2021-06 – The paper “Hybrid LoRa-IEEE 802.11s Opportunistic Mesh Networking for Flexible UAV Swarming” graces the cover of the June 2021 issue of MDPI Drones

June 2021

The paper “Hybrid LoRa-IEEE 802.11s Opportunistic Mesh Networking for Flexible UAV Swarming,” authored by IoTLab members (L. Davoli, E. Pagliari, and G. Ferrari) graces the cover of the June 2021 issue of MDPI Drones, Special Issue “Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms” (vol. 5, no. 2, April 2021, pp. 26. DOI:10.3390/drones5020026).

This networking approach will be experimented with our new drone acquired within the ADACORSA project

2021-04 – Virtual Consortium Meeting of the NextPerception project

April 2021

G. Ferrari, L. Davoli and L. Belli participate at the Consortium Meeting of the European project Next generation smart perception sensors and distributed intelligence for proactive human monitoring in health, wellbeing, and automotive systems (NextPerception), Call H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-RIA-two-stage, project ID: 876487. The Consortium Meeting was held in online mode because of COVID-19 situation.

2021-02 – Paper in Top 10 Cited works

February 2021

The paper “Wireless Mesh Networking: An IoT-Oriented Perspective Survey on Relevant Technologies,” co-authored by A. Cilfone, L. Davoli, L. Belli, G. Ferrari and published in MDPI Future Internet (vol. 11, no. 4, 17 April 2019. DOI:10.3390/fi11040099) has gained a lot of interest since its publication and has been highlighted as the top 10 cited papers selected for the “10th Anniversary Feature Papers” special issue.

2020-12 – NG-IoT – Connectivity side protocols

December 2020

Prof. Ferrari, as a member of the Scientific Council of the ARTEMIS Industry Association together with the Scientific Council Chairman Prof. Dimitrios Serpanos (University of Patras, Greece), gives the talk “Connectivity side protocols for devices” in the online Workshop “IoT and Edge Computing II: The Far Edge,” organized in the context of the Coordination and Support Action (CSA) Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT).

2020-10 – Virtual Consortium Meeting of the NextPerception project

October 2020

G. Ferrari, L. Davoli and L. Belli participate at the Consortium Meeting of the European project Next generation smart perception sensors and distributed intelligence for proactive human monitoring in health, wellbeing, and automotive systems (NextPerception), Call H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-RIA-two-stage, project ID: 876487. The Consortium Meeting was held in online mode because of COVID-19 situation.