Quality and policy assurance in critical distributed systems

• Didattica erogata dall'AA 2019/2020 al 2021/2022 (2022)
• Contributor in 2021 for the NSF Award Number 1647084, titled "Resilient Virtual Path Management for Scalable Data-intensive Computing at Network-Edges", while collaborating with Dr.Flavio Esposito. (2021)
• Participation to PosterDay 2021 for the both audience: companies and students. The presentation for the companies event is available at https://youtu.be/Azj3XjxdOhI, while the presentation for students is attached. The links for the event for two events are as follows: http://www.phd-dauin.polito.it/phd-day-for-companies-2021.html and http://www.phd-dauin.polito.it/phd-poster-day-2021.html (2022)
• Disseminazione dei risultati della ricerca durante PitchD, January 27, 2021. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYFkudGwtb0 (2021)
• Contributor in 2021 in the collaboration with Futurewei Technologies Inc for the project "Management of Distributed Edge Infrastructures for Integration of Machine Learning and Network Virtualization via New IP". (2021)
• Participation in My Research in Three Minutes 2020 (V Edizione). Attached is the candidates' list. (2020)
• Contributor in 2020 for the NSF Award Number 1836906, titled "A Knowledge-Defined Platform for Real-Time Management of Transmissions and Computations at Network Edge", while collaborating with Dr.Flavio Esposito. (2021)
• Contributor in 2020 for the NSF Award Number 1647084, titled "Resilient Virtual Path Management for Scalable Data-intensive Computing at Network-Edges", while collaborating with Dr.Flavio Esposito. (2021)
• Contributor in 2019 for the NSF Award Number 1647084, titled "Resilient Virtual Path Management for Scalable Data-intensive Computing at Network-Edges", while collaborating with Dr.Flavio Esposito. (2021)
• Participation to PosterDay 2020 for the both audience: companies and students. The presentation for the companies event is available at https://youtu.be/5CKRnTmDpgE, while the presentation for students is attached. The links for the two events are as follows: http://www.phd-dauin.polito.it/phddayforcompanies2020.html and http://www.phd-dauin.polito.it/phddayforall2020.html. (2020)
• 1st prize in the 2nd year PHD award competition 2021 (2022)

• Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente

Master of Science

• Software Networking. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
• Tecnologie e servizi di rete. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
• Tecnologie e servizi di rete. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
• Tecnologie e servizi di rete. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso

Bachelor of Science

• Computer networks. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
• Reti di calcolatori. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Reti di calcolatori. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
• Reti di calcolatori. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso

• NETGROUP - Computer Networks Group

Projects funded by competitive calls

• EURO-3C - EUROpean 3C Networks for Secure Telco-Cloud-Edge , (2026-2029) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
  UE-funded research - HE - Global Challenges - Digital, Industry and Space

Projects funded by commercial contracts

• Anomaly Detection and Cloud Native Platform for Next-Generation Network Orchestration , (2026-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Analisi e sviluppo soluzioni basate su LLM per applicazioni Telco e Cloud , (periodo sconosciuto) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Security/Network Anomaly Detection , (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Identificazione di anomalie di rete attraverso metodi predittivi ed explainable AI , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research

• Christian Coduri. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (cycle 41, 2025-in progress)
  Research subject: High-Performance Networking for Efficient and Secure AI Applications
  
  Cybersecurity
  Data science, Computer vision and AI
• Federico Rinaudi. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (cycle 40, 2024-in progress)
  Research subject: Management Solutions for Autonomous Networks
  
  Cybersecurity
  Software engineering and Mobile computing
• Doriana Monaco. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (cycle 39, 2023-in progress)
  Research subject: Autonomous management of resilient edge infrastructures via centralized and distributed learning
  
  Controls and system engineering

• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2022)
  Restoring Application Traffic of Latency-Sensitive Networked Systems using Adversarial Autoencoders. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 19, pp. 2521-2535. ISSN 1932-4537
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sacco, Alessio (2022)
  Towards Autonomous Computer Networks in Support of Critical Systems. relatore: MARCHETTO, GUIDO; , 34. XXXIV Ciclo, P.: 165
  Doctoral Thesis
• Angi, Antonino; Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido; Clemm, Alexander (2022)
  Howdah: Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4. In: 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Thessaloniki (GR), 31 October 2022 - 4 November 2022, pp. 46-54. ISBN: 978-3-903176-51-5
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido; Montuschi, Paolo (2022)
  A Self-Learning Strategy for Task Offloading in UAV Networks. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, vol. 71, pp. 4301-4311. ISSN 1939-9359
  Contributo su Rivista
• Angi, Antonino; Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido; Clemm, Alexander (2022)
  NLP4: An Architecture for Intent-Driven Data Plane Programmability. In: 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Milan, Italy, 27 June 2022 - 01 July 2022, pp. 25-30. ISBN: 978-1-6654-0694-9
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Flocco, Matteo; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2021)
  Owl: Congestion Control with Partially Invisible Networks via Reinforcement Learning. In: IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Virtual Event, 10-13 May 2021. ISBN: 978-1-6654-3131-6
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido; Montuschi, Paolo (2021)
  Sustainable Task Offloading in UAV Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, vol. 70, pp. 5003-5015. ISSN 0018-9545
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2021)
  Resource Inference for Sustainable and Responsive Task Offloading in Challenged Edge Networks. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, vol. 5, pp. 1114-1127. ISSN 2473-2400
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2021)
  On Control and Data Plane Programmability for Data-Driven Networking. In: 2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2021), Paris, 6-10 June 2021, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-6654-4006-6
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Flocco, Matteo; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2021)
  Supporting Sustainable Virtual Network Mutations with Mystique. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 18, pp. 2714-2727. ISSN 1932-4537
  Contributo su Rivista
• Khalid, Aman; Esposito, Flavio; Sacco, Alessio; Smart, Steven C. (2021)
  EdgeEcho: An Architecture for Echocardiology at the Edge. In: 2021 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Izmir, Turkey, 25-29 October 2021, pp. 412-416. ISBN: 978-1-6654-2457-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Flocco, Matteo; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2020)
  An architecture for adaptive task planning in support of IoT-based machine learning applications for disaster scenarios. In: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 160, pp. 769-778. ISSN 0140-3664
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2020)
  RoPE: An Architecture for Adaptive Data-Driven Routing Prediction at the Edge. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT, vol. 17, pp. 986-999. ISSN 1932-4537
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2020)
  A Federated Learning Approach to Routing in Challenged SDN-Enabled Edge Networks. In: 2020 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Ghent, Belgium, Belgium, 29 June-3 July 2020, pp. 150-154
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2020)
  Resource Inference for Task Migration in Challenged Edge Networks with RITMO. In: 2020 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Virtual Event, 9-11 November 2020, pp. 1-7. ISBN: 978-1-7281-9486-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido; Kolar, Grant; Schwetye, Kate (2020)
  On Edge Computing for Remote Pathology Consultations and Computations. In: IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, vol. 24, pp. 2523-2534. ISSN 2168-2194
  Contributo su Rivista
• Sacco, Alessio; Marchetto, Guido; Sisto, Riccardo; Valenza, Fulvio (2020)
  Work-in-Progress: A Formal Approach to Verify Fault Tolerance in Industrial Network Systems. In: 2020 16th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS), Porto, Portugal, 27-29 April 2020, pp. 1-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sacco, Alessio; Esposito, Flavio; Marchetto, Guido (2020)
  A Distributed Reinforcement Learning Approach for Energy and Congestion-Aware Edge Networks. In: 2020 16th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Virtual Event, November 2020, pp. 546-547. ISBN: 9781450379489
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Tao, Xu; Flavio, Esposito; Sacco, Alessio; Marchetto, Guido (2019)
  A Policy-Based Architecture for Container Migration in Software Defined Infrastructures. In: 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Parigi, June 2019, pp. 198-202
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Ventrella, Agnese V.; Flavio, Esposito; Sacco, Alessio; Flocco, Matteo; Marchetto, ... (2019)
  APRON: an Architecture for Adaptive Task Planning of Internet of Things in Challenged Edge Networks. In: 2019 IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Coimbra, Portugal, 4-6 November 2019, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-172814832-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)

• Adaptive Congestion Control Using Online Reinforcement Learning. international Patent
  Inventors: Alessio Sacco