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Journal Papers

  1. A. Verma, G. Kumar, R. Saha, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Exploring the Landscape of Programming Language Identification with Machine Learning Approaches",
    IEEE Access , Jan. 2025
  2. S. Asokraj, T. Bianchi., A. Birghente, M. Conti, R. Poovendran, "Identity-Based Authentication for On-Demand Charging of Electric Vehicles",
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing , Dec. 2024
  3. F. Najafi, M. Kaveh, M. R. Mosavi, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "EPUF: An Entropy-derived Latency-Based DRAM Physical Unclonable Function for Lightweight Authentication in Internet of Things"
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , Oct. 2024
  4. A. Lotto, F. Marchiori, A. Brighente, M.Conti, "A Survey and Comparative Analysis of Security Properties of CAN Authentication Protocols"
    IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials , Oct. 2024
  5. S. Xu, S. Peng, B. Chen, A. Brighente, "Detecting Jamming Signal Using 2D Direction of Arrival Estimation Technique"
    IEEE Communications Letters , Oct. 2024
  6. S. Xu, A. Brighente, M. Conti, B. Chenge, S. Wang, "Evaporative Angle: A Generative Approach to Mitigate Jamming Attacks in DOA Estimation"
    IEEE Wireless Communications Letters , Sept. 2024
  7. S. Soderi, A. Brighente, S. Xu, M. Conti, "Multi-RIS aided VLC Physical Layer Security for 6G Wireless Networks"
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Aug. 2024
  8. L. Wang, M. Polato, A. Brighente, M. Conti, L. Zhang, L. Xu, "PriVeriFL: Privacy-Preserving and Aggregation-Verifiable Federated Learning"
    IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Aug. 2024
  9. A. De Salve, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "EDIT: a Data Inspection Tool for Smart Contracts Temporal Behavior Modeling and Prediction"
    Future Generation Computer Systems , Jan. 2024
  10. J. Han, Y.-F. Ren, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "RANGO: A Novel Deep Learning Approach to Detect Drones Disguising from Video Surveillance Systems"
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Jan. 2024
  11. Y. Zhao, H. Yu, Y. Liang, A. Brighente, M. Conti, J. Sun, Y. Ren, "Secure Source Identification Scheme for Revocable Instruction Sharing in Vehicle Platoon"
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , Nov. 2023
  12. J. Han, C. Rao, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Light-YOLOv5: A Lightweight Drone Detector for Resource Constrained Cameras"
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal , Oct. 2023
  13. A. Brighente, M. Conti, G. Di Renzione, G. Peruzzi, A. Pozzebon, "Security and Privacy of Smart Waste Management Systems: A Cyber-Physical System Perspective",
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal , Oct. 2023
  14. M. He, J. Ni, M. Li, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Enabling Low Sidelobe Secret Multicast Transmission for mmWave Communication: An Integrated Oblique Projection Approach"
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , May 2023
  15. S. Soltani, M. Shojafar, A. Brighente, M. Conti, R. Tafazolli, "Poisoning Bearer Context Migration in O-RAN 5G Network",
    IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Nov. 2022
  16. S. Xu, A. Brighente, B. Chen, M. Conti, X. Cheng, D. Zhu, " Deep Neural Networks for Direction of Arrival Estimation of Multiple Targets with Sparse Prior for Line-of-Sight Scenarios",
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Nov. 2022
  17. M. El-Zawawy, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Authenticating Drone-Assisted Internet of Vehicles Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Blockchain",
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Oct. 2022
  18. A. Brighente, M. Conti, D. Donadel, F. Turrin, "EVScout2.0: Electric Vehicle Profiling Through Charging Profile",
    ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems , Sept. 2022
  19. A. O. Bang, U. P. Rao, A. Visconti, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "An IoT Inventory Before Deployment: A Survey on IoT Protocols, Communication Technologies, Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Future Research Directions",
    Elsevier Computers and Security , Sept. 2022
  20. A. Brighente, J. Mohammadi, P. Baracca, S. Mandelli, S. Tomasin, "Interference Prediction for Low-Complexity Link Adaptation in Beyond 5G Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications",
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , Apr. 2022
  21. A. Kalita, A. Brighente, M. Khatua, M. Conti, "Effect of DIS Attack on 6TiSCH Network Formation",
    IEEE Communication Letters, Feb. 2022
  22. M. El-Zawawy, A. Brighente, M. Conti, “SETCAP: Service-Based Energy-Efficient Temporal Credential Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones”,
    (Elsevier) Computer Networks , Jan. 2022.
  23. S. Sullivan, A. Brighente, S. Kumar, M. Conti, "5G Security Challenges and Solutions: A Review by OSI Layer",
    IEEE Access , Aug. 2021.
  24. A. Brighente, M. Cerutti, M. Nicoli, S. Tomasin, U. Spagnolini, "Estimation of Wideband Dynamic mmWave and THz Channels for 5G Systems and Beyond",
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) special issue on Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G , Jun. 2020
  25. A. Brighente, J. Gambini, S. Tomasin "Modular Hybrid Beamforming for mmWave Fixed Wireless Access",
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2020
  26. A. Brighente, S. Tomasin, "Power Allocation for Non-Orthogonal Millimeter Wave Systems With Mixed Traffic",
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Jan. 2019
  27. A. Brighente, F. Formaggio, G. M. Di Nunzio, S. Tomasin, "Machine learning for in-region location verification in wireless networks",
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Volume: 37, Issue: 11, Nov. 2019

Conference Papers

  1. T. Bianchi, A. Brighente, M. Conti, A. Valori, "Your Car Tells Me Where You Drove: A Novel Path Inference Attack via CAN Bus and OBD-II Data", in Proc. of European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2025
  2. F. Klement, A. Brighente, A. Bhattacharjee, S. Cecconello, F. Kuipers, G. Smaragdakis, M. Conti, S. Katzenbeisser, "Endless Subscriptions: Open RAN is Open to RIC E2 Subscription Denial of Service Attacks", in Proc. of European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2025
  3. A. Brighente, E. Burato, M. Conti, "Are You Sure that is Secure? Assessing Organizations Security Readiness via a DevSecOps Maturity Model", in Proc. of European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2025 Workshops
  4. A. Corsi, S. Guer, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Evaluation of Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Methods in 5G Core Network", in proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2025 (WCNC2025)
  5. H. Vasudev, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "L2S2C2: Lattice-Based Lightweight Scheme for Secure Communication in Controller Area Networks", in proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2025 (WCNC2025)
  6. M. Bezema, A. Brighente, M. Conti, L. Cosuti, "BISCUID: On the Feasibility of Identifying Scouting Drones Based on their Flying Behavior", in proc. of 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2025)
  7. A. Brighente, M. Conti, S. Sciancalepore, H. Vaishnav, "Strangers Sets: Preserving Drones' Location Privacy while Avoiding Violations of Critical Infrastructures", in proc. of 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2025)
  8. G. Benedetti, S. Cofano, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "The Impact of SBOM Generators on Vulnerability Assessment in Python: A Comparison and a Novel Approach ", in Proc. of 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2025)
  9. M. Bertocco, A. Brighente, G. Peruzzi, A. Pozzebon, N. Tormena, N. Trivellin, "Fear of the Dark: Exploring PV-Powered IoT Nodes for VLC and Energy Harvesting", in Proc of 2024 IEEE MetroSea
  10. J. A. McDoughall, A. Brighente, H. Federrath, N. Zapatka, A. Kunstmann, and H. Schambach, "Probing with a Generic MAC Address: An Alternative to MAC Address Randomisation", in Proc. Of The 32nd International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM 2024
  11. E. Efatinasab, A. Brighente, M. Rampazzo, N. Azadi, M. Conti, "GAN-GRID: A Novel Adversarial Attack on Smart Grid Stability Prediction", in Proc. Of European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2024
  12. M. Palazzo, F. Dekker, A. Brighente, Z. Erkin, M. Conti, "Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation with Public Verifiability Against Internal Adversaries" in Proc. of 33rd USENIX SECURITY Symposium, 2024
  13. A. Brighente, G. Ciattaglia, E. Gambi, G. Peruzzi, A. Pozzebon, S. Spinsante, "Radar-Based Autonomous Identification of Propellers Type for Malicious Drone Detection", in proc of 2024 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)
  14. A. Brighente, M. Conti, D. Donadel, F. Turrin, "Hyperloop: A Cybersecurity Perspective", in proc. of Workshop on Automotive Cybersecurity (ACSW24), co-located with IEEE EuroS&P 2024
  15. F. Marchiori, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Work-in-Progress: Crash Course: Can (Under Attack) Autonomous Driving Beat Human Drivers?", in proc. of Workshop on Automotive Cybersecurity (ACSW24), co-located with IEEE EuroS&P 2024
  16. J. A. McDougall, A. Brighente, A. Kunstmann, N. Zapatka, H. Federrath, "Reduce to the MACs - Privacy Friendly Generic Probe Requests", in Proc. of the 39th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2024)
  17. E. Efatinasab, F. Marchiori, A. Brighente. M. Rampazzo, M. Conti , "FaultGuard: A Generative Approach to Resilient Fault Prediction in Smart Electrical Grids", in Proc. of 21st Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '24)
  18. F. Klement, A. Brighente, M. Polese, M. Conti, S. Katzenbeisser, "Securing the Open RAN Infrastructure: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Deployments", in Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2024)
  19. A. Brighente, S. Xu, S. Soderi, M. Conti, "Physical Layer Authentication for Distributed RIS (DRIS) enabled VLC Systems", in Proc. of IEEE 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication and Information System Security Symposium
  20. F. Giambartolomei, M. Barcelo, A. Brighente, A. Urbieta, M. Conti, "Penetration Testing of 5G Core Network Web Technologies", in Proc. of IEEE 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication and Information System Security Symposium
  21. A. Brighente, M. Conti, S. Salaeva, F. Turrin, "One Class to Test Them All: One-Class Classifier-Based ADS-B Location Spoofing Detection", 6th ACNS Workshop on Security in Machine Learning and its Applications (SiMLA 2024)
  22. T. Bianchi, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "DynamiQS: Quantum Secure Authentication for Dynamic Charging of Electric Vehicles", 17th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '24)
  23. K. Balasubramanian, A. G. Baragur, D. Donadel, D. Sahabandu, A. Brighente, B. Ramasubramanian, M. Conti, R. Poovendran, "CANLP: NLP-Based Intrusion Detection System for CAN", in proc of. the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2024)
  24. A. Gangwal, A. Thirupathi, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "A First Look at Shill Looping in NFT Ecosystem", in proc. of the 15th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2023
  25. M. Alecci, L. Attanasio, A. Brighente, M. Conti, E. Losiouk, H. Ochiai, F. Turrin, "Beware of Pickpockets: A Practical Attack against Blocking Cards", in proc. of The 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2023)
  26. A. Brighente, M. Conti, G. Peruzzi, A. Pozzebon, "ADASS: Anti-Drone Audio Surveillance Sentinel via Embedded Machine Learning", in proc. of 2023 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)
  27. T. Bianchi, S. Asokraj, A. Brighente, M. Conti, R. Poovendran, "QEVSEC: Quick Electric Vehicle SEcure Charging via Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer", in proc. of 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2023)-Spring
  28. A. Lotto, V. Singh, B. Ramasubramanian, A. Brighente, M. Conti, R. Poovendran, "BARON: Base-Station Authentication Through Core Network for Mobility Management in 5G Networks", 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '23) .
  29. J. A. McDoughall, A. Brighente, W. Grossman, B. A. McDoughall, J. Stock, H. Federrath, "LoVe is in the Air - Location Verification of ADS-B Signals using Distributed Public Sensors", in Proc. of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication and Information System Security Symposium .
  30. E. Bout, V. Bout, A. Brighente, M. Conti, V. Loscri, "Evaluation of Channel Hopping Strategies Against Smart Jamming Attacks" in Proc. of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication and Information System Security Symposium .
  31. A. De Vos, A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Threat Sensitive Networking: on the Security of IEEE 802.1CB and (un)Effectiveness of Existing Security Solutions", in Proc. of 8th Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems and of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2022), in conjunction with ESORICS 2022.
  32. S. Soderi, A. Brighente, F. Turrin, M. Conti, "VLC Physical Layer Security through RIS-aided Jamming Receiver for 6G Wireless Networks", in Proc of 19th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON 2022)
  33. A. Brighente, M. Conti, H. Vasudev, "SWAP: Secure Warning Messages Authentication and Propagation in Internet of Vehicles", in Proc. of 30th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications, and Computer Networks (SoftCOM2022).
  34. A. Brighente, M. Conti, H. Vasudev, "MeLSeC: A Method for Lightweight and Secure Communication in Internet of Vehicles", in Proc. of 20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC2022) .
  35. A. Brighente, M. Conti, S. Sciancalepore, "Hide and Seek: Privacy-Preserving and FAA-compliant Drones Location Tracing", in Proc of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022)
  36. A. Brighente, M. Conti, R. Ganbari, G. Kumar, R. Saha, "Stopping Floods with Buckets: Attack and Countermeasure for IOTA Autopeering", in Proc. of 6th IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Networking (M&N) 2022
  37. E. Bout, A. Brighente, M. Conti, V. Loscri, "FOLPETTI: A Novel Multi-Armed Bandit Smart Attack for Wireless Networks", accepted for pubblication in Proc. of 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022)
  38. A. Brighente, M. Camaioni, M. Conti, E. Olivastri, “Should I Mine or Should I Break: On the Worthiness of Brute-Forcing Cryptocurrency Addresses”, Accepted for publication in Proc. of 3rd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs (BRAIN) 2022, in conjunction with PERCOM 2022 .
  39. A. Brighente, M. Conti, R. Ghanbari, G. Kumar, R. Saha, “Knocking on IOTA’s Doors: Security Analysis of IOTA Ports”, Accepted for publication in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Blockchain Security, Application, and Performance (BSAP-2021)
  40. R. Saha, G. Kumar, A. Brighente, M. Conti “Towards An Enhanced Reputation Systemfor IOTA’s Coordicide”, accepted for publication in Proc. Of IEEE International Conference On Blockchain Computing And Applications (BCCA2021) .
  41. A. Bighente, M. Conti, I. Sadaf, "Tell me how you charge I will tell you where you drove to: Electric Vehicles Profiling Based on Charging-Current Demand”, accepted for publication in Proc. Of European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2021.
  42. F. Moretto, A. Brighente, S. Tomasin “Adaptive Coordinated Random Access For MTC With Correlated Traffic and Data Freshness”, accepted for publication in Proc. of 2021 IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) .
  43. F. Moretto, A. Brighente, S. Tomasin “Maximum-Throughput Grant-Free Random Access For Correlated IoT Traffic”, accepted for publication in Proc. of Vechicular Technology Conference (VTC) fall 2021.
  44. A. Brighente, P. Baracca, J. Mohammadi, “Interference Distribution Prediction for Link Adaptation in Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications”, 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring) , pp. 1-7, May 2020
  45. A. Brighente, F. Formaggio, M. Centenaro, G. M. Di Nunzio, S. Tomasin, “Location-Verification and Network Planning via Machine Learning Approaches”, 2019 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT) , Jun. 2019
  46. A. Brighente, F. Formaggio, G. Ruvoletto, S. Tomasin, “Ranking-Based Attacks to In-Region Location Verification Systems”, 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) , Mar. 2019
  47. A. Brighente, S. Tomasin, “Beamforming and scheduling for mmWave downlink sparse virtual channels with non-orthogonal and orthogonal multiple access” 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall) , pp. 1-6, Feb. 2018
  48. A. Brighente, S. Tomasin “Centralized and Distributed Sparsification for Low-Complexity Message Passing Algorithm in C-RAN Architectures” 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall) , pp. 1-6, Feb. 2018
  49. A. Badan et al, “Keyword-based access to relational data: To reproduce, or to not reproduce?” SEBD 2017
  50. A. Badan et al, “Towards Open-Source Shared Implementations of Keyword-Based Access Systems to Relational Data” EDBT/ICDT Workshop, 2017

Book Chapters

  1. A. Brighente, M. Conti, F. Mohammadnia "Physical Layer Security Challenges and Solutions for Beyond 5G Fog Computing Networks", Security Issues in Fog Computing from 5G to 6G: Architectures, Applications and Solutions, Springer Nature.
  2. A. Brighente, M. Conti, A. De Salve "The Ethereum Blockchain: Implementation and Security Aspects", Blockchains: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Applications and Security. Springer (in press)
  3. S. Tomasin, A. Brighente, F. Formaggio, G. Ruvoletto "Physical Layer Location Verification by Machine Learning", Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Dec. 2019

Patents

  1. A. Brighente, M. Conti, "Sistema e metodo per la protezione da overvoltage in wireless power transfer", Italian Patent
  2. A. Brighente, S. Tomasin, J. Gambini, "A Beamformer Arrangement for Signal Beamforming", filed European patent