Context Awareness
Crowd-sensing and AI-empowered context detection for autonomous IoT systems that adapt to users while respecting their privacy.
Our research lab is dedicated to enabling autonomous IoT systems through the automatic collection and identification of user context. We investigate context-aware computing in two main directions.
Firstly, we focus on developing effective, large-scale crowd-sensing solutions where users act as mobile sensors and participate in distributed tasks.
Secondly, we explore AI-empowered solutions for context detection and service adaptation while taking privacy concerns into consideration. Our goal is to create innovative and intelligent systems that adapt to users’ needs while ensuring their privacy is protected.
Selected publications
2026journal A navigation framework for bicycle riders based on environmental and contextual factors
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2026journal Pioneering the Hybridization of Federated Learning in Human Activity Recognition
2025journal A Framework for Improving Social Inclusion using Network Analysis and IoT-based Contact Tracing
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
2025conference A Location-Aware WebAssembly-Based Software Update Framework for IoT End Devices
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2025conference CrossTime: A Mobile Application for Smarter Pedestrian Navigation and Traffic Light Awareness
International Conference on Mobile Data Management
2025conference Federated Transfer Learning on the Edge: A Vision-Based Motor Rehabilitation System
2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)
2025conference IMU-Based Exercise Recognition and Angle Estimation via an Edge-Friendly Architecture
International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services
2025conference Internet of Things Dataset for Human Operator Activity Recognition in Industrial Environment
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
2025journal Rattle: A framework for train characterization and identification through audio fingerprinting
IEEE Access
2025conference Scalable Remote Rehabilitation Enabled by IoT and Edge Computing
International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services
2025conference Simulating Realistic User Mobility for Mobile Crowdsensing Using TACSim: A Performance Study
International Conference on Smart Computing
2025conference 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor)
2025conference Transfer-Informed Variational Autoencoder for Federated Learning on Imbalanced IoT data
Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
2024conference An mcs navigation system based on road surface quality for bicycle riders
International Conference on Smart Computing
2024conference Comparison of Commercial Pedometer Applications: A Rigorous Approach
International Conference on Smart Computing
2024conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2024journal Edge human activity recognition using federated learning on constrained devices
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2024conference Inferring the Urban Noise Pollution with Sparse Data through Crowdsensing
2024 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)
2024conference Raising Awareness for Inertial Sensors-based Keylogging on Smartphones
Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
2024conference Rattle: Train identification through audio fingerprinting
International Conference on Smart Computing
2024conference Trace Analysis of Electric Micromobility and its Application for City Sensing
IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
2023conference A Joint Evaluation Methodology for Service Quality and User Privacy in Location Based Systems
Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
2023conference Design and development of a mobile dapp for mobile crowdsensing over evm-enabled blockchains
International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems
2023conference Designing a hybrid push-pull architecture for mobile crowdsensing using the web of things
International Conference on Smart Computing
2023journal Joint privacy and data quality aware reward in opportunistic Mobile Crowdsensing systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
2023conference Optimizing IoT-based human activity recognition on extreme edge devices
International Conference on Smart Computing
2023journal Privacy preservation for spatio-temporal data in mobile crowdsensing scenarios
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2023conference Texting and Driving Recognition leveraging the Front Camera of Smartphones
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022journal LA-MQTT: Location-aware Publish-subscribe Communications for the Internet of Things
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
2022journal Location contact tracing: Penetration, privacy, position, and performance
Digital Government: Research and Practice
2022journal Pedometers for Smartphones: Analysis and Comparison of Real-Time Algorithms
World Forum on Internet of Things
2022conference Towards Smart Cities for Tourism: the POLIS-EYE Project
2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
2020conference A privacy preserving framework for rewarding users in opportunistic mobile crowdsensing
2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2020conference Delivering iot smart services through collective awareness, mobile crowdsensing and open data
2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2020journal Design and performance evaluation of a LoRa-based mobile emergency management system (LOCATE)
Ad Hoc Networks
2020journal Performance evaluation of hybrid crowdsensing systems with stateful CrowdSenSim 2.0 simulator
Computer Communications
2019conference An industrial IoT solution for evaluating workers' performance via activity recognition
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
2019journal Architecting and deploying IoT smart applications: A performance–oriented approach
Sensors
2019conference Crowdsensim 2.0: A stateful simulation platform for mobile crowdsensing in smart cities
International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
2019conference Indoor Location Services through Multi-Source Learning-based Radio Fingerprinting Techniques
IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking
2019conference Permission-free keylogging through touch events eavesdropping on mobile devices
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2019conference Practical indoor localization via smartphone sensor data fusion techniques: A performance study
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2019conference Vehicular route identification using mobile devices integrated sensors
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2018conference Custom dual transportation mode detection by smartphone devices exploiting sensor diversity
2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2018journal Scalability of IoT-enabled context-aware management systems for smart cities
2018conference Scalability of Real-Time IoT-based Applications for Smart Cities
International Symposium on Computers and Communications
2018journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2018journal Journal of destination marketing & management
2018conference Proceedings of the IEEE
2018conference WI-LO: Wireless indoor localization through multi-source radio fingerprinting
International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
2018conference WiFi meets barometer: Smartphone-based 3D indoor positioning method
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2017journal A collaborative internet of things architecture for smart cities and environmental monitoring
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2017conference A software architecture for generic human activity recognition from smartphone sensor data
IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking
2017journal Application system design: Complex systems management and automation
2017journal Context Design and Tracking for IoT-based Energy Management in Smart Cities
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2017journal Distributed data collection control in opportunistic mobile crowdsensing
SmartObjects@MobiCom
2017journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2016journal A mobile phone-sensing system for emergency management: The SENSE-ME platform
International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow
2016conference A self-adapting algorithm based on atmospheric pressure to localize indoor devices
Global Communications Conference
2016journal JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND INNOVATION
2016journal Context‐aware Android applications through transportation mode detection techniques
Wireless communications and mobile computing
2016conference Estimating urban mobility with open data: A case study in Bologna
2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
2016journal Tourism management
2016journal International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow
2016journal 2016journal SenSquare: A mobile crowdsensing architecture for smart cities
World Forum on Internet of Things
2016conference ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
2015journal An integrated simulation framework to model electric vehicle operations and services
IEEE Transactions on vehicular Technology
2015journal Context-aware energy efficiency management for smart buildings
World Forum on Internet of Things
2015journal 2015 IEEE Eindhoven PowerTech
2015conference Mobile applications in tourism: a taxonomy an case studies
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOURISM MANAGEMENT AND TOURISM RELATED ISSUES
2015journal World Forum on Internet of Things
2015journal Computer Communications
2014conference A mobile application to assist electric vehicles' drivers with charging services
2014 Eighth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Apps, Services and Technologies
2014conference Driving without anxiety: A route planner service with range prediction for the electric vehicles
International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo
2014conference Self-organizing aerial mesh networks for emergency communication
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
2014journal Spontaneous smartphone networks as a user-centric solution for the future internet
IEEE Communications Magazine
2014journal STEM‐Net: an evolutionary network architecture for smart and sustainable cities
Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
2013journal Interactions of large scale EV mobility and virtual power plants
Design, Automation and Test in Europe
2013conference STEM-mesh: Self-organizing mobile cognitive radio network for disaster recovery operations
2013 9th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)
2012journal By train or by car? Detecting the user's motion type through smartphone sensors data
IFIP Wireless Days
2011conference TP-UrbanX-A new transport protocol for cognitive multi-radio mesh networks
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2009conference ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
2009journal Special Issue on “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks”
Performance Evaluation
2009journal TP-CRAHN: A transport protocol for cognitive radio ad-hoc networks
IEEE INFOCOM 2009
2008journal Computer Communications Journal: Special issue: Mobility Management and Wireless Access
Computer Communications
2008journal MoVES: A framework for parallel and distributed simulation of wireless vehicular ad hoc networks
Computer Networks
2008journal Resources and mobility management in wireless networks
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
2006conference Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless vehicular ad hoc networks
International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
2006conference ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
2005journal Collision Avoidance, Contention Control and Power Saving in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Handbook of Algorithms for Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing
2003conference A novel approach for distributed simulation of wireless mobile systems
IFIP International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
2003conference HLA-based adaptive distributed simulation of wireless mobile systems
Seventeenth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, 2003. (PADS 2003). Proceedings.