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Prof. Carlo Giannelli
University of Ferrara, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 20 August 2021 in ICT Express
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To identify health risks in working environments, it is crucial for companies to share personal health data demonstrating to clients and suppliers their employees are healthy, while being compliant with data protection legislation. Based on these considerations, our Blockchain-based BlockHealth solution allows personal health data sharing with tamper proofing and data protection. Traditionally, the Blockchain guarantees data immutability but not confidentiality. On the contrary, BlockHealth stores in the Blockchain only hash values of data. Health data is stored in private databases managed by companies, thus also allowing to delete data in compliance with the right to be forgotten.

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Eugenio Balistri; Francesco Casellato; Carlo Giannelli; Cesare Stefanelli. BlockHealth: Blockchain-based secure and peer-to-peer health information sharing with data protection and right to be forgotten. ICT Express 2021, 1 .

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Eugenio Balistri, Francesco Casellato, Carlo Giannelli, Cesare Stefanelli. BlockHealth: Blockchain-based secure and peer-to-peer health information sharing with data protection and right to be forgotten. ICT Express. 2021; ():1.

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Eugenio Balistri; Francesco Casellato; Carlo Giannelli; Cesare Stefanelli. 2021. "BlockHealth: Blockchain-based secure and peer-to-peer health information sharing with data protection and right to be forgotten." ICT Express , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 21 July 2021 in Sensors
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Blockchain technology plays a pivotal role in the undergoing fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0. It is considered a tremendous boost to company digitalization; thus, considerable investments in blockchain are being made. However, there is no single blockchain technology, but various solutions exist, and they cannot interoperate with one each other. The ecosystem envisioned by the Industry 4.0 does not have centralized management or leading organization, so a single blockchain solution cannot be imposed. The various organizations hold their own blockchains, which must interoperate seamlessly. Despite some solutions for blockchain interoperability being proposed, the problem is still open. This paper aims to devise a secure solution for blockchain interoperability. The proposed approach consists of a relay scheme based on Trusted Execution Environment to provide higher security guarantees than the current literature. In particular, the proposed solution adopts an off-chain secure computation element invoked by a smart contract on a blockchain to securely communicate with its peered counterpart. A prototype has been implemented and used for the performance assessment, e.g., to measure the latency increase due to cross-blockchain interactions. The achieved and reported experimental results show that the proposed security solution introduces an additional latency that is entirely tolerable for transactions. At the same time, the usage of the Trusted Execution Environment imposes a negligible overhead.

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Paolo Bellavista; Christian Esposito; Luca Foschini; Carlo Giannelli; Nicola Mazzocca; Rebecca Montanari. Interoperable Blockchains for Highly-Integrated Supply Chains in Collaborative Manufacturing. Sensors 2021, 21, 4955 .

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Paolo Bellavista, Christian Esposito, Luca Foschini, Carlo Giannelli, Nicola Mazzocca, Rebecca Montanari. Interoperable Blockchains for Highly-Integrated Supply Chains in Collaborative Manufacturing. Sensors. 2021; 21 (15):4955.

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Paolo Bellavista; Christian Esposito; Luca Foschini; Carlo Giannelli; Nicola Mazzocca; Rebecca Montanari. 2021. "Interoperable Blockchains for Highly-Integrated Supply Chains in Collaborative Manufacturing." Sensors 21, no. 15: 4955.

Editorial
Published: 15 February 2021 in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Mirco Musolesi; Marco Picone. Editorial for this SI on “Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things”. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 2021, 71, 101350 .

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Mirco Musolesi, Marco Picone. Editorial for this SI on “Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things”. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 2021; 71 ():101350.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Mirco Musolesi; Marco Picone. 2021. "Editorial for this SI on “Location Based Services and Applications in the era of Internet of Things”." Pervasive and Mobile Computing 71, no. : 101350.

Article
Published: 10 July 2020 in Journal of Network and Systems Management
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Software Defined Networking (SDN), with its clear distinction of control and data planes, as well with its simple paradigm of logically centralized controller with global visibility of the whole targeted network status, is gaining momentum in different scenarios. However, its effective exploitation in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is still an open and emerging research topic, mainly due to the high dynamicity of some related deployment environments (e.g., spontaneous WMNs) and to the need of efficient solutions capable of locality-enhanced optimizations. Here we originally present motivations, challenges, design guidelines, and a prototype middleware implementation for SDN-based management of selected (most appropriate) traffic flows. Our solution advances the state of the art in the field by (i) allowing high flexibility via deployment and de/activation of flow management policies at provisioning time, (ii) supporting dynamicity via proper efficient handling node of join/leave events, and (iii) increasing scalability via a partially decentralized approach based on dynamically determined WMN “islands”, usually managed by separated SDN controllers that can seldom interact to federate their management decisions. In addition to design/implementation insights and to the availability of the prototype code, this paper provides the community with a significant novel contribution in terms of experimental performance results, which quantitatively demonstrate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Paolo Bellavista; Alessandro Dolci; Carlo Giannelli; Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero. SDN-Based Traffic Management Middleware for Spontaneous WMNs. Journal of Network and Systems Management 2020, 28, 1575 -1609.

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Paolo Bellavista, Alessandro Dolci, Carlo Giannelli, Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero. SDN-Based Traffic Management Middleware for Spontaneous WMNs. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 2020; 28 (4):1575-1609.

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Paolo Bellavista; Alessandro Dolci; Carlo Giannelli; Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero. 2020. "SDN-Based Traffic Management Middleware for Spontaneous WMNs." Journal of Network and Systems Management 28, no. 4: 1575-1609.

Journal article
Published: 20 May 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
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If compared with Cloud computing, Fog computing is proving to support challenging scenarios imposing strict delay requirements, e.g., tactile Internet and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and increased flexibility, e.g., dynamic Smart City and users’ follow-me provisioning case. In fact, by exploiting computing, storage, and connectivity resources in the proximity of sensors and actuators (for IIoT) and of mobile nodes carried by citizens (for Smart Cities), significant portions of services and functionalities can be migrated outside datacenters. However, such scenarios are characterized by increased heterogeneity of nodes in terms of hardware/software, of time-varying applications possibly offered by multiple service providers at the same time, and frequent joining/leaving of nodes as a typical behavior. To overcome these issues, the paper originally proposes Multi-Layer Advanced Networking Environment (Multi-LANE), a Multi Layer Routing (MLR) solution based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) that specifically targets the emerging and promising Fog-based deployment environments. Multi-LANE dynamically selects and exploits (even at the same time) different routing strategies and mechanisms suitable for applications with heterogeneous features and requirements. Based on its centralized point of view, our Multi-LANE SDN controller determines the most suitable path and configures the proper MLR forwarding mechanism, ranging from traditional IP and sequence-based overlays to more articulated ones based on the inspection of payload content types and values. In addition to design/implementation insights and to the availability of the Multi-LANE prototype, this paper also provides the community with a significant contribution in terms of novel models for forwarding mechanisms specialized for Fog computing scenarios.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero. A Reference Model and Prototype Implementation for SDN-Based Multi Layer Routing in Fog Environments. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2020, 17, 1460 -1473.

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero. A Reference Model and Prototype Implementation for SDN-Based Multi Layer Routing in Fog Environments. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 2020; 17 (3):1460-1473.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero. 2020. "A Reference Model and Prototype Implementation for SDN-Based Multi Layer Routing in Fog Environments." IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 17, no. 3: 1460-1473.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2020 in IEEE Access
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Fog Computing is a recent and compelling paradigm that proposes to run informationprocessing services at the edge of the network. While interesting standardization efforts in Fog Computing are being currently pursued by many organizations, most of them focus on management and orchestration functions, and primarily propose the adoption and adaptation of programming models designed for Cloud applications. Instead, Fog Computing applications would significantly benefit from innovative solutions that, on the one hand, adopt an “acceptable lossiness” perspective and manage information processing/ dissemination in a dynamic and integrated way and, on the other hand, support a Multi Layer Routing (MLR) approach to exploit multiple routing options at different abstraction levels at the same time. This paper presents an overview of the opportunities and challenges of Fog Computing-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications by jointly exploiting acceptable lossiness and MLR. In addition, the paper proposes the innovative Holistic pRocessing and NETworking (HORNET) Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution which leverages an information-centric and value-based service model and the MLR approach to support IoT applications. The reported preliminary experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero; Filippo Poltronieri; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi. HOlistic pRocessing and NETworking (HORNET): An Integrated Solution for IoT-Based Fog Computing Services. IEEE Access 2020, 8, 66707 -66721.

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero, Filippo Poltronieri, Cesare Stefanelli, Mauro Tortonesi. HOlistic pRocessing and NETworking (HORNET): An Integrated Solution for IoT-Based Fog Computing Services. IEEE Access. 2020; 8 (99):66707-66721.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Dmitrij David Padalino Montenero; Filippo Poltronieri; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi. 2020. "HOlistic pRocessing and NETworking (HORNET): An Integrated Solution for IoT-Based Fog Computing Services." IEEE Access 8, no. 99: 66707-66721.

Journal article
Published: 31 October 2019 in Sensors
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This paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a software solution facilitating the interaction of third-party developers with a legacy monitoring and control system in the airfield environment. By following the Internet of Things (IoT) approach and adopting open standards and paradigms such as REpresentational State Transfer (REST) and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) for message dispatching, the work aims at paving the way towards a more open world in the airfield industrial sector. The paper also presents performance results achieved by extending legacy components to support IoT standards. Quantitative results not only demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution, but also its suitability in terms of prompt message dispatching and increased fault tolerance.

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Enrico Buzzoni; Fabio Forlani; Carlo Giannelli; Matteo Mazzotti; Stefano Parisotto; Alessandro Pomponio; Cesare Stefanelli. The Advent of the Internet of Things in Airfield Lightning Systems: Paving the Way from a Legacy Environment to an Open World. Sensors 2019, 19, 4724 .

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Enrico Buzzoni, Fabio Forlani, Carlo Giannelli, Matteo Mazzotti, Stefano Parisotto, Alessandro Pomponio, Cesare Stefanelli. The Advent of the Internet of Things in Airfield Lightning Systems: Paving the Way from a Legacy Environment to an Open World. Sensors. 2019; 19 (21):4724.

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Enrico Buzzoni; Fabio Forlani; Carlo Giannelli; Matteo Mazzotti; Stefano Parisotto; Alessandro Pomponio; Cesare Stefanelli. 2019. "The Advent of the Internet of Things in Airfield Lightning Systems: Paving the Way from a Legacy Environment to an Open World." Sensors 19, no. 21: 4724.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2018 in 2018 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)
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Fog Computing is a recent and compelling paradigm that proposes to run information-processing services at the edge of the network. While interesting standardization efforts are being currently pursued by many organizations, most of them focus on management and orchestration functions and primarily propose the adoption of programming models designed for Cloud applications in the Fog. Instead, Fog Computing applications would significantly benefit from innovative solutions that adopt an "acceptable lossiness" perspective and manage information processing and dissemination in a dynamic and integrated fashion. This paper presents an overview of the opportunities and challenges in Fog Computing application development, proposes an innovative holistic Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach based on an information-centric and value-based service model to support those applications, and presents an overview of the Holistic Analytics and Networking (HAN) SDN architecture that we are developing to realize this ambitious vision.

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Carlo Giannelli; Filippo Poltronieri; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi. Supporting the Development of Next-generation Fog Services. 2018 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) 2018, 1 -6.

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Carlo Giannelli, Filippo Poltronieri, Cesare Stefanelli, Mauro Tortonesi. Supporting the Development of Next-generation Fog Services. 2018 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). 2018; ():1-6.

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Carlo Giannelli; Filippo Poltronieri; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi. 2018. "Supporting the Development of Next-generation Fog Services." 2018 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) , no. : 1-6.

Journal article
Published: 29 August 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is profoundly changing manufacturing. Several Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 solutions deployed in production environments have pushed for standardization efforts, most notably Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0), typically focusing on smart factory environments. However, ICT evolution is also enabling novel smart appliance scenarios, where relatively cheap machines, connected and integrated, are deployed outside the typical industrial environment with a wide range of stakeholders involved. The paper reports about a real-world use case composed of more than 12000 ice cream machines connected worldwide and shows how, anticipating the state-of-the-art, the underlying design of the ICT platform presents many interesting similarities with RAMI 4.0. The integration of appliances in a smart value chain enables to develop novel services for different stakeholders, ranging from ice cream manufacturer and maintenance technicians to ice cream shop owners and final consumers. The important synergies with RAMI 4.0 and the extensive on-the-field validation make the proposed solution a compelling reference application, from which to draw useful and generally applicable guidelines for the development of future Industry 4.0 smart appliance platforms.

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Antonio Corradi; Luca Foschini; Carlo Giannelli; Roberto Lazzarini; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi; Giovanni Virgilli. Smart Appliances and RAMI 4.0: Management and Servitization of Ice Cream Machines. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2018, 15, 1007 -1016.

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Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini, Carlo Giannelli, Roberto Lazzarini, Cesare Stefanelli, Mauro Tortonesi, Giovanni Virgilli. Smart Appliances and RAMI 4.0: Management and Servitization of Ice Cream Machines. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2018; 15 (2):1007-1016.

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Antonio Corradi; Luca Foschini; Carlo Giannelli; Roberto Lazzarini; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi; Giovanni Virgilli. 2018. "Smart Appliances and RAMI 4.0: Management and Servitization of Ice Cream Machines." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 15, no. 2: 1007-1016.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2018 in IET Networks
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The 5G vision is not restricted solely to the wireless domain and its challenging requirements cannot be fulfilled without the efficient integration of cutting-edge technologies in all portions of the telecommunications infrastructure. The promoted architectures for next generation telecommunications systems involve high capacity network domains, which operate flexibly and seamlessly to offer full quality of experience to all types of subscribers. The proliferation of highly demanding multimedia services and the features of modern communication devices necessitate the development of end-to-end schemes which can efficiently distribute large amount of network resources anywhere and whenever needed. This study introduces a new resource allocation scheme for cutting-edge fibre-wireless networks is introduced that can be applied in the fronthaul portion of 5G-enabled architectures. The adopted technologies are the forthcoming 25G-Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) for the optical domain and the 5G-ready long-term evolution -Advanced Pro for the wireless domain. The proposed scheme performs allocation decisions based on the outcome of an adjustable multi-stage optimisation problem. The optimisation factors are directly related to the major considerations in bandwidth distribution, namely priority-based traffic differentiation, power awareness, and fairness provision. The conducted evaluations prove that this approach is able to ensure high efficiency in network operations.

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Thomas Lagkas; Panagiotis Sarigiannidis; Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli. Multi‐stage resource allocation in hybrid 25G‐EPON and LTE‐Advanced Pro FiWi networks for 5G systems. IET Networks 2018, 7, 173 -180.

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Thomas Lagkas, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli. Multi‐stage resource allocation in hybrid 25G‐EPON and LTE‐Advanced Pro FiWi networks for 5G systems. IET Networks. 2018; 7 (4):173-180.

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Thomas Lagkas; Panagiotis Sarigiannidis; Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli. 2018. "Multi‐stage resource allocation in hybrid 25G‐EPON and LTE‐Advanced Pro FiWi networks for 5G systems." IET Networks 7, no. 4: 173-180.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2018 in 2018 IEEE 19th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM)
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Software Defined Networking (SDN), with its clear distinction of control and data planes, as well with its simple paradigm of logically centralized controller with global visibility of the whole targeted network status, is gaining momentum in different scenarios. However, its effective exploitation in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) is still an open research issue, mainly due to the peculiar dynamicity of the related environments (e.g., in the case of spontaneous MANETs) and to the need to exploit locality considerations to achieve efficient solutions. Here we originally present an architecture and an associated prototype for SDN-based quality management of selected traffic flows, which advance the state-of-the-art in the field by i) allowing high flexibility via deployment of new flow management policies at provisioning time, ii) properly handling node join/leave events, and, most relevant, iii) determining MANET “islands”, usually managed by separated SDN controllers that can seldom interact to federate their management decisions. In addition to design/implementation insights and to the availability of the prototype code, this paper provides the community with a significant and novel contribution in terms of first experimental performance results, which show the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Paolo Bellavista; Alessandro Dolci; Carlo Giannelli. MANET-oriented SDN: Motivations, Challenges, and a Solution Prototype. 2018 IEEE 19th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM) 2018, 14 -22.

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Paolo Bellavista, Alessandro Dolci, Carlo Giannelli. MANET-oriented SDN: Motivations, Challenges, and a Solution Prototype. 2018 IEEE 19th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM). 2018; ():14-22.

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Paolo Bellavista; Alessandro Dolci; Carlo Giannelli. 2018. "MANET-oriented SDN: Motivations, Challenges, and a Solution Prototype." 2018 IEEE 19th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM) , no. : 14-22.

Journal article
Published: 04 May 2018 in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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Traditionally, mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and hybrid optical-wireless networks, also known as fiber-wireless (FiWi), have been considered disjointly and independently, with no synergic management solutions. The former has primarily focused on dispatching packets among mobile nodes in infrastructure-less and very dynamic environments, the latter on offering high-bandwidth and low-latency access to cellular-equipped mobile nodes. The recent advancements and penetration of software-defined networking (SDN) techniques have stimulated the adoption of SDN-based flexible monitoring and control also for the MANET and FiWi domains. In this perspective, the paper originally proposes a model and an architecture that loosely federate MANET and FiWi domains based on the interaction of MANET and FiWi controllers: the primary idea is that our MANET and FiWi federated controllers can seldom exchange monitoring data and control hints the one with the other, thus mutually enhancing their capability of packet management over hybrid FiWi-MANET networks. Our model is applied to several relevant use cases to practically point out the benefits of the proposal in terms of both load balancing and fairness improvements.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Thomas Lagkas; Panagiotis Sarigiannidis. Multi-domain SDN controller federation in hybrid FiWi-MANET networks. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018, 2018, 103 .

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Thomas Lagkas, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis. Multi-domain SDN controller federation in hybrid FiWi-MANET networks. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2018; 2018 (1):103.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Thomas Lagkas; Panagiotis Sarigiannidis. 2018. "Multi-domain SDN controller federation in hybrid FiWi-MANET networks." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018, no. 1: 103.

Journal article
Published: 05 April 2018 in IEEE Access
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Traditionally, hybrid optical-wireless networks (Fiber-Wireless - FiWi domain) and last-mile Internet of Things edge networks (Edge IoT domain) have been considered independently, with no synergic management solutions. On the one hand, FiWi has primarily focused on high-bandwidth and low-latency access to cellular-equipped nodes. On the other hand, Edge IoT has mainly aimed at effective dispatching of sensor/actuator data among (possibly opportunistic) nodes, by using direct peer-to-peer and base station (BS)-assisted Internet communications. The paper originally proposes a model and an architecture that loosely federate FiWi and Edge IoT domains based on the interaction of FiWi and Edge IoT software defined networking controllers: the primary idea is that our federated controllers can seldom exchange monitoring data and control hints the one with the other, thus mutually enhancing their capability of end-to-end quality-aware packet management. To show the applicability and the effectiveness of the approach, our original proposal is applied to the notable example of multimedia stream provisioning from surveillance cameras deployed in the Edge IoT domain to both an infrastructure-side server and spontaneously interconnected mobile smartphones; our solution is able to tune the BS behavior of the FiWi domain and to reroute/prioritize traffic in the Edge IoT domain, with the final goal to reduce latency. In addition, the reported application case shows the capability of our solution of joint and coordinated exploitation of resources in FiWi and Edge IoT domains, with performance results that highlight its benefits in terms of efficiency and responsiveness.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Thomas Lagkas; Panagiotis Sarigiannidis. Quality Management of Surveillance Multimedia Streams Via Federated SDN Controllers in Fiwi-Iot Integrated Deployment Environments. IEEE Access 2018, 6, 21324 -21341.

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Thomas Lagkas, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis. Quality Management of Surveillance Multimedia Streams Via Federated SDN Controllers in Fiwi-Iot Integrated Deployment Environments. IEEE Access. 2018; 6 ():21324-21341.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Thomas Lagkas; Panagiotis Sarigiannidis. 2018. "Quality Management of Surveillance Multimedia Streams Via Federated SDN Controllers in Fiwi-Iot Integrated Deployment Environments." IEEE Access 6, no. : 21324-21341.

Conference paper
Published: 01 March 2018 in 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
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The Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach has recently demonstrated its effectiveness in simplifying the dynamic management of networking capabilities of infrastructure environments such as datacenters, e.g., by greatly enhancing the flexibility of dispatching features provided by industrial-grade switches. Inspired by the previous and more traditional scenario, we propose SDN adoption in infrastructure-less distributed multi-hop spontaneous networks based on the impromptu collaboration of fixed/mobile devices, with the goal of significantly improving the Quality of Service perceived by final users. To this purpose, the paper outlines our primary guidelines and reference architecture to support quality-aware packet dispatching. In particular, we present how collaborative nodes can exploit the SDN approach to appropriately manage the quality of different traffic flows, by avoiding undesired interference and by taking into consideration network capabilities/conditions and application-level requirements.

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Carlo Giannelli; Paolo Bellavista; Domenico Scotece. Software Defined Networking for Quality-aware Management of Multi-hop Spontaneous Networks. 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2018, 561 -566.

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Carlo Giannelli, Paolo Bellavista, Domenico Scotece. Software Defined Networking for Quality-aware Management of Multi-hop Spontaneous Networks. 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). 2018; ():561-566.

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Carlo Giannelli; Paolo Bellavista; Domenico Scotece. 2018. "Software Defined Networking for Quality-aware Management of Multi-hop Spontaneous Networks." 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) , no. : 561-566.

Journal article
Published: 03 November 2017 in Sensors
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The spread of off-the-shelf mobile devices equipped with multiple wireless interfaces together with sophisticated sensors is paving the way to novel wireless Internet of Things (IoT) environments, characterized by multi-hop infrastructure-less wireless networks where devices carried by users act as sensors/actuators as well as network nodes. In particular, the paper presents Real Ad-hoc Multi-hop Peer-to peer-Wireless IoT Application (RAMP-WIA), a novel solution that facilitates the development, deployment, and management of applications in sparse Smart City environments, characterized by users willing to collaborate by allowing new applications to be deployed on their smartphones to remotely monitor and control fixed/mobile devices. RAMP-WIA allows users to dynamically configure single-hop wireless links, to manage opportunistically multi-hop packet dispatching considering that the network topology (together with the availability of sensors and actuators) may abruptly change, to actuate reliably sensor nodes specifically considering that only part of them could be actually reachable in a timely manner, and to upgrade dynamically the nodes through over-the-air distribution of new software components. The paper also reports the performance of RAMP-WIA on simple but realistic cases of small-scale deployment scenarios with off-the-shelf Android smartphones and Raspberry Pi devices; these results show not only the feasibility and soundness of the proposed approach, but also the efficiency of the middleware implemented when deployed on real testbeds.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Stefano Lanzone; Giulio Riberto; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi. A Middleware Solution for Wireless IoT Applications in Sparse Smart Cities. Sensors 2017, 17, 2525 .

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Stefano Lanzone, Giulio Riberto, Cesare Stefanelli, Mauro Tortonesi. A Middleware Solution for Wireless IoT Applications in Sparse Smart Cities. Sensors. 2017; 17 (11):2525.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Stefano Lanzone; Giulio Riberto; Cesare Stefanelli; Mauro Tortonesi. 2017. "A Middleware Solution for Wireless IoT Applications in Sparse Smart Cities." Sensors 17, no. 11: 2525.

Journal article
Published: 11 April 2017 in Sustainability
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To stimulate better user behavior and improve environmental and economic sustainability, it is of paramount importance to make citizens effectively aware of the quality of the environment in which they live every day. In particular, we claim that users could significantly benefit from cost-effective efficient Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions that provide them with up-to-date live information about air pollution in the areas where they live, suitably adapted to different situations and with different levels of dynamically selected granularities (e.g., at home/district/city levels). Our PeRvasive Environment Sensing and Sharing (PRESS) project has the ambition of increasing users’ awareness of the natural environment they live in, as a first step towards improved sustainability; the primary target is the efficient provisioning of real-time user-centric information about environmental conditions in the surroundings, and in particular about air pollution. To this purpose, we have designed, implemented, and thoroughly evaluated the PRESS framework, which is capable of achieving good flexibility and scalability while integrating heterogeneous monitoring data, ranging from sensed air pollution to user-provided quality perceptions. Among the elements of technical originality, PRESS exploits extended Kura IoT gateways with novel congestion detection and recovery mechanisms that allow us to optimize bandwidth allocation between in-the-field PRESS components and the cloud. The reported performance results show the feasibility of the proposed solution, by pointing out not only the scalability and efficiency of the adopted message-based solution that uses Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and WebSockets, but also the capability of PRESS to quickly identify and manage traffic congestions, thus, ensuring good quality levels to final users.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Riccardo Zamagna. The PeRvasive Environment Sensing and Sharing Solution. Sustainability 2017, 9, 585 .

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli, Riccardo Zamagna. The PeRvasive Environment Sensing and Sharing Solution. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (4):585.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli; Riccardo Zamagna. 2017. "The PeRvasive Environment Sensing and Sharing Solution." Sustainability 9, no. 4: 585.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2017 in Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
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Erratum to: C. Giannelli (Ed.) MobileWireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01802-2 The book was inadvertently published with an incorrect name of the copyright holder. The name of the copyright holder for this book is: © ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. The book has been updated with the changes.

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Jean-Marie Bonnin; Carlo Giannelli; Thomas Magedanz. Erratum to: MobileWireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2017, E1 -E1.

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Jean-Marie Bonnin, Carlo Giannelli, Thomas Magedanz. Erratum to: MobileWireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 2017; ():E1-E1.

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Jean-Marie Bonnin; Carlo Giannelli; Thomas Magedanz. 2017. "Erratum to: MobileWireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications." Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering , no. : E1-E1.

Research article
Published: 22 October 2015 in International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
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Nowadays there is growing interest in evolving the distributed sensors concept from the more traditional one of enabling technology to monitor the surrounding physical environmenttowards Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) sensors and actuators, that is, as a suitable tool to measure/influence the cyber activity of possibly worldwide communities of users (e.g., any geotagged operation leaving a cyber footprint and any cyber physical incentive to stimulate activity as in crowdsensing). To leverage this novel perspective, we propose a framework to integrate at bestmultilayer CPS sensors and actuatorsas the basis for autonomic management operations on both physical and cyber worlds. In this paper the specific application domain target is peer-to-peer content sharing based on social identities and relationships, but we claim that the proposed CPS framework is of general applicability. In particular, our original middleware solution adopts CPS actuators to move users’ content temporarily from smart home environments to high-performance cloud resources to minimize the access time of a dynamically selected quota of contents. Then, based on social network sensors and connectivity/networking ones hosted at lightweight domestic Web servers, our CPS actuators can originally and dynamically move content back from the cloud to smart homes when appropriate, in order to both retain full ownership of user-generated content and reduce cloud hosting costs.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli. Cyber Physical Sensors and Actuators for Privacy- and Cost-Aware Optimization of User-Generated Content Provisioning. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2015, 2015, 1 -10.

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Paolo Bellavista, Carlo Giannelli. Cyber Physical Sensors and Actuators for Privacy- and Cost-Aware Optimization of User-Generated Content Provisioning. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2015; 2015 ():1-10.

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Paolo Bellavista; Carlo Giannelli. 2015. "Cyber Physical Sensors and Actuators for Privacy- and Cost-Aware Optimization of User-Generated Content Provisioning." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2015, no. : 1-10.

Proceedings article
Published: 01 May 2014 in 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS)
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The networking landscape of today is characterized by diverse access technologies including cellular, WiFi, Ethernet, MANETs, and ZigBee, and properly managing this heterogeneous networking infrastructure is a key challenge to take full advantage of its many opportunities. In this paper, we propose MINA (Multinetwork INformation Architecture), a reflective (self-observing and adapting) middleware approach to realize and manage dynamic and heterogeneous multi-networks in pervasive environments. A novel aspect of MINA is that it embodies an Observe-Analyze-Adapt (OAA) loop to i) achieve a reasonably accurate, centralized global view of the multi-network through the design of novel techniques for overlay structuring, network state collection and formal methods-based analysis, and ii) take advantage of the global view for adapting multi-network structure by reallocating application flows across networks and proactively planning and deploying additional network resources.

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Zhijing Qin; Luca Iannario; Carlo Giannelli; Paolo Bellavista; Grit Denker; Nalini Venkatasubramanian. MINA: A reflective middleware for managing dynamic multinetwork environments. 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2014, 1 -4.

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Zhijing Qin, Luca Iannario, Carlo Giannelli, Paolo Bellavista, Grit Denker, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. MINA: A reflective middleware for managing dynamic multinetwork environments. 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). 2014; ():1-4.

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Zhijing Qin; Luca Iannario; Carlo Giannelli; Paolo Bellavista; Grit Denker; Nalini Venkatasubramanian. 2014. "MINA: A reflective middleware for managing dynamic multinetwork environments." 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) , no. : 1-4.

Journal article
Published: 02 April 2014 in Journal of Network and Systems Management
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The growing availability of connectivity/computing/storage resources on smartphones and tablets together with the trend toward frequent and voluntary collaborations in user communities (such as in experience/status sharing and shopping recommending applications) are enabling novel scenarios of high relevance for the user mass market. In particular, we claim that the social-aware sharing of under-utilized resources in physical proximity will be of paramount importance in future heterogeneous wireless networks, i.e., spontaneous networks (SNs), where neighbors opportunistically and temporarily cooperate for service provisioning. In this paper we propose a novel middleware for multi-hop SNs, by specifically focusing on the hard technical challenges of supporting collaborative re-casting of live multimedia flows with dynamic quality adaptation. Our middleware prototype originally (1) adopts a middleware-level multimedia redistribution approach with cross-layer visibility of underlying SNs, (2) dynamically exploits collaborating nodes to monitor and tailor end-to-end streams by splitting them in sub-segments in a completely decentralized way, and (3) performs quality/resource-aware management decisions with limited resource consumption at collaborating peers. The reported experimental results demonstrate that, notwithstanding the middleware-layer approach and the challenging characteristics of multi-hop SNs, our solution effectively supports redistribution of tailored multimedia content with limited overhead.

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Paolo Bellavista; Antonio Corradi; Carlo Giannelli. Middleware-Layer Quality-Aware Collaborative Re-casting of Live Multimedia in Multi-hop Spontaneous Networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management 2014, 23, 620 -649.

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Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli. Middleware-Layer Quality-Aware Collaborative Re-casting of Live Multimedia in Multi-hop Spontaneous Networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management. 2014; 23 (3):620-649.

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Paolo Bellavista; Antonio Corradi; Carlo Giannelli. 2014. "Middleware-Layer Quality-Aware Collaborative Re-casting of Live Multimedia in Multi-hop Spontaneous Networks." Journal of Network and Systems Management 23, no. 3: 620-649.