From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a research assistant in the Computer Science and Systems (DIS) and Information and Communication Theory (INFOCOM)departments of Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
In 2005 he worked with the Research Center on Software Technologies (RCOST) as a research assistant.
In the same year he was also an assistant professor at INFOCOM department lecturing the course of "Comunicazioni Elettriche".
In February 2006 he joined IP Technologies Area of CTTC as a post doc researcher. Since November 2006 he is a Research Associate in the IP Technologies Area.

Here below, a list of Paolo’s past participation in research projects.

Public funding:

• EU SUITED (Multi Segment System for Broadband Ubiquitous Access to Internet Services and Demonstrator)
• EU VIRTUOUS (Virtual Home UMTS on Satellite)
• EU SAILOR (Satellite Integrated UMTS Emulator)
• EU NATACHA (Network Architecture and Technologies for Airborne
Communication of Internet High Bandwidth Application)
• EU IMAGES (Integrated Multiservice Architecture for Next Generation Service)

Industrial:

• Large scale ad-hoc network (Marconi Selenia, Italy) - routing for ad-hoc networks
• Video over Wireless (Vodafone, Italy) - QoS support for video transmission over 3G networks
• FREEDOM (Orange, Spain) - Voice over IP, wireless heterogeneous networks
• DESSERT (Cisco, USA) - distributed mobility in wireless heterogeneous networks
• FemtoCore (industry, Spain) - femtocells

Paolo’s research interest areas encompass wireless networking in general.
More in detail:
• Mobility management
• Radio resource management
• Self-organizing networks
• Quality of service/experience provision
• Lightweight & energy efficient network architectures