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Selected Refereed Conference Publications

• Lorenzo Pappone, Alessio Sacco, and Flavio Esposito. ‘‘Mutant: Learning Congestion Control from Existing Protocols via Online Reinforcement Learning". in Proc. of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, April 2025.

• Alessio Sacco, Matteo Flocco, Flavio Esposito, and Guido Marchetto. ‘‘Owl: Congestion Control with Partially Invisible Networks via Reinforcement Learning", In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2021). May 10-13, Virtual Conference.

• Michele Berno, Flavio Esposito, Michele Rossi. ‘‘Elastic Function Chain Control for Edge Networks under Reconfiguration Delay and QoS Requirements". In Proc. of IEEE 8th International Conference on Mobile Cloud (MobileCloud 2020). April 14-16, 2020, Oxford, UK. Best Paper Award.
  Bibtex. Presentation by M. Berno.

• Chiara Contoli, Fabio Palumbo, Flavio Esposito, Franco Callegati and Antonio Pescape’. ‘‘Flock: A Live Migration Protocol for SDN Controllers". In Proc. of The 5th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2019). Dallas, TX, 12-14 Nov, 2019. Best Fast-track Paper Award.

• Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Princewill Okorie and Guido 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

• Gabriele Castellano, Flavio Esposito and Fulvio Risso.
  ‘‘A Distributed Orchestration Algorithm for Edge Computing Resources with Guarantees." In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019) 29 Apr - 2 May 2019. Paris, France. Bibtex

• Dmitrii Chemodanov, Prasad Calyam and Flavio Esposito
  ‘‘A Near Optimal Reliable Composition Approach for Geo-Distributed Latency-Sensitive Service Chains." In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019) 29 Apr - 2 May 2019. Paris, France. Bibtex

• Flavio Esposito, Jiayi Wang, Chiara Contoli, Gianluca Davoli, Walter Cerroni and Franco Callegati.
  ‘‘A Behavior-Driven Approach to Intent Specification for Software-Defined Infrastructure Management" In IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN 2018); 27-29 Nov 2018 - Verona, Italy. Runner-up best paper award Bibtex

• Flavio Esposito, “Catena: A Distributed Architecture for Robust Service Function Chain Instantiation with Guarantees”; In Proc. of IEEE 3rd Conf. on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017) Bologna, Italy, 3-5 July 2017. Best Paper Award.
    [PDF] Featured in IEEE Softwarization (July 2017), an IEEE SDN Newsletter

• J.W. Byers, F. Esposito, D. Proseprio and G. Zervas.
  The Hyper-local Economic Impact of Airbnb.
  In: Ninth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR ’13). Lisbon, Portugal, June 27-28, 2013.
  Airbnb Nerd Thanks us for finding a bug in their mobile website.

• F. Esposito, D. Di Paola and I. Matta.
  A General Distributed Approach to Slice Embedding with Guarantees.
  In Proc. of IFIP Networking 2013, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 22-24 May, 2013.
  Best IFIP OMM Award.   [PDF]

• F. Esposito, F. Chiti and R. Fantacci.
  Voice and Data Traffic Classes Management for Heterogeneous Networks Enabled by Mobile Phones, In: Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April 2006.

Selected Journal Publications

• Antonino Angi, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto, and Alexander Clemm. ‘‘NAIL: A Network Management Architecture for Deploying Intent into Programmable Switches" in IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag). Accepted on Nov 1st, 2023 (to appear). Impact Factor (2023): 11.2.

• Zongshun Zhang, Andrea Pinto, Valeria Turina, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta. ‘‘Privacy and Efficiency of Communications in Federated Split Learning" In IEEE Transactions on Big Data, May 2023; doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2023.3280405 Bibtex

• Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto, Grant Kolar and Katherine E. Schwetye. On Edge Computing for Remote Pathology Consultations and Computations. In IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI). Accepted on July 3rd, 2020.
  JCR Impact Factor 5.223. Bibtex

• Vasit Sagan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Paheding Sidike, Kevin Eblimit, Kyle T. Peterson, Sean Hartling, Flavio Esposito, Kapil Khanal, Maria Newcomb, Duke Pauli, Rick Ward, Felix Fritschi, Nadia Shakoor and Todd Mockler. ‘‘UAV-Based High Resolution Thermal Imaging for Vegetation Monitoring, and Plant Phenotyping Using ICI 8640 P, FLIR Vue Pro R 640, and thermoMap Cameras." In Remote Sensing, 2019, 11(3) 330; doi:10.3390/rs11030330 Bibtex Remote Sensing 2021 Best Paper Award

• Dmitrii Chemodanov, Prasad Calyam, Flavio Esposito, Ronald McGarvey, Kannappan Palaniappan, and Antonio Pescape’. ‘‘A Near Optimal Reliable Orchestration Approach for Geo-Distributed Latency-Sensitive SFCs." In IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Accepted on Mar 15th, 2020. Doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2020.2981630
  SCImago Impact factor 2018: 2.47

• Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito and Guido Marchetto.
  ‘‘RoPE: An Architecture for Adaptive Data-Driven Routing Prediction at the Edge". In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM). Accepted on Mar 10th, 2020. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.2980899 (TNSM-2019-02711)
  JRC Impact factor 2018: 3.286

• Gabriele Castellano, Flavio Esposito and Fulvio Risso.
  ‘‘A Service-Defined Approach for Orchestration of Heterogeneous Applications in Cloud/Edge Platforms" In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Accepted (TNSM) on 8 Sept, 2019; doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2941639
  JRC Impact factor 2018: 3.286

• Francesca Nizzi, Tommaso Pecorella, Flavio Esposito, Laura Pierucci and Romano Fantacci.
  IoT Security via Address Shuffling: the Easy Way. In IEEE Internet of Things Journal. doi. 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2892003. Accepted on Jan 10, 2019.
  JRC Impact factor 2018: 5.863.

• Dmitrii Chemodanov, Flavio Esposito, Prasad Calyam and Andrei Sukhov
  A Constrained Shortest Path Scheme for Virtual Network Service Management. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted 7 Aug 2018. Mar 2019, Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages: 127-142. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2018.2865204
  JCR Impact factor 2018: 3.286.

• W. Cerroni and F. Esposito.
  Optimizing Live Migration of Multiple Virtual Machines.
  In: IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing. (Accepted May 2016). Vol. 6 Issue: 4 pp:1096-1109. Oct-Dec 2018. [doi]   [PDF]

• F. Esposito, I. Matta and Y. Wang.
  VINEA: An Architecture for Virtual Network Embedding Policy Programmability.
  In: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Vol PP, Issue 99, Feb. 2016.
  JCR Impact factor 2018: 8.848
    [PDF]

• F. Esposito, D. Di Paola and I. Matta.
  On Distributed Virtual Network Embedding With Guarantees,
  In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (accepted Dec 2014); published: Volume 24, Issue: 1, Feb. 2016) Page(s):569-582. DOI 10.1109/TNET.2014.2375826.
    [PDF] Impact factor: 2.186

• F. Esposito, I. Matta and V. Ishakian.
  Slice Embedding Solutions for Distributed Service Architectures.
  In: ACM Journal of Computing Surveys. Vol. 46, Issue 1, Art. 6, 29 pages. July 2013.
    [PDF]

• F. Esposito, I. Matta, B. Debajyoti and P. Michiardi.
  On the Impact of Seed Scheduling in Peer-to-Peer Networks.
  In: Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 55, Issue 15, July 2011.
    [PDF]

Selected Refereed Workshop Papers

• Kyle Coleman, Flavio Esposito and Rachel Charney.
  Speeding up Children Reunification in Disaster Scenarios via Serverless Computing
  In Proc. of the 2nd Inter. Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC ’17). Pages 5-5, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 11-15, 2017. [PDF]

• F. Esposito and Ibrahim Matta.
  A Decomposition-Based Architecture for Distributed Virtual Network Embedding,
  In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC 2014), Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, USA, August 18, 2014.

• Y. Wang, F. Esposito, and I. Matta.
  Demonstrating RINA using the GENI Testbed.
  In: The Second GENI Research and Educational Experiment Workshop (GREE2013), Salt Lake City, Utah 21-22 March 2013.

Selected Referred Demos and Posters

• Roberto Amoroso, Flavio Esposito, and Maria Luisa Merani. ‘‘Poster: Estimation of Traffic Matrices via Super-resolution and Federated Learning". In Proc. of the ACM 16th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2020). Best Poster Award.

• Flavio Esposito, Jiayi Wang, Thomas Merod, Chiara Contoli, Gianluca Davoli, Walter Cerroni, and Franco Callegati. ‘‘BeA: A Behavior-Driven Architecture for Expressive Intent Specification in Software-Defined Infrastructures". In 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2018), April 9–11, 2018, Renton, WA, USA.

• Mary Hogan and Flavio Esposito, ‘‘A Portfolio Theory Approach to Edge Traffic Engineering via Bayesian Networks”. In Proc. of the 23rd ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM 2017) Poster. Snowbird, Utah, USA. Oct. 2017.

• F. Esposito, Y. Wang, I. Matta and J. Day.
  Dynamic Layer Instantiation as a Service.
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’13), Lombard, IL, 2-5 April, 2013. Demo

Selected Editorials and Technical Reports

• Y. Wang, I. Matta, F. Esposito and J. Day.
  Introducing ProtoRINA: A Prototype for Programming Recursive-Networking Policies.
  Editorial Note at ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (July 2014 Issue of CCR).
    [PDF].

• Y. Wang, F. Esposito, I. Matta and J. Day
  RINA: An Architecture for Policy-Based Dynamic Service Management.
  Nov 2013. Computer Science Department, Boston University.
    [Technical Report BUCS-TR-2013-013].

• Y. Wang, F. Esposito, I. Matta and J. Day,
  Recursive InterNetworking Architecture (RINA) Boston University Prototype Programming Manual.
  Nov 2013. Computer Science Department, Boston University.
    [Technical Report BUCS-TR-2013-014].

• F. Esposito and G. Ferrari Aggradi,
  Testbed for Predicate Routing in DTN over MANET - User Manual.
  Technical Report. Computer Science Department, Boston University. Sept. 2008.
    [PDF].

Ph.D. Thesis

• F. Esposito.
  A Policy-based Architecture for Virtual Network Embedding.
  PhD thesis. Sept. 2013. Computer Science Department, Boston University.