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DEI, Politecnico di Bari<br>
 
DEI, Politecnico di Bari<br>
 
Bari, ITALY<br>
 
Bari, ITALY<br>
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Office: Third floor DEI north wing (DEI ala nord), room 28<br>
 
Tel: +39 080 596 3927 (office) or +39 080 596 3851 (lab)<br>
 
Tel: +39 080 596 3927 (office) or +39 080 596 3851 (lab)<br>
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Office Hours: Wednesdays in the timeslot 15:30-16:30 AM. For urgent matters, please contact me via email. <br> 
 
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My [http://c3lab.poliba.it/decicco/pgp.txt Public Key]<br>
 
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Luca De Cicco has graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 with honors.  
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Luca De Cicco is an Associate Professor of Automatica since February 2021. He graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 with honors.  
He received the PhD in Information Engineering in July 2008 from Politecnico di Bari (advisor Prof. [[Mascolo | Saverio Mascolo]]). He is currently '''Assistant Professor''' at Politecnico di Bari. He obtained the '''National Scientific Qualification''' (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in April 2017 in the research field Automatica (09/G1). His main interests range from modeling and design of congestion control algorithms for multimedia transport, to adaptive live video streaming,  performance evaluation of congestion control algorithms, and future internet paradigms.
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He received the Ph.D. in Information Engineering in July 2008 from Politecnico di Bari (advisor Prof. [[Mascolo | Saverio Mascolo]]). His main interests range from modeling and design of congestion control algorithms for multimedia transport to adaptive live video streaming,  robotics, reinforcement learning. Since 2017 he serves as Associate Editor for [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2476-1508?campaign=rdtwol-42853.4129513889 Internet Technology Letters] (Wiley).
During the third year of his PhD program he covered a visiting scholar position at [http://ece.unm.edu/ ECE Department] at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA) collaborating in the [http://find.isi.edu/ FIND] (Future INternet Design) project under the supervision of Prof.  [http://www.eece.unm.edu/faculty/chaouki/ Chaouki Abdallah]. Moreover in 2007 and 2012 he has been a visiting scholar at [http://www.l2s.supelec.fr/ L2S] (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes) École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France under the supervision of Prof. [http://www.l2s.supelec.fr/perso/niculescu Silviu Niculescu]. He has been post-doc at Telecom SudParis in 2015.
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He has covered several visiting researcher positions: at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA) and at [http://www.l2s.supelec.fr/ L2S] (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes) École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France; at the Laboratory of Information, Networking and Communication Sciences ([https://www.lincs.fr LINCS]) in 2013 and 2014. He has been post-doc at [http://www.telecom-sudparis.eu/ Telecom SudParis] in 2015 working at the RST department.
 
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<h3>Alumni</h3>
 
<h3>Alumni</h3>
* Giovanni Colangiulo, PhD student @ Politecnico di Bari (expected graduation in 2019) co-advised with Professor Saverio Mascolo
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* [[WalterBrescia | Walter Brescia]], got his PhD in 2025
* Jose Rubio-Hernan, PhD student @ TELECOM SudParis (expected graduation in 2017) co-advised with Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
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* Gioacchino Manfredi, got his PhD in 2023, co-advised with Prof. Saverio Mascolo
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* Giuseppe Ribezzo, got his PhD in 2021, co-advised with Prof. Saverio Mascolo
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* Jose Rubio-Hernan, PhD student @ TELECOM SudParis (graduated in 2017) co-advised with Prof. Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
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We got the '''Best Poster Award''' at the '''EuroXR 2025''' conference for our work:
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<paper authors="N. Barone, W. Brescia, G. Santangelo, A. Maggio, I. Cisternino, L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo" conference="EuroXR 2025 - Best Poster Award"  place="Winterthur, Switzerland" date="Sept. 2025">
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Demonstrating Immersive Teleoperation of Robots via Adaptive Point Cloud Streaming
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<h3>Awards and Distinctions</h3>
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{{NewsItem|2025 April|
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We got the '''best demo paper award''' at the '''MMSYS 2025''' conference for our work:
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<paper authors="N. Barone, W. Brescia, G. Santangelo, A. Maggio, I. Cisternino, L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo" conference="ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) - Best Demo Paper"  place="Stellenbosch, South Africa" date="March-April 2025" pdf="mmsys2025.pdf">
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Real-time Point Cloud Transmission for Immersive Teleoperation of Autonomous Mobile Robots
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{{NewsItem|2024 April|
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We got the '''best ODS paper award''' at the '''MMSYS 2024''' conference for our work:
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<paper authors="Walter Brescia, Pedro Gomes, Laura Toni, Saverio Mascolo, Luca De Cicco" conference="Proc. of  ACM MMSys 2024" place="Bari, Italy" date="15-18 April 2024" pdf="millinoise_2.pdf">
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MilliNoise: a Millimeter-wave Radar Sparse Point Cloud Dataset in Indoor Scenarios
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<h3'>Awards and Distinctions</h3>
 
 
{{NewsItem|2016 December|
 
{{NewsItem|2016 December|
 
We got selected as the Best Paper of the '''ACM SIGCOMM Internet-QoE Workshop''', August 2016.  The paper has been reprinted in the October 2016 issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR.
 
We got selected as the Best Paper of the '''ACM SIGCOMM Internet-QoE Workshop''', August 2016.  The paper has been reprinted in the October 2016 issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR.
 
 
<paper authors="E. Bocchi, L. De Cicco, and D. Rossi" conference="ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review" date="October 2016" pdf="webqoe-ccr-16.pdf">
 
<paper authors="E. Bocchi, L. De Cicco, and D. Rossi" conference="ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review" date="October 2016" pdf="webqoe-ccr-16.pdf">
 
Measuring the Quality of Experience of Web users
 
Measuring the Quality of Experience of Web users
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{{NewsItem|2016 May|
 
{{NewsItem|2016 May|
 
We got the '''best student paper award''' at the '''MMSYS 2016''' conference for our work:
 
We got the '''best student paper award''' at the '''MMSYS 2016''' conference for our work:
 
 
<paper authors="G. Cofano, L. De Cicco, T. Zinner, A. Nguyen-Ngoc,  P. Tran-Gia, and S. Mascolo" conference="Proc. ACM Mmsys 2016" place="Klagenfurt, Austria" date="May 2016" pdf="network-assistedcontrolcorrected.pdf">
 
<paper authors="G. Cofano, L. De Cicco, T. Zinner, A. Nguyen-Ngoc,  P. Tran-Gia, and S. Mascolo" conference="Proc. ACM Mmsys 2016" place="Klagenfurt, Austria" date="May 2016" pdf="network-assistedcontrolcorrected.pdf">
 
Design and Experimental Evaluation of Network-assisted Strategies for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
 
Design and Experimental Evaluation of Network-assisted Strategies for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
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We have been awarded with the [[GoogleFacultyAward | Google Faculty Award 2014]] for designing a congestion control algorithm for real-time communication within the WebRTC framework to enable video conference among Web browsers.
 
We have been awarded with the [[GoogleFacultyAward | Google Faculty Award 2014]] for designing a congestion control algorithm for real-time communication within the WebRTC framework to enable video conference among Web browsers.
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{{NewsItem|2014 April|Our work:
 
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An  Adaptive Video Streaming Control System: Modeling, Validation, and Performance Evaluation
 
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was ranked as the  [http://c3lab.poliba.it/images/f/f6/Tnet-most-popular-2014.pdf 8th most popular] '''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking''' article in April 2014.
 
 
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<h3>Recent Papers</h3>
 
<h3>Recent Papers</h3>
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ERUDITE: a Deep Neural Network for Optimal Tuning of Adaptive Video Streaming Controllers
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<paper authors="G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, S. Holmer, and S. Mascolo" conference="IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking" date="accepted April 26, 2017, in press, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2017.2703615" pdf="gcc-TNET.pdf">
 
<paper authors="G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, S. Holmer, and S. Mascolo" conference="IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking" date="accepted April 26, 2017, in press, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2017.2703615" pdf="gcc-TNET.pdf">
 
Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication
 
Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication

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Ldc home.jpg Luca De Cicco
Associate Professor, PhD

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- A. Einstein

When concepts fail, words arise.

- Mephistopheles, Faust, Goethe

Contact

DEI, Politecnico di Bari
Bari, ITALY
Office: Third floor DEI north wing (DEI ala nord), room 28
Tel: +39 080 596 3927 (office) or +39 080 596 3851 (lab)
Office Hours: Wednesdays in the timeslot 15:30-16:30 AM. For urgent matters, please contact me via email.
E-mail:

My Public Key
Social Profiles

Short CV

Luca De Cicco is an Associate Professor of Automatica since February 2021. He graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 with honors. He received the Ph.D. in Information Engineering in July 2008 from Politecnico di Bari (advisor Prof. Saverio Mascolo). His main interests range from modeling and design of congestion control algorithms for multimedia transport to adaptive live video streaming, robotics, reinforcement learning. Since 2017 he serves as Associate Editor for Internet Technology Letters (Wiley).

He has covered several visiting researcher positions: at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA) and at L2S (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes) École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France; at the Laboratory of Information, Networking and Communication Sciences (LINCS) in 2013 and 2014. He has been post-doc at Telecom SudParis in 2015 working at the RST department.


Alumni

  • Walter Brescia, got his PhD in 2025
  • Gioacchino Manfredi, got his PhD in 2023, co-advised with Prof. Saverio Mascolo
  • Giuseppe Ribezzo, got his PhD in 2021, co-advised with Prof. Saverio Mascolo
  • Jose Rubio-Hernan, PhD student @ TELECOM SudParis (graduated in 2017) co-advised with Prof. Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
2025 September

We got the Best Poster Award at the EuroXR 2025 conference for our work:

  • N. Barone, W. Brescia, G. Santangelo, A. Maggio, I. Cisternino, L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
    Demonstrating Immersive Teleoperation of Robots via Adaptive Point Cloud Streaming
    EuroXR 2025 - Best Poster Award, Winterthur, Switzerland, Sept. 2025


Awards and Distinctions

2025 April

We got the best demo paper award at the MMSYS 2025 conference for our work:

  • N. Barone, W. Brescia, G. Santangelo, A. Maggio, I. Cisternino, L. De Cicco, S. Mascolo
    Real-time Point Cloud Transmission for Immersive Teleoperation of Autonomous Mobile Robots
    ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) - Best Demo Paper, Stellenbosch, South Africa, March-April 2025 (PDF)


2024 April

We got the best ODS paper award at the MMSYS 2024 conference for our work:

  • Walter Brescia, Pedro Gomes, Laura Toni, Saverio Mascolo, Luca De Cicco
    MilliNoise: a Millimeter-wave Radar Sparse Point Cloud Dataset in Indoor Scenarios
    Proc. of ACM MMSys 2024, Bari, Italy, 15-18 April 2024 (PDF)


2016 December

We got selected as the Best Paper of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet-QoE Workshop, August 2016. The paper has been reprinted in the October 2016 issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR.

  • E. Bocchi, L. De Cicco, and D. Rossi
    Measuring the Quality of Experience of Web users
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, October 2016 (PDF)


2016 May

We got the best student paper award at the MMSYS 2016 conference for our work:

  • G. Cofano, L. De Cicco, T. Zinner, A. Nguyen-Ngoc, P. Tran-Gia, and S. Mascolo
    Design and Experimental Evaluation of Network-assisted Strategies for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
    Proc. ACM Mmsys 2016, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2016 (PDF)
2014 August

Faculty award We have been awarded with the Google Faculty Award 2014 for designing a congestion control algorithm for real-time communication within the WebRTC framework to enable video conference among Web browsers.


TAPAS

Check out TAPAS our open-source tool for rapid prototyping of Adaptive streaming algorithms.

Recent Papers

  • Luca De Cicco, Giuseppe Cilli, Saverio Mascolo
    ERUDITE: a Deep Neural Network for Optimal Tuning of Adaptive Video Streaming Controllers
    10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys '19), Amherst, MA, USA, June 18-21, 2019 (PDF) (Slides:PDF)
  • G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, S. Holmer, and S. Mascolo
    Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted April 26, 2017, in press, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2017.2703615 (PDF)
  • L. De Cicco, G. Carlucci, and S. Mascolo
    Congestion Control for WebRTC: Standardization Status and Open Issues
    IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Feature topic 'Real Time Communications in the Web', June 2017
  • G. Cofano, L. De Cicco, T. Zinner, A. Nguyen-Ngoc, P. Tran-Gia, and S. Mascolo
    Design and Experimental Evaluation of Network-assisted Control Strategies for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
    ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) (invited paper for the special issue best papers of the ACM Mmsys 2016 conference), accepted, to appear, March 2017
  • Giuseppe Cofano, Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo
    Modeling and Design of Adaptive Video Streaming Control Systems
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, accepted, to appear, doi: 10.1109/TCNS.2016.2631452, Nov 2016 (PDF)
  • E. Bocchi, L. De Cicco, and D. Rossi
    Measuring the Quality of Experience of Web users
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, October 2016 (PDF)
  • L. De Cicco, Y. Gong, D. Rossi, E. Leonardi
    A control theoretic analysis of low-priority congestion control reprioritization under AQM
    ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), Volume 1 Issue 4, Sept. 2016 (PDF) (Bib: BIB)
  • G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    Controlling Queuing Delays for Real-Time Communication: Interplay of E2E and AQM Algorithms
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July 2016 (PDF)

Watch my Google Congestion Control talk at Packet Video 2013

Very Large Array, Socorro, NM
Jardin Rodin, Paris 7eme, France

Research Projects

  • "Modellazione e progettAzione di algoRitmi di COntrollo per la distribuzioNe video su Internet (MARCONI)" (Modelling and Design of Control Algorithms for Video Distribution over the Internet), funded by Apulia Region through the "Future in Research" action 2016-2018. Role: Principal Investigator | Link al progetto
  • "Massive Adaptive Internet VIdeo STreaming. Using the Cloud (MAIVISTO)", Start-up measure, 2014-2016, funded by MIUR
  • WP3 leader of "PLATform for INnOvative services in future internet" PON PLATINO, 2012-2015, funded by MIUR
  • "Telecommunication Facilities and Wireless Sensor Networks in Emergency Management", Strategic Project, funded by Apulia Region
  • "End-to-end protocols for video over IP", 2007-2008, funded by Financial Tradeware plc
  • "The Transient Network Architecture (TNA)", Future INternet Design (FIND), funded by NSF, University of New Mexico, 2007 (See this poster for an outline of the project)
  • FAMOUS "Fluid Analytical Models Of aUtonomic Systems" (PRIN)
  • "End-to-End protocols for audio/video over Internet Protocol", 2005-2006, funded by Financial Tradeware srl, Rome
  • "Implementation and measurement of congestion control protocols over GPRS and UMTS", 2003 in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino


Software

  • NEW! (November 2016) WebRTC (serverless) demos github repository
  • TAPAS an open-source tool for rapid prototyping and experimentation of adaptive video streaming controllers
  • PI Networking Layer (FIND project)
  • Libnetmeas Automatically logging TCP flows
  • Lorenz Matlab scripts for Lorenz Attractor drawing
  • TCP Westwood+ patch for linux kernel 2.6.16.18
  • Experimental patches to allow logging of TCP Westwood+ estimated bandwidth (applies to 2.6.16.18)
Ldc home.jpg Luca De Cicco
Associate Professor, PhD

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- A. Einstein

Contact

DEI, Politecnico di Bari
Bari, ITALY
Tel: +39 080 596 3927 (office) or +39 080 596 3851 (lab)
E-mail:

My Public Key
Social Profiles

Short CV

Luca De Cicco has graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 2003 with honors. He received the PhD in Information Engineering in July 2008 from Politecnico di Bari (advisor Prof. Saverio Mascolo). He is currently Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Bari. He obtained the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in April 2017 in the research field Automatica (09/G1). His main interests range from modeling and design of congestion control algorithms for multimedia transport, to adaptive live video streaming, performance evaluation of congestion control algorithms, and future internet paradigms.

During the third year of his PhD program he covered a visiting scholar position at ECE Department at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA) collaborating in the FIND (Future INternet Design) project under the supervision of Prof. Chaouki Abdallah. Moreover in 2007 and 2012 he has been a visiting scholar at L2S (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes) École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France under the supervision of Prof. Silviu Niculescu. He has been post-doc at Telecom SudParis in 2015.


Alumni

<h3'>Awards and Distinctions</h3>

2016 December

We got selected as the Best Paper of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet-QoE Workshop, August 2016. The paper has been reprinted in the October 2016 issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR.

  • E. Bocchi, L. De Cicco, and D. Rossi
    Measuring the Quality of Experience of Web users
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, October 2016 (PDF)


2016 May

We got the best student paper award at the MMSYS 2016 conference for our work:

  • G. Cofano, L. De Cicco, T. Zinner, A. Nguyen-Ngoc, P. Tran-Gia, and S. Mascolo
    Design and Experimental Evaluation of Network-assisted Strategies for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
    Proc. ACM Mmsys 2016, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2016 (PDF)
2014 August

Faculty award We have been awarded with the Google Faculty Award 2014 for designing a congestion control algorithm for real-time communication within the WebRTC framework to enable video conference among Web browsers.

2014 April

Our work:

  • L. De Cicco and S. Mascolo
    An Adaptive Video Streaming Control System: Modeling, Validation, and Performance Evaluation
    IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2014 (PDF)

was ranked as the 8th most popular IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking article in April 2014.


TAPAS

Check out TAPAS our open-source tool for rapid prototyping of Adaptive streaming algorithms.

Recent Papers

Watch my Google Congestion Control talk at Packet Video 2013

Very Large Array, Socorro, NM
Jardin Rodin, Paris 7eme, France

Research Projects


Software[edit]