Alex Carrega

Ph.D. IT & Network Engineer


Curriculum vitae



+39 348-74.85.497


TNT Lab @ UniGe

CNIT

via Opera Pia 13, 16154 Genoa, Italy



Publications


Most relevant publications on journals and conferences.


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Intent-Driven Distributed Applications Management Over Compute and Network Resources in the Computing Continuum


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


Thesis


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


Techniques for Optimal Exploitation of Green Networking Capabilities in Future Internet Devices


Alessandro Carrega

University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 2013 Apr


Advanced Techniques for Propositional Satisfiability


Alessandro Carrega

University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 2009 Feb 11


Journal


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


Cutting the Energy Bills of Internet Service Providers and Telecoms through Power Management: an Impact Analysis


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


Conference Proceeding


Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Cloud Computing: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions


Milad Akbari, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega

2025 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), 2025, pp. 1-6


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


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


Trading off Power Consumption and Delay in the Execution of Network Functions by Dynamic Activation of Processing Units


Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli, Chiara Lombardo

2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2022, pp. 1-6


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


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


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


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 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


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


Book Chapter


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


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


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

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