Lorenzo Bertizzolo

Candidate for Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Research Assistant

Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University

Office: 460 ISEC, 805 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02120
Mail: 409 Dana Research Center, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115
Email: bertizzolo.l@northeastern.edu

Biography

Lorenzo earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, under Prof. Tommaso Melodia in 2021. Previously, he earned his B.S. and his M.S. in Computer and Communication Networks Engineering with honors from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. In 2019, he was a Research Intern at AT&T Labs Research in Bedminster, NJ, and then a collaborator working on integrating UAV communications into the next generation cellular networks. In 2020, he was a Software Engineer Intern at Google in the Network Infrastructure Team in Sunnyvale, CA. In 2021, he joined Apple as a Wireless Systems Engineer.

For more up-to-date information, refer to my Personal website.

Research

Cross-layer and Cross-domain Optimization for Spectrum Access
Software-defined Networking for Wireless
Non-terrestrial 5G/6G UAV Networks
MIMO communications
Software Defined Radios, Wireless testing platform design

Publications

Articles in Journals

L. Bertizzolo, T. X. Tran, J. Buczek, B. Balasubramanian, Y. Zhou, R. Jana, and T. Melodia, "Streaming from the Air: Enabling Drone-sourced Video Streaming Applications on 5G Open-RAN Architectures," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]
H. Cheng, L. Bertizzolo, S. D'Oro, J. Buczek, T. Melodia, and E. S. Bentley "Learning to Fly: A Distributed Deep-Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software-Defined UAV Network Control," IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] [VIDEO]
Z. Guan, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "WNOS: Enabling Principled Software-Defined Wireless Networking," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1391-1407, Jun. 2021. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, A. Al-Shawabka, S. D'Oro, F. Restuccia, and T. Melodia, "Arena: A 64-antenna SDR-based Ceiling Grid Testing Platform for Sub-6 GHz 5G-and-Beyond Radio Spectrum Research," Computer Networks, vol. 181, Nov. 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Bonati, S. D'Oro, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "CellOS: Zero-touch Softwarized Open Cellular Networks," Computer Networks, vol. 180, Oct. 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]

Articles in Conference Proceedings

J. Buczek, L. Bertizzolo, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, "What is A Wireless UAV? A Design Blueprint for 6G Flying Wireless Nodes," Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), Oct. 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] [Design]
M. Polese, L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, A. Gosain, and T. Melodia, "An Experimental mmWave Channel Model for UAV-to-UAV Communications," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets), London, UK, Sep. 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] [VIDEO] [dataset]
L. Bertizzolo, S. D'Oro, L. Ferranti, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, T. Melodia and S. Pudlewski "SwarmControl: An Automated Distributed Control Framework for Self-Optimizing Drone Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Jul. 2020 (AR: 20%). [pdf] [bibtex] [VIDEO]
L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "CoBeam: Beamforming-based Spectrum Sharing With Zero Cross-Technology Signaling for 5G Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Jul. 2020 (AR: 20%). [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Bertizzolo, T. X. Tran, B. Amento, B. Balasubramanian, R. Jana, H. Purdy, Y. Zhou and T. Melodia "Live and Let Live: Flying UAVs Without Affecting Terrestrial UEs," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), Austin, TX, Mar. 2020. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Bertizzolo and S. D'Oro "Poster: A Software-defined Control Approach for Autonomous UAV Networks," AUVSI XPONENTIAL, Oct. 2020. [pdf]
L. Bertizzolo, M. Polese, L. Bonati, A. Gosain, M. Zorzi and T. Melodia, "mmBAC: Location-aided mmWave Backhaul Management for UAV-based Aerial Cells," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets), Los Cabos, Mexico, Oct. 2019. [pdf] [bibtex] [VIDEO]
L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "Arena: A 64-antenna SDR-based Ceiling Grid Testbed for Sub-6 GHz Radio Spectrum Research," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019. Best Paper Award [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "Demo: Arena: A 64-antenna SDR-based Ceiling Grid Testbed for Sub-6 GHz Radio Spectrum Research," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), Los Cabos, Mexico, Oct. 2019. [pdf] [bibtex]
Z. Guan, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "Demo Abstract: WNOS: Software-defined Generation of Distributed Optimal Control Programs for Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI, Apr 2018. [pdf] [bibtex]
Z. Guan, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "WNOS: An Optimization-based Wireless Network Operating System," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Symp. on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Los Angeles, USA, June 2018 (AR: 17%). [pdf] [bibtex]

White Papers

J. Kusuma et al. "TIP Channel Sounder Program Results Summary Report," in Telecom Infra Project (TIP) White Paper, Aug 2020. [pdf]
S. G. Sanchez, M. Polese, L. Bonati, L. Bertizzolo, A. Gosain, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, "mmWave Measurement Campaign using Terragraph Channel Sounders," in Telecom Infra Project (TIP) White Paper, May 2019. [pdf]

Service

Journal Reviewer

Conference Reviewer

Thesis

Ph.D. Thesis. " Software-Defined Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: From Indoor Cells to Non-Terrestrial UAV Networks ", under the supervision of Prof. Prof. Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, USA, Jun. 2021.
M.S. Thesis. "De-anonymization in on-line social networks: the impact of correlation between social graphs", under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Leonardi and Prof. Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, Oct. 2015.