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The list is grouped according to the venue where the papers have been published, and in inverse chronological order.

International Journals

• "Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services" with Marco Zimmerling and Silvia Santini.
  In ACM Computing Surveys. Volume 53, Issue 6. December 2020.
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• "Demystifying Energy Consumption Dynamics in Transiently-powered Computers" with Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Nawaz, Abu Bhakar, Naveed Bhatti, Junaid Siddiqui, and Hamad Alizai.
  In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. Volume 19, Issue 6. September 2020.
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• "Fast and Energy-efficient State Checkpointing for Intermittent Computing" with Saad Ahmed, Naveed Bhatti, Junaid Siddiqui, and Hamad Alizai.
  In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. Volume 19, Issue 6. September 2020.
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• "Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones"
  with Kamin Whitehouse.
  In Communications of the ACM. Volume 61, Issue 10. October 2018.
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• "Software Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Mikhail Afanasov
  and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. Volume 12, Issue 4. January 2018.
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• "makeSense: Simplifying the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks into Business Processes" with Gian Pietro Picco, Felix Oppermann, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, Harald Fuchs, Andrea Gaglione, Stamatis Karnouskos, Pablo Moreno Montero, Nina Oertel, Kay Roemer, Patrik Spiess, Stefano Tranquillini, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Volume 45, Issue 6. December 2017.
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• "Programming Support for Time-sensitive Adaptation in Cyberphysical Systems" with Mikhail Afanasov and Aleksandr Iavorskii.
  In ACM SIGBED Review. Volume 14, Issue 4. November 2017.
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• "Adaptive Real-time Communication for Wireless Cyber-physical Systems" with Marco Zimmerling, Pratyush Kumar, Federico Ferrari, and Lothar Thiele.
  In ACM Transactions on Cyber-physical Systems. Volume 1, Issue 2. February 2017.
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• "COIN: Opening the Internet of Things to People's Mobile Devices" with Laura Stefanizzi, Luca Mainetti, and Luigi Patrono.
  In IEEE Communications - Special Issue on People-centric Internet of Things. Volume 55, Issue 2. February 2017.
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• "Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences" with Naveed Bhatti, Hamad Alizai, and Affan Syed.
  In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 12, Issue 3. August 2016.
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• "View Consistency in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Arshad Jhumka.
  In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 12, Issue 3. August 2016.
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• "Building Internet of Things Software with ELIoT" with Alessandro Sivieri and Gianpaolo Cugola.
  In International Journal on Computer Communications - Special Issue on Internet of Things: Research challenges and Solutions. Volume 89-90. September 2016.
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• "DICE: Monitoring Global Invariants of Physical Processes using Wireless Sensor Networks" with Stefan Guna and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 10, Issue 4. June 2014.
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• "Supporting Cyberphysical Systems with Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook of Software and Services" with Prasant Misra, Shahid Raza, Simon Duquennoy, Nicolas Tsiftes, Joel Hoglund, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (publishing since 1914) - Special Issue on Cyberphysical Systems. Volume 93, Issue 3. September 2013.
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• "Radio Link Quality Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey" with Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Marco Zuniga, Habib Youssef, Carlo Alberto Boano, and Mario Alves.
  In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 8, Issue 4. November 2012.
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• "Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  In International Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Volume 3, Issue 1. May 2012.
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• "MUSTER: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multi-Sink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Volume 10, Issue 12. December 2011.
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• "Loupe: Verifying Publish-Subscribe Architectures with a Magnifying Lens" with Luciano Baresi and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Volume 37, Issue 2. April 2011.
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• "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts and
  State of the Art" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  In ACM Computing Surveys. Volume 43, Issue 3. April 2011.
  The paper is also the basis of our tutorial on WSN programming.
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• "Not All Wireless Sensor Networks Are Created Equal: A Comparative Study On Tunnels" with Gian Pietro Picco, Matteo Ceriotti, Stefan Guna, and Amy L. Murphy.
  In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Volume 7, Issue 2. August 2010.
  PDF, Connectivity traces
• "Wireless Sensor Networks for Permanent Health Monitoring of Historic Constructions" with Daniele Zonta, Huayong Wu, Matteo Pozzi, Paolo Zanon, Matteo Ceriotti, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy, Stefan Guna, and Michele Corrà.
  In SPIE International Journal on Smart Structures and Systems. Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Advances and Applications for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring. Volume 6, Issue 5-6. June 2010.
• "A Self-Repairing Tree Topology Enabling Content-Based Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks" with Gianpaolo Cugola and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Volume 7, Issue 8. August 2008.
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• "A Reconfigurable Component-Based Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems" with Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Cecilia Mascolo, Gian Pietro Picco, and Stefanos Zachariadis.
  In International Journal of Wireless Information Networks. Volume 14, Issue 2. June 2007.
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Authored Books

• "Radio Link Quality Estimation in Low-Power Wireless Networks" with Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Claro Noda, Hossein Fotouhi, Mario Alves, Hossein Youssef, Marco Zuniga, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Roemer, Daniele Puccinelli, and Thiemo Voigt.
  Part of the SpringerBriefs in Cooperating Objects, Springer Press, 2013.

Edited Books

• "Real-world Wireless Sensor Networks" with Koen Langendoen, Wen Hu, Federico Ferrari, and Marco Zimmerling.
  Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Real-world Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN13), Como Lake (Italy), September 2013. Springer Press.
• "The Emerging Domain of Cooperating Objects: Applications and Markets" with Stamatis Karnouskos, Pedro Marron, Giancarlo Fortino, and Luis Martinez-de Dios.
  Part of the SpringerBriefs in Cooperating Objects, Springer Press, 2013.
• "Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications" with Kurth Geihs, Gian Pietro Picco, and Kay Roemer.
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA11 - colocated with ACM/IEEE ICSE), Waikiki (USA), May 2011. IEEE Press.
• "Real-world Wireless Sensor Networks" with Pedro J. Marron, Peter Corke,
  and Thiemo Voigt.
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Real-world Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN10), Colombo (Sri Lanka), December 2010. Springer Press.

Contributions to Books

• "From Smart Dust to Wireless Sensor Networks" with Thiemo Voigt.
  Foreword to Wireless Sensor Networks: Deployments and Design Frameworks. Elena Gaura, Michael Allen, Lewis Girod, James Brusey, and Geoffrey Werner-Challen eds., Springer Press, 2010.
• "Tuple Space Middleware for Wireless Networks" with Paolo Costa, Amy L. Murphy, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  Invited chapter in Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Benoit Garbinato, Hugo Miranda, and Louis Rodrigues eds., Springer Press, 2008.

Contributions to Magazines

• "The FlyZone Testbed Architecture for Aerial Drone Applications" with Mikhail Afanasov. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2020. Cover Page Feature.
• "Flying Blind with Reactive Control of Aerial Drones" with Kamin Whitehouse. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2017.
• "Mobile Systems Research with Drones" with Kamin Whitehouse. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. Volume 20, Issue 4, October 2016.
• "Building Internet of Things Software" with Luciano Baresi and Schahram Dustdar. In IEEE Internet Computing. Number 2, Volume 19, March-April 2015.
• "Building Systems of Aerial Drones" with Niklas Wirstrom and Thiemo Voigt. In ERCIM News - Special Theme "Cyberphysical Systems". Number 97, November 2014.
• "Wireless Sensor Networks and the Tower that Breathes". Invited article as follow-up to the Cor Bayeen Award ceremony. In ERCIM News. Number 88, November 2011.

International Conferences and Workshops

• "ALFRED: Virtual Memory for Intermittent Computing" with Andrea Maioli.
  In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Coimbra (Portugal), November 2021.
  PDF, Teaser video
• "Discovering the Hidden Anomalies of Intermittent Computing" with Andrea Maioli, Junaid Siddiqui, and Hamad Alizaii.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Delft (The Netherlands), February 2021.
  PDF, Talk video
• "Battery-less Zero-maintenance Embedded Sensing at the Mithraeum of Circus Maximus" with Mikhail Afanasov, Naveed Bhatti, Dennis Campagna, Giacomo Caslini, Fabio Massimo Centonze, Koustabh Dolui, Andrea Maioli, Erica Barone, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Haroon Siddiqui.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020.
  PDF, Teaser video, Talk video
• "Intermittence Anomalies not Considered Harmful" with Andrea Maioli.
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS - colocated with ACM SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020. Best Paper Award. Best Pitch Video Award.
  PDF, Pitch video, Talk video
• "On Securing Persistent State in Intermittent Computing" with Hafiz Areeb Asad, Erik Wouters, Naveed Bhatti, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS - colocated with ACM SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020.
  PDF, Teaser video
• "LOCI: Privacy-aware, Device-free, Low-power Localization of Multiple Persons using IR Sensors" with Vijay Rao, Kavya Managundi, Ajay Keshava, Venkatesha Prasad, and TV Prabhakar.
  In Proceedings of the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Sydney (Australia), April 2020.
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• "Hummingbird: Energy Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites" with Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and T Venkata Prabhakar.
  In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), London (UK), September 2020. Best Paper Award. ACM SigMobile Research Highlight.
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• "Intermittent Computing with Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling" with Saad Ahmed, Qurat Ul Ain, Junaid Siddiqui, and Hamad Alizai.
  In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Lyon (France), February 2020. Best Paper Candidate.
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• "Intermittent Asynchronous Peripheral Operations" with Adriano Branco, Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Siddiqui.
  In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), New York (NY, US), November 2019. Best Paper Candidate.
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• "FlyZone: A Testbed for Experimenting with Aerial Drone Applications" with Mikhail Afanasov, Alessandro Djordjevic, and Feng Liu.
  In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Seoul (South Korea), June 2019. Best Paper Candidate.
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• "Efficient Intermittent Computing with Differential Checkpointing" with Saad Ahmed, Naveed Bhatti, Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Siddiqui.
  In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix (AZ, US), June 2019.
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• "The Betrayal of Constant Power x Time: Finding the Missing Joules of Transiently-powered Computers" with Saad Ahmed, Abu Bhakar, Naveed Bhatti, Junaid Siddiqui, and Hamad Alizai.
  In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix (AZ, US), June 2019.
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• "On Intermittence Bugs in the Battery-less Internet of Things" with Andrea Maioli, Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Siddiqui.
  In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix (AZ, US), June 2019.
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• "IoTBench: Towards a Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking" with Carlo Alberto Boano, Simon Duquennoy, Anna Forster, Omprakash Gnawali, Romain Jacob, Hyung-Sin Kim, Olaf Landsiedel, Ramona Marfievici, Gian Pietro Picco, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne, and Marco Zimmerling.
  In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBENCH - colocated with CPS-IoTWeek), Porto (Portugal), April 2018.
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• "Battery-free Visible Light Sensing" with Ambuj Varshney, Andreas Soleiman, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Visible Light Commmunication Systems (VLCS - colocated with ACM MOBICOM), Snowbird (UT, US), October 2017. Best Paper Award.
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• "HarvOS: Efficient Code Instrumentation for Transiently-powered Embedded Devices" with Naveed Bhatti.
  In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Pittsburg (PA, US), April 2017.
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• "Directional Antennas for Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks: Are They a Good Idea?" with Giovanni Tarter and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Brasilia (Brazil), October 2016.
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• "Reactive Control of Autonomous Drones" with Endri Bregu, Nicola Casamassima, Daniel Cantoni, and Kamin Whitehouse.
  In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Singapore, June 2016. Best Paper Award. ACM SigMobile Research Highlight.
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• "Model-based Real-time Testing of Drone Autopilots" with Andrea Patelli.
  In Proceedings of the 2th International Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (DRONET - colocated with ACM MOBISYS), Singapore, June 2016. Best Paper Award.
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• "Efficient State Retention for Transiently-powered Embedded Sensing" with Naveed Bhatti.
  In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Graz (Austria), February 2016.
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• "Predictable MAC-level Performance in Low-power Wireless under Interference" with Mathieu Michel, Nicolas Tsiftes, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Graz (Austria), February 2016.
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• "Virtual Resources for the Internet of Things" with Andrea Azzarà.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Milano (Italy), December 2015.
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• "Directional Transmissions and Receptions for High-throughput Bulk Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Ambuj Varshney, Mats Carlsson, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Seoul (South Korea), November 2015.
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• "Team-level Programming of Drone Sensor Networks" with Mattia Moretta, Kamin Whitehouse, and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Memphis (TN, US), November 2014.
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• "Design and Compilation of an Object-Oriented Macroprogramming Language for Wireless Sensor Networks" with Felix J. Oppermann, Kay Roemer, Gian Pietro Picco, and Andrea Gaglione.
  In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseAPP - colocated with IEEE LCN), Edmonton (Canada), September 2014.
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• "Towards Context-oriented Self-adaptation in Resource-constrained Cyberphysical Systems" with Mikhail Afanasov and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Component-Based Design of Resource-Constrained Systems (CORCS - colocated with IEEE COMPSAC), Vesteras (Sweden), June 2014.
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• "Context-oriented Programming for Adaptive Wireless Sensor Network Software" with Mikhail Afanasov and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing on Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Marina del Rey (CA, USA), May 2014.
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• "Virtual Synchrony Guarantees for Cyber-physical Systems" with Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele.
  In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Braga (Portugal), October 2013.
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• "Using Directional Transmissions and Receptions to Reduce Contention in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Ambuj Varshney and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Real-world Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN), Como Lake (Italy), September 2013.
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• "On Modeling Low-Power Wireless Protocols Based on Synchronous Packet Transmissions" with Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, and Lothar Thiele.
  In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), San Francisco (CA, USA), August 2013.
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• "Electronically-switched Directional Antennas for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Full-stack Evaluation" with Thiemo Voigt and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), New Orleans (LO, USA), June 2013.
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• "makeSense: Real-world Business Processes through Wireless Sensor Networks" with Florian Daniel, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, Harald Fuchs, Andrea Gaglione, Stamatis Karnouskos, Patricio Moreno Montero, Felix Jonathan Oppermann, Gian Pietro Picco, Kay Roemer, Patrik Spiess, Stefano Tranquillini, and Thiemo Voigt. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects for Smart Cities (CONET/UBICITEC), Philadelphia (PA, USA), April 2013.
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• "Understanding Link Dynamics in Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamically Steerable Directional Antennas" with Thiemo Voigt and Kasun Hewage.
  In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Ghent (Belgium), February 2013.
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• "Low-Power Wireless Bus" with Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele.
  In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Toronto (Canada), November 2012.
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• "Process-Based Design and Integration of Wireless Sensor Network Applications" with Stefano Tranquillini, Patrik Spiess, Florian Daniel, Stamatis Karnouskos, Fabio Casati, Nina Oertel, Felix Jonathan Oppermann, Gian Pietro Picco, Kay Roemer and Thiemo Voigt. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), Tallin (Estonia), September 2012.
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• "Drop the Phone and Talk to the Physical World: Programming the Internet of Things with Erlang" with Alessandro Sivieri and Gianpaolo Cugola. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Networks (SESENA - colocated with ACM/IEEE ICSE), Zurich (Switzerland), June 2012.
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• "Towards Business Processes Orchestrating the Physical Enterprise with Wireless Sensor Networks" with Fabio Casati, Florian Daniel, Guenadi Dantchev, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, Stamatis Karnouskos, Paulo Moreno Montero, Felix Oppermann, Gian Pietro Picco, Antonio Quartulli, Kay Roemer, Patrik Spiess, Stefano Tranquillini, and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 34th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - NIER track, Zurich (Switzerland), June 2012.
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• "pTunes: Runtime Parameter Adaptation for Low-power MAC Protocols" with Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Thiemo Voigt, and Lothar Thiele.
  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Beijing (China), April 2012. Best Paper Runner-up.
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• "Strawman: Resolving Collisions in Bursty Low-Power Wireless Networks" with Fredrik Osterlind, Thiemo Voigt, Nicolas Tsiftes, and Adam Dunkels.
  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Beijing (China), April 2012.
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• "The Bus Goes Wireless: Routing-Free Data Collection with QoS Guarantees in Sensor Networks" with Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele.
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S - colocated with IEEE PERCOM), Lugano (Switzerland), March 2012.
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• "From Your Desk to the Field: Recent Trends in Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring Civil Structures" with Thiemo Voigt, Ignacio Gonzales Silva, and Raid Karoumi.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Sensors Conference, Limerick (Ireland), October 2011.
• "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, Amy L. Murphy, Massimo Pescalli, Gian Pietro Picco, Denis Pregnolato, and Carloalberto Torghele.
  In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Chicago (IL, USA), April 2011. Best Paper Award.
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• "The Announcement Layer: Beacon Coordination for the Sensornet Stack" with Adam Dunkels, Nicolas Tsiftes, Fredrik Osterlind, Joakim Eriksson, and Niclas Finne.
  In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Bonn (Germany), February 2011.
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• "Evaluation of an Electronically Switched Directional Antenna for Real-world Low-power Wireless Networks" with Erik Ostrom and Thiemo Voigt.
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Real-world Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN), Colombo (Sri Lanka), December 2010.
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• "Anquiro: Enabling Efficient Static Verification of Sensor Network Software" with Thiemo Voigt, Fredrik Osterlind, Joakim Eriksson, Luciano Baresi, and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Networks (SESENA - colocated with ACM/IEEE ICSE), Cape Town (South Africa), May 2010.
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• "Programming Storage-centric Sensor Networks with Squirrel".
  In Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Stockholm (Sweden), April 2010.
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• "Smart Antennas Made Practical: The SPIDA Way" with Erik Ostrom, Martin Nilsson, and Thiemo Voigt.
  Public Demonstration in Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), Stockholm (Sweden), April 2010.
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• "Wireless Sensors for Permanent Monitoring of Heritage Buildings" with Huayong Wu, Daniele Zonta, Matteo Pozzi, Paolo Zanon, Matteo Ceriotti, Gian Pietro Picco, Stefan Guna, Amy L. Murphy, and Michele Corrà.
  In Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, San Diego (CA, USA), March 2010.
• "Selective Reprogramming of Mobile Sensor Networks through Social Community Detection" with Bence Pasztor, Cecilia Mascolo, Gian Pietro Picco, Stephen W. Ellwood, and David A. Macdonald.
  In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Coimbra (Portugal), February 2010.
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• "Making Sensornet MAC Protocols Robust Against Interference" with Carlo Alberto Boano, Thiemo Voigt, Nicolas Tsiftes, Kay Roemer, and Marco Zuniga.
  In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Coimbra (Portugal), February 2010.
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• "On Consistent Neighborhood Views in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Arshad Jhumka.
  In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Niagara Falls (NY, USA), September 2009. Best Paper Candidate.
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• "Monitoring Heritage Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks:
  The Torre Aquila Deployment" with Matteo Ceriotti, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy, Stefan Guna, Michele Corrà, Matteo Pozzi, Daniele Zonta, and Paolo Zanon.
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN - part of CPS-IoTWeek), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 2009. Best Paper Award.
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• "Real-Time Health Monitoring of Historic Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks" with Daniele Zonta, Matteo Pozzi, Huayong Wu, Paolo Zanon, Matteo Ceriotti, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy, and Stefan Guna.
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), Stanford (CA, USA), April 2009.
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• "FiGaRo: Fine-Grained Software Reconfiguration in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Gian Pietro Picco and Adil Amjad.
  In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Bologna (Italy), January 2008.
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• "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks with Logical Neighborhoods:
  A Road Tunnel Use Case" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  Public Demonstration in Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Sydney (Australia), November 2007. Best Demo Award.
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• "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks with the TeenyLIME Middleware" with Paolo Costa, Amy L. Murphy, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach (CA, USA), November 2007.
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• "Enabling Scope-Based Interactions in Sensor Network Macroprogramming" with Animesh Pathak, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Pisa (Italy), October 2007.
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• "Playing with Time in Publish-Subscribe using a Domain-Specific Model Checker" with Luciano Baresi, Giorgio Gerosa, and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems (SAVCBS - colocated with ACM ESEC), Dubrovnik (Croatia), September 2007.
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• "A Compilation Framework for Macroprogramming Networked Sensors" with Animesh Pathak, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing on Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Santa Fe (NM, USA), June 2007.
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• "On Accurate Automatic Verification of Publish-Subscribe Architectures" with Luciano Baresi and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Minneapolis (MN, USA), May 2007.
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• "Expressing Sensor Network Interaction Patterns using Data-Driven Macroprogramming" with Animesh Pathak, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PERSENS - colocated with IEEE PERCOM), New York (NY, USA), March 2007.
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• "The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario" with Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish Lad, Cecilia Mascolo, Gian Pietro Picco, Thirunavukkarasu Sivaharan, Nirmal Weerasinghe, and Stefanos Zachariadis.
  In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM), New York (NY, USA), March 2007.
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• "Efficient Routing from Multiple Sources to Multiple Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Pietro Ciciriello and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Delft (The Netherlands), January 2007.
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• "Building Virtual Sensors and Actuators over Logical Neighborhoods" with Pietro Ciciriello and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MIDSENS - colocated with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware), Melbourne (Australia), November 2006.
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• "TeenyLIME: Transiently Shared Tuple Space Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks" with Paolo Costa, Amy L. Murphy, and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MIDSENS - colocated with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware), Melbourne (Australia), November 2006.
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• "Using Logical Neighborhoods to Enable Scoping in Wireless Sensor Networks" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Middleware Doctoral Symposium (MDS - colocated with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware), Melbourne (Australia), November 2006.
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• "Pervasive Games in a Mote-Enabled Virtual World Using Tuple Space Middleware" with Amy L. Murphy and Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Network and System Support for Games (NETGAMES), Singapore, October 2006.
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• "Dynamic Reconfiguration in the RUNES Middleware" with Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish Lad, Cecilia Mascolo, Gian Pietro Picco, and Stefanos Zachariadis.
  Public Demonstration in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Vancouver (Canada), October 2006.
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• "Towards Lightweight Information Dissemination in Inter-Vehicular Networks" with Davide Sormani, Gabriele Turconi, Paolo Costa, Davide Frey, and Matteo Migliavacca.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET - colocated with ACM MOBICOM), Los Angeles (CA, USA), September 2006.
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• "Towards Fine-grained Automated Verification of Publish-Subscribe Architectures" with Luciano Baresi and Carlo Ghezzi.
  In Proceedings of the 26th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE), Paris (France), September 2006.
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• "Logical Neighborhoods: A Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing on Sensor Systems (DCOSS), San Francisco (CA, USA), June 2006.
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• "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks with Logical Neighborhoods" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (INTERSENSE), Nice (France), May 2006.
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Theses

• "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: From Physical to Logical Neighborhoods".
  Ph.D. Thesis, advisor Prof. G. P. Picco, Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
  EWSN/CONET 2009 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.
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• "Overlay Management for Publish-Subscribe in Mobile Environments".
  Laurea Thesis, advisor Prof. G. P. Picco, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and University of Illinois at Chicago (IL, USA).
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