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Gian Pietro Picco

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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

• July 2013
  The paper "DICE: Monitoring Global Invariants of Physical Processes using Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted in ACM Trans. on Sensor Network (TOSN)
• Jun 2013
  Keynote speaker at COORDINATION 2013
• Jan 2013
  Appointed on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)!
• Oct 2012
  Appointed as Department Chair!
• Oct 2012
  Best Demo Award at LCN 2012. The companion paper "Where's the Mote? Ask the MoteHunter!" was also a Best Paper runner-up at SENSEAPP'12.
• Apr 2012
  Patent awarded! The system described in our IPSN'11 paper has been awarded European Patent EP2224308!
• Mar 2012
  The paper "What Does Model-driven Data Acquisition Really Achieve in Wireless Sensor Networks?" won the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom!
• Mar 2012
  Keynote speaker at PerSens 2012
• Feb 2012
  EWSN'12 in Trento was a success!

Contact Info Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) University of Trento via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Povo (TN), Italy Telephone: +39 0461 28 3953 Fax: +39 0461 28 2093 E-mail: Since October 2012, I serve also as Department Chair. You can also reach me through: the Department Head of Staff, Manuel Zucchellini; the secretary of my research group, Roberta Guidolin.

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

• "DICE: Monitoring Global Invariants of Physical Processes using Wireless Sensor Networks" with Stefan Guna and Luca Mottola.
  (To appear) ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). PDF
• "On Churn and Communication Delays in Social Overlays" with Giuliano Mega and Alberto Montresor
  In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Tarragona, Spain, September 2012.
• "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
• "Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook" with Luca Mottola.
  Journal of Internet Services and Application, vol. 3, no. 1, May 2012.
  Invited paper for the Future of Middleware (FOME) workshop at Middleware 2011. 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. To appear in the 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
• "Muster: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multi-Sink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Luca Mottola.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 10, no. 12, December 2011. 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
• "Socially-aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" with Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, and Mirco Musolesi.
  In IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 748-760, June 2008. PDF

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