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Publications of 2026
Journal Articles (7)
Network Scale-up Methods on Aggregated Relational Data to Estimate the Outcome of Elections
Jorge M. Arevalillo, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Sergio Díaz-Aranda, Jose Aguilar, Antonio Fernández Anta, Rosa E. Lillo
Social Networks. 10.1016/j.socnet.2026.04.006. Volume 86 , North-Holland. July 2026
Setchain algorithms for blockchain scalability
Arivarasan Karmegam, Gabina Luz Bianchi, Margarita Capretto, Martín Ceresa, Antonio Fernández Anta, César Sánchez
Theoretical Computer Science. 10.1016/j.tcs.2026.116145. June 2026
DFT-Based Spectral Precoding for Scalable Unique-Word OFDM (Accepted for publication)
Salil Sharma, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Jesus Omar Lacruz, Joerg Widmer
IEEE Communication Letters. 10.1109/LCOMM.2026.3698599. May 2026
Boosting Concurrency and Fault-Tolerance for Reconfigurable Shared Large Objects
Andria Trigeorgi, Nicolas Nicolaou, Chryssis Georgiou, Antonio Fernández Anta, Theophanis Hadjistasi, Efstathios Stavrakis
ACM Trans. Storage. Volume 22 , ACM. March 2026
On the Scalability of Access and Mobility Management Function: The Localization Management Function Use Case
Domenico Scotece, Giuseppe Santaromita, Claudio Fiandrino, Luca Foschini, Domenico Giustiniano
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. February 2026
Sustainable Spectrum Crowdsensing
Yijing Zeng, Bangya Liu, Yilong Li, Domenico Giustiniano, Suman Banerjee
IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking. 10.1109/TON.2026.3650867. January 2026
Robust network scale-up method estimators
Sergio Díaz-Aranda, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Jose Aguilar, Rosa Elvira Lillo, Antonio Fernández Anta
Social Networks. 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.08.002. Volume 84 , North-Holland. January 2026
Magazine Articles (1)
On AI Verification in Open RAN
Rahul Soundrarajan, Claudio Fiandrino, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'oro, Leonardo Bonati, Tommaso Melodia
IEEE Communications Magazine. January 2026
Conference and Workshop Papers (27)
Bridges to Self: Silent Web-to-App Tracking on Mobile via Localhost
Tim Vlummens, Aniketh Girish, Nipuna Weerasekara, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Acar Gunes, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Usenix Security Symposium. Baltimore, MD, USA. August 2026
Index-only Backdoor Vetting for Secure Federated PEFT of Large Language Models
Javad Dogani, Devriş İşler, Nikolaos Laoutaris
International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea. July 2026
NeuroFlexMLP: a Low Complexity MLP Architecture for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
Pablo Fernández, Claudio Fiandrino, Marco Fiore, Joerg Widmer
Mediterranean Artificial Intelligence and Networking. Palermo, Italy. July 2026
Quantifying the Robustness of Smart Street Parking Assignment to Sensor Noise
Behafarid Hemmatpour, Javad Dogani, Nikolaos Laoutaris
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. Athens, Greece. July 2026
On the Effects of Online Black-Box Attacks against Mobile Network Capacity Forecasters under Temporal Constraints
Steven Jesús Paz, Claudio Fiandrino, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Mediterranean Artificial Intelligence and Networking Conference. Palermo, Italy. June 2026
Pair-Fi: Integrity Code Protected Secure Device Pairing via SDR-Enabled Wi-Fi Chips on Smartphones
Jakob Link, Florentin Putz, Matthias Hollick
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks. Saarbrücken, Germany. June 2026
Soil Moisture Sensing through Phase Measurements in Analog Backscatter Systems
Vincenzo Gentile, Domenico Giustiniano, Dayrene Frómeta
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. Bologna, Italy. June 2026
Exploring the Viability of Automated Heuristic Design for 5G LDPC Decoding
Reza Namvar, José Gallego, Albert Banchs, Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore
International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. June 2026
SemanticDFL: Similarity-Aware Pull-based Personalized Decentralized Federated Learning
Javad Dogani, Mostafa Khastkhodaei, Farshad Khunjush, Nikolaos Laoutaris
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.. June 2026
Disentangling Simultaneous Spatiotemporal Events in Mobile Network Traffic Data: The Case of the 2025 UEFA Champions League Final
Maximo Pirri, Diego Madariaga, Zbigniew Smoreda, Marco Fiore
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference. Delft, Netherlands. June 2026
Physical Limitations to the Accuracy of Range-based Localization and Sensing
Andrea Bedin, Joerg Widmer, Pablo Fernández, Claudio Fiandrino
International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. June 2026
MULTI-FI: Enhancing Wi-Fi Sensing Accuracy via Multi-view and Context Fusion
Iñaki Bravo, Claudio Fiandrino
European Wireless. Rimini, Italy. June 2026
Mind the Gap: Liquidity Poisoning Attacks on Multihop Cross-Chain Arbitrage
Prerna Arote
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Brisbane, Australia. June 2026
Conflict Mitigation of xApps and Interoperability of O-RAN Components: The ORIGAMI Approach
Md Arifur Rahman, Alexis Duque, Nadezda Chukhno, Bartosz Niznik, Marco Gramaglia, Andres Garcia-Saavedra
Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit). Málaga, Spain. June 2026
Estimating Target Doppler in Unsynchronized Multistatic ISAC Deployments with Mobile Nodes
Zaman Bhalli, Michele Rossi, Joerg Widmer, Marco Canil
International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. June 2026
Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies
Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen, Oliver Gasser, Dennis Trautwein
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. June 2026
Exploiting Multi-Core Parallelism in Blockchain Validation and Construction
Arivarasan Karmegam, Lucianna Kiffer, Antonio Fernández Anta
International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms. Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2026
QoE Modeling in Volumetric Video Streaming: A Short Survey
Mojtaba Mozhganfar, Masoumeh Khodarahmi, Daniele Lorenzi, Mahdi Dolati, Farzad Tashtarian, Ahmad Khonsari, Christian Timmerer
IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium. Rome, Italy. May 2026
k-scale: k-Anonymizing Millions of Trajectories
Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Tokyo, Japan. May 2026
SIA: Symbolic Interpretability for Anticipatory Deep Reinforcement Learning in Network Control
Mohammaderfan Jabbari, Abhishek Duttagupta, Claudio Fiandrino, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'oro, Michele Polese, Marco Fiore, Tommaso Melodia
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Tokyo, Japan. May 2026
A Longitudinal Study of 5G NSA/SA Infrastructure and User Adoption from an MNO Perspective
Antonio Boiano, Maximo Pirri, Diego Madariaga, Nadezda Chukhno, Cezary Ziemlicki, Zbigniew Smoreda, Alessandro Enrico Cesare Redondi, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Tokyo, Japan. May 2026
A First Look at Operational RAN Updates and Their Impact on Carrier Traffic Demands and Prediction
Antonio Boiano, Nadezda Chukhno, Zbigniew Smoreda, Alessandro Enrico Cesare Redondi, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Tokyo, Japan. May 2026
Blind 5G NR LEO Initial Access Receiver
Chen Jaminon-De Roeck, Otim Timothy, Giuseppe Santaromita, Domenico Giustiniano
EuCNC & 6G Summit. Malaga, Spain. April 2026
Spectrum & RAN Sharing: A Measurement-based Case Study of Commercial 5G Networks in Spain
Rostand A. K. Fezeu, Lilian Coelho De Freitas, Eman Ramadan, Jason Carpenter, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer, Zhi-Li Zhang
IEEE DySPAN. Washington, DC, USA. April 2026
Can’t Hide Your Stride: Inferring Car Movement Patterns from Passive TPMS Measurements
Yago Lizarribar, Alessio Scalingi, Domenico Giustiniano, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Gerome Bovet, Vincent Lenders
IEEE Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference. Switzerland. March 2026
Accelerating Emergency Location and Response in 5G and Beyond Networks
Alessio Scalingi, Domenico Giustiniano, Francesco Pigato
Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. Atlanta, USA. February 2026
A Unified Hybrid Terminal for Augmented Positioning
Francesco Pigato, Giuseppe Santaromita, Timothy Otim, Jon Lejardi, Domenico Giustiniano
Winter School on AI for 6G Communications. C. de Pérez del Toro, 1, 35002 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain. January 2026
Conference and Workshop Posters & Demos (5)
Demo: ISAC Real-Time Experimentation Platform (Demo)
Rafael Ruiz, Marco Canil, Jesus Omar Lacruz, Joerg Widmer
ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. Cambridge, UK. June 2026
Breaking Sandwich MEV in ERC-20 DeFi via Context-Aware Directional Constraints (Poster)
Prerna Arote
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Brisbane, Australia. June 2026
Robustness of Smart Parking Assignment Under Realistic Sensor Noise (Poster)
Behafarid Hemmatpour, Javad Dogani, Nikolaos Laoutaris
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems. Saint-Malo, France. May 2026
On the Sub-Terahertz 6G+ Cellular System Requirements for Near-Field Operation (Poster)
Olga Chukhno, Andrea Bedin, Nadezda Chukhno, Antonella Molinaro, Marco Fiore, Dmitri Moltchanov
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Tokyo, Japan. May 2026
Interpreting Anticipatory Deep Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Mobile Network Control (Poster)
Mohammaderfan Jabbari, Abhishek Duttagupta, Claudio Fiandrino, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D’oro, Michele Polese, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Tokyo, Japan. May 2026