Research

Journal Papers

* Authors are listed in alphabetical order unless noted otherwise.

• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., & Raftopoulos, R. (2025). Bandits Under the Waves: A Fully-Distributed Multi-Armed Bandit Framework for Modulation Adaptation in the Internet of Underwater Things . IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (vol. 23, pp. 639-653).
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., & Raftopoulos, R. (2025). AMUSE: A Multi-Armed Bandit Framework for Energy-Efficient Modulation Adaptation in Underwater Acoustic Networks . IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (vol. 6, pp. 2766-2779).
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., Qi, Z., & Pompili, D. (2024). Adaptive versus predictive techniques in underwater acoustic communication networks . Computer Networks (vol. 252, pp. 110679). [Authors 1-5 listed alphabetically]
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., & Panebianco, A. (2024). A comparative analysis of predictive channel models for real shallow water environments . Computer Networks (vol. 250, pp. 110557).
• Mertens, J. S., Panebianco, A., Surudhi, A., Prabagarane, N., & Galluccio, L. (2023). Network intelligence vs. jamming in underwater networks: how learning can cope with misbehavior . Frontiers in Communications and Networks (vol. 4, pp. 1179626). [Listed by contribution]
• Brincat, A. A., Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Mertens, J. S., Musumeci, A., Palazzo, S., & Panebianco, A. (2022). An integrated acoustic/LoRa system for transmission of multimedia sensor data over an Internet of Underwater Things . Computer Communications (vol. 92, pp. 132-142).

Conference Papers

* Authors are listed in alphabetical order unless noted otherwise.

• Busacca, F., Panebianco, A., Sun Y. (2026, March). Adaptive Underwater Acoustic Communications with Limited Feedback: An AoI-Aware Hierarchical Bandit Approach . In GLOBECOM 2024 — IEEE Global Communications Conference (pp. 2426-2431).
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Panebianco, A., Palazzo, S., Raftopoulos, R., & Scuderi, D. (2025, September). MERMAID: a Multi-armEd bandit approach foR optiMal cArrier selection In OFDM-based unDerwater acoustic networks . In PIMRC 2025 Workshops — IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (pp. 1-6). [Listed by contribution]
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., & Raftopoulos, R. (2025, June). POSEIDON: A multi-armed bandit framework for Power and mOdulation SchEme adaptatIon in unDerwater acOustic Networks . In ICC 2025 Workshops — IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (pp. 2045-2050).
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., & Raftopoulos, R. (2025, March). A Distributed Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Modulation Adaptation in Underwater Networks . In WCNC 2025 — IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (pp. 1-6).
• Scarvaglieri, A., Panebianco, A., & Busacca, F. (2024, December). MAGELLAN: A distributed MAB-based algorithm for Energy-Fair and Reliable Routing in Multi-Hop LoRa networks . In GLOBECOM 2024 — IEEE Global Communications Conference (pp. 2250-2255). [Listed by contribution]
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., & Raftopoulos, R. (2024, June). Adaptive modulation in underwater acoustic networks (AMUSE): A multi-armed bandit approach . In ICC 2024 — IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp. 2336-2341).
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., Panebianco, A., & Scarvaglieri, A. (2024, June). Balancing Optimization for Underwater Network Cost Effectiveness (BOUNCE): a Multi-Armed Bandit Solution . In ICC 2024 Workshops — IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (pp. 1340-1345).
• Busacca, F., Galluccio, L., Palazzo, S., & Panebianco, A. (2023, May). Underwater acoustic channel models for SNR prediction in a real shallow water environment . In ICC 2023 Workshops — IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (pp. 721-726).

Patent Applications

• Significance-Driven Semantic Communication
  Sun, Y., Chakraborty, S., McDowell, C. D., & Panebianco, A.
  U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/065,591, filed May 14, 2026.
• Spectrum Efficiency of Semantics and Goal Oriented Communications
  Sun, Y., Chakraborty, S., Chamoun, S. G., McDowell, C. D., Panebianco, A., & Ross, T. P.
  U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/875,119, filed Sep. 3, 2025.

Research Projects

• Development of NextG Wireless Testbeds for Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communication
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA (Jan. 2026 – Present)
• AQUASMARTT
  Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy (Nov. 2022 – Dec. 2025)
• 4Frailty
  Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Jul. 2023 – Oct. 2023)
• Secure and Efficient Wireless Communications (Intelligent Communication Algorithms)
  Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Sep. 2020 – Feb. 2021)