Luciano Bononi
Co-director, IoT Prism Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna
Research interests
- Wireless Systems and Networks
- Internet of Things
- Internet of Energy
- Smart Mobility
- Modeling and Simulation
- Mobile Applications
Short bio
Luciano Bononi (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bologna, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor of computer networks, the Internet of Things, wireless and mobile systems, and mobile applications with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. He is also the Founder and Director of the Laboratory of Wireless Systems and Mobile Applications, CSE.
He has coauthored more than 140 peer reviewed conference and journal publications and 8 book chapters, receiving four best paper awards. His research areas include wireless systems and networks, protocol architectures, the Internet of Things, the Internet of Energy, Smart Mobility, modeling, simulation, performance evaluation, mobile services, and mobile applications.
He has been involved in more than ten international research projects. He is an Associate Editor of three international Journals and guest edited more than ten special issues. He was a Chair in more than 15 IEEE/ACM conferences and a TPC member in more than 150 IEEE/ACM conferences on the above research topics.
Publications
2026journal A navigation framework for bicycle riders based on environmental and contextual factors
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2026journal Artificial Intelligence Predicts GBA1 Mutated Status in Parkinson's Disease Patients
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
2026conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2025journal A Comprehensive Approach to Residual Value Analysis in the Luxury Automotive Market
IEEE Access
2025journal Advanced Techniques for Joint Weather and Electricity Demand Prediction Survey
IEEE Access
2025journal Diagnostics
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)
2025journal FRONTIERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS
2025conference Generative Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Dynamic IoT Scenarios
International Conference on Smart Computing
2025conference Scalable Remote Rehabilitation Enabled by IoT and Edge Computing
International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services
2025conference 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor)
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
2024conference Digital smart structure: engineering a sensor-to-cloud structural health monitoring pilot
IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking
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)
2024journal Relativistic digital twin: Bringing the IoT to the future
Future Generation Computer Systems
2024conference Trace Analysis of Electric Micromobility and its Application for City Sensing
IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
2024conference Water Wastage Detection in Smart Homes Through IoT and Machine Learning
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2023journal A ble mesh edge framework for qos-aware iot monitoring systems
World Forum on Internet of Things
2023journal IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2023journal IEEE Access
2023conference Autonomic faulty node replacement in UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks: a test-bed
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2023conference Optimizing IoT-based human activity recognition on extreme edge devices
International Conference on Smart Computing
2022conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022journal Digital twin collaborative platforms: Applications to humans-in-the-loop crafting of urban areas
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
2022conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022journal Pedometers for Smartphones: Analysis and Comparison of Real-Time Algorithms
World Forum on Internet of Things
2022conference Wotwins: Automatic digital twin generator for the web of things
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2021conference A toolchain architecture for condition monitoring using the eclipse arrowhead framework
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
2020journal A GPS-free flocking model for aerial mesh deployments in disaster-recovery scenarios
IEEE Access
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 Performance evaluation of hybrid crowdsensing systems with stateful CrowdSenSim 2.0 simulator
Computer Communications
2020journal Special issue on “Crowd-sensed Big Data for Internet of Things Services”
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2020journal World Forum on Internet of Things
2019conference BEE-DRONES: Energy-efficient data collection on wake-up radio-based wireless sensor networks
Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
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 Permission-free keylogging through touch events eavesdropping on mobile devices
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2019journal Handbook of Cognitive Radio
2019conference Vehicular route identification using mobile devices integrated sensors
2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2018journal Classification and annotation of open internet of things datastreams
WISE
2018conference Custom dual transportation mode detection by smartphone devices exploiting sensor diversity
2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
2018conference Dual-mode wake-up nodes for iot monitoring applications: Measurements and algorithms
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2018journal Handbook of Cognitive Radio
2018conference Conference of the Open Innovations Association
2018journal Joint coverage, connectivity, and charging strategies for distributed UAV networks
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2018journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2018journal 2018journal The CUSCUS simulator for distributed networked control systems: Architecture and use-cases
Ad Hoc Networks
2018conference Proceedings of the IEEE
2018conference WiFi meets barometer: Smartphone-based 3D indoor positioning method
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2017journal 2017 Index IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine Vol. 12
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
2017journal A collaborative internet of things architecture for smart cities and environmental monitoring
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2017conference Achieving IoT interoperability through a service oriented in-home appliance
Global Communications Conference
2017conference Automotive communications in LTE: A simulation-based performance study
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
2017conference CUSCUS: An integrated simulation architecture for distributed networked control systems
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2017conference CUSCUS: CommUnicationS-control distributed simulator
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2017journal Distributed data collection control in opportunistic mobile crowdsensing
SmartObjects@MobiCom
2017journal Dynamic adaptive video streaming on heterogeneous TVWS and Wi-Fi networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
2017conference Dynamic segment size selection in HTTP based adaptive video streaming
Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
2017conference Fly and recharge: Achieving persistent coverage using small unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAVs)
2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2017journal ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
2016journal A route planner service with recharging reservation: Electric itinerary with a click
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
2016conference A self-adapting algorithm based on atmospheric pressure to localize indoor devices
Global Communications Conference
2016journal A semantic publish-subscribe architecture for the Internet of Things
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2016journal JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND INNOVATION
2016journal Context‐aware Android applications through transportation mode detection techniques
Wireless communications and mobile computing
2016journal Enhancing TV white-spaces database with unmanned aerial scanning vehicles (UASVs)
DroNet@MobiSys
2016conference Estimating urban mobility with open data: A case study in Bologna
2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
2016journal 2016journal Computer Communications
2016journal On the integration of heterogeneous data sources for the collaborative Internet of Things
International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow
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 Connectivity recovery in post-disaster scenarios through cognitive radio swarms
Computer Networks
2015journal IEEE Access
2015journal 2015 IEEE Eindhoven PowerTech
2015journal World Forum on Internet of Things
2015journal Computer Communications
2015journal WhatIF application: Moving electrically without an electric vehicle
Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications
2014conference A collision-free contention protocol based on pulse/tone signals
2014 Second International Symposium on Computing and Networking
2014conference A mobile application to assist electric vehicles' drivers with charging services
2014 Eighth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Apps, Services and Technologies
2014journal Cognitive modulation and coding scheme adaptation for 802.11 n and 802.11 af networks
2014journal Pervasive and mobile computing
2014conference Distributed mobile Femto-Databases for cognitive access to TV white spaces
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
2014conference Driving without anxiety: A route planner service with range prediction for the electric vehicles
International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo
2014conference Indoor communication over TV gray spaces based on spectrum measurements
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
2014conference Self-organizing aerial mesh networks for emergency communication
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
2013conference An interoperable architecture for mobile smart services over the internet of energy
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2013journal Cognitive radio vehicular ad hoc networks: design, implementation, and future challenges
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Cutting Edge Directions
2013journal Group communication on highways: An evaluation study of geocast protocols and applications
Ad Hoc Networks
2013journal Ad hoc networks
2013conference Integrating spectrum database and cooperative sensing for cognitive vehicular networks
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
2013journal Interactions of large scale EV mobility and virtual power plants
Design, Automation and Test in Europe
2013conference Machine-to-machine communication over TV white spaces for smart metering applications
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
2013conference 2013 12th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET)
2013conference International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking
2013conference STEM-mesh: Self-organizing mobile cognitive radio network for disaster recovery operations
2013 9th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)
2013journal XCHARM: A routing protocol for multi-channel wireless mesh networks
Computer communications
2012journal By train or by car? Detecting the user's motion type through smartphone sensors data
IFIP Wireless Days
2012journal Cognitive vehicular networks: Smart radios for smart vehicles
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
2012journal Collaboration and Coordination in Secondary Networks for Opportunistic Spectrum Access
arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3005
2012journal 2012conference ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
2012conference Enhancing the performance of safety applications in IEEE 802.11 p/WAVE Vehicular Networks
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2012conference Modeling and simulation of WAVE 1609.4-based multi-channel vehicular ad hoc networks
International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
2012conference International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
2012journal 2012journal Smart radios for smart vehicles: Cognitive vehicular networks
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
2012journal Special section on wireless network behaviour and design
Computer Communications
2011conference IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2011conference Adaptive sensing scheduling and spectrum selection in cognitive wireless mesh networks
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
2011conference Cooperation and communication in cognitive radio networks based on TV spectrum experiments
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2011conference Cooperative spectrum management in cognitive vehicular ad hoc networks
IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference
2011conference Dynamic backbone for fast information delivery invehicular ad hoc networks: an evaluation study
ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks
2011journal End-to-end protocols for cognitive radio ad hoc networks: An evaluation study
Performance Evaluation
2011journal Computer Communications
2011conference Learning with the bandit: A cooperative spectrum selection scheme for cognitive radio networks
Global Communications Conference
2011conference International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
2011journal Urban-X: a self-organizing cognitive wireless mesh network for dense city environments
Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
2010journal Analyzing the potential of cooperative cognitive radio technology on inter-vehicle communication
IFIP Wireless Days
2010journal Computer Performance Engineering
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2010conference European Performance Engineering Workshop
2010conference CORAL: Spectrum aware admission policy in cognitive radio mesh networks
2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM 2010
2010journal European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2010)
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
2010journal Learning-based spectrum selection in cognitive radio ad hoc networks
Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
2010journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal: Fast Track Issue on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2010journal The connection-then-credit flow control protocol for heterogeneous multicore systems-on-chip
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
2010conference 2010 Fifth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks
2009conference ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
2009conference International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
2009journal International Journal of Communication Systems
2009conference ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks
2009conference aEqualized: A novel routing algorithm for the Spidergon Network On Chip
2009 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition
2009conference Ctc: An end-to-end flow control protocol for multi-core systems-on-chip
2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
2009journal DBA-MAC: dynamic backbone-assisted medium access control protocol for efficient broadcast in VANETs
Journal of Interconnection Networks
2009conference Joint channel assignment and multi-path routing for multi-radio wireless mesh networks
2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
2009conference International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
2009conference Real-time traffic in ad-hoc sensor networks
IEEE International Conference on Communications
2009journal 2009journal Special Issue on “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks”
Performance Evaluation
2008journal Computer Communications Journal: Special issue: Mobility Management and Wireless Access
Computer Communications
2008journal Cross-layered mac and multipath routing protocols in multi-hop wireless mobile networks
Journal of Interconnection Networks
2008conference ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks
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
2007conference A cross layered mac and clustering scheme for efficient broadcast in vanets
2007 IEEE Internatonal Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems
2007journal 2007journal Intrusion detection for secure clustering and routing in mobile multi-hop wireless networks
International journal of information security
2007conference NoC topologies exploration based on mapping and simulation models
Euromicro Symposium on Digital Systems Design
2007journal Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Wireless Mobile and Sensor Networks
2006conference A wireless intrusion detection system for secure clustering and routing in ad hoc networks
Information Security Conference
2006conference An adaptive load balancing middleware for distributed simulation
ISPA Workshops
2006journal Performance Evaluation
2006journal Design, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Network on Chip (NoC) Architectures (edizione 2006)
2006conference Exploring the effects of hyper-threading on parallel simulation
2006 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
2006journal 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
2006conference Proximity detection in distributed simulation of wireless mobile systems
International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
2006conference Simulation and analysis of network on chip architectures: ring, spidergon and 2D mesh
Proceedings of the Design Automation & Test in Europe Conference
2005conference IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
2005journal Collision Avoidance, Contention Control and Power Saving in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Handbook of Algorithms for Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing
2005conference Concurrent replication of parallel and distributed simulations
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation
2005conference Scalable and efficient parallel and distributed simulation of complex, dynamic and mobile systems
Workshop on Techniques, Methodologies and Tools for Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems
2005journal 2004conference ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks
2004conference A new adaptive middleware for parallel and distributed simulation of dynamically interacting systems
Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
2004conference ARTIS: a parallel and distributed simulation middleware for performance evaluation
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
2004conference Design and simulation of a migration-based architecture for massively populated internet games
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Workshops, 2004. GlobeCom Workshops 2004.
2004conference International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
2004journal Runtime optimization of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs performance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
2004journal Simulation and modeling of wireless, mobile, and ad hoc networks
Mobile ad hoc networking
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.
2001journal A distributed mechanism for power saving in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs
Mobile Networks and Applications
2001journal ALTA FREQUENZA-RIVISTA DI ELETTRONICA
2001conference Proceedings Tenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (Cat. No.01EX495)
2000conference Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
1999conference 1999 IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuC'99) (Cat. No.99EX384)
1998conference IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks