Publications

Book Chapters:

• P. Rost, M. C. Valenti, S. Talarico, and A. Maeder, "Cloud Radio Access Networks: Principles, Technologies, and Applications", chapter "Computational Complexity and Achievable Rates in Centralized RAN", Cambridge University Press, April 2017.

Journal Papers:

• D. Torrieri, S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, "Analysis of a Frequency-Hopping Millimeter-Wave Cellular Uplink," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, n0. 10, pp. 7089 - 7098, October 2016.

• D. Torrieri, S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, "Performance Comparisons of Geographic Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, no.11, pp. 4276-4286, November 2015.

• P. Rost, S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, "The Complexity-Rate Tradeoff of Centralized Radio Access Networks," IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 6164 - 6176, November 2015.

• M.C. Valenti, D. Torrieri and S. Talarico, "A Direct Approach to Computing Spatially Averaged Outage Probability," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1103 - 1106, July 2014.

• S. Talarico, N.A. Schmid, M. Alkhweldi and M.C. Valenti, "Distributed Estimation of a Parametric Field: Algorithms and Performance Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1041 - 1053, March 2014.

• D. Torrieri, M.C. Valenti and S. Talarico, "An Analysis of the DS-CDMA Cellular Uplink for Arbitrary and Constrained Topologies," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 3318 - 3326, August 2013.

• F. Costa, A. Monorchio, S. Talarico and F.M. Valeri, "An Active High-Impedance Surface for Low-Profile Tunable and Steerable Antennas," IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 7,  pp. 676 - 680, July 2008.

Conference Papers:  

• Z. Chen, S. Talarico, Q. Xia, X. Peng, X. Hao and L. X. Cai, "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Next Generation of Multi-AP Coordinated Spatial Reuse," in IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), (Taipei, Taiwan), December 2025.

• Q. Xia, and S. Talarico, "Sharing-Based Channel Access Procedure for Next Generation of Wireless LAN," in IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), (Cape Town, South Africa), December 2024.

• R. Sun, S. Talarico, W. Chang, H. Niu, and H. Yang, "Enabling NB-IoT on unlicensed spectrum", in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), (Istanbul, Turkey), September 2019.

• R. Sun, W. Chang, S. Talarico, H. Niu, and H. Yang, "Design and performance of unlicensed NB-IoT ", in IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), (Oulu, Finland), August 2019.

• S. Talarico, M.C. Valenti, and M. Di Renzo, “Outage Correlation in Finite and Clustered Wireless Networks", in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), (Bologna, Italy), September 2018.

• J. Zhang, W. Chang, H. Niu, S. Talarico, H. Yang, "Grant-lessUplink Transmission for LTE Operated in Unlicensed Spectrum", in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), (Montreal, Canada), October 2017.

• S. Talarico, K. Makjiani, and P. Pillay-Esnault “Efficient Service Auto-Discovery for Next Generation Network Slicing Architecture,” in IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), (Palo Alto, CA), November 2016.

• S. Talarico, M.C. Valenti, and T.R. Halford “Controlled Barrage Regions: Stochastic Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization,” in Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (Baltimore, MD), November 2016.

• S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, “Frequency hopping on a 5G millimeter uplink,” in IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Sys, & Computers (Asilomar), (Pacific Grove, CA), November 2015. slides  -- invited paper.

• S. Talarico, M.C. Valenti, and D. Torrieri, “Optimization of an Adaptive Frequency-Hopping Network,” in IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (Tampa, FL), October 2015. slides

• D. Torrieri, S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, “Performance Analysis of Fifth-Generation Cellular Uplink,” in IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (Tampa, FL), October 2015. slides

• P. Rost, A. Maeder, M.C. Valenti, and S. Talarico, “Computationally aware sum-rate optimal scheduling for centralized radio access networks,” in IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), (San Diego, CA), December 2015. slides

• S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, “Interference Correlation in Fixed and Finite Networks,” in IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW), (Orange County, CA), May 2015. poster

• M.C. Valenti, S. Talarico, and P. Rost, “The Role of Computational Outage in Dense Cloud-Based Centralized Radio Access Networks,” in IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), (Austin, TX), December 2014. poster

• S. Talarico, M.C. Valenti, and T.R. Halford, “Unicast Barrage Relay Networks: Outage Analysis and Optimization,” in IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (Baltimore, MD), October 2014. slides

• D. Torrieri, S. Talarico, and M.C. Valenti, “Performance Analysis of Geographic Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks,” in IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (Baltimore, MD), October 2014. slides

• S. Talarico and M.C. Valenti, “An Accurate and Efficient Analysis of a MBSFN Network,” in IEEE  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), (Florence, Italy), May 2014. slides

• S. Talarico, M.C. Valenti and D. Torrieri, “Analysis of Multi-Cell Downlink Cooperation with a Constrained Spatial Model,” in IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), (Atlanta, GA), December 2013.  slides

• D. Torrieri, S. Talarico and M.C. Valenti, “Multihop Routing in Ad Hoc Networks,” in IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (San Diego, CA), November 2013. slides

• D. Torrieri, M.C. Valenti and S. Talarico, “A New Analysis of the DS-CDMA Cellular Uplink Under Spatial Constraints,” in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC),  (Budapest, Hungary), June 2013. slides

• M.C. Valenti, D. Torrieri and S. Talarico, “Adjacent Channel Interference in Frequency-Hopping Ad Hoc Networks,” in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), (Budapest, Hungary), June 2013. slides

• M.C. Valenti, D. Torrieri and S. Talarico, “A New Analysis of the DS-CDMA Cellular Downlink Under Spatial Constraints,” in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), (San Diego, CA), January 2013. slides

• M.C. Valenti, D. Torrieri and S. Talarico, “Optimization of a Finite Frequency-Hopping Ad Hoc Network in Nakagami Fading,” in IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), (Orlando, FL), October 2012. slides

• S. Talarico, M.C. Valenti, and D. Torrieri, “Analysis and optimization of a frequency hopping ad hoc network in Rayleigh fading,” in Proc. Virginia Tech Symp. on Wireless Personal Commun., (Blacksburg, VA), June 2012. slides

• F. Costa, S. Talarico, A. Monorchio and F.M. Valeri, "An active AMC ground plane for tunable low-profile antennas," in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APS), (San Diego, CA) , July 2008. 

Thesis:

• S. Talarico, "Role of Interference and Computational Complexity in Modern Wireless Networks: Analysis, Optimization, and Design", Ph.D degree, West Virginia University, December 2015. Advisor: Dr. M. C. Valenti. slides

• S. Talarico, "Analisi e Progetto di Superfici Selettive in Frequenza di Tipo Attivo per la Realizzazione di Antenne Sintonizzabili e Orientabili Elettronicamente ", (Analysis and Design of Electronically Tunable and Steerable Antennas Using Active Frequency Selective Surface), MEng degree, University of Pisa, October 2007. Advisors: Dr. A. Monorchio, Dr. G. Manara and Dr. P. Nepa. slides ppt

• S. Talarico, "Sintesi  di  Filtri  a  Microstriscia  Realizzati  con  FSS  Ottimizzate Mediante  Algoritmi  Genetici", (Design of Microstrip Filters Using FSS Optimized by Genetic Algorithm), BSc degree, University of Pisa, May 2006. Advisors: Dr. A. Monorchio and Dr. P. Nepa.

Technical reports:                    

• "Next Generation Protocols (NGP); Scenario Definitions ", ETSI GS NGP V1.2.1, May 2017.  

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member:

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2020-Present

• IARIA International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, 2017-Present.

• IEEE Conference on Green Energy and Smart Systems, 2024-Present.

• International Workshop on 5G RAN Design co-located with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017.

• International Workshop on 5G RAN Design co-located with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016.

• International Workshop on 5G RAN Design co-located with IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (GLOBECOM), 2016.

Regular Reviewer:

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (GLOBECOM). 

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Communication Letters.

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Wireless Communication Letters.

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

• Peer Reviewer: IEEE Communications Magazine.

• Peer Reviewer: Elsevier - COMputer NETworks.

• Peer Reviewer: Elsevier - COMputer COMmunications.