publications

V. Imperati, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, F. Sassi, “The Conspiracy Money Machine: Uncovering Telegram's Conspiracy Channels and their Profit Model”, USENIX Security 2025.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, "TGDataset: Collecting and Exploring the Largest Telegram Channels Dataset", ACM KDD 2025.

F. Cernera, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, F. Sassi, "The Blockchain Warfare: Investigating the Ecosystem of Sniper Bots on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain", ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, to appear, 2025.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, J. Wu, "Pretending to be a VIP! Characterization and Detection of Fake and Clone Channels on Telegram", ACM Transactions on the Web, to appear, 2025.

I. Fé, L. G. Silva, A. Soares, F. A. Silva, A. Mei, P. A. L. Rego, E. Choi, T. A. Nguyen, J. W. Lee, and D. Min, "Resilient and Efficient Microservices: Stochastic Modeling and Quantification of Energy Consumption and Recovery Times", IEEE Globecom 2024.

A. M. Mongardini, M. La Morgia, S. Jajodia, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "DARD: Deceptive Approaches for Robust Defense against IP Theft", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.

F. Cernera, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, and F. Sassi, “Token Spammers, Rug Pulls, and SniperBots: An Analysis of the Ecosystem of Tokens in Ethereum and in the Binance Smart Chain (BNB)”, USENIX Security 2023.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, and J. Wu, “It's a Trap! Detection and Analysis of Fake and Clone Channels on Telegram", IEEE ICWS 2023.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, and E. N. Nemmi, “A Game of NFTs: Characterizing NFT Wash Trading in the Ethereum Blockchain", IEEE ICDCS 2023.

F. Cernera, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, A. M. Mongardini, and F. Sassi, “Ready, Aim, Snipe! Analysis of Sniper Bots and Their Impact in the DeFi Ecosystem", WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023.

S. Jiang, J. Wu, F. Zuo, and A. Mei, “Balance-Aware Cost-Efficient Routing in Payment Channel Network", IEEE/ACIS SERA 2023.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, E. N. Nemmi, L. Sabatini, and F. Sassi, "Translated Texts Under the Lens: From Machine Translation Detection to Source Language Identification", Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2023.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, F. Sassi, and J. Stefa, "The Doge of Wall Street: Analysis and Detection of Pump and Dump Cryptocurrency Manipulations", ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol 23(1), 2023.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, E. N. Nemmi, Simone Raponi, and J. Stefa, "Nationality and Geolocation based Profiling in the Dark (Web)", IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, vol. 15(1), 2022.

E. N. Nemmi, F. Sassi, M. La Morgia, C. Testart, A. Mei, and A. Dainotti, “The Parallel Lives of Autonomous Systems: ASN Allocations vs BGP”, ACM/USENIX IMC 2021.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, F. Sassi, and J. Stefa, "Pump and Dumps in the Bitcoin Era: Real Time Detection of Cryptocurrency Market Manipulations", IEEE ICCCN 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA.

L. Bufalieri, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "GDPR: When the Right to Access Personal Data Becomes a Threat", IEEE ICWS 2020, Beijing, Cina.

A. Arabnezhad, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, E. N. Nemmi, and J. Stefa, "A Light in the Dark Web: Linking Dark Web Aliases to Real Internet Identities", IEEE ICDCS 2020, Singapore.

A. Bacciu, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, E. N. Nemmi, V. Neri, and J. Stefa, "Bot and Gender Detection of Twitter Accounts Using Distortion and LSA", CLEF (Working Notes) 2019.

A. Bacciu, M. La Morgia, A. Mei, E. N. Nemmi, V. Neri, and J. Stefa, "Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Combining Instance Based and Profile-Based Features", CLEF (Working Notes) 2019.

E. Ulqinaku, J. Stefa, and A. Mei, "Scan-and-Pay on Android is dangerous", IEEE INFOCOM MobiSec Workshop 2019, Honolulu, HI, USA.

M. La Morgia, A. Mei, S. Raponi, and J. Stefa, "Time-Zone Geolocation of Crowds in the Dark Web", IEEE ICDCS 2018, Atlanta, GA, USA.

A. Di Luzio, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Uncovering Hidden Social Relationships Through Location-Based Services: The Happn Case Study", IEEE INFOCOM BigSecurity Workshop 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.

F. A. Silva, S. Kosta, M. Rodrigues, B. Silva, D. Oliveira, G. Callau, T. Maciel, A. Mei, and P. Maciel, "Mobile Cloud Performance Evaluation Using Stochastic Models”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17(5), 2018.

E. Ulqinaku, L. Malisa, J. Stefa, A. Mei, and S. Capkun, “Using Hover to Compromise the Confidentiality of User Input on Android”, ACM WiSec 2017, Boston, MA, USA.

A. Di Luzio, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Consensus Robustness and Transaction De-Anonymization in the Ripple Currency Exchange System", IEEE ICDCS 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA.

A. Mei, N. Piroso, and J. Stefa, "Count On Me: Reliable Broadcast and Efficient Routing in DTNs through Social Skeletons", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 96, 2016.

A. Di Luzio, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Mind Your Probes: De-Anonymization of Large Crowds Through Smartphone WiFi Probe Requests", IEEE INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA.

E. Baccarelli, N. Cordeschi, A. Mei, M. Panella, M. Shojafar, and J. Stefa, "Energy-efficient Dynamic Traffic Offloading and Reconfiguration of Networked Datacenters for Big Data Stream Mobile Computing: Review, Challenges, and a Case Study", IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 30(2), 2016.

F. A. Silva, S. Kosta, M. Rodrigues, A. Mei, and P. Maciel, "Planning Mobile Cloud Infrastructures Using Stochastic Petri Nets and Graphic Processing Units", IEEE CloudCom 2015, poster session, Vancouver, Canada.

V. C. Perta, M. V. Barbera, G. Tyson, H. Haddadi, and A. Mei, "A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients", PETS 2015, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

A. Mei, G. Morabito, P. Santi, and J. Stefa, "Social-Aware Stateless Routing in Pocket Switched Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 26(1), 2015.

V. C. Perta, M. V. Barbera, and A. Mei, "Exploiting Delay Patterns for User IPs Identification in Cellular Networks", PETS 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, A. Mei, V. C. Perta, and J. Stefa, "Mobile Offloading in the Wild: Findings and Lessons Learned Through a Real-Life Experiment with a New Cloud-Aware System", IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada.

A. Davoli and A. Mei, "Triton: A Peer-Assisted Cloud Storage System", Papec@EuroSys 2014, Workshop of EuroSys 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Large-Scale Synthetic Social Mobile Networks with SWIM", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 13(1), 2014.

M. V. Barbera, S. Bronzini, A. Mei, and V. C. Perta, "A Needle in the Haystack: Delay Based User Identification in Cellular Networks", PAM 2014 poster, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

D. Mattiacci, S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Demo Abstract: Supporting Interoperability of Things in IoT Systems", ACM SENSYS 2013 demo, Rome, Italy.

M. V. Barbera, A. Epasto, A. Mei, V. C. Perta, and J. Stefa, “Signals from the Crowd: Uncovering Social Relationships through Smartphone Probes”, ACM/USENIX IMC 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Download the Signals from the Crowd dataset.

A. Gaeta, S. Kosta, J. Stefa, and A. Mei, "StreamSmart: P2P Video Streaming for Smartphones Through The Cloud", IEEE SECON 2013 demo, New Orleans, LA, USA. Best Demo Award!

S. Kosta, V. C. Perta, J. Stefa, P. Hui, and A. Mei, "Clone2Clone (C2C): Peer-to-Peer Networking of Smartphones on the Cloud", USENIX HotCloud 2013, San Jose, CA, USA.

M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "To Offload or Not to Offload? The Bandwidth and Energy Costs of Mobile Cloud Computing", IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy.

M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, A. Mei, V. C. Perta, and J. Stefa, "CDroid: Towards a Cloud-Integrated Mobile Operating System", IEEE INFOCOM 2013 demo, Turin, Italy. Best Demo Award!

S. Kosta, V. C. Perta, J. Stefa, P. Hui, and A. Mei, "CloneDoc: Exploiting the Cloud to Leverage Secure Group Collaboration Mechanisms for Smartphones", IEEE INFOCOM 2013 demo, Turin, Italy.

M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, J. Stefa, P. Hui, and A. Mei, "CloudShield: Efficient Anti-Malware Smartphone Patching with a P2P Network on the Cloud", IEEE P2P 2012, Tarragona, Spain, 2012.

A. Di Mauro, A. Mei, and S. Jajodia, "Secure File Allocation and Caching in Large Scale Distributed Systems", SECRYPT 2012, Rome, Italy, 2012.

A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Give2Get: Forwarding in Social Mobile Wireless Networks of Selfish Individuals", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 9(4), 2012.

M. V. Barbera and A. Mei, "Personal Marks and Community Certificates: Detecting Clones in Wireless Mobile Social Networks", IEEE DCOSS 2012, Hangzhou, China, 2012.

H. Meling, K. Marzullo, and A. Mei, "When You Don’t Trust Clients: Byzantine Proposer Fast Paxos", IEEE ICDCS 2012, Macau, China, 2012.

A. Mei, N. Piroso, and B. Vavala, "Fine Grained Load Balancing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 72(4), 2012.

A. Davoli, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "FAN: Friendship Based Anonymous Routing in Wireless Social Mobile Networks of Malicious Communities", EXTREMECOMM 2011, Manaus, Brazil, 2011.

K. Marzullo, H. Meling, and A. Mei, "Brief Announcement: When You Don’t Trust Clients: Byzantine Proposer Fast Paxos", DISC 2011, Rome, Italy, 2011.

A. Mei, G. Morabito, P. Santi, and J. Stefa, "Social-Aware Stateless Forwarding in Pocket Switched Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2011 mini-conference, Shanghai, China, 2011.

M. Conti, R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Distributed detection of clone attacks in wireless sensor networks", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol 8(5), 2011.

G. Bianchi, A. Capossele, A. Mei, and C. Petrioli, "Flexible Key Exchange Negotiation for Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM WINTECH 2010, Chicago, IL, USA, 2010.

A. Mei, G. Morabito, P. Santi, and J. Stefa, "Show me your friends and I'll tell you what you like", EXTREMECOMM 2010, Dharamsala, India, 2010.

M. Conti, R. Di Pietro, A. Gabrielli, Luigi V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "The Smallville Effect: Social Ties Make Mobile Networks More Secure Against the Node Capture Attack", ACM MOBIWAC 2010, Bodrum, Turkey, 2010.

S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Small World in Motion (SWIM): Modeling Communities in Ad-Hoc Mobile Networking", IEEE SECON 2010, Boston, MA, USA, 2010.

A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Give2Get: Forwarding in Social Mobile Wireless Networks of Selfish Individuals", IEEE ICDCS 2010, Genoa, Italy, 2010.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Hierarchies of Keys in Secure Multicast Communications", Journal of Computer Security, vol. 18(5), 2010.

S. Dziembowski, A. Mei, and A. Panconesi, "On Active Attacks on Sensor Network Key Distribution Schemes", 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSORS 2009), Rodhes, Greece, 2009.

M. Conti, R. Di Pietro, A. Gabrielli, Luigi V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "The Quest for Mobility Model to analyse Security in Mobile ad Hoc Networks", 7th International Conference on Wired / Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2009), Twente, The Netherlands, 2009.

A. Mei and J. Stefa, "SWIM: A simple model to generate small mobile worlds", IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009. (Check out our web-page for SWIM. You can find pre-processed traces you can use to test your protocols.)

A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Routing in outer space: Fair traffic load in multi-hop wireless networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58(6), 2009.

A. Mei, A. Panconesi, and J. Radhakrishnan, "Unassailable sensor networks", 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM 2008), Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.

A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Routing in outer space: Fair traffic load in multi-hop wireless networks", ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2008), Hong Kong, China, 2008.

M. Conti, R. Di Pietro, Luigi V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Emergent properties: Detection of the node-capture attack in mobile wireless sensor networks", ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec 2008), Alexandria, VA, USA, 2008.

A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Routing in outer space", IEEE INFOCOM 2008 mini-conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2008.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, A. Mei, A. Panconesi, and J. Radhakrishnan, "Redoubtable sensor networks", ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, vol. 11(3), 2008.

M. Conti, R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "A randomized, efficient, and distributed protocol for the detection of node replication attacks in wireless sensor networks", ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2007), Montreal, Canada, 2007.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Threat-adaptive dynamic fragment replication in large scale distributed systems", IEEE Workshop in Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing (HOT-P2P 2007), Long Beach, USA, 2007.

V. Patil, A. Mei, and L. V. Mancini, "Addressing interoperability issues  in access control models", ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communication Security (ASIACCS 2007), Singapore, 2007.

A. Mei and R. Rizzi, "On-Line permutation routing in partitioned optical passive star networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55(12), 2006.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Efficient and resilient key discovery based on pseudo-random key pre-deployment", Wireless Networks, vol. 12(6), 2006.

A. Mei and R. Rizzi, "Hypercube computations on partitioned optical passive stars networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17(6), 2006.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, A. Mei, A. Panconesi, and J. Radhakrishnan, "Sensor networks that are provably resilient", IEEE/CreateNet International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM 2006), Baltimore, USA, 2006.

M. Conti, R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Requirements and open issues in distributed detection of node identity replicas in WSN", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2006), Taipei, Taiwan, 2006.

G. Zanin, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "A secure and efficient large scale distributed system for object sharing", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), Lisboa, Portugal, 2006.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, “Increasing authentication and communication confidentiality in wireless sensor networks”, in Sensor Networks Operations. IEEE Press, 2006.

D. Dubhashi, A. Mei, A. Panconesi, J. Radhakrishnan, and A. Srinivasan, "Fast distributed algorithms for (weakly) connected dominating sets and linear-size skeletons", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, vol. 71(4), 2005.

G. Zanin, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Towards a secure dynamic allocation of files in large scale distributed file systems", IEEE Workshop in Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing (HOT-P2P 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands, 2004.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, A. Mei, A. Panconesi, and J. Radhakrishnan, "Connectivity properties of secure wireless sensor networks", ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN 2004), Washington D.C., USA, 2004.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Efficient and resilient key discovery based on pseudo-random key pre-deployment", IEEE Workshop on Wireless, Mobile, and Ad Hoc Networks (WMAN 2004), Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2004.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Key management for high bandwidth secure multicast", Journal of Computer Security, vol. 12(5), 2004.

A. A. Bertossi and A. Mei, "Time and work optimal simulation of basic reconfigurable meshes on hypercubes", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 64(1), 2004.

A. Mei and R. Rizzi, "Mapping hypercube computations onto partitioned optical passive star networks", IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC 2003), Hyderabad, India, 2003.

R. Di Pietro, L. V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "Random key assignment for secure wireless sensor networks", ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN 2003), Fairfax, VA, USA, 2003.

R. Di Pietro, L.V. Mancini, and A. Mei, "A time driven methodology for key dimensioning in multicast communications", IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC 2003), Athens, Greece, 2003.

D. Dubhashi, A. Mei, A. Panconesi, J. Radhakrishnan, and A. Srinivasan, "Fast distributed algorithms for (weakly) connected dominating sets and linear-size skeletons", ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2003), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2003.

A. Mei, L. V. Mancini, and S. Jajodia, "Secure dynamic fragment and replica allocation in large-scale distributed file systems", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (special issue on Security), vol. 14(9), 2003.

A. Mei and R. Rizzi, "Routing permutations in partitioned optical passive stars network", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 63(9), 2003.

A. Mei, R. Rizzi, "Routing permutations on partitioned optical passive star networks", IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2002), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, 2002. Best Paper Award.

A. A. Bertossi and A. Mei, "A residue number system on reconfigurable mesh with application to prefix sums and approximate string matching", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 11(11), 2000.

A. A. Bertossi, A. Mei, "Optimal segmented scan and simulation of reconfigurable architectures on fixed-connection networks", IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC 2000), Bangolore, India, 2000.

R. P. S. Sidhu, S. Wadhwa, A. Mei, V. K. Prasanna, "A self-reconfigurable gate array architecture", Field Programmable Logic and Applications - 10th International Workshop (FPL 2000), Villach, Austria, 2000.

A. A. Bertossi and A. Mei, "Constant time dynamic programming on directed reconfigurable networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 11(6), 2000.

R. P. S. Sidhu, A. Mei, V. K. Prasanna, "String matching on multicontext FPGAs using self-reconfiguration", ACM International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 1999), Monterey, CA, USA, 1999. USC EE-systems Outstanding Research Paper Award.

A. Dandalis, A. Mei, V. K. Prasanna, "Domain specific mapping for solving graph problems", IEEE Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop (RAW 1999), San Juan, Portorico, 1999.

R. P. S. Sidhu, A. Mei, V. K. Prasanna, "Genetic programming using self-reconfigurable FPGAs", Field Programmable Logic and Applications - 9th International Workshop (FPL 1999), Glascow, UK, 1999.

A. A. Bertossi, A. Mei, "New number representation and conversion techniques on reconfigurable mesh", IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC 1998), Madras, India, 1998. Outstanding Paper in the Algorithms and Applications Area.

A. A. Bertossi and A. Mei, "P-Bandwidth priority queues on reconfigurable tree of meshes", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 40(2), 1997.