March 2014

Matteo Giuberti receives his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Inertial Sensing for Human Motion Analysis: Processing, Technologies, and Applications.” Fifth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.