"The purpose of abstraction is not to be
vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be
absolutely precise"
E. W. Dijkstra - from
the Humble Programmer, 1972.
(Read also another
interesting article about abstraction).
I'm a researcher in the Networked Embedded Systems Group (NES) at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). My research concerns programming Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), networks of tiny computing devices with sensing capabilities. I'm also involved in real-world deployments where my work is used to build reliable and efficient WSNs. You can find more under research or reach me at luca sics se.
In 2009, I received
the EWSN/CONET Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for my
Ph.D. thesis on WSN
programming. In the same year, along with co-authors, I received the
Best Paper
Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN/SPOTS for our work on
the Torre Aquila deployment. In 2007, along with
G.P. Picco, I received
the Best Demo Award
at ACM SENSYS with a demonstration based on the
Logical Neighborhoods programming abstraction.
What's new?
CPSWEEK tutorial!
G.P. Picco and I are going to present our tutorial
on WSN programming at the
upcoming CPSWEEK, which brings together five leading
conferences - HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, LCTES, and RTAS - on the research and development of
cyber-physical systems.
More
info here! To register for the tutorial, please visit
the CPSWEEK
site.
IPSN paper!
The paper "Programming Storage-centric Sensor
Networks with Squirrel"
has been accepted for publication at the
9th Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN/IP).
ACM Computing Surveys paper!
The
paper "Programming Wireless Sensor
Networks:
Fundamental Concepts and State of the Art",
co-authored
with G.P. Picco, has been accepted for publication
on ACM Computing Surveys!
The paper is the
basis of our
tutorial on WSN programming.
EWSN papers!
The papers "Selective Reprogramming
of Mobile Sensor Networks through Social Community Detection" and
"Making Sensornet MAC Protocols Robust Against Interference"
have been accepted for publication at
the 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor
Networks,
to be held in Coimbra (Portugal).
Marco Zimmerling receives Best M.Sc. Thesis Award!
Marco
Zimmerling's thesis "Automatic Parameter Optimization of Sensor
Network MAC Protocols", which I co-supervised along
with Thiemo
Voigt, has received the Best M.Sc. Thesis Award
at the
1st
Int. School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks. Congratulations
to Marco!
Scientific events I'm currently involved in:
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2010 (PC member):
9th Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.
DCOSS 2010 (PC member):
6th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems.
EWSN 2010 (PC member):
7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE SRDS 2010 (PC member):
29th IEEE Int. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems.
IEEE SUTC 2010 (PC member):
3rd Int. Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and
Trustworthy Computing.
IEEE SenseApp 2010 (PC member):
5th IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building
Sensor Network Applications.
SESENA 2010 (PC member):
1st Int. Workshop on Software Engineering for
Sensor Network
Applications (co-located
with ICSE 2010).
CONET 2010 (PC member, Local chair):
1st Int. Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects.
IEEE VTC Fall 2010 (PC member):
72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference.
DSD 2010 (PC member):
13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design,
Special Session on Wireless Sensor Networks.
AdHocNets 2010 (PC member):
2nd International Conference on Ad-hoc Networks.
RTN 2010 (PC member):
9th Int. Workshop on Real-Time Networks.
Selected publications
The following papers are representative of my current investigation and of projects I've been involved in (more under publications):
- "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts
and
State of the Art" with Gian Pietro Picco.
(To appear) in ACM Computing Surveys.
The paper is also the basis of our tutorial on WSN programming.
PDF - "Monitoring Heritage Buildings with Wireless Sensor
Networks: The Torre Aquila Deployment" with Matteo Ceriotti,
Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy, Stefan Guna, Michele Corrą,
Matteo Pozzi, Daniele Zonta, and Paolo Zanon.
In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN/SPOTS), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 2009. Best Paper Award.
PDF - "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.
PDF - "Logical Neighborhoods: A Programming Abstraction for
Wireless Sensor Networks" with Gian Pietro Picco.
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing on Sensor Systems (DCOSS), San Francisco (CA, USA), June 2006.
PDF - "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.
PDF - "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.
PDF - "On Accurate Automatic Verification of Publish-Subscribe
Architectures" with Luciano Baresi and Carlo Ghezzi.
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Minneapolis (MN, USA), May 2007.
PDF - "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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