Andrea Passarella - Publications

Journal Papers

M. Mordacchini, L. Valerio, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Design and evaluation of a cognitive approach for disseminating semantic knowledge and content in opportunistic networks”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Available online 29 December 2015, [web].

Filippo Rebecchi, Lorenzo Valerio, Raffaele Bruno, Vania Conan, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Andrea Passarella, “A Joint Multicast/D2D Learning-Based Approach to LTE Traffic Offloading”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Volume 72, 1 December 2015, Pages 26–37, [web].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Massimiliano La Gala, Andrea Passarella, Fabio Pezzoni, “Ego Network Structure in Online Social Networks and its Impact on Information Diffusion”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Available online 31 December 2015, [web].

Lorenzo Valerio, Raffaele Bruno, Andrea Passarella, “Cellular traffic offloading via Opportunistic Networking with Reinforcement Learning”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Volume 71, 1 November 2015, Pages 129–141, [web].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Massimiliano La Gala, Andrea Passarella, and Marco Conti, “Information diffusion in distributed OSN: The impact of trusted relationships”, Springer Peer-to-Peer Network Architectures, 2015, available online [web].

Dunbar, R., Arnaboldi , V., Conti, M. & Passarella, A. (2015). “The structure of online social networks mirrors those in the offline world”. Social Networks 43: 39-47.

M. Mordacchini, A. Passarella, M. Conti, S.M. Allen, M.J. Chorley, G.B. Colombo, V. Tanasescu and R.M. Whitaker, “Crowdsourcing through Cognitive Opportunistic Networks”, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 10, 2, Article 13 (June 2015), 29 pages, [web].

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “The stability region of the delay in Pareto opportunistic networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.14, no.1, pp.180,193, Jan. 1 2015: [web].

Filippo Rebecchi, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Vania Conan, Andrea Passarella, Raffaele Bruno, and Marco Conti, “Data Offloading Techniques in Cellular Networks: A Survey”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol 17, Issue 2, 2015, [web].

Umair Sadiq, Mohan Kumar, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti, “Service Composition in Opportunistic Networks: A Load and Mobility Aware Solution”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.64, no.8, pp.2308-2322, Aug. 1 2015, [web].

Lorenzo Valerio, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, Elena Pagani, “Scalable data dissemination in opportunistic networks through cognitive methods”, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Available online 28 May 2014, ISSN 1574-1192, [web].

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “Performance modelling of opportunistic forwarding under heterogenous mobility”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Volume 48, 15 July 2014, Pages 56–70 [web].

Dmytro Karamshuk, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “SPoT: Representing the Social, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of Human Mobility with a Unifying Framework”, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 11, April 2014, Pages 19–40 [web].

Marco Conti, Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, “Design and Performance Evaluation of Data Dissemination Systems for Opportunistic Networks Based on Cognitive Heuristics”, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Volume 8 Issue 3, September 2013 [web].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Guazzini, Andrea Passarella, “Egocentric Online Social Networks: Analysis of Key Features and Prediction of Tie Strength in Facebook”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Volume 36, Issues 10–11, June 2013, Pages 1130–1144 [web].

Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, “Analysis of individual pair and aggregate inter-contact times in heterogeneous opportunistic networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 12, Issue 12, December 2013 [web].

Mikko Pitkänen, Teemu Kärkkäinen, Jörg Ott, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Silvia Giordano, Daniele Puccinelli, Franck Legendre, Sacha Trifunovic, Karin Anna Hummel, Martin May, Nidhi Hegde, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, “SCAMPI: service platform for social aware mobile and pervasive computing”, Computer Communication Review 42(4): 503-508 (2012) [web].

Andrea Passarella, Robin I.M. Dunbar, Marco Conti, Fabio Pezzoni, “Ego network models for Future Internet social networking environments”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 35, Issue 18, Dec. 2012, [web].

Andrea Passarella, “A survey on content-centric technologies for the current Internet: CDN and p2p solutions”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 35, Issue 1, Jan 2012, pp 1-32, [web].

M. Conti, S.K. Das, C. Bisdikian, M. Kumar, L.M. Ni, A. Passarella, G. Roussos, G. Troester, G. Tsudik and F. Zambonelli, “Looking Ahead in Pervasive Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Cyber-Physical Convergence”, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, available online Oct 2011, [web].

Dmytro Karamshuk, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, and Andrea Passarella, “Human Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, Issue 12, pp. 157-165, Dec 2011 [web].

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella, “From Pareto inter-contact times to residuals”, IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 11, Nov. 2011 [pdf].

Andrea Passarella, Mohan Kumar, Marco Conti and Eleonora Borgia, “Minimum-Delay Service Provisioning in Opportunistic Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, Issue 8, pp. 1267-1275, Aug 2011, DOI 10.1109/TPDS.2010.153, [pdf], [tech_rep].

Marco Conti, Silvia Giordano, Martin May and Andrea Passarella, “From Opportunistic Networks to Opportunistic Computing”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 48, Issue 9, pp. 126-139, Sept. 2010, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2010.5560597, [pdf].

Andrea Guazzini, Pietro Lio’, Andrea Passarella, and Marco Conti, “Modeling perisaccadic time perception”, Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE), 2010.

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Franca Delmastro and Andrea Passarella, “Context- and Social-aware Middleware for Opportunistic Networks”, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 33, Issue 5, Sept. 2010, pp. 525-541, DOI:10.1016/j.jnca.2010.03.017, [pdf].

Chiara Boldrini and Andrea Passarella, “HCMM: modelling spatial and temporal properties of human mobility driven by users’ social relationships”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 33, Issue 9, June 2010, pp. 1056-1074, ISSN 0140-3664, DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2010.01.013. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, I. Giannetti, A. Passarella, “A BitTorrent proxy for Green Internet file sharing: Design and experimental evaluation”, Elsevier Computer Communications, Volume 33, Issue 7, 3 May 2010, Pages 794-802, DOI: doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2009.11.016.[pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Design and performance evaluation of ContentPlace, a social-aware data dissemination system for opportunistic networks”, Elsevier Computer Networks, Volume 54, Issue 4, 19 March 2010, Pages 589-604 DOI:10.1016/j.comnet.2009.09.001.[pdf]

Giuseppe Anastasi, Marco Conti, Mario Di Francesco, Andrea Passarella, “Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey”, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 537-568, May 2009 DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2008.06.003.[pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “802.11 Power-Saving Mode for Mobile Computing in Wi-Fi hotspots: Limitations, Enhancements and Open Issues”, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), Vol 14, No. 6 December 2008, available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-0010-9.[pdf].

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Autonomic behaviour of opportunistic network routing”, Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 122-147, 2008.[pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Exploiting users’ social relations to forward data in opportunistic networks: the HiBOp solution”, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2008, Pages 633-657.[pdf]

G. Anastasi, E. Ancillotti, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Design and Performance Evaluation of a Transport Protocol for Ad hoc Networks (TPA)”, The Computer Journal, in press, Access published on May 2, 2008; doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxn025.[pdf]

F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, M. Conti, “P2P Multicast for Pervasive Ad Hoc Networks”, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2007.03.001, Vol.4, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 62-91.[pdf], [TR]

A. Passarella, F. Delmastro, “Usability of Legacy p2p Multicast in Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks: an Experimental Study”, EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/62089, Vol. 2007, No. 1, January 2007.[pdf]

L. Pelusi, A. Passarella, M. Conti, “Opportunistic Networking: data forwarding in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 11, November 2006, pp. 134-141.[pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, L. Pelusi, “An Energy-Aware Multimedia Streaming Protocol for Mobile Users”, Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 1, Issue 4, December 2005.[pdf]

G. Anastasi, E. Borgia, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “Understanding the Real Behavior of Mote and 802.11 Ad hoc Networks: an Experimental Approach”, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 1, Issue 2, July 2005, pp. 237-256.[pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “A Performance Study of Power-Saving Policies for Wi-Fi Hotspots”, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 45, Issue 3, June 2004, pp. 295-318.[pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “Performance Comparison of Power Saving Strategies for Mobile Web Access”, Elsevier Performance Evaluation, Vol. 53, Issue 3-4, August 2003, pp. 273-294.[pdf]

Conference/Workshop Papers

Valerio Arnaboldi, Robin I.M. Dunbar, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti, “Analysis of Co-Authorship Ego Networks”, Proc. of the NetSci Society Winter conference on Network Science (NetSci-X 2016), Warsaw, Poland, 11-13 January, 2016.

Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti, “A cognitive-based ego network detection system for mobile social networking”, Proc. of the 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2015), Munich, Germany, 5-7 October 2015.

P. Reichl, A. Passarella: “Back to the Future: Towards an Internet of People (IoP)”. Invited Paper, Proc. MMBNet 2015, Hamburg, Germany, September 2015.

Marco Conti, Davide Mascitti, and Andrea Passarella, “Offoading service provisioning on mobile devices in mobile cloud computing environments”, The Third Workshop on  Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2015 (held in conjunction of Euro-Par 2015), Wien, Austria, August 24-25th 2015.

L. Valerio, F. Ben Abdesslem, A. Lindgren, R. Bruno, A. Passarella and M. Luoto, “Offloading Cellular Traffic with Opportunistic Networks: A Feasibility Study”, The 14th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (IFIP MedHocNet 2015), June 17-18, 2015 - Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.

Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, “Social Cognitive Heuristics for Adaptive Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks”, IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2015), Boston, MA, USA, June 14-17, 2015.

Raffaele Bruno, Antonino Masaracchia, Andrea Passarella and Stefano Mangione, “Analysis of MAC-level Throughput in LTE Systems with Link Rate Adaptation and HARQ Protocols”, IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2015), Boston, MA, USA, June 14-17, 2015.

Davide Mascitti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Laura Ricci, “Service provisioning through opportunistic computing in mobile clouds”, Fourth International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking (MoWNet’2014), Rome, Italy, 8-9 September 2014.

Raffaele Bruno, Antonino Masaracchia, and Andrea Passarella, “Offloading through Opportunistic Networks with Dynamic Content Requests”, The IEEE Workshop on CellulAR Traffic Offloading to Opportunistic Networks (IEEE CARTOON 2014), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, October 27, 2014.

Lorenzo Valerio, Raffaele Bruno, Andrea Passarella, “Adaptive Data Offloading in Opportunistic Networks through an Actor-Critic Learning Method”, the Ninth ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (ACM CHANTS 2014), Maui, Hawaii, USA, 7 September 2014.

Gaetano F. Anastasi, Pietro Cassarà, Patrizio Dazzi, Alberto Gotta, Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, “A Hybrid Cross-Entropy Cognitive-based Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Cloud Environments”, Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2014), London, UK - 8-12 September 2014.

Elisabetta Biondi, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “Duty Cycling in Opportunistic Networks: the Effect on Intercontact Times”, The 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWiM 2014), Montreal, Canada, September 21-26 2014.

Valerio Arnaboldi, Massimiliano La Gala, Andrea Passarella, and Marco Conti, “The Role of Trusted Relationships on Content Spread in Distributed Online Social Networks”, The Second Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P (LSDVE 2014), Porto, Portugal, 25-29 August 2014.

Raffaele Bruno, Antonino Masaracchia, Andrea Passarella, “Robust Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) Selection in LTE Systems using Reinforcement Learning”, IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2014-Fall, 14–17 September 2014, Vancouver, Canada [pdf].

Elisabetta Biondi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, and Marco Conti, “Optimal duty cycling in mobile opportunistic networks with end-to-end delay guarantees”, European Wireless, Barcelona, Spain, 14-16 May 2014 [pdf].

Barbara Guidi, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Laura Ricci, “Distributed protocols for Ego Betweenness Centrality computation in DOSNs”, Fifth International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (IEEE PerCol 2014), 24-28 March 2014, Budapest, Hungary [pdf].

Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, “Community Detection in Opportunistic Networks using Memory-based Cognitive Heuristics”, The Third International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications (IEEE PerMoby 2014), 24-28 March 2014, Budapest, Hungary [pdf].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Massimiliano La Gala, Andrea Passarella and Fabio Pezzoni, “Information Diffusion in OSNs:the Impact of Nodes’ Sociality”, The 29th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2014), Gyeongju, Korea March 24 - 28, 2014 [pdf].

Fabio Pezzoni, Jisun An, Andrea Passarella, Jon Crowcroft and Marco Conti, “Why Do I Retweet It? An Information Propagation Model for Microblogs”, 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013), Kyoto, Japan, 25–27 November 2013 [pdf].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Robin Dunbar, “Dynamics of Personal Social Relationships in Online Social Networks: a Study on Twitter”, ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (ACM COSN 2013), Boston, MA, 7-8 October 2013 [pdf].

Emanuele Massaro, Andrea Guazzini, Lorenzo Valerio, Andrea Passarella and Franco Bagnoli, “A local algorithm for detecting community structures in dynamic networks”, IEEE Workshop on Collective Social Awareness and Relevance (IEEE CSAR), Karlsruhe, Germany, 30th September-2nd October 2013 [pdf].

Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, Martin Chorley, Gualtiero Colombo and Vlad Tanasescu, “Making mobile users’ devices aware of the surrounding physical environment: an approach based on cognitive heuristics”, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2013) Philadelphia, USA, September 9-13, 2013 [pdf].

Matteo Mordacchini, Lorenzo Valerio, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “A cognitive-based solution for semantic knowledge and content dissemination in opportunistic networks”, IEEE WoWMoM workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (IEEE AOC 2013), Madrid, Spain, 4 June, 2013 [pdf].

Lorenzo Valerio, Marco Conti, Elena Pagani, and Andrea Passarella, “Autonomic Cognitive-based Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks”, 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, (IEEE WoWMoM 2013), Madrid, Spain, June 4-7, 2013, Best Paper Award [pdf].

Marco Conti, Emanuel Marzini, Davide Mascitti, Andrea Passarella, Laura Ricci, “Service Selection and Composition in Opportunistic Networks”, The 9th IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference – Mobile Computing Symposium (IWCMC 2013), Cagliari, Italy, July 1-5, 2013, [pdf].

Marco Conti, Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, and Liudmila Rozanova, “A Semantic-based Algorithm for Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks”, 7th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2013), Palma de Mallorca, 9-10th of May, 2013 [pdf].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella and Fabio Pezzoni, “Ego Networks in Twitter: an Experimental Analysis”, The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2013), Turin, Italy, 19 April 2013 [pdf].

M. Conti, A. Passarella, F. Pezzoni, “A Model to Represent Human Social Relationships in Social Network Graphs”, 4th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012), 5-7 December, Lausanne, Switzerland [pdf].

Sagar A. Tamhane, Mohan Kumar, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, “Service Composition in Opportunistic Networks”, The IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (IEEE CPSCom 2012), November 20-23, 2012 Besançon, France [pdf].

Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti, Matteo Mordacchini and Andrea Passarella, “An Analytical Model for Content Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks using Cognitive Heuristics”, The 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis 
and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWiM 2012), October 21-25 2012, Paphos, Cyprus Island [pdf] [tr].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella and Fabio Pezzoni, “Analysis of Ego Network Structure in Online Social Networks”, ASE-IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3-5 September 2012 [pdf].

M. La Gala, V. Arnaboldi, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Ego-net Digger: a New Way to Study Ego Networks in Online Social Networks”, First ACM International Workshop on 
Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research (ACM HotSocial 2012), August 12, 2012, Beijing, China (in conjunction with ACM KDD 2012) [pdf].

M. Pitkänen, T. Karkkainen, J. Ott, M. Conti, A. Passarella, S. Giordano, D. Puccinelli, F. Legendre, S. Trifunovic, K. Hummel, M. May, N. Hegde, T. Spyropoulos, “SCAMPI: Service platform for soCial Aware Mobile and Pervasive computIng”, ACM SIGCOMM WORKSOP, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Helsinki, Finland, August 17, 2012 [pdf].

Dmytro Karamshuk, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella, “An Arrival-based Framework for Human Mobility Modeling”, 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, (IEEE WoWMoM 2012), San Francisco, California, USA June 25-28, 2012, [pdf].

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella, “Performance Modelling of Opportunistic Forwarding with Imprecise Knowledge”, Tenth International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (IFIP WiOpt 2012), Paderborn, Germany, May 14th - 18th, 2012, [pdf].

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella, “Less is More: Long Paths Do Not Help the Convergence of Social-Oblivious Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks”, Third International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks (ACM MobiOpp 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, 15-16 March 2012, [pdf].

Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella and Fabio Pezzoni, “From Ego Network to Social Network Models”, Third International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks (ACM MobiOpp 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, 15-16 March 2012, [pdf].

Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Passarella, Maurizio Tesconi, Davide Gazze’, “Towards a Characterization of Egocentric Networks in Online Social Networks”, Sixth International Workshop on MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications (MONET 2011), Crete, Greece, Oct 16-21, 2011, [pdf].

A. Passarella, M. Conti, C. Boldrini, R.I.M. Dunbar, “Modelling inter-contact times in social pervasive networks”, ACM MSWiM 2011, October 31- November 4, 2011, Miami Beach, FL, USA, [pdf].

U. Sadiq, M. Kumar, A. Passarella, M. Conti, “Modeling and Simulation of Service Composition in Opportunistic Networks”, ACM MSWiM 2011, October 31- November 4, 2011, Miami Beach, FL, USA, BEST PAPER AWARD CANDIDATE (out of 190 submissions) [pdf].

Eleonora Borgia, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “Autonomic detection of dynamic social communities in Opportunistic Networks”, IFIP MedHocNet 2011, Favignana Island, Italy, 12-15 June 2011, [pdf].

Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Fabio Pezzoni, “A Model for the Generation of Social Network Graphs”, IEEE AOC 2011, Lucca, Italy, 23 June 2011, [pdf].

Marco Conti, Matteo Mordacchini, Andrea Passarella, “Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks using Cognitive Heuristics”, IEEE AOC 2011, Lucca, Italy, 23 June 2011, [pdf].

Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, “Characterising aggregate inter-contact times in heterogeneous opportunistic networks”, IFIP Networking 2011, Valencia, Spain, 9-13 May 2010, BEST PAPER AWARD (out of 294 submitted papers), [pdf].

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, and Andrea Passarella, “Modelling social-aware forwarding in opportunistic networks”, IFIP Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (PERFORM 2010), Vienna, Austria, October 14-16, 2010. [pdf]

Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, Elonora Borgia, Mohan Kumar, “Performance evaluation of service execution in opportunistic computing”, ACM MSWiM 2010, Bodrum, Turkey, 17-21 October 2010. [pdf]

A. Guazzini, P. Lio’, A. Passarella, M Conti, “Cognitive inspired Framework to study heuristics by chatlines”, Proc. ICCS 2010.

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, I. Giannetti, A. Passarella, “Design and Evaluation of a BitTorrent Proxy for Energy Saving”, Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems - 1st Year. JM. Pierson and H. Hlavacs, Editors. July 2010. ISBN: 978-2-917490-10-5. Published by IRIT.

Panagiotis Pantazopoulos, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti, “Efficient Social-aware Content Placement in Opportunistic Networks”, IFIP WONS 2010, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, February 3-5, 2010. [pdf]

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “The sociable traveller: human travelling patterns in social-based mobility”, 7th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (ACM MOBIWAC), Tenerife, Canary Islands October 26-27, 2009. [pdf]

Lio P, Guazzini A, Passarella A and Conti M, “Information processing and time inversion in vision”, Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009), Limassol, Cyprus on September 14-17, 2009.

M. Conti, F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, “Context-aware Opportunistic File Sharing Service”, Demo Paper, Proc. of The 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), Rome, Italy, 22-26 June 2009. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, I. Giannetti, A. Passarella, “Design and Evaluation of a BitTorrent Proxy for Energy Saving”, Proc. of the IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009), July 5 - 8, 2009, Sousse, Tunisia. [pdf]

M. Conti, F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, “Context-aware Opportunistic File Sharing Service”, Demo Paper, Proc. of The 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), Rome, Italy, 22-26 June 2009. [pdf]

Lio P, Guazzini A, Passarella A and Conti M, “Information processing and time inversion in vision”, Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009), Limassol, Cyprus on September 14-17, 2009. [pdf]

Lio P, Guazzini A, Conti M and Passarella A (2008). Complex network modeling of saccades control. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. Conference Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2008. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.11.2008.01.039

Stuart M. Allen, Marco Conti, Jon Crowcroft, Robin Dunbar, Pietro Lio’, Jose Fernando Mendes ReÔ¨Åk Molva, Andrea Passarella, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Roger M. Whitaker, “Social Networking for Pervasive Adaptation”, Workshop on Pervasive Adaptation at SASO (Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems) 20-24 October 2008, Venice, Italy. [pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “ContentPlace: Social aware data dissemination in opportunistic networks”, Proc. of The 11-th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 27 - 31, 2008. [pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, and A. Passarella, “Modelling data dissemination in opportunistic networks”, Proc. of the ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2008), San Francisco, CA, USA, 15 September 2008. [pdf], [TR]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, and A. Passarella, “Context and resource awareness in opportunistic network data dissemination”, Proc. of the The Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2008), Newport Beach, CA, USA, 23 June 2008. [pdf], [TR]

R. Bruno, M. Conti, and A. Passarella, “Opportunistic networking overlays for ICT services in crisis”, Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008), Washington, DC, USA, May 4-7, 2008. [pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, and A. Passarella, “Users Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks: the Role of Physical Locations”, Proc. of the IEEE Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications Conference (WRECOM 2007), Rome, Italy, 1-2 October, 2007. [pdf]

M. Conti, F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, “Context-Aware File Sharing for Opportunistic Networks”, Demo Paper, Proceedings of The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2007), Pisa, Italy, 8-11 October 2007. [pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Impact of Social Mobility on Routing Protocols for Opportunistic Networks”, Proc. of The First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2007), Helsinki, Finland, 18 June 2007. [pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, I. Iacopini, A. Passarella, “HiBOp: a History Based Routing Protocol for Opportunistic Networks”, Proc. of The IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, 18-21 June 2007
ranked in the top 10% papers submitted to the conference. [pdf], [TR]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Monaldi, A. Passarella, “An Adaptive Data-transfer Protocol for Sensor Networks with Data Mules”, Proc. of The IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, 18-21 June 2007. [pdf]

A. Passarella, F. Delmastro, M. Conti, “XScribe: a Stateless, Cross-Layer Approach to P2P Multicast in Multihop Ad hoc Networks”, The First ACM Mobicom Workshop on Decentralized Resource Sharing in Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiShare 2006), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 25 September 2006, pp. 6-11. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, E. Ancillotti, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Experimental Analysis of a Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks (TPA)”, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN 2006), Torremolinos, Spain, 2 October 2006, pp. 9-16. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, M. Di Francesco, A. Passarella, “An Adaptive Low-latency Power Management Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the 4-th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2006), Torremolinos, Spain, 2 October 2006, pp. 67-74. [pdf]

F. Delmastro, A. Passarella and M. Conti, “Experimental Analysis of P2P Shared-Tree Multicast on MANETs: the Case of Scribe”, The IFIP Fifth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2006), Lipari, Italy, June 14-17, 2006. [pdf]

E. Borgia, M. Conti, F. Delmastro, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “MANET perspective: current and forthcoming technologies”, Proceedings of the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos, Greece, 4-8 June 2006. [pdf]

S. Goel, A. Passarella, T. Imielinski, “Using Buddies to Live Longer in a Boring World”, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, Pisa, Italy, 13 March 2006, pp. 342-346. [pdf], [TR]

M. Conti, J. Crowcroft, F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, “Cross-Layer Support for Group-Communication Applications in MANETs”, Proceedings of the IEEE ICPS Workshop on Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks: from theory to reality (REALMAN 2005), Santorini, Greece, 14 July 2005. [pdf]

F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, “An Experimental Study of P2P Group-Communication Applications in Real-World MANETs”, Proceedings of the IEEE ICPS Workshop on Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks: from theory to reality (REALMAN 2005), Santorini, Greece, 14 July 2005. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, L. Pelusi, “A Power-Aware Multimedia Streaming Protocol for Mobile Users”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2005), Santorini, Greece, 11-14 July 2005, pp. 371-380. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, E. Ancillotti, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “TPA: A Transport Protocol for Ad hoc Networks”, Proc. 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), La Manga del Mar Menor, Cartagena, Spain, 27-30 June 2005. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, A. Falchi, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “Performance Measurements of Mote Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the Seventh ACMIEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2004)/, Venice, Italy, 3-7 October, 2004, pp. 174-181. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “Experimental Analysis of an Application-independent Energy Management Scheme for Wi-Fi Hotspots”, Proc. of The 9th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ICSS 2004), Alexandria, Egypt, July 2004. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, Marco Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “Saving Energy in Wi-Fi Hotspots through 802.11 PSM: An Analytical Model”, Proc. Second IEEE Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt ’04), Cambridge, UK, 24-26 March 2004, pp. 227-236. [pdf], [TR]

G. Anastasi, A. Passarella, “Towards a Novel Transport Protocol for Ad hoc Networks”, Proc. 8th International IFIP-TC6 Conference (PWC 2003), Venice, Italy, 23-25 September 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2775, pp. 310-324. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “Power-Saving in Wi-Fi Hotspots: an Analytical Study”, Proc. 8th International IFIP-TC6 Conference (PWC 2003), Venice, Italy, 23-25 September 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2775, pp. 310-324. [pdf], [TR]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella “Balancing energy saving and QoS in the mobile internet: an application-independent approach”, Proceedings of The 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2003), Big Island, Hawaii, 6-9 January 2003, pp. 305-314. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, A. Passarella, “A Power Saving Architecture for Web Access from Mobile Computers”, Proc. of The 2nd International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING 2002), LNCS 2345, pp. 240-251. [pdf]

PhD Thesis

A. Passarella, “Power Management Policies for Mobile Computing”, Computer Engineering Department, University of Pisa (Italy), available on-line: [pdf].

Book Chapters

Marco Conti, Franca Delmastro, Andrea Passarella, “P2P over Opportunistic Networks”, IGI Global “Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications”, Boon-Chong Seet (Ed.), May 2009, ISBN: 978-1-60566-715-7. [pdf]

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, “Social-based autonomic routing in opportunistic networks”, Springer “Autonomic Communications”, May 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-09752-7. [pdf]

Marco Conti, Jon Crowcroft, Silvia Giordano, Pan Hui, Hoang Anh Nguyen and Andrea Passarella, “Routing Issues in Opportunistic Networks”, MiNEMA State-of-the-Art Book, H. Miranda, L. Rodrigues, B. Garbinato Editors, Springer, 2009 [pdf]

C. Boldrini, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “User-centric Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networking”, in Bio-Inspired Computing and Communication, Pietro Lio’, Jon Crowcroft, Dinesh Verma, and Eiko Yoneki (Editors), LNCS 5151, 2008.

G. Anastasi, E. Ancillotti, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Design, Implementation and Measurements of a Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks” in MobileMAN, M. Conti Editor, Springer, expected publication date: October 2008.

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, A. Passarella, L. Pelusi, “Mobile-relay Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks”, in Adaptive processing in wireless communications, M. Ibnkahla Editor, CRC Press, December 2007. [pdf]

L. Pelusi, A. Passarella, and M. Conti, “Encoding for Efficient Data Distribution in Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks” in Handbook of Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, A. Boukerche, Editor, Wiley and Sons Publisher, 2007. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, M. Di Francesco, and A. Passarella, “How to Prolong the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network” chapter 6 in Handbook on Mobile Ad Hoc and Pervasive Communications, L.T. Yang and M.K. Denko, Editors, American Scientific Publishers, December 2006. [pdf]

F. Delmastro, A. Passarella, “Group Communication Applications for MANETs: Requirements and Real Implementations” chapter 9 in Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: from Theory to Reality, M. Conti, J. Crowcroft and A. Passarella, Editors, Nova Science Publisher, 2007. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, E. Ancillotti, M. Conti, A. Passarella, “Experimental Analysis of TCP Performance in Static Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks” chapter 6 in Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: from Theory to Reality, M. Conti, J. Crowcroft and A. Passarella, Editors, Nova Science Publisher, 2007. [pdf]

G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori and A. Passarella, “Power Management”, chapter 18 in UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Vol. 6, Theme 108 (P. Bellavista, Theme Editor), 2007.

G. Anastasi, M. Conti and A. Passarella, “Power Management in Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems” chapter 24 in Algorithms for Wireless and Mobile Networks, A. Boukerche, Editor, CRC-Hall Publisher, October 2005, pp. 535-576. [pdf]