Angela Angela Sara Cacciapuoti is a Professor of Quantum Communications and Networks at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). Her work has appeared in first tier IEEE journals and she received different awards, including the “2024 IEEE ComSoc Award for Advances in Communication”, the “2022 IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award”, the “2022 WICE Outstanding Achievement Award” for her contributions in the quantum communication and network fields, and “2021 N2Women: Stars in Networking and Communications”. She also received the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Service Award for EMEA 2023, assigned for the outstanding service to IEEE ComSoc in the EMEA Region. Currently, she is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer with lecture topics on the Quantum Internet design and Quantum Communications. And she serves also as Member of the TC on SPCOM within the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Moreover, she serves as Area Editor for IEEE Trans. on Communications and as Editor/Associate Editor for the journals: IEEE Trans. on Quantum Engineering and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. She served as Area Editor for IEEE Communications Letters(2019 - 2023), and she was the recipient of the 2017 Exemplary Editor Award of the IEEE Communications Letters. In 2023, she also served as Lead Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC special issue ”The Quantum Internet: Principles, Protocols, and Architectures”. From 2020 to 2021, Angela Sara was the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering. Previously, she has been appointed as Publicity Chair of WICE. From 2017 to 2020, she has been the Treasurer of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group of the IEEE Italy Section. Her research interests are in Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Communications and Quantum Networks.
Marcello Marcello Caleffi is Professor at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), where he co-leads the Quantum Internet Research Group. He is also with the National Laboratory of Multimedia Communications, National Inter- University Consortium for Telecommunications. From 2010 to 2011, he was with the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory with the Georgia Institute of Technology, as a Visiting Researcher. In 2011, he was also with the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat) with the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, as a Visiting Researcher. Since July 2018, he held the Italian National Habilitation as a Full Professor of Telecommunications Engineering. His work appeared in several premier IEEE Transactions and Journals, and he received multiple awards, including the “2024 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication and the “2022 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award”. He currently serves as an Editor/Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. On Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Transactions On Quantum Engineering, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society and IEEE Internet Computing. He has served as the chair, the TPC chair, and a TPC member for several premier IEEE conferences. In 2017, he has been appointed as Distinguished Visitor Speaker from the IEEE Computer Society and he has been elected treasurer of the IEEE ComSoc/VT Italy Chapter. In 2019, he has been also appointed as a member of the IEEE New Initiatives Committee from the IEEE Board of Directors and, in 2023, he has been appointed as ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.
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Investigating the intriguing genuinely quantum instantiations of quantum channels and quantum operations for: - achieving capacities beyond Shannon limits - for generating entanglement and enabling universal quantum computing
L. d'Avossa, A. S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi "Modelling Quantum Transduction for Multipartite Entanglement Distribution", arXiv.2407.04015, July 2024.
F. Mazza, M. Caleffi, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Intra-QLAN Connectivity: beyond the Physical Topology", arXiv.2406.09963, June 2024.
S. Chen, J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Entanglement-Based Artificial Topology: Neighboring Remote Network Nodes", arXiv.2404.16204, April 2024.
K. Simonov, M. Caleffi, J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Universal Quantum Computation via Superposed Orders of Single-Qubit Gates", arXiv:2311.13654, November 2023.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Viscardi, J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, "Entanglement Distribution in the Quantum Internet: Knowing when to Stop!", in press, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, August 2024.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, "Quantum Internet Addressing", IEEE Network, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 104-111, Jan. 2024.
I. Dey, N.Marchetti, M.Caleffi, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Game Theory meets Quantum Networks", in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 90-96, August 2024.
M. Caleffi, K. Simonov, A.S. Cacciapuoti "Beyond Shannon Limits: Quantum Communications through Quantum Paths", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, June 2023.
S. Koudia, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Deterministic Generation of Multipartite Entanglement via Causal Activation in the Quantum Internet", IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 73863-73878, 2023.
J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, M. Viscardi, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum MAC: Genuine Entanglement Access Control via Many-Body Dicke States", In IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 2090-2105, April 2024.
M. Caleffi, M. Amoretti, D. Ferrari, J. Illiano, A. Manzalini, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Distributed Quantum Computing: a Survey", Computer Networks, Volume 254, December 2024, 110672.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, J. Illiano, S. Koudia, K. Simonov, M. Caleffi, "The Quantum Internet: Enhancing Classical Internet Services one Qubit at a Time", IEEE Network, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 6-12, September/October 2022
J. Illiano, M. Caleffi, A. Manzalini, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Internet Protocol Stack: a Comprehensive Survey", Computer Networks, vol. 213, August 2022.
D. Cuomo, M. Caleffi, K. Krsulich, F. Tramonto, G. Agliardi, E. Prati, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "Optimized compiler for Distributed Quantum Computing", ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, January 2023.
S. Koudia, A.S. Cacciapuoti, K. Simonov, M. Caleffi, "How Deep the Theory of Quantum Communications Goes: Superadditivity, Superactivation and Causal Activation", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 1926-1956, Fourthquarter 2022, August 2022.
D. Chandra, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "The Entanglement-Assisted Communication Capacity over Quantum Trajectories", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 3632-3647, June 2022.
D. Chandra, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, L. Hanzo, "Direct Quantum Communications in the Presence of Realistic Noisy Entanglement", in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 469-484, Jan. 2022.
D. Ferrari, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Amoretti, M. Caleffi, "Compiler Design for Distributed Quantum Computing", IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 1-20, 2021.
D. Cuomo, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Towards a Distributed Quantum Computing Ecosystem", Invited Paper, IET Quantum Communication, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-8, July 2020.
M. Caleffi, D. Chandra, D. Cuomo, S. Hassanpour, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "The Rise of the Quantum Internet", IEEE Computer, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 67-72, June 2020.
M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Switch for the Quantum Internet: Noiseless Communications through Noisy Channels", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 575-588, March 2020.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, R. Van Meter, L. Hanzo, "When Entanglement meets Classical Communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet", Invited Paper, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3808-3833, June 2020.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, F. Tafuri, F.S. Cataliotti, S. Gherardini, G. Bianchi, "Quantum Internet: Networking Challenges in Distributed Quantum Computing", IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 137-143, January/February 2020.
M. Caleffi, "Optimal Routing for Quantum Networks", IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 22299-22312, October 2017.
S. Chen, J. Illiano, A. S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Scaling Quantum Networks: Inter-QLANs Artificial Connectivity", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2024.
F. Mazza, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum LAN: On-Demand Network Topology via Two-colorable Graph States", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC), 2024.
L. d'Avossa, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Quantum Transduction Models for Multipartite Entanglement Distribution", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC), 2024.
L. d'Avossa, M. Caleffi, C. Wang, J. Illiano, S. Zorzetti, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Towards the Quantum Internet: entanglement rate analysis of high-efficiency electro-optic transducer", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE), 2023.
M. Viscardi, J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Entanglement Distribution in the Quantum Internet: an optimal decision problem formulation", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE), 2023.
S. Chen, A.S. Cacciapuoti, X. Chen, M. Caleffi, "Multipartite Entanglement for the Quantum Internet", Proc. of IEEE ICC, 2023.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, J. Illiano, M. Viscardi, M. Caleffi, "Quantum Internet: the Dawn of the Quantum Paths", Invited Paper, Proc. of ACM NANOCOM, 2022.
J. Illiano, M. Viscardi, S. Koudia, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Quantum Internet: from Medium Access Control to Entanglement Access Control", to appear in the Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2022.
M. Caleffi, J. Illiano, S. Koudia, A. S. Cacciapuoti, "The Quantum Internet: a Communication Engineering Perspective”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2021.
S. Koudia, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "From the Environment-Assisted Paradigm to the Quantum Switch", Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2021.
D.Cuomo, M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, "Experiencing the communication advantage of the Superposition of Causal Orders", Proc. of IEEE SPAWC, 2021.
J. Illiano, A.S. Cacciapuoti, A. Manzalini, M. Caleffi, "The Impact of the Quantum Data Plane Overhead on the Throughput", Proc. of ACM NANOCOM, 2021.
A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, "Toward the Quantum Internet: a Directional-Dependent Noise Model for Quantum Signal Processing!", Invited Paper, Proc. of IEEE ICASSP, 2019.
M. Caleffi, A.S. Cacciapuoti, G. Bianchi, "Quantum internet: from communication to distributed computing!", Invited Paper, Proc. of ACM NANOCOM, 2018.
M. Caleffi, "End-to-end entanglement rate: Toward a quantum route metric", Proc. of IEEE Globecom Workshops, Dec 2017.
W. Kozlowski, S. Wehner, R. Van Meter, B. Rijsman, A.S. Cacciapuoti, M. Caleffi, S. Nagayama , "Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet", RFC 9340, DOI , Mar 2023.
Our milestones towards the Quantum Internet.
Media content about the Quantum Internet research group.
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti interviewed for the IEEE Communication Society Award for Advances in Communication by italian newspaper Domani
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti and Marcello Caleffi spotted on Ateneapoli for the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti interviewed for her Stars in Computer Networking and Communications Award
Marcello Caleffi's CNIT talk about "Quantum Internet" at 5G Italy 2020
Marcello Caleffi talk "Toward a Quantum Internet" at Visions for Future Communications Summit 2017
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