Enrico Bassetti

• Ph.D.
• Research fellow at European Space Agency

LoRa is a promising technology in the current Internet of Things market, which operates in un-licensed bands achieving long-range communications and with ultra power devices. In this work we capitalize on the idea introduced in [1], i.e. balance the Air-Time of the different modulation spreading factors (SF), and adapt it to operate in a typical me...

Security and dependability of devices are paramount for the IoT ecosystem. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol (MQTT) is the de facto standard and the most common alternative for those limited devices that cannot leverage HTTP. However, the MQTT protocol was designed with no security concern since initially designed for private networks of...

Since the origins of the Internet, various vulnerabilities exploiting the IP fragmentation process have plagued IPv4 protocol, many leading to a wide range of attacks. IPv6 modified the handling of fragmentations and introduced a specific extension header, not solving the related problems, as proved by extensive literature. One of the primary sourc...

Since the origins of the Internet, various vulnerabilities exploiting the IP fragmentation process have plagued IPv4 protocol, many leading to a wide range of attacks. IPv6 modified the handling of fragmentations and introduced a specific extension header, not solving the related problems, as proved by extensive literature. One of the primary sourc...

When an earthquake occurs, it is crucial to quickly estimate its epicenter coordinates and the most affected areas to inform rescue decision-making. Current seismological services perform this estimation relying on centralized processing. On the other hand, we propose a fully decentralized architecture that uses edge computation on a network of sen...

Cruising-for-parking in an urban area is a time-consuming and frustrating activity. We present four machine learning-based models to predict the parking availability of street segments in an urban area on a three-level scale, which navigator and smart-parking apps can exploit to ease and reduce the cruising phase. The models were trained with data...

State-of-the-art Earthquake Early Warning systems rely on a network of sensors connected to a fusion center in a client–server paradigm. The fusion center runs different algorithms on the whole data set to detect earthquakes. Instead, we propose moving computation to the edge, with detector nodes that probe the environment and process information f...

Smartphone sensors can collect data in many different contexts. They make it feasible to obtain large amounts of data at little or no cost because most people own mobile phones. In this work, we focus on collecting motion data in the car using a smartphone. Motion sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, can help obtain information about the...

Smartphone sensors can collect data in many different contexts. They make it feasible to obtain large amounts of data at little or no cost because most people own mobile phones. In this work, we focus on the collection of smartphone data in the car. Motion sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, can help obtain information about the vehicle...

Earthquake Early Warning state of the art systems rely on a network of sensors connected to a fusion center in a client-server paradigm. Instead, we propose moving computation to the edge, with detector nodes that probe the environment and process information from nearby probes to detect earthquakes locally. Our approach tolerates multiple node fau...

On-street parking places parallel to the curb have variable lengths, depending on the size of the car that emptied the place. Thus, a Smart Parking system should publish such places only to drivers whose car is shorter than the available parking length. We developed a crowdsourced Smart Parking app, based on implicit interaction, intending to publi...

Security and dependability of devices are paramount for the IoT ecosystem. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol (MQTT) is the de facto standard and the most common alternative for those limited devices that cannot leverage HTTP. However, the MQTT protocol was designed with no security concern since initially designed for private networks of...

Networks of IoT devices often require configuration and definition of behavior by the final user. Node-RED is a flow-based programming platform commonly used for End User Development, but it requires networking and protocols skills in order to be efficiently used. We add a level of abstraction to Node-RED nodes in order to allow non-skilled users t...

Networks of IoT devices often require configuration and definition of behavior by the final user. Node-RED is a flow-based programming platform commonly used for End User Development, but it requires networking and protocols skills in order to be efficiently used. We add a level of abstraction to Node-RED nodes in order to allow non-skilled users t...

LoRa is a promising technology in the current Internet of Things market, which operates in un-licensed bands achieving long-range communications and with ultra power devices. In this work we capitalize on the idea introduced in [1], i.e. balance the Air-Time of the different modulation spreading factors (SF), and adapt it to operate in a typical me...