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Senior Research Scientist
Lanfranco Zanzi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunication engineering from Politecnico of Milan, Italy, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2022. He is a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe. His research focuses on network virtualization, AI/ML-driven network automation, blockchain-enabled distributed systems, and the integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. His work addresses end-to-end orchestration, resource allocation, mobility and service continuity, multi-domain networking, and the design of resilient 5G, 6G and beyond mobile communication infrastructures.
Group Involvement, NEC Laboratories Europe
Space and Terrestrial Systems
Research Interests
Integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks for resilient, end-to-end mobile communication systems.
Publications
- RIS Control through the Lens of Stochastic Network Calculus: An O-RAN Framework for Delay-Sensitive 6G Applications, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa- Pérez, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2026
- MapViT: A Two-Stage ViT-Based Framework for Real-Time Radio Quality Map Prediction in Dynamic Environments, Cyril Shih-Huan Hsu, Xi Li, Lanfranco Zanzi, Zhiheng Yang, Chrysa Papagianni, Xavier Costa Pérez, IEEE ICC 2026
- MultiX: Advancing 6G-RAN Through Multi-Technology, Multi-Sensor Fusion, Multi-Band and Multi-Static Perception, Xi Li, Jacopo Pegoraro, Antonio de la Oliva, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Juan Brenes, Valerio Frascolla, Neda Petreska, Zhuangzhuang Cui, Sebastian Robitzsch, Daniela Raddino, Lanfranco Zanzi, Alejandro Blanco, Jesús Gutiérrez, Joerg Widmer, Xavier Costa-Pérez, IEEE Wireless Communications 2025
- Experimental Evaluation of Radio-aware Semantic Map with 5G-Enabled Mobile Robots, Adrian Lendinez, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xi Li, Sandra Moreno, Guillem Garí, Christina Lessi, Vladimir Guroma, Renxi Qiu, Xavier Costa-Pérez, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025
- Energy-Aware Joint Orchestration of 5G and Robots: Experimental Testbed and Field Validation, Milan Groshev, Lanfranco Zanzi, Carmen Delgado, Xi Li, Antonio de la Oliva, Xavier Costa-Pérez, 2025
- Network Digital Twin for 5G-Enabled Mobile Robots, Luis Roda-Sanchez, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xi Li, Guillem Garí, Xavier Costa-Pérez, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2025
- MAREA: A Delay-Aware Multi-time-Scale Radio Resource Orchestrator for 6G O-RAN, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Pérez, 2025
- ORANUS: Latency-tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2024
- OROS: Online Operation and Orchestration of Collaborative Robots using 5G, Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xi Li, Xavier Costa-Pérez, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023
- π-ROAD: a Learn-as-You-Go Framework for On-Demand Emergency Slices in V2X Scenarios, Armin Okic, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Alessandro Redondi, Xavier Costa-Pérez , IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2021
- ARENA: A Data-driven Radio Access Networks Analysis of Football Events, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez, Georgios Agapiou, Hans D Schotten, 2020