Gian Pietro Picco

Associate Professor

Contact Info

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione (DISI), University of Trento
via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Povo (TN), Italy
Tel.: +39 0461 88 3953
Fax: +39 0461 88 2093

Research

Publications    Talks & Tutorials    Professional Activities    Awards

Software

µCode   Lime, TinyLime, TeenyLime   Logical Neighborhoods   COMAN    REDS    Wake-up scattering for WSNs

Positions open!

  • I am always looking for motivated students!
    The 2010 call for Ph.D. students at the University of Trento will appear soon here. If you want to pursue a Ph.D. in my group you need to apply by specifying your interest in the Research Program Distributed Systems. If you intend to apply, please drop me an e-mail before applying. Pre-doctoral internships are also available in my group: again, if interested, drop me an e-mail.
    Research keywords: wireless sensor networks, large-scale peer-to-peer computing, middleware, mobile computing, publish-subscribe, content-based routing, tuple spaces.

My past and current Ph.D. students

  • Paolo Costa: Ph.D. 2006, now a postdoc at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK
  • Davide Frey (co-advised with Amy Murphy): Ph.D. 2006, now a postdoc at INRIA (Rennes, France) in Anne-Marie Kermarrec's group
  • Matteo Migliavacca (after 2006 co-advised with G. Cugola): Ph.D. 2008, now a postdoc at Imperial College London, UK
  • Luca Mottola: Ph.D. 2008, now a postdoc at SICS (Stockholm, Sweden) in Thiemo Voigt's group.
    At the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), Luca's Ph.D. thesis "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: From Physical to Logical Neighborhoods" was awarded the EWSN/CONET Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. Read more here.
  • Stefan Guna: started in 2007, detecting global properties in WSNs
  • Giuliano Mega: started in 2008, decentralized network architectures for online social networks

Some of my recent papers

  • "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts and State-of-the-Art" with Luca Mottola.
    To appear in ACM Computing Surveys. PDF
  • "Selective Reprogramming of Mobile Sensor Networks through Social Community Detection" with Bence Pasztor, Luca Mottola, Cecilia Mascolo, Stephen Ellwood and David Macdonald.
    To appear in Proc. of the 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2010), Coimbra (Portugal), February, 17-19, 2010. PDF
  • "Monitoring Heritage Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks: The Torre Aquila Deployment" with Matteo Ceriotti, Luca Mottola, Amy L. Murphy, Stefan Guna, Michele Corrà, Matteo Pozzi, Daniele Zonta, Paolo Zanon
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009, SPOTS track), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 13-16, 2009, pp. 277-288. This paper received the Best Paper Award. PDF
  • "Solving the Wake-Up Scattering Problem Optimally" with Alessandro Giusti, Amy L. Murphy, Luigi Palopoli, and Roberto Passerone. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), Cork (Ireland), February 11-13, 2009. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 5432, pp. 166-182. PDF
  • "A Self-Repairing Tree Overlay Enabling Content-based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks " with Gianpaolo Cugola and Luca Mottola. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 946-960, August 2008. PDF
  • "Socially-aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" with Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, and Mirco Musolesi. In IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 748-760, June 2008. PDF
  • "Large-Scale Content-Based Routing in a Multidimensional Space" with Stefano Castelli and Paolo Costa. In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008), Phoenix (AZ, USA), April 13-18, 2008. PDF
  • "Fine-Grained Software Reconfiguration for Wireless Sensor Networks" with Luca Mottola and Adil Sheikh. In Proceedings of the 5 th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2008), Bologna (Italy), January 30-February 1, 2008. PDF
  • "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks with the TeenyLIME Middleware" with Paolo Costa, Luca Mottola, and Amy L. Murphy. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Newport Beach (CA, USA), November 26-30, 2007. PDF
  • "Lime: A Coordination Middleware Supporting Mobility of Hosts and Agents" with Amy L. Murphy and Gruia-Catalin Roman.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 279-328, July 2006. PDF

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