Alex Carrega
Ph.D. IT & Network Engineer
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Alex Carrega
Ph.D. IT & Network Engineer
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Alessandro Carrega is a Researcher at TNT-Lab-Lab, a joint initiative between the UniGe's DDITEN department and CNIT. His expertise lies in the intersection of networking, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, with a focus on innovative solutions for modern communication systems.
Dr. Carrega's research portfolio encompasses a wide range of cutting-edge areas, including energy-efficient networking, performance optimization techniques, NFV/SDN, leveraging technologies like OpenFlow, and the secure integration of AI/ML into cybersecurity frameworks. He is a strong advocate for software-defined infrastructure, actively exploring the potential of container orchestration systems like Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as OpenStack to enhance network agility and scalability.
Throughout his career, Dr. Carrega has been a driving force behind numerous successful research projects, contributing significantly to both national and international endeavors. He has been actively involved in several prominent European projects, including H2020 MARE, NEPHELE, HORSE, ASTRID, GUARD, ARCADIA, and INPUT, as well as FP7 IP ECONET, PRIN EFFICIENT, FIRB GreenNet, and FI-Core. His commitment to advancing the field is further evidenced by his active role as a reviewer for leading international journals and conferences within the IEEE and ACM communities.
Dr. Carrega's academic journey has been marked by consistent achievement. He earned his Ph.D. in Green Networking from the University of Genoa, following his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering from the same institution. His dedication to research excellence was recognized in 2010 with the prestigious Best Paper Award at the 3rd International Workshop on GreenCom, co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM. In 2011, he further enriched his research experience as a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar at PSU, where he worked under the guidance of Prof. Suresh Singh and actively participated in the FINE2 Italy-USA collaboration project.
Dr. Carrega's research endeavors extend beyond academia, fostering strong collaborations with industry leaders. He has engaged in fruitful partnerships with prominent companies such as TIM, Broadcom, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei, as well as actively participating in industry forums like GeSI. These collaborations ensure that his research findings have a tangible impact on the evolving landscape of telecommunications and networking technologies.
Publications
Milad Akbari, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega
2025 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), 2025, pp. 1-6
Toward Sustainable O-RAN Deployment: An In-Depth Analysis of Power Consumption
Gianmarco Baldini, Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Chiara Lombardo, Ramin Rabbani
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 9, 2025, pp. 429-444
Nephele - Remote Healthcare Services, Ultrasound Medical Device Dematerialization
Antonio Passalacqua, Giacomo Pedemonte, Silvia Volta, Alessandro Carrega
2025 10th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), 2025, pp. 1-4
Experimental Validation of Classification Methodologies for Multifrequency And PolSAR Images
Alessandro Carrega, Alessandra Luti
Validazione Sperimentale di Metodologie di Classificazione per Immagini SAR Multifrequenza e Polarimetriche, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 2025 Sep 25
A Stochastic Knapsack Model for Energy Efficient Management of Multi-Server Queues
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Chiara Lombardo, Beatrice Siccardi
2024 7th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), 2024, pp. 224-229
Revolutionizing Cloud Security with Programmable Frameworks: a Novel Approach
Alessandro Carrega
2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2024, pp. 681-686
Efficient. Reliable and Secure Framework for the 5G Virtualization of the UltraSound Medical System
Alessandro Carrega, Roberto Bruschi, Raffaele Bolla, Antonio Passalacqua
2024 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom), 2024, pp. 1-3
ePEM: An End-to-End Proactive Secure Connectivity Manager for 6G Orchestrator Solutions
Alessandro Carrega, Ramin Rabbani
2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2024, pp. 1-7
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Eleni Fotopoulou, Constantinos Vassilakis, Ioannis Tzanettis, Chiara Lombardo, Alesssandro Carrega, Roberto Bruschi
2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2023, pp. 429-436
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Chiara Lombardo
2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2022, pp. 1-6
A Reference Architecture for Management of Security Operations in Digital Service Chains
Alessandro Carrega, Giovanni Grieco, Domenico Striccoli, Manos Papoutsakis, Tomas Lima, José Ignacio Carretero, Matteo Repetto
Joanna Kolodziej, Matteo Repetto, Armend Duzha, Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains: Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, pp. 1--31
Automating Mitigation of Amplification Attacks in NFV Services
Matteo Repetto, Gianmarco Bruno, Jalolliddin Yusupov, Guerino Lamanna, Benjamin Ertl, Alessandro Carrega
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 19, 2022, pp. 2382-2396
Monitoring Network Flows in Containerized Environments
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega
Joanna Kołodziej, Matteo Repetto, Armend Duzha, Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains: Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, pp. 32--55
An Architecture to Manage Security Operations for Digital Service Chains
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Riccardo Rapuzzi
Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 115, 2021, pp. 251-266
An Effective and Efficient Approach to Improve Visibility Over Network Communications
Marco Zuppelli, Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, vol. 12, 2021, pp. 89 – 108
Leveraging the 5G Architecture to Mitigate Amplification Attacks
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Guerino Lamanna, Jaloliddin Yusupov, Orazio Toscano, Gianmarco Bruno, Michele Nuovo, Marco Cappelli
7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), IEEE, 2021 Jun, pp. 443-449
Evaluating ML-based DDoS Detection with Grid Search Hyperparameter Optimization
Odnan Ref Sanchez, Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Raffaele Bolla
7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), IEEE, 2021 Jun, pp. 402-408
Feature Selection Evaluation towards a Lightweight Deep Learning DDoS Detector
Odnan Ref. Sanchez, Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Raffaele Bolla, Jane Frances Pajo
International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE, 2021 Jun, pp. 1-6
An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-generation Digital Service Chains
Matteo Repetto, Domenico Striccoli, Giuseppe Piro, Alessandro Carrega, Gennaro Boggia, Raffaele Bolla
Journal of Network and Systems Management (NSM), vol. 29, 2021 May, p. 37
Coupling Energy Efficiency and Quality for Consolidation of Cloud Workloads
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
Computer Networks (ComNet), vol. 174(5), 2020, p. 107210
Programmable Data Gathering for Detecting Stegomalware
Alessandro Carrega, Luca Caviglione, Matteo Repetto, Marco Zuppelli
6th Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), IEEE, 2020 Jun, pp. 422-429
A Novel Cyber-Security Framework Leveraging Programmable Capabilities in Digital Services
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Armend Duzha
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2597, 2020 Apr, pp. 201-211
An Abstraction Layer for Cybersecurity Context
Raffaele Bolla, Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), IEEE, 2019, pp. 214-218
Data Log Management for Cyber-Security Programmability of Cloud Services and Applications
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
1st Workshop on Cyber-Security Arms Race (CYSARM), ACM, 2019, pp. 47-52
An Architecture to Manage Security Services for Cloud Applications
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Guerino Lamanna
4th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Security (ICCCS), IEEE, 2019, pp. 1-8
Automated Security Management for Virtual Services
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Jaloliddin Yusupov, Fulvio Valenza, Fulvio Risso, Guerino Lamanna
Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), IEEE, 2019, pp. 1-2
Towards Novel Security Architectures for Network Functions Virtualization
Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Guerino Lamanna
Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), IEEE, 2019 Nov, pp. 1-5
Energy Efficiency for Edge Multimedia Elastic Applications
Alessandro Carrega, Giancarlo Portomauro, Matteo Repetto, Giorgio Robino
Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTA), vol. 78(1), 2019 Sep, pp. 24739-24764
Improving Efficiency of Edge Computing Infrastructures through Orchestration Models
Raffaele Bolla, Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto, Giorgio Robino
MDPI, Computers, vol. 7(2), 2018, p. 36
Boosting Energy Efficiency and Quality of Service through Orchestration Tools
Alessandro Carrega, Giancarlo Portomauro, Matteo Repetto, Giorgio Robino
IEEE, Cloud Computing, vol. 5(6), 2018, pp. 38-47
Balancing QoS and Power Consumption in Programmable 5G Infrastructures
Alessandro Carrega, Giancarlo Portomauro, Matteo Repetto, Giorgio Robino
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), vol. 29(1), 2018, pp. e3425
Cloud Applications Consolidation through Context Information and Heuristic Optimization
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
28th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), IEEE, 2018, pp. 1-7
Situational Awareness in Virtual Networks: the ASTRID Approach
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto, Fulvio Risso, Stefan Covaci, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Thanassis Giannetsos, Orazio Toscano
7th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), IEEE, 2018, pp. 1-6
OpenStack Extensions for QoS and Energy Efficiency in Edge Computing
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto, Giorgio Robino, Giancarlo Portomauro
3rd International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), IEEE, 2018, pp. 50-57
Towards Prediction of Power Consumption of Virtual Machines for Varying Loads
Humaira Abdul Salam, Franco Davoli, Alessandro Carrega, Andreas Timm-Giel
28th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), IEEE, 2018, pp. 1-6
Corrections to: "Green Networking with Packet Processing Engines: Modeling and Optimization"
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Jane Frances Pajo
IEEE/ACM, Transactions on Networking, 2017, p. 1
Energy-Aware Consolidation Scheme for Data Center Cloud Applications
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
29th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), vol. 2, IEEE, 2017, pp. 24-29
Green and Heuristics-Based Consolidation Scheme for Data Center Cloud Applications
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
Alessandro Piva, Ilenia Tinnirello, Simone Morosi, Digital Communication. Towards a Smart and Secure Future Internet, Springer International Publishing, 2017 Sep, pp. 230-250
A Middleware for Mobile Edge Computing
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto, Panos Gouvas, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos
IEEE, Cloud Computing (CC), vol. 4(4), 2017 Jul, pp. 26-37
A Network-Centric Architecture for Building the Cloud Continuum
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), IEEE, Silicon Valley, CA, USA, 2017 Jan, pp. 701-705
Exploiting Novel Software Development Paradigms to Increase the Sustainability of Data Centers
Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
9th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), IEEE/ACM, 2016 Dec, pp. 310-315
A Game for Energy-Aware Allocation of Virtualized Network Functions
Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli
Hindawi, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE), vol. 2016, 2016 Feb
SDN-Enabled Energy-Efficient Network Management
Michael Jarschel, Tobias Hoßfeld, Franco Davoli, Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega
Konstantinos Samdanis, Peter Rost, Andreaseder, Michela Meo, Christos Verikoukis, Green Communications: Principles, Concepts and Practice, chapter 17, Wiley Telecom, 2014, pp. 323-338
Green Networking with Packet Processing Engines: Modeling and Optimization
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli
IEEE/ACM, Transactions on Networking (TNET), vol. 22(1), 2014 Feb, pp. 110-123
A Closed-Form Model for the IEEE 802.3az Network and Power Performance
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Paolo Lago
IEEE, Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 32(1), 2014 Jan, pp. 16-27
Techniques for Optimal Exploitation of Green Networking Capabilities in Future Internet Devices
Alessandro Carrega
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 2013 Apr
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Diego Suino, Constantinos Vassilakis, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos
Green Communication Networks, Elsevier, Computer Networks (ComNet), vol. 56(10), 2012 Jul, pp. 2320-2342
Traffic Merging for Energy-Efficient Datacenter Networks
Alessandro Carrega, Suresh Singh, Roberto Bruschi, Raffaele Bolla
International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), IEEE, 2012 Jul, pp. 1-5
Applying Traffic Merging to Datacenter Networks
Alessandro Carrega, Suresh Singh, Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi
3rd International Conference on Future Systems: where Energy, Computing and Communication Meet (e-Energy), vol. 3(1), ACM, 2012 May, pp. 1-9
Green Network Technologies and the Art of Trading-Off
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli
Green Communications and Networking (GCN) Workshop, International Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM), IEEE, 2011 Apr, pp. 301-306
Power Scaling in Network Devices
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) Student Workshop, ACM, 2010, pp. 1-2
An Analytical Model for Designing and Controlling New-Generation Green Devices
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli
Globecom Workshops, IEEE, 2010 Dec, pp. 1388-1393
Theoretical and Technological Limitations of Power Scaling in Network Devices
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli
Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), IEEE, 2010 Oct, pp. 37-42
GreenSim: an Open Source Tool for Evaluating the Energy Savings through resource Dynamic Adaptation
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega
International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), IEEE, 2010 Jul, pp. 89-95
Advanced Techniques for Propositional Satisfiability
Alessandro Carrega
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 2009 Feb 11
Projects
Integrated transmission units in electro-optical technology for high- and hyper-capacity DWDM transmission systems and low power consumption
A Novel Reconfigurable By Design Highly Distributed Applications Development Paradigm Over Programmable Infrastructure
Future Internet Core Platform Extension, Availability and Sustainability - Competitive Call for Beneficiaries Providing FIWARE Lab Nodes Support
A Holistic, Innovative Framework for the Design, Development and Orchestration of 5G-Ready Applications and Network Services over Sliced Programmable Infrastructure
a Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuuma Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuum
