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• Sep 2021
  Our paper "The Wireless Control Bus: Enabling Efficient Multi-hop Event-Triggered Control with Concurrent Transmissions" has been accepted by ACM TCPS.
• Sep 2021
  Our paper "The Wireless Control Bus: Enabling Efficient Multi-hop Event-Triggered Control with Concurrent Transmissions" has been accepted by ACM TCPS.
• Sep 2020
  Our paper "Ultra-wideband Concurrent Ranging" is now published on ACM TOSN.
• Feb 2018
  Our IPIN'19 pa­per "TALLA: Large-scale TDoA Localization with Ultra-wideband Radios" won the Best Paper Award!
• 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:

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

• "Human Occlusion in Ultra-wideband Ranging: What Can the Radio Do for You?" Vu Anh Minh Le, Matteo Trobinger, Davide Vecchia, Gian Pietro Picco
  In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2022), Guangzhou (China), December 14-16, 2022. PDF and talk
• "Fine-grained Stop-Move Detection in UWB-based Trajectories" Fatima Hachem, Davide Vecchia, Maria Luisa Damiani, Gian Pietro Picco
  In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022), Pisa (Italy), March 21-24, 2022. PDF, teaser, and talk
• "Measuring close proximity interactions in summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic" Elia Leoni, Giulia Cencetti, Gabriele Santin, Timofei Istomin, Davide Molteni, Gian Pietro Picco, Elisabetta Farella, Bruno Lepri and Amy L. Murphy
  In EPJ Data Science, vol. 11, Article 5, January 2022. PDF
• "Janus: Dual-radio Accurate and Energy-Efficient Proximity Detection" Timofei Istomin, Elia Leoni, Davide Molteni, Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco, Maurizio Griva.
  In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 5, no. 4, article 162, December 2021. PDF
• "The Wireless Control Bus: Enabling Efficient Multi-hop Event-Triggered Control with Concurrent Transmissions" Matteo Trobinger, Gabriel de Albuquerque Gleizer, Timofei Istomin, Manuel Mazo Jr., Amy L. Murphy, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  To appear in ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS). PDF
• "One Flood to Route Them All: Ultra-fast Convergecast of Concurrent Flows over UWB" with Matteo Trobinger, Davide Vecchia, Diego Lobba, Timofei Istomin.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020), Yokohama (Japan), November 16-19, 2020. PDF and video
• "Poster Abstract: Dual-radio Discovery and Ranging for Infrastructure-less Social Distancing with Janus" with Timofei Istomin, Elia Leoni, Davide Molteni, Amy L. Murphy.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020), Yokohama (Japan), November 16-19, 2020. PDF and video
• "Ultra-wideband Concurrent Ranging" with Pablo Corbalàn.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 16, no. 4, September 2020. PDF
• "Concurrent Transmissions for Multi-hop Communication on Ultra-wideband Radios" with Diego Lobba, Matteo Trobinger, Davide Vecchia, and Timofei Istomin.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Lyon (France), February 17-19, 2020. PDF
• "Robot Localization via Odometry-assisted Ultra-wideband Ranging with Stochastic Guarantees" with Pablo Corbalàn, Daniele Fontanelli, Valerio Magnago, and Luigi Palopoli.
  In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019), Macau (China), November 4-8, 2019. PDF and video
• "Route or Flood? Reliable and Efficient Support for Downward Traffic in RPL" with Timofei Istomin, Oana Iova, Csaba Kiraly.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 16, no. 1, October 2019. PDF
• "TALLA: Large-scale TDoA Localization with Ultra-wideband Radios" with Pablo Corbalàn, Timofei Istomin, and Davide Vecchia.
  In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2019), Pisa (Italy), September 30 - October 3, 2019. PDF This paper received the Best Paper Award.
• "Playing with Fire: Exploring Concurrent Transmissions in Ulra-wideband Radios" with Pablo Corbalàn, Timofei Istomin, and Davide Vecchia.
  In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2019), Boston (MA, USA), June 10-13, 2019. PDF
• "Chorus: UWB Concurrent Transmissions for GPS-like Passive Localization of Countless Targets" with Pablo Corbalàn and Sameera Palipana.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2019), Montreal (Canada), April 15-18, 2019. PDF
• "Automated Estimation of Link Quality for LoRa: A Remote Sensing Approach" with Silvia Demetri, Marco Zuniga, Fernando Kuipers, Lorenzo Bruzzone, and Thomas Telkamp.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2019), Montreal (Canada), April 15-18, 2019. PDF
• "Connected Things Connecting Europe" with Julie A. McCann, Alex Gluhak, Karl Henrik Johansson, Martin Törngren, Laila Gide.
  In Communications of the ACM (CACM), vol. 62, no. 4, April 2019. PDF
• "LaPS: LiDAR-assisted Placement of Wireless Sensor Networks in Forests" with Silvia Demetri and Lorenzo Bruzzone.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol.15, no. 2, April 2019. PDF
• "Interference-Resilient Ultra-Low Power Aperiodic Data Collection" with Timofei Istomin, Matteo Trobinger, and Amy L. Murphy.
  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
  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

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