Alessio Sacco, D. Monaco, G. Marchetto and P. Montuschi. “Dealing With Challenged IoT Networks in Hierarchical Federated Learning” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 18, pp. 36979-36992, 2025. Bibtex

A. Pinto, A. Masci, Alessio Sacco, G. Marchetto and F. Esposito. “Optimizing Model Pruning in Decentralized Learning Networks with DFL-Trim” in 2025 IEEE 11th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2025. Bibtex

M.A. Salari, A. Kumar, F. Rinaudi, R. Tourani, Alessio Sacco and F. Esposito. “Privacy Analysis of Oblivious DNS over HTTPS: a Website Fingerprinting Study” in 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems, 2025. Bibtex

D. Monaco, Alessio Sacco, D. Spina, F. Strada, A. Bottino, T. Cerquitelli, G. Marchetto. “Real-time latency prediction for cloud gaming applications” in Computer Networks, vol. 264, 111235, 2025. Bibtex

C. Serra, E. Paolini, R. Immich, Alessio Sacco, G. Marchetto and F. Esposito. “Flecto: Cross-Layer Adaptive Congestion Control with Reinforcement Learning” in 2025 IEEE 26th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2025. Bibtex

C. Zilli, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. “ClearNET: Enhancing Transparency in Opaque Network Models using eXplainable AI (XAI) for Efficient Traffic Engineering” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3617-3631, 2025. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco and G. Marchetto. “LLNeT: An Intent-Driven Approach to Instructing Softwarized Network Devices Using a Small Language Model” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3403-3418, 2025. Bibtex

D. Monaco, Alessio Sacco, C. Casetti and G. Marchetto. “Scheduling Latency-Sensitive Tasks in the Cloud Continuum with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning” in NOMS 2025 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp. 1-9, 2025. Bibtex

D. Monaco, N. Antonijević, S. Duttagupta, D. Singelée, Alessio Sacco, E. Marin, Bart Preneel. “PathSafe: Secure Path Verification in Software-Defined Networks” in NOMS 2025 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp. 1-9, 2025. Bibtex

L. Pappone, Alessio Sacco and F. Esposito. “Mutant: Learning Congestion Control from Existing Protocols via Online Reinforcement Learning” in 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025. Bibtex

O. Aouedi, T.H. Vu, Alessio Sacco, D.C. Nguyen, K. Piamrat, G. Marchetto, Quoc-Viet Pham. “A Survey on Intelligent Internet of Things: Applications, Security, Privacy, and Future Directions” in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1238-1292, 2025. Bibtex

X. Tao, C. Cumini, Alessio Sacco, S. Silvestri, S.C. Montserrat and G. Marchetto. “FertilizeSmart: Exploiting IoT and Differential Evolution for Optimizing Crop Fertilization” in 2025 20th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), pp. 1-8, 2025. Bibtex

F. Gervino, A. Eirale, M. Chiaberge, Alessio Sacco, G. Marchetto and C. Casetti. “MARS: Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environment Exploration” in 2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), pp. 1-6, 2025. Bibtex

L. Guo, F. Fiorella, A. Pinto, Alessio Sacco, M. Mahmoud and F. Esposito. “MAESTRO: Supporting Real-Time Segmentation Networks on Surgical Systems via Edge Computing” in Medical Imaging with Deep Learning - Short Papers, 2025. Bibtex

L. Pappone, Alessio Sacco and F. Esposito. “On Traffic Matrix Estimation via Super-Resolution and Federated Learning” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2024. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. “Routing with ART: Adaptive Routing for P4 Switches With In-Network Decision Trees” in GLOBECOM 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 3291-3296, 2024. Bibtex

L. Pappone, C. Zilli, Alessio Sacco and F. Esposito. “ResCue: Inferring Fine-Grained Traffic Matrices via Distributed Deep Residual Networks” in 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), pp. 1-9, 2024. Bibtex

G.F. Pittalà, C. Zilli, N. Di Cicco, G. Davoli and Alessio Sacco. “Recovering Missing Monitoring Data to Enhance Service Provisioning in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum” in 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2024. Bibtex

C. Chiaro, D. Monaco, Alessio Sacco, C. Casetti and G. Marchetto. “Latency-aware Scheduling in the Cloud-Edge Continuum” in NOMS 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp. 1-5, 2024. Bibtex

C. Zilli, Alessio Sacco, D. Monaco, O. Okafor, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. “Inferring Visibility of Internet Traffic Matrices Using eXplainable AI” in NOMS 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp. 1-6, 2024. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. “ROAR: Routing Packets in P4 Switches With Multi-Agent Decisions Logic” in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking, 2024. Bibtex

X. Tao, D. Monaco, Alessio Sacco, S. Silvestri and G. Marchetto. “Delay-Aware Routing in Software-Defined Networks Via Network Tomography and Reinforcement Learning” in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 3383-3397, 2024. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and A. Clemm. “NAIL: A Network Management Architecture for Deploying Intent into Programmable Switches” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 28-34, 2024. Bibtex

A. Angi, L. Nedoshivina, Alessio Sacco, S. Braghin and M. Purcell. “A Perspective on LLM Data Generation with Few-shot Examples: from Intent to Kubernetes Manifest” in Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Industry Track), Vienna, Austria, 2025. Bibtex

D. Monaco, Alessio Sacco, C. Casetti and G. Marchetto. “Scheduling Latency-Sensitive Tasks in the Cloud Continuum with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning” in NOMS 2025 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2025. Bibtex

O. Aouedi, Alessio Sacco, L. U. Khan, D. C. Nguyen and M. Guizani. “Federated Learning for Human Activity Recognition: Overview, Advances, and Challenges” in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 7341-7367, 2024. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, A. Angi, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘P4FL: An Architecture for Federating Learning with In-Network Processing'' in IEEE Access, vol.11, pp. 103650-103658, Sep. 2023. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and A. Clemm. ‘‘RLVNA: a Platform for Experimenting with Virtual Networks Adaptations over Public Testbeds'' in 2023 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2023. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and A. Clemm. ‘‘Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4 With Howdah'' in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM),vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 295-309, 2023. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, A. Angi, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘HINT: Supporting Congestion Control Decisions with P4-driven In-Band Network Telemetry" in Proc. of 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 05-07 June 2023, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Invited Paper. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco and G. Marchetto.‘‘Towards Autonomous Computer Networks in Support of Critical Systems" in Proc. of 2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposiu (NOMS), 08-12 May 2023, Miami, FL, USA. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Completing and Predicting Internet Traffic Matrices Using Adversarial Autoencoders and Hidden Markov Models'' in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol.20, no.3, pp. 2244-2258, April 2023. Bibtex

D. Monaco, Alessio Sacco, E. Alberti, G. Marchetto and F. Esposito. ‘‘A Collaborative and Distributed Learning-Based Solution to Autonomously Plan Computer Networks'' in Proc. 2023 26th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN) (pp. 1-5). 06-09 March 2023, Paris, France. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Hide & Seek: Traffic Matrix Completion and Inference Using Hidden Information'' in 2023 IEEE 20th Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) (pp. 529-534). 8-11 January 2023, Las Vegas, NV, USA. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and A. Clemm. ‘‘Howdah: Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4'' in Proc. 2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) (pp. 46-54). 31 October-4 November 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Partially Oblivious Congestion Control for the Internet via Reinforcement Learning'' in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1644-1659. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Restoring Application Traffic of Latency-Sensitive Networked Systems using Adversarial Autoencoders'' in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 2521-2535. Bibtex

O. Aouedi, Alessio Sacco, K. Piamrat and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Handling Privacy-Sensitive Medical Data With Federated Learning: Challenges and Future Directions'' in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 790-803. Bibtex

A. Angi, Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and A. Clemm. ‘‘NLP4: An Architecture for Intent-Driven Data Plane Programmability'' in Proc. 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) (pp. 25-30). WIN workshop. 27 June-1 July, Milan, Italy. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and Paolo Montuschi.‘‘A Self-Learning Strategy for Task Offloading in UAV Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 4301-4311, April 2022. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Owl: Congestion Control with Partially Invisible Networks via Reinforcement Learning" in Proc. of The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '21), 10-13 May 2021, Online Event. Bibtex

Aman Khalid, F. Esposito, Alessio Sacco, Steven C Smart. ‘‘EdgeEcho: An Architecture for Echocardiology at the Edge" in Proc. of 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 412-416, 25-29 October 2021, Online Event. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘On Control and Data Plane Programmability for Data-Driven Networking" in Proc. of 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 7-10 June 2021, Online Event. Invited Paper. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Resource Inference for Sustainable and Responsive Task Offloading in Challenged Edge Networks''' in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1114-1127, September 2021. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto and Paolo Montuschi.‘‘Sustainable Task Offloading in UAV Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 5003-5015, April 2021. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘Supporting Sustainable Virtual Network Mutations with Mystique" in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol.18, no.3, pp. 2714-2727, February 2021. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘A Distributed Reinforcement Learning Approach for Energy and Congestion-Aware Edge Networks" in Proc. of The 16th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Poster, 1-4 December 2020, Online Event. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto. ‘‘Resource Inference for Task Migration in Challenged Edge Networks with RITMO" in Proc. of The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet ’20),(pp. 1-7). 9-11 November 2020, Online Event. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, G. Marchetto, G. Kolar, and K. Schwetye.‘‘On Edge Computing for Remote Pathology Consultations and Computations" in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), 24 (9), 2523-2534, July 2020. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘An Architecture for Adaptive Task Planning in Support of IoT-based Machine Learning Applications for Disaster Scenarios" in Computer Communication, 160, 769-778, July 2020. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘A Federated Learning Approach to Routing in Challenged SDN-Enabled Edge Networks" in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). Short paper. 29 June-3 July 2020, Online Event. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, G. Marchetto, R. Sisto and F. Valenza.‘‘Work-in-Progress: A Formal Approach to Verify Fault Tolerance in Industrial Network Systems" in Proc. of 16th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS). WiP. 27-29 April 2020, Online Event. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito and G. Marchetto.‘‘RoPE: An Architecture for Adaptive Data-Driven Routing Prediction at the Edge" in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 986-999, June 2020. Bibtex

A. Ventrella, F. Esposito, Alessio Sacco, M. Flocco, G. Marchetto and Srikanth Gururajan.‘‘APRON: an Architecture for Adaptive Task Planning of Internet of Things in Challenged Edge Networks" in Proc. of The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet ’19), 4-6 November 2019, Coimbra, Portugal. Bibtex

Alessio Sacco, F. Esposito, P. Okorie and G. Marchetto.‘‘LiveMicro: An Edge Computing System for Collaborative Telepathology" in Proc. of The 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge ’19), July 9th, Renton, WA. Bibtex

X. Tao, F. Esposito, Alessio Sacco and G. Marchetto. ‘‘A Policy-Based Architecture for Container Migration in Software Defined Infrastructures." in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). Short paper. 24-28 June 2019, Paris, France. Bibtex