DEI — Department of Information Engineering · University of Padova
Antonio Prado

Antonio Prado PhD

External Researcher
Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova, Italy
antonio.prado@dei.unipd.it
prado.it LinkedIn

Research Interests

BGP routing security, DNS filtering transparency, Internet infrastructure measurements, and Internet governance.

Publications

Survey on Internet Routing Security: Stakeholder Interests, Current, and Future Research Directions
S. Servillo, P. Spadaccino, M. Centenaro, A. Prado, M. Rossi, F. Luciani
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 28, pp. 6694–6726, 2026
90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield
R. Sommese, A. Sperotto, A. Prado, J. van der Ham, A. Affinito
CNSM 2025 — 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, IEEE
🏆 Best Paper Award
Italian operators' response to the COVID-19 pandemic
M. Candela, A. Prado
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2021

Books

BGP dalla teoria alla pratica (2nd ed.)
with T. Tofoni, F. Luciani — 2023
Amazon →
BGP from Theory to Practice
with T. Tofoni, F. Luciani
Amazon →
Parlami di Tech
with D. Smaldone
Amazon →
Crescere con l'intelligenza artificiale
with D. Smaldone, C. Galante
Amazon →

Open Source Projects

it-censura
Piattaforma per automatizzare e gestire blacklist DNS istituzionali italiane (AGCOM, ADM, CONSOB, IVASS, CNCPO) con integrazione Piracy Shield.
HTML
Internet-connection-SLA-RTD-and-PL-check
ISP SLA checker: measures RTT and packet loss to neutral IXP/RIPE targets, generating ticket-ready evidence bundles.
Shell
e164-it
E.164 phone number parsing & CSV batch normalization toolkit (UI + API).
HTML
ping6-it
Compare IPv4 vs IPv6 latency and reachability using Globalping probes (ping, traceroute, DNS, HTTP).
JavaScript
zautte
RAG virtual assistant for any website — embeddable JS widget, FastAPI, Ollama/Claude, numpy vector store.
Python
ROSE-T
ROuting SEcurity Tool — MANRS compliance checker for network router configurations (Juniper, Cisco, MikroTik). Presented at RIPE87.
Python
SBTAP-geofeed
Geofeed data for SBTAP network.