2026 · IEEE Workshop on 6G AI-RAN

Predicting Conflict Impact on Performance in O-RAN

A method that predicts how much conflicts among O-RAN applications will degrade network performance, using profiling data and weighting each application by the frequency of its control actions.

March 2026 · Pietro Brach del Prever, Niloofar Mohamadi, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Łukasz Kułacz, Piotr Jaworski, Adrian Kliks, Heiko Lehmann, Tommaso Melodia
2025 · IEEE Workshop on Terahertz Communications

Pointing-Error-Induced Fading in an Open-Loop THz Uplink with Hardware Impairments

A mathematical model of a real antenna tracking system, including motion latency and velocity limits, quantifies how mechanical pointing errors degrade a THz uplink during LEO satellite passes and yields design guidelines for high-frequency ground stations.

October 2025 · Pietro Brach del Prever, Paolo Testolina, Ahmad Masihi, Sergey Petrushkevich, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia, Josep M. Jornet
2025 · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

PACIFISTA: Conflict Evaluation and Management in Open RAN

PACIFISTA profiles O-RAN applications in a sandbox and combines hierarchical graphs with statistical models to detect conflicts and gauge their severity before deployment, showing that even xApps with similar goals can cost users 16% of throughput.

October 2025 · Pietro Brach del Prever, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Maria Tsampazi, Heiko Lehmann, Tommaso Melodia
2025 · US Patent Office

Methods for Detecting, Evaluating, and Mitigating Conflicts in Open RAN Systems

A patented method that profiles network-control applications in simulation, predicts whether they will conflict and how severely, and decides which applications can safely be deployed together.

July 2025 · Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia, Pietro Brach del Prever, Michele Polese
2025 · IEEE Communications Magazine

5G-CT: Automated Deployment and Over-the-Air Testing of End-to-End Open Radio Access Networks

An automation framework built on OpenShift and GitOps that deploys an end-to-end, O-RAN-compliant 5G network in seconds and has run months of over-the-air tests without human intervention.

January 2025 · Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro, Pietro Brach del Prever, Tommaso Melodia
2024 · IEEE BSN 2024

Demo: Multi-Modal Seizure Prediction System

SeizNet fuses implantable and wearable sensor data in deep-learning models that run at the edge, predicting epileptic seizures with over 97% accuracy within the size and energy budget of an implantable device.

October 2024 · Ali Saeizadeh, Pietro Brach del Prever, Douglas Schonholtz, Raffaele Guida, Emrecan Demirors, Jorge M. Jimenez, Pedram Johari, Tommaso Melodia
2024 · WIPO

Intelligent Network for Beyond Line of Sight Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A patented network architecture in which an edge-computing orchestrator inside the Open RAN instantiates applications on demand to control autonomous vehicles beyond line of sight.

July 2024 · Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia, Michele Polese, Leonardo Bonati, Matteo Bordin, Pietro Brach del Prever
2024 · IEEE VTC Spring 2024

Experimental Evaluation of the Performance of UAV-assisted Data Collection for Wake-up Radio-enabled Wireless Networks

Field and simulated experiments with a drone collecting data from wake-up-radio sensor nodes, showing that adaptive route planning beats a fixed path on every metric and that wake-up radios extend network lifetime by orders of magnitude over duty cycling.

June 2024 · Abhimanyu V. Sheshashayee, Matteo Bordin, Pietro Brach del Prever, Davide Villa, Hai Cheng, Chiara Petrioli, Tommaso Melodia, Stefano Basagni
2023 · Environmental Science Proceedings

Automatic and Non-Invasive Monitoring of Water Stress in Vineyards

Ground sensors and satellite imagery are fused into a georeferenced map of vine water stress, giving farmers contact-free monitoring of crop health; validated with a prototype in a working vineyard.

January 2023 · Pietro Brach del Prever, Gabriele Balducci, Alice Ballestra, Carlo Ghiglione, Laura Mascheretti, Margherita Molinari, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Valter Carvelli, Chiara Corbari, Stefano Invernizzi, Stefano Mariani
2022 · Politecnico di Torino

Cellular Networks Support for Real-Time Control of UAVs

A feasibility study of controlling drones beyond visual range over commercial cellular networks, showing that the Colosseum hardware-in-the-loop emulator reproduces real-network behavior closely enough to serve as a testbed for new UAV features.

January 2022 · Pietro Brach del Prever