Gianfranco Nencioni

Professor

Gianfranco Nencioni

Kontakt

Telefon: 51832832

E-post: gianfranco.nencioni@uis.no

Rom: KE E-428

Organisasjonsenhet

Det teknisk- naturvitenskapelige fakultet

Institutt for data- og elektroteknologi

Kort om meg

Gianfranco Nencioni is a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Stavanger, Norway, from 2025. He is leading the Computer Networks (ComNet) research group. He was the principal investigator of 5G-MODaNeI, a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. ​His research activity is focused on modelling and high-performance solving of resource allocation problems in wired and wireless networks.

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Research Interests

  • Mathematical Modelling and Optimization
  • AI-based Orchestration
  • Sustainability, Dependability, and Security
  • Emerging (Wired and Wireless) Networking Technologies (i.e., MEC, 5G/6G, quantum networking)

Research in Progress

Akademisk bakgrunn

Education

  • 2009-2011 Ph.D. in Information Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy)
  • 2006-2008 M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy)

Previous Positions

  • 2018-2025 Associate Professor, University of Stavanger (Norway)
  • 2015-2018 Postdoctoral fellow, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
  • 2012-2015 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pisa (Italy)

Current Teaching

Past Teaching

  • BYGG905 – Foundational Issues in City and Regional Planning - Smart Cities:  interdisciplinary introduction and wireless communications
  • DAT230 – Communication Technology 1
  • TTM4110 – Dependability and Performance with Discrete Event Simulation (NTNU): fundamentals of probability
  • TTM4150 – Internet Network Architecture (NTNU): SDN and Internet QoS
  • TTM4158 – Dependability and Performance Design (NTNU): mathematics background and network dependability

Pedagogical Courses

  • 2025 Challenge-Based Learning:30-hour workshop at UiS
  • 2025 AI in Education: 25-hour workshop at UiS
  • 2019/2020 NyTi Program: 50-hour mentorship course for newly appointed academic staff at UiS
  • 2019 PhD Supervisory Qualification Program: 100-hour course to supervise PhD students at UiS
  • 2018/2019 Foundation Course: 100-hour basis pedagogical course at UiS
  • 2016 Teacher Training Seminar: 18-hour teaching and supervising course at NTNU

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Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Annisa Sarah; Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni (2025) QR-MO: Q-Routing for Multi-Objective Shortest-Path Computation in 5G-MEC Systems. I: Walter Cerroni; Mauro Tortonesi, 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management : cnsm 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 27 - 31, 2025. International Federation for Information Processing. ISBN 9783903176751. DOI: https://opendl.ifip-tc6.org/db/conf/cnsm/cnsm2025/1571170369.pdf

Annisa Sarah; Gianfranco Nencioni; Ruxandra F. Olimid (2025) Multi-Objective 5G-MEC Service Relocation: A Joint View on Performance, Availability, and Privacy. I: Future Generation Computer Systems. ISSN 0167-739X. Volum 176. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2025.108211

Md Muhidul Islam Khan; Gianfranco Nencioni (2025) Revenue-Model Learning for a Slice Broker by Considering Security and Dependability. I: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. ISSN 1545-5971. Volum 22. s.7985-7995. DOI: 10.1109/tdsc.2025.3602804

Gianfranco Nencioni; Annisa Sarah; Anders Riel Müller (2025) Enabling the future smart cities : AI-based orchestration of 5G and beyond. I: Barbara Maria Sageidet; Daniela Müller-Eie; Kristiane Marie Fjær Lindland, A Nordic Smart Sustainable City: Lessons from Theory and Practice. Routledge. ISBN 9781032812113. s.147-160. DOI: 10.4324/9781003498650-15

Annisa Sarah; Gianfranco Nencioni; Rosario G. Garroppo; Ruxandra Olimid (2025) Resource Orchestration in 5G-MEC Systems. Universitetet i Stavanger. ISBN 9788284393629.

Thilina Dhanushka Kalahe Pathirana; Ruxandra F. Olimid; Gianfranco Nencioni (2025) Joint Security and Dependability Modeling: An Updated Overview. I: IEEE Access. Online ISSN 2169-3536. Volum 13. s.93523-93550. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3574256

Annisa Sarah; Gianfranco Nencioni; Md Muhidul Islam Khan (2024) DRL-Based Availability-Aware Migration of a MEC Service. I: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Online ISSN 2644-125X. Volum 5. s.5088-5102. DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3443514

Prachi Vinod Wadatkar; Gianfranco Nencioni; Rosario G. Garroppo (2024) Orchestration in a 5G-MEC Testbed for V2X Applications. Universitetet i Stavanger. ISBN 9788284392769.

Prachi Vinod Wadatkar; Rosario Giuseppe Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni; Marco Volpi (2024) Joint multi-objective MEH selection and traffic path computation in 5G-MEC systems. I: Computer Networks. ISSN 1389-1286. Volum 240. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2023.110168

Ali Gohar; Gianfranco Nencioni (2024) An online cost minimization of the slice broker based on deep reinforcement learning. I: Computer Networks. ISSN 1389-1286. Volum 241. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110198

Ali Gohar; Gianfranco Nencioni; Chunming Rong (2024) Resource Allocation for Network Service Delivery in Mobile Networks. University of Stavanger. ISBN 9788284392875.

Md Muhidul Islam Khan; Gianfranco Nencioni (2024) Adaptive Methods for Revenue Model Learning of a Slice Broker in the Presence of Adversaries. I: Wireless Personal Communications. ISSN 0929-6212. DOI: 10.1007/s11277-024-11093-4

Prachi Vinod Wadatkar; Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) 5G-MEC Testbeds for V2X Applications. I: Future Internet. Online ISSN 1999-5903. Volum 15. DOI: 10.3390/fi15050175

Gianfranco Nencioni; Rosario G. Garroppo; Ruxandra-Florentina Olimid-Nencioni (2023) 5G Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Survey on Security, Dependability, and Performance. I: IEEE Access. Online ISSN 2169-3536. Volum 11. s.63496-63533. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3288334

Prachi Vinod Wadatkar; Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) MigraMEC : Hybrid Testbed for MEC App Migration. I: Xavier Costa; Joerg Widmer, ACM MobiCom '23 : Proceedings of the 29th annual international conference on mobile computing and networking. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 9781450399906. DOI: 10.1145/3570361.3614069

Prachi Vinod Wadatkar; Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) MEC Application Migration by Using AdvantEDGE. I: X. Wang; B. Gu; S. Yu; Y. Qu, Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies. TridentCom 2022.. Springer. ISBN 9783031334580. s.104-118. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33458-0_8

Thilina Dhanushka Kalahe Pathirana; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) Availability model of a 5G-MEC system. I: George Rouskas; Krishna Kant, 2023 32nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2023). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9798350336184. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN58024.2023.10230201

Annisa Sarah; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) Resource allocation for cost minimization of a slice broker in a 5G-MEC scenario. I: Computer Communications. ISSN 0140-3664. Volum 213. s.331-344. DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2023.11.016

Annisa Sarah; Gianfranco Nencioni; Md Muhidul Islam Khan (2023) Resource Allocation in Multi-access Edge Computing for 5G-and-beyond networks. I: Computer Networks. ISSN 1389-1286. Volum 227. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109720

Md Muhidul Islam Khan; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) Revenue maximization of a slice broker in the presence of Byzantine faults. I: Elias Duarte; Dan Kim, 2023 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W 2023). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9798350325430. s.157-162. DOI: 10.1109/DSN-W58399.2023.00045

Md Muhidul Islam Khan; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) Resource Allocation in Networking and Computing Systems: A Security and Dependability Perspective. I: IEEE Access. Online ISSN 2169-3536. Volum 11. s.89433-89454. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3306534

Md Muhidul Islam Khan; Gianfranco Nencioni (2023) Revenue-Model Learning for a Slice Broker in the Presence of Adversaries. I: Shanmuganathan Raman, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781665473408. DOI: 10.1109/ANTS56424.2022.10227783

Rosario G. Garroppo; Marco Volpi; Gianfranco Nencioni; Prachi Vinod Wadatkar (2022) Experimental Evaluation of Handover Strategies in 5G-MEC Scenario by using AdvantEDGE. I: Stefano Bregni; Hikmet Sari, 2022 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781665498258. s.286-291. DOI: 10.1109/MeditCom55741.2022.9928618

Federico Mason; Gianfranco Nencioni; Andrea Zanella (2022) Using Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Resource Orchestration in a Network Slicing Scenario. I: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. ISSN 1063-6692. Volum 31. s.88-102. DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2022.3187310

Mohammed Ashraff Hathibelagal; Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni (2022) Experimental comparison of migration strategies for MEC-assisted 5G-V2X applications. I: Computer Communications. ISSN 0140-3664. DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2022.10.009

Ali Gohar; Gianfranco Nencioni (2021) The Role of 5G Technologies in a Smart City: The Case for Intelligent Transportation System. I: Sustainability. Online ISSN 2071-1050. Volum 13. DOI: 10.3390/su13095188

Ali Gohar; Gianfranco Nencioni (2021) Minimizing the cost of 5G network slice broker. I: Jie Li; Alfredo Grieco; Ruidong Li, IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781665447140. DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484590

Federico Mason; Gianfranco Nencioni; Andrea Zanella (2021) A multi-agent reinforcement learning architecture for network slicing orchestration. I: Vincenzo Mancuso, 19th Mediterranean communication and computer networking conference : MedComNet 2021. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781665435901. DOI: 10.1109/MedComNet52149.2021.9501279

Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni; Luca Tavanti; Bernard Gendron; Maria Grazia Scutellà (2021) Optimal Access Point Power Management for Green IEEE 802.11 Networks. I: Sensors. Online ISSN 1424-8220. Volum 21. DOI: 10.3390/s21062076

Andres J. Gonzalez; Jose Ordonez-Lucena; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Gianfranco Nencioni; Min Xie; Diego R. Lopez; Pål R. Grønsund (2020) The Isolation Concept in the 5G Network Slicing. I: Vlatko Lipovac; Filipe Cardoso, 2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC). IEEE Press. ISBN 9781728143552. s.12-16. DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC48522.2020.9200939

Rosario G. Garroppo; Gianfranco Nencioni; Luca Tavanti; Bernard Gendron; Maria Grazia Scutellà (2020) Energy-efficient resource allocation in wireless LANs under non-linear capacity constraints. I: Stefano Giordano; Luca Foschini, 2020 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781728163390. DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD50429.2020.9209309

Gianfranco Nencioni; Terje Per Kårstad (2020) CCNA-Based Communication Technology Courses. I: IEEE Communications Magazine. ISSN 0163-6804. Volum 58. s.102-108. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.1900238

Ruxandra Olimid; Gianfranco Nencioni (2020) 5G Network Slicing: A Security Overview. I: IEEE Access. Online ISSN 2169-3536. Volum 8. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2997702

Besmir Tola; Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Yuming Jiang (2019) Modeling and Evaluating NFV-Enabled Network Services under Different Availability Modes. I: David Tipper; Paulo E. M. Melo; Luisa Jorge; Dominic Schupke; Prosper Chemouil; Teresa Gomes, 2019 15th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 19-21 March 2019 in Coimbra, Portugal. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781538684610. s.1-5. DOI: 10.1109/DRCN.2019.8713765

Besmir Tola; Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik (2019) Network-Aware Availability Modeling of an End-to-End NFV-Enabled Service. I: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Online ISSN 1932-4537. Volum 16. s.1389-1403. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2948725

Gianfranco Nencioni; Rosario G. Garroppo; Andres J. Gonzalez; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Gregorio Procissi (2018) Orchestration and Control in Software-Defined 5G Networks: Research Challenges. I: Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing. ISSN 1530-8669. Volum 2018. s.1-18. DOI: 10.1155/2018/6923867

Andres Javier Gonzalez; Gianfranco Nencioni; Andrzej Kamisinski; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Poul Einar Heegaard (2018) Dependability of the NFV Orchestrator: State of the Art and Research Challenges. I: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Online ISSN 1553-877X. Volum 20. s.3307-3329. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2830648

Andrzej Kamisiński; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Andres Javier Gonzalez; Gianfranco Nencioni (2017) Assessing the risk of violating SLA dependability requirements in software-defined networks. I: Rudra Dutta; Mario Kind; Selcuk Uluagac, 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISBN 9781538632857. s.270-275. DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169885

Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Poul Einar Heegaard (2017) Including Failure Correlation in Availability Modeling of a Software-Defined Backbone Network. I: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Online ISSN 1932-4537. Volum 14. s.1032-1045. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2017.2755462

Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Andres Javier Gonzalez; Poul Einar Heegaard; Andrzej Kamisinski (2016) Availability Modelling of Software-Defined Backbone Networks. I: Michel Cukier; Karthik Pattabirama, 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops. IEEE Press. ISBN 9781509036882. s.105-112. DOI: 10.1109/DSN-W.2016.28

Gianfranco Nencioni; Nishanth Sastry; Gareth Tyson; Vijay Badrinarayanan; Dmytro Karamshuk; Jigna Chandaria; Jon Crowcroft (2016) SCORE: Exploiting global broadcasts to create offline personal channels for on-demand access. I: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. ISSN 1063-6692. Volum 24. s.2429-2442. DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2015.2456186

Andres Javier Gonzalez; Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Andrzej Kamisinski (2016) A Fault-Tolerant and Consistent SDN Controller. I: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE Press. ISBN 9781509013289. DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841496

Poul Einar Heegaard; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Gianfranco Nencioni; Jonas Wäfler (2016) Managed Dependability in Interacting Systems. I: Lance Fiondella; Antonio Puliafito, Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation Essays in Honor of Kishor Trivedi on his 70th Birthday. Springer. ISBN 9783319305974. s.197-226. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30599-8_8

Andres Javier Gonzalez; Pål R. Grønsund; Kashif Mahmood; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Poul Einar Heegaard; Gianfranco Nencioni (2015) Service availability in the NFV Virtualized Evolved Packet Core. I: Ramesh Rao; Mahasweta Sarkar; Min Song, 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE Press. ISBN 9781479959525. DOI: 10.1109/glocom.2014.7417254

Bøker og kapitler

Ali Gohar; Gianfranco Nencioni; Brage Riis Gundersen (2023) Resource Allocation for Vertical Industries in a Smart City Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Universitetet i Stavanger.

Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Poul Einar Heegaard (2017) Implementing the Availability Model of a Software-Defined Backbone Network in Möbius. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.

Gianfranco Nencioni; Bjarne Emil Helvik; Andres Javier Gonzalez; Poul Einar Heegaard; Andrzej Kamisinski (2016) Impact of SDN Controllers Deployment on Network Availability. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.

Formidling

Gianfranco Nencioni (2026) Resource Orchestration in 5G-and-Beyond Networks. International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom); 2026-06-07 - 2026-06-10. DOI: https://blackseacom2026.ieee-blackseacom.org/tutorials

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