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Emanuele Pagliari
Research Associate
email: emanuele.pagliari[at]unipr.it
mailing address:
Dip. di Ingegneria e Architettura
Parco Area delle Scienze, 181A
43124 ParmaEmanuele was born in Casalmaggiore (Cremona) on October 1995.
He received a Bachelor degree (3-year program) in Information, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering on December 15th, 2017 and a Master Degree (second cycle degree) in Communication Engineering on July 9th, 2020, both from the University of Parma, Italy.
He discussed a thesis entitled “Design and Development of a Modular Multi-interface Gateway for Heterogeneous IoT Networks.” He’s passionate about Wireless Sensors Networks, IoT applications, drones and blockchain technology.
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- Internet of Things
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- UAVs and drones
2024
Emanuele Pagliari; Luca Davoli; Giordano Cicioni; Valentina Palazzi; Gianluigi Ferrari
On UAV Terrestrial Connectivity Enhancement through Smart Selective Antennas Journal Article
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2716 (1), pp. 012057, 2024.
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Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in heterogeneous contexts and, thanks to a continuous technological evolution, are going to be used for several applications such as, for example, Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. Since in BVLOS flights the UAV and the ground control center may not have a direct visibility with each other, a robust communication system is needed to provide reliable connectivity. Although a cellular (4G/5G) network is the current best candidate to enable BVLOS applications, there are still some limitations to overcome, as 4G (LTE) and 5G (NR) cellular networks are natively designed for terrestrial use. In this paper, we first investigate current cellular communication limitations for UAV-based applications, in particular taking into account both results available in the literature, as well as experimental performance campaigns. Then, a viable solution for mitigating these drawbacks exploiting selective on-board antennas is proposed, whose performance is experimentally investigated with a preliminary prototypical architecture.Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos; Emanuele Pagliari; Luca Davoli; George Nikolakopoulos
Redundant and Loosely Coupled LiDAR-Wi-Fi Integration for Robust Global Localization in Autonomous Mobile Robotics Inproceedings
In: 2023 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pp. 121-127, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024, ISSN: 2572-6919.
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Emanuele Pagliari; Luca Davoli; Giordano Cicioni; Valentina Palazzi; Paolo Mezzanotte; Federico Alimenti; Luca Roselli; Gianluigi Ferrari
Smart Selective Antennas System (SSAS): Improving 4G LTE Connectivity for UAVs Using Directive Selective Antennas Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, 12 , pp. 7040-7062, 2023, ISSN: 2169-3536.
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Harnessing Communication Heterogeneity: Architectural Design, Analytical Modeling, and Performance Evaluation of an IoT Multi-Interface Gateway Journal Article
In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11 (5), pp. 8030-8051, 2023.
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On UAV Terrestrial Connectivity Enhancement through Smart Selective Antennas Unpublished
2023, (13th EASN International Conference).
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2021
Laura Belli; Luca Davoli; Gianluigi Ferrari; Emanuele Pagliari
Droni intelligenti e reti mesh: stato dell’arte e sfide tecnologiche Online
Agenda Digitale 2021, visited: 11.10.2021.
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A Modular Multi-interface Gateway for Heterogeneous IoT Networking Inproceedings
In: 2020 International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication Technologies (ISAECT), pp. 1-6, Marrakech, Morocco, 2021.
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Hybrid LoRa-IEEE 802.11s Opportunistic Mesh Networking for Flexible UAV Swarming Journal Article
In: Drones, 5 (2), 2021, ISSN: 2504-446X.
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Emanuele Pagliari
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Emanuele Pagliari
Research Associate
email: emanuele.pagliari[at]unipr.it
mailing address:
Dip. di Ingegneria e Architettura
Parco Area delle Scienze, 181A
43124 ParmaEmanuele was born in Casalmaggiore (Cremona) on October 1995.
He received a Bachelor degree (3-year program) in Information, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering on December 15th, 2017 and a Master Degree (second cycle degree) in Communication Engineering on July 9th, 2020, both from the University of Parma, Italy.
He discussed a thesis entitled “Design and Development of a Modular Multi-interface Gateway for Heterogeneous IoT Networks.” He’s passionate about Wireless Sensors Networks, IoT applications, drones and blockchain technology.
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- Internet of Things
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- UAVs and drones
2024
On UAV Terrestrial Connectivity Enhancement through Smart Selective Antennas Journal Article
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2716 (1), pp. 012057, 2024.
Redundant and Loosely Coupled LiDAR-Wi-Fi Integration for Robust Global Localization in Autonomous Mobile Robotics Inproceedings
In: 2023 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pp. 121-127, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024, ISSN: 2572-6919.
2023
Smart Selective Antennas System (SSAS): Improving 4G LTE Connectivity for UAVs Using Directive Selective Antennas Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, 12 , pp. 7040-7062, 2023, ISSN: 2169-3536.
Harnessing Communication Heterogeneity: Architectural Design, Analytical Modeling, and Performance Evaluation of an IoT Multi-Interface Gateway Journal Article
In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11 (5), pp. 8030-8051, 2023.
On UAV Terrestrial Connectivity Enhancement through Smart Selective Antennas Unpublished
2023, (13th EASN International Conference).
2021
Droni intelligenti e reti mesh: stato dell’arte e sfide tecnologiche Online
Agenda Digitale 2021, visited: 11.10.2021.
A Modular Multi-interface Gateway for Heterogeneous IoT Networking Inproceedings
In: 2020 International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication Technologies (ISAECT), pp. 1-6, Marrakech, Morocco, 2021.
Hybrid LoRa-IEEE 802.11s Opportunistic Mesh Networking for Flexible UAV Swarming Journal Article
In: Drones, 5 (2), 2021, ISSN: 2504-446X.