Valerio Frascolla

• PhD, Eletrical Engineering
• Research and Innovation Director at Intel

The forthcoming Metaverse will have to be based on future 6G networks, as 5G/5G-Advanced networks cannot cope with the assumed requirements, especially regarding latency, robustness of connections, and wireless access throughput. Another important aspect missing in current networks is the understanding of the role of human affections in interaction...

In the rapidly evolving domain of satellite communications, integrating advanced machine learning techniques, particularly split learning, is crucial for enhancing data processing and model training efficiency across satellites, space stations, and ground stations. Traditional ML approaches often face significant challenges within satellite network...

Multi-Link Operation (MLO) in Wi-Fi 7 is expected to tangibly boost throughput while lowering transmission latency at the same time. This is very relevant in industrial scenarios and makes MLO suitable, e.g., to support seamless device mobility. Benefits depend on the ability of multi-link devices to select at run-time the best link, among the avai...

This paper outlines a research roadmap of the INTEND project towards the development of a cognitive computing continuum that leverages human-like intelligence for intent-based data operations. The primary objective of this initiative is to create a system that can adapt dynamically to varying contexts by understanding and acting upon the intents of...

In the rapidly evolving domain of satellite communications, integrating advanced machine learning techniques, particularly split learning, is crucial for enhancing data processing and model training efficiency across satellites, space stations, and ground stations. Traditional ML approaches often face significant challenges within satellite network...

Wi-Fi is a very common means for providing wireless access to the Internet, e.g., using the 2.4GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band and more recently also the 6 GHz band via Wi-Fi 6E. Thanks to a chip recently launched by Semtech, in the same 2.4GHz band now can also operate Long Range (LoRa), which is widely used in Internet of Thing...

For the future 6G-enabled massive Internet of Things (mIoT), how to effectively manage spectrum resources to support huge data traffic under the large-scale overlapping caused by the dense deployment of massive devices is the imperative challenge. In this paper, a novel hypergraph interference model is designed, and two reinforcement learning (RL)-...

The European Commission (EC) Digital Decade strategy to gain by 2030 autonomy in the digital economy requires more and more data to be processed in the Cloud-Edge-IoT computing continuum, instead of only in the central cloud. This requires advanced automation and intelligence of the continuum. At the same time, recent breakthroughs in Artificial In...

After first being standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in Release 15, 5th Generation (5G) mobile systems have been rapidly deployed worldwide [...]

Age of information (AoI) is an important metric of information timeliness, which determines digital twin (DT) consistency and energy management precision. However, AoI guarantee in the time-averaged sense is unreliable to avoid the occurrence of extreme event. In this paper, we propose a novel information timeliness metric named ultra-low AoI (ULAo...

Edge computing, which brings computational power and resources close to where the data is generated, is expected to play a crucial role in the evolution of beyond 5G (B5G) communication networks, supporting the evolving demands of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new, stringent and diverse demands of emerging technologies such as extended reali...

Integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial power internet of things (IPIoT) has emerged as a paradigm shift to three-dimensional vertical communication networks for power systems in the 6G era. Computation offloading plays key roles in enabling real-time data processing and analysis for electric services. However, computation offloading in IPIoT st...

p>By removing wire harness, Wi-Fi is becoming increasingly pervasive in every aspect of our lives, in both the consumer and industrial worlds. Besides flexibility, the recent high efficiency and extremely high throughput versions managed to close the performance gap with Ethernet. However, it still lags behind Ethernet for what concerns dependabili...

p>By removing wire harness, Wi-Fi is becoming increasingly pervasive in every aspect of our lives, in both the consumer and industrial worlds. Besides flexibility, the recent high efficiency and extremely high throughput versions managed to close the performance gap with Ethernet. However, it still lags behind Ethernet for what concerns dependabili...

This paper provides an overview of the Wi-Fi technology and its evolution along the years, touching on its inception and then elaborating more in details on the latest three commercial releases, linking the Wi-Fi advancements with the parallel cellular technology evolution towards 6G. Finally, a glimpse on the novelties proposed by the currently un...

Network virtualization allows the coexistence of multiple network slices over a shared physical infrastructure, each delivering a service with own requirements in terms of quality of service, coverage, and time span. Spectrum is an expensive commodity, so it must be managed among these slices in the most efficient way. However, current spectrum sha...

This chapter touches on several aspects related to the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the manufacturing sector, and is split in different sub-chapters, focusing on specific new technology enablers that have the potential of solving or minimizing known issues in the manufacturing and, more in general, in the Indust...

The White Paper covers key areas related to 6G research from a technical, societal, policy and business perspective providing a vision for the future networks and services. In the coming decade, 6G will bring a new era in which billions of things, humans, connected vehicles, robots and drones will generate zettabytes of digital information. 6G will...

6G technology targets to revolutionize the mobility industry by revamping the role of wireless connections. In this article, we draw out our vision on an intelligent, cooperative, and sustainable mobility environment of the future, discussing how 6G will positively impact mobility services and applications. The scenario in focus is a densely popula...

Currently, many countries are facing the problems of aging population, serious imbalance of medical resources supply and demand, as well as uneven geographical distribution, resulting in a huge demand for remote e-health. Particularly, with invasions of COVID-19, the health of people and even social stability have been challenged unprecedentedly. T...

In the Internet of Health Things (IoHT)-based e-Health paradigm, a large number of computational-intensive tasks have to be offloaded from resource-limited IoHT devices to proximal powerful edge servers to reduce latency and improve energy efficiency. However, the lack of global state information (GSI), the adversarial competition among multiple Io...

Spectrum sharing has been recognized as a key component for 5G and beyond wireless networks. Recent trials have revealed the business value of spectrum sharing via the licensed shared access model, wherein both the incumbent and the licensee operators are protected from harmful interference by sharing the available spectrum using long-term spectrum...

This paper describes the ongoing standardization of the new 5G system and the planned next steps in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) groups. Starting with an overview of how 3GPP works, what is meant with 5G Phase 1 and 2 and a clear timeline for ongoing and planned activities are provided. Finally an interesting innovation vector for...

The goal of this work is to propose an energy-efficient algorithm for dynamic computation offloading, in a multi-access edge computing scenario, where multiple mobile users compete for a common pool of radio and computational resources. We focus on delay-critical applications, incorporating an upper bound on the probability that the overall time re...

This paper introduces a new theoretical framework for optimal handover procedures in heterogeneous networks by devising the novel fractional Gittins indices, which are dynamical priorities whose values can be statically associated to the decision states of evolving processes representing handover alternatives. The simple policy of activating at any...

This document is the outcome of a joined working group setup between the two European Technology Platforms, New European Media (NEM) and Networld2020. The objective was to combine expertise from the media sector which brought application requirements and the network domain which brought expertise in 5G. Nine media&content use cases have been identi...

With 5G Phase 1 finalized and 5G Phase 2 recently defined by 3GPP, the mobile communication community is on the verge of deciding what will be the Beyond-5G (B5G) system. B5G is expected to further enhance network performance, for example, by supporting throughput per device up to terabits per second and increasing the frequency range of usable spe...

With 5G Phase 1 finalized and 5G Phase 2 recently defined by 3GPP, the mobile communication community is on the verge of deciding what will be the Beyond-5G (B5G) system. B5G is expected to further enhance network performance, for example, by supporting throughput per device up to terabits per second and increasing the frequency range of usable spe...

A new multi-carrier M-ary differential chaos shift keying system with code index modulation, referred to as CIMMC-M-DCSK, is proposed in this paper. In the proposed CIMMC-M-DCSK system, the reference and information-bearing signals for each subcarrier can be transmitted simultaneously by using the orthogonal sinusoidal carriers, where the informati...

In this paper, we address the problem of dynamic computation offloading with Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), where new requests for computations are continuously generated at each user equipment (UE), and are handled through dynamic queue systems. Building on stochastic optimization tools, we provide a dynamic algorithm that jointly optimize rad...

Following the tremendous success of 2G and 3G mobile networks and the fast growth of 4G, the next generation mobile networks (5G) was proposed aiming to provide infinite networking capability to mobile users. Differentiated from 4G, benefits offered by 5G is much more than the increased maximum throughput. It aims to involve and benefit from many c...

At the verge of the launch of the first commercial fifth generation (5G) system, trends in wireless and optical networks are proceeding toward increasingly dense deployments, supporting resilient interconnection for applications that carry higher and higher capacity and tighter latency requirements. These developments put increasing pressure on net...

Mobile devices, at each new release of the standards and following users’ continuous requests of new services, have to support more and more features, which are also becoming more and more demanding from the computational point of view. As a consequence, being able to fulfil new requirements and at the same time to provide power efficient chips is...

Wireless networks have become in the last years a key enabling technology for cloud-enabled robots. Among those, the usage of WiFi is a first choice due to its almost ubiquitous use nowadays. However, WiFi suffers from crucial issues like spectrum interference, connectivity losses, long delay for client association and high latency handover. This w...

A hierarchical radio resource management scheme using small and macrocells would allow cellular users to reuse and exploit potentially underutilized spectrum portions. To overcome the issue of limited resources that can be allocated to users, one can exploit the spectrum access system (SAS), a technology that enables better allocation of the availa...

This paper focuses on analyzing some key business aspects that arise during the deployment of key novel enabling technologies for 5G systems. Results are taken out of two EU-funded ongoing research projects, namely 5G-MiEdge and Superfluidity, which largely exploit mmWave communications and softwarization concepts for 5G networks. We initially prov...

This chapter delves in detail into the use cases (UCs) widely assumed to be addressed by the 5th generation (5G) wireless and mobile communications system, and the related requirements. It takes into consideration and aggregates the requirements from different bodies like the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Next Generation Mobile Netwo...

The articles in this special section focus on dynamic spectrum management for fifth generation (5G) communications which is expected to continue strong growth in the near future. In the last decade global mobile data traffic has approximately doubled each year, growth that is projected to continue unabated, due mainly to the introduction of new ser...

The stringent requirements defined for 5G systems drive the need to promote new paradigms to the existing cellular networks. Dense and ultra-dense networks based on small cells, together with new spectrum sharing schemes seem to be key enabling technologies for emerging 5G mobile networks. This article explores the vision of the SPEED-5G project, a...

System-on-Chip (SoC) designers face many challenges to improve at the same time performance and energy efficiency, due to the continuous increase of the architecture complexity. Designers use Electronic System Level (ESL) tools and virtual prototyping to face this complexity in the early step of the system design. Power consumption includes dynamic...

With the surge in smartphone sensing, wireless networking, and mobile social networking techniques, mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has become a promising paradigm for 5G networks. An MCS system's service quality heavily depends on the platform, which brings the users under a common cloud with very low delay. Therefore, MCS needs a new platform that brin...

We investigate the performance of a hybrid, opportunistic/underlay Licensed Shared Access (LSA) system, in the presence of Spectrum Sensing (SS) and Channel Estimation (CE) uncertainties, and derive a simple closed form expression for the system's Bit Error Rate (BER). Based on the derived expression, we introduce an optimization problem for optima...

This paper presents the vision and some early results achieved by the EU-funded SPEED-5G project which is part of 5G PPP. It addresses some key challenges of future 5G systems, i.e. a 1000 times higher capacity, a much lower latency and a much improved user quality of experience compared to currently deployed networks. The devised new technologies...

The stringent requirements defined for 5G systems drive the need to promote new paradigms to the existing cellular networks. Dense and ultra-dense networks based on small cells, together with new spectrum sharing schemes seem to be key enabling technologies for emerging 5G mobile networks. This article explores the vision of the SPEED-5G project, a...

This paper presents some key findings w.r.t. the Radio Resource Management (RRM) in wireless Backhaul (BH) of mmWave networks. First, the envisioned design of mmWave backhaul architecture is outlined highlighting the most important newly needed functional blocks and in what they differ from a non-mmWave architectures. Next, the challenges and funct...

In this paper, we present and compare efficient low-power hardware architectures for accelerating the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) in LTE and LTE-Advanced mobile terminals. Specifically, our work proposes the design of two cores: a crypto engine for the Evolved Packet System Encryption Algorithm (128-EEA2) that is based on the AES cipher...

In this paper we present a versatile hardware architecture for accelerating the Long Term Evolution (LTE) integrity protection and confidentiality algorithms based on SNOW3G and ZUC stream ciphers. The proposed design combines both ciphers in a unified configurable hardware accelerator unit and focuses on area and energy consumption reduction, by a...

In this paper we devise and compare several hardware implementations of the confidentiality algorithm that is based on the ZUC stream cipher. First we design and analyze a reference architecture, which reflects a basic implementation of the algorithm, with respect to power and area consumption in order to identify design's bottlenecks. Then differe...

This article provides a detailed profiling of the layer 2 (L2) protocol processing for 3G successor Long Term Evolution (LTE). For this purpose, the most processing intensive part of the LTE L2 data plane is executed on top of a virtual ARM based mobile phone platform. The authors measure the execution times as well as the maximum data rates at dif...

This article provides a detailed profiling of the layer 2 L2 protocol processing for 3G successor Long Term Evolution LTE. For this purpose, the most processing intensive part of the LTE L2 data plane is executed on top of a virtual ARM based mobile phone platform. The authors measure the execution times as well as the maximum data rates at differe...

The introduction of infrastructural heterogeneity is generally perceived as a convenient solution to extend the coverage and the capacity of current wireless networks. An accurate assessment of the advantages and costs of such introduction, however, depends on the availability of adequate simulative models to characterize the network control strate...