@article{R37:IPIN2122-JISPIN24,
author = {Francesco Potortì and Antonino Crivello and Soyeon Lee and Blagovest
Vladimirov, Sangjoon Park and Yushi Chen and Long Wang and Runze Chen and Graduate Student
Fang Zhao and Yue Zhuge and Haiyong Luo and Antoni Perez-Navarro and Antonio R. Jiménez and
Han Wang and Hengyi Liang and Cedric De Cock and David Plets and Yan Cui and Zhi Xiong and
Xiaodong Li and Yiming Ding and Fernando Javier Álvarez Franco and Senior Fernando Jesús
Aranda Polo and Student Felipe Parralejo Rodríguez and Student Adriano Moreira and Senior
Cristiano Pendão and Ivo Silva and Miguel Ortiz and Ni Zhu and Ziyou Li and Valerie Renaudin
and Dongyan Wei and Xinchun Ji and Wenchao Zhang and Yan Wang and Longyang Ding and Jian Kuang
and Xiaobing Zhang and Zhi Dou and Chaoqun Yang and Sebastian Kram and Maximilian Stahlke and
Christopher Mutschler and Sander Coene and Chenglong Li and Member and IEEE and Alexander
Venus and Student Erik Leitinger and Stefan Tertinek and Klaus Witrisal and Yi Wang and Shaobo
Wang and Beihong Jin and Fusang Zhang and Chang Su and Zhi Wang and Siheng Li and Xiaodong Li
and Shitao Li and Mengguan Pan and Wang Zheng and Kai Luo and Ziyao Ma and Yanbiao Gao and
Jiaxing Chang and Hailong Ren and Wenfang Guo and Joaquín Torres-Sospedra},
title = {Offsite evaluation of localization systems: criteria, systems and results from
{IPIN} 2021–22 competitions},
journal = {IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation},
year = 2024,
volume = 2,
pages = {92–129},
month = jan,
abstract = {Indoor positioning is a thriving research area which is slowly gaining market
momentum. Its applications are mostly customised, ad hoc installations; ubiquitous
applications analogous to GNSS for outdoors are not available because of the lack of generic
platforms, widely accepted standards and interoperability protocols. In this context, the
Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) competition is the only long-term, technically
sound initiative to monitor the state of the art of real systems by measuring their
performance in a realistic environment. Most competing systems are pedestrian-oriented and
based on the use of smartphones, but several competing Tracks were set up, enabling comparison
of an array of technologies. The two IPIN competitions described here include only off-site
Tracks. In contrast with on-site Tracks where competitors bring their systems on site – which
were impossible to organise during 2021 and 2022 – in off-site Tracks competitors download
pre-recorded data from multiple sensors and process them using the EvaalAPI, a real-time,
web-based emulation interface. As usual with IPIN competitions, Tracks were compliant with the
EvAAL framework, ensuring consistency of the measurement procedure and reliability of
results. The main contribution of this work is to show a compilation of possible indoor
positioning scenarios and different indoor positioning solutions to the same problem.},
keywords = {Smart phones; Sensors; Navigation; Tracking; 5G mobile communication;
Training; Sensor systems; Channel impulse response (CIR) positioning; evaluation;
fifth-generation (5G) positioning; foot-mounted inertial measurement unit (IMU); indoor
navigation; indoor positioning; pedestrian navigation; smartphone-based positioning; vehicle
positioning},
doi = {10.1109/JISPIN.2024.3355840},
pdf = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10404047},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10404047},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20240117,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {2832-7322},
role = {Primo autore},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Rivista Gold OA (vedi DOI sopra)},
impatto = {assieme ai precedenti sulla competizione IPIN, questo articolo contribuisce a
una visione aggiornata sullo stato dell'arte della localizzazione, qui tramite la valutazione
dell'interfaccia EvaalAPI e il confronto e la descrizione di diversi metodi}
}
@article{R36:EnerduinoPro-Hardwarex23,
author = {Francesco Potortì and Davide Larosa and Filippo Palumbo},
title = {Enerduino-pro: Smart meter led probe using {Arduino}},
journal = {HardwareX},
year = 2023,
volume = 15,
pages = {e00461},
month = sep,
abstract = {Non-intrusive load monitoring of domestic appliances has received steady
interest in the last twenty years, first because of interest from energy companies interested
in usage statistics for power balancing and, more recently, in order to assist users in tuning
their habits for reduced power consumption. This has increased the need for accurate and
economic methods of power measurement that can be efficiently implemented on cheap and
easy-to-install platforms. To this end, we present a cheap and efficient device based on
Arduino to monitor the usage of domestic appliances in real-time: Enerduino-pro. The design
uses low-cost easy-to-assemble open-source electronic components and consists of four main
parts: an Arduino UNO microcontroller, one or two photoresistors, a WiFi shield, and a LED
(for debugging purposes only). We describe the device, complete with open software and
hardware specifications, and different use cases with proof-of-concept solutions.},
keywords = {Arduino; Energy meter; NILM; Reactive power},
doi = {10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00461},
pdf = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067223000688/pdfft?md5=4c6b2bece9079c0e99f3b450264a116b&pid=1-s2.0-S2468067223000688-main.pdf},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067223000688},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20230731,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {2468-0672}
}
@article{R35:IPIN20-IEEESensors21,
author = {Francesco Potortì and Joaquín Torres-Sospedra and Darwin Quezada-Gaibor and
Antonio Ramón Jiménez and Fernando Seco and Antoni Pérez-Navarro and Miguel Ortiz and Ni Zhu
and Valerie Renaudin and Ryosuke Ichikari and Ryo Shimomura and Nozomu Ohta and Satsuki Nagae
and Takeshi Kurata and Dongyan Wei and Xinchun Ji and Wenchao Zhang and Sebastian Kram and
Maximilian Stahlke and Christopher Mutschler and Antonino Crivello and Paolo Barsocchi and
Michele Girolami and Filippo Palumbo and Ruizhi Chen and Yuan Wu and Wei Li and Yue Yu and
Shihao Xu and Lixiong Huang and Tao Liu and Jian Kuang and Xiaoji Niu and Takuto Yoshida and
Yoshiteru Nagata and Yuto Fukushima and Nobuya Fukatani and Nozomi Hayashida and Yusuke Asai
and Kenta Urano and Wenfei Ge and Nien-Ting Lee and Shih-Hau Fang and You-Cheng Jie and
Shawn-Rong Young and Ying-Ren Chien and Chih-Chieh Yu and Chengqi Ma and Bang Wu and Wei Zhang
and Yankun Wang and Yonglei Fan and Stefan Poslad and David R. Selviah and Weixi Wang and Hong
Yuan and Yoshitomo Yonamoto and Masahiro Yamaguchi and Tomoya Kaichi and Baoding Zhou and Xu
Liu and Zhining Gu and Chengjing Yang and Zhiqian Wu and Doudou Xie and Can Huang and
Lingxiang Zheng and Ao Peng and Ge Jin and Qu Wang and Haiyong Luo and Hao Xiong and Linfeng
Bao and Pushuo Zhang and Fang Zhao and Chia-An Yu and Chun-Hao Hung and Leonid Antsfeld and
Boris Chidlovskii and Haitao Jiang and Ming Xia and Dayu Yan and Yuhang Li and Yitong Dong and
Ivo Silva and Cristiano Pendão and Filipe Meneses and Maria João Nicolau and António Costa and
Adriano Moreira and Cedric De Cock and David Plets and Miroslav Opiela and Jakub Džama and
Liqiang Zhang and Hu Li and Boxuan Chen and Yu Liu and Seanglidet Yean and Bo Zhi Lim and Wei
Jie Teo and Bu Sung Lee and Hong Lye Oh},
title = {Off-line evaluation of indoor positioning systems in different scenarios: the
experiences from {IPIN 2020 Competition}},
journal = {IEEE Sensors Journal},
year = 2021,
volume = 22,
number = 6,
pages = {5011–5054},
month = mar,
note = {Special issue on Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Indoor
Positioning and Navigation},
abstract = {Every year, for ten years now, the {IPIN} competition has aimed at evaluating
real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with
realistic movement, using the {EvAAL} framework. The competition provided a unique overview
of the state-of-the-art of systems, technologies, and methods for indoor positioning and
navigation purposes. Through fair comparison of the performance achieved by each system, the
competition was able to identify the most promising approaches and to pinpoint the most
critical working conditions. In 2020, the competition included 5 diverse off-site Tracks, each
resembling real use cases and challenges for indoor positioning. The results in terms of
participation and accuracy of the proposed systems have been encouraging. The best performing
competitors obtained a third quartile of error of 1~m for the Smartphone Track and 0.5~m for
the {Foot-mounted IMU} Track. While not running on physical systems, but only as algorithms,
these results represent impressive achievements.},
keywords = {indoor positioning and navigation; evaluation; smartphone-based positioning;
foot-mounted imu; positioning in industrial scenarios and factories; vehicle-positioning},
doi = {10.1109/JSEN.2021.3083149},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/IPIN20-IEEESensors21.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20210527,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1558-1748},
sjr = {0.99},
if = {4.3},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:24, Scopus:24, Scholar:35},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {assieme ai precedenti sulla competizione IPIN, questo articolo contribuisce a
una visione aggiornata sullo stato dell'arte della localizzazione, qui tramite l'introduzione
di un nuovo processo (EvaalAPI) per l'emulazione realistica off-site di sistemi reali}
}
@article{R34:IPIN19-Access20,
author = {Francesco Potortì and Sangjoon Park and Antonino Crivello and Filippo Palumbo
and Michele Girolami and Paolo Barsocchi and Soyeon Lee and Joaquín Torres-Sospedra and
Antonio Ramón Jimenez and Antoni Pérez-Navarro and Germán M. Mendoza-Silva and Fernando Seco
and Miguel Ortiz and Johan Perul and Valerie Renaudin and Hyunwoong Kang and Soyoung Park and
Jae Hong Lee and Chan Gook Park and Jisu Ha and Jaeseung Han and Changjun Park and Keunhye Kim
and Yonghyun Lee and Seunghun Gye and Keumryeol Lee and Eunjee Kim and Jeongsik Choi and
Yang-Seok Choi and Shilpa Talwar and Seong Yun Cho and Boaz Ben-Moshe and Alex Scherbakov and
Leonid Antsfeld and Emilio Sansano-Sansano and Boris Chidlovskii and Nikolai Kronenwett and
Silvia Prophet and Yael Landau and Revital Marbel and Lingxiang Zheng and Ao Peng and Zhichao
Lin and Bang Wu and Chengqi Ma and Stefan Poslad and David R. Selviah and Wei Wu and Zixiang
Ma and Wenchao Zhang and Dongyan Wei and Hong Yuan and Jun-Bang Jiang and Shao-Yung Huang and
Jing-Wen Liu and Kuan-Wu Su and Jenq-Shiou Leu and Kazuki Nishiguchi and Walid Bousselham and
Hideaki Uchiyama and Diego Thomas and Atsushi Shimada and Rin-ichiro Taniguchi and Vicente
Cortés and Tomás Lungenstrass and Imran Ashraf and Chanseok Lee and Muhammad Usman Ali and
yeongjun im and Gunzung kim and jeongsook eom and Soojung Hur and Yongwan Park and Miroslav
Opiela and Adriano Moreira and Maria João Nicolau and Cristiano Pendão and Ivo Silva and
Filipe Meneses and António Costa and Jens Trogh and David Plets and Ying-Ren Chien and Tzu-Yu
Chang and Shih-Hau Fang and Yu Tsao},
title = {The {IPIN} 2019 indoor localisation competition – Description and results},
journal = {IEEE Access},
year = 2020,
volume = 8,
pages = {206674–206718},
abstract = {IPIN 2019 Competition, sixth in a series of IPIN competitions, was held at the
CNR Research Area of Pisa (IT), integrated into the program of the IPIN 2019 Conference. It
included two on-site real-time Tracks and three off-site Tracks. The four Tracks presented in
this paper were set in the same environment, made of two buildings close together for a total
usable area of 1000 m² outdoors and and 6000 m² indoors over three floors, with
a total path length exceeding 500 m. IPIN competitions, based on the EvAAL framework,
have aimed at comparing the accuracy performance of personal positioning systems in fair and
realistic conditions: past editions of the competition were carried in big conference
settings, university campuses and a shopping mall. Positioning accuracy is computed while the
person carrying the system under test walks at normal walking speed, uses lifts and goes up
and down stairs or briefly stops at given points. Results presented here are a showcase of
state-of-the-art systems tested side by side in real-world settings as part of the on-site
real-time competition Tracks. Results for off-site Tracks allow a detailed and reproducible
comparison of the most recent positioning and tracking algorithms in the same environment as
the on-site Tracks.},
keywords = {indoor localisation; indoor navigation; competition; benchmarking;
smartphone-based positioning; foot-mounted pedestrian dead reckoning; Wi-Fi fingerprinting;
magnetic field; camera-based positioning; inertial-based positioning; sensor fusion; Kalman
filter; particle filter},
doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3037221},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/IPIN19-Access20.pdf},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9253514},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20201112,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {2169-3536},
sjr = {0.93},
if = {3.9},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:26, Scopus:27, Scholar:37},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Rivista Gold OA (vedi DOI sopra)},
impatto = {un contributo per una visione realistica dello stato dell'arte dei sistemi di localizzazione in interni, che presenta le prestazioni in ambienti reali e con modalità di confronto rigorose; la buona popolarità di questo articolo, nato dalla competizione che organizzo ormai da dieci anni, è conseguenza e contributo fondante al successo della competizione IPIN e dell'``EvAAL Framework''}
}
@article{R33:Distance-TIM20,
author = {Germ\'an Mart\'in~Mendoza-Silva and Joaqu\'in Torres-Sospedra and Francesco
Potort\`i and Adriano Moreira and Stefan Knauth and Rafael Berkvens and Joaqu\'in Huerta},
title = {Beyond {Euclidean} distance for error measurement in pedestrian indoor
location},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement},
year = 2021,
volume = 70,
pages = {1–11},
abstract = {Indoor Positioning Systems suffer from a lack of standard evaluation
procedures enabling credible comparisons: this is one of the main challenges hindering their
widespread market adoption. Traditionally, accuracy evaluation is based on positioning errors
defined as the Euclidean distance between the true positions and the estimated
positions. While Euclidean is simple, it ignores obstacles and floor transitions. In this
paper, we describe procedures that measure a positioning error defined as the length of the
pedestrian path that connects the estimated position to the true position. The procedures
apply pathfinding on floor maps using Visibility Graphs or Navigational Meshes for vector
maps, and Fast Marching for raster maps. Multi-floor and multi-building paths use information
on vertical in-building communication ways and outdoor paths. The proposed measurement
procedures are applied to position estimates provided by the Indoor Positioning Systems that
participated in the EvAAL-ETRI 2015 competition. Procedures are compared in terms of
pedestrian path realism, indoor model complexity, path computation time and error magnitudes.
The Visibility Graphs algorithm computes shortest distance paths; Navigational Meshes produces
very similar paths with significantly shorter computation time; Fast Marching computes longer,
more natural-looking paths at the expense of longer computation time and memory size. The
75\textsuperscript{th} percentile of the measured error differs among the methods from 2.2~m
to 3.7~m across the evaluation sets.},
keywords = {indoor positioning system evaluation; error measurement; indoor pathfinding;
Wi-Fi fingerprinting},
doi = {10.1109/TIM.2020.3021514},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Distance-TIM20.pdf},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9186638},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20200812,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {0018-9456},
sjr = {1.4},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:1, Scopus:7, Scholar:9},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {i numeri delle citazioni sono per il momento deludenti, vista l'ottima qualità dell'articolo, ma l'ho incluso perché secondo me è importante e verrà apprezzato; potrebbe essere impiegato prossima revisione dello standard ISO/IEC 18305:2016 che sto spingendo assieme a Nader Moayeri, autore dello standard per NIST}
}
@article{R32:DFL-comparison-IETWSS18,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Pietro Cassar\`a and Paolo Barsocchi},
title = {Device-free indoor localisation with small numbers of anchors},
journal = {IET Wireless Sensor Systems},
year = 2018,
volume = 8,
number = 4,
pages = {152–161},
month = aug,
abstract = {Device-free indoor localisation based on RSS is unobtrusive and cheap. In a
world where most environment are rich in ubiquitous small radio transmitters, it has the
potential of being used in a ``parasitic'' way, by exploiting the transmissions for
localisation purposes without any need for additional hardware installation. Starting from
state of the art, several step are needed to reach this aim, the first of which are tackled in
this paper. The most promising algorithms from the literature are used to experiment in a
real-world environment and with a rigorous measurement and analysis framework. Their
positioning error performance is analysed versus number and position of devices. The original
results obtained show that the currently available RSS-based device-free indoor localisation
methods may be well suited to serve as a basis for providing a cheap localisation service in
smart environments rich in IoT radio devices.},
day = 9,
keywords = {computerised tomography; indoor radio; position measurement; remote sensing;
performance evaluation; ZigBee},
doi = {10.1049/iet-wss.2017.0153},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/DFL-comparison-IETWSS18.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20180213,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {2043-6386},
sjr = {0.5},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:3, Scopus:4, Scholar:5},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {nonostante il basso numero di citazioni, ritengo questo articolo importante nel metodo e nei risultati, ancora attuali e con possibilità di futuro sviluppo},
specializzazione = {la localizzazione ``device-free'' è un argomento di nicchia all'interno del campo della localizzazione in interni}
}
@article{R31:WiFi-probes-AHN18,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Antonino Crivello and Michele Girolami and Emilia
Traficante and Paolo Barsocchi},
title = {Localising crowds through {Wi-Fi} probes},
journal = {Ad Hoc Networks},
year = 2018,
volume = {75–76},
pages = {87–97},
month = jun,
abstract = {Most of us carry mobile devices that routinely disseminate radio messages, as
is the case with Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth beaconing. We investigate whether it is possible
to examine these digital crumbs and have them reveal useful insight on the presence of people
in indoor locations, as the literature lacks any answers on this topic. Wi-Fi probes are
generated sparsely and often anonymised, which hinders the possibility of using them for
targeted localisation or tracking. However, by experimenting in three different indoor
environments, we demonstrate for the first time that it is possible to extract from them some
positioning information. Possible applications include identifying frequented regions where
many people are gathered together. In the described experimentation with sniffing devices we
adopted fingerprinting interpolation, which requires no survey phase and automatically adapts
to changes in the environment. The same process can be carried out using the Wi-Fi access
points already installed in the environment, thus allowing for operation free of installation,
surveying and maintenance.},
keywords = {passive indoor localisation; survey-free fingerprinting; Wi-Fi probe
eavesdropping},
doi = {10.1016/j.adhoc.2018.03.011},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/WiFi-probes-AHN18.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20180327,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1570-8705},
sjr = {1.3},
if = {4.8},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:15, Scopus:17, Scholar:23},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {lavoro di notevole impatto grazie a questo articolo e ad una sua versione preliminare pubblicata due anni prima in Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) con autori F. Potort\`i, A. Crivello e M. Girolami e titolo \emph{{Wi-Fi} probes as digital crumbs for crowd localisation} che ha ottenuto ancora più citazioni: WoS:19, Scopus:24, Scholar:31; realizzato nell'ambito di un progetto conto terzi, è stato la base delle valutazioni commerciali dell'azienda coinvolta},
specializzazione = {la localizzazione ``device-free'' è un argomento di nicchia all'interno nel campo della localizzazione in interni}
}
@article{R30:EvAAL-IPIN16-MDPISensors17,
author = {Potort\`i, Francesco and Park, Sangjoon and Jim\'enez Ruiz, Antonio Ram\`on
and Barsocchi, Paolo and Girolami, Michele and Crivello, Antonino and Lee, So Yeon and Lim,
Jae Hyun and Torres-Sospedra, Joaqu\'in and Seco, Fernando and Montoliu, Raul and
Mendoza-Silva, Germ\'an Martin and P\'erez Rubio, Maria Del Carmen and Losada-Guti\'errez,
Cristina and Espinosa, Felipe and Macias-Guarasa, Javier},
title = {Comparing the performance of indoor localization systems through the {EvAAL
Framework}},
journal = {Sensors},
year = 2017,
volume = 17,
number = 10,
month = oct,
abstract = {In recent years, indoor localization systems have been the object of
significant research activity and of growing interest for their great expected social impact
and their impressive business potential. Application areas include tracking and navigation,
activity monitoring, personalized advertising, Active and Assisted Living (AAL), traceability,
Internet of Things (IoT) networks, and Home-land Security. In spite of the numerous research
advances and the great industrial interest, no canned solutions have yet been defined. The
diversity and heterogeneity of applications, scenarios, sensor and user requirements, make it
difficult to create uniform solutions. From that diverse reality, a main problem is derived
that consists in the lack of a consensus both in terms of the metrics and the procedures used
to measure the performance of the different indoor localization and navigation proposals. This
paper introduces the general lines of the EvAAL benchmarking framework, which is aimed at a
fair comparison of indoor positioning systems through a challenging competition under complex,
realistic conditions. To evaluate the framework capabilities, we show how it was used in the
2016 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) Competition. The 2016 IPIN competition
considered three different scenario dimensions, with a variety of use cases: (1) pedestrian
versus robotic navigation, (2) smartphones versus custom hardware usage and (3) real-time
positioning versus off-line post-processing. A total of four competition tracks were evaluated
under the same EvAAL benchmark framework in order to validate its potential to become a
standard for evaluating indoor localization solutions. The experience gained during the
competition and feedback from track organizers and competitors showed that the EvAAL framework
is flexible enough to successfully fit the very different tracks and appears adequate to
compare indoor positioning systems.},
keywords = {indoor localization; indoor navigation; indoor competition; standard
evaluation metrics; benchmarking; performance evaluation; Active and Assisted Living;
smartphone sensors; pedestrian dead reckoning},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
doi = {10.3390/s17102327},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-IPIN16-MDPISensors17.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20171013,
entryby = {pot},
publisher = {MDPI},
issn = {1424-8220},
sjr = {0.76},
if = {3.9},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:53, Scopus:56, Scholar:72},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Rivista Gold OA (vedi DOI sopra)},
impatto = {l'articolo che più di tutti ha reso nota la competizione IPIN nell'ambiente della localizzazione per interni; diversamente dagli articoli successivi che si concentrano sullo stato dell'arte, questo si focalizza sul concetto e le motivazioni},
areaemergente = {il campo della localizzazione in interni ha visto la sua prima conferenza dedicata nel 2010 e la prima rivista dedicata nel 2022}
}
@article{R29:EvAAL-softonly-JAISE15,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Filippo Palumbo},
title = {{CEO}: a context event only indoor localization technique for {AAL}},
journal = {Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments},
year = 2015,
volume = 7,
number = 6,
pages = {745–760},
month = nov,
abstract = {{Ambient Assisted Living} applications are deployed in smart environments that
provide some basic services, a typical example being user localization. {AAL} applications
generally have low accuracy requirements for indoor localization; this opens the opportunity
for parasitizing the existing smart environment infrastructure without adding dedicated
positioning sensors. In this scenario, one can exploit simple binary sensors that are usually
present in the smart environment, such as light and appliance switches or intrusion detection
sensors, to obtain a rough estimate of the position of the user. This application is
device-free, meaning that the user is not required to carry any device in order to be
localized. In this paper we present {CEO}, a software-only system which we evaluate along the
technical guidelines of the {EvAAL} competition. While the localization performance of {CEO}
is lower with respect to most {EvAAL} competitors of past editions, it has the benefit of
being non-intrusive, easy to install and perfectly compatible with other software systems:
these characteristics would made it a potentially significant {EvAAL} competitor. While
developing {CEO}, we only exploited the definition of the {EvAAL} competition environment as
it was presented to competitors. The only inputs to {CEO} are the context events generated
during the competition, which in 2012 and 2013 were limited to pressing light switches and
using a stationary bicycle. We compare the performance of {CEO} against the results of those
editions of {EvAAL} and show how it can be used to easily improve the performance of any
{EvAAL} competitor.},
keywords = {AAL; AmI; indoor localization; tracking},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
doi = {10.3233/AIS-150343},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-softonly-JAISE15.pdf},
url = {http://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/ais343},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20141127,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1876-1364},
sjr = {},
if = {},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:3, Scopus: 7, Scholar:},
publisher = {IOS Press}
}
@article{R28:EvAAL-IEEEPCM13,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Stefano Chessa and Francesco Furfari and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Evaluating ambient assisted living solutions: the localization competition},
journal = {IEEE Pervasive Computing},
year = 2013,
volume = 12,
number = 4,
pages = {72–79},
month = oct # {–} # dec,
abstract = {Evaluation of Ambient Assisted Living ({AAL}) systems is particularly
challenging due to the complexity of such systems and to the variety of solutions adopted and
services offered. This problem is related to the evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous
systems that has been the focus of many researchers in the recent years and that still awaits
for solutions. On the other hand, analyzing and comparing {AAL} solutions is paramount for the
assessment of the research results in this area. {EvAAL} (Evaluating {AAL} Systems Through
Competitive Benchmarking) is a recently established international competition that aims to
address this problem in order to let benchmarking and comparison methodologies of {AAL}
systems emerge from experience. This work describes the first {EvAAL} competition which was
devoted to localization and tracking; proposed evaluation criteria, benchmarks, and achieved
results are reported. All evaluation data are freely available from the {EvAAL} web site.},
keywords = {AAL; AmI; indoor localization; tracking},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
doi = {10.1109/MPRV.2013.23},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-IEEEPCM13.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20121128,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1536-1268},
sjr = {0.4},
if = {1.6},
role = {Coautore alla pari con tutti},
cites = {WoS:67, Scopus:71, Scholar:89},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {il primo articolo con una base scientifica solida a descrivere una competizione di localizzazione in interni condotta in modo rigoroso e trasparente secondo quello che più tardi battezzerò ``the EvAAL Framework''},
areaemergente = {il campo della localizzazione in interni ha visto la sua prima conferenza dedicata nel 2010 e la prima rivista dedicata nel 2022}
}
@article{R27:Rehabilitation-TITB11,
author = {Anda Guraliuc and Paolo Nepa and Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Limb movements classification using wearable wireless transceivers},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine},
year = 2011,
volume = 15,
number = 3,
pages = {474–480},
month = may,
abstract = {A feasibility study where small wireless transceivers are used to classify
some typical limb movements used in physical therapy processes is presented. Wearable wireless
low-cost commercial transceivers operating at 2.4 {GHz} are supposed to be widely deployed in
indoor settings and on people's bodies in tomorrow's pervasive computing environments. The key
idea of this work is to exploit their presence by collecting the received signal strength
measured between those worn by a person. The measurements are used to classify a set of
kinesiotherapy activities. The collected data are classified using both {Support Vector
Machine} and {K-Nearest Neighbour} methods, in order to recognise the different activities.},
keywords = {Classification of human limbs activities; K-Nearest Neighbour (K-NN); Received
Signal Strength (RSS); Support Vector Machine (SVM); wearable wireless devices},
acmclass = {C.3 Real-time and embedded systems; G.3 Nonparametric statistics; I.2.6
Learning},
doi = {10.1109/TITB.2011.2118763},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Rehabilitation-TITB11.pdf},
entrydate = 20110310,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1089-7771},
sjr = {1.67},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:28, Scopus:43, Scholar:61},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {l'articolo ha suscitato un discreto interesse grazie all'interdisciplinarietà del lavoro e alla novità dell'approccio}
}
@article{R26:Brew-WLNet09,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Alan Bertossi and Cristina Pinotti and Francesco
Potort\`i},
title = {Allocating data for broadcasting over wireless channels subject to
transmission errors},
journal = {Wireless Networks},
year = 2010,
volume = 16,
number = 2,
pages = {355–365},
month = feb,
abstract = {Broadcasting is an efficient and scalable way of transmitting data over
wireless channels to an unlimited number of clients. In this paper the problem of allocating
data to multiple channels is studied, assuming flat data scheduling per channel and the
presence of unrecoverable channel transmission errors. The objective is that of minimizing the
average expected delay experienced by the clients. Two different channel error models are
considered: the Bernoulli model and the simplified Gilbert-Elliot one. In the former model,
each packet transmission has the same probability to fail and each transmission error is
independent from the others. In the latter one, bursts of erroneous or error-free packet
transmissions due to wireless fading channels are modeled. Particular cases are detected where
optimal solutions can be found in polynomial time. For general cases, simulations show that
good sub-optimal solutions can be found on benchmarks whose item popularities follow Zipf
distributions.},
keywords = {wireless communication; data broadcasting; multiple channels; flat scheduling;
average expected delay; channel transmission errors; Bernoulli model; Gilbert-Elliot model;
heuristics},
acmclass = {C.2 Computer-Communication Network; F.2 Analysis of Algorithms and Problem
Complexity},
doi = {10.1007/s11276-008-0136-z},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Brew-WLNet09.pdf},
entrydate = 20080816,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1022-0038},
sjr = {},
if = {},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:1, Scopus:2, Scholar:2}
}
@article{R25:Damatfrc-IJSCN09,
author = {Raffaello Secchi and Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Francesco Potort\`i and Alberto
Gotta and Gorry Fairhurst},
title = {Using {Quick-Start} to enhance {TCP Friendly Rate Control} performance in
bidirectional satellite networks},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking},
year = 2009,
volume = 27,
number = 3,
pages = {141–161},
month = may # {–} # jun,
abstract = {In the not so distant future, we envisage an Internet where the biggest share
of capacity is used by streaming applications. To avoid congestion collapse from unresponsive
flows, calls for a robust and ubiquitous end-to-end multimedia congestion control mechanism,
such as TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) that provides fair sharing with the other Internet
traffic. This paper therefore analyses the implications of using rate-adaptive congestion
control over satellite links that utilise Demand Allocation Multiple Access (DAMA) to maximise
satellite transponder utilisation. The interaction between TFRC with DAMA is explored using
simulations supported by fluidic flow models. The analysis shows that DAMA slows-down the
start-up phase of TFRC, causing non- negligible delays. To mitigate this problem, we propose a
new cross-layer method based on the Quick-Start (QS) mechanism. This can accelerate the
start-up of multimedia flows by judicious allocation of additional capacity derived from
cross-layer signalling.},
keywords = {multimedia; TFRC; satellites; DAMA; Quick Start},
acmclass = {B.8.2 Performance Analysis and Design Aids; C.2.2 Network Protocols
Applications; H.4.3 Communications Applications; K.1 Standards},
doi = {10.1002/sat.929},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Damatfrc-IJSCN09.pdf},
entrydate = 20090113,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1542-0973},
sjr = {0.46},
if = {1.7},
role = {Primo autore alla pari con R. Secchi},
cites = {WoS:2, Scopus:3, Scholar:7},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {le citazioni contribuiscono alla misura dell'impatto all'interno della comunità scientifica di riferimento.}
}
@article{R24:Rural-model-TW09,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Gabriele Oligeri and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Measurement-based frame error model for simulating outdoor {Wi-Fi} networks},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications},
year = 2009,
volume = 8,
number = 3,
pages = {1154–1158},
month = mar,
abstract = {We present a measurement-based model of the frame error process on a Wi-Fi
channel in rural environments. Measures are obtained in controlled conditions, and careful
statistical analysis is performed on the data, providing information which the network
simulation literature is lacking. Results indicate that most network simulators use a frame
loss model that can miss important transmission impairments even at a short distance,
particularly when considering antenna radiation pattern anisotropy and multi-rate switching.},
keywords = {simulation; FER; two-ray; AWGN; fading},
acmclass = {B.8.2 Performance Analysis and Design Aids; C.2 Computer-Communication
Networks},
doi = {10.1109/TWC.2009.060475},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Rural-model-TW09.pdf},
entrydate = 20081128,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1536-1276},
sjr = {5.66},
if = {10.4},
role = {Autore principale},
cites = {WoS:12, Scopus:20, Scholar:28},
erc = {PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {una versione preliminare di questo articolo fu pubblicata due anni prima in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization (Wiopt) con autori P. Barsocchi, G. Oligeri e F. Potort\`i e titolo \emph{Frame error model in rural {Wi-Fi} networks} ottenendo circa altrettante citazioni WoS:9, Scopus:22, Scholar:31}
}
@article{R23:SatnexJA2410-IJSCN09,
author = {Tomaso de Cola and Luca Ronga and Tommaso Pecorella and Paolo Barsocchi and
Stefano Chessa and Erina Ferro and Alberto Gotta and Gabriele Oligeri and Francesco Potort\`i
and Raffaello Secchi and Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Maria \'Angeles V\'azquez Castro and Jos\'e
Antonio del Peral Rosado and Carlo Caini and Rosario Firrincieli},
title = {Communications and networking over satellites: {SatNEx} experimental
activities and testbeds},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking},
year = 2009,
volume = 27,
number = 1,
pages = {1–33},
month = jan # {–} # feb,
abstract = {One of the aims of the SatNEx (Satellite Network of Excellence,
http://www.satnex.de) European project is to provide the scientific community that operates on
satellite communications with simulation/emulation tools and measurement campaigns, in order
to support various research activities that investigate problems in satellite communications
at different levels of the OSI stack. In fact, the research activities developed in SatNEx
address the most relevant aspects of satellite communications, such as channel modulation and
coding schemes, access strategies, advanced networking, end-to-end quality of service,
transport performance, delay tolerant networks, and new applications. Even if SatNEx is mainly
devoted to satellite communications, integration of satellite and terrestrial wireless
segments has also been taken into account. This paper presents the results obtained in a
specific joint activity relevant to those trials and testbeds developed during the
project. The high number of authors of this paper is an indication of the strong collaborative
work sustained, the large measurement campaigns, and the complexity in setting up some tests.},
keywords = {satellite communications; testbeds; measurement tools; performance evaluation},
acmclass = {B.8.2 Performance Analysis and Design Aids; C.2.2 Network Protocols
Applications; H.4.3 Communications Applications; K.1 Standards; H},
doi = {10.1002/sat.921},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/SatnexJA2410-IJSCN09.pdf},
url = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/104548349/issue},
entrydate = 20080816,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1542-0973},
sjr = {0.46},
if = {1.7},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:6, Scopus:10, Scholar:11},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {SatNex è stato un'iniziativa di ricerca europea di lungo respiro e ha contribuito significativamente al progresso dei metodi di accesso multiplo a satellite}
}
@article{R22:Costglue-STSMSI08,
author = {Dragan Savi\'c and Francesco Potort\`i and Francesco Furfari and Matev\v{z}
Pusti\v{s}ek and Sa\v{s}o Toma\v{z}i\v{c} and Janez Be\v{s}ter},
title = {{CostGlue}: simulation data exchange in telecommunications},
journal = {SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International},
year = 2008,
volume = 84,
number = 4,
pages = {157–168},
month = apr,
abstract = {Exchanging simulation data among simulation practitioners is, to a great
extent, hindered by the use of different kinds of data formats in simulation software
packages. The purpose of the CostGlue project is to facilitate the exchange of simulation data
in the field of telecommunications. We propose a common data interchange format and a data
exchange model for raw simulation data, metadata and post-processing data. Based on this
model, we additionally propose a framework, CostGlue, designed for packaging simulation output
data into the common interchange format, launching post-processing plugins and exporting data
into input formats for various third party tools. As a proof of concept we have implemented
the framework as a software package and released it as free software.},
keywords = {simulation, measurements; data; archiving; HDF},
acmclass = {E.5 Files; D.2.12 Interoperability},
doi = {10.1177/0037549708093715},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Costglue-STSMSI08.pdf},
url = {http://SIM.sagepub.com/content/vol84/issue4},
entrydate = 20080604,
entryby = {pot},
if = {},
role = {Primo alla pari con D. Savi\'c},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:1}
}
@article{R21:TCPsat-IJSC06,
author = {Carlo Caini and Rosario Firrincieli and Mario Marchese and Tomaso de Cola and
Michele Luglio and Cesare Roseti and Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Transport layer protocols and architectures for satellite networks},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking},
year = 2007,
volume = 25,
number = 1,
pages = {1–26},
month = jan # {–} # feb,
abstract = {Designing efficient transmission mechanisms for advanced satellite networks is
a demanding task, requiring the definition and the implementation of protocols and
architectures well suited to this challenging environment. In particular, transport protocols
performance over satellite networks is impaired by the characteristics of the satellite radio
link, specifically by the long propagation delay and the possible presence of segment losses
due to physical channel errors. The level of impact on performance depends upon the link
design (type of constellation, link margin, coding and modulation) and operational conditions
(link obstructions, terminal mobility, weather conditions, etc.). To address these critical
aspects a number of possible solutions have been presented in the literature, ranging from
limited modifications of standard protocols (e.g. TCP, transmission control protocol) to
completely alternative protocol and network architectures. However, despite the great number
of different proposals (or perhaps also because of it), the general framework appears quite
fragmented and there is a compelling need of an integration of the research competences and
efforts. This is actually the intent of the transport protocols research line within the
European SatNEx (Satellite Network of Excellence) project. Stemming from the authors' work on
this project, this paper aims to provide the reader with an updated overview of all the
possible approaches that can be pursued to overcome the limitations of current transport
protocols and architectures, when applied to satellite communications. In the paper the
possible solutions are classified in the following categories: optimization of TCP
interactions with lower layers, TCP enhancements, performance enhancement proxies (PEP) and
delay tolerant networks (DTN). Advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches, as
well as their interactions, are investigated and discussed, taking into account performance
improvement, complexity, and compliance to the standard semantics. From this analysis, it
emerges that DTN architectures could integrate some of the most efficient solutions from the
other categories, by inserting them in a new rigorous framework. These innovative
architectures therefore may represent a promising solution for solving some of the important
problems posed at the transport layer by satellite networks, at least in a medium-to-long term
perspective.},
keywords = {transport protocols; TCP; satellite networks; PEP; DTN},
acmclass = {C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design},
doi = {10.1002/sat.855},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/TCPsat-IJSC06.pdf},
url = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/114027025},
entrydate = 20061019,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1542-0973},
sjr = {0.46},
if = {1.7},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:32, Scopus:41, Scholar:79},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {un articolo che ha dato un contributo significativo nell'area dell'accesso multiplo a satellite e dell'interazione con il TCP}
}
@article{R20:WiFiBluetooth-IEEEWCm05,
author = {Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Bluetooth and {Wi-Fi} wireless protocols: a survey and a comparison},
journal = {IEEE Wireless Communications},
year = 2005,
volume = 12,
number = 1,
pages = {12–26},
month = feb,
abstract = {Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) are two communication protocol standards
which define a physical layer and a MAC layer for wireless communications within a short range
(from a few meters up to 100 meters) with low power consumption (from less than 1 mW up to 100
mW). Bluetooth is oriented to connecting close devices, serving as a substitute for cables,
while Wi-Fi is oriented towards computer-to-computer connections, as an extension of or
substitution for cabled LANs. In this paper we offer an overview of these popular wireless
communication standards, comparing their main features and behaviors in terms of various
metrics, including capacity, network topology, security, quality of service support, and power
consumption.},
keywords = {Bluetooth; Wi-Fi; 802.11; comparison; tutorial},
doi = {10.1109/MWC.2005.1404569},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/WiFiBluetooth-IEEEWCm05.pdf},
entrydate = 20040701,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1536-1284},
sjr = {5.66},
if = {12.9},
role = {Autore principale},
cites = {Wos:182, Scopus:257, Scholar:612},
erc = {PE7_6 Communication systems, wireless technology, high-frequency technology},
accesso = {non OA},
impatto = {un articolo arrivato nel momento giusto, quando i protocolli di comunicazione terrestri erano ancora giovani e si stavano affermando; continua ad essere citato ancora oggi}
}
@article{R19:TCP-IJCS03,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Maximising single connection {TCP} goodput by trading bandwidth for {BER}},
journal = {International Journal of Communication Systems},
year = 2003,
volume = 16,
number = 1,
pages = {63–79},
month = feb,
note = {Special issue on wireless access to the global internet: mobile radio networks
and satellite systems},
abstract = {All other conditions being equal, the end-to-end throughput of a TCP
connection depends on the packet loss rate at the IP level. This is an issue when IP runs on a
wireless link, where the bit error rate is variable and typically much higher than it is on
fixed links. Especially on physical links where the bandwidth delay product is high, TCP
performance is significantly impaired by apparently low values of the bit error
rate. Generally speaking, on a wireless link bandwidth can be traded for information quality
(error rate), the simplest method being to change the type or parameters of forward error
correction. On this basis, we show a general method of taking advantage of this trade-off in
order to maximize the throughput of a TCP connection.},
keywords = {wireless; TCP; FEC; BER; packet loss; throughput; goodput},
doi = {10.1002/dac.580},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/TCP-IJCS03.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/TCP-IJCS03.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20021009,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {1099-1131},
sjr = {0.52},
if = {2.1},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:26, Scopus:33, Scholar:58},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {non OA},
impatto = {il primo articolo che ha messo in relazione pratica i codici a correzione di errore utilizzati sulle tratte satellitari e il comportamento del TCP, con un'analisi dettagliata di prestazioni}
}
@article{R18:Galileo-SCS02,
author = {Laurent Franck and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{GaliLEO}: a simulation tool for {LEO} satellite constellations},
journal = {SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International},
year = 2002,
volume = 78,
number = 9,
pages = {543–551},
month = sep,
abstract = {We present GaliLEO, a simulator for the transmission of connection-oriented
traffic over a constellation of LEO/MEO (Low / Medium Earth Orbit) satellites. Its scope is
limited to the satellites and the stations accessing them, without any modelling of the
terrestrial network, but inside this scope the goal is to study the performance of
satellite-based communication networks from as many as possible points of view at the network
level. Typical applications include simulation of access techniques, routing policies, fault
management. The simulator is written in Java, and it makes use of dynamic loading to easily
integrate user-written modules. A draft manual is available, and a preliminary version of the
program has been published at the end of 2000.},
keywords = {LEO; simulation; simulator; satellites; java},
doi = {10.1177/0037549702078009002},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/GaliLEO-SCS02.pdf},
url = {http://www.scs.org/},
entrydate = 20021011,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {0037-5497},
sjr = {},
if = {},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:2, Scholar:6}
}
@article{R17:VnL-IJSC02,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A multi-level satellite channel allocation algorithm for real-time {VBR} data},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 2002,
volume = 20,
number = 1,
pages = {47–61},
month = jan # {–} # feb,
abstract = {Integrated services over a shared satellite channel need a MAC protocol that
is able to deal with real-time traffic without substantially affecting the efficiency of the
shared medium. Because of its bursty nature, MPEG coded VBR video transmission is one of the
most challenging real-time applications. In this paper we analyse the statistical performance
of a simple allocation method for VBR traffic by using an accurate statistical model of an
MPEG-2 VBR coded movie, which exhibits a peak to mean ratio of about 4. The results were
obtained both analytically and by simulation, and show that our method is suitable for
transmitting non-interactive video and best-effort traffic on the same satellite link.},
keywords = {satellite; VBR; MPEG-2; bursty traffic; packet delay; channel efficiency;
allocation levels},
doi = {10.1002/sat.708},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/VnL-IJSC02.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/VnL-IJSC02.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:7, Scholar:13}
}
@article{R16:GSn-ETT01,
author = {Enrico Gregori and Riccardo Marcantonio and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{GSn}: a new service type for integrated services on the Internet},
journal = {European Transactions on Telecommunications},
year = 2001,
volume = 12,
number = 1,
pages = {3–12},
month = jan # {–} # feb,
abstract = {Network services with deterministic guarantees are based on a worst-case
description of user-generated traffic. When designing a policing and scheduling algorithm for
guaranteed services on the Internet, accuracy of description of the traffic profile has to be
traded with simplicity of implementation. The result of this trade off is often expressed as
the number of token buckets required by the service along with the choice of their
parameters. The GS type of service proposed by the IETF uses two token buckets both for
characterizing the traffic and for policing it. The choice of using only two token buckets is
primarily driven by policing costs. In this paper we propose a method that allows the number
of token buckets used for characterizing the traffic to be greater than what is actually
needed to police it. This means we can obtain an accurate profile of the traffic while keeping
policing simple. The method consists of computing a profile of the traffic which involves a
number of token buckets of the order of ten, and then doing the policing using only the first
token bucket, plus another one which is chosen depending on the delay requirements of the
receivers. This paper shows that with this simple enhancement we obtain a guaranteed service
whose performance closely approaches the theoretical limits of services with deterministic
guarantees.},
keywords = {Internet; integrated services; guaranteed service; GS},
doi = {10.1002/ett.4460120102},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/GSn-ETT01.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/GSn-ETT01.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {1124-318X},
sjr = {0.347},
if = {1.4},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:0}
}
@article{R15:FadeCountermeasure-JCN00,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Fade countermeasure using signal degradation estimation for demand-assignment
satellite systems},
journal = {Journal of Communications and Networks},
year = 2000,
volume = 2,
number = 3,
pages = {230–238},
month = sep,
abstract = {This paper describes a complete fade countermeasure system, designed for thin
route user-oriented and fully meshed satellite networks. The signal degradation due to the
residual uplink attenuation after up-power control intervention, plus the down-link
attenuation, is compensated for by varying the FEC coding and bit rates of the data. Down and
up-link signal degradations are evaluated separately: the former by collecting statistics of
quantised levels of the demodulated PSK signal, and the latter by using a narrow band signal
level estimator. Measurement times are optimised using a model to evaluate the scintillation
variance. The performance evaluation of the whole system in the presence of additive white
Gaussian noise (AWGN), shows that very small link power margins can be adopted.},
keywords = {fade countermeasure; scintillation; FEC; signal quality estimation; power
margin},
doi = {10.1109/JCN.2000.6596713},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FadeCountermeasure-JCN00.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FadeCountermeasure-JCN00.ps.gz},
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {1229-2370},
sjr = {},
if = {},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:5, Scopus:6, Scholar:8}
}
@article{R14:DRScompression-ETT00,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Antonio Chimienti
and Maurizio Lucenteforte},
title = {Dynamic rate shaping on {MPEG-2} video streams for bandwidth saving on a faded
satellite link},
journal = {European Transactions on Telecommunications},
year = 2000,
volume = 11,
number = 4,
pages = {363–372},
month = jul # {–} # aug,
note = {Special issue on service quality control in multimedia wireless networks},
abstract = {In a previous work, we studied how to send a video stream over a noisy
satellite channel using the scalability features of the MPEG-2 standard. The base and the
enhancement flows were sent with different levels of protection (bit and coding rates) in
order to deal with the channel degradation. In this paper, we add Dynamic Rate Shaping (DRS),
thus obtaining a greater flexibility in the choice of transmission parameters. In fact, it is
possible to trim the required bandwidth in continuous mode in the working range, thus saving
some bandwidth when keeping the video quality constant during changing fade conditions. The
performances of DRS applied to both the non-scalable and the scalable MPEG-2 coded video
streams are shown separately. An application of the techniques presented is discussed, and
some criteria are given for choosing the most suitable parameters, according to the service
quality requirements.},
keywords = {VBR; DSR; MPEG; scalability; layers; fading; satellites; noisy link; errors;
video quality},
doi = {10.1002/ett.4460110405},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/DRScompression-ETT00.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/DRScompression-ETT00.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {1124-318X},
sjr = {0.347},
if = {1.4},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:1, Scopus:1}
}
@article{R13:NoisyVBR-MMToolsAppl00,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Antonio Chimienti
and Maurizio Lucenteforte and Romualdo Picco},
title = {{MPEG-2} coded video traces transmitted over a satellite link: scalable and
non-scalable solutions in rain fading conditions},
journal = {Multimedia Tools and Applications},
year = 2000,
volume = 10,
number = 1,
pages = {73–97},
month = jan,
abstract = {The literature is poor in the analyses of the effects produced by corrupted
bits in compressed video bitstreams. This paper presents the results of a transmission
experiment of MPEG-2 coded video data over a satellite link affected by noise, in order to
investigate under which conditions this type of transmission is economically feasible. The
signal-to-noise ratio scalability feature of the MPEG-2 encoder was used to produce different
bitstreams of the same movie sequence. The scope of the study was to verify which are the best
combinations of video and channel codings in the presence of attenuation on the satellite
link, in order to optimize the bandwidth utilisation for a requested image quality. The
results obtained give indications about the data channel codings to be used to counter the
rain fade on the transmission link, which is a non negligible problem especially when
satellite transmissions are in the Ka band. Moreover, the results highlight the flexibility of
the scalable video coding in the examined scenario.},
keywords = {MPEG video; scalability; quality factor; satellite; fading},
doi = {10.1023/A:1009616005969},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/NoisyVBR-MMToolsAppl00.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/NoisyVBR-MMToolsAppl00.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {1380-7501},
sjr = {},
if = {},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:4, Scopus:3, Scholar:7},
erc = {PE7_6 Communication systems, wireless technology, high-frequency technology},
accesso = {Non OA},
impatto = {le citazioni contribuiscono alla misura dell'impatto all'interno della comunità scientifica di riferimento.}
}
@article{R12:Fracas-TelCommSystems99,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A simulation tool to validate and compare satellite {TDMA} access schemes},
journal = {Telecommunication Systems},
year = 1999,
volume = 12,
number = 1,
pages = {21–37},
abstract = {This paper proposes an architecture design for a tool suitable for emulating
DA-TDMA (demand-assignment-time division multiple access) satellite access schemes. The tool
presented, named FRACAS (for FRAmed Channel Access Simulator) , is particularly suitable for
comparing the performance of different satellite channel allocation policies. Using Fracas, a
service provider can choose from different policies for sharing a satellite channel among a
number of users. Some allocation policies, selected from those available in the literature,
are built-in, while others can be designed from scratch and added without much effort. The
parameters of the built-in allocation policies can easily be changed in order to exploit the
full potential of the allocation schemes. Fracas' features permit the optimisation of
satellite resource usage in accordance with the traffic pattern supported. Fracas enables
research teams and students to explore and compare different multiple access schemes, and to
develop simulation runs for various kinds of service-induced traffic, including aggregate
traffic, which is typical in a local area network (LAN) interconnection environment.},
keywords = {emulator; simulator; satellite access schemes; performance comparison; TDMA;
aggregate traffic},
doi = {10.1023/A:1019178224991},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Fracas-TelCommSystems99.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/Fracas-TelCommSystems99.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:3, Scopus:3, Scholar:3}
}
@article{R11:FractalKa-JSAC99,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Modeling {Ka} band scintillation as a fractal process},
journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications},
year = 1999,
volume = 17,
number = 2,
pages = {164–172},
month = feb,
note = {Direct-to-user satellite systems and technologies at Ka band and beyond},
abstract = {We propose a model that describes the signal fading process due to
scintillation in the presence of rain. We analyzed a data set of up-link (30 GHz) and
down-link (20 GHz) attenuation values averaged over 1 second intervals. The data are samples
relative to 10 significant events, for a total of 180,000 s, recorded at the Spino d'Adda
(North of Italy) station using the Olympus satellite. Our analysis is based on the fact that
the plot of attenuation versus time recalls the behaviour of a self-similar process. We then
make various considerations and propose a fractional Brownian motion model for the
scintillation process. We describe the model in detail, with pictures showing the apparent
self-similarity of the measured data. We then show that the Hurst parameter of the process is
a simple function of the rain fade. We describe a method for producing random data that
interpolate the measured samples, while preserving some of their interesting statistical
properties. This method can be used for simulating fade countermeasure systems. As a possible
application of the model, we show how to optimise fade measurement times for fade
countermeasure systems.},
keywords = {scintillation; rain fade; fractal model; signal degradation; fade
countermeasures},
doi = {10.1109/49.748780},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FractalKa-JSAC99.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FractalKa-JSAC99.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {0733-8716},
sjr = {7.66},
if = {16.4},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:1, Scopus:4, Scholar:10},
erc = {PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {un articolo ingiustamente trascurato, che propone un modello realistico a breve termine dell'andamento dell'attenuazione su un canale satellitare}
}
@article{R10:V2L-IJSC97,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Marco Conti and Erina Ferro and Enrico Gregori and
Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A bandwidth assignment algorithm on a satellite channel for {VBR} traffic},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1997,
volume = 15,
number = 6,
pages = {237–246},
month = nov # {–} # dec,
abstract = {Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video is currently by far the most interesting and
challenging real-time application. A VBR encoder attempts to keep the quality of video output
constant, and at the same time reduces bandwidth requirements since only a minimum amount of
information has to be transferred. On the other hand, as VBR video traffic is both highly
variable and delay sensitive, high-speed networks (e.g. ATM) are generally implemented by
assigning peak rate bandwidths to VBR video applications. This approach may however be
inefficient in a satellite network based on a TDMA scheme. To overcome this problem, we have
designed a demand-assignment satellite bandwidth allocation algorithm in TDMA, named V2L-DA
(VBR 2 Level-Demand Assignment), which manages the VBR video traffic according to a dynamic
bandwidth allocation algorithm. In this paper we discuss how to tune the proposed algorithm in
order to optimise network utilisation when MPEG-1 VBR video traffic is being transmitted. Our
results indicate that most of the time only 40\% of the peak rate bandwidth is needed to
satisfy the VBR source, and the remaining 60\% of the peak rate bandwidth can be used to
transmit the datagram traffic queued in the network stations.},
keywords = {satellite; TDMA assignment; real-time traffic; non real-time traffic; VBR
traffic; MPEG coding; traffic model},
doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199711/12)15:6<237::AID-SAT584>3.0.CO;2-8},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/V2L-IJSC97.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/V2L-IJSC97.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:3, Scopus:4, Scholar:10}
}
@article{R09:DRIFS-IJSC97,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{DRIFS-TDMA}: a proposal for satellite access distributed-control algorithm
for multimedia traffic in a faded environment},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1997,
volume = 15,
number = 5,
pages = {227–235},
month = sep # {–} # oct,
abstract = {Most demand assignment TDMA satellite access protocols use centralised-control
access schemes rather than distributed ones because their simplicity and robustness usually
compensate for the longer allocation delay. Starting from the FODA/IBEA centralised-control
protocol, we studied two distributed-control protocols, named DRIFS and FEEDERS respectively,
for accessing a geostationary satellite channel. Multimedia traffic and faded environments
were considered in the study of both the access schemes. This paper presents the DRIFS
proposal, together with the recovery procedures from critical events, whose handling is
central to the discussion of a distributed satellite access protocol. Probabilities of such
events are also estimated. Reference \cite{R08:FEEDERS-IJSC97} presents the FEEDERS proposal,
while in \cite{R03:FODAIBEAvsDistributed-IJSC96} the reader can find the results of a
comparison between the two schemes obtained by means of simulation.},
keywords = {satellite access scheme; distributed control; capacity allocation on demand;
fading; multimedia traffic},
doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199709/10)15:5<227::AID-SAT578>3.0.CO;2-H},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/DRIFS-IJSC97.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/DRIFS-IJSC97.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:3, Scopus:2, Scholar:10}
}
@article{R08:FEEDERS-IJSC97,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{FEEDERS-TDMA}: a distributed-control algorithm for satellite channel capacity
assignment in a mixed traffic and faded environment},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1997,
volume = 15,
number = 4,
pages = {185–195},
month = jul # {–} # aug,
abstract = {This paper presents FEEDERS , an access scheme for sharing, in TDMA mode, the
capacity of a satellite channel among a number of stations, on the basis of user demand. This
scheme and its companion, DRIFS \cite{R09:DRIFS-IJSC97}, result from a study carried out by
the authors on distributed- control protocols for geostationary satellite access. Both
protocols derive from the FODA/IBEA centralised-control system and have the same features. The
distributed technique to compute the capacity allocation adopted by FEEDERS improves some
performance in FODA/IBEA, but raises a problem about system stability. Techniques to solve
this problem are presented, together with system performance. A comparison is also made with
the FODA/IBEA system, though a more detailed comparison can be found in
\cite{R03:FODAIBEAvsDistributed-IJSC96}, where DRIFS, FEEDERS and FODA/IBEA systems are all
compared.},
keywords = {satellite access scheme; distributed control; capacity allocation on demand;
fading; isochronous traffic; anisochronous traffic},
doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199707/08)15:4<185::AID-SAT579>3.0.CO;2-L},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FEEDERS-IJSC97.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FEEDERS-IJSC97.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:4, Scopus:2, Scholar:12}
}
@article{R07:FODAIBEAvsCFRA-IJSC97,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and G\'erard Maral},
title = {Delay analysis for interlan traffic using two suitable {TDMA} satellite access
schemes},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1997,
volume = 15,
number = 4,
pages = {141–153},
month = jul # {–} # aug,
abstract = {Two demand assignment TDMA satellite access schemes that are suitable for
providing flexible interconnections of local area networks are compared by means of
simulation: FODA/IBEA and CFRA. A unique simulation tool was used, a meshed network of VSATs
under the control of a master station was considered and similar networking conditions were
applied to both access schemes. The generated traffic had two components having different
level of burstiness: bulk traffic and interactive traffic. The performance evaluated is the
delay for each traffic component. We show that CFRA is best when connecting clusters of only a
few stations and even individual ones exchanging light traffic. FODA/IBEA, on the other hand,
is better suited to interconnect networks, or within networks with many hosts, where heavy
traffic is more likely.},
keywords = {satellite; TDMA access schemes; comparison; bursty traffic; demand assignment;
simulation},
doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199707/08)15:4<141::AID-SAT580>3.0.CO;2-Q},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FODAIBEAvsCFRA-IJSC97.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FODAIBEAvsCFRA-IJSC97.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:2, Scopus:3, Scholar:6}
}
@article{R06:LevelQuality-IEEEComMag97,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Quality estimation of {PSK} modulated signals},
journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
year = 1997,
pages = {50–55},
month = jul,
note = {Special issue on Broadband via satellite},
abstract = {A very important problem in fade countermeasure systems is the need to detect
signal quality quickly and accurately. In fact, the countermeasure has to be initiated before
the signal degradation effect on the bit error rate is detected by the user. This paper
presents an overview of different methods to evaluate signal quality, which are based on the
availability of soft quantized levels of PSK demodulated signals at the receiver. It is shown
that this class of methods has a good theoretical performance. Also, an innovative procedure
is presented which adapts one of the methods to some existing hardware, and tunes-up a set of
parameters in order to compensate to the fact that the hardware is to some extent impaired.},
keywords = {soft quantisation; fade estimation; channel quality; satellite communications;
viterbi decoder},
doi = {10.1109/35.601742},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/LevelQuality-IEEEComMag97.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/LevelQuality-IEEEComMag97.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {0163-6804},
sjr = {5.29},
if = {11.2},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:14, Scopus:26, Scholar:48},
erc = {PE7_6 Communication systems, wireless technology, high-frequency technology},
accesso = {non OA},
impatto = {una panoramica, basata su esperienza sperimentale, su come sfruttare la quantizzazione multilivello del segnale a frequenza intermedia per valutare in tempo reale la qualità del segnale e l'andamento dell'attenuazione dei canali satellitari}
}
@article{R05:MTG-RealTimeSystems97,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A traffic generator for testing communication systems: presentation,
implementation and performance},
journal = {Real-Time Systems},
year = 1997,
volume = 13,
number = 1,
pages = {50–55},
month = jul,
abstract = {This paper presents a multi-application traffic generator (MTG), aimed at the
generation of packets over a LAN. The generated traffic simulates the one produced by a number
of both isochronous and anisochronous applications, thus allowing the measurement of a number
of parameters relevant to the communication network. From a test point of view, data generated
by the MTG system is equivalent to data generated by real applications spread over a LAN. The
MTG system is presented, its implementation is described, some figures relevant to the MTG
performance are shown, and the statistical analysis which can be performed on the recorded
data is briefly introduced.},
keywords = {traffic generator; ethernet; unix; LAN},
doi = {10.1023/A:1007941818115},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/MTG-RealTimeSystems97.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/MTG-RealTimeSystems97.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {0922-6443},
sjr = {},
if = {},
role = {Autore principale},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:3, Scholar:7}
}
@article{R04:FODAIBEAexperimental-IJSC96,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Experimental results of a demand-assignment thin route {TDMA} system},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1996,
volume = 14,
number = 2,
pages = {113–126},
month = mar # {–} # apr,
abstract = {This paper presents the experimental results measured on the Italsat satellite
when data is transmitted by using the FODA/IBEA satellite access scheme. The measures
presented refer to the packet arrival time jitter, which affects the real-time data, and to
the end-to-end delay of the non real-time data. The experimental results, obtained with four
Italian active stations on Italsat confirm the analytical results. The paper also shows the
advantage of working in pre-assignment mode, a feature of the capacity assignment algorithm
which improves the end-to-end delay of non real-time data during the transient provoked by a
traffic step when the system is scarcely loaded.},
keywords = {thin route TDMA; real-time data; capacity assignment on demand; jitter; leaky
bucket; non-real-time data; end-to-end delay; pre-assignment mode; transient traffic,
stationary traffic},
doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199603)14:2<113::AID-SAT543>3.0.CO;2-I},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FODAIBEAexperimental-IJSC96.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FODAIBEAexperimental-IJSC96.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:10, Scopus:9, Scholar:22},
erc = {PE7_6 Communication systems, wireless technology, high-frequency technology},
accesso = {Non OA},
impatto = {l'articolo ebbe un grande successo e fu considerato una solida base per i successivi sviluppi dei protocolli di accesso multiplo a satellite},
specializzazione = {i numeri piccoli vanno rapportati all'ambiente scientifico di tanti anni fa e all'ambito estremamente specialistico}
}
@article{R03:FODAIBEAvsDistributed-IJSC96,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Comparison between distributed and centralised demand assignment {TDMA}
satellite access schemes},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1996,
volume = 14,
number = 2,
pages = {95–111},
month = mar # {–} # apr,
abstract = {This paper presents the performance measurements from a comparison between
FODA/IBEA and two other satellite access schemes, FEEDERS and DRIFS. The three schemes differ
in terms of the scheduling of the channel capacity: i.e. centralised control in FODA/IBEA and
distributed in the other two. All these access schemes were designed at CNUCE, where the
simulation tool used for the comparison was also developed. FODA/IBEA was developed and tested
on several satellites (Olympus, Eutelsat and Italsat), and used in a project of LAN
interconnection. The two distributed control access schemes have been studied and simulated to
analyse the behaviour of the capacity assignment algorithm, while the recovery procedures
needed for the network stability are presented in \cite{R08:FEEDERS-IJSC97} and
\cite{R09:DRIFS-IJSC97}. All the access schemes support an aggregated traffic, and the quality
of the data transmission is guaranteed even when the transmitting signal experiences a severe
attenuation due to bad atmospheric conditions.},
keywords = {satellite; TDMA access schemes; distributed control; centralised control;
comparison; aggregated traffic; traffic generatorts; fade countermeasure},
doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199603)14:2<95::AID-SAT542>3.0.CO;2-G},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FODAIBEAvsDistributed-IJSC96.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FODAIBEAvsDistributed-IJSC96.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:12, Scopus:13, Scholar:22},
accesso = {Non OA},
impatto = {articolo all'avanguardia, uno dei fondamenti nel campo dello sviluppo di protocolli ad accesso multiplo a canale satellitare},
specializzazione = {i numeri piccoli vanno rapportati all'ambiente scientifico di tanti anni fa e all'ambito estremamente specialistico}
}
@article{R02:FODAIBEApractical-SIGCOMM95,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Alessandro Bellini
and Gianfranco Pirri},
title = {Practical experiences in interconnecting {LANs} via satellite},
journal = {ACM Computer Communication Review},
year = 1995,
volume = 25,
number = 5,
pages = {56–58},
month = oct,
abstract = {We present an experiment in interconnecting LANs via a satellite link and
describe the individual components involved in the experiment. The project was developed in
two phases: a) design and realisation of a satellite access scheme that supports real-time and
non real-time traffic with a signal fading countermeasure, called FODA/IBEA-TDMA 1 ; b)
interconnection of LANs where real-time and non real-time applications run. The experiment was
presented the first time in June 1994 as a demo in which the Eutelsat satellite was used (in
the 12/14 GHz band) to exchange data between two LANs in Pisa and Florence, while video and
audio applications running on PCs connected the two sites. The demo was repeated a few weeks
later and the Intelsat satellite was used in the 20/30 GHz band.},
keywords = {satellite; TDMA fade countermeasure; satellite LAN interconnection; satellite
videoconference},
doi = {10.1145/216701.216705},
pdf = {http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/oct95/ccr-9510-celandroni.pdf},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
issn = {0146-4833},
sjr = {0.88},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {Scopus:10, Scholar:18},
erc = {PE7_6 Communication systems, wireless technology, high-frequency technology},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {le citazioni contribuiscono alla misura dell'impatto all'interno della comunità scientifica di riferimento.}
}
@article{R01:FODAIBEApresentation-IJSC92,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Nick James and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{FODA/IBEA-TDMA}: a flexible fade countermeasure system for integrated
services in user oriented networks},
journal = {International Journal of Satellite Communications},
year = 1992,
volume = 10,
pages = {309–323},
month = dec,
abstract = {A flexible, processor based, TDMA station has been implemented. This station
and its associated variable data rate modem enables users to implement very complex frame
structures under software control. Burst rates of 512 Kbit/s - 8.192 Mbit/s and different
coding rates are possible allowing the transmitted bit energy from each station in the network
to be adapted to prevailing conditions. The proposed application of the station is the
transmission of mixed stream and packet traffic, in a LANs interconnection via satellite
environment, using a modification of the FODA 5 technique. The association of the up-link
power control feature with the bit and coding rate variation gives the system an interesting
ability to cope with fade conditions. The link outage probability is investigated for the
Olympus transponder in Ka band. The ability of the system, together with the good performance
of Olympus, shows that the Ka band is usable for the above mentioned types of networks without
prohibitive fade degradation, at least for limited coverages.},
keywords = {TDMA controller; variable bit rate modem; fade countermeasure; outage;
multiple access; satellite network},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FODAIBEApresentation-IJSC92.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FODAIBEApresentation-IJSC92.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20000926,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
if = {0.3},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:31, Scopus:28, Scholar:54},
erc = {PE7_6 Communication systems, wireless technology, high-frequency technology},
accesso = {Non OA},
impatto = {la presentazione di un completo metodo di accesso multiplo a satellite, il primo al mondo realizzato sperimentalmente con allocazione dinamica in TDMA; finanziamento Telespazio},
areaemergente = {nel ristretto campo di ricerca sulle comunicazioni satellitari ad accesso multiplo, questo articolo si inserisce nel filone appena nato dell'allocazione dinamica con il primo sistema sperimentale funzionante sul satellite Olimpus}
}
@article{M13:editorial-IEEESensors22,
author = {Valerie Renaudin and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Guest Editorial Special issue on Advanced sensors and sensing technologies for
indoor positioning and navigation},
journal = {IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation},
year = 2023,
volume = 1,
pages = {iii-iii},
month = dec,
abstract = {It is with great pleasure that we introduce the first issue of the IEEE
Journal on Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN). J-ISPIN is a gold
open-access publication of the IEEE Sensors Council, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and
the Instrumentation and Measurement Society. The multidisciplinary J-ISPIN provides a platform
for Open Access publishing in response to the growing demand for Open Access. Thus, this first
issue represents an important milestone for indoor and seamless positioning publishing.},
day = 27,
keywords = {indoor positioning, indoor navigation, seamless navigation},
doi = {10.1109/JISPIN.2023.3344291},
pdf = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10375307},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10375307},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20220224,
entryby = {pot},
editor = {Valerie Renaudin and Francesco Potort\`i},
publisher = {IEEE},
issn = {2832-7322}
}
@article{M12:editorial-IEEESensors22,
author = {Valerie Renaudin and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Guest Editorial Special issue on Advanced sensors and sensing technologies for
indoor positioning and navigation},
journal = {IEEE Sensors Journal},
year = 2022,
volume = 22,
number = 6,
pages = {4754–4754},
month = mar,
abstract = {Indoor localization is a growing research field and interest is expanding in
many application fields, including services, measurement, mapping, security, and
standardization. The quest for appropriate tracking technologies for COVID-19 pandemic
control has shown us the importance of identifying the sensors data and processing that are
suitable, accurate, reliable, and respectful of privacy. A prominent area is, therefore, that
of sensors, where both improved hardware solutions and more powerful data analysis are
required.},
day = 15,
keywords = {indoor positioning, indoor navigation, location-based services},
doi = {10.1109/JSEN.2022.3150130},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/editorial-IEEESensors22.pdf},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9733819},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20220224,
entryby = {pot},
editor = {Valerie Renaudin and Francesco Potort\`i},
publisher = {IEEE},
issn = {1530-437X}
}
@article{M11:editorial-Sensors20,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Filippo Palumbo and Antonino Crivello},
title = {Editorial of special issue on Sensors and sensing technologies for indoor
positioning and indoor navigation},
journal = {Sensors},
year = 2020,
number = 20,
pages = {1–6},
month = oct,
abstract = {The last 10 years have seen enormous technical progress in the field of indoor
positioning and indoor navigation; yet, in contrast with outdoor well-established GNSS
solutions, no technology exists that is cheap and accurate enough for the general market. The
potential applications of indoor localization are all-encompassing, from home to wide public
areas, from IoT and personal devices to surveillance and crowd behavior applications, and from
casual use to mission-critical systems. This special issue is focused on the recent
developments within the sensors and sensing technologies for indoor positioning and indoor
navigation networks domain. The papers included in this special issue provide useful insights
to the implementation, modelling, and integration of novel technologies and applications,
including location-based services, indoor maps and 3D building models, human motion
monitoring, robotics and UAV, self-contained sensors, wearable and multi-sensor systems,
privacy and security for indoor localization systems.},
keywords = {indoor positioning, indoor navigation, location-based services},
doi = {10.3390/s20205924},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/editorial-Sensors20.pdf},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/20/5924},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
publisher = {MDPI},
issn = {1424-8220},
origpdf = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/20/5924/pdf},
entrydate = 20201020,
entryby = {pot},
editor = {Francesco Potort\`i and Filippo Palumbo and Antonino Crivello}
}
@book{M10:specialissue-Sensors20,
editor = {Francesco Potort\`i and Filippo Palumbo and Antonino Crivello},
title = {Sensors and sensing technologies for indoor positioning and indoor navigation},
publisher = {MDPI},
year = 2020,
month = may,
note = {Special issue on Sensor Networks},
abstract = {The last ten years have seen enormous technical progress in the field of
indoor positioning and indoor navigation; yet, in contrast with outdoor well-established GNSS
solutions, no technology exists that is cheap and accurate enough for the general market. The
potential applications of indoor localization are all-encompassing, from home to wide public
areas, from IoT and personal devices to surveillance and crowd behavior applications, and from
casual use to mission-critical systems. This Special Issue encourages authors, from academia
and industry, to submit new research results about innovations for indoor positioning and
navigation. The Special Issue topics include but are not limited to: Location-based services
and applications; Benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, standards; User requirements; UI,
indoor maps, and 3D building models; Human motion monitoring and modeling; Robotics and UAV;
Indoor navigation and tracking methods; Self-contained sensors; Wearable and multisensor
systems; Privacy and security for ILS.},
keywords = {indoor positioning, indoor navigation, location-based services},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Indoor_Positioning_Navigation},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20201016,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1424-8220}
}
@proceedings{M09:IPIN-CEUR19,
title = {IPIN-WiP 2019 –- Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation – Work-in-Progress
Papers},
year = 2019,
booktitle = {IPIN-WiP 2019 –- Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation – Work-in-Progress
Papers},
editor = {Francesco Potort\`i and Val\'erie Renaudin and Kyle O'Keefe and Filippo
Palumbo},
volume = 2498,
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
month = sep,
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
abstract = {This volume contains the Work-in-Progress papers presented at IPIN 2019, the
Tenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation
(http://ipin2019.isti.cnr.it/posters) held in Pisa, Italy, on September 30th–October 3rd,
2019.},
day = {30–3},
pdf = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2498/},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20200810,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M09 era M05},
issn = {1613-0073},
sjr = ceurws-sjr2022,
role = {Primo curatore}
}
@article{M08:EvAAL-ErcimNews13,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{EvAAL} evaluation workshop},
journal = {Ercim News},
year = 2013,
number = 95,
pages = 54,
month = oct,
note = {Not peer reviewed},
abstract = {For the third consecutive year, the EvAAL competition gathered teams from all
around the world to compare their systems in the participating living labs. EvAAL, a project
embedded into the AALOA association, was led by the Institute of Information and Technologies
(ISTI) of CNR (Pisa, IT) and was mostly financed by the universAAL FP7 project.},
keywords = {AAL, ambient assisted living, benchmark, competition, contest, localization},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-ErcimNews13.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20131122,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M08 era M04},
editor = {Peter Kunz and Carol Peters},
publisher = {ERCIM EEIG},
issn = {0926-4981},
role = {Autore unico}
}
@article{M07:AALOA-AALsummit12,
author = {Sten Hanke and Thomas Karopka and Francesco Furfari and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {To build up an ambient assisted living open association ({AALOA})},
journal = {Proceedings of the AAL summit},
year = 2012,
month = jun,
note = {Extended abstract, not peer reviewed},
abstract = {One problem which slows down the creation of the AAL market is fragmentation
of research efforts and the lack of a standardised approach for developers. To address this,
we founded the AALOA (AAL Open Association). The vision of AALOA is to create a ecosystem for
the domain of assistive technology for independent living. Community building activities as
well as the hosting of AAL related projects like EvAAL and several open source software
projects1 has been used to attract different stakeholders of the AAL community. Two main
initiatives for the AALOA community building and promotion of the idea among all stakeholder
groups has been brought forth so far. The AMB11 workshop, organised together with the
eInclusion unit of the EC and the Lecce Declaration, which gained support from 44 projects
mostly at the EU level.},
day = {27–29},
keywords = {AAL, open source, community building},
acmclass = {C.2.4 Network Operating Systems; D.4.7 Distributed systems},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/AALOA-AALsummit12.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20121220,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M07 era M03},
nopages = {–},
role = {Coautore}
}
@article{M06:AALOA-PublicService12,
author = {Thomas Karopka and Francesco Potort\`i and Sten Hanke},
title = {Open Minds},
journal = {PS public service review},
year = 2012,
number = 31,
note = {Not peer reviewed},
abstract = {Healthy and active ageing is one of the main challenges for most
industrialised nations and a key issue on Europe's agenda for the period 2014-2020. The number
of people aged 60 and over in the {EU} is now rising by more than two million every year. This
raises the question of how to transform this challenge to our societies into a driver of
economy and create a win-win situation? One of the envisioned solutions is the application of
assistive technology combined with newly created services to allow people to live an
independent life for as long as possible. Research in this area involves many {ICT} related
{R&D} disciplines and has attracted much attention in the last couple of years. Several
initiatives have emerged to tackle the challenges involved, and significant incremental
progress has been made on many fronts. But a major breakthrough, leading to a standardised
approach and thereby to widespread adoption, is still not in sight. One of the main problems
from the technological point of view is fragmentation. The mission of {AALOA}, the {Ambient
Assisted Living Open Association}, is to address this situation by bringing together the
resources, tools and people involved in {Ambient Asssisted Living (AAL)} in a single forum
that makes it much easier to reach conclusions on provisions needed to achieve progress. A
concrete technical objective is to promote a common platform or middleware that is distributed
as open source software.},
keywords = {AAL, ambient assisted living, community building, open source},
acmclass = {C.2.4 Network Operating Systems; D.4.7 Distributed systems},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/AALOA-PublicService12.pdf},
url = {http://www.publicservice.co.uk/article.asp?publication=Health%20and%20Social%20Care&id=560&content_name=European%20Health%20and%20Social%20Care&article=19615},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20120515,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M06 era M02},
editor = {Caroline Pennington},
publisher = {publicservice.co.uk Ltd},
issn = {2045-2357},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@article{M05:EvAAL-ErcimNews11,
author = {Stefano Chessa and Francesco Furfari and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{EvAAL}: evaluating {AAL} systems through competitive benchmarking},
journal = {Ercim News},
year = 2011,
number = 84,
pages = 46,
month = oct,
note = {Not peer reviewed},
abstract = {Owing to the complexity of {Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)} systems and
platforms, the evaluation of {AAL} solutions is a complex task that will challenge researchers
for years to come. However, the analysis and comparison of proposed solutions is paramount to
enable us to assess research results in this area. We have thus organized an international
contest called {EvAAL}: {Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking}. Its aims
are to raise interest within the research and developer communities in the multidisciplinary
research fields enabling {AAL}, and to create benchmarks for the evaluation and comparison of
{AAL} systems.},
keywords = {AAL, ambient assisted living, benchmark, competition, contest, localization},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-ErcimNews11.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20111222,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M05 era M01},
editor = {Peter Kunz and Carol Peters},
publisher = {ERCIM EEIG},
issn = {0926-4981},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {Scholar:4}
}
@inproceedings{M04:Context-IPIN10,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Stefano Chessa and Francesco Furfari and Francesco
Potort\`i},
title = {Using context information to improve indoor localisation},
booktitle = {Abstracts of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2010,
editor = {Rainer Mautz and Melanie Kunz and Hilmar Ingensand},
pages = {295–296},
month = sep,
address = {Campus Science City, ETH Zurich (CH)},
note = {Oral presentation, not peer reviewed},
abstract = {RSSI-based indoor localisation systems are widely accepted in the literature
as one of the least invasive localisation technique. In fact, this range-based approach does
not require any special hardware and is available in most standard wireless
devices. Furthermore, judicious use of RSSI has not a significant impact on local power
consumption, sensor size, and cost. In front of these interesting characteristics, the
performance of the RSSI approach is worst with respect to some more invasive ad hoc hardware
range-based solutions (such as Angle of Arrival, Time of Arrival etc...). Context information,
such as knowledge of being in a given room, can increase the localisation accuracy of
RSSI-based methods. In this paper we propose a localisation method that leverages context
information. Performance evaluation is done via real measurements in an office environment
composed of three adjacent rooms.},
day = {15–17},
keywords = {zigbee; context; indoor localization; RSSI localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications},
pdf = {http://www.geometh.ethz.ch/ipin/IPIN2010_Abstract_Volume.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20101223,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M04 era C35},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{M03:Brew-NATO06,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Alan Bertossi and Maria Cristina Pinotti and Francesco
Potort\`i},
title = {Data broadcasting algorithms on error-prone wireless channels},
booktitle = {proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Security in Wireless
Networks},
year = 2006,
month = sep,
publisher = {IOS Press},
note = {Not peer reviewed},
abstract = {Broadcasting is an efficient and scalable way of transmitting data over
wireless channels to an unlimited number of clients. In this paper the problem of allocating
data to multiple channels is studied, assuming flat data scheduling per channel and the
presence of unrecoverable channel transmission errors. The objective is that of minimizing the
average expected delay experienced by the clients. Two different channel error models are
considered: the Bernoulli model and the simplified Gilbert-Elliot one. In the former model,
each packet transmission has the same probability to fail and each transmission error is
independent from the others. In the latter one, bursts of erroneous or error-free packet
transmissions due to wireless fading channels are modeled. For both channel error models,
optimal solutions can be found in polynomial time when all data items have unit lengths, while
heuristics are presented when data items have non-unit lengths. Extensive simulations,
performed on benchmarks whose item popularities follow Zipf distributions, show that good
sub-optimal solutions are found.},
day = {4–8},
keywords = {wireless communication; data broadcasting; multiple channels; flat scheduling;
average expected delay; channel transmission errors; Bernoulli model; Gilbert-Elliot model;
heuristics},
acmclass = {C.2 Computer-Communication Network; F.2 Analysis of Algorithms and Problem
Complexity},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Brew-ISWIN07.pdf},
entrydate = 20070305,
entryby = {pot},
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M03 era C25},
location = {Suceava (RO)},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{M02:GaliLEO-COST253,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Laurent Franck},
title = {{GaliLEO}: a simulation tool for traffic on {LEO} satellite
constellations. Presentation of the architecture},
booktitle = {proceedings of the COST 252-253-255 Workshop},
year = 1999,
pages = {145–153},
month = may,
note = {Not peer reviewed},
abstract = {The aim of this work is to create a tool that can simulate the transmission of
both connection-oriented and connection-less traffic over a constellation of LEO/MEO (Low
Earth Orbit/ Medium Earth Orbit) satellites. We hope to provide a performance evaluation of
various constellation access techniques and routing policies. The simulator, named GaliLEO,
will be written in Java and will integrate results from another simulator (CONSIM from CSELT,
I) to study the impact of faults in system performance. GaliLEO should eventually become the
simulation tool for the Cost253 action, thus providing a common tool for all studies taking
place in the action. At the time of writing, considerable interest is being shown in GaliLEO.},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/GaliLEO-COST253.pdf},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M02 era C12},
location = {Toulouse (FR)}
}
@manual{M01:FODAIBEA-IT96,
title = {Sistema per la trasmissione via satellite di dati sincroni e asincroni in
grado di contrastare l'attenuazione del segnale dovuta ad agenti atmosferici},
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
month = mar,
year = 1996,
note = {Italian patent 01286585},
annote = {A flexible, processor based, TDMA station based on a variable data rate modem
enabling users to implement very complex frame structures under software control. Burst rates
of 512 Kbit/s - 8.192 Mbit/s are possible allowing the transmitted bit energy from each
station in the network to be adapted to prevailing conditions. One proposed application of the
station is the transmission of mixed stream and packet traffic with dynamic allocation based
on the FODA/IBEA protocol.},
abstract = {Metodo per implementare una stazione di terra satellitare che utilizza un
protocollo ad accesso multiplo detto FODA/IBEA-TDMA, basata su un modem a bit rate variabile
che permette la realizzazione di complesse e flessibili strutture di frame TDMA sotto
controllo software. Il prototipo sperimentale permette burst rate di 512 Kbit/s - 8.192 Mbit/s
con codifiche convoluzionali di 1/2, 3/4, 7/8, 1/1, ma il metodo è generale ed è applicabile a
qualunque ventaglio di possibili velocità e rapporti di codifica. Il controllo software è
basato su allocazione garantita su richiesta per il traffico streaming e allocazione dinamica
per il traffico datagram (ad esempio IP). L'energia per bit da ogni stazione è controllata per
adattarsi alle condizioni di attenuazione atmosferica e di traffico, senza saturare il
ricevitore satellitare.},
day = 28,
rinumerato = {rinumerato in M01 era M06},
role = {Coinventore alla pari},
nationality = {Italy only},
owner = {Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche},
impatto = {Il brevetto non fu mai utilizzato; era inteso per essere sfruttato da Telespazio che invece, dopo avere beneficiato di un finanziamento ministeriale per lo studio e la realizzazione del prototipo, preferì non rischiare per l'incertezza di trovare un mercato adeguato all'investimento. Intorno al 2000 il nostro gruppo fu uno dei dieci selezionati dal CNR fra centinaia di proposte, e quindi avemmo l'opportunità di parlare con degli investitori che si mostrarono molto interessati e disponibili a finanziare una start-up, a patto che uno di noi si dedicasse interamente alla creazione e sviluppo della nuova azienda, lasciando l'attività di ricerca; siccome nessuno di noi riteneva di possedere capacità di imprenditore, la cosa finì lì; analogo esito per due successivi casi di investitori di ventura interessati al brevetto. Allegata la presentazione del brevetto per gli investitori}
}
@inbook{L10:EvAAL-IPIN-History-Elsevier18,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i, Antonio Crivello and Filippo Palumbo},
editor = {Jordi Conesa, Antoni P\'erez-Navarro, Joaqu\'in Torres-Sospedra and Raul
Montoliu},
title = {Geographical and Fingerprinting Data for Positioning and Navigation Systems},
chapter = {11 – The {EvAAL} Evaluation Framework and the {IPIN} Competitions},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = 2018,
series = {Intelligent Data-Centric Systems},
month = sep,
pages = {209–224},
abstract = {No standard methods for evaluating indoor localization systems are generally
accepted and used by researchers and industry. The lack of common test beds is a problem when
evaluating the relative performance of different systems. As a step towards tackling this
problem, the EvAAL Indoor Localization competition was launched in 2011, followed by the
ongoing series of IPIN competitions. The EvAAL evaluation framework defines tools and metrics
usable for comparing both real-time systems and off-line methods based on recorded data. The
EvAAL framework is discussed in its incarnation along the various editions of the EvAAL and
IPIN competitions, together with a discussion on the performance and technologies used by the
competing systems.},
keywords = {Indoor localization; Indoor navigation; Localization competition; Standard
evaluation metrics; Benchmarking; Performance evaluation},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1016/B978-0-12-813189-3.00011-3},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128131893000113},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20180912,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = 9780128131893,
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:4, Scopus:5, Scholar:5}
}
@inbook{L09:LocBodyAreaNet-Elsevier14,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Wearable sensors},
chapter = {6.4. Localization in wireless body area networks},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = 2014,
series = {Academic Press},
month = aug,
pages = {493–516},
abstract = {This chapter highlights the importance of localization in relation to on-body
area networks and gives a broad overview of localization methods and technologies. Most of the
material is relative to indoor localization, because that is where body-area networks are
mostly relevant. The chapter provides an overview on criteria used to evaluate the performance
of localization system, followed by an overview of technologies used for different types of
sensors and general ways to fuse data generated by sensors. Since we envision a future where
the presence of small devices communicating via packet radio is ubiquitous in most indoor and
some outdoor environments, the rest of the chapter concentrates on methods and algorithms used
in the context of wearable radios, most of which are based on the RSS (received signal
strength) indicator available on packet radio devices.},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
url = {https://www.elsevier.com/books/wearable-sensors/unknown/978-0-12-418662-0},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20150130,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-0-12-418662-0},
cites = {Scopus:2},
role = {Coautore}
}
@inbook{L08:Manifesto-Springer10,
author = {Francesco Furfari and Francesco Potort\`i and Stefano Chessa and M.-R. Tazari
and Michael Hellenschmidt and R. Wichert and Joe Gorman and Antonio Kung},
title = {Platforms for AAL Applications},
chapter = {7. The AAL Open Association Manifesto},
publisher = {SpringerLink},
year = 2010,
volume = 6446,
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {190–194},
abstract = {AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) has great potential for positively influencing
the lives of many people. But impact so far has been less than hoped, partly due to
fragmentation of research efforts and the lack of a standardised approach for developers. To
address this, we are forming the AALOA (AAL Open Association), and invite you to join in our
efforts.},
keywords = {AmI; AAL; Platform; OSGi; URC; Smart Homes; Healthcare; Software Platform;
Open Source Policies; Standards; reference platform; standardization; Platform; Application;
Policies; Universal Remote Console (URC); Web Service Description Language (WSDL); personal
user interface; pluggable user interface; OpenURC; Alliance; Platform for Accessible User
Interfaces; ISO; ICT; e-Inclusion},
acmclass = {C.2.1 Wireless communication; C.2.4 Network Operating Systems; D.4.7
Distributed systems},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-16982-3_14},
url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/n014603374p43k13/},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20101223,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:19, Scopus:24, Scholar:34},
issn = {1611-3349},
sjr = {}
}
@inbook{L07:Brew-IGI08,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Alan A. Bertossi and M. Cristina Pinotti and Francesco
Potort\`i},
editor = {Ismail Khalil Ibrahim},
title = {Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia},
chapter = {XXIX: Quality of service of data broadcasting algorithms on erroneous wireless
channels},
publisher = {IGI Global – Information Science Reference},
year = 2008,
edition = 2,
month = sep,
pages = {421–436},
abstract = {Broadcasting is an efficient and scalable way of transmitting data over
wireless channels to an unlimited number of clients. In this chapter the problem of allocating
data to multiple channels is studied, assuming flat data scheduling per channel and the
presence of unrecoverable channel transmission errors. The behavior of wireless channels is
described by the Bernoulli model, in which each packet transmission has the same probability
to fail and each transmission error is independent from the others. The objective is that of
minimizing the average expected delay experienced by the clients. Optimal solutions can be
found in polynomial time when all data items have unit lengths, while heuristics are presented
when data items have non-unit lengths. Extensive simulations, performed on benchmarks whose
item popularities follow Zipf distributions, show that good sub-optimal solutions are found.},
keywords = {broadcast scheduling algorithm; data allocation algorithm; average expected
delay; wireless channel; channel error model; heuristics; quality of service},
url = {http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=8219},
entrydate = 20071119,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-1-60566-046-2},
cites = {Scholar:1},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inbook{L06:Costglue-COST07,
author = {Dragan Savi\'c and Francesco Potort\`i and Francesco Furfari and Matev\v{z}
Pusti\v{s}ek and Sa\v{s}o Toma\v{z}i\v{c} and Janez Be\v{s}ter},
editor = {Nejat Ince and Arnold Bragg},
title = {23. Recent advances in modeling and simulation tools for communication
networks and services},
chapter = {A tool for packaging and exchanging simulation results},
publisher = {Springer US},
year = 2007,
month = nov,
pages = {443–462},
note = {Proceedings of the final COST 285 symposium},
abstract = {In the field of simulations storing and exchanging simulation data are
important tasks. The quantity of simulation data can be rather big and at the same time this
data can appear in different formats. The conversion of big quantities of data can be
extremely time-consuming. In this article we focus on simulations in
telecommunications. Therefore we have studied the needs of the telecommunication community and
defined a reference model of a simulation process. According to the needs we have developed a
software tool CostGlue, which represents a central repository for data produced with different
types of simulation tools and acts as a converter of different output formats into different
input formats. CostGlue has modular software architecture. This enables further development
and contributions from any other research sphere of activity. The core of the software tool
represents the application CoreGlue responsible for communicating with the database. CoreGlue
represents unified interface for writing to the database and reading from it. Specific
functions like import and export of data and different mathematical calculations are
represented as a set of self-described modules, which are loaded as necessary. The graphic
user interface is introduced as a web application for the simplicity of use and effective
remote access to the application. The software package CostGlue is going to be released as
free software with the possibility of further development.},
keywords = {simulation; archiver; converter; HDF},
acmclass = {E.5 Files; D.2.12 Interoperability},
doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-73908-3_23},
url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/xn35h8383r60h510},
entrydate = 20070329,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-0-387-73907-6},
role = {Coautore alla pari con D. Savi\'c},
cites = {WoS:0, Scholar:12}
}
@inbook{L05:TCPonSat-Springer,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {Giovanni Giambene},
title = {Resource management in satellite networks},
chapter = {9.3. Cross-layer interaction between {TCP} and physical layer},
publisher = {Springer},
year = 2007,
pages = {294–298},
keywords = {TCP; satellite; cross-layer},
acmclass = {C.2.3 Network Operations},
url = {http://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=5-40109-22-173670265-0},
entrydate = 20060328,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-0-387-36897-9},
cites = {Scopus:0},
eisbn = {978-0-387-53991-1}
}
@inbook{L04:FZC-Springer,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Alberto Gotta and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {Giovanni Giambene},
title = {Resource management in satellite networks},
chapter = {8.5.1. Redundant codes in hybrid networks},
publisher = {Springer},
year = 2007,
pages = {265–267},
keywords = {TCP; satellite; cross-layer},
acmclass = {C.2.3 Network Operations},
url = {http://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=5-40109-22-173670265-0},
entrydate = 20060328,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-0-387-36897-9},
cites = {Scopus:0},
eisbn = {978-0-387-53991-1}
}
@inbook{L03:Costglue-COST05,
author = {Matev\v{z} Pusti\v{s}ek and Dragan Savi\'c and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {Nejat Ince and Ercan Topuz},
title = {Modeling and simulation tools for emerging telecommunications networks},
chapter = {10. Packaging simulation results with {CostGlue}},
publisher = {Kluwer/Springer},
year = 2006,
month = sep,
pages = {209–222},
note = {Proceedings of the mid-term {COST} 285 symposium},
abstract = {Researchers performing simulations work in the field of computer
telecommunications are often faced with the time-consuming task of converting huge quantities
of data to and from different formats. We examine some of the requirements of the
telecommunications simulation community and propose an architecture for a general purpose
archiver and converter for big quantities of simulation data to be released as free software.},
keywords = {simulation; archiver; converter; HDF},
acmclass = {E.5 Files; D.2.12 Interoperability},
url = {http://www.springer.com/dal/home/math/applications?SGWID=1-10051-22-170220034-0},
entrydate = 20050726,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {0-387-32921-8},
role = {Coautore alla pari con D. Savi\'c},
cites = {WoS:0, Scholar:0}
}
@inbook{L02:COST253-Wiley02,
author = {Marco Annoni and Simone Bizzarri and Erina Ferro and Laurent Franck and
Ioannis Gragopoulos and Evangelos Papapetrou and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {Yim-Fun Hu and G\'erard Maral and Erina Ferro},
title = {Service efficient network interconnection via satellite – {EU} {COST}
{Action} 253},
chapter = {5. GaliLEO: a simulation tool for traffic on LEO satellite constellations -
presentation of the architecture},
publisher = {Wiley},
year = 2002,
month = jan,
abstract = {Complex communication systems where satellite links are involved are difficult
to test and tune up without the help of simulation tools. First of all, using satellites is
very expensive - the satellite time spent in testing and tuning-up the system must thus be as
short as possible. Second, during the performance evaluation in a real environment it is not
always possible to find the right amount of traffic, and the most appropriate traffic pattern
and data aggregation that will put the system under the maximum amount of stress so that its
limits can be validated. When satellite constellations are involved, rather than single
satellites, these problems are enormously exacerbated, to the point that in all but very
particular cases it is practically impossible for the researcher to do tests on satellite
constellations. It is therefore necessary to use some kind of simulation tool. The array of
required features for the tool is very broad. The basic feature is that of making it possible
to describe the constellation topology, and the position of earth terminals. Satellite may
have different capabilities, in term of number and characteristics of intersatellite links,
spot topology and behaviour, and on-board processing abilities. Many types of routing
algorithms are under study, some of which allow for dynamic rerouting based on nodes'
perceived congestion or on quality of service requests. Also, it should be possible to analyse
channel allocation algorithms for the up-down links, including frequency reuse algorithms. The
traffic generation choice should be broad and easily extensible, allowing for both fine
control on single connections and generation of background traffic for loading the satellite
network. Finally, a rich set of statistic collection and analysis tools should be available.},
keywords = {COST; LEO; satellite; simulation},
url = {http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471486698%7Cdesc%7C2823,00.html},
entrydate = 20030121,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0}
}
@inbook{L01:COST256-Kluwer01,
author = {Laurent Franck and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {A. Nejat Ince},
title = {Modeling and simulation environment for satellite and terrestrial
communication networks},
chapter = {11. GaliLEO: a simulation tool for LEO satellite constellations},
publisher = {Kluwer},
year = 2001,
month = oct,
note = {Proceedings of the European {COST} telecommunications symposium – COST Action
256 – The Kluwer International series in Engineering and Computer Science: volume 645},
abstract = {We present Galileo, a simulator for the transmission of both
connection-oriented and connectionless traffic over a constellation of LEO/MEO (Low / Medium
Earth Orbit) satellites. Its scope is limited to the satellites and the stations accessing
them, without any modelling of the terrestrial network, but inside this scope the goal is to
study the performance of satellite-based communication networks from as many as possible
points of view. Typical applications include simulation of access techniques, routing
policies, fault management. The simulator is written in Java, and it makes use of dynamic
loading to easily integrate user-written modules. A draft manual is available, and a
preliminary version of the program will be published by the end of 2000.},
keywords = {COST; galileo; satellite; simulation},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/GaliLEO-COST256.pdf},
url = {http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-7547-5},
entrydate = 20030606,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {0-7923-7547-5},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C51:Track1-IPIN21,
author = {Francesco Potortì and Antonino Crivello and Filippo Palumbo and Michele
Girolami and Paolo Barsocchi},
title = {Trends in smartphone-based indoor localisation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2021,
pages = {1–7},
month = nov,
abstract = {Indoor localisation is a thriving field, whose progresses are mainly led by
innovations in sensor technology, both hardware and software. With a focus on
smartphone-based personal navigation, we examine the evolution of sensing technologies in
eleven leading applications. In order to select applications we choose among
independently-tested prototypes, as opposed to simulation or laboratory-only experiments. To
this end, we look at the best performers in the smartphone-based Tracks of IPIN competitions.
This selection is particularly severe and significant, as this competition Track is performed
live, without an opportunity for competitors to instrument or prepare the site or to know the
path in advance and with only two attempts allowed, of which the best result is taken. An
independent actor holds in hand the smartphone running the competing system, and results are
downloaded from the phone immediately after the competition path is completed, without any
post-processing. We show how sensing technologies have evolved from 2014 to 2019 and show a
trend towards improving accuracy performance. Last, we provide insight in the role that
sensors and algorithms play in the evolution of smartphone-based indoor localisation
solutions.},
day = {29–2},
keywords = {Indoor localisation; Indoor navigation; Localisation competition;
Smartphone-based localisation},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN51156.2021.9662530},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Track1-IPIN21.pdf},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9662530},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20210903,
entryby = {pot},
location = {Lloret de Mar (ES)}
}
@inproceedings{C50:Whatsnext-IPIN19,
author = {Francesco Furfari and Antonino Crivello and Paolo Barsocchi and Filippo
Palumbo and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {What is next for Indoor Localisation? Taxonomy, protocols, and patterns for
advanced Location Based Services},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2019,
pages = {1–8},
month = sep,
abstract = {Indoor localisation systems have been studied in the literature for more than
ten years and nowadays are starting to approach the market. While technology is not mature
yet, we can argue that the single biggest obstacle to wide adoption is the lack of standard
ways to integrate different systems together. The missing pieces are a common taxonomy,
definition of services, protocols. This work is an attempt to define what is next for indoor
localisation systems in order to promote market adoption. It is a first high-level attempt at
defining a taxonomy of indoor positioning systems, at outlining the main phases of a protocol
for the utilisation of different cooperating indoor localisation systems, and at drawing a
vision of services and applications in the close future.},
day = {30–3},
keywords = {Indoor localisation taxonomy; Location Based Services; Indoor localisation
integration; standards},
acmclass = {General and reference–Computing standards, RFCs and guidelines},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2019.8911759},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Whatsnext-IPIN19.pdf},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8911759},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20191028,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-1-7281-1788-1},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:3},
location = {Pisa (IT)}
}
@inproceedings{C49:4anchors-Ubicomp18,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Pietro Cassar\`a and Filippo Palumbo},
title = {Robust device-free localisation with few anchors},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)},
year = 2018,
pages = {1184–1189},
month = oct,
note = {Sensors & Behaviour workshop},
abstract = {Radio-Frequency based device-free localisation systems are able to pinpoint
people's location in a given area without their cooperation. They work by analysing the
perturbations that the presence of a person causes on the communications exchanged by a high
number of radio devices installed around the area. Typical numbers are some tens of devices
for an area the size of a single-family house, with an accuracy around one meter and a high
sensitivity to even the slightest movement. The literature about device-free localisation
systems typically concentrates on improving sensitivity, accuracy and discriminating power,
without worrying too much about the number of involved radio devices. In this paper, for the
first time, we demonstrate that device-free localisation can work with reduced performance
with as low as four anchors in an environment composed by two wide rooms. Being able to use so
few anchors opens the possibility of several use cases where installing tens of devices is not
desirable.},
day = {8–12},
keywords = {computerised tomography; indoor radio; position measurement; remote sensing;
performance evaluation; ZigBee},
acmclass = {H.3.4 Systems and Software–Performance evaluation},
doi = {10.1145/3267305.3276798},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/4anchors-Ubicomp18.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20180912,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-1-4503-5966-5},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:2, Scopus:2, Scholar:2},
location = {Singapore (SG)}
}
@inproceedings{C48:ISO-IEC-18305-IPIN18,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Antonino Crivello and Paolo Barsocchi and Filippo
Palumbo},
title = {Evaluation of indoor localisation systems: comments on the {ISO/IEC}\,18305
standard},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2018,
month = sep,
note = {Second best paper award},
abstract = {Indoor localisation systems have been studied in the literature for more than
ten years and are starting to approach the market. The absence of standard evaluation methods
is one of the obstacles to their adoption outside of customised environments. Specifically,
the definition of benchmarking methodologies, common evaluation criteria, standardised
methodologies useful to developers, testers, and end users is an open challenge. The need for
common benchmarks has been tackled by some initiatives in recent years: EvAAL, EVARILOS, the
Microsoft competition and the IPIN competition. The first formal attempt at defining a
standard methodology to evaluate indoor localisation systems is the ISO/IEC\,18305:2016
International Standard, which defines a complete framework for performing Test&Evaluation of
localisation and tracking systems. This work is a first critical reading of the standard,
intended to be a key contribution to the activities of the International Standards Committee
of IPIN.},
day = {24–27},
location = {Nantes (FR)},
keywords = {Performance evaluation; Indoor localisation systems; ISO/IEC\,18305:2016;
IPIN-ISC},
acmclass = {General and reference–Computing standards, RFCs and guidelines},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2018.8533710},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/ISO-IEC-18305-IPIN18.pdf},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8533710},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20180912,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-1-5386-5635-8},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:29, Scopus:32, Scholar:45},
erc = {PE7_8 Networks, e.g. communication networks and nodes, Internet of Things,
sensor networks, networks of robots},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {il primo articolo che analizza criticamente ISO/IEC 18305:2016, riferimento per gli articoli successivi e per la prossima revisione dello standard cui contribuirò assieme al suo autore Nader Moayeri del NIST; premiato alla conferenza di riferimento del settore}
}
@inproceedings{C47:Prettyindoor-AIAALIT17,
author = {Agostini, Michele and Crivello, Antonino and Palumbo, Filippo and Potortì,
Francesco},
title = {An open-source framework for smartphone-based indoor localization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence},
year = 2017,
volume = 2061,
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
pages = {74–86},
month = nov,
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
note = {Third Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Ambient Assisted Living},
abstract = {In the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) scenario, indoor localization represents
one of the main pillars for the development of context-aware applications. In this context,
comparing and testing indoor positioning system is a hot topic in the indoor localization
research community. In fact, after several years algorithms and methods have been developed
and matured, no general frameworks exist yet to reliably compare them. The scarcity of common
datasets for off-line test of emerging indoor positioning systems, together with the lack of
available frameworks for real-time comparison and evaluation of indoor localization solutions,
is one of the main barriers to their standardization. The lack of a common usable software
framework for implementing and testing new algorithms, on a fair basis, is an additional
barrier. In this work, we address this research challenge by proposing a free software
framework enabling the development of indoor localization applications on the Android
platform. It is composed of two applications: \textit{PrettyIndoor} is a positioning app,
\textit{FingerFood} is a fingerprint-building app. We show that the framework's modular
architecture can be exploited to easily develop many data fusion strategies, in order to
easily compare and improve indoor positioning systems.},
day = {16–17},
keywords = {indoor localization; software framework; software architecture; particle
filter; kalman filter; free software},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Prettyindoor-AIAALIT17.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20171109,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1613-0073},
sjr = ceurws-sjr2022,
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:1}
}
@inproceedings{C46:Wifi-probes-IPIN16,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Antonino Crivello and Michele Girolami},
title = {{Wi-Fi} probes as digital crumbs for crowd localisation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2016,
month = oct,
abstract = {While indoor localization techniques based on Wi- Fi RSS measurements have
been extensively studied, their application to eavesdropping Wi-Fi probe requests sent from
mobile devices in large indoor environments, such as shopping malls, is scarce or absent in
the literature. The idea behind this work is to observe Wi-Fi enabled smartphones, especially
when they are not associated to a network. They periodically perform active network scanning
by issuing probe requests, which are detected by networked sniffing devices produced by
Cloud4Wi®. We experimentally investigate the opportunities offered by passive gathering of
Wi-Fi probes for purposes of crowd positioning in areas of interest. Our preliminary
experimental setting convincingly shows that a small number of sniffing devices may be enough
for analysing crowd movements in indoor areas.},
day = {4–7},
keywords = {Passive indoor localization; crowd sensing; Wi-Fi probe eavesdropping; Wi-Fi
fingerprinting},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2016.7743599},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Wifi-probes-IPIN16.pdf},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7743599},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20160720,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:19, Scopus:24, Scholar:31},
location = {Madrid (ES)}
}
@inproceedings{C45:EvAAL-competition-IPIN15,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo Barsocchi and Michele Girolami and Joaquı́n
Torres-Sospedra and Raúl Montoliu},
title = {Evaluating indoor localization solutions in large environments through
competitive benchmarking: the {EvAAL-ETRI} competition},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2015,
month = oct,
abstract = {The increasing demand for services and higher comfort levels inside buildings,
together with the rise in time spent indoor, ensure an upward trend in indoor localization
demand for the future. Evaluation of indoor localization systems is particularly challenging
due to the complexity of such systems and to the variety of solutions adopted and services
offered. {EvAAL} is an international competition aimed at evaluating and assessing indoor
localization systems. The fifth edition of {EvAAL} promotes competitions on indoor
localization in large environments. This paper describes its technical aspects, the competing
systems and the results.},
day = {13–16},
keywords = {device-free localization; indoor localization; RSS localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2015.7346970},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-competition-IPIN15.pdf},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7346970},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20160120,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:43, Scopus:50, Scholar:55},
location = {Banff, AB (CA)},
accesso = {Green OA https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/results?cnrautb[]=Potort\%C3\%AC\%2C\%20Francesco},
impatto = {articolo molto citato perché tratta di sistemi reali, valutati in maniera rigorosa e documentata; punto di riferimento nella valutazione delle prestazioni di sistemi per localizzazione interna; ha contribuito al continuo successo della competizione IPIN},
areaemergente = {il campo della localizzazione in interni ha visto la sua prima conferenza dedicata nel 2010 e la prima rivista dedicata nel 2022}
}
@inproceedings{C44:DFL-comparison-IPIN15,
author = {Pietro Cassar\`a and Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo Barsocchi and Michele
Girolami},
title = {Choosing an {RSS} Device-Free Localization algorithm for Ambient Assisted
Living},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2015,
month = oct,
note = {Code available at \url{http://wnet.isti.cnr.it/software/spin}},
abstract = {Device-free localization algorithms attract, among others, the attention of
researchers working in the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) scenarios, where the target user
might not be able or willing to wear any devices. We concentrate on systems that exploit the
Received Signal Strength indicator coming from wireless devices whose position is known,
called anchors. In this paper we select and test the main device-free localization solutions
and experimentally compare their performance using a smaller number of anchors than commonly
found in the literature. We illustrate the procedure used to validate our comparing procedure
and we give suggestions on usability in the application scenarios typical of AAL.},
day = {13–16},
keywords = {device-free localization; indoor localization; RSS localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2015.7346788},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/DFL-comparison-IPIN15.pdf},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7346788},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20150528,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:7, Scholar:10},
location = {Banff, AB (CA)}
}
@inproceedings{C43:Multichannel-IPIN15,
author = {Pietro Cassar\`a and Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo Barsocchi and Michele
Girolami and Paolo Nepa},
title = {Lessons Learned on Device Free Localization with Single and Multi Channel
Mode},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2015,
month = oct,
abstract = {In this paper we concentrate on device-free RSS-based indoor localization
methods, which have been the subject of intensive studies in the last few years. Specifically,
the purpose of this paper is to assess the performance improvements of a Variance-based Radio
Tomographic Imaging (VRTI) technique, when scanning various radio channels. We compare the
performance of such technique compared with a VRTI configured with only single channel, the
latter being the ``minimum introduced interference'' option. Moreover, in this paper we
discuss in which application scenarios the multi-channel scanning technique is usable and
appropriate. We describe how we configure the measurements campaigns to gather RSS values as
well two indicative performance metrics, namely the mean square error and percentiles of the
error distribution.},
day = {13–16},
keywords = {device-free localization; indoor localization; RSS localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2015.7346789},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Multichannel-IPIN15.pdf},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7346789},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20150528,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:2},
location = {Banff, AB (CA)}
}
@inproceedings{C42:Enerduino-Sensors14,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Erina Ferro and Filippo Palumbo and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Smart meter led probe for real-time appliance load monitoring},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Sensors},
year = 2014,
editor = {IEEE},
pages = {1451–1454},
month = nov,
address = {Piscataway, USA},
abstract = {Non-intrusive load monitoring of domestic appliances has received steady
interest in the last twenty years, first because of interest from energy companies interested
in usage statistics for power balancing and, more recently, in order to assist users in tuning
their habits for reduced power consumption. We discuss how this concept can be used in
real-time with a cheap, easy-to-install device based on Arduino to monitor the usage of
domestic appliances and thus the activities of persons inside their home. The device is
presented, complete with free software and hardware, and a proof-of-concept web-based user
interface is depicted that is able to discriminate very simple activities.},
day = {2–5},
keywords = {Arduino; energy meter; NIALM; AIDL; appliance usage detection},
acmclass = {Hardware~Platform power issues; Computer systems organization~Sensors and
actuators; Applied computing~Health informatics},
doi = {10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985287},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Enerduino-Sensors14.pdf},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6985287},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20141128,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-1-4799-0161-6},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scholar:15},
day = {3–5}
}
@unpublished{C41:Multichannel-IPIN13,
author = {Pietro Cassar\`a and Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo Barsocchi and Paolo Nepa},
title = {Single-channel versus multi-channel scanning in device-free indoor radio
localization},
note = {Oral presentation, proceedings not published},
month = oct,
year = 2013,
day = {28–31},
keywords = {device-free localization; indoor localization; RSS localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20131122,
entryby = {pot},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scholar:1}
}
@inproceedings{C40:AALOA-AALForum12,
author = {Sten Hanke and Francesco Furfari and Juan Pablo L\'azaro Ramos and Francesco
Potort\`i},
title = {The {AALOA} exploitation model for {AAL} project results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AAL Forum},
year = 2013,
editor = {Erika Pohjanen},
pages = {335–339},
month = sep,
address = {Norrk{\"{o}}ping (SE)},
publisher = {New Tools for Health},
abstract = {AALOA, the Ambient Assisted Living Open source Association, was born to create
an environment to foster initiatives linked to AAL. AALOA offers an environment where people
and organizations can start an AAL project. Most projects are expected to be software
projects, to be released using a Free / Libre / Opens Source software licence, but other types
of activities, like research, conference organization, standardization and lobbying are
envisioned as well. This paper illustrates the idea of the Ambient Assisted Living Open
Association, the actions initiated by AALOA and those planned for the future. The main focus
is on the exploitation possibilities which AALOA provides to the outcome of several European
and non-European projects. A collaboration here would be a win-win situation. On one side,
AALOA has already appropriate prominence and is linked to European strategies which can help
to group people and associations around different project results and to position them in the
right way and manner. On the other side AALOA is depending on the community and on the
projects it hosts. To demonstrate this ambition and to give a demonstration for other European
projects, the paper presents the identified exploitable results of the universAAL FP7 project
and their planned incubation in AALOA.},
day = {24–26},
keywords = {AAL; open source; community building},
acmclass = {C.2.4 Network Operating Systems; D.4.7 Distributed systems},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/AALOA-AALForum13.pdf},
url = {http://www.aal-europe.eu/forum-proceedings/},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20131122,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scholar:1}
}
@incollection{C39:Raggi-IWAWPLC12,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo Nepa},
title = {Device-free indoor localization for {AAL} applications},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advances in Wireless Physical Layer Communications for Emerging Healthcare Applications (IWAWPLC)},
publisher = {Springer},
year = 2012,
editor = {Balwant Godara and Konstantina S. Nikita},
volume = 61,
series = {Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering},
pages = {361–368},
month = nov,
address = {Paris (FR)},
note = {In: Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare},
abstract = {We present a device-free localization method oriented to Ambient Assisted
Living applications. The system exploits the received signal strength (RSS) measured by fixed
wireless communications devices, whose position is known a priori, in order to localize a
person in the transmission coverage area. The proposed localization system is passive, by not
requiring the user to wear anything, and is able to trade complexity for accuracy by simply
changing the number of deployed devices. The presentation is validated by an indoor
experimental study.},
day = {21–23},
keywords = {RSS-based localization; AAL; tracking},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_40},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Raggi-IWAWPLC12.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20121219,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-3-642-37892-8},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:11, Scholar:13},
issn = {1867-8211},
sjr = {}
}
@incollection{C38:EvAAL-CCIS12,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort\`i and Francesco Furfari and Alejandro
M. Medrano Gil},
title = {Comparing {AAL} indoor localization systems - indoor localization and
tracking},
booktitle = {Evaluating {AAL} systems through competitive benchmarking},
publisher = {Springer},
year = 2012,
editor = {Stefano Chessa and Stefan Knauth},
volume = 309,
series = {Communications in computer and information science},
type = {post-proceedings},
pages = {1–13},
address = {Lecce (IT)},
abstract = {{EvAAL} ({Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking}) is an
international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of {Ambient Assisted Living}
systems components, services and platforms. In 2011 took place the first edition of {EvAAL} on
the special theme of {Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL}. This paper describes the
technical aspects of the first edition of {EvAAL} and draws a roadmap for the future
editions.},
keywords = {AAL; localization; tracking},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-33533-4},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-CCIS12.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20120905,
entryby = {pot},
issn = {1865-0929},
sjr = {0.19},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:6, Scopus:8, Scholar:11},
organization = {{EvAAL} international competition}
}
@inproceedings{C37:EvAAL-AALForum11,
author = {Stefano Chessa and Francesco Furfari and Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo
Barsocchi and Mohammad-Reza Tazari and Reiner Wichert},
title = {Evaluating {AAL} systems through competitive benchmarking ({EvAAL}) (Technical
aspects of the first competition)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AAL Forum},
year = 2011,
editor = {Ilse Bierhoff and Henk Herman Nap and Wil Rijnen and Reiner Wichert},
pages = {102–107},
month = sep,
address = {Lecce (IT)},
note = {EvAAL workshop},
abstract = {{EvAAL} ({Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking}) is an
international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of {Ambient Assisted Living}
systems components, services and platforms. In 2011 took place the first edition of {EvAAL} on
the special theme of {Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL}. This paper describes the
technical aspects of the first edition of {EvAAL} and draws a roadmap for the future
editions.},
day = 26,
keywords = {AAL; localization; tracking},
acmclass = {B4.4.4 Performance Analysis and Design Aids, Verification},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/EvAAL-AALForum11.pdf},
url = {http://www.aal-europe.eu/forum-proceedings/},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20131122,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {Scholar:1}
}
@inproceedings{C36:Context-ISCC11,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Stefano Chessa and Erina Ferro and Francesco Furfari and
Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Context driven enhancement of {RSS}-based localization systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communications (ISCC)},
year = 2011,
pages = {463–468},
month = jun,
address = {Kerkyra (GR)},
abstract = {RSS-based indoor localization systems are widely accepted in the literature as
one of the less invasive localization technique. In fact, this range-based approach does not
require any special hardware and is available in most standard wireless devices. Furthermore,
judicious use of RSS (Receive Signal Strength) has not a significant impact on local power
consumption, sensor size, and cost. In front of these interesting characteristics, the
performance of the RSS approach is worst with respect to some more invasive ad hoc hardware
range-based solutions (such as Angle of Arrival, Time of Arrival etc.). In this paper we
propose a localization method that leveraging the context information, such as the knowledge
of being in a given room, increases the localization accuracy of RSS-based
methods. Performance evaluation is done via real measurements in an office environment
composed of three adjacent rooms.},
day = {28–1},
keywords = {zigbee; context information; indoor localization; RSSI localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications; B.4.1 Data Communications Devices},
doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2011.5983880},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20110517,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:12, Scholar:16}
}
@inproceedings{C34:LimitsRSSI-IPIN10,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Furfari and Paolo Nepa and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {RSSI localisation with sensors placed on the user},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)},
year = 2010,
editor = {Rainer Mautz and Melanie Kunz and Hilmar Ingensand},
pages = {194–199},
month = sep,
address = {Campus Science City, ETH Zurich (CH)},
abstract = {We examine the indoor single-room localisation problem while using multiple
fixed transmitters (anchors) and multiple mobile receivers placed on the user
(mobiles). Anchors transmit a periodic beacon that the mobiles receive and of which they
measure the received power level value (RSSI). Using this information only, which requires no
specialised hardware, the mobiles estimate the position and orientation of the user. Many
methods have been proposed to tackle this problem. In this paper we describe a purely
theoretical procedure that aims to evaluate the maximum attainable performance of any real
methods using RSSI for localisation purpose. Our analysis we present is based on a fine grid
of RSSI values in a room, which are computed via ray-tracing, and a maximum-likelihood
approach to localisation. Here we illustrate the performance gains of using multiple mobiles
versus using a single one and and the attainable performance of user orientation estimation.},
day = {15–17},
keywords = {zigbee; accuracy limits; indoor localization; RSSI localization},
acmclass = {C.2.2 Network Protocols Applications},
doi = {10.1109/IPIN.2010.5647868},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/LimitsRSSI-IPIN10.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20101223,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-1-4244-5864-6},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:10, Scholar:17}
}
@inproceedings{C33:Posture-APS10,
author = {Anda Guraliuc and Andrea A. Serra and Paolo Nepa and Giuliano Manara and
Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Detection and classification of human arm movements for physical
rehabilitation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium},
year = 2010,
pages = {1–4},
month = jul,
address = {Toronto, ON (CA)},
abstract = {In the latest years, the detection of body posture and activity received a
significant interest in the field of the physical rehabilitation aimed at providing advanced
medical therapies to patients who have suffered a stroke, joint replacements/reconstructions,
amputation, or some motor function disability resulting from Parkinson’s
disease. Rehabilitation is a dynamic process and the restoration of patients’ functional
capability to normal requires every day functional activities that need to be monitored and
controlled by specialized medical operators. An effective approach is represented by motion
capturing systems where some video cameras follow the movements of a number of markers placed
on the human body to reconstruct its activity. However, such systems are complex, expensive
and require a large number of constitutive elements (cameras and markers).},
day = {11–17},
keywords = {posture identification; RSSI; radio frequency; body sensors},
acmclass = {B.4.1 Data Communications Devices; G.3 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS},
doi = {10.1109/APS.2010.5561051},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Posture-APS10.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20101223,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:7, Scopus:12, Scholar:18}
}
@inproceedings{C32:Smartmode-IWSSC09,
author = {Alberto Gotta and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Quality of experience in satellite video streaming transmissions in urban
vehicular environment},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC)},
year = 2009,
pages = {18–22},
month = sep,
address = {Siena (IT)},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {In case of video streaming services via satellite towards vehicular clients,
very long blockage periods due to road infrastructures, vegetation, and so on, may lead to a
complete channel outage, which may result in the loss of all packets transmitted during that
period, even in the presence of interleaving and FEC techniques. But if these periods are
predictable, as in the presence of known routes traced by means of a GPS navigator, it may be
advisable to alert the transmitter in advance, in order to counteract the incoming outage
interval. We refer to this technique as Smart Mode. In the following we will detail how Smart
Mode takes advantage of FEC and interleaving techniques, in order to improve the Quality of
Experience and to reduce the waste of bandwidth in satellite multimedia streaming.},
day = {10–11},
keywords = {video streaming; satellite; mobile; FEC; interleaver},
acmclass = {C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design; C.2.3 Network Operations; C.2.2 Network
Protocols Applications; H.4.3 Communications Applications},
doi = {10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286435},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Smartmode-IWSSC09.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20090814,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:3, Scholar:7}
}
@inproceedings{C31:Tabatinga-IWSSC09,
author = {David Pradas and Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort\`i and Lei Jiang and
M.A. V\'azquez Castro},
title = {Satellite {PHY}-layer selector design for video applications in tropical
areas},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC)},
year = 2009,
pages = {407–411},
month = sep,
address = {Siena (IT)},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {This paper aims at providing different cost-efficient solutions for the
channel impairments in tropical areas. In order to extend service to isolated areas, we
propose an hybrid architecture based on DVB-S2/RCS + Wi-Fi networks. In this scenario, the
delay of the ACM reaction to fade changes can affect the quality of the video transmission,
especially because of the characteristics of tropical deep fading events. In order to avoid
QoS reduction, we focus on the DVB PHY-layer {\em shifted threshold}, which we study not only
for different Amazon areas and different rain conditions, but also for different reaction
delays. The performance of the PHY-layer {\em selector} is evaluated in terms of video quality
(PSNR), packet error rate and bandwidth efficiency.},
day = {10–11},
keywords = {atmospheric fading; tropical area; video streaming; satellite; packet-level
FEC},
acmclass = {C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design; C.2.3 Network Operations; C.2.2 Network
Protocols Applications; H.4.3 Communications Applications},
doi = {10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286329},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Tabatinga-IWSSC09.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20090814,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:2}
}
@inproceedings{C30:LimitsRSSI-APS09,
author = {Francesco Potort\`i and Alessandro Corucci and Paolo Nepa and Francesco
Furfari and Paolo Barsocchi and Alice Buffi},
title = {Accuracy limits of in-room localisation using RSSI},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium},
year = 2009,
month = jun,
address = {Charleston, SC (US)},
abstract = {Indoor localisation using inexpensive, non-dedicated wireless devices has spun
great attention in the last years. We witness the ubiquitous presence of Wi-Fi access points
in offices and homes, soon followed by the increasing spread of low-power, low-cost wireless
nodes using the Bluetooth and, in perspective, ZigBee technologies. The presence of a
potentially high number of wireless transmitters in indoor spaces has pushed researchers to
investigate whether their built-in received signal strength indicator (RSSI) could be
exploited to gain information on the relative position of a receiver with respect to a number
of transmitters and, by knowing in advance the position of those transmitters, to pinpoint the
receiver's position. Even though RSSI meters are not built to this end, but rather to give
information to the higher communication protocol layers about the status of the communication
link, their usage is highly attractive, because the information they give is obtained almost
``for free''. As a consequence, many studies exist which, analytically, through simulations or
through real measurements, analyse how a receiver ({\em mobile}) can best use RSSI relative to
multiple wireless transmitters ({\em anchors}) to compute its position. In this paper we use
detailed ray-tracing simulation to investigate the ultimate performance of indoor, single-room
localisation using RSSI measurements in a specific case, and we comment on the results. This
study does not lend itself to practical implementation of a localisation method, but rather
provides insight into the limits of methods based on RSSI.},
keywords = {indoor localisation; RSSI; Zigbee; sensors},
acmclass = {B.4.1 Data Communications Devices; G.3 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS},
doi = {10.1109/APS.2009.5172087},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/LimitsRSSI-APS09.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20090223,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Primo autore},
cites = {WoS:8, Scopus:21, Scholar:29}
}
@inproceedings{C29:PosturePathLoss-APS09,
author = {Anda Guraliuc and Andrea A. Serra and Paolo Nepa and Giuliano Manara and
Francesco Potort\`i and Paolo Barsocchi},
title = {Body posture/activity detection: path loss characterization for {2.4~GHz}
on-body wireless sensors},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium},
year = 2009,
month = jun,
address = {Charleston, SC (US)},
abstract = {On-body wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are gaining an increasing interest in
medical, military as well as entertainment applications. Wireless transceiver modules placed
on the body and combined with actuators/sensors can communicate between them and with any
other node located in the surrounding environment, without any human body movement constraint
with respect to wired connections. A further application of the above on-body WSNs could be in
the framework of the human body posture and activity detection. Recognizing people’s
activities is a key issue in Assisted Living (AL) applications, where it can be required to
monitor and detect abnormalities for elderly care, or rate how a person performs routine
activities. As an example, in the medical field the patient recovery and rehabilitation can be
remotely monitored, controlled and recorded without the presence of a technician. Likewise, in
military applications the Soldier Assist System (SAS) that provides recognition of soldier
activities can be improved by body activity detection networks. In this context the authors
are involved in a research activity aimed at developing algorithms for body posture/activity
classification, which are based on RSS (Received Signal Strength) exploiting. Indeed, the RSS
indicator is already available in most of low cost transceiver modules designed for WSNs
(Smart Dust or Motes). If only a rough classification of body posture/activity is required,
additional devices, as for example gyroscopes or accelerometers, could be avoided. The
development of the system architecture (number of transceivers and their best placement on the
human body) requires accurate path loss models to characterize radio links between a set of
transceivers placed on the human body, for a number of body postures and movements. Therefore,
as a first step of the above mentioned algorithm development activity, on- body path loss
properties are being studied. Both numerical and experimental results will be presented in
this paper. The analysis of the path loss as a function of the distance between two on-body
antennas is performed at 2.4 GHz and results are shown for some radio links.},
keywords = {posture identification; RSSI; radio frequency; body sensors},
acmclass = {B.4.1 Data Communications Devices; G.3 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS},
doi = {10.1109/APS.2009.5171661},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/PosturePathLoss-APS09.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20090223,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore},
cites = {WoS:2, Scopus:5, Scholar:9}
}
@inproceedings{C28:Tabatinga-VTC09,
author = {David Pradas Fernández and Lei Jiang and Maria Angeles V\'azquez Castro and
Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Cost-efficient design of hybrid network for video transmission in tropical
areas},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)- Spring},
year = 2009,
month = apr,
address = {Barcelona (ES)},
abstract = {This paper aims at providing different cost-efficient solutions for the
channel impairments in tropical areas. In order to extend service to isolated areas, we
propose hybrid architecture based on DVB-S2/RCS+WiFi networks. In this scenario the satellite
channel is affected by deep rain events that do not allow ACM modes to protect data. Moreover,
the delay in the ACM reaction to fade changes can affect the quality of the video
transmission. In order to avoid the QoS reduction, we focus on different Fading Mitigation
Techniques (FMT), designing a multi-layer scheme protection, using LL-FEC and AL-FEC in higher
layers, and optimizing the intervention threshold and super-frame length in the physical
layer.},
day = {26–29},
keywords = {DVB-S2; WiFi; LL-FEC; AL-FEC; Hybrid network; Tropical; video streaming},
acmclass = {C.2 Computer-Communication Networks},
doi = {10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073475},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Tabatinga-VTC09.pdf},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20090123,
entryby = {pot},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:3, Scholar:5}
}
@inproceedings{C27:Costglue-Mipro08,
author = {S\'ebastien Rumley and Dragan Savi\'c and Francesco Potort\`i and Sa\v{s}o
Toma\v{z}i\v{c} and Christian Gaumier},
title = {Practical approaches for software components integration in
telecommunications},
booktitle = {International Convention MIPRO},
year = 2008,
volume = 2,
pages = {135–139},
month = may,
address = {Opatija (HR)},
organization = {MIPRO Croatian Society, IEEE Croatia Section, University of Zagreb and
University of Rijeka},
abstract = {In network engineering as in other areas, sophisticated software tools have
been conceived to handle models of increasing complexity. These tools theoretically support a
great number of input cases. However, in practice, they are confronted to a limited set of
inputs, since too large efforts are required to configure each new input case. Similarly, only
a few quantitative metrics are extracted from tool results, whereas the output files could be
analyzed in many different ways. The potential of a given tool could thus be decoupled if
these preprocessing and post-processing tasks would be wisely automated. In this paper, we
focus on these preprocessing and postprocessing operations, and propose a generic execution
environment which automates them. This environment permits in particular to assess the
influence of various parameters on the final results, and to perform generalized what-if
analysis.},
day = {26–30},
keywords = {simulation support systems},
acmclass = {E.5 Files; D.2.12 Interoperability},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Costglue-Mipro08.pdf},
entrydate = 20090218,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-953-233-037-3},
cites = {Scholar:0},
role = {Coautore alla pari con D. Savi\'c}
}
@inproceedings{C26:Costglue-Eurosim07,
author = {Dragan Savi\'c and Francesco Potort\`i and Francesco Furfari and Janez
Be\v{s}ter and Sa\v{s}o Toma\v{z}i\v{c} and Matev\v{z} Pusti\v{s}ek},
title = {Storing and exchanging simulation results in telecommunications},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the EUROSIM congress on Modelling and Simulation},
year = 2007,
editor = {B. Zupan\v{c}i\v{c}, R. Karba, S. Bla\v{z}i\v{c}},
volume = 2,
pages = {1–7},
month = sep,
address = {Ljubljana (SI)},
organization = {SLOSIM, Slovene Society for Simulation and Modelling},
publisher = {ARGESIM – ARGE Simulation News},
abstract = {Though storing and exchanging simulation data is a rather simple task done by
simulation practitioners, it is quite often a challenge as huge quantities of data are not
uncommon, and conversion between different formats can be much time consuming. After examining
some of the needs of the telecommunications simulation community, we describe the architecture
of a working prototype – CostGlue – to be used as a general-purpose archiver and converter
for large quantities of simulation data. The software architecture of the CostGlue tool is
modular therefore allowing further development and contributions from other research sphere of
activity. The core of the tool – CoreGlue – is responsible for communicating with the
database. It acts as a unified interface for writing to the database and reading from
it. Specific functions like import and export of data and different mathematical calculations
are represented as a set of self-described modules, which are loaded as necessary. The graphic
user interface is introduced as a web application for the simplicity of use and effective
remote access to the application. The software package CostGlue is going to be released as
free software with the possibility of further development.},
day = {9-13},
keywords = {simulation; measurements; data; archiving; HDF},
acmclass = {E.5 Files; D.2.12 Interoperability},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Costglue-Eurosim07.pdf},
entrydate = 20070530,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {978-3-901608-32-2},
role = {Coautore alla pari con D. Savi\'c}
}
@inproceedings{C24:Rural-model-Winmee07,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Gabriele Oligeri and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Frame error model in rural {Wi-Fi} networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization (Wiopt)},
year = 2007,
pages = {41–46},
month = apr,
address = {Limassol (CY)},
publisher = {IEEE},
note = {WiNMee/WiTMeMo workshop},
abstract = {Commonly used frame loss models for simulations over Wi-Fi channels assume a
simple double regression model with threshold. This model is widely accepted, but few
measurements are available in the literature that try to validate it. As far as we know, none
of them is based on field trials at the frame level. We present a series of measurements for
relating transmission distance and packet loss on a Wi-Fi network in rural areas and propose a
model that relates distance with packet loss probability. We show that a simple double
regression propagation model like the one used in the ns-2 simulator can miss important
transmission impairments that are apparent even at short transmitter-receiver
distances. Measurements also show that packet loss at the frame level is a Bernoullian process
for time spans of few seconds. We relate the packet loss probability to the received signal
level using standard models for additive white Gaussian noise channels. The resulting model is
much more similar to the measured channels than the simple models where all packets are
received when the distance is below a given threshold and all are lost when the threshold is
exceeded.},
day = 20,
keywords = {ns2; model; AWGN; FER; frame error rate},
acmclass = {C.2 Computer-Communication Networks},
doi = {10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480105},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Rural-model-Winmee07.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/Rural-model-Winmee07.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20070228,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {1-4244-0961-6},
role = {Autore principale},
cites = {WoS:9, Scopus:22, Scholar:31}
}
@inproceedings{C23:Tdma-dama-WNS206,
author = {Alberto Gotta and Raffaello Secchi and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Simulating dynamic bandwidth allocation on satellite links},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (Valuetools)},
year = 2006,
pages = 8,
month = oct,
address = {Pisa (IT)},
publisher = {ACM},
note = {WNS2 workshop},
abstract = {In the last years, DVB-RCS has emerged as a flexible technology offering
broadband Internet access to a large community of users at a relatively low cost. At the same
time, the spreading of networked multimedia applications has highlighted the need to
investigate mechanisms that guarantee a certain level of Quality of Service (QoS) to the end
users. In particular, the DVB-RCS standard specifies different capacity request categories to
support QoS at the link layer. We describe {\em Tdma-bod}, an ns-2 improvement that implements
generic bandwidth-on-demand allocation in TDMA satellite systems; the patch is available as
free software. This simulator has been validated through experimental tests performed on the
Skyplex satellite system. Specifically, we run CBR UDP flows to measure the characteristics of
the satellite link in terms of throughput and delay and to verify that the simulative model
output matches the experimental dynamic throughput and one-way delay behaviour. The
simulations and experiments show that bandwidth-on-demand allocation mechanisms may cause
large delays when sudden variations in the incoming traffic rate occur, a behaviour typical of
multimedia flows.},
day = 10,
keywords = {ns2; TDMA; BoD; DAMA},
acmclass = {C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design},
doi = {10.1145/1190455.1190462},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Tdma-dama-WNS206.pdf},
entrydate = 20060712,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {1-59593-508-8/06/10...\$\$5.00},
cites = {Scholar:35},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C22:CostGlue-Valuetools06,
author = {Dragan Savi\'{c} and Matev\v{z} Pusti\v{s}ek and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A tool for packaging and exchanging simulation results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (Valuetools)},
year = 2006,
pages = 60,
month = oct,
address = {Pisa (IT)},
publisher = {ACM},
abstract = {Storing and exchanging simulation data is a common task among simulation
practitioners, but quite often it becomes a challenge as huge quantities of data are not
uncommon, and conversion between different formats can become an unwieldy task. After
examining some of the needs of the telecommunications simulation community, we describe the
architecture of the working prototype of a general purpose archiver and converter for big
quantities of simulation data to be released as free software.},
day = {11-13},
keywords = {Measurements; Simulation; Data; Archiving; HDF},
acmclass = {E.5 Files; D.2.12 Interoperability},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/CostGlue-Valuetools06.pdf},
entrydate = 20060712,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {1-59593-504-5/06/10...\$\$5.00},
role = {Coautore alla pari con D. Savi\'c}
}
@inproceedings{C21:TCP-startup-IWSCC06,
author = {Alberto Gotta and Raffaello Secchi and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {An analysis of {TCP} startup over an experimental {DVB-RCS} platform},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC)},
year = 2006,
pages = {176–180},
month = sep,
address = {Madrid (ES)},
abstract = {Satellite systems are evolving towards higher available bandwidths and dynamic
allocation based on instantaneous traffic rates offered at the stations, so called BoD
(bandwidth on demand) channel sharing. This trend is paired with more and more powerful error
correcting schemes, like those adopted in the recent DVB-S2 standard, which promise to make
the channel virtually immune from packet errors. These factors, together with the significant
round-trip delay of geostationary satellites, combine so that most TCP connections would send
all of their data during the Slow Start phase. We investigate the performance of TCP during
startup on recent BoD system by observing and explaining the behavior of different TCP flavors
on different systems when transmitting data over the Eutelsat's Skyplex Data satellite
system. We make recommendations for choosing and improving TCP implementations and for future
BoD allocation schemes.},
day = {14–15},
keywords = {TDMA; BoD; DAMA; TCP; startup},
acmclass = {C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design},
doi = {10.1109/IWSSC.2006.256018},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/TCPstartup-IWSCC06.pdf},
entrydate = 20060712,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {1-4244-0118-6},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:8, Scopus:7, Scholar:14}
}
@inproceedings{C20:PacketLossHybrid-ASMS06,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Gabriele Oligeri and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Packet loss in {TCP} hybrid wireless networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Conference (ASMS)},
year = 2006,
month = may,
abstract = {Hybrid networks where packets travel through both a geostationary satellite
and a terrestrial local wireless link are a particularly challenging environment with respect
to TCP performance. The reason is that such networks exhibit both a high latency and a high
packet loss, a combination that stresses TCP's congestion avoidance algorithm. Accurate
modelling of the packet loss process in such networks is not an easy task, so very simplified
models are frequently used. We present channel state measurements done on fixed-speed IEEE
802.11 terrestrial networks. We use the ns-2 simulator to evaluate the performance of TCP on
the said channel. We then evaluate the accuracy of some models that are commonly used to
represent the channel state, by comparing these models with actual traces.},
day = {29–31},
keywords = {Hybrid networks; WiFi; satellite; packet loss; burst},
acmclass = {H.1.0 General},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/PacketLossHybrid-ASMS06.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/PacketLossHybrid-ASMS06.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20060216,
entryby = {pot},
location = {Herrsching (DE)},
isbn = {1-42440119-4/06/\$\$20.00},
cites = {Scholar:9},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C19:FZC-IWSSC05,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Alberto Gotta and Francesco Potort\`i and Francisco Javier
Gonz\'alez-Casta{\~n}o and Felipe Gil-Casti{\~n}eira and Jose I. Moreno and Antonio Cuevas},
title = {Experimental results with forward erasure correction and real video streaming
in hybrid wireless networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)},
year = 2005,
pages = {662–666},
month = sep,
publisher = {IEEE},
note = {International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC)},
abstract = {In a heterogeneous MANET, based on wireless LANs linked together by satellite,
the overall channel efficiency is impaired by multiple effects, because of multipath fading in
the terrestrial segment and signal fading on the satellite link. In this paper we address this
issue by applying forward erasure correction codes (FZC) to MPEG-4 video sequences exchanged
by the hosts of a hybrid network, made of a satellite link and a wireless LAN using 802.11b
devices. A standard video streaming application runs on one end of the satellite link while,
at the final end, a wireless ad hoc network receives the multicast video stream. This work
aims at demonstrating the improvement in Quality of Service (QoS) of the video transmitted in
the hybrid network. The main parameters measured are the packet loss, the delivery delay, and
the overhead in bandwidth occupancy imposed by the use of FZC. The received video is then
evaluated by using a MOS (Mean Opinion Score) procedure.},
day = {5–9},
keywords = {erasure codes; video; 802.11; satellite; packet loss},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FZC-IWSSC05.pdf},
entrydate = 20050726,
entryby = {pot},
isbn = {0-7803-9206-X/05/\$\$20.00},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:7, Scopus:10, Scholar:13},
location = {Siena (IT)}
}
@inproceedings{C18:fs-research-OSS05,
author = {Potort\`i, Francesco},
title = {Free software and research},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS)},
year = 2005,
editor = {Marco Scotto and Giancarlo Succi},
pages = {270–271},
month = jul,
publisher = {ECIG Edizioni Culturali Internazionali Genova},
note = {Short paper},
abstract = {Free software licenses are a natural choice in a research environment. In the
following, we will try to back this simple statement with some considerations and examples, in
an effort to analyse the significant interactions between free software and research.},
day = {11–15},
keywords = {free software; advocacy; academy},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Fs-research-OSS05.pdf},
entrydate = 20050331,
entryby = {pot},
location = {Genova (IT)},
cites = {Scopus:6, Scholar:11},
role = {Autore unico},
urldisabled = {http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/Papers/Posters/74.pdf},
psdisabled = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/Fs-research-OSS05.ps}
}
@inproceedings{C17:TCPsat-VTC2004,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Goodput optimisation of long-lived {TCP} connections in a rain-faded satellite
channel},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)- Spring},
year = 2004,
volume = 5,
pages = {2901–2905},
month = may,
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {The optimization of the end-to-end throughput of a TCP connection over
geostationary satellite links is a challenging research topic because the high delay-bandwidth
product, together with a non-negligible random loss of packets, are conditions which differ
considerably from the original environment for which TCP was originally designed. As a result,
TCP performance is significantly impaired by the channel bit error rate. In this paper we
investigate the application of different FEC (forward error correction) types/rates and
different bit rates, for the optimization of TCP goodput, in transmissions over a rain-faded
geostationary satellite channel, provided that the end-to-end protocols are left unaltered. We
compare physical-level FEC techniques, such as convolutional encoding/Viterbi decoding and
Reed Solomon, link-level erasure codes and their combinations, over a wide field of
signal-to-noise conditions of the satellite channel. The case of multiple connections per link
is also analyzed, in addition to that of a single connection per link. . In order to evaluate
the throughput of TCP long-lived connections we used a fluid simulator ad-hoc developed.},
day = {17–19},
keywords = {Long-lived TCP connections; rain fading; satellite channel; FEC techniques},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/TCPsatopt-VTC04.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/TCPsatopt-VTC04.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20040225,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Milano (IT)},
isbn = {0-7803-8256-0/04/\$\$20.00},
role = {coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:6, Scholar:9}
}
@inproceedings{C16:Synthema-AIAA-ICSSC01,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Giacomo Saviozzi
and Marco Boldrini},
title = {The intracoastal satellite communicator system ({ISCS})},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC)},
year = 2001,
pages = 282,
month = apr,
abstract = {This paper describes an application of the ORBCOMM satellite system for
helping pleasure-boat sailors to navigate. The IntraCoastal Satellite Communication System
(ICSCS) is an improvement on the well established ChartPlotter made by Geonav 11E Navionix for
bidirectional coastal communication. By using a terminal of the ORBCOMM system, ICSCS allows
the sailors to access and retrieve information which has been coded ad-hoc on web sites. The
paper briefly describes the software architecture of the system and presents the additional
user facilities. The IntraCoastal Satellite Communicator System has been available on the
market since beginning of year 2000, and has already been installed on many pleasure boats in
Italy.},
day = {17–20},
keywords = {satellite; Orbcomm; Synthema; navigation},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Synthema-AIAA-ICSSC01.pdf},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Toulouse (FR)},
cites = {Scholar:1},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C15:GaliLEO-ISTMobileSummit00,
author = {Laurent Franck and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {{GaliLEO}: a simulation tool for {LEO} satellite constellations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IST Mobile Summit},
year = 2000,
pages = {735–758},
month = oct,
abstract = {Abstract: We present Galileo, a simulator for the transmission of both
connection-oriented and connectionless traffic over a constellation of LEO/MEO (Low/Medium
Earth Orbit) satellites. Its scope is limited to the satellites and the stations accessing
them, without any modelling of the terrestrial network, but inside this scope the goal is to
study the performance of satellite-based communication networks from as many as possible
points of view. Typical applications include simulation of access techniques, routing
policies, fault management. The simulator is written in Java, and it makes use of dynamic
loading to easily integrate user-written modules. A draft manual is available, and a
preliminary version of the program will be published by the end of 2000.},
keywords = {satellite; LEO; MEO; simulator},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/GaliLEO-ISTMobileSummit00.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/GaliLEO-ISTMobileSummit00.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Galway (GB)},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C14:VnL-SPECTS00,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Performance evaluation of a multi-level allocation algorithm for {VBR} traffic
over a {GEO} satellite},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS)},
year = 2000,
pages = {452–457},
month = jul,
abstract = {In this paper we present VnL-TDMA, a new MAC (medium access control) protocol
for accessing in TDMA a satellite channel shared among various earth stations which transmit
mixed traffic (real-time and non-real time). We concentrate on the analysis of the real-time
allocation for variable bit rate (VBR) traffic, and analyse its performance using a
synthetically generated VBR traffic modelled on the basis of the statistical parameters of an
MPEG-2 coded movie in VBR mode. The peak traffic rate of the movie is almost four times higher
than its mean rate, which means that trivial peak rate allocation would waste a lot of the
satellite channel bandwidth, while VnL makes unused bandwidth instantaneously available to all
earth stations to enable them to transmit best-effort traffic.},
keywords = {TDMA; VBR; MPEG; allocation method; multilevel; satellite},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/VnL-SPECTS00.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/VnL-SPECTS00.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Vancouver, CA (US)},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {Scholar:1}
}
@inproceedings{C13,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Antonio Chimienti
and Maurizio Lucenteforte},
title = {{DRS} compression applied to {MPEG-2} video data transmitted over a satellite
channel},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communications (ISCC)},
year = 2000,
pages = {259–266},
month = jul,
day = {4–6},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Antibes-Juan Les Pins (FR)},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:3, Scholar:4}
}
@inproceedings{C11,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {An emulator for testing the performance of framed access schemes},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM)},
year = 1998,
pages = {1590–1593},
month = nov,
day = {9–13},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Sidney (AU)},
role = {Autore principale},
cites = {WoS:0},
vol = 3
}
@inproceedings{C10:NoisyVBR-ICT98,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and Antonio Chimienti
and Maurizio Lucenteforte},
title = {Experimental results of {MPEG-2} coded video transmission over a noisy
satellite link},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications},
year = 1998,
pages = {221–225},
month = jun,
day = {21–25},
keywords = {MPEG video; scalability; quality factor; satellite; fading},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/NoisyVBR-ICT98.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/NoisyVBR-ICT98.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Porto Carras (GR)},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {Scholar:2}
}
@inproceedings{C09,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i and G\'erard Maral},
title = {Bursty data traffic via satellite: performance comparison between two {TDMA}
access schemes},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Satellite Communications (ECSC)},
year = 1997,
pages = {170–175},
month = nov,
day = {18–20},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Roma (IT)},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0}
}
@inproceedings{C08,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A fractal attenuation model for the {Ka} band},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ka Band Utilisation Conference},
year = 1997,
pages = {307–314},
month = sep,
day = {15–18},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Sorrento (IT)},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C07:FadeCountermeasure-Globecom96,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {An inexpensive rain fade countermeasure technique for {DA-TDMA} satellite
systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM)},
year = 1996,
pages = {1001–1005},
month = nov,
abstract = {Rain attenuation countermeasure systems for geostationary satellite
transmissions have been proposed that use a variety of methods. This paper presents a
technique which only requires a burst modem that is able to vary its bit and coding rate on a
sub-burst basis coupled with a convolutional encoder/Viterbi decoder. A complete method for
predicting the attenuation at the receive time is described for two different DA-TDMA systems,
using centralised and distributed control, respectively. The method is used for choosing the
up power, bit and coding rate of the data to be transmitted. Its performance is evaluated on
the basis of experimental results.},
day = {18–22},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/FadeCountermeasure-Globecom96.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/FadeCountermeasure-Globecom96.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {London (UK)},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:3, Scholar:8},
vol = 2
}
@inproceedings{C06a:DemandAssignment-ICC96,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Demand assignment {TDMA} satellite schemes: Distributed and centralised
solutions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
year = 1996,
pages = {911–915},
month = jun,
day = {23–27},
entrydate = 20200904,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Dallas, TX (US)},
isbn = {0-7803-3251-2},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:3, Scholar:5}
}
@inproceedings{C06,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {The performance of the {FODA/IBEA} satellite access scheme measured on the
{Italsat} satellite},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Satellite Communications (ICDSC)},
year = 1995,
number = 403,
pages = {332–338},
month = may,
day = {15–19},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Brighton (UK)},
cites = {Scopus:4, Scholar:9},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
vol = 1
}
@inproceedings{C05,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {The {Italian} contribution to the integration of terrestrial and satellite
networks},
booktitle = {proceedings of the final symposium of the COST-226 project - Integrated
Space/Terrestrial Networks},
year = 1995,
pages = {159–169},
month = may,
day = {10–12},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Budapest (HU)},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C04:Outage-ICC93,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Outage probability of an adaptive {TDMA} satellite access scheme},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
year = 1993,
pages = {1449–1454},
month = may,
day = {23–26},
doi = {10.1109/ICC.1993.397527},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Outage-ICC93.pdf},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/Outage-ICC93.ps.gz},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Geneva (CH)},
isbn = {0-7803-0950-2},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:0, Scholar:3},
vol = 3
}
@inproceedings{C03,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Maurizio Neri and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {The {Italian} {Olympus} {TDMA} experiment},
booktitle = {proceedings of the Olympus Utilization Conference},
year = 1993,
pages = {55–59},
month = apr,
day = {20–22},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Sevilla (ES)},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@inproceedings{C02,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Nick James and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Design and implementation of a flexible, software based {TDMA} system},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM)},
year = 1992,
pages = {693–699},
month = dec,
day = {6–9},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Orlando, FL (US)},
role = {Coautore alla pari},
cites = {WoS:0, Scopus:1, Scholar:3},
vol = 2
}
@inproceedings{C01,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {A traffic generator for the performance evaluation of a satellite network},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT)},
year = 1992,
pages = {9.08.01–9.08.05},
month = sep,
day = {16–18},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20001013,
entryby = {Francesco Potortì },
location = {Beijing (CN)},
role = {Autore principale},
cites = {Scholar:1},
vol = 1
}
@inbook{B06:Wichmo-ISI10,
author = {Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {Ilias andrikopoulos and Konstantinos liolis},
title = {ISI Trials and Demonstrations Report},
chapter = {{7: SatNEx JA2410 FT1 WICHMO}},
publisher = {ISI - The Integral Satcom Initiative},
year = 2010,
month = jan,
pages = {47–51},
note = {White paper},
keywords = {simulation; FER; two-ray; AWGN; fading},
acmclass = {B.8.2 Performance Analysis and Design Aids; C.2 Computer-Communication
Networks},
url = {http://www.isi-initiative.eu.org/isi_joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=229&&Itemid=16},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20100316,
entryby = {pot}
}
@inbook{B05:Votos-ISI10,
author = {Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
editor = {Ilias andrikopoulos and Konstantinos liolis},
title = {ISI Trials and Demonstrations Report},
chapter = {{6: SatNEx JA2410 FT4 VOTOS}},
publisher = {ISI - The Integral Satcom Initiative},
year = 2010,
month = jan,
pages = {43–46},
note = {White paper},
keywords = {Hybrid networks; WiFi; satellite; packet loss; burst},
acmclass = {H.1.0 General},
url = {http://www.isi-initiative.eu.org/isi_joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=229&&Itemid=16},
email = {mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it},
entrydate = 20100316,
entryby = {pot}
}
@techreport{B04:CostGlueMetadata-TR08,
author = {Francesco Furfari and Francesco Potort\`i and Dragan Savi\'{c}},
title = {The {CostGlue} {XML} schema},
institution = {CNR-ISTI},
year = 2008,
number = {cnr.isti/2008-TR-003},
address = {via Moruzzi, 1},
month = jan,
abstract = {An XML schema for scientific metadata is described. It is used for the
CostGlue archival program, developed in the fraework of the European Union COST Action 285:
``Modelling and simulation tools for research in emerging multi-service
telecommunications''. The schema is freely available under the GNU LGPL license at
\url{http://wnet.isti.cnr.it/software/costglue/schema/2007/CostGlue.xsd}, or at its official
repository, at \url{http://lt.fe.uni-lj.si/costglue/schema/2007/costglue.xsd}.},
acmclass = {H.3.0 General; H.2.7 Database Administration},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/CostGlueMetadata-TR08.pdf},
url = {http://puma.isti.cnr.it/linkdoc.php?icode=2008-TR-003&authority=cnr.isti&collection=cnr.isti},
entrydate = 20080123,
entryby = {pot},
cites = {Scholar:3},
role = {Coautore alla pari}
}
@techreport{B03:Rural-model-ISTI06,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Gabriele Oligeri and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Transmission range and frame error process in rural area {Wi-Fi} networks},
institution = {CNR-ISTI},
year = 2006,
number = {ISTI-2006-TR-43},
address = {via Moruzzi, 1},
month = jun,
abstract = {Few researchers have performed measurements of a Wi-Fi channel at the frame
level in order to understand performance issues by relating frame errors and signal
strength. This paper presents results relative to ad hoc measurements in a rural
environment. We show that a simple double regression propagation model like the one used in
the ns-2 simulator can miss important transmission impairments that are apparent even at short
transmitter-receiver distances. We propose a two-ray propagation model which improves on those
commonly used for simulation purposes. Frames were transmitted and received by using two cheap
laptops with standard Linux drivers. Measurements also show that packet loss at the frame
level is a Bernoullian process for time spans of few seconds, and that longer time spans
exhibit a more complex behaviour, meaning that the 2-state Markov-modulated process often used
in the literature is not a good match for rural areas.},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/Rural-model-ISTI06.pdf},
url = {http://puma.isti.cnr.it/linkdoc.php?icode=2006-TR-43&authority=cnr.isti&collection=cnr.isti},
entrydate = 20070227,
entryby = {pot}
}
@techreport{B02:WiFi-measure-ISTI06,
author = {Paolo Barsocchi and Gabriele Oligeri and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Validation for 802.11b wireless channel measurements},
institution = {CNR-ISTI},
year = 2006,
number = {ISTI-2006-TR-29},
address = {via Moruzzi, 1},
month = jun,
abstract = {Few researchers have undertaken the task of measuring the wireless channel at
the frame level to understand performance issues related to frame loss and signal
strength. This paper proposes a measurement procedure for terrestrial wireless networks based
on cheap hardware and custom software, and validates it through experiments on real-word
wireless environment. In order to validate the measurement procedure, we carry out a
comprehensive measurement campaign in a rural environment and we evaluate statistics about
frame loss and signal level in the IEEE 802.11b wireless channel. Frames are transmitted and
received by using two cheap laptops with standard Linux drivers and purposely written
software. A first validation step compares the behaviour of the received signal power level
with the two-ray propagation model. A subsequent step compares the observed frame loss with
the expected coding gain at various transmission rates. Graphs of the observed frame loss rate
at different transmission rates are provided for a rural environment, where the two-ray
propagation model is a good fit.},
pdf = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/pdf/WiFi-measure-ISTI06.pdf},
url = {http://puma.isti.cnr.it/linkdoc.php?icode=2006-TR-29&authority=cnr.isti&collection=cnr.isti},
entrydate = 20061012,
entryby = {pot}
}
@techreport{B01:TCPonSat-ISTI03,
author = {Nedo Celandroni and Erina Ferro and Francesco Potort\`i},
title = {Goodput optimization of long-lived {TCP} connections in a faded satellite
channel},
institution = {CNR-ISTI},
year = 2003,
number = {ISTI-2003-TR-69},
address = {via Moruzzi, 1},
month = jun,
note = {Extended version},
abstract = {The optimization of the end-to-end throughput of a TCP connection over
geostationary satellite links is a challenging research topic because the high delay-bandwidth
product, together with a non-negligible random loss of packets, are conditions which differ
considerably from the original environment for which TCP was originally designed. As a result,
TCP performance is significantly impaired by the channel bit error rate. In this paper we
investigate the application of different FEC (forward error correction) types/rates and
different bit rates, for the optimization of TCP goodput, in transmissions over a rain-faded
geostationary satellite channel, provided that the end-to-end protocols are left unaltered. We
compare physical-level FEC techniques, such as convolutional encoding/Viterbi decoding and
Reed Solomon, link-level erasure codes and their combinations, over a wide field of
signal-to-noise conditions of the satellite channel. The case of multiple connections per link
is also analyzed, in addition to that of a single connection per link. In order to evaluate
the throughput of a TCP long-lived connection we used a method that is midway between analysis
(fluid model) and simulation.},
ps = {http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/papers/ps/TCPonSat-ISTI03.ps.gz},
url = {http://puma.isti.cnr.it/linkdoc.php?icode=2003-TR-69&authority=cnr.isti&collection=cnr.isti},
entrydate = 20061012,
entryby = {pot}
}
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