Mauro Tropea

• University of Calabria

Stormwater management is a crucial environmental and public health issue, particularly in urban areas, where impervious surfaces limit rainwater infiltration into the soil. Traditional stormwater management systems have limitations in detecting and predicting the behavior of runoff, which can lead to flooding. This study focuses on using the Intern...

Research on unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones or by the acronym UAVs, has been increasing in recent years [...]

Strategic integration of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and IoT (Internet of Things) into VANET infrastructure is crucial for ensuring vehicular safety, mobility management, and vehicular applications. The integration collects information on traffic and road conditions without relying on traditional internet connectivity. It also addresses applica...

In recent years, drones have become increasingly prevalent in a wide range of applications, performing complex and critical tasks. To accomplish these tasks, drones cooperate by forming a Flying Ad-Hoc Network (FANET) using specific routing protocols for communication. However, most of the routing protocols used in this type of network lack appropr...

In recent years, drones have become increasingly prevalent in a wide range of applications, performing complex and critical tasks. To accomplish these tasks, drones cooperate by forming a Fly Ad-hoc Network (FANET) using specific routing protocols for communication. However, most of the routing protocols used in this type of network lack appropriat...

Virtual private network (VPN) represents an HW/SW infrastructure that implements private and confidential communication channels that usually travel through the Internet. VPN is currently one of the most reliable technologies to achieve this goal, also because being a consolidated technology, it is possible to apply appropriate patches to remedy an...

This paper presents an automatic recognition system for classifying stones belonging to different Calabrian quarries (Southern Italy). The tool for stone recognition has been developed in the SILPI project (acronym of “Sistema per l’Identificazione di Lapidei Per Immagini”), financed by POR Calabria FESR-FSE 2014-2020. Our study is based on the Con...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are networks of small devices with limited resources which are able to collect different information for a variety of purposes. Energy and security play a key role in these networks and MAC aspects are fundamental in their management. The classical security approaches are not suitable in WSNs given the limited resour...

As demands on the network continue to grow, it is increasingly important to upgrade the existing infrastructure in order to offer higher bandwidth and service level guarantees to users. Next generation networks (NGNs) represent a fully IP-based architecture that is able to support different technologies. In this context, the satellite networks are...

The world of telecommunications, from some years, is revitalizing an high interest to Deep Space Communication (DSC) and Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) architecture as enabling technologies to offer internet services for aerospace vehicles or orbital stations. The communications between the planets in the solar system is well known to present a serie...

Many studies in literature have shown that the bandwidth of an ongoing flow can dynamically change during multimedia sessions and an efficient bandwidth allocation scheme must be employed. This paper focuses its attention on the management of predictive services in Wireless Infrastructure Dynamic Networks. In particular, two classes of service are...

With the rise of both embedded technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) integration, it is increasingly possible to realize complex systems in which, for example, vehicles are connected to the IoT domain capable of interacting directly with applications on mobile or embedded devices. In this work, a Machine to Machine (M2M) based platform able...

A novel carrier sense multiple access strategy with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) balancing contention probability and channel access time is proposed. The approach can be applied to any context where the computational simplicity of the MAC must be preferred to the complexity of the channel access strategy. Our MAC, called Delay-Collision CSMA (DC-...

In this paper, some collision avoidance systems based on MEC in a VANET environment are proposed and investigated. Micro services at edge are considered to support service continuity in vehicle communication and advertising. This considered system makes use of cloud and edge computing, allowing to switch communication from edge to cloud server and...

Vehicle positioning is becoming an important issue related to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). Novel vehicles and autonomous vehicles need to be localized under different weather conditions and it is important to have a reliable positioning system to track vehicles. Satellite navigation systems can be a key technology in providing global...

One of the main characteristics of the DVB-S2/S2X standard is the capability of using the Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) technique. Differently from Variable Coding and Modulation (VCM), ACM provides a feedback path in the return channel for dynamically varying protection error levels in accordance with different channel conditions. In this a...

This paper presents a novel data dissemination strategy called Geographic Energy-aware Epidemic Routing (GEER) for Mobile Opportunistic Networks. This routing scheme considers the residual node energy and the node degree to dynamically decide if forwarding or not data to encountered mobile nodes. Moreover, a buffer management policy is applied to p...

From many years, the methods to defend against Denial of Service attacks have been very attractive from different point of views, although network security is a large and very complex topic. Different techniques have been proposed and so-called packet marking and IP tracing procedures have especially demonstrated a good capacity to face different m...

In this work, the impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) virus in Italy is presented. This pandemic disease determined a crisis and national emergency in all parts of the world. A short vision of measures taken by the Italian Government with a view on information and communication technologies (ICT) that could allow a better management o...

The work focuses on the problem of multiple robots coordination in search and rescue mission. In particular, decentralized swarm techniques, that use mechanisms based on Swarm Intelligence, are presented. Essentially, two approaches are compared. The first uses a one-hop communication mechanism to spread locally the information among the robots and...

In the last decade, the attention on unmanned aerial vehicles has rapidly grown, due to their ability to help in many human activities. Among their widespread benefits, one of the most important uses regards the possibility of distributing wireless connectivity to many users in a specific coverage area. In this study, we focus our attention on thes...

Security in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) is a critical challenge. The purpose of this work is to model and evaluate a dynamic IoT security system based on a generic IoT edge network in which nodes exchange messages through the Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. This work aims to increase MQTT security by mitigating data t...

A QoS routing to select the best paths among Drones supporting incoming calls and multimedia traffic in emergency or critical situations is proposed. In situations where drones' teams are requested to cover areas where mobile users can need to communicate under the absence of network infrastructure, a self-organized on-the fly network becomes an es...

In the last few years, we witnessed numerous episodes of terrorist attacks and menaces in public crowded places. The necessity of better surveillance in these places pushed the development of new automated solutions to spot and notify possible menaces as fast as possible. In this work, we propose a novel approach to create a decentralized architect...

In the last years, vehicular networking has grown up in terms of interest and transmission capability, due to the possibility of exploiting the distributed communication paradigm in a mobile scenario, where moving nodes are represented by vehicles. The different existing standards for vehicular ad-hoc networks, such as DSRC, WAVE/IEEE802.11p, have...

The paper proposes a bio-inspired coordination protocol for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) management in the agriculture domain. In precision agriculture the presence of parasites or the sudden climatic changes represent an important issue for farmers because of the degradation of crops and cultivation quality. Then, the use of the new technologie...

In this chapter a cooperative heterogeneous system for an enhanced video-surveillance service will be presented. Edge and fog computing architectures make possible the realization of even more complex and distributed services. Moreover, the distribution of sensors and devices gives us the possibility to increase the knowledge of the monitored envir...

The aim of this chapter is to provide an application of UAV to support the agricultural domain in monitoring the land for checking and countering the presence of parasites that can damage the crop. However, to properly manage a UAVs team, equipped with multiple sensors and actuators, it is necessary to test these technologies and design proper stra...

Nowadays, the research on vehicular computing enhanced a very huge amount of services and protocols, aimed to vehicles security and comfort. The investigation of the IEEE802.11p, Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) and Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) standards gave to the scientific world the chance to integrate new services...

Recently, the interest of research is going to be focused on the emerging vehicular ad-hoc networks paradigm. In these networks, vehicles communicate with each other and have the possibility of exploiting a distributed approach, typical of ad-hoc networks, which allow mobile nodes (vehicles) to communicate with each other. Thanks to the different s...

Nowadays, the interest in mobile communications is growing rapidly in a significant manner due to the high level of devices development, which permits the achievement of good objectives in terms of QoS for user satisfaction during active data flows. The increasing mobile client populations use different mobile devices to access the wireless medium...

Given the recent computation technologies and dedicated systems able to analyze huge amounts of “real-world” data and to extract information from it, the application possibilities reached in wireless mobile systems have significantly increased. The availability of mobile information, directly extracted from mobility traces, can be used to enhance t...

In wireless networking the main desire of end-users is to take advantage of satisfactory services, in terms of QoS, especially when they pay for a required need. Many efforts have been made to investigate how the continuity of services can be guaranteed in QoS networks, where users can move from one cell to another one. The introduction of a predic...

The employment of an appropriate Bandwidth Management Scheme (BMS) is needed in wireless networking, given that the main desire of end-users is to take advantage of satisfactory services, in terms of Quality of Service (QoS), especially when a particular charge is paid to meet the requirement. In this paper the authors are interested in investigati...

In the modern Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) based systems even more applications require lot of data to be exchanged among vehicles and infrastructure entities. Due to mobility issues and unplanned events that may occurs it is important that contents should be transferred as fast as possible by taking into account consistence of the exchanged d...

In the last years the physical security in transportation systems is becoming a critical issue due to the high number of accidents and emergency situations. With the increasing availability of technological applications in vehicular environments researchers aimed at minimizing the probability of road accidents. In this paper, we propose a new platf...

This work focuses on the return channel resource allocation in the DVB-RCS/RCS2 system for mobile terminals. A continuous carrier (CC) operation mode based on DVB-S2/S2X is considered and investigated. The paper focuses on the possibility of transmitting simultaneously in multifrequency???time division multiple access (MF-TDMA) or single channel pe...

This chapter proposes a new approach, based on Complex Networks modeling, to alleviate the limitations of wireless communications. In fact, many recent studies have demonstrated that telecommunication networks can be well modeled as complex ones, instead of using the classic approach based on graph theory. The study of Complex Networks is a young a...

Recently, vehicular networking has grown up in terms of interest and transmission capability, due to the possibility of exploiting the distributed communication paradigm in a mobile scenario, where moving nodes are represented by vehicles. The different existing standards for vehicular ad-hoc networks, such as DSRC, WAVE/IEEE 802.11p, have given to...

In this work, we present a new channel modeling approach for vehicular networks, where there are frequent topology changes due to a high grade of mobility. The Markov-based trace analysis is used to analyze packet error rate degradation dynamics in relation to both Doppler shift and signal to noise ratio. After the model definition, we applied an a...

Vehicular networking is rapidly growing in the last years, due to its ability of enhancing users everyday-life, in terms of comfort, security and QoS. New services are being implemented and the research activity on the topic is embracing different OSI layers, like the network and application ones. Many efforts have been also given at the PHY layer....

Recent studies have demonstrated that telecommunication networks can be well modeled as complex ones, instead of the classic approach based on graph theory. The study of complex networks is a young and active area of scientific research inspired largely by the empirical study of real-world networks such as computers and social networks. In this pap...

Recent years have been characterized by an increase in the air traffic. More attention over micro-economic and macroeconomic indexes would be strategic to gather and enhance the safety of a flight and customer needing, for communicating by wireless handhelds on-board aircrafts. Thus, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) proposed a...

In last years there have been a growing interest for cellular networking, due to the availability of different mobile applications and the explosion of mobile devices utilization. If managed in an adequate way, cellular systems with mobile hosts can offer excellent performance and satisfactory QoS levels. In order to avoid service degradations, it...

Nowadays, distributed mobile wireless computing is becoming a very important communications paradigm, due to its flexibility to adapt to different mobile applications. Routing operations assume a crucial importance in system optimization, especially when considering dense urban areas, where interference effects cannot be neglected. The implementati...

Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) represent a particular mobile technology that permits the communication among vehicles, offering security and comfort. Nowadays, distributed mobile wireless computing is becoming a very important communications paradigm, due to its flexibility to adapt to different mobile applications. VANETs are a practical examp...

The main desire of end-users of a telecommunication system is to take advantage of satisfactory services, in terms of Quality of Service (QoS), especially when they pay for a required needing. Unfortunately, when hosts are moving into an infrastructured network, it is very important to mitigate hand-over effects, which may cause heavy flow degradat...

Satellite communications represent an important slice of the global communications sector thanks to their broadcast nature. Unfortunately, TCP used on satellite links suffers from a number of well-known performance issues, especially for high altitude satellites with longer delays. In this paper, a new TCP protocol is proposed. This new protocol ar...

The utilization of the Return Channel Satellite (RCS) in DVB systems allows a bi-directional communication via satellite. With this particular characteristic, DVB-RCS systems promoted its enormous diffusion in the commercial area and the academic research interest and, in this context, it is very important to test DVB-RCS systems using an efficient...

In last years, wireless networking is becoming very popular because it is able to satisfy user requests in terms of Quality of Service (QoS); when mobility is present, perhaps, hand-over issues are relevant when hosts change coverage areas during their active sessions. It is very important to mitigate mobility effects, employing an appropriate band...

In last years, wireless networking is becoming very popular because it is able to satisfy user requests in terms of Quality of Service (QoS); when mobility is present, perhaps, hand-over issues are relevant when hosts change coverage areas during their active sessions. It is very important to mitigate mobility effects, employing an appropriate band...

DVB-RCS is an open satellite communications standard allowing a bi-directional communication via satellite. These characteristics certainly promoted its enormous diffusion in the commercial area and the academic research interest. In this context, it is very important to test DVB-RCS systems using an efficient satellite channel model. In the litera...

The request of multicast services is increased in exponential manner in these last few years and in particular in the field of multimedia services. Multicast can reduce resources allocation and enhance network performances in terms of QoS, especially in a wireless platforms where the bandwidth is a precious resource. The problem of multicast routing...

In this paper an attempt to evaluate the performance of different versions of TCP over satellite link has been performed. The throughput of the protocols has been graphed and considerations have been carried out. The considered protocols can be divided in two main categories: terrestrial protocols and satellite protocols. In the terrestrial categor...

The new standard for DVB-RCS includes guidelines for mobile user in the market of aircraft, maritime and terrestrial transportation. The standard proposed by ETSI suggests the possibility of using a continuous carrier operation mode in the return channel, beside the classical MF-TDMA mode for better adapting the satellite bandwidth to the new reque...

Nowadays, mobile service requests in wireless networking are aimed to the benefit of a good level of satisfaction for the received Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In this paper, a new prediction algorithm is proposed, for the pre-reservation of passive bandwidth, when mobile users moves under radio coverage that can be considered as a cellular...

In wireless networking, users mobility has a heavy impact on QoS parameters and the existing architectures for real-time services with motionless hosts become inadequate for QoS management. In particular Doppler shift and multipath fading introduce some degradations in wireless transmissions. For these reasons, the management of real-time flows and...

In the last years, there has been a lot of research and development in wireless networking and mobility management. We focus our attention on the management of real-time flows, in particular on the management of hand-over events, in terms of bandwidth guarantee and service continuity when the system is dealing with Mobility Independent Predictive (...

Vehicular communication systems represent one of the most desirable technologies when the safety, efficiency and comfort of everyday road travel need to be improved. The main advantage is the absence of an infrastructure, typical of centralized networks, that makes them very scalable and adequate for highly-variable network topologies. Vehicular Ad...

An important suggestion of the standard for DVB-RCS+M is the possibility of using a continuous carrier operation mode in the return channel beyond the classical MF-TDMA mode. In order to realize it a mechanism for switching between these two modalities has to be used. In this paper, after showing the typologies of applications considered in the sim...

The new standard for DVB-RCS includes guidelines for mobile user in the market of aircraft, maritime and terrestrial. The standard suggests the possibility of using, in this scenario, a continuous carrier operation mode in the return channel beside the classical MF-TDMA mode. In this context it can be important a mechanism for switching between the...

The new DVB-S2 standard, introduced by ETSI, is mainly based on three key concepts: best transmission performance, total flexibility and reasonable receiver complexity. The Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) scheme is the tecnique allowing to achieve these main goals. In particular, this tecnique allows to adapt the modulation and code levels, pe...

In this chapter an analysis of the multimedia traffic over Wireless and Satellite networks has been shown. The importance of managing multimedia applications nowadays in the overall networks is an incontrovertible fact of our life. Moreover, the rapid increased use of mobile terminal together with video and audio services have pushed the research a...