Damiano Carra

Full Professor
University of Verona - Computer Science Department
Strada le Grazie 15
I-37134 Verona (Italy)
Office: Ca' Vignal 2, 1st floor, #64
Phone: +39 045 802 7059

Short Bio:

Damiano Carra received his Laurea degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Trento in 2007. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as a technical consultant for leading industries in Telecommunications and computer science. From April 2007 to December 2008 he worked as research engineer at Eurecom and as post-doc at INRIA. He joined the Computer Science Department at University of Verona in December 2008 first as Assistant Professor, then, in May 2019, as Associate Professor. Starting from Oct. 2025 he is Full Professor in the same Department. His research interests include modeling and performance evaluation of distributed systems.

Publications

Under submission

• I. Guarino, D. Carra, M. Cominelli, F. Gringoli, R. Lo Cigno
  A Survey on CSI-based Wi-Fi Sensing Datasets and Models, with a Focus on Potential Reproducibility
  Submitted to Elsevier Computer Communications
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• I. Guarino, G. Bovenzi, A. Nascita, D. Ciuonzo, D. Carra, A Pescapè
  A Multimodal and Perturbation-Aware Learning Approach for Robust Traffic Classification
  Submitted to Elsevier Computer Networks
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2025

• Damiano Carra, Giovanni Neglia, Xufeng Zhang
  Low-Complexity Online Learning for Caching
  In Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol 273, pp. 111743, Dec. 2025
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• L. Marini, D. Carra
  Probabilistic Resource Sharing in Cloud Caches with Heterogeneous Object Sizes
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Rennes, France, Sept. 2025
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2024

• F. Cunico, et al.
  Enhancing Safety and Privacy in Industry 4.0: The ICE Laboratory Case Study
  In IEEE Access, Vol. 12, pp. 154570-154599, Oct. 2024
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• L. Marini, D. Carra
  Can Miss Ratio Curves Predict Cache Performance?
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Paphos, Cyprus, Sept. 2024
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• S. Gaiardelli, D. Carra, S. Spellini, F. Fummi
  Dynamic Job and Conveyor-Based Transport Joint Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems
  In Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 7, 3026, Apr. 2024
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2023

• D. Carra, G. Neglia
  DNN Split Computing: Quantization and Run-length Coding are Enough
  In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023
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• F. Pace, D. Venzano, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  A Flexible Heuristic to Schedule Distributed Analytic Applications in Compute Clusters
  In IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 2217-2230, July-Sept. 2023
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• M. Boldo, D. Carra, D. Quaglia, N. Bombieri
  A Dynamic and Collaborative Deep Inference Framework for Human Motion Analysis in Telemedicine
  In Proceedings of IEEE EDGE, Chicago (IL), USA, July 2023
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• T. Si Salem, G. Neglia, D. Carra
  Ascent Similarity Caching with Approximate Indexes
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 1173-1186, June 2023
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2022

• G. Castellano, F. Pianese, D. Carra, T. Zhang, G. Neglia
  Regularized Bottleneck with Early Labeling
  In Proceedings of IEEE ITC, Shenzhen, China, Sept. 2022
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• S. Gaiardelli, D. Carra, S. Spellini, F. Fummi
  On the Impact of Transport Times in Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problems
  In Proceedings of IEEE ETFA, Stuttgart, Germany, Sept. 2022
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• F. Cunico, L. Capogrosso, F. Setti, D. Carra, F. Fummi, M. Cristani
  I-SPLIT: Deep Network Interpretability for Split Computing
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 2022
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• S. Migliorini, E. Quintarelli, M. Gambini, A. Belussi, D. Carra
  Sequence recommendations for groups: A dynamic approach to balance preferences
  In Information Systems, Vol. 108, pp. 102023, March 2022
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2021

• D. Carra, G. Neglia
  Taking two Birds with one k-NN Cache
  In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2021
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• S. Migliorini, D. Carra, A. Belussi
  Distributing Tourists Among POIs with an Adaptive Trip Recommendation System
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1765-1779, Oct.-Dec. 2021
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• T. Si Salem, G. Neglia, D. Carra
  ACAI: Ascent Similarity Caching with Approximate Indexes
  In Proceedings of IEEE ITC, Avignon, France, Aug.-Sept. 2021
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• P. Michiardi, D. Carra, S. Migliorini
  Cache-Based Multi-Query Optimization for Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Frameworks
  In Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 23, pp. 35–51 (2021)
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• S. Migliorini, A. Belussi, E. Quintarelli, D. Carra
  CoPart: a context-based partitioning technique for big data
  In Journal of Big Data, Vol. 8, n. 21 (2021)
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2020

• A. Belussi, S. Migliorini, D. Carra, E. Clementini (Eds.)
  Distributed and Parallel Architectures for Spatial Data
  MDPI Books, August 2020
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• D. Carra, G. Neglia
  Efficient Miss Ratio Curve Computation for Heterogeneous Content Popularity
  In Proc. of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 2020
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• D. Carra, G. Neglia, P. Michiardi
  Elastic Provisioning of Cloud Caches: a Cost-aware TTL Approach
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 1283-1296, June 2020
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• S. Migliorini, A. Belussi, E. Quintarelli, D. Carra
  A Context-based Approach for Partitioning Big Data
  In Proc. of the EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020
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2019

• A. Belussi, D. Carra, S. Migliorini, M. Negri
  Efficient MapReduce computation of topological relations for big geometries
  In Proc. of the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial '19), Chicago, IL, USA, Nov. 2019
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• D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Memory Partitioning and Management in Memcached
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Services Computing, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 564-576, July-Aug. 2019
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• F. Pace, D. Milios, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Dynamic Resource Shaping for Compute Clusters
  In Proc. of IEEE International Congress on Big Data, Milan, Italy, July 2019
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• S. Migliorini, E. Quintarelli, D. Carra, A. Belussi
  Sequences of Recommendations for Dynamic Groups: What is the Role of Context?
  In Proc. of IEEE International Congress on Big Data, Milan, Italy, July 2019
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• D. Carra, G. Neglia, P. Michiardi
  TTL-based Cloud Caches
  In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Paris, France, April 2019
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• P. Michiardi, D. Carra, S. Migliorini
  In-memory Caching for Multi-query Optimization of Data-intensive Scalable Computing Workloads
  In Proc. of the Workshops of the EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference, EDBT/ICDT-WS, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2019
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2018

• D. Carra, G. Neglia, P. Michiardi
  Elastic Provisioning of Cloud Caches: a Cost-aware TTL Approach
  In Proc. of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), Carlsbad, CA, USA, Oct. 2018 (poster)
  [Full paper at arXiv]


• F. Pace, D. Milios, D. Carra, D. Venzano, P. Michiardi
  Data-Driven Resource Shaping for Compute Clusters
  In Proc. of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), Carlsbad, CA, USA, Oct. 2018 (poster)
  [Full paper at arXiv]


• A. Belussi, D. Carra, S. Migliorini, M. Negri, G. Pelagatti
  What Makes Spatial Data Big? A Discussion on How to Partition Spatial Data
  In Proc. of 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018), Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 2018
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• S. Migliorini, D. Carra, A. Belussi
  Adaptive Trip Recommendation System: Balancing Travelers Among POIs with MapReduce
  In Proc. of IEEE International Congress on Big Data, San Francisco, California, USA, July 2018
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• G. Neglia, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Cache Policies for Linear Utility Maximization
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 302-313, Feb. 2018
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2017

• G. Neglia, D. Carra, M.D. Feng, V. Janardhan, P. Michiardi, D. Tsigkari
  Access-time aware cache algorithms
  In ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 21:1-21:29, Dec. 2017
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• F. Pace, D. Venzano, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Flexible Scheduling of Distributed Analytic Applications
  In Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), Madrid, Spain, May 2017
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• G. Neglia, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Cache Policies for Linear Utility Maximization
  In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2017
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• M. Pastorelli, A. Barbuzzi, D. Carra, M. Dell'Amico, P. Michiardi
  HFSP: Bringing Size-Based Scheduling To Hadoop
  In IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 43-56, Jan. 2017
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2016

• G. Neglia, D. Carra, M.D. Feng, V. Janardhan, P. Michiardi, D. Tsigkari
  Access-time aware cache algorithms   →   Best paper award!
  In Proceedings of IEEE ITC, Würzburg, Germany, September 2016
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• F. Toffalini, D. Carra, M. Abbà, D. Balzarotti
  Google Dorks: Analysis, Creation, and new Defenses
  In Proceedings of DIMVA, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, July 2016
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• M. Dell'Amico, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  PSBS: Practical Size-Based Scheduling
  In IEEE Transaction on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 7, pp. 2199-2212, July 2016
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• F. Pace, M. Milanesio, D. Venzano, D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Experimental Performance Evaluation of Cloud-Based Analytics-as-a-Service
  In Proceedings of IEEE Cloud, San Francisco, USA, June 2016
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before 2016

• D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Cost-based memory partitioning and management in Memcached
  In Proceedings of IMDM, co-located with VLDB, Hawaii, USA, August 2015
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• M. Dell'Amico, D. Carra, M. Pastorelli, P. Michiardi
  Revisiting Size-Based Scheduling with Estimated Job Sizes
  In Proceedings of IEEE Mascots, Paris, France, September 2014
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• D. Carra
  Controlling the Delay of Small Flows in Datacenters
  In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCSW, Madrid, Spain, July 2014
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• D. Carra, P. Michiardi
  Memory Partitioning in Memcached: An Experimental Performance Analysis
  In Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Sydney, Australia, June 2014
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• M. Pastorelli, A. Barbuzzi, D. Carra, M. Dell'Amico, P. Michiardi
  HFSP: Size-based Scheduling for Hadoop
  In Proceedings of IEEE BigData, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Oct. 2013
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• D. Carra, P. Michiardi, H. Salah, T. Strufe
  On the Impact of Incentives in eMule: Analysis and Measurements of a Popular File-Sharing Application
  In IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 94-104, Sept. 2013
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• D. Carra, M. Steiner, P. Michiardi, E. Biersack, W. Effelsberg, T. En-Najjary
  Characterization and Management of Popular Content in KAD
  In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 662-671, Apr. 2013
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• P. Michiardi, D. Carra, F. Albanese, A. Bestavros
  Peer-Assisted Content Distribution on a Budget
  In Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol 56, No 7, pp. 2038-2048, May 2012
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• D. Carra, G. Neglia, P. Michiardi, F. Albanese
  On the Robustness of BitTorrent Swarms to Greedy Peers
  In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 2071-2078, Dec. 2011
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• D. Carra, M. Steiner, P. Michiardi
  Adaptive Load Balancing in KAD
  In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Kyoto, Japan, September 2011
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• D. Carra, K. Avrachenkov, S. Alouf, A. Blanc, P. Nain, G. Post
  Passive Online RTT Estimation for Flow-Aware Routers Using One-Way Traffic
  In Proceedings of Networking, Chennai, India, May 11-15, 2010
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• M. Steiner, D. Carra, E.W. Biersack
  Evaluating and improving the content access in KAD
  In Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networks and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 115-128, June 2010
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• F. Esposito, I. Matta, P. Michiardi, N. Mitsutake, D. Carra
  Seed Scheduling for Peer-to-Peer Networks
  In Proceedings of International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Boston, MA, USA, July 9-11, 2009
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• N. Laoutaris, D. Carra, and P. Michardi
  Uplink Allocation Beyond Choke/Unchoke or How to Divide and Conquer Best
  In Proceedings of ACM CoNext, Dec 9-12, 2008, Madrid, Spain
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• D. Carra, G. Neglia, and P. Michiardi
  On the Impact of Greedy Strategies in BitTorrent Networks: the Case of BitTyrant
  In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Aachen, Germany, September 2008
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• M. Steiner, D. Carra, and E.W. Biersack
  Faster Content Access in KAD
  In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Aachen, Germany, September 2008
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• R. Lo Cigno, A. Russo, and D. Carra
  On some fundamental properties of P2P push/pull protocols
  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Communications and Electronic (HUT-ICCE), HoiAn, Vietnam, June 2008
  (invited paper)
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• D. Carra, R. Lo Cigno, and E.W. Biersack
  Stochastic Graph Processes for Performance Evaluation of Content Delivery Applications in Overlay Networks
  In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 247-261, Feb. 2008
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• D. Carra, R. Lo Cigno, and E.W. Biersack
  Graph Based Analysis of Mesh Overlay Streaming Systems
  In IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 1667-1677, Dec. 2007
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• D. Carra, and E.W. Biersack
  Building a Reliable P2P System Out of Unreliable P2P Clients: The Case of KAD
  In Proceedings of ACM CoNext, Dec 11-13, 2007, New York, NY, USA
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• D. Carra, R. Lo Cigno, and E.W. Biersack
  Graph Based Modeling of P2P Streaming Systems
  In Proceedings of IFIP Networking, May 14 -18, 2007, Atlanta, USA
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• E.W. Biersack, D. Carra, R. Lo Cigno, P. Rodriguez, and P. Felber
  Overlay Architectures for File Distribution: Fundamental Performance Analysis for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Cases
  In Computer Networks, Volume 51, No. 3, February 2007 , pp 901-917
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• D. Carra, R. Lo Cigno, and E.W. Biersack
  Content Delivery in Overlay Networks: a Stochastic Graph Processes Perspective
  In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2007, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  This paper received the Best Student Paper Award in the category "Communication Services"
• D. Carra, R. Lo Cigno, and E.W. Biersack
  Fast Stochastic Analysis of P2P File Distribution Architectures
  In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2007, San Francisco, CA, USA
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• D. Carra, and R. Lo Cigno
  Stochastic Analysis of Chain Based File Distribution Architectures with Heterogeneous Peers
  In Proceedings of WCW, Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera, France, September 12-13, 2005
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• P. Laface, D. Carra, and R. Lo Cigno
  A Performance Model for Multimedia Services Provisioning on Network Interfaces
  In Proceedings of QoSIP, Catania, Italy, Feb 2005
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PhD Thesis

• D. Carra
  Performance Evaluation of Overlay Content Distribution Systems
  University of Trento, March. 2007
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