Tommaso Melodia

William Lincoln Smith Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director,  Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

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  • 412 ISEC
  • 617.373.4159

Research Focus

Modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems; Networked implantable medical systems; Multimedia sensor networks; Secure tactical cognitive radio networks; Underwater networks; Mobile cloud computing

About

Tommaso Melodia (M’07) received the “Laurea” and Doctorate degrees in telecommunications engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2007.

Between 2007 and 2014 he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at SUNY Buffalo. In 2014, he joined Northeastern University as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  His current research interests are in modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networks, with applications to intra-body networks of implantable devices, tactical cognitive radio networks, multimedia sensor networks, and underwater networks.

Prof. Melodia serves in the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Computer Networks (Elsevier). He received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and he coauthored a paper that was recognized as the Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Computer Science by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators and a paper that received an Elsevier Top Cited Paper Award.

Honors & Awards

  • COE Faculty Fellow
  • COE Faculty Research Team Award
  • IEEE Fellow
  • IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
  • NSF CAREER Award
  • Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award

Research Overview

Modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems; Networked implantable medical systems; Multimedia sensor networks; Secure tactical cognitive radio networks; Underwater networks; Mobile cloud computing

A detail view of the radio and server system used for professor Tommaso Melodia's WiNES lab.

Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory

The WINES Lab is designing a new generation of secure, reliable, energy-efficient wireless networked systems with higher intelligence and integration with the physical environment. Focus is on advancing the fundamental understanding of wireless networking. We also design and develop new networked systems, with a cross-layer and cross-disciplinary approach.

WiNES Lab

Selected Research Projects

Research Centers and Institutes

Selected Publications

  • Cen, Nan, Guan, Zhangyu, Melodia, Tommaso (2021). Compressed Sensing based Low-Power Multi-view Video Coding and Transmission in Wireless Multi-path Multi-hop Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ,1-1. 10.1109/TMC.2021.3049797
  • F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, PolymoRF: Polymorphic Wireless Receivers Through Physical-Layer Deep Learning, Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (ACM MobiHoc), 2020
  • S. D’Oro, L. Bonati, F. Restuccia, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, T. Melodia, Sl-EDGE: Network Slicing at the Edge, Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (ACM MobiHoc), 2020
  • L. Zhang, F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, S. Pudlewski, Jam Sessions: Analysis and Experimental Evaluation of Advanced Jamming Attacks in MIMO Networks, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Catania, Italy, 2019
  • S. D’Oro, F. Restuccia, A. Talamonti, T. Melodia, The Slice Is Served: Enforcing Radio Access Network Slicing in Virtualized 5G Systems, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Paris, France, 2019

Faculty

Nov 30, 2023

Developing Cutting-Edge Testing Technology for 5G Open RAN

ECE Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari is leading a $2M project awarded by the Wireless Innovation Fund to develop a digital framework for testing 5G Open RAN systems called “DigiRAN: High-Fidelity Digital Twins for Interoperability, Security and Performance Testing of Open RAN Systems.” DigiRAN is a digital framework that enables diverse, low-cost, and automated testing […]

Faculty

Nov 29, 2023

Protecting Wireless Systems from Adversarial Attacks

ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, and Assistant Research Professor Salvatore D’oro were awarded a patent for “Neural network for adversarial deep learning in wireless systems.”

Tommaso Melodia

Faculty

Nov 29, 2023

Improving the Efficiency of Communication with Medical Devices

ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for “Ultrasonic multiplexing network for implantable medical devices.”

Tommaso Melodia

Faculty

Nov 29, 2023

Connecting to Medical Devices Through Ultrasonic Network

ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for “Internet-linked ultrasonic network for medical devices.”

Faculty

Sep 20, 2023

Reshaping Spectrum Sharing Above 100 GHz

ECE Professors Josep Jornet (PI), Tommaso Melodia, Principal Research Scientists Michele Polese, Michael Marcus, and Associate Research Scientist Vitaly Petrov, in collaboration with Steven Reising from Colorado State University, was awarded a $750K NSF grant for “DASS: Dynamically Adjustable Spectrum Sharing between Ground Communication Networks and Earth Exploration Satellite Systems Above 100 GHz.”

Faculty

Aug 11, 2023

Developing Secure Next-Generation Cellular Networks

ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and Khoury Associate Professor Alina Oprea were awarded a $900K NSF grant for “Resilient-by-Design Data-Driven NextG Open Radio Access Networks.”

Faculty

Aug 11, 2023

Everything to Know About the 5G Revolution—and How it Will Usher in 6G

Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things is working on improving 5G operability and developing 6G technology, which will enable faster speeds and more reliable connections.

Faculty

Aug 09, 2023

Northeastern Receives One of First Research Grants from CHIPS and Science Act’s $1.5 Billion Fund to Study Next-Gen Wireless Networks

The announcement of the grants was made at Northeastern’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex in Boston and was followed by a tour of the Wireless Internet of Things lab. The CHIPS and Science Act provides $1.5 billion over the next decade to support the development of open and interoperable wireless networks.

Faculty

Jul 06, 2023

Northeastern University launches O-RAN OTIC, Pioneering Capabilities for Next-Generation Cellular Networks in the Open6G Hub

The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) has established an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Burlington, Mass. to promote research, development, and testing of next-generation Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). OTIC will be a resource for industry, academia, and the federal government to provide testing, certification, and badging capabilities to guarantee multi-vendor interoperability, perform compliance and performance testing, and validate end-to-end control logic;, as well as test artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to control open and programmable cellular networks.

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Faculty

May 24, 2023

Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research

The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.

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