Peppino Fazio

Ca' Foscari University of Venice | UNIVE · Department of Molecular Science and Nanosystems

Alzheimer-Perusini’s disease (AD) is a severe neurodegenerative pathology mostly characterized by memory loss, with aging as a significant risk factor. While normal aging involves non-pathological changes in the brain, pathological aging involves the formation of neuronal plaques, leading to neuronal death and the macroscopic shrinkage of major bra...

Network emulators are essential in testing network systems, applications, and protocols. Emulators bridge the gap between simulation setups that lack realism in results and real-world trials that are accurate but often expensive, non-reproducible, and uncontrollable. This paper describes the simulations and emulations of the national Czech QKD netw...

The complexity of our brains can be described as a multi-layer network: neurons, neural agglomerates, and lobes. Neurological diseases are often related to malfunctions in this network. We propose a conceptual model of the brain, describing the disease as the result of an operator affecting and disrupting the network organization. We adopt the form...

The onset and progression of a neurological disease can often be explained in terms of brain-network alteration. They can be formalized as the action of an operator representing the disease, the so-called K -operator, acting on the network. The healing process can thus be seen as the inverse of the disease mechanism. However, perfect healing is oft...

Some of the most deployed infrastructures nowadays are Overlay Networks (ONs). They consist of hardware and software components designed to establish private and secure communication channels, typically over the Internet. ONs are among the most reliable technologies for achieving this objective and represent the next-generation solution for secure...

Secure communication makes the widespread use of telecommunication networks and services possible. With the constant progress of computing and mathematics, new cryptographic methods are being diligently developed. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a promising technology that provides an Information-Theoretically Secure (ITS) solution to the secret-...

Nowadays, some of the most well-deployed infrastructures are Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Overlay Networks (ONs). They consist of hardware and software components designed to build private/secure channels, typically over the Internet. They are currently among the most reliable technologies for achieving this objective. VPNs are well-establis...

In modern network security setups, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are crucial elements that play a key role in protecting against unauthorized access, malicious actions, and policy breaches. Despite significant progress in IDS technology, two of the most major obstacles remain: how to avoid false alarms due to imbalanced data and accurately fore...

The brain is a complex network, and diseases can alter its structures and connections between regions. Therefore, we can try to formalize the action of diseases by using operators acting on the brain network. Here, we propose a conceptual model of the brain, seen as a multilayer network, whose intra-lobe interactions are formalized as the diagonal...

Network emulators play an important role in testing network systems, applications, and protocols. Emulators bridge the gap between simulation setups that lack realism in results and real-world trials that are accurate but often expensive, non-reproducible, and uncontrollable. This article presents an extended model of the Quantum Key Distribution N...

Swarms of robots can be thought of as networks, using the tools from telecommunications and network theory. A recent study designed sets of aquatic swarms of robots to clean the canals of Venice, interacting with computers on gondolas. The interaction between gondolas is one level higher in the hierarchy of communication. In other studies, pairwise...

In this paper, we investigate an application of the Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS). This technology has emerged as promising and low-cost technology for \(6\mathrm{G}\) networks improving wireless communications by collecting dispersed radio waves and redirecting them to the intended destination users. We characterize the achievable rate when...

Over the last decade, 5G and forthcoming 6G architectures have undergone extensive standardization and preparations for the future. The literature in this field is saturated with studies on predicting mobile trajectories in cellular systems and guaranteeing quality of service and an adequate user experience in these environments. The current study...

Over the last few decades, the classification and prediction of mobility trajectories in dynamic networks have become major research topics. Switching of mobility areas (hand-over) in modern cellular networks is frequent due to restricted coverage area and node speeds (urban, highway, etc.). Accurate management of hand-over events is highly desirab...

Every attempt to access to the Internet through a web browser, email sent, VPN connection, VoIP call, instant message or other use of telecommunications systems involves cryptographic techniques. The most commonly applied technique is asymmetric cryptography, which is generally executed in the background without the user even being aware. It establ...

In this study, we investigate the trade-off between reliability and security in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications systems, considering a UAV-terrestrial network aided by a relay powered by a dedicated power beacon. For this system, we derive the outage probability (OP) under both exact and approximate frameworks and compute the approxima...

With the low integration costs and quick development cycle of all-IP-based 5G+ technologies, it is not surprising that the proliferation of IP devices for residential or industrial purposes is ubiquitous. Energy scheduling/management and automated device recognition are popular research areas in the engineering community, and much time and work hav...

This paper studies a decode-and-forward (DF) full-duplex cooperative relaying network, whereas one transmitter S transmits information to one receiver D via the help of a relay R. In particular, the transmitter can simultaneously transmit energy and information (SWIPT) to relay R using time-switching (TS) method. Then, relay R can utilize the harve...

Because quantum key distribution is a technology for establishing keys for symmetric encryption (preferably one-time pads, but more practically keys for AES or other conventional symmetric cryptography), end-to-end confidentiality or authentication requires a deeper look into network structure and comes with additional assumptions.

Establishing secure cryptographic keys through an untrusted network is a fundamental cryptographic task. While the use of public key infrastructure based on computational intractability assumptions prevail, these solutions remain theoretically breakable. They are under constant threat as computational power continues to increase, new algorithms are...

The basis of all modern networks is device which is able to manage and control network traffic. The fundamental network device is a router that connects at least two networks and has traffic directing functions. From a logical point of view, a router is the intersection of links forming a network. Its task is to accept incoming packets, analyze des...

Modern telecommunications networks are based on packet-switching traffic processing and the methodology by which packets can be delivered using an arbitrary route. However, for some applications, merely finding the route to destination is insufficient. Applications can place multiple parameters in their requests, starting from the time it takes the...

A QKD network can be considered an add-on technology to a standard communication network that provides IT-secure cryptographic keys as a service. As a result, security challenges resulting in the suspension of functional work must be addressed. This study analyzes a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the Key Management System (KMS), one of the criti...

The conceptual composition of a QKD link into quantum and physical channels corresponds to similar connections in the physical world and does not preclude the dual use of fibres as both a classic and quantum channel (in fact, the SECOQC network was built on existing fibre-optic cables). Viewed from a logical perspective, the network consists of mor...

The field of mobility prediction has been widely investigated in the recent past, especially the reduction of the coverage radius of cellular networks, which led to an increase in hand-over events. Changing the cell coverage very frequently, for example, may lead to service disruptions if a predictive approach is not deployed in the system. Althoug...

The development of electronic and optical components has led to greater interest in the application of QKD solutions in everyday life. In this section, we briefly describe the currently attractive trends and approaches for future research in the field of QKD technologies.

Quality of Service (QoS) architecture models the structure and methods of applying QoS mechanisms to satisfy QoS objectives. It is often referred to the QoS model because it uniquely defines which QoS mechanisms (such as those listed in Sect. 2.3) are used and how they are implemented. QoS architecture also defines network traffic processing polici...

Generally, the need for and the type of signaling, or more strictly speaking, the QoS signaling protocol depends on the applied QoS architecture. Here, we distinguish between the signal and the signaling protocol, which in the literature elsewhere are commonly applied as synonyms.

Users’ mobility has a huge impact on the performance of cellular networks. Acknowledge users’ multiple next locations plays an important role in various aspects which can be mentioned as helping the base stations to pre-calculate and allocate the resource to users faster and more efficiently, shortening the duration of the handover process, reducin...

Many studies in literature have shown that the bandwidth of an ongoing flow can dynamically change during multimedia sessions and an efficient bandwidth prediction scheme must be employed in order to guarantee the needed Quality of Service. Many contributions in literature focused on some specific reservation schemes for cellular systems, 3G/4G/5G...

In the current era of mobile communications and next-generation networks, mobility analysis has a key role in guaranteeing the quality of service/experience in the available services. Although a vast amount of work has analyzed mobility from both analytic and stochastic points of view, much of it has focused on a time-based analysis and disregarded...

In this work, we investigate the performance analysis of a device-to-device (D2D) communication network under an eavesdropper E attack. Besides, we assume that E is located in the proximal region where it can overhear the information from the source S. Specifically, S transmits information to the destination D, adopting the power beacon's energy to...

In the present paper, we investigate the performance of the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) based cooperative cognitive radio networks (CCRNs). In particular, the outage probability is derived in the closed-form expressions under the opportunistic partial relay selection. Different from the conventional CRNs in which th...

Mobility is a key aspect of modern networking systems. To determine how to better manage the available resources, many architectures aim to a priori know the future positions of mobile nodes. This can be determined, for example, from mobile sensors in a smart city environment or wearable devices carried by pedestrians. If we consider infrastructu...

Nowadays, the demand for connection between the remote offices of a company, or between research locations, and constantly increasing work mobility (partly due to the current pandemic emergency) have grown hand in hand with the quality and speed of broadband connections. The logical consequence of this scenario is the increasingly widespread use of...

Many studies in literature have shown that the bandwidth of an ongoing flow can dynamically change during multimedia sessions and an efficient bandwidth allocation scheme must be employed. This paper focuses its attention on the management of predictive services in Wireless Infrastructure Dynamic Networks. In particular, two classes of service are...

We present the design for an ultra-low latency and low energy Internet of Things (IoT) network inspired by the emerging cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) wireless communication technique. The IoT network model consists of a source at the center of the network, a near device inside the network, and a far device outside the network. T...

In this study, we examine an emerging Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) network which combines Transmit Antenna Selection (TAS) and Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) protocols. A pre-coding channels matrix was designed to aid the TAS protocol. We deployed a strong user as a relay...

From many years, the methods to defend against Denial of Service attacks have been very attractive from different point of views, although network security is a large and very complex topic. Different techniques have been proposed and so-called packet marking and IP tracing procedures have especially demonstrated a good capacity to face different m...

With the proliferation of connected vehicles, new coverage technologies and colossal bandwidth availability, the quality of service and experience in mobile computing play an important role for user satisfaction (in terms of comfort, security and overall performance). Unfortunately, in mobile environments, signal degradations very often affect the...

In the last decade, the attention on unmanned aerial vehicles has rapidly grown, due to their ability to help in many human activities. Among their widespread benefits, one of the most important uses regards the possibility of distributing wireless connectivity to many users in a specific coverage area. In this study, we focus our attention on thes...

Security performance and the impact of imperfect channel state information (CSI) in underlay cooperative cognitive networks (UCCN) is investigated in this paper. In the proposed scheme, relay R uses non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology to transfer messages e 1 , e 2 from the source node S to User 1 (U 1 ) and User 2 (U 2 ), respectively...

In recent years, noticeable progress has been made in the development of quantum equipment, reflected through the number of successful demonstrations of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology. Although they showcase the great achievements of QKD, many practical difficulties still need to be resolved. Inspired by the significant similarity betwee...

Security in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) is a critical challenge. The purpose of this work is to model and evaluate a dynamic IoT security system based on a generic IoT edge network in which nodes exchange messages through the Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. This work aims to increase MQTT security by mitigating data t...

A QoS routing to select the best paths among Drones supporting incoming calls and multimedia traffic in emergency or critical situations is proposed. In situations where drones' teams are requested to cover areas where mobile users can need to communicate under the absence of network infrastructure, a self-organized on-the fly network becomes an es...

In the last years, vehicular networking has grown up in terms of interest and transmission capability, due to the possibility of exploiting the distributed communication paradigm in a mobile scenario, where moving nodes are represented by vehicles. The different existing standards for vehicular ad-hoc networks, such as DSRC, WAVE/IEEE802.11p, have...

The paper proposes a bio-inspired coordination protocol for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) management in the agriculture domain. In precision agriculture the presence of parasites or the sudden climatic changes represent an important issue for farmers because of the degradation of crops and cultivation quality. Then, the use of the new technologie...

When the connection to Internet is not available during networking activities, an opportunistic approach exploits the encounters between mobile human-carried devices for exchanging information. When users encounter each other, their handheld devices can communicate in a cooperative way, using the encounter opportunities for forwarding their message...

In recent years, noticeable progress has been made in the development of quantum equipment, reflected through the number of successful demonstrations of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology. Although they showcase the great achievements of QKD, many practical difficulties still need to be resolved. Inspired by the significant similarity betwee...

Nowadays, the research on vehicular computing enhanced a very huge amount of services and protocols, aimed to vehicles security and comfort. The investigation of the IEEE802.11p, Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) and Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) standards gave to the scientific world the chance to integrate new services...

The strengthening of security solutions for computer networks increases the interests in new methods for the transfer of hidden information. In this paper, we considered the use of routing protocols for transmission of steganographic messages. We evaluated such approach using proactive and reactive routing protocols by analyzing the amount of sent...

Recently, the interest of research is going to be focused on the emerging vehicular ad-hoc networks paradigm. In these networks, vehicles communicate with each other and have the possibility of exploiting a distributed approach, typical of ad-hoc networks, which allow mobile nodes (vehicles) to communicate with each other. Thanks to the different s...

Nowadays, the interest in mobile communications is growing rapidly in a significant manner due to the high level of devices development, which permits the achievement of good objectives in terms of QoS for user satisfaction during active data flows. The increasing mobile client populations use different mobile devices to access the wireless medium...

Given the recent computation technologies and dedicated systems able to analyze huge amounts of “real-world” data and to extract information from it, the application possibilities reached in wireless mobile systems have significantly increased. The availability of mobile information, directly extracted from mobility traces, can be used to enhance t...

As research in quantum key distribution network technologies grows larger and more complex, the need for highly accurate and scalable simulation technologies becomes important to assess the practical feasibility and foresee difficulties in the practical implementation of theoretical achievements. In this paper, we described the design of simplified...

In wireless networking the main desire of end-users is to take advantage of satisfactory services, in terms of QoS, especially when they pay for a required need. Many efforts have been made to investigate how the continuity of services can be guaranteed in QoS networks, where users can move from one cell to another one. The introduction of a predic...

The employment of an appropriate Bandwidth Management Scheme (BMS) is needed in wireless networking, given that the main desire of end-users is to take advantage of satisfactory services, in terms of Quality of Service (QoS), especially when a particular charge is paid to meet the requirement. In this paper the authors are interested in investigati...

In the last years the physical security in transportation systems is becoming a critical issue due to the high number of accidents and emergency situations. With the increasing availability of technological applications in vehicular environments researchers aimed at minimizing the probability of road accidents. In this paper, we propose a new platf...

A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes which communicate without a fixed backbone or centralized infrastructure. Due to the frequent mobility of nodes, routes connecting two distant nodes may change. Therefore, it is not possible to establish a priori fixed paths for message delivery through the network. Because of its importance,...

The article deals with a design of a system that provides tools for creation of automatically provisioned embedded communication system and its components. As the key feature of the BEESIP platform (Bright Efficient Embedded Solution for IP Telephony) a unique building and provisioning system of the network devices has been developed allowing the a...

This work focuses on the return channel resource allocation in the DVB-RCS/RCS2 system for mobile terminals. A continuous carrier (CC) operation mode based on DVB-S2/S2X is considered and investigated. The paper focuses on the possibility of transmitting simultaneously in multifrequency???time division multiple access (MF-TDMA) or single channel pe...