An IoE-Powered Framework for Adaptive Energy-Security Trade-Off in IoT.

Mattia Giovanni Spina

Mattia Giovanni Spina Azzedine Boukerche Floriano De Rango An IoE-Powered Framework for Adaptive Energy-Security Trade-Off in IoT. 2026 March 65-71 40 IEEE Netw. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2025.3636907 db/journals/network/network40.html#SpinaBR26 streams/journals/network

Graziano Rizzo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Mitigating Retransmission Attack in MQTTv5 Shared Subscription via Trust-Based Message Scheduling. CCNC 2026 1-6 conf/ccnc/2026 https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC65079.2026.11366594 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2026.html#RizzoSR26 streams/conf/ccnc Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango A Dynamic Entropy-Based Approach for DDoS Protection in Software-Defined Networks. CCNC 2026 1-4 conf/ccnc/2026 https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC65079.2026.11366562 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2026.html#SpinaTR26 streams/conf/ccnc

Graziano Rizzo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Distributed Denial of Service attack analysis and mitigation for MQTTv5 shared subscription. 108298 2025 242 Comput. Commun. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108298 db/journals/comcom/comcom242.html#RizzoSR25 streams/journals/comcom

Floriano De Rango Mattia Giovanni Spina Antonio Iera DLST-MQTT: Dynamic and lightweight security over topics MQTT. 107625 2025 166 Future Gener. Comput. Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.107625 db/journals/fgcs/fgcs166.html#RangoSI25 streams/journals/fgcs

Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Edoardo Scalzo Francesca Guerriero Antonio Iera Distributing Intelligence in 6G Programmable Data Planes for Effective In-Network Intrusion Prevention. 319-325 2025 May 39 IEEE Netw. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2025.3544828 db/journals/network/network39.html#SpinaRSGI25 streams/journals/network

Alex Ramiro Masaquiza Caiza Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango MuRA-LB: A Multi-Resources Aware Load-Balancing Strategy Exploiting Software-Defined Networking. 1-4 2025 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC54725.2025.10975895 conf/ccnc/2025 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2025.html#CaizaSTR25 Graziano Rizzo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Improving IoT System Resilience through Secure MQTTv5 Shared Subscriptions. 1-6 2025 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC54725.2025.10975972 conf/ccnc/2025 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2025.html#RizzoSR25 Giovanni Rocca Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Integrating Statistical Methods and Game Theory for Enhanced IoT Intrusion Detection. 1-4 2025 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC54725.2025.10976112 conf/ccnc/2025 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2025.html#RoccaSR25 Mattia Giovanni Spina Alex Ramiro Masaquiza Caiza Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango Traffic Load-Balancing Over IDS-Onboard Drones in 6G Networks. 1-4 2025 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC54725.2025.10976137 conf/ccnc/2025 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2025.html#SpinaCTR25 Mauro Tropea Alex Ramiro Masaquiza Caiza Luis Miguel Samaniego Campoverde Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango A Resource-Aware Ant-Based Recruiting Strategy in 5G-Assisted Fanet Disaster Scenarios. 1-6 2025 DRCN https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN65040.2025.11046096 conf/drcn/2025 db/conf/drcn/drcn2025.html#TropeaCCSR25 streams/conf/drcn Mattia Giovanni Spina D. V. Soto Lebron Susanna Schwarzmann Riccardo Guerzoni Riccardo Trivisonno Floriano De Rango R. Silva Andres Meseguer Valenzuela Antonio Iera GPU-accelerated In-Network Computing for Split-AI in 6G: A Trade-Off Between Inference Time and Energy Consumption. GLOBECOM 2025 6196-6201 conf/globecom/2025 https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431828 db/conf/globecom/globecom2025.html#SpinaLSGTRSVI25 streams/conf/globecom Sebastian Troia Mattia Giovanni Spina Gianluca Davoli Nicolò Giannini Antonio Iera Guido Maier An Orchestration Platform for In-Network DDoS Attack Detection with P4 Programmable Switches. 1-6 2025 HPSR https://doi.org/10.1109/HPSR64165.2025.11038892 conf/hpsr/2025 db/conf/hpsr/hpsr2025.html#TroiaSDGIM25 streams/conf/hpsr Mattia Giovanni Spina Graziano Rizzo Floriano De Rango QoS and Trust aware Mitigation of MQTT Shared Subscription Channel Saturation Attack over 5G Networks. 28-35 2025 MSWiM https://doi.org/10.1109/MSWiM67937.2025.11308760 conf/mswim/2025 db/conf/mswim/mswim2025.html#SpinaRR25 streams/conf/mswim Mauro Tropea Mattia Giovanni Spina Azzedine Boukerche Floriano De Rango Federated vs Transfer Learning Technique for Traffic Sign Recognition in Internet of Vehicles. 140-144 2025 MSWiM https://doi.org/10.1109/MSWiM67937.2025.11309164 conf/mswim/2025 db/conf/mswim/mswim2025.html#TropeaSBR25 streams/conf/mswim Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango An Adaptive and Blockchain-based Reputation Mechanism in SDN Multi-Controller Scenario. 333-339 2025 MSWiM https://doi.org/10.1109/MSWiM67937.2025.11309216 conf/mswim/2025 db/conf/mswim/mswim2025.html#SpinaTR25 streams/conf/mswim Francesco Colosimo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango FedAECS: a Federated Learning Adversary-aware and Efficient Client Selection. 1-6 2025 PIMRC https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11274729 conf/pimrc/2025 db/conf/pimrc/pimrc2025.html#ColosimoSR25 streams/conf/pimrc Graziano Rizzo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango QLB-MSS: Queuing-Based Load Balancing for MQTTv5 Shared Subscriptions to Prevent DDoS Starvation. 1-6 2025 PIMRC https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11275272 conf/pimrc/2025 db/conf/pimrc/pimrc2025.html#RizzoSR25 streams/conf/pimrc Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango Designing Conflicting-Rule Attacks Detection through Trust-based Penalty System in SDN. 1-6 2025 PIMRC https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11275079 conf/pimrc/2025 db/conf/pimrc/pimrc2025.html#SpinaTR25 streams/conf/pimrc Mattia Giovanni Spina Graziano Rizzo Floriano De Rango Security-Oriented Load Distribution in MQTTv5: A Token Bucket and Trust Evaluation Approach. 1-6 2025 WiMob https://doi.org/10.1109/WiMob66857.2025.11257525 conf/wimob/2025 db/conf/wimob/wimob2025.html#SpinaRR25 streams/conf/wimob Giovanni Rocca Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango A Scalable and Efficient Intrusion Detection System Based on a Shapley Value Driven Feature Selection. 31-36 2025 WiMob https://doi.org/10.1109/WiMob66857.2025.11257512 conf/wimob/2025 db/conf/wimob/wimob2025.html#RoccaSR25 streams/conf/wimob

Mauro Tropea Mattia Giovanni Spina Abderrahmane Lakas Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis Floriano De Rango SecGPSR: A Secure GPSR Protocol for FANET Against Sybil and Gray Hole Attacks. 186909-186925 2024 12 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3433512 db/journals/access/access12.html#TropeaSLSR24 streams/journals/access

Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango SURA-LB: Software-defined IDS with UAV Resource Aware Load-Balancing in FANET disaster scenarios. 101-114 2024 223 Comput. Commun. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2024.05.015 db/journals/comcom/comcom223.html#SpinaTR24

Mattia Giovanni Spina D. V. Soto Lebron Susanna Schwarzmann Riccardo Guerzoni Riccardo Trivisonno Antonio Iera Floriano De Rango George T. Karetsos Thomas Zinner Daniel Corujo In-Network Computing and Split-AI in 6G: Enablers and Proof-of-Concept Studies. 135-143 2024 6GNet https://doi.org/10.1109/6GNet63182.2024.10765651 conf/6gnet/2023 db/conf/6gnet/6gnet2024.html#SpinaLSGTIRKZC24 Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango Securing MQTT-M2M Communications in a Food Retail Distribution. 554-557 2024 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454863 conf/ccnc/2024 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2024.html#SpinaTR24 Francesco Salatino Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango Detecting DDoS Attacks Through AI driven SDN Intrusion Detection System. 990-993 2024 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454798 conf/ccnc/2024 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2024.html#SalatinoSTR24 Graziano Rizzo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango MQTTv5 Shared Subscription in IoT Systems: Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation. 3352-3357 2024 GLOBECOM https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM52923.2024.10901704 conf/globecom/2024 db/conf/globecom/globecom2024.html#RizzoSR24 Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Antonio Iera From Centralized to Distributed and Ubiquitous In-Network Defense for Future 6G Networks. 91-95 2024 NoF https://doi.org/10.1109/NoF62948.2024.10741453 conf/nof/2024 db/conf/nof/nof2024.html#SpinaRI24 streams/conf/nof Susanna Schwarzmann Tugce Erkilic Civelek Antonio Iera Daniel Corujo George T. Karetsos Riccardo Guerzoni Osama Abboud Andres Meseguer Valenzuela Riccardo Trivisonno Mattia Giovanni Spina Thomas Zinner Toktam Mahmoodi Native Support of AI Applications in 6G Mobile Networks Via an Intelligent User Plane. 1-6 2024 WCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570691 conf/wcnc/2024 db/conf/wcnc/wcnc2024.html#SchwarzmannCICK24 Graziano Rizzo Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Securing Shared Subscriptions in MQTTv5 for IoT Networks: Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation. 353-358 2024 WiMob https://doi.org/10.1109/WiMob61911.2024.10770303 conf/wimob/2024 db/conf/wimob/wimob2024.html#RizzoSR24

Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Edoardo Scalzo Francesca Guerriero Antonio Iera Distributing Intelligence in 6G Programmable Data Planes for Effective In-Network Deployment of an Active Intrusion Detection System. 2024 abs/2410.24013 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.24013 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-24013 streams/journals/corr

Mattia Giovanni Spina Edoardo Scalzo Floriano De Rango Francesca Guerriero Antonio Iera Optimal In-Network Distribution of Learning Functions for a Secure-by-Design Programmable Data Plane of Next-Generation Networks. 2024 abs/2411.18384 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.18384 db/journals/corr/corr2411.html#abs-2411-18384 streams/journals/corr

Giovanni Fioravanti Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Entropy based DDoS Detection in Software Defined Networks. 636-639 2023 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC51644.2023.10059949 conf/ccnc/2023 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2023.html#FioravantiSR23 Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Lightweight, Dynamic and Energy Efficient Security Mechanism for constrained IoT devices using CoAP. 1123-1128 2023 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC51644.2023.10059854 conf/ccnc/2023 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2023.html#SpinaR23 Mauro Tropea Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango SDN-driven Dynamic Deployment of IDS with Load Balancing for Drones in Emergency Scenarios. 1-6 2023 ICT-DM https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM58371.2023.10286918 conf/ict-dm/2023 db/conf/ict-dm/ict-dm2023.html#TropeaSR23 Mauro Tropea Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Supporting Dynamic IDS Deployment with Load Balancing Strategy for SDN-enabled Drones in Emergency Scenarios. 297-300 2023 MSWiM https://doi.org/10.1145/3616388.3617549 conf/mswim/2023 db/conf/mswim/mswim2023.html#TropeaSR23 Mattia Giovanni Spina Mauro Tropea Floriano De Rango Mitigation of LLDP Topological Poisoning Attack in SDN Environments Using Mininet Emulator. 318-325 2023 SIMULTECH https://doi.org/10.5220/0012086200003546 conf/simultech/2023 db/conf/simultech/simultech2023.html#SpinaTR23

Mauro Tropea Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Antonio Francesco Gentile Security in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Cryptography Performance Analysis at MAC Layer. 145 2022 14 Future Internet 5 https://doi.org/10.3390/fi14050145 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114844805 db/journals/fi/fi14.html#TropeaSRG22

Mattia Giovanni Spina Gerardo Mario Marotta Stefano Gualtieri Floriano De Rango Topic Load Balancing in a multi IoT Gateways Scenario under Publish/Subscribe Paradigm. 521-522 2022 CCNC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC49033.2022.9700606 conf/ccnc/2022 db/conf/ccnc/ccnc2022.html#SpinaMGR22 Mattia Giovanni Spina Floriano De Rango Gerardo Mario Marotta Lightweight Dynamic Topic-Centric End-to-End Security Mechanism for MQTT. 1-7 2021 DS-RT https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT52167.2021.9576144 conf/dsrt/2021 db/conf/dsrt/dsrt2021.html#SpinaRM21 Mattia Giovanni Spina Stefano Gualtieri Floriano De Rango Integrating ROS and Gazebo Tools with a Network Security Module to Support Secure Autonomous Robot Coordination. 369-377 2021 SIMULTECH https://doi.org/10.5220/0010566303690377 conf/simultech/2021 db/conf/simultech/simultech2021.html#SpinaGR21 Osama Abboud Azzedine Boukerche Alex Ramiro Masaquiza Caiza Luis Miguel Samaniego Campoverde Tugce Erkilic Civelek Francesco Colosimo Daniel Corujo Gianluca Davoli Giovanni Fioravanti Antonio Francesco Gentile Nicolò Giannini Stefano Gualtieri Francesca Guerriero Riccardo Guerzoni Antonio Iera George T. Karetsos Abderrahmane Lakas D. V. Soto Lebron Toktam Mahmoodi Guido Maier Gerardo Mario Marotta Floriano De Rango Graziano Rizzo Giovanni Rocca Francesco Salatino Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis Edoardo Scalzo Susanna Schwarzmann R. Silva Riccardo Trivisonno Sebastian Troia Mauro Tropea Andres Meseguer Valenzuela Thomas Zinner