Marco Di Felice
Co-director, IoT Prism Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna
Research interests
- Internet of Things
- Web of Things
- Robotic Wireless Networks and UAS
- Self-organizing Wireless Systems
- Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication
- Data Analytics and Mining
- Mobile and Edge Computing
- Indoor Localization
Short bio
Marco Di Felice is a Full Professor of Computer Science with the University of Bologna, where he is the co-director of the IoT Prism research laboratory. He received the Laurea (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Bologna, in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
He was a Visiting Researcher with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, and with Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. He has authored more than 120 papers on wireless and mobile systems, achieving three best paper awards for his scientific production. He is Associate Editor of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal.
He has been General Chair of the IFIP WWIC 2019 conference, and Program Chair of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2022), IFIP WWIC 2018, IEEE M&N 2019, IEEE MiSARN 2019, IEEE WiSARN 2018/2020/2021, IEEE CORAL 2012/2013/2015/2016, and IEEE SWANSITY 2014, and Vice Program Chair of IEEE CCNC 2021.
Publications
2026journal Pioneering the Hybridization of Federated Learning in Human Activity Recognition
2026conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2026journal Say the Mission, Execute the Swarm: Agent-Enhanced LLM Reasoning in the Web-of-Drones
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03788
2025conference A Location-Aware WebAssembly-Based Software Update Framework for IoT End Devices
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2025journal IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine
2025conference Extreme edge sensing-as-a-service: Bridging containerization for iot end devices
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
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 Generative Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Dynamic IoT Scenarios
International Conference on Smart Computing
2025conference IMU-Based Exercise Recognition and Angle Estimation via an Edge-Friendly Architecture
International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services
2025journal Network slicing in aerial base station (UAV-BS) towards coexistence of heterogeneous 5G services
Computer Networks
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 SDN-Enabled Digital Twins: A Framework for Wireless SDN Simulation and Optimization
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2025journal The Rapid Detection Method of Lubricant Oxidation State
IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine
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
2025journal ZONIA: a zero-trust oracle system for blockchain IoT applications
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2024journal A smart motor rehabilitation system based on the internet of things and humanoid robotics
Applied Sciences
2024conference An IoT-AI toolchain for structural health monitoring
IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking
2024conference An over the air software update system for IoT microcontrollers based on WebAssembly
2024 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)
2024journal Cache-it: A distributed architecture for proactive edge caching in heterogeneous iot scenarios
Ad Hoc Networks
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 Digital Twin based on IoT and Ontology for remote physiotherapy
2024journal Edge human activity recognition using federated learning on constrained devices
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2024conference Integrating ontological modelling, IoT and humanoid robotics for motor rehabilitation systems
CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
2024journal Intelligent Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Ad hoc networks
2024journal Iotdeploy: Deployment of iot smart applications over the computing continuum
Internet of Things
2024conference Iotinuum: The iot computing continuum
2024 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)
2024conference On the decentralization of mobile crowdsensing in distributed ledgers: an architectural vision
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2024conference Poster: Iot and humanoid robotics for next generation motor rehabilitation systems
2024 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)
2024conference Proactive caching in the edge-cloud continuum with federated learning
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2024conference Rattle: Train identification through audio fingerprinting
International Conference on Smart Computing
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 A decentralized oracle architecture for a blockchain-based iot global market
IEEE Communications Magazine
2023journal IEEE Access
2023conference Autonomic faulty node replacement in UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks: a test-bed
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2023conference Designing a hybrid push-pull architecture for mobile crowdsensing using the web of things
International Conference on Smart Computing
2023conference Distributed service discovery over heterogeneous robotic systems-of-systems
2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)
2023journal Next generation edge-cloud continuum architecture for structural health monitoring
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2023conference Optimizing IoT-based human activity recognition on extreme edge devices
International Conference on Smart Computing
2023conference International Conference on System Reliability and Safety
2022journal 6G to take the digital divide by storm: Key technologies and trends to bridge the gap
Future Internet
2022journal IEEE access
2022conference Artifact: C3PO-converter of open API specification to WoT objects
2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)
2022conference Blockchain and web of things for structural health monitoring applications: A proof of concept
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022journal Cooperative Cellular UAV-to-Everything (C-U2X) communication based on 5G sidelink for UAV swarms
Computer Communications
2022journal Guest editorial: An end-to-end machine learning perspective on industrial iot
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
2022conference Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2022journal IoT edge caching: taxonomy, use cases and perspectives
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
2022journal Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
2022journal LA-MQTT: Location-aware Publish-subscribe Communications for the Internet of Things
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
2022journal IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
2022journal Pedometers for Smartphones: Analysis and Comparison of Real-Time Algorithms
World Forum on Internet of Things
2022conference Seamless integration of RESTful web services with the web of things
2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)
2022conference Towards Smart Cities for Tourism: the POLIS-EYE Project
2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
2022conference Uhura: a software framework for swarm management in multi-radio robotic networks
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
2022journal Wot on the extreme edge (wottee): Enabling w3c web of things for micro-controllers
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 soil moisture calibration service for iot-based smart irrigation
2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor)
2021conference A toolchain architecture for condition monitoring using the eclipse arrowhead framework
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
2021conference Integration of AI, IoT and edge-computing for smart microgrid energy management
2021 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2021 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)
2021conference Interoperability in open iot platforms: Wot-fiware comparison and integration
International Conference on Smart Computing
2021conference Modron: A scalable and interoperable web of things platform for structural health monitoring
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2021conference Performance analysis of multi-hop communication based on 5G sidelink for cooperative UAV swarms
International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking
2021journal Smart spectrum and radio resource management for future 5G networks
Computer Networks
2021conference Two-way integration of service-oriented systems-of-systems with the web of things
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
2021conference Wot micro servient: Bringing the w3c web of things to resource constrained edge devices
International Conference on Smart Computing
2020journal A GPS-free flocking model for aerial mesh deployments in disaster-recovery scenarios
IEEE Access
2020conference AirID: Injecting a custom RF fingerprint for enhanced UAV identification using deep learning
Global Communications Conference
2020journal Computer Networks
2020journal Design and performance evaluation of a LoRa-based mobile emergency management system (LOCATE)
Ad Hoc Networks
2020journal Discovering web things as services within the arrowhead framework
Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
2020journal From cloud to edge: Seamless software migration at the era of the web of things
IEEE Access
2020conference Inventory management through mini-drones: Architecture and proof-of-concept implementation
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
2020journal IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
2020journal IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine
2020journal World Forum on Internet of Things
2020journal WoT Store: Managing resources and applications on the web of things
Internet of Things
2019conference BEE-DRONES: Energy-efficient data collection on wake-up radio-based wireless sensor networks
Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
2019journal Deploying w3c web of things-based interoperable mash-up applications for industry 4.0: A testbed
Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
2019journal FOCUS: Fog computing in UAS software-defined mesh networks
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2019conference Indoor Location Services through Multi-Source Learning-based Radio Fingerprinting Techniques
IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking
2019conference Practical indoor localization via smartphone sensor data fusion techniques: A performance study
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
2019journal Handbook of Cognitive Radio
2019journal Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2019journal WoT Store: a Thing and Application Management Ecosystem for the W3C Web of Things
arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04617
2019conference Wot store: Enabling things and applications discovery for the w3c web of things
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
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
2018journal E-Fi: Evasive Wi-Fi measures for surviving LTE within 5 GHz unlicensed band
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
2018conference Conference of the Open Innovations Association
2018journal Joint coverage, connectivity, and charging strategies for distributed UAV networks
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2018conference Locate: A lora-based mobile emergency management system
Global Communications Conference
2018journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2018journal The CUSCUS simulator for distributed networked control systems: Architecture and use-cases
Ad Hoc Networks
2018journal Journal of destination marketing & management
2018journal IEEE Access
2018conference When UAVs ride a bus: Towards energy-efficient city-scale video surveillance
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
2018conference WI-LO: Wireless indoor localization through multi-source radio fingerprinting
International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
2017journal 2017 Index IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine Vol. 12
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
2017conference A software architecture for generic human activity recognition from smartphone sensor data
IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking
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 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 Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2017conference Towards fast flow convergence in cognitive radio cellular networks
Global Communications Conference
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
2016journal A route planner service with recharging reservation: Electric itinerary with a click
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
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
2016journal Tourism management
2016journal International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow
2016journal 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
2015conference Mobile applications in tourism: a taxonomy an case studies
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOURISM MANAGEMENT AND TOURISM RELATED ISSUES
2015conference On 3-dimensional spectrum sharing for TV white and Gray Space networks
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
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 mobile application to assist electric vehicles' drivers with charging services
2014 Eighth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Apps, Services and Technologies
2014journal Accessing spectrum databases using interference alignment in vehicular cognitive radio networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
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 Querying spectrum databases and improved sensing for vehicular cognitive radio networks
2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
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
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 Device characterization and cross-layer protocol design for RF energy harvesting sensors
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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
2013conference Internet of things: a process calculus approach
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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 STEM-Net: an evolutionary architecture for highly-reconfigurable wireless networks
Future Network & Mobile Summit
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 Collaboration and Coordination in Secondary Networks for Opportunistic Spectrum Access
arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3005
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 TCP CRAHN: A transport control protocol for cognitive radio ad hoc networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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 TP-UrbanX-A new transport protocol for cognitive multi-radio mesh networks
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
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
2010conference Cognitive multi-radio mesh networks on ISM bands: a cross-layer architecture
IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference
2010conference CORAL: Spectrum aware admission policy in cognitive radio mesh networks
2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM 2010
2010journal Learning-based spectrum selection in cognitive radio ad hoc networks
Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
2010conference Routing and link layer protocol design for sensor networks with wireless energy transfer
2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM 2010
2010journal Spectrum management of cognitive radio using multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
2010conference 2010 Fifth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks
2010journal Urban-X: Towards distributed channel assignment in cognitive multi-radio mesh networks
IFIP Wireless Days
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
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
2009journal Search: A routing protocol for mobile cognitive radio ad-hoc networks
Computer Communications
2009journal TP-CRAHN: A transport protocol for cognitive radio ad-hoc networks
IEEE INFOCOM 2009
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
2007conference A cross layered mac and clustering scheme for efficient broadcast in vanets
2007 IEEE Internatonal Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems
2006journal Performance Evaluation
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