June 2016

Federico Parisi, PhD student at the WASN Lab, wins the hackaton organized at the 13th Annual Body Sensor Networks Conference (BSN 2016), San Francisco, CA, USA.

June 2016

Prof. Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, from the Department of Data Communication and Networking, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thiland, visits WASN Lab with colleagues and PhD students, to present their research activites and discuss about possible collaborations.

May 2016

Prof. Ferrari gives the invited talk “Internet of Things per la Fabbrica 4.0” (IoT for Factory 4.0) at the ICT Day organized at the University of Parma. See also the article which appeared on the local newspaper Gazzetta di Parma.

April 2016

The paper “Models, statistics, and rates of binary correlated sources,” co-authored by WASN Lab member M. Martalò is accepted for Elsevier Physical Communication (Apr. 2016. ISSN 1874-4907). Additional slides HERE

March 2016

Laura Belli receives her PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Efficient Data Management with Applications to IoT.” Tenth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

March 2016

Andrea Gorrieri receives his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Efficient Multi-hop Broadcast Data Dissemination in IoT and Smart Cities.” Ninth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

March 2016

Muhammad Asim receives his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Advanced Receivers for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems.” Eighth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

December 2015

Prof. Ferrari gives the invited talk “Cognitive Wireless Networking: Exploiting
Sensing Correlation and Position Information” at the Huawei Technologies’ Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab in Paris. The talk is based on joint work with Andrea Abrardo (University of Siena) and Marco Martalò (University of Parma).

November 2015

The activities of WASN Lab in the context of IoT and Smart Cities are featured in the “Speciale SMART CITY: Realtà Eccellenti” of the November 12, 2015 issue of Il Sole 24 Ore, one of the major Italian economic newspapers. The featured article is titled “Smart City e Internet delle Cose: Un matrimonio ben riuscito all’Università di Parma.”

November 2015

The paper “BSN-based kinematic characterization and comparative outlook of UPDRS scoring in leg agility, sit-to-stand, and gait tasks in Parkinson’s disease,” co-authored by WASN Lab members F. Parisi and and G. Ferrari is selected for the Special Section “Enabling Technologies for Parkinson’s Disease Management” of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1777-1793, Nov. 2015. DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2015.2472640).