The Advanced Networking Systems is a research group at the Department of Information Engineering (DII) of the University of Brescia.
The group stems from the encounter of Prof. Francesco Gringoli, leading research in networking in Brescia for many years, and Prof. Renato Lo Cigno, who recently came to Brescia in the framework of the “Dipartimento di Eccellenza” (Excellence Department) grant assigned by MIUR (the Italian Ministry of Education and Reseach) to DII, and it is part of the Telecommunications research area.
The area of expertise of our group are computer and communication networks in all their flavors, application areas and inter-disciplinary connections, but with some specific topics where we are more active than others.
Networks are at the heart of modern, distributed computer science and communication engineering, and dealing with real experts can make the difference in business and industry.
Apart from the obvious observation that the Internet is the communication network today, and it is the driving force of the digital revolution, all aspects of modern economy spin around the transfer and manipulation of information, from Social Networks to Industry 4.0, to Intelligent Transport Systems, the Internet of Things and almost whatever keyword that pops up in newspapers and TV shows.
Indeed, even TV is more and more based on network-based distribution and broadcast-based TV is slowly dwindling to a marginal role.
The group works with theoretic, experimental, and simulation methodologies, applying them to different technological and application areas.
We are currently very active in wireless networks, network controlled systems, overlay systems, Peer-to-Peer distribution, LAN and WAN systems, networks performance and management, and many other sectors.
The ANS group received the Best Paper Award at WiNTECH 2021 for the paper “AX-CSI: Enabling CSI Extraction on Commercial 802.11ax Wi-Fi Platforms”. The paper is available on the ACM Digital Library.
Last year, the ANS group has also been awarded the Mario Gerla Best Paper Award at MedComNet 2021 for the paper “Passive Device-Free Multi-Point CSI Localization and Its Obfuscation with Randomized Filtering”.
The paper is available on IEEE Xplore; you can find a local preprint version here.
We are proud of the outcome of the CSI-MURDER experiment, part of the ORCA project. Learn more in the projects section.
The research on this topic goes on with the DI-P2SL projects. Theses are available on this topic and we are seeking support to make it part of openwifi and its impact durable.
Scientific Publications
2023
M. Segata, R. Lo Cigno, T. Hardes, J. Heinovski, M. Schettler, B. Bloessl, C. Sommer, and F. Dressler: “Multi-Technology Cooperative Driving: An Analysis Based on PLEXE”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 4792–4806, Aug. 2023."
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journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)},
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year = {2023},
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G. Gemmi, R. Lo Cigno, and L. Maccari: “On the Properties of Next Generation Wireless Backhaul”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 166–177, Jan. 2023."
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author = {Gemmi, Gabriele and {Lo~Cigno}, Renato and Maccari, Leonardo},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering},
title = {{On the Properties of Next Generation Wireless Backhaul}},
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volume = {10},
number = {1},
pages = {166 - 177},
date-pub = {14 September 2022},
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A. M. Romanov, F. Gringoli, K. Alkhouri, P. E. Tripolskiy, and A. Sikora: “Enabling Time-Synchronized Hybrid Networks With Low-Cost IoT Modules”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 9966–9978, 2023."
PrePrint
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title = {Enabling Time-Synchronized Hybrid Networks With Low-Cost IoT Modules},
year = {2023},
journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
volume = {10},
number = {11},
pages = {9966 – 9978},
doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2023.3235052},
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2022
R. Lo Cigno and M. Segata: “Cooperative driving: A comprehensive perspective, the role of communications, and its potential development”, Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 193, pp. 82–93, Sep. 2022."
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journal = {Elsevier Computer Communications},
volume = {193},
pages = {82-93},
year = {2022},
month = sep,
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.06.034},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140366422002365},
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L. Ghiro, M. Cominelli, F. Gringoli, and R. Lo Cigno: “On the Implementation of Location Obfuscation in openwifi and Its Performance,” in 20th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2022), 2022, pp. 64–73."
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This work has been partially funded at the University of Brescia by GÉANT Educational Activities and Services Agree- ment ref. SER-21-142, Project “Design and Implementation of an 802.11 Privacy Preserving Sub-Layer (DI-P2SL)."
Furthermore, the work has been enabled in its early stage by the donation of two Xilinx ZC706 evaluation board by the Xilinx University Program (https://www.xilinx.com/support/ university.html) that we used for the FPGA implementation.
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year = {2022},
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doi = {10.1109/MedComNet55087.2022.9810411},
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M. Cominelli, F. Gringoli, and R. Lo Cigno: “On the properties of device-free multi-point CSI localization and its obfuscation”, Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 189, pp. 67–78, May 2022."
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This work has been partially funded at the University of Brescia by GÉANT Educational Activities and Services Agreement ref. SER-21-142, Project “Design and Implementation of an 802.11 Privacy Preserving Sub-Layer (DI-PSL)”
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F. Dressler, C. F. Chiasserini, F. H. P. Fitzek, H. Karl, R. Lo Cigno, A. Capone, C. E. Casetti, F. Malandrino, V. Mancuso, F. Klingler, and G. A. Rizzo: “V-Edge: Virtual Edge Computing as an Enabler for Novel Microservices and Cooperative Computing”, IEEE Network, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 24–31, May 2022."
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title = {{V-Edge: Virtual Edge Computing as an Enabler for Novel Microservices and Cooperative Computing}},
journal = {IEEE Network},
volume = {36},
issue = {3},
pages = {24-31},
year = {2022},
month = may,
date-pub = {13 July 2022},
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M. Cominelli, F. Gringoli, and R. Lo Cigno: “AntiSense: Standard-compliant CSI obfuscation against unauthorized Wi-Fi sensing”, Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 185, pp. 92–103, Mar. 2022."
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This work has been partially funded at the University of Brescia by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture – ORCA project (grant no. 732174) Open Call 3 “Experimental analysis of CSI based anti-sensing techniques – CSI-MURDER” experiment.
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G. Gemmi, R. Lo Cigno, and L. Maccari: “On Cost-effective, Reliable Coverage for LoS Communications in Urban Areas”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 2767–2779, 2022."
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R. Lo Cigno, F. Gringoli, M. Cominelli, and L. Ghiro: “Integrating CSI Sensing in Wireless Networks: Challenges to Privacy and Countermeasures”, IEEE Network, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 174–180, 2022."
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Work partially funded by GEANT Educational Activities and Services Agreement ref. SER-21-142, Project “Design and Implementation of an 802.11 Privacy Preserving Sub-Layer (DI-P2SL)” and by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture - ORCA project (grant no. 732174) Open Call 3 “Experimental analysis of CSI based anti-sensing techniques - CSI-MURDER” experiment.
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