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Find more info about my research, projects, and software on the web page of our D3S research group:
Dynamic, Decentralized, Distributed Systems

News

• Feb 2018
  Our EWSN'18 pa­per "Concurrent Ranging in Ultra-wideband Radios: Ex­pe­rimental Evidence, Challen­ges, and Opportunities" won the Best Paper Award!
• Feb 2018
  Our team got the 2nd place at the EWSN'18 Dependability Competition! We participated with our Crystal system, as published here and here.
• Jan 2018
  The paper "Interfe­rence-Resilient Ultra-Low Power Aperiodic Data Collection" has been accepted at IPSN'18
• Dec 2017
  We have a paper, poster and demo accepted at EWSN'18, all on UWB!
• Dec 2017
  The paper "make­Sense: Simplifying the In­tegration of Wireless Sensor Networks into Business Processes" has been accepted in the IEEE Trans. on Software Engi­neering (TSE)
• Jul 2017
  I will be the Chair of the IoT/CPS track at ICDCS 2018
• Jan 2017
  The paper "BLEnd: Practical Continuous Neighbor Discovery for Bluetooth Low Energy" has been accepted at IPSN'17
• Jan 2017
  I am now a member of the Steering Committee of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference.
• Jul 2016
  The paper "Data Prediction + Synchronous Transmissions = Ultra-low Power Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted at SenSys'16
• Jul 2016
  The paper "RPL, the Routing Standard for the Internet of Things ... Or Is It?" has been accepted in IEEE Communications
• Jun 2016
  The paper "Directional Antennas for Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks: Are They a Good Idea?" has been accepted at MASS'16
• Jun 2016
  I will be the co-chair of the Internet of Things Track at ICCCN'17.
• Jan 2016
  I will be the General Chair of Middleware 2016, in Trento.
• Oct 2015
  I ended my term as Department Chair.
• Apr 2015
  The paper "Geo-referenced Proximity Detection of Wildlife with WildScope: Design and Characterization" won the Best Paper Award at IPSN'15!

Contact Info Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) University of Trento via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Povo (TN), Italy Telephone: +39 0461 28 3953 Fax: +39 0461 28 3166 E-mail: You can also reach me through Roberta Guidolin, the administrative assistant of my research group.

Some of my recent papers (check also the full list)

• "Interference-Resilient Ultra-Low Power Aperiodic Data Collection" with Timofei Istomin, Matteo Trobinger, and Amy L. Murphy.
  To appear in Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2018), Porto (Portugal), April 11-13, 2018. PDF
• "IoTBench: Towards a Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking with Carlo Alberto Boano, Simon Duquennoy, Anna Förster, Omprakash Gnawali, Romain Jacob, Hyung-Sin Kim, Olaf Landsiedel, Ramona Marfievici, Luca Mottola, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne, and Marco Zimmerling
  To appear in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems, co-located with the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2018), Porto (Portugal), April 11-13, 2018. PDF
• "Concurrent Ranging in Ultra-wideband Radios: Experimental Evidence, Challenges, and Opportunities" with Pablo Corbalàn.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Madrid (Spain), February 14-16, 2018.
  This paper received the Best Paper Award. PDF
• "makeSense: Simplifying the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks into Business Processes" with L. Mottola, Felix. J. Oppermann, Joakim Eriksson, N. Finne, H. Fuchs, A. Gaglione, S. Karnouskos, P. Moreno Montero, N. Oertel, K. Römer, P. Spieß, S. Tranquillini, and T. Voigt.
  To appear in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). PDF
• "BLEnd: Practical Continuous Neighbor Discovery for Bluetooth Low Energy" with Christine Julien, Chenguang Liu, and Amy L. Murphy.
  In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2017), Pittsburg (PA, USA), April 18-21, 2017. PDF
• "Data Prediction + Synchronous Transmissions = Ultra-low Power Wireless Sensor Networks" with Timofei Istomin, Amy L. Murphy, and Usman Raza.
  In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2016), Stanford (CA, USA), November 14-16, 2016. PDF
• "RPL, the Routing Standard for the Internet of Things ... Or Is It?" with Oana Iova, Timofei Istomin, and Csaba Kiraly.
  IEEE Communications vol. 54, no. 12, December 2016. PDF
• "Directional Antennas for Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks: Are They a Good Idea?" with Giovanni Tarter and Luca Mottola.
  In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2016), Brasilia (Brazil), October 10-13, 2016. PDF
• "Geo-referenced Proximity Detection of Wildlife with WildScope: Design and Characterization" with Davide Molteni, Amy L. Murphy, Federico Ossi, Francesca Cagnacci, Michele Corrà, Sandro Nicoloso. PDF
  In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2015), Seattle (WA, USA), April 13-16, 2015.
  

  This paper received the Best Paper Award. Also, the research described in this paper has been featured on the website of National Geographic Italy (in Italian)

• "Practical Data Prediction for Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks" with Usman Raza, Alessandro Camerra, Amy L. Murphy and Themis Palpanas.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 27, no. 8, 2014. PDF
• "Estimating Low-power Radio Signal Attenuation in Forests: A LiDAR-based Approach" with Silvia Demetri and Lorenzo Bruzzone.
  In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2015), Fortaleza (Brasil), June 10-12, 2015. PDF
• "DICE: Monitoring Global Invariants with Wireless Sensor Networks" with Stefan Guna and Luca Mottola.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 10, no. 4, June 2014. PDF
• "Software Engineering for Mobility: Reflecting on the Past, Peering into the Future" with Christine Julien, Amy L. Murphy, Mirco Musolesi, Gruia-Catalin Roman.
  In Proceedings of the 34th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Invited paper in the Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) track. The paper reflects upon a similar paper we wrote a decade and a half ago. PDF
• "How Environmental Factors Impact Outdoor Sensor Networks: A Case Study" with Ramona Marfievici, Amy L. Murphy, Federico Ossi, Francesca Cagnacci.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Hangzhou, China, October 2013. PDF
• "What Does Model-driven Data Acquisition Really Achieve in Wireless Sensor Networks?" with Usman Raza, Alessandro Camerra, Amy L. Murphy and Themis Palpanas. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2012), Lugano (Switzerland), March 19-23, 2012.This paper received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. PDF
• "Is There Light at the Ends of the Tunnel? Wireless Sensor Networks for Adaptive Lighting in Road Tunnels" with Matteo Ceriotti, Michele Corrà, Leandro D'Orazio, Roberto Doriguzzi, Daniele Facchin, Stefan Guna, Gian Paolo Jesi, Renato Lo Cigno, Luca Mottola, Amy L. Murphy, Massimo Pescalli, Denis Pregnolato, Carloalberto Torghele. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2011, SPOTS track), Chicago (IL, USA), April 12-14, 2011, pp. 187-198. This paper received the Best Paper Award. PDF
• "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts and State of the Art" with Luca Mottola.
  ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 43, no. 3, April 2011. PDF
• "Not all Wireless Sensor Networks are Created Equal: A Comparative Study on Tunnels" with Luca Mottola, Matteo Ceriotti, Stefan Guna, Amy L. Murphy.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 7, no. 2, August 2010. The connectivity traces are also available. PDF
• "Monitoring Heritage Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks: The Torre Aquila Deployment" with Matteo Ceriotti, Luca Mottola, Amy L. Murphy, Stefan Guna, Michele Corrà, Matteo Pozzi, Daniele Zonta, Paolo Zanon
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009, SPOTS track), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 13-16, 2009, pp. 277-288. This paper received the Best Paper Award. PDF

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