Lorenza Giupponi, and Biljana Bojovic, Mobile Networks Department, CTTC, Spain

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Lorenza Giupponi is a Telecom engineer from University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2002) and a PhD from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (2007). She joined the Radio Communications Group of UPC in 2003 with a fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Education. During 2006 and 2007 she was assistant professor in UPC. In September 2007 she joined the CTTC where she is currently a Senior Researcher in the Mobile Networks Department. Her research experience falls in the area of RAN and spectrum management, self-organizing networks (SON), LTE, NR, NR V2X, coexistence in unlicensed spectrum, O-RAN, mmWave, simulation modelling. Since 2015 she is a member of the Executive Committee of the ns3 consortium. She is the co-recipient of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2010 (IEEE CCNC 2010), of the IEEE third International workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Femto Cells 2011 2011 and of 2018 IEEE Wireless Commun. and Networking Conference best paper awards. Over the years, she has led and participated in multiple EU (in FP6, FP7 and H2020, 5GPPP), national (she was the Principal Investigator of three projects funded by the Spanish national research program) and industrial projects (funded by the WiFi Alliance, Spidercloud Wireless, Interdigital, National Institute of Standards and Technologies, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.).

Biljana Bojovic received Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad in June 2008. In January 2007, she joined Schneider Electric DMS (Novi Sad, Serbia), as an internship student and later as a software engineer working on an integration of smart grid systems in close collaboration with Siemens (Minneapolis, Minnesota). In September 2009, she joined CTTC to pursue her Ph.D. on Machine Learning Techniques for Cognitive Wireless Networking following the Ph.D. program at the Networking Engineering Department at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona. During the spring semester 2013, she was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Since August 2015 she has been working as a research engineer at the Mobile Networks Department at CTTC and was involved in different industrial research projects focusing on 4G and 5G technologies for unlicensed spectrum, i.e., LAA, LTE-U, and NR-U. She is developer and maintainer of LTE and NR modules of the ns-3 network simulator. ​

Giuseppe Piro, and Sergio Martiradonna, Telecommunication at Politecnico di Bari

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Giuseppe Piro is an Assistant Professor in Telecommunication at Politecnico di Bari since November 2018. In March 2018, he held the habilitation as "Associate Professor" in Telecommunications Engineering, according to the National Scientific Habilitation procedure (ASN 2016-2018). He received a first level degree and a second level degree (both cum laude) in Telecommunications Engineering from "Politecnico di Bari", Italy, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from "Politecnico di Bari", Italy, on March 2012. His main research interests include secure Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, 5G and B5G systems, data-centric and programmable architectures for the Future Internet, nano-networks, Internet models and network measurements. His research activity is documented in more than 100 peer-reviewed international journals and conference papers, accounting for more than 4200 citations and a H-index of 25 (Scholar Google). At the time of this writing, he is the local investigator of the PRIN project no. 2017NS9FEY entitled “Realtime Control of 5G Wireless Networks: Taming the Complexity of Future Transmission and Computation Challenges”. Moreover, he is involved in the European EU H2020 GUARD project and in the European Space Agency (ESA) project funded under the contract no. 4000129810/20/NL/CLP. He is also involved in Italian MIUR PON projects (Pico\&Pro, FURTHER, AGREED, RAFAEL) and in Apulia Region (Italy) Research project INTENTO. He founded 5G-air-simulator, LTE-Sim, and NANO-SIM projects and is a developer of Network Simulator 3. In the past, he was involved in EU H2020 projects, like FANTASTIC-5G, BONVOYAGE, and symbIoTe, in the “Apulia Israel joint Accelerator (AIJA)” project, and in the Italian MISE project entitled “Pre-commercial trials of 5G technology using spectrum in the 3.6 GHz-3.8 GHz range” - Area Milano (bando MISE), coordinated by Vodafone. He is also regularly involved as member of the TPC of many prestigious international conferences. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor for Sensors journal (MDPI), Internet Technology Letter (Wiley) and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal (Hindawi).

 

Sergio Martiradonna received a Double Degree in Internet Engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and from Universitè de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France, in 2017. He is currently a Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Information Engineering at Politecnico di Bari, Italy. Previously, he was a researcher with the CNIT (Italian University Consortium for Telecommunications). In the past, he was involved in EU H2020 project symbIoTe as well as in the following National project: “Pre-commercial trials of 5G technology using spectrum in the 3.6 GHz-3.8 GHz range” - Area Milano (bando MISE), coordinated by Vodafone Italia. He is one of the main developers of both LTE-Sim and 5G-air-simulator projects. His research interests include 5G, 4G and NB-IoT networks, as well as system-level mobile network simulations.