March 2014
Giovanni Spigoni receives his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Integration of Heterogeneous Networks: Protocols, Technologies, and Applications.” Fourth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.
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2014-03 – CISCO donation
March 2014
WASN Lab has been granted, as a donation (over 50k$) by CISCO, an extension of the testbed with 12 high-end WiFi Access Points and controller servers to support and deploy CISCO CMX indoor localization system inside the department. The appliances provided by CISCO will be integrated with the ongoing activities on Internet of Things.
2013-07 – PhD school
July 2013
WASN Lab announces the Ph.D. School on Internet of Things and Smart Cities 2013, which will be held in Lerici (La Spezia), 16-21 September 2013.
2013-07 – The WASNLAB group got 7/7 papers accepted
July 2013
The WASNLAB group got 7/7 papers accepted at the 9th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2013), Cagliari, Italy, July 2013.
2013-04 – Prof. Ferrari participates as keynote speaker
April 2013
Prof. Ferrari participates as keynote speaker at the 19th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2013), Brussels, Belgium, April 2013, with the speech “Seamless (and cloudy) integration of heterogeneous networks: from vertical handover to mobile offloading”. Watch his talk here.
2013-04 – The paper “Impact of the number of beacons in PSO
April 2013
The paper “Impact of the number of beacons in PSO-based auto-localization in UWB networks”, by S. Monica and G. Ferrari, receives the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications13), Track on Nature-inspired Techniques for Communication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems (EvoCOMNET 2013), held in Vienna, Austria.
2012-02 – The paper “Redundant Distributed Data Storage
February 2012
The paper “Redundant Distributed Data Storage: Experimentation with the SensLab testbed”, by P. Gonizzi, G. Ferrari, Vincent Gay and Jeremie Leguay, receives the Best Paper Award at1st International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS 2012), held in Rome, Italy.
2011-08 – Stefano Busanelli and Gianluigi Ferrari receive anaward
August 2011
Stefano Busanelli and Gianluigi Ferrari receive an Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions (owing to 5 accepted and co-authored papers) at the 11th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST-2011), held in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2011-07 – Prof. Ferrari participates as keynote speaker
July 2011
Prof. Ferrari participates as keynote speaker at the Fifth International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE (COMSWARE 2011), Verona, Italy, with the speech “Body Sensor Networks: from Communication to Activity Classification.”
2011-05 – The WASNLab team BSN Winner
May 2011
The WASNLab team (M. Giuberti, M. Martalò, S. Busanelli, and G. Ferrari) receives the
First Body Sensor Network (BSN) contest winner award, held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2011), Dallas, TX, USA.