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Prof. Maurizio Magarini
Politecnico di Milano

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Maurizio Magarini is associate professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He obtained his PhD in Telecommunication Engineering in year 1999 from Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are in the broad area of information theory and communication technologies. Topics include synchronization, channel estimation, multi-input/multiple output systems, and coding applied to wireless and optical transmission systems. His most recent research activities have focused on molecular communications, massive MIMO, waveforms for 5G cellular systems, V2X, wireless sensor networks for mission critical applications, and wireless networks using unmanned aerial vehicles and high-altitude platforms.

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Journal article
Published: 16 August 2021 in Digital Signal Processing
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This paper introduces novel approaches for the design of the linear filter and the detection algorithms in unbounded advection diffusion-based molecular communication systems affected by inter-symbol interference. The received signal samples are modeled as Poisson random variables with memory where the effect of enzymatic reactions is also included. A main characteristic of the new filter design is to allow for a real-time computation of the filter's coefficients. For the detection of the transmitted symbols, we define an averaging method suitable for time-varying channels with finite memory length. In this paper the mean value of the Poisson channel is varying with time and we quantify the memory length with a finite number, from receiver point of view. The computational burden of the proposed approaches is evaluated in terms of number of required operations and their performance is evaluated in terms of bit error rate for different sets of parameters. We show that the proposed design of the filter and of the detection algorithms enables us to achieve a performance comparable to that of the state of the art approaches in relation to their simplicity.

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Fardad Vakilipoor; Francesca Ratti; Hamdan Awan; Maurizio Magarini. Low complexity receiver design for time-varying Poisson molecular communication channels with memory. Digital Signal Processing 2021, 103187 .

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Fardad Vakilipoor, Francesca Ratti, Hamdan Awan, Maurizio Magarini. Low complexity receiver design for time-varying Poisson molecular communication channels with memory. Digital Signal Processing. 2021; ():103187.

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Fardad Vakilipoor; Francesca Ratti; Hamdan Awan; Maurizio Magarini. 2021. "Low complexity receiver design for time-varying Poisson molecular communication channels with memory." Digital Signal Processing , no. : 103187.

Journal article
Published: 23 November 2020 in Sensors
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In scenarios, like critical public safety communication networks, On-Scene Available (OSA) user equipment (UE) may be only partially connected with the network infrastructure, e.g., due to physical damages or on-purpose deactivation by the authorities. In this work, we consider multi-hop Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a hybrid infrastructure where OSA UEs connect to each other in a seamless manner in order to disseminate critical information to a deployed command center. The challenge that we address is to simultaneously keep the OSA UEs alive as long as possible and send the critical information to a final destination (e.g., a command center) as rapidly as possible, while considering the heterogeneous characteristics of the OSA UEs. We propose a dynamic adaptation approach based on machine learning to improve a joint energy-spectral efficiency (ESE). We apply a Q-learning scheme in a hybrid fashion (partially distributed and centralized) in learner agents (distributed OSA UEs) and scheduler agents (remote radio heads or RRHs), for which the next hop selection and RRH selection algorithms are proposed. Our simulation results show that the proposed dynamic adaptation approach outperforms the baseline system by approximately 67% in terms of joint energy-spectral efficiency, wherein the energy efficiency of the OSA UEs benefit from a gain of approximately 30%. Finally, the results show also that our proposed framework with C-RAN reduces latency by approximately 50% w.r.t. the baseline.

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Muhidul Islam Khan; Luca Reggiani; Muhammad Mahtab Alam; Yannick Le Moullec; Navuday Sharma; Elias Yaacoub; Maurizio Magarini. Q-Learning Based Joint Energy-Spectral Efficiency Optimization in Multi-Hop Device-to-Device Communication. Sensors 2020, 20, 6692 .

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Muhidul Islam Khan, Luca Reggiani, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Yannick Le Moullec, Navuday Sharma, Elias Yaacoub, Maurizio Magarini. Q-Learning Based Joint Energy-Spectral Efficiency Optimization in Multi-Hop Device-to-Device Communication. Sensors. 2020; 20 (22):6692.

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Muhidul Islam Khan; Luca Reggiani; Muhammad Mahtab Alam; Yannick Le Moullec; Navuday Sharma; Elias Yaacoub; Maurizio Magarini. 2020. "Q-Learning Based Joint Energy-Spectral Efficiency Optimization in Multi-Hop Device-to-Device Communication." Sensors 20, no. 22: 6692.

Journal article
Published: 04 November 2020 in IEEE Access
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In an event of a disaster, the connectivity of on-scene available User Equipment (UE) to the first responders is important because of the unavailability of conventional networks. Therefore, in this paper, considering the deployment of both the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Mobile Command Center (MCC), we investigate end to end connectivity of UEs to the MCC in terms of the outage. Specifically, various disaster aware clustering schemes are proposed that utilize the UAV and MCC position for the association. These schemes include multiple degrees of freedom to manage intra-cluster distances along with the flexibility to restructure the clusters. In addition, we assume the provision of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) at Cluster Heads (CHs) through the UAV and MCC. The results show that the association of a UE to MCC or UAV prior to clustering can be optimized to achieve better performance. Without SWIPT at CH, the minimum distance metric to the UAV provides less outage. However, with SWIPT a weighted compromise between intra-cluster distance and CH distance to the UAV achieves less outage. We applied our proposed methods on a real man-made disaster scenario layout and determined their efficacy.

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Ali Hassan; Rizwan Ahmad; Waqas Ahmed; Maurizio Magarini; Muhammad Mahtab Alam. UAV and SWIPT Assisted Disaster Aware Clustering and Association. IEEE Access 2020, 8, 204791 -204803.

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Ali Hassan, Rizwan Ahmad, Waqas Ahmed, Maurizio Magarini, Muhammad Mahtab Alam. UAV and SWIPT Assisted Disaster Aware Clustering and Association. IEEE Access. 2020; 8 (99):204791-204803.

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Ali Hassan; Rizwan Ahmad; Waqas Ahmed; Maurizio Magarini; Muhammad Mahtab Alam. 2020. "UAV and SWIPT Assisted Disaster Aware Clustering and Association." IEEE Access 8, no. 99: 204791-204803.

Journal article
Published: 10 June 2020 in Physical Communication
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This paper exploits the parallelism between Discrete Gabor Transform (DGT) and Generalized Frequency-Division Multiplexing (GFDM) that exists when the synthesis function, i.e. the pulse shaping filter, and the analysis function, i.e. the receiving filter, satisfy the Wexler–Raz identity. Choosing functions that satisfy the Wexler–Raz condition allows optimal symbol-by-symbol detection for a DGT-based GFDM receiver in case of transmission over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. However, multipath fading is the major problem of the wireless communication channel, hence, when transmission takes place over frequency selective channel, symbol-by-symbol detection is no longer optimal due to interference generated among the transmitted symbols. In this work, we deal with the design of linear and non-linear receivers for DGT-based GFDM transmission over a frequency selective channel that allows a good trade-off between complexity and performance. Different equalization schemes to mitigate distortions, such as Maximum Likelihood, Zero-Forcing and Minimum Mean-Squared Error, are developed and analyzed. Monte Carlo simulations are used to evaluate the error rate performance achieved with the considered design. A comparison is done with other works in the literature.

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Francesco Linsalata; Atul Kumar; Maurizio Magarini. Design of DGT-based linear and non-linear equalizers for GFDM transmission. Physical Communication 2020, 42, 101144 .

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Francesco Linsalata, Atul Kumar, Maurizio Magarini. Design of DGT-based linear and non-linear equalizers for GFDM transmission. Physical Communication. 2020; 42 ():101144.

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Francesco Linsalata; Atul Kumar; Maurizio Magarini. 2020. "Design of DGT-based linear and non-linear equalizers for GFDM transmission." Physical Communication 42, no. : 101144.

Journal article
Published: 29 April 2020 in Physical Communication
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Existing public safety networks (PSNs) are not designed to cope with disasters such as terrorist attacks, consequently leading to long delays and intolerable response times. First responders’ life threats when accessing the attacked zone are more severe in comparison to other disasters and the accuracy of basic information such as the number of terrorists, the number of trapped people, their locations and identity, etc., is vital to the reduction of the response time. Recent technologies for PSNs are designed to manage natural disaster scenarios; these are not best suited for situations like terrorist attacks because a proper communication infrastructure is required for operating most of the classical PSNs. This serious concern makes it highly desirable to develop reliable and adaptive pervasive public safety communication technologies to counter such a kind of emergency situation. Device-to-device (D2D) communication can be a vital paradigm to design PSNs that are fit for dealing with terrorist attacks thanks to long-term evolution (LTE)-sidelink, which could allow the devices that people carry with themselves in the attacked zone to communicate directly. To our best knowledge, this is the first survey paper on public safety communication in the context of terrorist attacks. We discuss PSN scenarios, architectures, 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) standards, and recent or ongoing related projects. We briefly describe a system architecture for disseminating the critical information, and we provide an extensive literature review of the technologies that could have a significant impact in public safety scenarios especially in terrorist attacks, such as beamforming and localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), LTE sidelink for both centralized (base-station assisted) and decentralized (without base-station) architectures, multi-hop D2D routing for PSN, and jamming and anti-jamming in mobile networks. Furthermore, we also cover the channel models available in the literature to evaluate the performance of D2D communication in different contexts. Finally, we discuss the open challenges when applying these technologies for PSN.

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Ali Masood; Davide Scazzoli; Navuday Sharma; Yannick Le Moullec; Rizwan Ahmad; Luca Reggiani; Maurizio Magarini; Muhammad Mahtab Alam. Surveying pervasive public safety communication technologies in the context of terrorist attacks. Physical Communication 2020, 41, 101109 .

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Ali Masood, Davide Scazzoli, Navuday Sharma, Yannick Le Moullec, Rizwan Ahmad, Luca Reggiani, Maurizio Magarini, Muhammad Mahtab Alam. Surveying pervasive public safety communication technologies in the context of terrorist attacks. Physical Communication. 2020; 41 ():101109.

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Ali Masood; Davide Scazzoli; Navuday Sharma; Yannick Le Moullec; Rizwan Ahmad; Luca Reggiani; Maurizio Magarini; Muhammad Mahtab Alam. 2020. "Surveying pervasive public safety communication technologies in the context of terrorist attacks." Physical Communication 41, no. : 101109.

Journal article
Published: 02 April 2020 in IEEE Communications Letters
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A key challenge in narrowband power line communications (NB-PLC) is the mitigation of impairments introduced by the correlated cyclostationary noise. The frequency-shift (FRESH) filtering approach has been recently proposed to reproduce a cyclostationary NB-PLC noise with characteristics similar to those obtained from field measurements. In this paper, we use a classification of the noise generated by the FRESH filter into three classes to propose a simple method to produce noise samples with statistics similar to those obtained at its output. The approach consists of parametrized spectral and temporal shapings applied to a white Gaussian noise sequence. We validate our proposed method by comparing its generated noise samples with those obtained using the FRESH filter and using measurements in terms of: i) normalized mean-squared error between the cyclic auto-correlations; ii) bit error rate.

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Sadaf Moaveninejad; Atul Kumar; Mahmoud Elgenedy; Naofal Al-Dhahir; Andrea M. Tonello; Maurizio Magarini. Simpler Than FRESH Filter: A Parametric Approach for Cyclostationary Noise Generation in NB-PLC. IEEE Communications Letters 2020, 24, 1373 -1377.

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Sadaf Moaveninejad, Atul Kumar, Mahmoud Elgenedy, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Andrea M. Tonello, Maurizio Magarini. Simpler Than FRESH Filter: A Parametric Approach for Cyclostationary Noise Generation in NB-PLC. IEEE Communications Letters. 2020; 24 (7):1373-1377.

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Sadaf Moaveninejad; Atul Kumar; Mahmoud Elgenedy; Naofal Al-Dhahir; Andrea M. Tonello; Maurizio Magarini. 2020. "Simpler Than FRESH Filter: A Parametric Approach for Cyclostationary Noise Generation in NB-PLC." IEEE Communications Letters 24, no. 7: 1373-1377.

Book chapter
Published: 04 March 2020 in Harnessing Knowledge, Innovation and Competence in Engineering of Mission Critical Systems
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a technology that has been increasingly adopted thanks to their ability to inexpensively and safely gather information in difficult-to-access environments. Because of this they are an invaluable tool to gather knowledge about health, usage, and performance parameters of products in any environment as well as identify the onset of, and avoid or mitigate, catastrophic failures. This chapter will introduce the benefits that WSNs can bring to the process of knowledge management for the development and maintenance of products as well as discuss emerging research trends regarding two prominent concerns inherent to WSNs: redundancy management and synchronisation. After reviewing these results, their impact and applicability to mission-critical applications will be discussed, as well as the interaction between the solutions.

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Davide Scazzoli; Maurizio Magarini; Giacomo Verticale. Redundancy and Synchronisation Management in Mission- and Time-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks. Harnessing Knowledge, Innovation and Competence in Engineering of Mission Critical Systems 2020, 1 .

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Davide Scazzoli, Maurizio Magarini, Giacomo Verticale. Redundancy and Synchronisation Management in Mission- and Time-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks. Harnessing Knowledge, Innovation and Competence in Engineering of Mission Critical Systems. 2020; ():1.

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Davide Scazzoli; Maurizio Magarini; Giacomo Verticale. 2020. "Redundancy and Synchronisation Management in Mission- and Time-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks." Harnessing Knowledge, Innovation and Competence in Engineering of Mission Critical Systems , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 29 July 2019 in IEEE Communications Letters
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Inter-sub-symbol interference (ISSI) refers to the interference that independently affects each group of sub-symbols transmitted on the same sub-carrier in generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM). In this letter we derive a model to describe ISSI when transmission takes place over a frequency selective channel. The proposed model, which is derived by exploiting the discrete Gabor transform (DGT) structure of GFDM, allows for the exact computation of the channel impulse response associated with each sub-carrier. This knowledge makes easier the design of detection algorithms both on a symbol-by-symbol basis and on a per sub-carrier basis. Minimum mean-squared error and maximum likelihood receiver are considered as examples of the two different detection strategies together with the avaluation of their complexity. Simulation results demonstrate the improvement in the symbol error rate performance compared to another approach recently proposed in the literature that does not take into account the effect of ISSI.

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Atul Kumar; Maurizio Magarini. On the Modeling of Inter-Sub-Symbol Interference in GFDM Transmission. IEEE Communications Letters 2019, 23, 1730 -1734.

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Atul Kumar, Maurizio Magarini. On the Modeling of Inter-Sub-Symbol Interference in GFDM Transmission. IEEE Communications Letters. 2019; 23 (10):1730-1734.

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Atul Kumar; Maurizio Magarini. 2019. "On the Modeling of Inter-Sub-Symbol Interference in GFDM Transmission." IEEE Communications Letters 23, no. 10: 1730-1734.

Journal article
Published: 21 May 2019 in Procedia Computer Science
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The physical random access channel (PRACH) in the uplink of cellular systems is used for the initial access requests from users. In fifth generation (5G) systems three different types of services are available, which are massive machine-type communication, enhanced mobile broadband communication, and ultra-reliable low-latency communication. Considering the tight requirements in terms of latency, a robust design of PRACH receiver is one of the priorities. In this paper we first explore the simple extension of a technique proposed for fourth generation (4G) systems to 5G. Then we propose the application of machine learning techniques to make the PRACH receiver more robust to false peaks, which are responsible of performance degradation in the extension of the 4G technique to 5G. Monte Carlo simulations are used to evaluate and compare the performance of the proposed algorithms.

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Naresh Modina; Riccardo Ferrari; Maurizio Magarini. A machine learning-based design of PRACH receiver in 5G. Procedia Computer Science 2019, 151, 1100 -1107.

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Naresh Modina, Riccardo Ferrari, Maurizio Magarini. A machine learning-based design of PRACH receiver in 5G. Procedia Computer Science. 2019; 151 ():1100-1107.

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Naresh Modina; Riccardo Ferrari; Maurizio Magarini. 2019. "A machine learning-based design of PRACH receiver in 5G." Procedia Computer Science 151, no. : 1100-1107.

Journal article
Published: 14 November 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
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Atul Kumar; Maurizio Magarini. Symbol Error Probability Analysis of DFrFT-Based OFDM Systems With CFO and STO in Frequency Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2018, 68, 64 -81.

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Atul Kumar, Maurizio Magarini. Symbol Error Probability Analysis of DFrFT-Based OFDM Systems With CFO and STO in Frequency Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2018; 68 (1):64-81.

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Atul Kumar; Maurizio Magarini. 2018. "Symbol Error Probability Analysis of DFrFT-Based OFDM Systems With CFO and STO in Frequency Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 68, no. 1: 64-81.

Journal article
Published: 14 August 2018 in IEEE Communications Magazine
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The paradigm of previous 4G cellular technology has led to an increase in requirements for high data rate demands of mobile users in 5G. In order to meet this demand, constant densification of communication networks was required. Ultra Dense Networks (UDNs) have been proposed as a promising 5G technology to fulfill these requirements by the efficient and dynamic distribution of the radio resources. However, for implementation of UDN, mobile operators have to face many challenges such as severe interference resulting in a limited capacity due to the dense deployment of small cells, site location and acquisition for the deployment of base stations, backhauling issues, energy consumption, etc. In this article, in order to alleviate these limitations, we propose a novel idea of Ultra Dense Cloud-Drone Network (UDCDN) architecture. This scheme is featured with "on-demand" quality and substantial flexibility in terms of deployment. This anchors the challenges of traditional UDN settings and offers numerous benefits. Through simulation results of cell coverage, we verify the genuineness of implementing the proposed scheme and offer a new paradigm shift for UDN.

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Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini; Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody; Vishal Sharma; Jun Li. On-Demand Ultra-Dense Cloud Drone Networks: Opportunities, Challenges and Benefits. IEEE Communications Magazine 2018, 56, 85 -91.

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Navuday Sharma, Maurizio Magarini, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Vishal Sharma, Jun Li. On-Demand Ultra-Dense Cloud Drone Networks: Opportunities, Challenges and Benefits. IEEE Communications Magazine. 2018; 56 (8):85-91.

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Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini; Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody; Vishal Sharma; Jun Li. 2018. "On-Demand Ultra-Dense Cloud Drone Networks: Opportunities, Challenges and Benefits." IEEE Communications Magazine 56, no. 8: 85-91.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2018 in Physical Communication
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Sudheesh P G; Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini; P. Muthuchidambaranathan. Effect of imperfect CSI on interference alignment in multiple-High Altitude Platforms based communication. Physical Communication 2018, 29, 336 -342.

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Sudheesh P G, Navuday Sharma, Maurizio Magarini, P. Muthuchidambaranathan. Effect of imperfect CSI on interference alignment in multiple-High Altitude Platforms based communication. Physical Communication. 2018; 29 ():336-342.

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Sudheesh P G; Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini; P. Muthuchidambaranathan. 2018. "Effect of imperfect CSI on interference alignment in multiple-High Altitude Platforms based communication." Physical Communication 29, no. : 336-342.

Journal article
Published: 24 July 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Communications
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Synthetic biology, through genetic circuit engineering in biological cells, is paving the way towards the realization of programmable man-made living devices, able to naturally operate within normally less accessible domains, i.e., the biological and the nanoscale. The control of the information processing and exchange between these engineered-cell devices, based on molecules and biochemical reactions, i.e., Molecular Communication (MC), will be enabling technologies for the emerging paradigm of the Internet of Bio-Nano Things, with applications ranging from tissue engineering to bioremediation. In this paper, the design of genetic circuits to enable MC links between engineered cells is proposed by stemming from techniques for information coding, and inspired by recent studies favoring the efficiency of analog computation over digital in biological cells. In particular, the design of a joint encoder-modulator for the transmission of binary-modulated molecule concentration is coupled with a decoder that computes the a-posteriori log-likelihood ratio of the information bits from the propagated concentration. These functionalities are implemented entirely in the biochemical domain through activation and repression of genes, and biochemical reactions, rather than classical electrical circuits. Biochemical simulations are used to evaluate the proposed design against a theoretical encoder/decoder implementation taking into account impairments introduced by diffusion noise.

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Alessio Marcone; Massimiliano Pierobon; Maurizio Magarini. Parity-Check Coding Based on Genetic Circuits for Engineered Molecular Communication Between Biological Cells. IEEE Transactions on Communications 2018, 66, 6221 -6236.

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Alessio Marcone, Massimiliano Pierobon, Maurizio Magarini. Parity-Check Coding Based on Genetic Circuits for Engineered Molecular Communication Between Biological Cells. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 2018; 66 (12):6221-6236.

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Alessio Marcone; Massimiliano Pierobon; Maurizio Magarini. 2018. "Parity-Check Coding Based on Genetic Circuits for Engineered Molecular Communication Between Biological Cells." IEEE Transactions on Communications 66, no. 12: 6221-6236.

Conference paper
Published: 01 April 2018 in 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
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One of the key challenges in next generation 5G networks is to deliver Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC). Recent advances in information theory about principles that govern short packet transmissions pointed out that, for the URLLC typical short packet dimension, achieving higher reliabilities comes at the price of a lower maximum achievable rate, thus reducing spectral efficiency. Hence, retransmissions are used in LTE and planned for 5G, in order to achieve reliability with a better resource consumption, at the price of increased packet latency. Keeping in mind the stringent requirements for URLLC, in this paper we analyze the tradeoffs and limitations of retransmission strategies considered in the literature, either too demanding in terms of wireless resources and aggressive URLLC performance or the contrary. Then we propose a novel scheme, whose purpose is to match the URLLC requirements, minimizing the resource consumption. We evaluate the schemes through simulations and highlight the advantages of the proposed scheme, providing also insights on the performance HARQ techniques in URLLC scenarios.

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Luca Buccheri; Silvio Mandelli; Stephan Saur; Luca Reggiani; Maurizio Magarini. Hybrid retransmission scheme for QoS-defined 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communications. 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2018, 1 -6.

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Luca Buccheri, Silvio Mandelli, Stephan Saur, Luca Reggiani, Maurizio Magarini. Hybrid retransmission scheme for QoS-defined 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communications. 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). 2018; ():1-6.

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Luca Buccheri; Silvio Mandelli; Stephan Saur; Luca Reggiani; Maurizio Magarini. 2018. "Hybrid retransmission scheme for QoS-defined 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communications." 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) , no. : 1-6.

Conference paper
Published: 01 April 2018 in IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
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Biological cells naturally exchange information for adapting to the environment, or even influencing other cells. One of the latest frontiers of synthetic biology stands in engineering cells to harness these natural communication processes for tissue engineering and cancer treatment, amongst others. Although experimental success has been achieved in this direction, approaches to characterize these systems in terms of communication performance and their dependence on design parameters are currently limited. In contrast to more classical communication systems, information in biological cells is propagated through molecules and biochemical reactions, which in general result in nonlinear input-output behaviors with system-evolution-dependent stochastic effects that are not amenable to analytical closed-form characterization. In this paper, a computational approach is proposed to characterize the information exchange in these systems, based on stochastic simulation of biochemical reactions and the estimation of information-theoretic parameters from sample distributions. In particular, this approach focuses on engineered cell-to-cell communications with a single transmitter and receiver, and it is applied to characterize the performance of a realistic system. Numerical results confirm the feasibility of this approach to be at the basis of future forward engineering practices for these communication systems.

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Colton Harper; Massimiliano Pierobon; Maurizio Magarini; Maurizio Magarin; Maurizio Mazarini. Estimating Information Exchange Performance of Engineered Cell-to-cell Molecular Communications: A Computational Approach. IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2018, 729 -737.

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Colton Harper, Massimiliano Pierobon, Maurizio Magarini, Maurizio Magarin, Maurizio Mazarini. Estimating Information Exchange Performance of Engineered Cell-to-cell Molecular Communications: A Computational Approach. IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. 2018; ():729-737.

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Colton Harper; Massimiliano Pierobon; Maurizio Magarini; Maurizio Magarin; Maurizio Mazarini. 2018. "Estimating Information Exchange Performance of Engineered Cell-to-cell Molecular Communications: A Computational Approach." IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications , no. : 729-737.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2018 in 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
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The 5th generation of cellular networks (5G) will provide high speed and high-availability wireless links for communication between mobile users. The usage of aerial platforms as base stations has been recently proposed to meet the above requirements, especially in densely-packed urban areas. To make an accurate prediction of the performance in such a communication system the availability of suitable channel models is a fundamental requirement. Here, we concentrate on a simple path loss and shadow fading channel model that is commonly used to describe the propagation between an aerial base station and a user on the ground. A commercial 3D ray-tracing simulator is used to extract the main parameters used in the model and the Line of Sight/Non Line of Sight probabilities as a function of the transmitter height and elevation angle. We consider three reference scenarios: Suburban, Urban and Urban High Rise generated according to ITU-R specifications. As a novel contribution, we also show simulation results for the spatial correlation of the received signal in the three considered scenarios.

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Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini; Laura Dossi; Luca Reggiani; Roberto Nebuloni. A study of channel model parameters for aerial base stations at 2.4 GHz in different environments. 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2018, 1 -6.

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Navuday Sharma, Maurizio Magarini, Laura Dossi, Luca Reggiani, Roberto Nebuloni. A study of channel model parameters for aerial base stations at 2.4 GHz in different environments. 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC). 2018; ():1-6.

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Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini; Laura Dossi; Luca Reggiani; Roberto Nebuloni. 2018. "A study of channel model parameters for aerial base stations at 2.4 GHz in different environments." 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) , no. : 1-6.

Preprint
Published: 18 December 2017
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High altitude platform (HAP) drones can provide broadband wireless connectivity to ground users in rural areas by establishing line-of-sight (LoS) links and exploiting effective beamforming techniques. However, at high altitudes, acquiring the channel state information (CSI) for HAPs, which is a key component to perform beamforming, is challenging. In this paper, by exploiting an interference alignment (IA) technique, a novel method for achieving the maximum sum-rate in HAP-based communications without CSI is proposed. In particular, to realize IA, a multiple-antenna tethered balloon is used as a relay between multiple HAP drones and ground stations (GSs). Here, a multiple-input multiple-output X network system is considered. The capacity of the considered M*N X network with a tethered balloon relay is derived in closed-form. Simulation results corroborate the theoretical findings and show that the proposed approach yields the maximum sum-rate in multiple HAPs-GSs communications in absence of CSI. The results also show the existence of an optimal balloon's altitude for which the sum-rate is maximized.

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P. G. Sudheesh; Mohammad Mozaffari; Maurizio Magarini; Walid Saad; P. Muthuchidambaranathan. Sum-Rate Analysis for High Altitude Platform (HAP) Drones with Tethered Balloon Relay. 2017, 1 .

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P. G. Sudheesh, Mohammad Mozaffari, Maurizio Magarini, Walid Saad, P. Muthuchidambaranathan. Sum-Rate Analysis for High Altitude Platform (HAP) Drones with Tethered Balloon Relay. . 2017; ():1.

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P. G. Sudheesh; Mohammad Mozaffari; Maurizio Magarini; Walid Saad; P. Muthuchidambaranathan. 2017. "Sum-Rate Analysis for High Altitude Platform (HAP) Drones with Tethered Balloon Relay." , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 November 2017 in 2017 IEEE 9th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM)
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Low voltage, in-home power-line communications (PLC) networks allow direct communication between smart meters (SM) and in-home devices (IHD). In order to minimize security issues, in many deployment scenarios transmission takes place only towards the IHD to display consumption data, with no backwards channel. As a result, channel estimation is difficult and it is necessary to use robust transmission techniques to mitigate the effect of the impulsive noise within the PLC channel. Performance of such system must be evaluated by taking into account realistic interference and channel models for a broad range of configurations. In this work we focus on performance in terms of bit error rate (BER) of a narrowband PLC (NB-PLC) operating in the CENELEC-C band (125-140 kHz) taking into account realistic noise models. Our system is based on binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation.

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Sadaf Moaveninejad; Atul Kumar; Davide Scazzoli; Alessandro Pitì; Maurizio Magarini; Stefano Bregni; Giacomo Verticale. BER evaluation of post-meter PLC services in CENELEC-C band. 2017 IEEE 9th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) 2017, 1 -6.

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Sadaf Moaveninejad, Atul Kumar, Davide Scazzoli, Alessandro Pitì, Maurizio Magarini, Stefano Bregni, Giacomo Verticale. BER evaluation of post-meter PLC services in CENELEC-C band. 2017 IEEE 9th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM). 2017; ():1-6.

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Sadaf Moaveninejad; Atul Kumar; Davide Scazzoli; Alessandro Pitì; Maurizio Magarini; Stefano Bregni; Giacomo Verticale. 2017. "BER evaluation of post-meter PLC services in CENELEC-C band." 2017 IEEE 9th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) , no. : 1-6.

Conference paper
Published: 01 October 2017 in 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
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Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies provide advantages that allow them to replace traditional wired systems in an ever growing number of applications. This paper describes the design of a WSN for mission critical applications such as the case of avionics, in which data collected from the sensors can be delivered to a cloud application through multiple independent gateways, thereby increasing data availability in presence of failures. Since the same data might be distributed along multiple paths, system-wide synchronization must be provided in order to guarantee data consistency. A heartbeat protocol is introduced along each path in order to guarantee timely detection of any single failure. We present a solution that can be implemented using open source software and commercial off-the-shelf hardware, which makes this approach viable for networks with a large number of heterogeneous sensors. Results reported in this paper show some sample measurements as well as the performance evaluation for our heartbeat algorithm in terms of latency between a failure and a full recovery of the system.

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Davide Scazzoli; Andrea Mola; Bilhanan Silverajan; Maurizio Magarini; Giacomo Verticale. A redundant gateway prototype for wireless avionic sensor networks. 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2017, 1 -7.

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Davide Scazzoli, Andrea Mola, Bilhanan Silverajan, Maurizio Magarini, Giacomo Verticale. A redundant gateway prototype for wireless avionic sensor networks. 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). 2017; ():1-7.

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Davide Scazzoli; Andrea Mola; Bilhanan Silverajan; Maurizio Magarini; Giacomo Verticale. 2017. "A redundant gateway prototype for wireless avionic sensor networks." 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) , no. : 1-7.

Proceedings article
Published: 01 August 2017 in 2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)
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With the advancing 5G technology of base stations mounted on aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, the issue of coverage area, capacity and inter-cell interference is assuming higher importance for the cellular networks. In this paper, we follow a deterministic approach to analyze these problems using the data obtained from a commercial software for wireless electromagnetic wave propagation. We analyze the above mentioned parameters by varying the threshold of the received power. Also, we find an optimal altitude and power consumption model for an aerial base station. Simulations were carried out in three generalized environments, Suburban, Urban and Urban High Rise, developed according to ITU-R parameters. To derive these results we used an air-to-ground channel model obtained from the analysis of simulation data.

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Daniele Giovanni Cileo; Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini. Coverage, capacity and interference analysis for an aerial base station in different environments. 2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2017, 281 -286.

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Daniele Giovanni Cileo, Navuday Sharma, Maurizio Magarini. Coverage, capacity and interference analysis for an aerial base station in different environments. 2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS). 2017; ():281-286.

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Daniele Giovanni Cileo; Navuday Sharma; Maurizio Magarini. 2017. "Coverage, capacity and interference analysis for an aerial base station in different environments." 2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) , no. : 281-286.