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Rizzo Gianluca

Adjoint-e scientifique HES

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Machine- to -Machine Communications

Energy efficiency and management

Adjoint-e scientifique HES

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HES-SO Valais-Wallis - Haute Ecole de Gestion
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Internet of Things - EPFL

IoT protocols and communications

Post-disaster communications and emergency networks - RECODIS Training school

Opportunistic communications
Emergency communications and services
Network resilience
Critical systems and communications

Computer Science Bachelor - UC3M University - Madrid

Mobile and wireless communications
local area networks (LAN)
Computer networking

2021

Storage capacity of opportunistic information dissemination systems

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Rizzo Gianluca, Perez Palma Noelia, Ajmone Marsan Marco, Mancuso Vincenzo

IEEE transactions on mobile computing, To be published

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Floating Content (FC) is a paradigm for localized infrastructure-less content dissemination, that aims at sharing information among nodes within a restricted geographical area by relying only on opportunistic content exchanges. FC provides the basis for the probabilistic spatial storage of shared information in a completely decentralized fashion, usually without support from dedicated infrastructure. One of the key open issues in FC is the characterization of its performance limits as functions of the system parameters, accounting for its reliance on volatile wireless exchanges and on limited user resources. This paper takes a first step towards tackling this issue, by elaborating a model for the storage capacity of FC, i.e., for the maximum amount of information that can be stored through the FC paradigm. The storage capacity of FC, and of similar probabilistic content dissemination systems, is evaluated with a powerful information theoretical approach, based on a mean field model of opportunistic information exchange. In addition, an extremely simple explicit approximate expression for storage capacity is derived. The numerical results generated by our analytical models are compared to the predictions of realistic simulations under different setups, proving the accuracy of our analytical approaches, and characterizing the properties of the FC storage capacity.

2020

Emergency networks for post-disaster scenarios

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Rizzo Gianluca, Ristov Sasko, Fahringer Thomas, Gusev Marjan, Dzanko Matija, Bilic Ivana, Esposito Christian, Braun Torsten

Dans Hutchison, David, Rak, Jacek, Guide to disaster-resilient communication networks (Pp. 271-298). 2020, Cham : Springer

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The focus of this chapter is on communication (and partially, computing) solutions which allow satisfying demands from the immediate aftermath of a disaster until full restoration of pre-disaster communication infrastructure and services. As traffic demand might differ substantially from the one in the pre-disaster scenario, due to the specific needs of post-disaster scenarios, it appears evident that a simple restoration of existing infrastructure and services might not be sufficient to satisfy it, and that specific solutions are required. This chapter reviews the most relevant post-disaster scenarios, outlining a set of reference use cases and their communication requirements. Then, it presents an overview of the state of the art for emergency and post-disaster communications. Finally, it focuses on a set of specific solutions of special relevance for disaster scenarios, outlining the main research challenges which are open to date.

Routing in post-disaster scenarios

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Esposito Christian, Zhao Zhongliang, Rizzo Gianluca, Pop Florin, Apostol Elena, Leordeanu Catalin, Preda Stefan

Dans Hutchison, David, Rak, Jacek, Guide to disaster-resilient communication networks (Pp. 605-628). 2020, Cham : Springer

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Current networks should provide disaster-resilience by coping with the possible failures and misbehaviours caused by massive natural or man-made disasters. This is necessary to keep a suitable level of Quality of Service after a disaster and to support the possible evacuation, rescue, assessment, and rescue operations within the affected area. Multiple possible methods and solutions can be put in place in a proactive and/or reactive manner to offer the required resilience degree. Among them, a proper routing algorithm can contribute to circumventing network elements damaged by the disaster or applying for spatial/temporal redundancy to guarantee effective communications. This chapter aims at presenting the main routing solutions to offer disaster-resilience communications, along with some related methods.

I-BAT :

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a data-intensive solution based on the Internet of Things to predict energy behaviors in microgrids

Jara Antonio, Dufour Luc, Rizzo Gianluca, Pawlowski Marcin Piotr, Genoud Dominique, Cotting Alexandre, Bocchi Yann, Chabbey François

Dans Management Association, Information Resources, Securing the internet of things: concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications (Pp. 630-654). 2020, Hershey : IGI Global

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Microgrids present the challenge to reach a proper balance between local production and consumption, in order to reduce the usage of energy from external sources. This work presents a data-intensive solution to predict the energy behaviors. Thereby, control actions can be carried out such as decrease heating systems levels and switch of low-priority devices. For this purpose, this work has deployed an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) based on the Internet of Things (IoT) in the Techno-Pole testbed. This deployment provides the data from energy-related parameters such as load curves of the overall building through Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), a wireless network of IoT-based smart meters to measure and control appliances, and finally the generated power curve by 2000 square meters of photovoltaic panels. The prediction model proposed is based on recognition of electrical signatures. These electrical signatures have been used to detect complex usage patterns. The modelled patterns have allowed to identify the work day of the week, and predict the load and generation curves for 15 minutes with accuracy over the 90%. This short-term prediction allows one to carry out the proper actions in order to balance the microgrid status (i.e., get a proper balance between production and consumption with respect to worked requirements).

2019

Game theoretic optimal user association in emergency networks

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Esposito Christian, Zhao Zhongliang, Alcarria Ramon, Rizzo Gianluca

Dans Coleri Ergen, Sinem, Palattella, Maria Rita, Scanzio, Stefano, Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks : 18th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2019, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, October 1–3, 2019, Proceedings (pp. 18-31). 2019, Cham : Springer

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The availability of effective communications in post-disaster scenarios is key to implement emergency networks that enable the sharing of critical information and support the coordination of the emergency response. To deliver those levels of QoS suitable to these applications, it is vital to exploit the multiple communication opportunities made available by the progressive deployment of the 5G and Smart City paradigms, ranging from ad-hoc networks among smartphones and surviving IoT devices, to cellular networks but also drone-based and vehicle-based wireless access networks. Therefore, the user device should be able to opportunistically select the most convenient among them to satisfy the demands for QoS imposed by the applications and also minimize the power consumption. The driving idea of this paper is to leverage non-cooperative game theory to design such an opportunistic user association strategy in a post-disaster scenario using UAV ad-hoc networks. The adaptive game-theoretic scheme allows increasing of the QoS of the communication means by lowering the loss rate and also keeps moderate the energy consumption.

Floater :

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post-disaster communications via floating content

Bonvin Flavien, Manzo Gaetano, Esposito Christian, Braun Torsten , Rizzo Gianluca

Dans Coleri Ergen, Sinem, Palattella, Maria Rita, Scanzio, Stefano, Ad-Hoc, mobile, and wireless networks : 18th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2019, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, October 1–3, 2019, Proceedings (9 p.). 2019, Cham : Springer

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In the immediate aftermath of nature-based disasters such as earthquakes, fires, or floods, have a clear vision of the situation and the population involved is of main priority for rescue operations—it is a matter of life and death. But these disaster events may cause malfunctions in communication services making the exchange information impossible—the experienced delay sending a message in an overcrowded area is a shred of evidence. In this demo, we introduce Floater, a mobile awareness-based communication application for the immediate aftermath of a disaster, when ad hoc infrastructure support has not been deployed yet. Floater enables communications between peers in a common area without requiring the support of a cellular network. The application is developed for Android and it does not require an account or an Internet connection. Floater exploits local knowledge and constraints opportunistic replication (peer to peer) of information to build a global view of the involved area efficiently. The app is the first to implement Floating Content, an infrastructure-less communication paradigm based on opportunistic replication of a piece of content in a geographically constrained location and for a limited amount of time. The demo illustrates the feasibility and the main functionalities of Floater and presents disaster assistance use cases for supporting rescue operations.

Analytical models of floating content in a vehicular urban environment

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Manzo Gaetano, Ajmone Marsan Marco, Rizzo Gianluca

Ad hoc networks, 15 May 2019, vol. 88, pp. 65-80

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Among the many proposed opportunistic content sharing schemes, Floating Content (FC) is of special interest for the vehicular environment, not only for cellular traffic offloading, but also as a natural communication paradigm for location-based context-aware vehicular applications. Previously published results on the performance of vehicular FC have mostly focused on the conditions under which content persists over time in a given region of space, without addressing other important aspects of vehicular FC performance, such as the effectiveness with which content is replicated and made available, and the system conditions that enable good FC performance. This work presents a first analytical model of FC performance in vehicular networks in urban settings. It is based on a new synthetic mobility model (called District Mobility Model - DMM), and it does not require a detailed knowledge of the road grid geometry. We validate our model extensively, by comparison against numerical simulations based on real-world traces, and we prove our model accuracy under a variety of mobility patterns and traffic conditions. Our analytical and simulation results provide evidence of the effectiveness of theFC paradigm in realistic urban settings over a wide range of traffic conditions.

2018

A deep learning strategy for vehicular floating content management

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Manzo Gaetano, Otálora Sebastian, Ajmon Marsan Marco, Rizzo Gianluca

ACM SIGMETRICS performance evaluation review, December 2018, vol. 46, no. 3

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Floating Content (FC) is a communication paradigm for the local dissemination of contextualized information through D2D connectivity, in a way which minimizes the use of resources while achieving some specified performance target. Existing approaches to FC dimensioning are based on unrealistic system assumptions that make them, highly inaccurate and overly conservative when applied in realistic settings. In this paper, we present a first step towards the development of a cognitive approach to efficient dynamic management of FC. We propose a deep learning strategy for FC dimensioning, which exploits a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to efficiently modulate over time the resources employed by FC in a QoS-aware manner. Numerical evaluations show that our approach achieves a maximum rejection rate of 3%, and resource savings of 37.5% with respect to the benchmark strategy.

Stop and forward :

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opportunistic local information sharing under walking mobility

Rizzo Gianluca, Mancuso Vincenzo, Ali Shahzad, Ajmone Marsan Marco

Ad Hoc networks, September 2018, vol. 78, pp. 54-72

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In this paper we study an opportunistic geographically constrained information sharing paradigm known under the name Floating Content (FC), considering two different mobility models that describe the behav- ior of pedestrians. We assume that users carrying their smartphones walk from one location to another and then stop for a while. Information transfers take place in the periods when users pause between movements. We develop analytical models to compute the performance metrics that characterize FC in this case and we validate analytical results with data collected during an experiment performed in a uni- versity campus. The comparison proves the accuracy of our analytical models. Moreover, results unveil the key relevance for FC performance of group dynamics in user movements.

Creating predictive models for forecasting the accident rate in mountain roads using VANETs

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Bordel Borja, Alcaria Ramón, Rizzo Gianluca, Jara Antonio

Dans Guarda, Teresa, Rocha, Álvaro, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS 2018) (Pp. 319-329). 2018, Cham : Springer

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Monitoring the road network status of an entire country in a visual way (as traditionally) is very hard, so different mechanisms to do it in an automatic manner have been investigated. In particular, nomadic pervasive sensing platforms based on VANETs have been recently deployed. However, the level of road damage is a relative variable, and it is necessary to predict the particular impact of the same in each case, in order to prioritize the conditioning works. Therefore, in this paper a predictive model for forecasting the accident rate in mountain roads, considering the measures previously obtained through a nomadic sensing environment (and through the weather office) is defined. The model considers the type of road under study as well as different analysis scales to perform the calculations. The model is based on Taylor’s series and multivariate functions. Real data related to Valais (Switzerland) road network is employed to construct and validate the proposed model.

2017

Geo-based content sharing for disaster relief applications

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Rizzo Gianluca, Neukirchen Helmut

International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing : IMIS 2017: Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 894-903). 2017, Cham : Springer

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Floating Content (FC) is an infrastructure-less communication paradigm based on opportunistic replication of a piece of content in a geographically constrained location and for a limited amount of time. The fact that it does not rely on any infrastructure makes it appealing for all those settings where infrastructure is not available or malfunctioning. In this paper we analyze its feasibility in the aftermath of a disaster, as a communication service in support of applications for rescue coordination and situational awareness. We analyze the possible scenarios of disaster, with a special focus on the local context (Iceland in our case), and on a subset of disasters which are of economic and social interests. We characterize the available communication network, its structure, and we individuate some criticalities which could play a key role in case of disaster. Specifically, we consider two services, related to two disaster scenarios. A first one is a form of situation awareness, without the support of fixed communication infrastructure. A second service is a form of infrastructure-less social driving application. The exchange of information between vehicles in the vicinity of a region interested by a disaster, enabled by such app, could help mitigate the impact of disasters and hazardous conditions on vehicle traffic. For both services, we describe a possible implementation using Floating Content. Finally, for these scenarios, we identify some research issues which stand in the way of a realistic, practical implementation based on FC.

NOSE :

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a NOmadic Scalable Ecosystem for pervasive sensing, computing and communication

Dupont Audrey, Bocchi Yann, Rizzo Gianluca

Innovative mobile and internet services in ubiquitous computing : proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2017) (pp. 884-893). 2017, Cham, Springer : Cham, Springer

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The Smart City paradigm is progressively shaping the way we inter-act with other citizens, with institutions, as well as the way in which all kind of resources are managed in an urban setting. However, the high cost of dedicated sensing, computing and communication infrastructure, represents one of the main obstacles to the adoption of the Smart City paradigm in small cities and large, dis-tributed districts, where resides the vast majority of the world population. In this paper we present a first implementation of a platform for nomadic sensing, which exploits the moving infrastructure of a city in order to implement the sensing, computing and communication functionalities required by smart city services, in a cost-effective way. This paper describes the architecture of the NOSE system, and the main lessons learned during the first steps of its implementation, deploy-ment, and experimental validation. In particular, we show that the main technical challenges are due to the lack of devices conceived for reliable mobile operation (sensing, computing) and to the difficulty in achieving high levels of accuracy in measurements while moving.

2016

Integration in the Internet of Things :

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a semantic middleware approach to seamless integration of heterogeneous technologies

Olivieri Alex Carmine, Rizzo Gianluca, Bocchi Yann

Pervasive computing: next generation platforms for intelligent data collection (pp. 97-128). 2016, Amsterdam : Elsevier

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The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) opens a wide spectrum of interesting opportunities for the creation of novel scenarios. By incorporating communication devices such as sensors and actuators, into mainstream technologies, IoT enables a whole set of new services in almost any domain to be provided, from building automation to Smart City, E-Health, and assistive technologies, to name just a few. Nevertheless, the integration of different protocols and technologies remain to date one of the main challenges in IoT. The proposed solutions have evolved following the heterogeneity increment of the technologies employed for complex scenarios, passing from ad hoc solutions on a per-connection basis (N-to-N), to solutions that use frameworks as middleware (N-to-1). N-to-1 solutions that have shown interesting features use frameworks modeled on the Publish/Subscribe (P/S) design pattern. This type of framework provides facilities to manage the exchange of communications in the presence of a large number of heterogeneous communication technologies. However, how to efficiently interface those technologies with a common framework still remains an open issue. In this work we propose to surround a P/S framework with a layer that allows us to easily interface the various communication technologies with the framework. We describe how to model this layer, and we show how to implement simple adaptors that can be used to interface a technology with the selected P/S framework. We show how our approach makes the integration of heterogeneous technologies easier and how it enables scenarios’ reconfigurations even at run time. By using such an approach, designers can focus on the business logic of the scenario rather than on the low-level technological details of the integration. We inform the reader about the lessons learned throughout the realization of the proposed approach and about the tasks that we found more challenging in making the final system; by doing so we intend to inculcate in the reader some questions that could lead to some interesting future research in order to address some challenges that remain open.

Energy-optimal collaborative file distribution in wired networks

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Rizzo Gianluca, et al.

Peer-to-peer networking and applications, Vol. 9, no. 38, pp. 1-20

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The impact of the ICT sector in worldwide power consumption is an increasing concern, motivating the research community to devote an important effort to define novel energy efficient networking solutions. Despite file distribution is responsible for a major portion of the current Internet traffic, little effort has been dedicated to address the issue of its energy efficiency so far. Most of the previous literature focuses on optimizing the download time of file distribution schemes (e.g. centralized server-based or distributed peer-to-peer solutions) while it is yet unclear how to optimize file distribution schemes from the point of view of energy consumed. In this paper, we present a general modelling framework to analyze the energy consumption of file distribution systems. First, we show that the general problem of minimizing energy consumption in file distribution is NP-hard. Then, for restricted versions of the problem, we establish theoretical bounds to minimal energy consumption. Furthermore, we define a set of optimal algorithms for a variety of system settings, which exploit the service capabilities of hosts in a P2P fashion. We show that our schemes are capable of reducing at least 50 % of the energy consumed by traditional (yet largely used) centralized distribution schemes even when considering effects such as network congestion and heterogeneous access speed across nodes.

Internet Of Things in the 5G era :

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enablers, architecture, and business models

Rizzo Gianluca

IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications, March 2016, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 510-527

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The IoT paradigm holds the promise to revolutionize the way we live and work by means of a wealth of new services, based on seamless interactions between a large amount of heterogeneous devices. After decades of conceptual inception of the IoT, in recent years a large variety of communication technologies has gradually emerged, reflecting a large diversity of application domains and of communication requirements. Such heterogeneity and fragmentation of the connectivity landscape is currently hampering the full realization of the IoT vision, by posing several complex integration challenges. In this context, the advent of 5G cellular systems, with the availability of a connectivity technology, which is at once truly ubiquitous, reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient, is considered as a potentially key driver for the yet-to emerge global IoT. In the present paper, we analyze in detail the potential of 5G technologies for the IoT, by considering both the technological and standardization aspects. We review the present-day IoT connectivity landscape, as well as the main 5G enablers for the IoT. Last but not least, we illustrate the massive business shifts that a tight link between IoT and 5G may cause in the operator and vendors ecosystem.

2014

Energy-optimal base station density in cellular access networks with sleep modes

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Rizzo Gianluca, Marsan Marco, Rengarajan Balaji

Computer Networks, February 2015, vol. 78, pp. 152–163

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Sleep modes are widely accepted as an effective technique for energy-efficient networking: by adequately putting to sleep and waking up network resources according to traffic demands, a proportionality between energy consumption and network utilization can be approached, with important reductions in energy consumption. Previous studies have investigated and evaluated sleep modes for wireless access networks, computing variable percentages of energy savings. In this paper we characterize the maximum energy saving that can be achieved in a cellular wireless access network under a given performance constraint. In particular, our approach allows the derivation of realistic estimates of the energy-optimal density of base stations corresponding to a given user density, under a fixed performance constraint. Our results allow different sleep mode proposals to be measured against the maximum theoretically achievable improvement. We show, through numerical evaluation, the possible energy savings in today’s networks, and we further demonstrate that even with the development of highly energy-efficient hardware, a holistic approach incorporating system level techniques is essential to achieving maximum energy efficiency.

2021

Gossip learning of personalized models for vehicle trajectory prediction

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

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Gossip Learning (GL) is a peer-to-peer machine learning protocol based on direct, opportunistic exchange of models among nodes via wireless D2D communications, and on collaborative model training, which has recently proven to scale efficiently to large numbers of nodes, and to offer better privacy guarantees than traditional centralized learning architectures. Existing approaches to GL are however limited to scenarios in which nodes are static, or in which the node connectivity graph is fully connected, and they are fragile to node churn as well as to any change in network configuration. To overcome this limitation, we present a new decentralized architecture for GL suitable for setups with dynamic nodes, which benefits from node mobility instead of being hampered by it. In our approach, nodes improve their personalized model instance by sharing it with neighbors, and by weighting neighbors' contributions according to an estimate of their marginal utility. We apply our GL algorithm to short-term vehicular trajectory estimation in realistic urban scenarios. We propose a new strategy for the estimation of the neighbors' instances marginal utility, which yields satisfactory trajectory estimation accuracy for nodes with long enough sojourn times.

2020

Poster :

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mobile gossip learning for trajectory rediction

Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)

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Gossip Learning (GL) is a fully decentralized machine learning paradigm with the potential to enable highly scalability and to preserve user privacy. The majority of existing results however consider scenarios in which either each node communicates with all other nodes, or in which the connectivity graph is static, and they are therefore inapplicable in dynamic setups such as in VANETs. This work is a first attempt at designing and assessing GL schemes suited for scenarios with moving nodes with the application of predicting the trajectory of moving cars.

A walk down Memory Lane :

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on storage capacity in opportunistic content sharing systems

Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)

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Floating Content (FC) is a paradigmatic example of opportunistic infrastructure-less content sharing system where information is spread upon mobile node encounters within an area which is called the replication zone. FC allows the probabilistic spatial storage of information, even in the case of unreliable communications, with no support from dedicated servers. Given the large amount of communication and storage resources typically required to guarantee content persistence despite node mobility, a major open issue for the practical viability of FC and of similar distributed storage systems is the characterization of their storage capacity, i.e., of the maximum amount of information which can be stored for a given set of system parameters. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful information theoretical model of the storage capacity of probabilistic distributed storage systems such as FC, based on a mean field model of opportunistic information exchange. We evaluate numerically our results, and validate the model by means of realistic simulations, showing the accuracy of our mean field approach and characterizing the properties of the FC storage capacity versus the main system parameters.

DeepNDN :

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opportunistic data replication and caching in support of vehicular named data

Gianluca Rizzo, Gaetano Manzo

Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2020)

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Although many target applications in VANETs are information-centric, the performance of Named Data Networking (NDN) in vehicular ad-hoc networks is severely hampered by persistent network partitioning, typical of many vehicular scenarios. Existing approaches try to address this issue by relying on opportunistic communications. However, they leave open the crucial issue of how to guarantee content persistence and tight QoS levels while optimizing the resource utilization in the vehicular environment. In this work we propose DeepNDN, a communication scheme based on the joint application of NDN and of probabilistic spatial content caching, which enables content retrieval in fragmented and dynamic network topologies with tight delay constraints. We present a data-based approach to DeepNDN management, based on locally modulating content replication and delivery in order to achieve a target hit ratio in a resource-efficient manner. Our management algorithm employs a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for effectively capturing the complex relations between spatio-temporal patterns of mobility and content requests and DeepNDN performance. Its numerical assessment in realistic, measurement-based scenarios suggest that our management approach achieves its target set goals while outperforming a set of reference schemes.

Situation awareness via information hovering in post-disaster communications

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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The majority of communication solutions for post-disaster areas rely on cellular infrastructure support. But disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, can disrupt communication network making its services unavailable. New portable antenna towers, as point-to-point radio communications, are a way to mitigate the communication when cellular infrastructures are unavailable. But their deployment requires time decreasing the likelihood of finding people alive in the following of such events. In this work, we present the architecture of Floater, a mobile application that implements opportunistic communication for context-aware services in post-disaster scenarios. Floater is based on Floating Content, an opportunistic communications paradigm that geographically constrains message replication. We implement Floater using Google Nearby API that enables seamless nearby interactions without having to be connected to the Internet. Moreover, we provide the implementation notes and the comparison of the technologies adapted with the respect of the state-of-the-art.

2019

Dynamic mobile base stations in 5G networks :

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the moving network paradigm

Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 5G Italy global meeting "The 5G Italy Book 2019: a Multiperspective View of 5G "

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The evolution of current wireless access networks towards 5G and beyond is characterized, among others, by the provisioning of high-bandwidth services and by the capability of serving traffic of a large number of heterogeneous devices. Among the key approaches for provisioning high capacity in such networks, a prominent role is played by network densification. However, dense deployments of many small cell base stations imply huge investments, increasing both CAPEX and OPEX for the mobile network. Additionally, densification increases the amount of overprovisioned network resources, due to variability in traffic demand over space and time. One of the most promising approaches to address these issues is the moving network paradigm, which exploits vehicle-mounted small cell moving base stations. This allows taking advantage of the correlation between spatio-temporal patterns of users and of vehicles, in order to create a network that flexibly and naturally densifies whenever and wherever needed by “following” users, hence reducing the need for dense deployments of static base stations. In this chapter, we review the main motivations and drivers for integrating moving base stations into future cellular access networks, and we outline the overall network architecture resulting from such integration. Furthermore, we characterize some of the main open research issues which stand in the way of the practical feasibility of the moving network paradigm. Among these are questions such as how to efficiently manage network resources in a dynamic fashion, accounting for the dynamics of service demand as well as of the moving network infrastructure; how to mitigate interference effects; how to implement mechanisms for reliable wireless mobile backhaul, for the interconnection of moving base stations to the core of the network; and how to efficiently provision Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) services in the moving network paradigm.

Deepfloat :

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resource-efficient dynamic management of vehicular floating content

Gianluca Rizzo, Gaetano Manzo

Proceedings of the ITC 31- Networked Systems and Services 2019

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Opportunistic communications are expected to play a crucial role in enabling context-aware vehicular services. A widely investigated opportunistic communication paradigm for storing a piece of content probabilistically in a geographical area is Floating Content (FC). A key issue in the practical deployment of FC is how to tune content replication and caching in a way which achieves a target performance (in terms of the mean fraction of users possessing the content in a given region of space) while minimizing the use of bandwidth and host memory. Fully distributed, distance-based approaches prove highly inefficient, and may not meet the performance target, while centralized, model-based approaches do not perform well in realistic, inhomogeneous settings. In this work, we present a data-driven centralized approach to resource-efficient, QoS-aware dynamic management of FC. We propose a Deep Learning strategy, which employs a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to capture the relationships between patterns of users mobility, of content diffusion and replication, and FC performance in terms of resource utilization and of content availability within a given area. Numerical evaluations show the effectiveness of our approach in deriving strategies which efficiently modulate the FC operation in space and effectively adapt to mobility pattern changes over time.

2018

On the disaster resiliency within the context of 5G networks :

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the RECODIS experience

Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of EuCNC 2018

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Network communications and the Internet pervade our daily activities so deeply that we strongly depend on the availability and quality of the services they provide. For this reason, natural and technological disasters, by affecting network and service availability, have a potentially huge impact on our daily lives. Ensuring adequate levels of resiliency is hence a key issue that future network paradigms, such as 5G, need to address. This paper provides an overview of the main avenues of research on this topic within the context of the RECODIS COST Action.

When smart comes to town :

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a mobile platform for smart district services

Zhan Liu, Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2018

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In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility and the main functionalities of a low-cost, nomadic platform for Smart District services. The goal of the platform is to enable the extension of Smart City services to smaller cities, to towns and into the countryside, bypassing the natural barriers through the use of services and vectors which are naturally cross-domain, such as public transportation vehicles, and moving people. the platform is based on mobile and opportunistic sensing, on crowdsensing, and on strategies for community engagement and co-creation mediated by a map-based crowdsourcing application. The demo will showcase the main components of the system, as well as a sample set of Smart District services supported by the platform.

The energy saving potential of static and adaptive resource provisioning in dense cellular networks

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS) 2018

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In this paper we study static and dynamic ap- proaches to energy efficiency in dense cellular networks, where interference is one of the main limiting factors. We consider the two main approaches to energy efficiency through adaptive management of the network capacity: Base station (BS) sleeping and cell zooming. We propose an analytic framework for the assessment of the energy efficiency potential of several joint planning and management strategies. Our approach is based on stochastic geometry tools, on an approximate but accurate model of interference, and on a detailed, measurement-driven power model. For a given user density, we show how to derive the optimal BS density, and the BS transmit power which minimizes the mean power consumption of the network, while achieving a target QoS level. Through numerical evaluations, we show the potential savings enabled by joint (and disjoint) optimization of transmit power and density of active BSs. For a realistic network scenario, our approach suggests that huge energy savings are achievable by combining sleeping and zooming. In addition, we show that a static strategy, based on carefully planning the density of installed BS and their transmit power, can achieve most of the benefits of capacity tuning achievable through either sleeping or zooming. This result has a very high relevance for network operators, since it allows avoiding the feared decrease in operational lifetime which the daily switching of BS entails.

2017

Performance modeling of vehicular floating content in urban settings

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Gaetano Manzo, Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 29 conference

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Among the proposed opportunistic content sharing services, Floating Content (FC) is of special interest for the vehicular environment, not only for cellular traffic ofﬂoading, but also as a natural communication paradigm for location-based context-aware vehicular applications. Existing results on the performance of vehicular FC have focused on content persistence, without addressing the key issues of the effectiveness with which content is replicated and made available, and of what are the conditions which enable acceptable FC performance in the vehicular environment. This work presents a first analytical model of FC performance in vehicular networks in urban settings. It is based on a variation of the random waypoint (RWP) mobility model, and it does not require a model of road grid geometry for its parametrization. We validate our model extensively, through numerical simulations on real-world traces, showing its accuracy on a variety of mobility patterns and traffic conditions. Through analysis and simulations, we show the feasibility of the FC paradigm in realistic urban settings over a wide range of traffic conditions.

Coordination mechanisms for floating content in realistic vehicular scenario

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Gaetano Manzo, Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Mobility Management in the Networks of the Future World (MobiWorld 2017)

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The increasing interest in vehicular communications draws attention to scalability and network congestion problems and therefore on techniques to ofﬂoad the traffic, typically carried through the infrastructure, to the Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) network. Floating content (FC) represents a promising paradigm to share ephemeral content without direct support from infrastructure. It is based on constraining geographically within the Anchor Zone (AZ), the opportunistic replication of a given content among vehicles, in a way that strikes a balance between minimization of resource usage and content availability to users within the AZ. This paper constitutes a first attempt at addressing the issue of how to control FC performance in a realistic vehicular setting. It proposes a set of strategies for tuning the size of the AZ, based on the estimation of some key mobility parameters and of target FC performance.

A centralized approach for setting floating content parameters in VANETs

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2017

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Floating Content (FC) has recently been proposed as an attractive application for mobile networks, such as VANETs, to operate opportunistic and distributed content sharing over a given geographic area, namely Anchor Zone (AZ). FC perfor-mances are tightly dependent on the AZ size, which in literature is classically chosen by the node that generates the ﬂoating message. In the present work, we propose a method to improve FC performances by optimizing the AZ size with the support of a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller, which collects mobility information, such as speed and position, of the vehicles in its coverage range.

2016

SDN coordination for CCN and FC content dissemination in VANETs

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Gianluca Rizzo, Gaetano Manzo

Proceedings of 8th EAI International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS) 2016

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Content dissemination in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks has a myriad of applications, ranging from advertising and parking notifications, to traffic and emergency warnings. This heterogeneity requires optimizing content storing, retrieval and forwarding among vehicles to deliver data with short latency and without jeopardizing network resources. In this paper, for a few reference scenarios, we illustrate how approaches that combine Content Centric Networking (CCN) and Floating Content (FC) enable new and efficient solutions to this issue. Moreover, we describe how a network architecture based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) can support both CCN and FC by coordinating distributed caching strategies, by optimizing the packet forwarding process and the availability of floating data items. For each scenario analyzed, we highlight the main research challenges open, and we describe a few possible solutions.

QoS-Aware CAPEX minimization in urban off-grid radio access networks

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOT) 2016

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Network densification is currently seen as one of the key techniques enabling Radio Access Networks (RANs) to meet the performance and functional requirements of the 5G paradigm in urban areas. Avoiding the connection of small cells to the power grid facilitates their deployment and reduces both capital and operational expenditures (CAPEX and OPEX). In this paper, we propose an approach to enable net-Zero Energy Networking (ZEN) in urban scenarios, based on dynamically managing the operating point of Base Stations (BSs), so as to drastically decrease their overall energy requirements. More specifically, we formalize the problem of optimizing the CAPEX of a ZEN, while guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) and a given level of service availability. Optimization is over power system parameters (solar panel area, battery capacity) as well as over BS power levels and user association over time. We propose a practical algorithm for the derivation of QoS-aware spatio-temporal strategies in terms of user association and BS power allocation, which, for a given expected pattern of renewable power generation, minimize the probability of service unavailability due to power shortage. Through extensive simulations using measured data, and realistic BS deployments, we show that our algorithm leads to substantial reduction in CAPEX, and to feasible power system requirements.

Content and context aware strategies for QoS support in VANETs

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) 2016

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The surging interest in autonomous coordinateddriving and in proactive safety services, exploiting the wealth ofsensing and computing resources which are gradually permeatingthe urban and vehicular environments, is making provisioning ofhigh levels of QoS in vehicular networks an urgent issue. At thesame time, the spreading model of a smart car, with a wealthof infotainment applications, calls for architectures for vehicularcommunications capable of supporting traffic with a diverse setof performance requirements. So far efforts have been revolvedtowards enabling a single specific QoS level. But the issues of howto support traffic with tight QoS requirements (no packet loss, and delays inferior to 1ms), and of designing a system capable atthe same time of efficiently sustaining such traffic together withtraffic from infotainment applications, are still open. In this paper we present the approach taken in the SNFCONTACT project in order to tackle these issues. The goal ofthe project is to investigate how an architecture for vehicularcommunications which integrates content-centric networking, software-defined networking as well as context aware floatingcontent schemes can properly support the very diverse set ofapplication and services currently envisioned for the vehicularenvironment.

2015

An analytical approach to performance analysis of coupled processor systems

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 27th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2015

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We consider a queuing system with coupled processors (CPS), in which the service rate at each queue varies over time in function of the set of active queues in the system. Performance analysis of CPS has so far been based on simulations or on complex Markov chains under restricting assumptions on input traffic statistics. In contrast, we propose a fully analytical approach to CPS, based on a worst case analysis of system dynamics, and applicable to a large family of traffic characterizations. We derive sufficient conditions for stability for traffic characterized stochastically as well as for traffic constrained by arrival curves, and we show how to compute bounds on backlog and delay. We illustrate our approach and assess our results by means of an example of coupling of wireless transmissions.

Scalable approaches to integration in heterogeneous IoT and M2M scenarios

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS) 2015

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The Internet of Things (IoT) opens new perspectives for the Machine-To-Machine communications, as it brings to settings with a large and heterogeneous set of devices. This makes integration of such diverse technologies a challenging task. A typical solution to this problem is represented by universal gateways, which provide internal semantics for protocol translation. However such approach is bound to be challenged in future IoT scenarios, as it brings substantial performance impairments in settings with very large number of devices and of technologies. We address these limitations, by proposing two novel approaches. A first is based on distributing the management of the different technologies among gateways. A second approach makes use of Web Service delegation, with gateways acting only as a connecting point between the entities and some service that can interpret the information exchanged. We implement and validate experimentally these approaches, showing that they both scale sensibly better than the traditional approach, guaranteeing acceptable performance even with a high degree of heterogeneity. Moreover, we identify the criteria which should be considered when choosing between the two proposed approaches. Our results establish a set of guidelines for integration in large and heterogeneous IoT scenarios.

A coupled processors model for 802.11 ad hoc networks under non saturation

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015

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In this paper we present an analytic approach to performance analysis of ad hoc networks under non saturation conditions, which does not rely on any assumption on traffic statistics. Our approach assumes traffic to be constrained by leaky bucket arrival curves, and it relies on a coupled processors model to capture the dependencies between user achievable rates due to sharing of the wireless transmission medium. We derive sufficient conditions for stability of transmission queues in an ad hoc network, and we describe a method for the determination of a proportionally fair allocation of resources, which allows trading the fairness of the solution for computational complexity. We validate our results through simulations, showing how our approach allows deriving operating points which both increase the fairness of the allocation and the overall average utilization of network resources with respect to saturated models.

Persistence and availability of floating content in a campus environment

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of IEEE Conference Computer Communications(INFOCOM) 2015

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This work presents the first experimental evaluation of the Floating Content (FC) communication paradigm in a campus/large office setting. By logging information transfer events we have characterized mobility patterns, and we have assessed the performance of services implemented using the FC paradigm. Our results unveil the key relevance of group dynamics in user movements for the FC performance. Surprisingly, in such an environment, our results show that a relatively low user density is enough to guarantee content persistence over time, contrarily to predictions from available models. Based on these experimental findings, we develop a novel simple analytical model that accounts for the peculiarities of the mobility patterns in such a setting, and that can accurately predict the effectiveness of FC for the implementation of services in a campus/large office setting.

A publish-subscribe approach to IoT integration :

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the Smart Office Use Case

Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) 2015

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The integration of different protocols and technologies remain to date one of the main challenges in IoT. The lack of widely accepted standards at the application layer, and the wide deployment basis of a large number of legacy (e.g. Non-IP) technologies further exacerbate this issue. To date, typically integration is solved with ad hoc solutions on a per-connection basis ("N-to-N"). Such approach does not scale, being suitable only for small scenarios with a limited heterogeneity of technologies. More scalable approaches have been proposed, message-based, and built around a publish-subscribe architecture. In this work we summarize an experimental evaluation of such integration approach, based on the implementation of a Smart Office use case. We describe in detail the main integration issues arisen, and how they have been addressed. Our work shows how to integrate in practice in an efficient and scalable manner highly heterogeneous IoT scenarios.

Modelling D2D communications in cellular access networks via coupled processors

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Gianluca Rizzo

Proceedings of the Conference on COmmunication systems and networks (COMSNETS) 2015

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This paper presents a first fully analytical approach to performance evaluation of D2D communication systems, which does not assume the system to be in saturated conditions. We adopt a Coupled Processors model to describe a cellular scenario with D2D users sharing radio resources with cellular users, i.e., adopting in-band underlay D2D schemes. We derive sufficient conditions for stability of such system, characterizing the effect of D2D transmissions on cellular user performance. Moreover, we present a computationally feasible method for the determination of a proportionally fair allocation of resources. We show that, in non-saturated networks, such an allocation sensibly improves the one derived under the assumption of saturation. Our results show the importance of accurately modelling the interdependence in users performance in the design and evaluation of a D2D cellular system.

2014

Test set validation for home electrical signal disaggregation

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Dominique Genoud, Gianluca Rizzo, Pierre Roduit

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing 2014

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In order to enable demand response schemes for residential and industrial users, it is crucial to be able to predict and monitor each component of the total power consumption of a household or of an industrial site over time. We used the cross-validation method which is a model validation technique for assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent data set. It is mainly used in settings where the goal is prediction, and one wants to estimate how accurately a predictive model will perform in practice. We exploit Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques in order to provide behavior patterns of the variables identified. This work presents a review Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques and describe the results of recognition patterns used for the identification of electrical devices. The proposed method has been validated on an experimental setting and using direct measurements of appliances consumption, proving that it allows achieving a high level of accuracy in load disaggregation.

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Rizzo Gianluca

Adjoint-e scientifique HES

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Computer networking

Machine- to -Machine Communications

IoT Internet Of Things

Vehicular Communications

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Energy efficiency and management

Smart City

Adjoint-e scientifique HES