Professional activities

Editor-in-Chief

Editor

  • ICT Express, Elsevier (2021-)
  • Book series "Advances in Intelligent Decision-Making, Systems Engineering, and Project Management," Taylor & Francis Group (2020-)
  • Smart Cities, MDPI (2018-)
  • Sensors, Section "Internet of Things", MDPI (2017-)
  • Applied Sciences, MDPI (2017-)
  • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), Wiley-Hindawi (2016-)
  • Book series "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering," Springer (2013-)
  • [past] Journal of Computer Networks and Communications (JCNC), Hindawi (2016-2026)
  • [past] Future Internet, MDPI (2018-2023)
  • [past] International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services, IARIA (2012-2021)
  • [past] International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), Hindawi (2014-2016), SAGE (2016-2019)
  • [past] International Journal of Energy, Information and Communications (IJEIC), SERSC: Science & Engineering Research Support Center (2011-2018)
  • [past] International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking (IJFGCN), SERSC: Science & Engineering Research Support Center (2008-2018)
  • [past] The Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal (TOEEJ), Bentham Publishers (2007-2017)
  • [past] Recent Patents on Signal Processing, Bentham Publishers (2009-2016)
  • [past] Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), Editorial Review Board member, IGI (2010-2013)
  • [past] International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications, Taylor & Francis (2007-2009), IOS Press (2010-2012)

Guest Editor

Workshop Organization

  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Paolo Azzoni, INSIDE Industry Association, Netherlands; Dr. Markus Tauber, Research Studios Austria FG, Austria) of the Workshop "Embedding iNtelligence in Smart mUnicipalities - challenges and oppoRtunitiEs" (ENSURE) at the 11th International Smart City Conference (ISC2 2025), Patras, Greece, October 2025
  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Chiara Buratti, University of Bologna, Italy; Dr. Adrian Garcia Rodriguez, Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland; Dr. Ming Ding, Data61, CSIRO, Australia) of the one-day Workshop: "UAV Communications for 5G and beyond," IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2018), Bologna, Italy, September 2018
  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Simone Cirani, University of Parma, Italy; Prof. Mischa Dohler, King's College London, UK; Prof. Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Dr. Marco Picone, University of Parma, Italy; Dr. Thomas Watteyne, Inria, France) of the 1st International ACM Workshop on IoT challenges in Mobile and Industrial Systems (IoT-Sys 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015. In conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2015
  • Co-organizer (with Prof. Jean-Michel Dricot, Université Libre de Bruxelles) of the 1st International ICST Workshop on Performance Methodologies and Tools for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNPerf 2009), Pisa, Italy, October 2009. In conjunction with VALUETOOLS 2009

Special Session Organization

  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Luca Davoli, University of Parma, Italy; Dr. Paolo Azzoni, INSIDE Industry Association, Netherlands; Dr. Alper Kanak, ERARGE & ERGTECH, Türkiye; Prof. Baran Curuklu, Malardalen University, Sweden) of the Special Session "Software-Defined Vehicles: Sensing, Communication, Processing, and Control", 2026 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Automotive (MetroAutomotive 2026), Brescia, Italy, June 2026
  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Luca Davoli, University of Parma, Italy; Dr. Paolo Azzoni, INSIDE Industry Association, Netherlands; Dr. Alper Kanak, ERARGE & ERGTECH, Türkiye; Prof. Baran Curuklu, Malardalen University, Sweden) of the Special Session "Software-Defined Vehicles: Sensing, Communication, Processing, and Control", 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Automotive (MetroAutomotive 2025), Parma, Italy, June-July 2025
  • TPC Co-chair (with Dr. Yi Wang, Huawei Technologies) of the Special Session "5G Positioning: 3GPP standard and key techniques," IEEE Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation conference (IPIN 2021), Lloret de Mar, Spain, November-December 2021
  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Marco Martalò, University of Parma) of the Special Session "Recent Advances in Indoor Navigation for IoT-based Applications" (RAIN-IoT), IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2018), Bologna, Italy, September 2018
  • Co-organizer (with Prof. Andrea Abrardo, University of Siena) of the Special Session "Transmission of correlated sources in distributed radio systems: theory and applications," Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2009 (ISWCS 2009), Siena, Italy, September 2009

Keynote/Invited Speaker

  • "Inertial Signal Processing for IoT Applications," keynote speech at the 6th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2018), Kenting, Taiwan, August 2018. A photo of the keynote speakers
  • "Seamless (and cloudy) integration of heterogeneous networks: from vertical handover to mobile offloading," keynote speech at the 2013 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Brussels, Belgium, April 2013.
  • "Body Sensor Networks: from Communication to Activity Classification," keynote speech at the Fifth International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE (COMSWARE 2011), Verona, Italy, July 2011
  • "Ad hoc wireless networks: a bottom-up approach," riunione annuale 2004 del Gruppo nazionale Telecomunicazioni e Teoria dell'Informazione (GTTI 2004), Session "TECNOLOGIE DI STRATO FISICO PER SISTEMI WIRELESS DI PROSSIMA GENERAZIONE" (Physical layer Technologies for next generation wireless systems), L'Aquila, Italy, June 2004

Panelist

  • Panel "Cut the cables - but are you sure?", IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2026 (NOMS 2026), Rome, Italy, May 2026. A photo of the panelists
  • Panel "5G IoT Networks," 30th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2019), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2019. A photo of the panelists

Conference Session Chair

  • "WNS-17: Wireless PANs and Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2009), Wireless Networking Symposium (WNS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 2009
  • "UWB-II," 10th International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2008), Bologna, Italy, August 2008
  • "Wireless Video," 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2005 (ISWCS2005), Siena, Italy, September 2005

Technical Program Committee Member

2023 [3]

2022 [12]

2021 [16]

2020 [35]

2019 [78]

2018 [75]

2017 [47]

2016 [52]

2015 [42]

2014 [40]

2013 [37]

2012 [40]

2011 [26]

2010 [19]

2009 [15]

2008 [13]

2007 [11]

2006 [4]

2005 [2]

  • IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (CSA 2005), Banff, AB, Canada, July 2005
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), General Communications Conference, Seoul, Korea, May 2005

2004 [2]

  • Symposium on Trends in Communications (SympoTIC 2004), Bratislava, Slovakia, October 2004
  • IASTED International Conference on Communications Systems and Applications (CSA 2004), Banff, AB, Canada, July 2004

Frequent Reviewer

  • Journals: IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, Wiley European Transactions on Telecommunications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Computer, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN), IEE Electronics Letters, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IET Communications, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Sensors Journal, Ad Hoc reviewer for the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) [term of appointment between December 1, 2007 and November 1, 2009], MDPI Sensors, Elsevier Performance Evaluation (PEVA), Springer Journal of Zhejiang University- Science A, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES), Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), ETRI Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONE), Hindawi International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), SERC International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology (IJAST), SERC International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking (IJFGCN), SERC International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing (IJGDC), SERC International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern (IJSIP), Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET), Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (ICAE), Taylor & Francis International Journal of Electronics, National Academy Science Letters, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), and others.
  • Conferences: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), International Symposium on Information Theory and Applications (ISITA), IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (CSA), IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC), IEEE Conference on Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications (WRECOM), IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (IEEE ICIT), IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), European Wireless (EW), IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), International Conference on Intelligent Transport System Telecommunications (ITST), IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC), International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia), International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), International Workshop on Future Wellness and Medical ICT Systems (FEELIT), International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (IMCIC), and others.