Luca Foschini

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
281 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Luca Foschini is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Foschini has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 77 papers in Information Systems and 54 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Luca Foschini's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (73 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (53 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (52 papers). Luca Foschini is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (73 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (53 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (52 papers). Luca Foschini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Canada. Luca Foschini's co-authors include Antonio Corradi, Paolo Bellavista, Giuseppe Cardone, Mario Fanelli, Burak Kantarcı, Rebecca Montanari, Claudio Fiandrino, Andrea Capponi, Pascal Bouvry and Dzmitry Kliazovich and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Luca Foschini

267 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Survey on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solu... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Survey on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities
    2019 407 citations Claudio Fiandrino, Luca Foschini et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luca Foschini Italy 33 2.6k 1.3k 1.1k 1.0k 816 281 4.9k
Antonio Corradi Italy 35 3.5k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 1.4k 1.3× 587 0.6× 590 0.7× 285 5.2k
Burak Kantarcı Canada 39 2.8k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 1.8k 1.7× 1.2k 1.1× 707 0.9× 295 6.1k
Xingshe Zhou China 31 1.4k 0.5× 891 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 782 0.7× 694 0.9× 244 4.3k
Paolo Bellavista Italy 37 4.0k 1.5× 1.3k 1.0× 1.9k 1.8× 469 0.4× 454 0.6× 357 6.5k
Fan Wu China 40 2.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 439 0.5× 331 5.6k
Sasu Tarkoma Finland 37 3.0k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 259 0.2× 610 0.7× 333 6.0k
Shaojie Tang United States 41 3.8k 1.4× 916 0.7× 2.9k 2.7× 924 0.9× 502 0.6× 329 7.3k
Fan Li China 32 2.7k 1.0× 954 0.7× 1.7k 1.6× 400 0.4× 270 0.3× 243 4.6k
Prem Prakash Jayaraman Australia 31 2.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 651 0.6× 331 0.3× 215 0.3× 167 4.2k
Yingshu Li United States 36 3.8k 1.4× 717 0.5× 1.9k 1.7× 632 0.6× 254 0.3× 217 6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Foschini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Foschini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Foschini

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Herrera, Juan Luis, et al.. (2025). A Tutorial on O-RAN Deployment Solutions for 5G: From Simulation to Emulated and Real Testbeds. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 28. 1709–1748. 1 indexed citations
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Herrera, Juan Luis, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary Computation for Latency Minimization in SDN Microservice Architectures. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 171–176.
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Herrera, Juan Luis, et al.. (2024). Enabling Reusable and Comparable xApps in the Machine Learning-Driven Open RAN. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 37–42. 1 indexed citations
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Cerroni, Walter, Luca Foschini, Genady Ya. Grabarnik, et al.. (2024). KubeTwin: A Digital Twin Framework for Kubernetes Deployments at Scale. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 21(4). 3889–3903. 10 indexed citations
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Arzo, Sisay Tadesse, et al.. (2024). Softwarized and containerized microservices-based network management analysis with MSN. Computer Networks. 254. 110750–110750. 3 indexed citations
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Govoni, Marco, et al.. (2023). Enabling adaptive analytics at the edge with the Bi-Rex Big Data platform. Computers in Industry. 147. 103876–103876. 19 indexed citations
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Foschini, Luca, et al.. (2023). Supporting vPLC Networking over TSN with Kubernetes in Industry 4.0. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 15–21. 6 indexed citations
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Fiandrino, Claudio, et al.. (2023). Handling Data Handoff of AI-Based Applications in Edge Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 20(4). 4435–4447. 4 indexed citations
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Foschini, Luca, et al.. (2021). An SDN-Enabled Architecture for IT/OT Converged Networks: A Proposal and Qualitative Analysis under DDoS Attacks. Future Internet. 13(10). 258–258. 9 indexed citations
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Cerroni, Walter, Luca Foschini, Genady Ya. Grabarnik, et al.. (2021). BDMaaS+: Business-Driven and Simulation-Based Optimization of IT Services in the Hybrid Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 19(1). 322–337. 8 indexed citations
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Goodday, Sarah, Daniel R. Karlin, Nancy Fúgate Woods, et al.. (2021). An Alternative to the Light Touch Digital Health Remote Study: The Stress and Recovery in Frontline COVID-19 Health Care Workers Study. JMIR Formative Research. 5(12). e32165–e32165. 7 indexed citations
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Arzo, Sisay Tadesse, et al.. (2021). MSN: A Playground Framework for Design and Evaluation of MicroServices-Based sdN Controller. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 30(1). 20 indexed citations
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Modica, Giuseppe, Luca Evangelisti, Luca Foschini, Assimo Maris, & Sonia Melandri. (2021). Testing the Scalability of the HS-AUTOFIT Tool in a High-Performance Computing Environment. Electronics. 10(18). 2251–2251. 4 indexed citations
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Bellavista, Paolo, et al.. (2019). Differentiated Service/Data Migration for Edge Services Leveraging Container Characteristics. IEEE Access. 7. 139746–139758. 46 indexed citations
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Samson, Sandrine, Kevin Konty, Luca Foschini, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the Impact of Influenza Among Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A New Approach to Determine Medical and Physical Activity Impact. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 15(1). 44–52. 21 indexed citations
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Cerroni, Walter, Luca Foschini, Genady Ya. Grabarnik, Larisa Shwartz, & Mauro Tortonesi. (2017). Estimating Delay Times Between Cloud Datacenters: A Pragmatic Modeling Approach. IEEE Communications Letters. 22(3). 526–529. 8 indexed citations
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Tezza, Rafael, et al.. (2017). Crowdsensing Project in the Brazilian Municipality of Florianópolis for the Number of Visitors Measurement. 4(8).
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Bellavista, Paolo, et al.. (2016). GAMESH: A grid architecture for scalable monitoring and enhanced dependable job scheduling. Future Generation Computer Systems. 71. 192–201. 7 indexed citations
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Foschini, Luca & Mauro Tortonesi. (2013). Adaptive and business-driven service placement in federated Cloud computing environments. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1245–1251. 10 indexed citations
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Foschini, Luca, et al.. (2011). Getting the face behind the squares: reconstructing pixelized video streams. Physical review. A, General physics. 31(4). 5–5. 5 indexed citations

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