Andrea Lacava

Postdoc Research Fellow, Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

a.lacava@northeastern.edu

You can find a detailed list about my publications at my Scopus author page and into my Google Scholar profile.

Please refer also to my LinkedIn profile for the recent activities.

Interests

Open RAN (O-RAN) Architecture
5G and beyond cellular networks
AI for Cellular Networks
Security of the Cellular Networks

Academia

Northeastern University

2020 - 2025

Ph.D. Computer Engineering

supervised by Prof. Tommaso Melodia

Sapienza, University of Rome

2020 - 2025

Ph.D. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

supervised by Prof. Francesca Cuomo

Sapienza, University of Rome

2018 - 2020

M.Sc. Cybersecurity

News

News about projects and researches I am involved

Technical Chair at the 3rd RESTART Tech Camp on 5G and Open RAN , Palermo University, Oct. 2025.
I’ve been selected for the Laurel and Scroll Honor Society – Class of 2025 , Northeastern University, May 2025.
Technical Chair at the 2nd RESTART Tech Camp on 5G and Open RAN , Politecnico di Milano, Sep. 2024.
Lighting talk about Online DRL with ns-O-RAN and Gymnasium at WNS3 2024 , Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2024.
Tutorial about Online DRL with ns-O-RAN and Gymnasium at IFIP/IEEE Networking 2024 , Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 2024.

Publications

This list is indicative and does not fully reflect the latest status of my works, which is shown in my Google Scholar and my Scopus profiles.

dApps: Enabling real-time AI-based Open RAN control, 2025, Journal of Computer Networks, doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111342

Andrea Lacava , Leonardo Bonati , Niloofar Mohamadi , Rajeev Gangula , Florian Kaltenberger , Pedram Johari , Salvatore D’Oro , Francesca Cuomo , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia

doi github preprint project presentation tutorial

Programmable and customized intelligence for traffic steering in 5G networks using Open RAN architectures, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, doi: 10.1109/TMC.2023.3266642

Andrea Lacava , Michele Polese , Rajarajan Sivaraj , Rahul Soundrarajan , Bhawani Shanker Bhati , Tarunjeet Singh , Tommaso Zugno , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

arxiv preprint github ns-3-mmwave-oran github ns-o-ran ieee ns-o-ran presentation tutorial

Securing Bluetooth Low Energy networking: An overview of security procedures and threats, 2022, Journal of Computer Networks

Andrea Lacava , Valerio Zottola , Alessio Bonaldo , Francesca Cuomo , Stefano Basagni

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Intrusion detection system for bluetooth mesh networks: Data gathering and experimental evaluations, 2021, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)

Andrea Lacava , Emanuele Giacomini , Francesco D’Alterio , Francesca Cuomo

code pdf

BLUES: A self-organizing BLE mesh-network paradigm for IoT environments, 2020, IEEE 21st International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM)

Emanuele Giacomini , Francesco D'Alterio , Andrea Lacava , Francesca Cuomo

code pdf

Exploiting Edge Computing for Adaptive Data Update in Internet of Things Networks, 2019, AmI (Workshops/Posters)

Andrea Petroni , Andrea Lacava , Pierluigi Locatelli , Gianluigi Nero , Marcello Pediconi , Francesca Cuomo

code pdf

Demo abstract: BE-Mesh: bluetooth low energy mesh networking, 2019, 2019 IEEE INFOCOM Demo (INFOCOM 2019 Demo)

Andrea Lacava , Gianluigi Nero , Pierluigi Locatelli , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

code pdf play store

Interests

Academia

News

News about projects and researches I am involved

Publications

This list is indicative and does not fully reflect the latest status of my works, which is shown in my Google Scholar and my Scopus profiles.

Projects

Current and past projects I joined