Tommaso Zugno

I am a research engineer at Huawei Technologies working on next-generation cellular networks.

I hold a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Padova. I am a former member of the SIGNET research group and the mmWave Networking Group.

List of Publications

The up-to-date list is available in my Google Scholar profile.

Journals

M. Pagin, T. Zugno, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, "Resource Management for 5G NR Integrated Access and Backhaul: a Semi-centralized Approach", accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications. Available on arXiv and IEEExplore.
F. Gomez Cuba, T. Zugno, J. Kim, M. Polese, S. Bahk, M. Zorzi, "Hybrid Beamforming in 5G mmWave Networks: a Full-stack Perspective", accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications. Available on arXiv.
T. Zugno, M. Drago, M. Giordani, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, "Towards Standardization of Millimeter Wave Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networks: Open Challenges and Performance Evaluation", in IEEE Communication Magazine, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 79-85, September 2020. Available on arXiv and IEEExplore.
M. Polese, M. Giordani, T. Zugno, A. Roy, S. Goyal, D. Castor, M. Zorzi, “Integrated Access and Backhaul in 5G mmWave Networks: Potentials and Challenges”, in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 62-68, March 2020.. Available on arXiv and IEEExplore.

Conferences

T. Zugno, M. Drago, S. Lagen, Z. Ali, M. Zorzi, "Extending the ns-3 Spatial Channel Model for Vehicular Scenarios", Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 ‘21), Virtual Event, USA, 2021. Available at ACM Digital Library.
M. Lecci, T. Zugno, S. Zampato, M. Zorzi, "A Full-Stack Open-Source Framework for Antenna and Beamforming Evaluation in mmWave 5G NR", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2021. Available on arXiv.
F. Gomez Cuba, T. Zugno, J. Kim, M. Polese, S. Bahk, M. Zorzi, "Full-stack Hybrid Beamforming in mmWave 5G Networks", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2021), Virtual Event, 2021. Available on arXiv.
T. Zugno, M. Drago, M. Giordani, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, “NR V2X Communications at Millimeter Waves: An End-to-End Performance Evaluation”, Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020. Available on arXiv and IEEExplore.
T. Zugno, F. Campagnaro, M. Zorzi, “Controlling in real-time an ASV-carried ROV for quay wall and ship hull inspection through wireless links in harbor environments”, Proceedings of the IEEE Global OCEANS 2020, Singapore-U.S. Gulf Coast, 2020. Available on IEEExplore and here.
M. Pagin, F. Agostini, T. Zugno, M. Polese, M. Zorzi, “Enabling RAN Slicing Through Carrier Aggregation in mmWave Cellular Networks”, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2020), Arona, Italy, 2020. Available on arXiv. Best Paper Award.
T. Zugno, M. Polese, N. Patriciello, B. Bojović, S. Lagen and M. Zorzi, “Implementation of A Spatial Channel Model for ns-3”, Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 ’20), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2020. Available on arXiv and ACM Digital Library. Best Paper Award.
M. Drago, T. Zugno, M. Polese, M. Giordani, M. Zorzi, “Millicar - An ns-3 Module for MmWave NR V2X Networks”, Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 ’20), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2020. Available on arXiv and ACM Digital Library.
M. Polese, T. Zugno, M. Zorzi, “Implementation of Reference Public Safety Scenarios in ns-3”, Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 ’19), Firenze, Italy, 2019. Available on arXiv and ACM Digital Library.
T. Zugno, M. Polese, M. Lecci, and M. Zorzi. “Simulation of Next-generation Cellular Networks with ns-3: Open Challenges and New Directions” In Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Next-Generation Wireless with ns-3 (WNGW 2019), Firenze, Italy, 2019. Available on ACM Digital Library.
T. Zugno, M. Polese, M. Zorzi. ”Integration of Carrier Aggregation and Dual Connectivity for the ns-3 mmWave Module”, Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 ‘18), Mangalore, India, 2018. ACM, 2018. Available on arXiv and ACM Digital Library

Projects I worked on

ns3-mmwave

ns3-mmwave is an external module for ns-3 that can be used to simulate 5G cellular networks at mmWave frequencies. The code is available on Github and the description of the module can be found on IEEExplore (open access).

ns-o-ran

First open source platform for the simulation of O-RAN deployments using ns-3. Code and documentation are available in the project web page.

Millicar - An ns-3 Module for MmWave NR V2X Networks

ns-3 module for the simulation of Vehicle-to-Vehicle networks operating at mmWaves. The code is available on Github, a paper describing the module implementation is available on arXiv.

Google Summer of Code 2019 with ns-3

Google Summer of Code is an international program which connects students with open source organizations to produce open source software. I have taken part in GSoC 2019 mentored by the ns-3 organization with a project entitled "Integration of the 3GPP TR 38.901 channel model in the ns-3 spectrum module". The project report is available here, a paper describing this work is available here.

Awards

2022 Huawei's Future Star Award
Mario Gerla Best Paper Award at the 18th IEEE MedComNet
Best Paper Award at the 2020 Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3)
2nd prize at the 1st Italian SDR Hackaton organized by IEEE VTS and IEEE ComSoc
Honorary mention at the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition for the project S.A.F.E. - Self Adapting Flying network for communication and computation services in Extreme public safety scenarios