

Maurizio Lombardo

Security-as-a-Service

Monokee/Athesys

From a network to its digital twin

GOAL: to build a network in Comnetsemu environment and then by using the Northbound interface of the controller to build its digital twin in ns-3 environment

Deploying, analyzing and testing a virtualized 5G SA network slicing architecture

Swarms of drones simulation using Webots platform

GOAL: to learn the Webots enviroment and to build the simulator for studying swarms of drones

Generation of the Digital Twin of the University Campus in Povo using the Unreal Engine

GOAL: to build a replica of the road, buildings and people around the University Area in Povo based on OpenStreet data and other databases

Generation of the Digital Twin of a communication system

GOAL: to merge Unreal Engine and Sienna or other channel models to derive communication performance in a 3D virtual world

Using YOLO software to empower semantic communications

GOAL: to implement a solution that provides differential protection/transmission of data based on semantic information captured by YOLO software