Publications

Papers published from our research activities

  • 2026
    • Emilio Paolini, Andrea Pinto, Luca Valcarenghi, and Flavio Esposito. Programmable In-Network Aggregation for Communication-Aware Federated Learning in 5G RANs. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 23:5885–5899, 2026. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2026.3697723. Bibtex
    • Xu Tao, Jackson Butcher, Simone Silvestri, Flavio Esposito, and Sajal K. Das. iCrop+: On-Device AI for Crop Disease Detection with Adaptive Offloading over LoRa. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, published online February 6, 2026. doi: 10.1145/3795791. Bibtex
    • Shamim Yazdani, Noah Guzinski, George Torres, Gaurav Panwar, Reza Tourani, and Satyajayant Misra. Mitigating Gradient Leakage in Asynchronous Federated Learning via Orthogonal Obfuscation. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Newark, Delaware, September 2026. Bibtex
    • Nexhi Sula, Nafiza Tabassoum, Jie Hou, Reza Tourani, and Han Wang. Privacy-Preserving Split Learning via Noise Adaptive Representation Training. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Newark, Delaware, September 2026. Bibtex
    • Nafiza Tabassoum, Shamim Yazdani, Zhen Guo, Jie Hou, Han Wang, and Reza Tourani. Unveiling the Unseen: Exploring Membership Inference Leakage via the Lens of Explainability. IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Boca Raton, Florida, November 2026 (to appear). Bibtex
    • Tanzil Bin Hassan, Kevin S. Chan, Fikadu Dagefu, Jonathan Ashdown, Flavio Esposito, and Francesco Restuccia. Multi-TAB: Multi-View Inference at the Edge with Resource-Aware Split Computing. 27th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Bologna, Italy, June 2026. Best Paper Award. doi: 10.1109/WoWMoM69805.2026.00022. Bibtex
  • 2025
    • Chiara Camerota, Madi Babaiasl, Nadia Shakoor, and Flavio Esposito, Early Detection and Management of Crop Pests Using Quadruped Robotic Systems: Challenges and Open Problems. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Converged Communication, Computing, and Control for Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems (C4CPS), held in conjunction with the 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring), Oslo, Norway, 17–20 June 2025. Invited Paper.
    • F. A. Lopes, V. Sagan, S. Sarkar, A. Stylianou, and F. Esposito. Geospatial Time Machine: A Generative Model to Enhance Spectral-Temporal Data Resolution. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3552629.
    • Francesco Todino, Tommaso Pecorella, and Flavio Esposito, A Multi-Metric Approach in AODVv2: Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Security for MANETs. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Budapest, Hungary, June 2025.
    • Alessandro Sangiorgi, Andrea Pinto, Reza Tourani, and Flavio Esposito, Mitigating De-authentication DoS Attacks in 802.11 via eBPF and XDP, In Proc. IEEE Conf. Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Budapest, Hungary, June 2025 (short paper).
    • Andrea Pinto, Alessandro Masci, Alessio Sacco, Guido Marchetto, and Flavio Esposito, Optimizing Model Pruning in Decentralized Learning Networks with DFL-Trim, In Proc. IEEE Conf. Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Budapest, Hungary, June 2025.
    • Javier Palomares, Chiara Camerota, Flavio Esposito, Estefania Coronado, Cristina Cervelló-Pastor, and Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui. Taming Bandwidth Bottlenecks in Federated Learning via ECN-based Gradient Compression. In Proc. of 2025 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2025), Bologna, Italy, Oct. 2025.
    • Francesco Todino, Tommaso Pecorella, Charles Perkins, and Flavio Esposito, AODVv2 in ns-3: Implementation and Early Results, Proceedings of the International Conference on ns-3 (ICNS3), Osaka, Japan, 19–21 August 2025.
    • Emilio Paolini, Andrea Pinto, Flavio Esposito, and Luca Valcarenghi. Energy Consumption of Quantized Federated Learning in Optical-Wireless Networks. In Proc. of 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2025), Barcelona, Spain, July 6–10, 2025 (Invited Paper). Bibtex
    • Abhinav Kumar, George Torres, Noah Guzinski, Gaurav Panwar, Reza Tourani, Satyajayant Misra, Marcin Spoczynski, Mona Vij, Nageen Himayat. LATTEO: A Framework to Support Learning Asynchronously Tempered with Trusted Execution and Obfuscation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04601, 2025. Bibtex
    • Mohammad Amir Salari, Abhinav Kumar, Federico Rinaudi, Reza Tourani, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito. Privacy Analysis of Oblivious DNS over HTTPS: A Website Fingerprinting Study. In IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2025. **Awarded Best Paper** ⭐ Bibtex
    • Nexhi Sula, Abhinav Kumar, Han Wang, Jie Hou, Reza Tourani. Silver Linings in the Shadows: Harnessing Membership Inference for Machine Unlearning. IEEE Conference on Communication and Network Security (CNS), 2025. Bibtex
    • Zhen Guo, Abhinav Kumar, Reza Tourani. Persistent Backdoor Attacks in Continual Learning. In Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium, pages 6379–6397, 2025. Bibtex
  • 2024
    • Emilio Paolini, Andrea Pinto, Luca Valcarenghi, Nicola Andriolli, Luca Maggiani, and Flavio Esposito. Efficient distributed learning over lossy wireless networks. In Proceedings of the 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. DOI: 10.23919/CNSM62983.2024.10814440. Bibtex
    • Chiara Camerota, Lorenzo Pappone, Tommaso Pecorella, and Flavio Esposito. Addressing data security in IoT: minimum sample size and denoising diffusion models for improved malware detection. In Proceedings of the 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. DOI: 10.23919/CNSM62983.2024.10814607. Bibtex
    • Elizabeth Liri, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Koushik Kar, and Flavio Esposito. Sensing Together: Cooperative Task Adaptation and Scheduling for IoT-Nets using Renewable Energy. In Proc. of the 2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Seoul, Korea (South), September 22, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/MASS62177.2024.00048. Bibtex
    • Xu Tao, Jackson Butcher, Simone Silvestri, and Flavio Esposito. iCrop: Enabling High-Precision Crop Disease Detection via LoRa Technology. In Proc. of The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2024), July 29–31, 2024, Big Island, Hawaii, USA (invited paper). DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN61486.2024.10637527. Bibtex
    • Sariboz, Emrah, Reza Tourani, Roopa Vishwanathan, and Satyajayant Misra. PEPPER: Privacy-prEserving, auditable, and fair Payment based resource discovery at the PERvasive edge. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 1447–1462, 2024. DOI: 10.1145/3634737.3637679. Bibtex
    • Li C, Kumar A, Guo Z, Hou J, Tourani R. Unveiling the Unseen: Exploring Whitebox Membership Inference through the Lens of Explainability. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01306. 2024 Jul 1. Bibtex
    • Kumar, A., Aguilera, M.A.G., Tourani, R., and Misra, S. A Generative Framework for Low-Cost Result Validation of Machine Learning-as-a-Service Inference. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1246–1260), 2024. DOI: 10.1145/3634737.3657015. Bibtex
    • Muhammad Zawish, Paul Albert, Flavio Esposito, Steven Davy, and Lizy Abraham. Energy-Efficient Uncertainty-Aware Biomass Composition Prediction at the Edge. In proc. of 5th IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshop on Vision for Agriculture (V4A), Seattle, WA, June 17–24, 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.11230. Bibtex
    • Sagan V, Coral R, Bhadra S, Alifu H, Al Akkad O, Giri A, Esposito F. Hyperfidelis: A Software Toolkit to Empower Precision Agriculture with GeoAI. Remote Sensing, 16(9):1584, Apr 29, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/rs16091584. Bibtex
    • Sourav Bhadra, Vasit Sagan, Supria Sarkar, Maxwell Braud, Todd C. Mockler, Andrea L. Eveland. PROSAIL-Net: A transfer learning-based dual stream neural network to estimate leaf chlorophyll and leaf angle of crops from UAV hyperspectral images. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 210, 2024, Pages 1–24. DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.02.020. Bibtex
    • Nurzaman Ahmed, Flavio Esposito, and Nadia Shakoor. Bridging IoT Education Through Activities: A Game-Oriented Approach with Real-time Data Visualization. In Proc. of IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference 2024, Princeton, NJ, March 9, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/ISEC61299.2024.10665136. Bibtex
    • Lopes, F. A., Esposito, F., Sagan, V. PlantPlotGAN: A Physics-Informed Generative Adversarial Network for Plant Disease Prediction. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024. DOI: 10.1109/WACV57701.2024.00691. Bibtex
  • 2023
    • Yang, D., Kumar, A., Ray, S., Wang, W., Tourani, R. IoT Sentinel: Correlation-based Attack Detection, Localization, and Authentication in IoT Networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN58024.2023.10230209. Bibtex
    • Dougherty, S., Kumar, A., Hou, J., Tourani, R., MTabakhi, A. A Stealthy Inference Attack on Split Learning with a Split-Fuse Defensive Measure. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Orlando, FL, USA, October 2–5, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/CNS59707.2023.10288661. Bibtex
    • Ahmed, N., Esposito, F., Okafor, O., Shakoor, N. SoftFarmNet: Reconfigurable Wi-Fi HaLow Networks for Precision Agriculture (to appear in IEEE CloudNet 2023).
    • Wells, K., Lopes, F. A., Sagan, V., Esposito, F. A multifaceted benchmarking of GAN architectures on generating synthetic satellite imagery. IEEE 52nd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), St. Louis, MO, USA, September 27–29, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/AIPR60534.2023.10440718. Bibtex