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Publications

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

International Journals

• "Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook" with Gian Pietro Picco.
  (To appear) in International Journal of Internet Services and Applications.
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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.
  (To appear) in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
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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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Edited Books

• "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 (REALWSN), 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

• "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

• "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 Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Thiemo Voigt, and Lothar Thiele.
  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN/IP), Beijing (China), April 2012.
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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/SPOTS), 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/SPOTS), 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/IP), 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/IP), 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/SPOTS), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 2009. Best Paper Award.
  PDF, Award page, Publicity on WSNBlog I, Publicity on WSNBlog II
• "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.
• "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.
  PDF, Award page, Publicity on WSNBlog, Publicity on Contiki's Web Site, Pictures on LN Web Site
• "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.
  PDF, Award page, Publicity on WSNBlog
• "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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Technical Reports Submitted for Publication

• "DICE: Monitoring Global Invariants of Physical Processes using Wireless Sensor Networks" with Stefan Guna and Gian Pietro Picco.

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