I work on wireless and ad-hoc networks — how groups of devices keep talking to each other when the link they depend on goes away.
MSc Computer Science, Internet, Mobile and Security track, University of Padua. Currently looking for a funded PhD position in networking starting in 2027.
Decentralized self-healing in drone swarms. When a drone loses its link to the base station, the swarm has to notice and reorganize itself into a multi-hop relay chain — with no central coordinator, and without GPS. The drones localize by UWB time-of-flight trilateration and reposition under a virtual spring-damper formation law.
The interesting part is where it breaks. Formation control that assumes each node knows its own position degrades once that assumption is relaxed, which is the problem I'm working on now with my supervisor: how a relay chain should be placed when the nodes placing it are themselves uncertain about where they are.
| Multi-Base Swarm Network Self-Healing | C++ simulation of the protocol above — UWB PHY, ACK-based reachability detection, flooding-based hop discovery, multi-hop relay formation. Dockerized, with batch campaigns and a written report. |
| CPS & IoT Security | A distributed anomaly-based intrusion detection system for RPL on Contiki-NG/Cooja, reproducing Farzaneh et al. (2019), plus a sliding-window variant and an analytical detection blind spot the original doesn't cover. Also a reproduction of the Tractor Beam adaptive GPS spoofing attack (Noh et al., 2019) against ArduCopter SITL. |
| Methods & Models for Combinatorial Optimization | The drilling-sequence problem as a TSP: an exact Gavish–Graves flow formulation solved with the CPLEX C API, against a 2-opt tabu search with double-bridge kicks. 50 seeded instances, 10–100 holes, timed campaigns at 0.1/1/10/60 s. |
| RINA on Kubernetes | The IRATI RINA stack deployed over Talos Linux with KubeVirt and Multus — multi-node DIF enrollment, and a RINA vs TCP/IP performance comparison. |
| homelab | The Kubernetes cluster the above gets tested on. Terraform, Talos, GitOps. |
Wireless and ad-hoc networking · UWB ranging and localization · routing and relay protocols · RPL and low-power IoT security · network simulation and measurement
📍 Padua, Italy