Andrea Lacava

According to our database, Andrea Lacava authored at least 25 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesis, Research, and Testing.

Tamerlan Aghayev, Maxime Elkael, Michele Polese, Minh Dat Nguyen, Gabriele Gemmi, Andrea Lacava, Ali Saeizadeh, Reshma Prasad, Paolo Testolina, Angelo Feraudo, Soumendra Nanda, Pedram Johari, Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia

CoRR, May, 2026

Performance Characterization of dApps in Open Radio Access Networks.

Conrado Boeira, Eduardo Baena, Andrea Lacava, Tommaso Melodia, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Israat Haque

CoRR, May, 2026

xDevSM: An Open-Source Framework for Portable, AI-Ready xApps Across Heterogeneous O-RAN Deployments.

Angelo Feraudo, Stefano Maxenti, Andrea Lacava, Leonardo Bonati, Paolo Bellavista, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia

CoRR, February, 2026

Enabling Deep Reinforcement Learning Research for Energy Saving in Open RAN.

Matteo Bordin, Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

CoRR, January, 2026

StormShield: Fingerprint-Based Detection and Mitigation of RRC Signaling Storms in O-RAN 5G RANs.

Noemi Giustini, Andrea Lacava, Leonardo Bonati, Stefano Maxenti, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia, Francesca Cuomo

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec 2026, Saarbrücken, Germany, 30 June 2026, 2026

2025

How to Poison an xApp: Dissecting Backdoor Attacks to Deep Reinforcement Learning in Open Radio Access Networks.

Andrea Lacava, Stefano Maxenti, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Alina Oprea, Tommaso Melodia, Francesco Restuccia

Comput. Networks, 2025

dApps: Enabling real-time AI-based Open RAN control.

Andrea Lacava, Leonardo Bonati, Niloofar Mohamadi, Rajeev Gangula, Florian Kaltenberger, Pedram Johari, Salvatore D'Oro, Francesca Cuomo, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia

Comput. Networks, 2025

Bridging Simulation and Real-World for Autonomous UAVs in 5G RAN.

Riccardo Gobbato, Andrea Lacava, Salvatore D'Oro, Maxime Elkael, Prasanna Raut, Jennifer Simonjan, Evgenii Vinogradov, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025

LibIQ: Toward Real-Time Spectrum Classification in O-RAN dApps.

Filippo Olimpieri, Noemi Giustini, Andrea Lacava, Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia, Francesca Cuomo

Proceedings of the 23rd Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, 2025

Design and Evaluation of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy Saving in Open RAN.

Matteo Bordin, Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Sai Satish, Manoj AnanthaSwamy Nittoor, Rajarajan Sivaraj, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 2025

Demo: Enabling Deep Reinforcement Learning Research for Energy Saving in Open RAN.

Matteo Bordin, Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 2025

2024

Programmable and Customized Intelligence for Traffic Steering in 5G Networks Using Open RAN Architectures.

Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Rajarajan Sivaraj, Rahul Soundrarajan, Bhawani Shanker Bhati, Tarunjeet Singh, Tommaso Zugno, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput., April, 2024

Colosseum: The Open RAN Digital Twin.

Michele Polese, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Pedram Johari, Davide Villa, Sakthivel Velumani, Rajeev Gangula, Maria Tsampazi, Clifton Paul Robinson, Gabriele Gemmi, Andrea Lacava, Stefano Maxenti, Hai Cheng, Tommaso Melodia

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc., 2024

Enabling Online Reinforcement Learning Training for Open RAN.

Andrea Lacava, Tommaso Pietrosanti, Michele Polese, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference, 2024

xDevSM: Streamlining xApp Development With a Flexible Framework for O-RAN E2 Service Models.

Angelo Feraudo, Stefano Maxenti, Andrea Lacava, Paolo Bellavista, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024

Listen-While-Talking: Toward dApp-based Real-Time Spectrum Sharing in O-RAN.

Rajeev Gangula, Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati, Florian Kaltenberger, Pedram Johari, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2024

TwiNet: Connecting Real World Networks to their Digital Twins Through a Live Bidirectional Link.

Clifton Paul Robinson, Andrea Lacava, Pedram Johari, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024

2023

Device discovery and tracing in the Bluetooth Low Energy domain.

Pierluigi Locatelli, Massimo Perri, Daniel Mauricio Jimenez Gutierrez, Andrea Lacava, Francesca Cuomo

Comput. Commun., 2023

ns-O-RAN: Simulating O-RAN 5G Systems in ns-3.

Andrea Lacava, Matteo Bordin, Michele Polese, Rajarajan Sivaraj, Tommaso Zugno, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on ns-3, 2023

Friendship Security Analysis in Bluetooth Low Energy Networks.

Andrea Lacava, Pierluigi Locatelli, Francesca Cuomo

Proceedings of the 21st Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, 2023

2022

Securing Bluetooth Low Energy networking: An overview of security procedures and threats.

Andrea Lacava, Valerio Zottola, Alessio Bonaldo, Francesca Cuomo, Stefano Basagni

Comput. Networks, 2022

2021

Intrusion Detection System for Bluetooth Mesh Networks: Data Gathering and Experimental Evaluations.

Andrea Lacava, Emanuele Giacomini, Francesco D'Alterio, Francesca Cuomo

Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, 2021

2020

BLUES: A Self-organizing BLE Mesh-network Paradigm for IoT Environments.

Emanuele Giacomini, Francesco D'Alterio, Andrea Lacava, Francesca Cuomo

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, 2020

2019

Demo Abstract: BE-Mesh: Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh Networking.

Andrea Lacava, Gianluigi Nero, Pierluigi Locatelli, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 2019, 2019

Exploiting Edge Computing for Adaptive Data Update in Internet of Things Networks.

Andrea Petroni, Andrea Lacava, Pierluigi Locatelli, Gianluigi Nero, Marcello Pediconi, Francesca Cuomo

Proceedings of the Joint Proceeding of the Poster and Workshop Sessions of AmI-2019, 2019