Leonardo Badia was born in Ferrara, Italy on May 22th, 1977. He received both the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. in information engineering (with highest mark) from the University of Ferrara, in year 2000 and 2004, respectively. From 2000 to 2006 he was with the Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara. Between 2002 and 2003 he visited the RST Labs (now Wireless@KTH) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. In May 2006, he moved to the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, as an Assistant Professor. In March 2011 he joined the faculty of the University of Padova as an Assistant Professor. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor.
He is author of more than 200 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals or conferences. He is a frequent reviewer for several periodicals in the areas of telecommunications, computer engineering and networking. His research interests are in the broad area of mathematical optimization for communication networks, including: analysis of transmission protocols via Markov models; cross-layer optimization of routing/scheduling/resource allocation; Age-of-Information; models for energy harvesting; applications of game theory to communication networks.
Grohmann, Andreas I.; Seidel, Mauri; Badia, Leonardo; Suer, Marie-Theres; Cantor, Oscar Dario Ramos; Itting, Sebastian A. W.; Hofmann, Frank; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Measuring One-Way Delay in Real 5G Scenarios Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Milan, Italy, 2025.
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Ghadimi, Milad; Badia, Leonardo; Njoku, Buniechukwu; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Assessing the Impact of Entanglement on Strategic Choices in Quantum Communication Networks Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), pp. 6, Dubai, UAE, 2024.
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Tunc, Hilal Sultan Duranoglu; Badia, Leonardo; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Strategic Interaction over Pump Power for Fidelity in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless (EW), pp. 5, Brno, Czech Republic, 2024.
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Badia, Leonardo; Tunc, Hilal Sultan Duranoglu; Aka, Aynur Cemre; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Strategic Interaction over Age of Information on a Quantum Wiretap Channel Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless (EW), Rome, Italy, 2023.
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Perin, Giovanni; Nophut, David; Badia, Leonardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Maximizing Airtime Efficiency for Reliable Broadcast Streams in WMNs with Multi-Armed Bandits Proceedings Article
In: 2020 11th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) (IEEE UEMCON 2020), virtual, India, 2020.
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title = {Maximizing Airtime Efficiency for Reliable Broadcast Streams in WMNs with Multi-Armed Bandits},
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year = {2020},
date = {2020-10-25},
booktitle = {2020 11th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) (IEEE UEMCON 2020)},
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abstract = {Wireless broadcast routing is a complex problem, shown in the literature to be NP-complete. Current protocols implement either heuristics to find solutions that are not guaranteed to be optimal or classic flooding. However, many future use cases, like automotive applications, industrial robotics and multimedia broadcast, will require efficient yet reliable methods. In this work, we use contextual multi-armed bandits together with opportunistic routing (OR) and network coding (NC) to find approximately optimal solutions to the problem of broadcast routing in a distributed fashion. Each router independently learns its own transmission credit, i.e., the number of packets to forward for each innovative packet received, so that the airtime cost, subject to latency constraints, is minimized. Results show that the proposed solutions, particularly the deep learning based one, vastly improve the verall reliability, while performing close to MORE multicast in terms of airtime and to B.A.T.M.A.N. in latency, both being the best candidates in the respective discipline among the tested ones.},
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Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Munari, Monia; Pastesini, Valentina; Rossi, Simona; Badia, Leonardo
Security and Authentication Concepts for UMTS/WLAN Convergence Proceedings Article
In: 2003 IEEE 58th Vehicular Technology Conference – VTC 2003-Fall, pp. 2343-2347, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2003.
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Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Munari, Monia; Pastesini, Valentina; Rossi, Simona; Badia, Leonardo
Security and Authentication Concepts for UMTS/WLAN Convergence Proceedings Article
In: 2003 IEEE 58th Vehicular Technology Conference – VTC 2003-Fall, pp. 2343-2347, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2003.
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Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Badia, Leonardo; Seeling, Patrick; Schulte, Gerrit; Henderson, Tristan
Mobility and Stability Evaluation in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks Using Multiplayer Games Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of NetGames 2003, Electronic Arts Headquarters, Redwood City, California, USA, 2003.
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Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Badia, Leonardo; Seeling, Patrick; Schulte, Gerrit; Henderson, Tristan
Mobility and Stability Evaluation in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks Using Multiplayer Games Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of NetGames 2003, Electronic Arts Headquarters, Redwood City, California, USA, 2003.
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