ANDREA LACAVA

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVI
email: andrea.lacava@uniroma1.it | lacava.a@northeastern.edu
building: San Pietro in Vincoli (DIET) – Palazzina B - RM032
room: 1° piano (floor) - room 106




advisor: prof. Francesca Cuomo
co-supervisor (2): prof. Tommaso Melodia
joint PhD: Doppio Titolo con Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Research Topic: Open RAN, AI for Cellular Networks, Network security

Curriculum: Curriculum in Information and Communication Engineering



Ph.D. start date : November 2020

Ph.D. Advisory Board: prof. Massimo Panella, prof. Antonio Cianfrani, prof. Alessandro Trifiletti


Research products

11573/1686006 - 2023 - ns-O-RAN. Simulating O-RAN 5G systems in ns-3
Lacava, Andrea; Bordin, Matteo; Polese, Michele; Sivaraj, Rajarajan; Zugno, Tommaso; Cuomo, Francesca; Melodia, Tommaso - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 15th Workshop on Network Simulator, WNS3 2023 (Arlington; USA)
book: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series - (9798400707476)

11573/1696710 - 2023 - Friendship security analysis in bluetooth low energy networks
Lacava, Andrea; Locatelli, Pierluigi; Cuomo, Francesca - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2023 21st Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet) (Ponza; Italy)
book: 2023 21st Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet) - (979-8-3503-3884-3)

11573/1678029 - 2023 - Programmable and customized intelligence for traffic steering in 5G networks using open RAN architectures
Lacava, Andrea; Polese, Michele; Sivaraj, Rajarajan; Soundrarajan, Rahul; Shanker Bhati, Bhawani; Singh, Tarunjeet; Zugno, Tommaso; Cuomo, Francesca; Melodia, Tommaso - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING () pp. 1-16 - issn: 1536-1233 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85153511847 (7)

11573/1670724 - 2023 - Device discovery and tracing in the Bluetooth Low Energy domain
Locatelli, Pierluigi; Perri, Massimo; Jimenez Gutierrez, Daniel Mauricio; Lacava, Andrea; Cuomo, Francesca - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (Butterworth Heinemann Publishers:Linacre House Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP United Kingdom:011 44 1865 314569, EMAIL: bhmarketing@repp.co.uk, INTERNET: http://www.laxtonsprices.co.uk, Fax: 011 44 1865 314569) pp. 42-56 - issn: 0140-3664 - wos: WOS:000943958100001 (1) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85148327049 (2)

11573/1670823 - 2023 - Device discovery and tracing in the Bluetooth Low Energy domain
Locatelli, Pierluigi; Perri, Massimo; Jimenez Gutierrez, Daniel Mauricio; Lacava, Andrea; Cuomo, Francesca - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (Butterworth Heinemann Publishers:Linacre House Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP United Kingdom:011 44 1865 314569, EMAIL: bhmarketing@repp.co.uk, INTERNET: http://www.laxtonsprices.co.uk, Fax: 011 44 1865 314569) pp. - - issn: 0140-3664 - wos: WOS:000943958100001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85148327049 (0)

11573/1630995 - 2022 - Securing Bluetooth Low Energy networking: An overview of security procedures and threats
Lacava, Andrea; Zottola, Valerio; Bonaldo, Alessio; Cuomo, Francesca; Basagni, Stefano - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: COMPUTER NETWORKS (Elsevier BV:PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam Netherlands:011 31 20 4853757, 011 31 20 4853642, 011 31 20 4853641, EMAIL: nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl, INTERNET: http://www.elsevier.nl, Fax: 011 31 20 4853598) pp. 1-19 - issn: 1389-1286 - wos: WOS:000804648300010 (9) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85129918865 (16)

11573/1558494 - 2021 - Intrusion detection system for bluetooth Mesh networks: Data gathering and experimental evaluations
Lacava, A.; Giacomini, E.; D'alterio, F.; Cuomo, F. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021 (online)
book: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021 - (978-1-6654-0424-2)

11573/1464294 - 2020 - BLUES. A self-organizing BLE mesh-network paradigm for IoT environments
Giacomini, E.; D'alterio, F.; Lacava, A.; Cuomo, F. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 21st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2020 (Cork; Ireland)
book: Proceedings - 21st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2020 - (978-1-7281-7374-0)

11573/1322179 - 2019 - Demo Abstract: BE-Mesh: Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh Networking
Lacava, Andrea; Nero, Gianluigi; Locatelli, Pierluigi; Cuomo, F.; Melodia, T. - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
conference: 2019 INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2019 (Parigi)
book: INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2019 - (978-1-7281-1878-9)

11573/1330131 - 2019 - Exploiting edge computing for adaptive data update in Internet of Things networks
Petroni, A.; Lacava, A.; Locatelli, P.; Nero, G.; Pediconi, M.; Cuomo, F. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2019 Joint Poster and Workshop Sessions of AmI, AmI 2019 and 2019 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (Rome; Italy)
book: CEUR Workshop Proceedings - ()

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