Stefano Savazzi

PhD, CNR Researcher - IEIIT institute

Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT)

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano
P.zza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy

Ph: +39 02 2399 3454
Fax: +39 02 2399 3413
E-mails: stefano.savazziATieiit.cnr.it
stefano.savazziATcnr.it
stefano.savazziATpolimi.it

BIOGRAPHY

Stefano Savazzi received the MSc (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) degree in Information Technology (both with honors) from the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano. He was a Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University in 2005 (Signals and Systems), Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 2007 and Senior Researcher at Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation, Wien (ftw) in 2010.

In 2012 he joined the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR - Italian National Research Council) holding a permanent position as Researcher at the IEIIT. institute (Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering).

His current research interests include signal processing and networking aspects for wireless communications with special focus on cognitive and cooperative communication systems, wireless sensor networks for industrial automation and critical process control. Dr. Savazzi won the D.N. Chorafas Foundation Award for best Ph.D. dissertation.

AWARDS

May 2008, Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award. for best PhD. dissertation

June 2008, StartCup Milano Lombardia, 3^rd Prize (article from “Il Sole 24 Ore” pdf)

June 2015 EuCNC 2015: Best Booth Award to project DIWINE

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

Signal processing aspects of wireless communications systems, antenna array processing, channel estimation and tracking, MIMO-OFDM systems, cooperative communication, relay channels, ad-hoc networking and wireless sensor networks.

RadioVision. See CNR focus.

Internet of Things and Sensor Networks

WaveLab website (NEW)

PhD. Thesis: S. Savazzi, “Analysis and Design of Cooperative Networks in fading channels” PhD. Thesis, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2008

Industrial cooperations

Siemens M.C. 2004-2005, “Array processing techniques for WMAN systems based on IEEE 802.16 standard”

iSeis Technology supplier for seismic equipment, 2009- , “Wireless Sensor Networks for Oil and Gas Explorations”

WesternGeco AS 2009- Oslo Technology Center, Schlumberger, “Compression and coding for cable-free land systems”

Saipem, a subsidiary of Eni 2011- , “Wireless Sensor Networks in Oil&Gas refinery plants”.

AWE Communications Wave Propagation and Radio Network Planning 2011-, “Wireless Sensor Networks design and planning in refinery plants”

Pepperl+Fuchs Cloud Networks for Critical Industrial Monitoring and Control 2013-2016.

Main Projects

NEWCOM 2004-2006, “Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications”, EU Project #IST-2002-507525.

EU-WINNER 2005-2006, https://www.ist-winner.org

MIUR-FIRB INSYEME 2007-2010, “Integrated System for Emergency”

COST-2100 2007-2010, “European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research”

NEWCOM++ 2008-2010, “Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications”

DIWINE EU FP7 2013-2016, “Dense Cooperative Wireless Cloud Network”

FIDEAS 2013-2015, “Safe Human-Robot Interaction in smart factory”, CNR-Regione Lombardia

Progetto Premiale CNR, “Tecnologie e Sistemi Innovativi per la Fabbrica del Futuro e Made in Italy”, 2014

CyberSort 2017-2019, CNR-Regione Lombardia

RadioSense 2019-2021, ERA-NET COFUND H2020 CHISTERA III

Memberships

European Association of  Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2010-2013.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005-present.

IEEE Communications Society, 2007-present.

IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, 2012-present.

Personal: Project MWENDO, health care and long-distance adoption programs in Iringa, Tanzania. Short-term volunteer opportunities.

view MWENDO website in English

INVITED TALKS

S. Savazzi, “Cooperative fading regions in ad hoc wireless networks” @ Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, (ftw), Vienna, 6th March 2009.

S. Savazzi, “Synchronous monitoring networks for emergency management” @ Workshop FIRB project: Integrated Systems for Emergency, InSyEME, Rome, 2-3 Aprile 2009.

V. Rampa, S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Wireless monitoring networks for industrial applications” @ Workshop “Tecnologie Abilitanti e Sistemi per la Sicurezza: il contributo delle Università e dei Centri di Ricerca” TechFor 2010, Fair Centre (afcea), Rome, 17-20 May 2010.

S. Savazzi, S. Guardiano, “Wireless networks for closed-loop critical process control: emerging technologies and architectures” @ Workshop mcT2011 – Technologie per il Petrolchimico, San Donato, Milano, 24 Novembre 2011.

S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, F. Vicentini, M. Nicoli, “RadioSense: Wireless Big Data for Collaborative Robotics in Smart Factory”, Ital-IA Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, 2019.

S. Savazzi, “RadioSense: Opportunistic sensing and perception through ambient radio signals”, EU-US Frontiers of Engineering 2019, organized by the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (Euro-CASE) and National Academy of Engineering for early career engineers

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Monographs – Books

S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Cooperative Networks in Fading Channels. A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis and Design” VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (February 17, 2010), ISBN: 978-3-639-23396-4, 200 pages (purchase from amazon.com).

M. Nicoli, S. Savazzi, O. Simeone, R. Bosisio, G. Primolevo, C. Santacesaria, “Deployment and design of multi-antenna WiMax systems in non-stationary interference,” Book Chapter of Current Technology Developments of WiMax Systems (Chapter 1) edited by Dr. Maode Ma, Springer 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9299-2.

S. Savazzi, S. Sigg, M. Nicoli, V. Rampa, S. Kianoush, U. Spagnolini, “Wireless Sensing for Device-Free Recognition of Human Motion” Book Chapter of Radar for Indoor Monitoring: Detection, Classification, and Assessment (Chapter 14) edited by Moeness Amin, CRC Press, September 20, 2017, 390 pages, ISBN 9781498781985.

V. Rampa, S. Savazzi, F. Malandrino, “Opportunistic sensing in beyond-5G networks: the opportunities of transformative computing,” December 2019, In book: The 5G Italy Book 2019: a Multiperspective View of 5G, Publisher: CNIT - Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni.

A. Journals

[A.1]          S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Energy Aware Power Allocation Strategies for Multihop-Cooperative Transmission Schemes,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Cooperative Communication and Networking, vol. 25, no 2, February 2007.

[A.2]          S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Distributed Orthogonal Space-Time Coding: design and outage analysis for randomized cooperation,” IEEE Trans. On Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 12, December 2007.

[A.3]          S.Savazzi, O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini, “Optimal design of non-uniform linear arrays in cellular systems by out-of-cell interference minimization”  EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 93421, 9 pages, 2007, doi:10.1155/2007/93421.

[A.4]          O. Simeone, I. Stanojev, S. Savazzi, Y. Bar-Ness, U. Spagnolini and R. Pickholtz,, “Spectrum leasing to cooperating secondary ad hoc networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Cognitive Radio: Theory and Applications, vol. 26, no. 1, January 2008.

[A.5]          S.Savazzi and U.Spagnolini, “Wireless Geophone Networks for high density land acquisitions: technologies and future  potential,” (link) The Leading Edge, Special Section: Seismic Acquisition, pp. 259-262, July 2008.

[A.6]          S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Cooperative fading regions for decode and forward relaying,” IEEE Trans. On Information Theory, vol. 54, no.11, November 2008.

[A.7]          S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli and M. Sternad, “A comparative analysis of spatial multiplexing techniques for outdoor MIMO-OFDM systems with limited feedback constraint,” IEEE Trans. On Vehicular Technology, vol. 58, no.1, January 2009.

[A.8]          S. Savazzi, V. Rampa and U. Spagnolini, “High-Density Wireless Geophone Networks for Oil and Gas Monitoring and Exploration,” European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Number 76, pp. 43-45, January 2009. Available at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

[A.9]          S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Design criteria of two-hop based wireless networks with non-regenerative relays in arbitrary fading channels,” IEEE Trans. On Communications , pp. 1463-1473, vol. 57, no. 5, May 2009. 

[A.10]        S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Optimizing training lengths and training intervals in continuous time-varying fading channels,”  IEEE Trans. On Signal Processing, pp. 1098-1113, vol. 57, no. 3 March 2009.  

[A.11]        S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “On the pilot spacing constraints for continuous time-varying fading channels,” (pdf) IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 57, no. 11, November 2009.

[A.12]        S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Land Cable-less Systems for Telemetry Services: Current Limitations and Emerging Technologies,” First Break, http://fb.eage.org/, issue 2, vol. 29, February 2011.

[A.13]        S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini,  “Compression and coding for cable-free land systems,” Geophysics, (link) vol. 76, no. 5 Sept.-Oct. 2011, p. 11.

[A.14]        S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, L. Goratti, D. Molteni, M. Latva-aho, M. Nicoli ,  “Ultra-Wide Band Sensor Networks in Oil and Gas Explorations,” IEEE Communcations Magazine, (pdf) vol.51, n.4, pp. 142-153, April 2013

[A.15] S. Savazzi, S. Guardiano, U. Spagnolini, “Wireless sensor network modeling and deployment challenges in oil and gas refinery plants” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special issue on Planning and Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks (pdf), Hindawi vol. 2013 Article ID 383168, 17 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/383168.

[A.16] P. Castiglione, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, T. Zemen, “Partner selection in indoor-to-outdoor cooperative networks: an experimental study,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Theories and Methods for Advanced Wireless Relays, (pdf) vol. 31, no. 8, Aug. 2013.

[A.17] S. Savazzi, “Wireless virtual multiple antenna networks for critical process control: protocols and experiments” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special issue on Advanced Sensor Technology and Applications in Industrial Control Systems (pdf), Hindawi vol. 2013 Article ID 973621, 15 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/973621.

[A.18] L. Goratti, E. Yaprak, S.Savazzi, C. P. Raez, “An urn occupancy approach for modelling the energy consumption of distributed beaconing,” IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, available in pre-print, July 2013.

[A.19] M. Spadacini, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, “Wireless Home Automation Networks for indoor surveillance: technologies and experiments,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Section: Internet of Things for wireless and mobile communication), (pdf) 2014, 2014:6  doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2014-6.

[A.20] S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, F. Carminati, M. Riva, “A Bayesian approach to Device-Free Localization: modeling and experimental assessment,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp.16-29, Feb. 2014. (in most popular articles for this journal)

[A.21] S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, U. Spagnolini “Wireless Cloud Networks for the Factory of Things: connectivity modeling and layout design,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, (pdf) vol.1, no.2, pp.180-195, April 2014. (in most popular articles for this journal)

[A.22] R. Hugo de Souza, S. Savazzi, L. Buss Becker “Network Design and Planning of Wireless Embedded Systems for Industrial Automation,” Design Automation of Embedded Systems, Springer, Open Access link, 2015, doi:10.1007/s10617-015-9162-0.

[A.23] V. Rampa, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, M. D'Amico “Physical modeling and performance bounds for device-free localization systems,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, (pdf) vol. 22 no. 11, pp.1864-1868, November 2015..

[A.24] A. Parichehreh., S. Savazzi, L Goratti, U. Spagnolini “Seamless LTE Connectivity in High Speed Trains,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, John Wiley & Sons Inc., to appear 2015. ISSN: 1530-8677.

[A.25] J. M. Winter, I. Muller, G. Soatti, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, L. B. Becker, J. C. Netto and C. E. Pereira, “Wireless Coexistence and Spectrum Sensing in Industrial Internet of Things: An Experimental Study,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, (pdf) Hindawi, 2015.

[A.26] S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, F. Vicentini, M. Giussani, “Device-free human sensing and localization in collaborative human-robot workspaces: a case study,” IEEE Sensors Journal, (pdf) vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1253-1264, March, 2016.

[A.27] S. Savazzi, S. Sigg, M. Nicoli, V. Rampa, S. Kianoush, U. Spagnolini, “Device-free Radio Vision for assisted living: leveraging wireless channel quality information for human sensing,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, (pdf) vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 45-58, March 2016.

[A.28] S. Kianoush, S. Savazzi, F. Vicentini, V. Rampa, M. Giussani, “Device-free RF human body fall detection and localization in industrial workplaces,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, (pdf) vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 351-362, April 2017.

[A.29] L. Ascorti, S. Savazzi, G. Soatti, M. Nicoli, E. Sisinni, S. Galimberti, “A wireless cloud network platform for industrial process automation: critical data publishing and distributed sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, (pdf) vol. 66, no. 4, April 2017.

[A.30] G. Soatti, M. Nicoli, S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Consensus-based algorithms for distributed network-state estimation and localization,” IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, (pdf) vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 430-444, June 2017.

[A.31] V. Rampa, G. G. Gentili, S. Savazzi and M. D’Amico, “EM Models for Passive Body Occupancy Inference,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 16, pp. 2517-2520, 2017.

[A.32] G. Aloi, O. Briante, M. Di Felice, G. Ruggeri, S. Savazzi, “The SENSE-ME platform: Infrastructure-less Smartphone Connectivity and Decentralized Sensing for Emergency Management,” Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, (pdf) vol. 42, 2017, pp. 187-208, ISSN 1574-1192.

[A.33] S. Savazzi, S. Kianoush, V. Rampa and U. Spagnolini, “Cellular Data Analytics for Detection and Discrimination of Body Movements,” IEEE Access, (pdf) vol. 6, pp. 51484-51499, 2018.

[A.34] S. Kianoush, M. Raja, S. Savazzi and S. Sigg, “A Cloud-IoT Platform for Passive Radio Sensing: Challenges and Application Case Studies,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 3624-3636, Oct. 2018.

[A.35] S. Kianoush, S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, “Leveraging MIMO-OFDM radio signals for device-free occupancy inference: system design and experiments,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, (pdf), 44, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13634-018-0571-7

[A.36] S. Kianoush, S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, M. Nicoli, “People Counting by Dense WiFi MIMO Networks: Channel Features and Machine Learning Algorithms,” Sensors 2019, 19, 3450.

[A.37] G. Soatti, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, M. Antonieta Alvarez, S. Kianoush, V. Rampa, U. Spagnolini, “Distributed signal processing for dense 5G IoT platforms: Networking, synchronization, interference detection and radio sensing,” Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 89, 2019, pp. 9-21, ISSN

1570-8705.

[A.38] S. Savazzi, S. Sigg, F. Vicentini, S. Kianoush and R. Findling, “On the Use of Stray Wireless Signals for Sensing: A Look Beyond 5G for the Next Generation of Industry,” Computer, IEEE, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 25-36, July 2019. doi: 10.1109/MC.2019.2913626

[A.39] S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, V. Rampa, “Federated Learning with Cooperating Devices: A Consensus Approach for Massive IoT Networks,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2964162. ArXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13163

B. Conference Proceedings

[B.1]          S.Savazzi, O.Simeone and U. Spagnolini, “Optimal design of linear arrays in a TDMA cellular system  with Gaussian interference” Proc. IEEE SPAWC, June 2005.

[B.2]          S.Savazzi, M. Nicoli and M.Sternad, “Spatial multiplexing for outdoor MIMO-OFDM systems with limited feedback costraint” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communication ICC, Istanbul, Turkey, 11-15 June, 2006

[B.3]          M. Nicoli, L. Sampietro, C. Santacesaria, S. Savazzi, O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini, “Throughput optimization for non-uniform linear antenna arrays in multicell WiMAX systems”  International ITG - IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas, March 2006.

[B.4]          S.Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Energy Aware Power Allocation Strategies for Multihop-Cooperative Transmission Schemes”  Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS-IEEE, 22-24 March 2006.

[B.5]          A. del Coso, S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini and C. Ibars, “Virtual MIMO Channels in Cooperative Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks”  Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems CISS-IEEE, 22-24 March 2006.

[B.6]          C. Galli, S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “A multihop-cooperative  transmission protocol for energy limited WPAN systems,”  Proc. IEEE 6th Scandinavian Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, 3-4 May 2006.

[B.7]          S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Design of Distributed Randomized Orthogonal Space-Time Coding schemes for Cooperative H-ARQ,”  Proc. 40th IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computer, Nov 2006.

[B.8]          S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Cooperative Space-Time coded transmissions in Nakagami-m fading channels, ” Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington D.C., US, Nov 2007.

[B.9]          S.Savazzi, U.Spagnolini, “Training structure design optimization for continuous time-varying fading channels, ” Proc. IEEE WCNC, April 2008.

[B.10]        S.Savazzi, U.Spagnolini, “Virtual MIMO channels: diversity and outage analysis in arbitrary fading channels,” Proc. of 1st COST2100 Workshop on MIMO and Cooperative Communications, Trondheim, Norway, June 3-4, 2008.

[B.11]        P. Castiglione, M. Nicoli, S. Savazzi and Thomas Zemen, “Cooperative Regions For Coded Cooperation Over Time-Varying Fading Channels,” International ITG - IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas, March 2009.

[B.12]       S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Synchronous Ultra-Wide Band Wireless Sensor Networks for oil and gas exploration,” (pdf) Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8 2009.

[B.13]        S. Savazzi, L. Goratti, U. Spagnolini, M. Latva-aho, “Short-range Wireless Sensor Networks for high density seismic monitoring,” Proc. of WWRF 22th meeting 5-7 May 2009, Paris, France.

[B.14]        S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, M. Nicoli, D. Fontanella, “Self-configuring wireless sensor networks for seismic applications,” joint Newcomm++ - AcoRN Workshop, Barcelona, March 30-April 1, 2009.

[B.15]        P. Castiglione, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, T. Zemen, “Impact of Fading Statistics on Partner Selection in Indoor-to-Outdoor Cooperative Networks,” (pdf) Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communication ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May 2010.

[B.16]        P. Castiglione, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, G. Matz, “Partner Selection in Cooperative Networks: Efficiency vs. Fairness in Ricean Fading Channels,” (pdf) Proc. IEEE Inter. Symposyum on Comm., Control and Signal Proc. ISCCSP, Limassol, Cyprus, March 2010.

[B.17] R. Heath, S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini “Cable-free systems - are they just faking it?” (link) Proc. of EAGE Workshop on Developments in Land Seismic Acquisition for Exploration, 17 - 19 May 2010.

[B.18]        D. Molteni, S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Cross Layer Optimization for Efficient Data Aggregation in Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of ACM IWCMC, Workshop Emergency Management-Communication and Computing Platforms, Caen, France, July 2010.

[B.19] I. L’Abbate, S. Savazzi, L. Goratti, U. Spagnolini, M. Latva-aho “Multi-Band UWB Sensor Networks for high density sub-surface diagnostic: Energy Consumption and Network Set-Up Delay,” (pdf) Proc. of ACM IWCMC, Workshop Emergency Management-Communication and Computing Platforms, Caen, France, July 2010.

[B.20] S. Savazzi, D. Molteni, U. Spagnolini “Energy-Aware Compress and Forward systems for Wireless Monitoring of Time-Varying Fields,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE Int. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Comm. PIMRC, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 Sept. 2010.                           

[B.21] S. Savazzi, L. Goratti, D. Fontanella, M. Nicoli, U. Spagnolini, “Pervasive UWB sensor networks for oil explorations (pdf),” Proc. of IEEE ICUWB, Bologna, Sept. 2011.

[B.22] L. Goratti, A. Rabbachin, S. Savazzi, M. Latva-aho, “Analysis of Multi-Band UWB Distributed Beaconing over Fading Channels,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE ICUWB, Bologna, Sept. 2011.

[B.23] S. Savazzi, S. Guardiano, U. Spagnolini, “Wireless Critical Process Control in oil and gas refinery plants,” (pdf),) Proc of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2012), Kos Island, Greece, March 2012.

[B.24] S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, M. Riva, “Radio Imaging by Cooperative Wireless Network: localization algorithms and experiments,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, France, April 2012.

[B.25] J. Gambini, S. Savazzi, P. Castiglione, U. Spagnolini, G. Matz, “Wireless over Cable in femtocell systems: a case study from indoor channel measurements,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Workshop on Broadband femtocells technologies, Paris, France, April 2012.

[B.26] M. Spadacini, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, S. Nicoli, “Wireless Networks for Smart Surveillance: technologies, protocol designs and experiments,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies, Paris, France, April 2012

[B.27] S. Savazzi, S. Guardiano, U. Spagnolini, “Wireless channel characterization and modeling in oil and gas refinery plants,” (pdf), Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, 25-27 Feb. 2013.

[B.28] S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, L. Goratti, S. Galimberti, “Wireless Cloud Networks for Critical Industrial Quality Control,” (pdf), Proc. of 10th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS-IEEE), Ilmenau, Germany, 27-30 Aug. 2013.

[B.29]        S. Savazzi, R. Hugo de Souza, L. Buss Becker “Wireless network planning and optimization in oil and gas refineries” (pdf), III Brazilian Symposium on Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC-IEEE), pp. 29,34, 4-8 Dec. 2013 doi: 10.1109/SBESC.2013.10.

[B.30] M. Nicoli, G. Soatti, S. Savazzi, “Distributed estimation of macroscopic channel parameters in dense cooperative wireless networks” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014.

[B.31] L. Ascorti, S. Savazzi, S. Galimberti, “Cloud-based WirelessHART networking for Critical Industrial Monitoring and Control,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2014), Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2014.

[B.32] J. Winter, I. Muller, S. Savazzi, L. Becker, J. C. Netto, C. E. Pereira, “Coexistence issues in Wireless Networks for Factory Automation,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2014), Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2014.

[B.33] V. Rampa, F. Vicentini, S. Savazzi, L. Pedrocchi, M. Ioppolo, M, Giussani “Safe Human-Robot Cooperation through Sensor-less Radio Localization,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2014), Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2014.

[B.34] L. Goratti, S. Savazzi, A. Parichehreh, U. Spagnolini, “Distributed Load Balancing for Future 5G Systems On-board High-Speed Trains,” (pdf) Proc. of 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity (5GU 2014), Levi, Finland, November 2014. 

[B.35] S. Kianoush, S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, “Sensor-Free Wireless Activity Recognition for Smart Retail,” Proc. of IEEE 12th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication, Dresden, March 2015.

[B.36] G. Soatti, M. Nicoli, S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Distributed sensing of interference pattern in Dense Cooperative Wireless Networks,” Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), London U.K., June 2015.

[B.37] S. Kianoush, S. Savazzi, F. Vicentini, V. Rampa, M. Giussani, “Leveraging RF signals for human sensing: fall detection and localization in human-machine shared workspaces,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2015), Cambridge, U.K., July 2015.

[B.38] S. Savazzi, S. Kianoush, V. Rampa, “A dynamic Bayesian network approach for device-free radio vision: modeling, learning and inference for body motion recognition,” (pdf) Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shangai, China, March 2016.

[B.39] L. Ascorti, S. Savazzi. E. Sisinni, S. Galimberti, “A wireless cloud network platform for critical data publishing in industrial process automation,” Proc of IEEE Sensor Applications Symposium (SAS), Catania, Italy, April 2016.

[B.40] S. Kianoush, V. Rampa, S. Savazzi, M. Nicoli, “Pre-deployment performance assessment of device-free radio localization systems,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, May 2016.

[B.41] M. Nicoli, V. Rampa, S. Savazzi, S. Schiaroli, “Device-free Localization of Multiple Targets,” Proc. of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 2016.

[B.42] G. Aloi, M. di Felice, G. Ruggeri, S. Savazzi, “A mobile phone-sensing system for emergency management: the SENSE-ME platform,” Proc. of IEEE 2nd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI), Bologna, Italy Sept. 2016.

[B.43] S. Savazzi, B. Ramos, J. M. Winter, S. Kianoush, V. Rampa, E. del Rosario, T Chavez, O. Cevallos, “Towards a Factory-of-Things: channel modeling and deployment assessment in PetroEcuador Esmeraldas oil refinery,” Proc. of IEEE Latin-America Conference on Communications, (LatinCom), Medellin, Colombia, Nov. 2016.

[B.44] S. Savazzi, S. Kianoush, V. Rampa, U. Spagnolini, “Is someone moving around my cell-phone? Tracing cellular signals for passive motion detection,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Kona, Hawaii, USA, March 2017.

[B.45] S. Kianoush, S. Savazzi, V. Rampa, “Tracking of frequency selectivity for device-free detection of multiple targets,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), France, Paris, May 2017.

[B.46] V. Rampa, G. Gentili, S. Savazzi, M. D’Amico, “Electromagnetic models for Device-Free Localization,” Proc. of ICEAA IEEE APWC, Verona, Italy, Sept. 2017.

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