Antonio Iera

Antonio Iera
Università della Calabria | Università della Calabria · Department of Computer Engineering, Modelling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES)

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Introduction
Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Calabria, Italy. His research interests include 5G mobile and wireless networks, RFID systems, and Internet of Things. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier "Computer Networks" Journal.
Additional affiliations
December 1997 - October 2019
Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Position
  • Professor
September 1994 - October 1995
Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
Position
  • ATDMA RACE Project
Education
October 1993 - October 1996
Università della Calabria
Field of study
  • Telecommunications

Publications

Publications (390)
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An emerging modality, increasingly used by edge devices, to train machine learning models in a distributed and cooperative way is Federated Learning (FL). It combines an increase in the quality of the learning process with data privacy needs. Alongside the advantages of this emerging paradigm, however, there is a critical factor that risks seriousl...
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most unremitting and dynamic neurodegenerative human diseases. Various wearable IoT devices have emerged for detecting, diagnosing, and quantifying PD, predominantly utilizing inertial sensors and computational algorithms. However, their proliferation poses novel challenges concerning security, privacy, connec...
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The latest technological developments have fueled revolutionary changes and improvements in wireless communication systems. Among them, mmWave spectrum exploitation stands out for its ability to deliver ultra-high data rates. However, its full adoption beyond fifth generation multicast systems (5G $+$ /6G) remains hampered, mainly due to mobility...
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In an ever-increasing number of contexts, it has now become common to use federated learning (FL) techniques, through which several heterogeneous devices cooperate in a distributed manner to increase the effectiveness in training machine learning (ML) models while maintaining confidentiality of the respective data. The federated learning process sh...
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Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) will constitute a cornerstone of the next-to-come Sixth-Generation (6 G) technology. Specifically, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations play a crucial role, either as a stand-alone networking solution or as a complement to terrestrial networks, in providing network access and services anywhere and anytime w...
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This letter presents a practice-inspired methodology for characterizing the user and content dynamics of extended reality (XR) services over cellular wireless networks. The proposed approach is based on a fluid approximation to capture the time and space dynamics of XR content exchange during its transient phase while considering both radio communi...
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The design of multicast services in the fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) deployments is hampered by the directional nature of antenna radiation patterns. This complexity is further compounded by the emergence of new deployment options, such as dual millimeter wave (mmWave) and microwave $(\mu$ Wave) base station (BS) deployments, as well as n...
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Data possesses significant value as it fuels advancements in AI. However, protecting the privacy of the data generated by end-user devices has become crucial. Federated Learning (FL) offers a solution by preserving data privacy during training. FL brings the model directly to User Equipments (UEs) for local training by an access point (AP). The AP...
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Recently, the awareness is gaining ground that technology, at large, should participate in the sustainable and inclusive development of society. In such a context, the concept of Key Value Indicators (KVls) as complements of the widely used Key Performance Indicators (KPls) has been introduced and is obtaining the increasing interest of scientists...
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The deployment of D2D communications (also known as ProSe or sidelink transmissions) in cellular networks benefits from proximity, multi-hop, and spatial reuse gains. In this article, we first describe the main advancements of NR sidelink compared to LTE-A sidelink. Then, we run a simulation campaign to test D2D-based ProSe for public safety and fa...
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Federated Learning (FL) is rapidly gaining popularity as an effective cooperative and distributed approach, widely used by edge devices, to train machine learning models. Several aspects shall be managed to ensure a FL process that can more precisely match the QoS requirements of the applications that use it. The heterogeneity in the dataset availa...
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The shift towards 6G networks is expected to be accompanied by an increased capability to support group-oriented services, such as extended reality and holographic communications, in many different contexts, from high-precision manufacturing to healthcare and remote control. This range of applications will rely heavily on multicast and mixed multic...
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To keep pace with the explosive growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)-dominated applications, distributed intelligence solutions are gaining momentum, which exploit cloud facilities, edge nodes and end-devices to increase the overall computational power, meet application requirements, and optimize performance. Despite the...
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Guaranteeing operational connectivity in emergency situations by means of prompt on-demand network re-configuration is crucial to carry out effective public protection and disaster relief actions. This article analyzes network configuration options enhanced by the integrated access backhaul (IAB) feature for 5G-Advanced and beyond mission-critical...
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Multicasting in wireless access networks is a functionality that, by leveraging group communications, turns out to be essential for reducing the amount of resources needed to serve users requesting the same content. The support of this functionality in the modern 5G New Radio (NR) and future sub-Terahertz (sub-THz) 6G systems faces critical challen...
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As the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond (5G+/6G) networks move forward, and a wide variety of new advanced Internet of Things (IoT) applications are offered, effective methodologies for discovering time-relevant information, services, and resources are being demanded. To this end, computing-, storage-, and battery-constrained IoT devices are progre...
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Emerging extended reality (XR) services and applications that submerge users into a virtual universe pave the way towards ubiquitous contextualized experiences. Immersive interactions on-the-go not only bring new use cases but also distract users from the real world and modify their behavior and motion, which in turn may affect the operation of com...
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p>According to the 6G vision, the evolution of wireless communication systems will soon lead to the possibility of supporting Tbps communications, as well as satisfying, individually or jointly, a plethora of other very stringent quality requirements related to latency, bitrate, and reliability. The achievement of these goals will naturally raise m...
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In light of the growing number of user privacy violations in centralized social networks, the need to define effective platforms for decentralized online social networks (DOSNs) is deeply felt. Interesting solutions have been proposed in the past, which own the necessary mechanisms to allow users keeping control over their personal information and...
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Multicasting is a key feature of cellular systems, which provides an efficient way to simultaneously disseminate a large amount of traffic to multiple subscribers. However, the efficient use of multicast services in fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) is complicated by several factors, including inherent base station (BS) antenna directivity as we...
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Sixth-Generation (6G) technologies will revolutionize the wireless ecosystem by enabling the delivery of futuristic services through terrestrial and non-terrestrial transmissions. In this context, the Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is growing in importance owing to its capability to deliver services anywhere and anytime and also provide coverage in...
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In light of the growing number of user privacy vio- lations in centralized social networks, the need to define effective platforms for decentralized online social networks (DOSNs) is deeply felt. Interesting solutions have been proposed in the past, which own the necessary mechanisms to allow users keeping control over their personal information an...
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Forthcoming 5G New Radio (NR) systems will be asked to handle a huge number of devices accessing or delivering "resource-hungry" and high-quality services. In view of this, the new 5G Radio Access Technology (RAT) aims to support, in next releases, Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) to enable the simultaneous de...
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To date, group-oriented communications have been mainly exploited for delivering multimedia services in human-oriented communications while, in future fifth generation (5G) cellular networks, objects will be the main target. Internet of Things (IoT) will undoubtedly play a key role in 5G networks, wherein massive machine-type communications (mMTC)...
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The design of the forthcoming fifth generation (5G) system shall meet the severe requirement of managing an always increasing amount of traffic generated by both humans and machines, while guaranteeing data security. Among the enabling technologies that will turn 5G into a reality, Device-to-Device (D2D) and Multicasting will certainly play a key r...
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Fifth generation (5G) networks are expected to connect a huge number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in many usage scenarios. The challenges of typical massive IoT applications with sporadic and short packet uplink transmissions are well studied, while not enough attention is given to the delivery of content of common interest, such as software...
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Internet of Space Things (IoST) is a challenging paradigm, which is currently attracting great interest from the scientific and industrial communities. IoST is based on the integration of the space segment into the global Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. In the relevant literature, reference is generally made to multiple constellations of n...
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Sixth-Generation (6G) technologies will revolutionize the wireless ecosystem by enabling the delivery of futuristic services through terrestrial and non-terrestrial transmissions. In this context, the Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is growing in importance owing to its capability to deliver services anywhere and anytime and also provide coverage in...
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Internet of Space Things (IoST) is a challenging paradigm, which is currently attracting great interest from the scientific and industrial communities. IoST is based on the integration of the space segment into the global Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. In the relevant literature, reference is generally made to multiple constellations of n...
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The combination of multicast and directional mmWave communication paves the way for solving spectrum crunch problems, increasing spectrum efficiency, ensuring reliability, and reducing access point load. Furthermore, multi-hop relaying is considered as one of the key interest areas in future 5G+ systems to achieve enhanced system performance. Based...
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Emerging communication network applications require a location accuracy of less than 1m in more than 95% of the service area. For this purpose, 5G New Radio (NR) technology is designed to facilitate high-accuracy continuous localization. In 5G systems, the existence of high-density small cells and the possibility of the device-to-device (D2D) commu...
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The design of the forthcoming fifth generation (5G) system shall meet the severe requirement of managing an always increasing amount of traffic generated by both humans and machines, while guaranteeing data security. Among the enabling technologies that will turn 5G into a reality, Device-to-Device (D2D) and Multicasting will certainly play a key r...
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Multicasting is becoming more and more important in the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable applications (e.g., high definition video streaming, virtual reality gaming, public safety, among others) that require high bandwidth efficiency and low energy consumption. In this regard, millimeter wave (mmWave) communications can play a crucial role to...
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Several Internet of Things (IoT) applications are booming which rely on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, machine learning (ML) algorithms to assist the users and make decisions on their behalf in a large variety of contexts, such as smart homes, smart cities, smart factories. Although the traditional approach is to deploy s...
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With more than 75 billions of objects connected by 2025, Internet of Things (IoT) is the catalyst for the digital revolution, contributing to the generation of big amounts of (transient) data, which calls into question the storage and processing performance of the conventional cloud. Moving storage resources at the edge can reduce the data retrieva...
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The new applications populating the Future Internet will increasingly rely on the exchange of data between groups of devices, dynamically established according to their profile and habits (e.g., a common interest in same software updates and services). This will definitely challenge traditional group communication solutions that lack the necessary...
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In next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, every object such as a wearable device, a smartphone, a vehicle, and even a sensor or an actuator will be provided with a digital counterpart (twin) with the aim of augmenting the physical object's capabilities and acting on its behalf when interacting with third parties. Moreover, such objec...
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Thanks to recent advancements in edge computing, the traditional centralized cloud-based approach to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques will be soon replaced or complemented by the so-called edge AI approach. By pushing AI at the network edge, close to the large amount of raw input data, the traffic traversing the core network as well a...
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Besides significantly outperforming past generations in terms of capacity and throughput, 5G networks and systems will provide an infrastructure for the support of highly diversified services and “verticals”. Indeed, the major paradigm shift with respect to previous cellular network generations, specifically oriented to one class of terminals (name...
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Fifth-generation (5G) telecommunication systems are expected to meet world market demands of accessing and delivering services anywhere and anytime. Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) are able to satisfy requests of anywhere and anytime connection by offering wide-area coverage and ensuring service availability, continuity, and scalability. In this pap...
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Fifth generation (5G) networks are expected to connect a huge number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in many usage scenarios. The challenges of typical massive IoT applications with sporadic and short packet uplink transmissions are well studied, while not enough attention is given to the delivery of content of common interest, such as software...
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Named Data Networking (NDN) have been recently advocated as complementary paradigms to improve content distribution in the next-generation Internet. On the one hand, SDN offers a centralized control plane that can optimize routing decisions; on the other, the distinctive features at the NDN data plane, such as...
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The era of the fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) technology has just begun, and its promises to substantially improve the system performance have turned into reality. The 5G NR enabled Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is almost upon us and will represent an effective solution to provide services anytime, anywhere, and over wider coverage areas. In...
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To date, group-oriented communications have been mainly exploited for delivering multimedia services in human-oriented communications while, in future fifth generation (5G) cellular networks, objects will be the main target. Internet of Things (IoT) will undoubtedly play a key role in 5G networks, wherein massive machine-type communications (mMTC)...
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Forthcoming 5G New Radio (NR) systems will be asked to handle a huge number of devices accessing or delivering “resource-hungry” and high-quality services. In view of this, the new 5G Radio Access Technology (RAT) aims to support, in next releases, Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) to enable the simultaneous de...
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This chapter presents solutions for paging aimed at improving energy efficiency of different Internet of things (IoT) applications in cellular-based radio access technologies such as long-term evolution for machines and narrowband-Internet of things. The initial section describes the basic power saving solutions in licensed wireless networks and in...
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Recently, millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology has attracted significant attention due to its ambitious promise to deal with the rapid growth in wireless data traffic. Moreover, mmWave is expected to constitute a foundation for the fifth-generation (5G) communication systems’ services, claimed to efficiently and effectively support both unicast and...
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The ever-increasing demand for high-quality video contents over mobile networks is pushing Telco operators towards the design of new delivery solutions. 3GPP has defined Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) to enable the simultaneous transmission of the same content within multiple cells over the same radio resour...
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Pushed by the challenging demands of fifth generation (5G) use cases and the recent advancements in virtualization technologies, edge network devices are rapidly evolving from simple forwarders to softwarized infrastructures augmented with computing and storage capabilities. Such a trend blurs the distinction between IT and telco domains and paves...
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Next to come 5G New Radio (NR) radio access technology is foreseen to support a massive number of “resource-hungry” connections and provide high-quality services. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) for NR, expected in forthcoming 3GPP releases, will enable the simultaneous delivery of the same content over...
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Device-to-device (D2D) communications and cellular solutions represent key technologies for the development of a future infrastructure in which fifth-generation (5G) systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) will converge. A tricky issue to be carefully investigated in D2D communications is the prevention of threats to privacy and security caused by...
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Internet of Things (IoT) applications have become essential parts of telecommunication industry and forthcoming fifth generation (5G) ecosystem. Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) address the key challenges of the IoT segment for improved indoor coverage and low power consumption. Point-to-Multipoint (PTM) technology is a key enabler for supporting massive Ma...
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The future Internet of Things (IoT) landscape includes not only low-latency and low-payload machine-type communications (MTC), but it is also expected to support the growing demand of multimedia data traffic to be communicated in smart environments. Emerging IoT use cases address the delivery of the same content from the network to a large number of...
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It is a matter of fact that social ties drive communications during most of our daily activities. This observation has inspired research activities aimed at exploiting the properties of social networks to implement novel networking paradigms, applications models, and middleware platforms. In this work, we leverage social networking technologies and...