Northeastern University Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Lab
Davide Villa

Davide Villa

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Engineering

Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University

Office: 641A6 EXP, 815 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02120
Mail: 409 Dana Research Center, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115

Email: villa.d@northeastern.edu

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Biography

Davide is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, under Prof. Tommaso Melodia. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering and his M.S. in Embedded Computing Systems cum Laude from University of Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in 2015 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 till 2020, he worked as a Research Scientist in the embedded systems and networks group at Raytheon Technologies (former United Technologies Research Center) in Cork, Ireland. His research interests focus on 5G-and-beyond cellular networks, software-defined networking, O-RAN, and channel modeling.

Research Interests

  • 5G and beyond Cellular Networks

  • Software-defined Networking

  • O-RAN

Publications

Articles in Journals

  • D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, C. Robinson, L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, T. Melodia, "Colosseum as a Digital Twin: Bridging Real-World Experimentation and Wireless Network Emulation," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, in press, 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • J. Groen, S. D’Oro, U. Demir, L. Bonati, D. Villa, M. Polese, T. Melodia, K. Chowdhury, "Securing O-RAN Open Interfaces," under review, 2024.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • D. Villa, I. Khan, F. Kaltenberger, N. Hedberg, R. Soares da Silva, A. Kelkar, C. Dick, S. Basagni, J. M. Jornet, T. Melodia, M. Polese, and D. Koutsonikolas, "An Open, Programmable, Multi-vendor 5G O-RAN Testbed with NVIDIA ARC and OpenAirInterface," Proc. of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • A. Sheshashayee, M. Bordin, P. Brach del Prever, D. Villa, H. Cheng, C. Petrioli, T. Melodia, S. Basagni, "Experimental Evaluation of the Performance of UAV-assisted Data Collection for Wake-up Radio-enabled Wireless Networks," under submission, 2023.

  • D. Villa, D. Uvaydov, L. Bonati, P. Johari, J. M. Jornet, and T. Melodia, "Twinning Commercial Radio Waveforms in the Colosseum Wireless Network Emulator," Proc. of the 17th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2023), Madrid, Spain, October 2023. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, P. Johari, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "CaST: A Toolchain for Creating and Characterizing Realistic Wireless Network Emulation Scenarios", Proc. of the 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2022), Sydney, Australia, October 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, S. D'Oro, S. Mohanti, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, D. Villa, S. Shrivastava, C. Tassie, K. Yoder, A. Bagga, P. Patel, V. Petkov, M. Seltser, F. Restuccia, A. Gosain, K.R. Chowdhury, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "Colosseum: Large-Scale Wireless Experimentation Through Hardware-in-the-Loop Network Emulation," Proc. of IEEE Intl. Symp. on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Virtual Conference, December 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • D. Villa, CK Lin, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, "On-demand updates after a node failure in a wireless network", Proc. of IEEE 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Letterkenny, Ireland, June 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

Patents

  • P. Johari, T. Melodia, M. Polese, L. Bonati, D. Villa, "Smart and Real-time Digital Twins for Open, Programmable and Virtualized Wireless Network Systems", US Patent Application 63/593,233, October 2023.

  • CK Lin, D. Villa, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, "Adaptive multipath routing failure recovery in wireless network", US Patent 11,457,506, December 2019.

  • D. Villa, CK Lin, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, "On-demand table and route update after a node failure in a wireless network", US Patent 11,451,469, August 2019.

  • D. Villa, CK Lin, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, "Broadcast delivery techniques in a wireless network", US Patent 11,825,386, August 2019.

  • CK Lin, D. Villa, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, A. Tiwari, "Method and system for broadcasting data in wireless network", US Patent 11,716,176, June 2019.

  • CK Lin, D. Villa, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, A. Tiwari, "Method and system for data transfer in a Bluetooth Low Energy network", US Patent 11,546,096, June 2019.

  • CK Lin, D. Villa, A. Kuenzi, M. Lang, A. Tiwari, "Robust multipath routing methods in wireless network", US Patent 11,729,696, November 2018.

Service

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024
    • IEEE International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT), 2024

  • Peer Reviewer in IEEE, ACM and Elsevier journal and conferences

    • IEEE Communications Magazine
    • IEEE Access
    • Computer Communications
    • IEEE ICCCN
    • IEEE WCNC
    • IEEE LANMAN
    • IEEE CNERT
    • ACM WiNTECH
    • ACM HotMobile

  • Conference Organization

    • Colosseum Young Gladiators school, 2023 [link]
    • Colosseum Young Gladiators school, 2022 [link]
    • Colosseum Young Gladiators school, 2021 [link]

Thesis

  • D. Villa, "Service-Guarantee Cross-Layered: A robust and reliable protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks", M.S. Thesis, University of Pisa & Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies & United Technologies Research Center, December 2018. [link]

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