Simone Morosi

Simone Morosi
University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione

Ph.D.

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Introduction
Simone Morosi currently works at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Florence. Simone does research in Telecommunications Engineering.
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July 2013 - present
University of Florence
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  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (168)
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The Internet of Things (IoT), namely, the set of intelligent devices equipped with sensors and actuators and capable of connecting to the Internet, has now become an integral part of the most competitive industries, as it enables optimization of production processes and reduction in operating costs and maintenance time, together with improving the...
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This paper describes the integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks, wherein space-based network entities collaborate with traditional and emerging terrestrial communication frameworks to furnish pervasive, resilient, and three-dimensional wireless connectivity worldwide toward the 6th Generation of communication networks. This integra...
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Future digital services should follow the user anywhere and be personalized/customized on his/her specific requests. Thus, future connectivity networks should face an unprecedented demand of digital services on mobility, together with a high variability of requirements and specializations. One of the most promising methods to provide such flexible...
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This chapter aims at providing an overview of the activities and goals of the Italian National project ITA NTN (Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks) that has been proposed and funded in the framework of the EU initiative defined as the Italian National Resilience and Restart Program. Therefore it presents an overview of the upcoming...
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Nowadays more than ever, we are witnessing an astonishing design and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions applied to a very wide set of problems and systems. Even if some of these techniques were already known, the world technological level was not high enough to guarantee their useful development in a wide set of application...
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The space is going to become an unsafe place to operate. The amount of active and passive space objects (satellites and debris) that are concentrated in some orbits represents a treat. In such a crowded environment, spectrum management becomes more complex and the probability to operate with high level of interference increases. It is becoming more...
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Roads are a strategic asset of a country and are of great importance for the movement of passengers and goods. Increasing traffic volume and load, together with the aging of roads, creates various types of anomalies on the road surface. This work proposes a low-cost system for real-time screening of road pavement conditions. Acceleration signals pr...
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In this article, a smart pedestrian navigation system is developed to be implemented in a common smartphone. The main phases that characterize a pedestrian navigation system that is based on dead reckoning are introduced. A suitable Phase-Locked Loop is designed and the algorithm to estimate the direction of the user’s motion between one step and t...
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Nowadays, the debate involving climate change concerns safeguarding the water resources of the planet, an extremely important topic also in agriculture. In particular, the problem of scarce water availability becomes more and more pressing every year and at the agronomic level it is necessary to make intelligent use of water without affecting the q...
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The last decades have been characterized by an exponential increase in digital services. The demand is foreseen to further increase in the next years, and mobile networks will have to mandatorily supply connections to enable digital services with very different requirements, from ultra high speed to ultra low latency. The deployment and the coexist...
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Purpose. To investigate the influence of LOS/NLOS conditions on the radio signal propagation and the possibility of interference mitigation by using multi-frequency method of transmitting and receiving for positioning tasks in enclosed spaces. To check the difference in measurement accuracy when receiving a signal at one frequency from receiving a...
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The ever-increasing energy consumption of mobile networks has concerned operators about their growing network running costs. Among the different segments of mobile networks, base stations (BSs) have a major energy consumption share. To reduce BS consumption, BS components with similar (de)activation times can be grouped and put into sleep during th...
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The analysis of the electrophysiological activity of plants permits a real-time information of the plant status (e.g. light availability and water stress). However, even though it is clear that the role of the electrical signals in plant is crucial, especially in processes involving the propagation of rapid signals, a systematic approach for the in...
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This paper reports and discusses the results of a measurement campaign of an ultra-wide band positioning (UWB) system for monitoring players in sports. In particular, the present work aims to investigate how the location of the tag worn on the player’s body affects the system performance in a five-a-side football scenario. Four static UWB receivers...
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This work presents the performance evaluation of an ultra-wide band (UWB) positioning system for monitoring athletes in sports. Focusing on a five-a-side football scenario, the objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the proposed UWB positioning system by considering three different heights of the receiver antenna: 1 m, 1.6 m and...
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This paper deals with the description of an effective solution for tele-monitoring and tele-assistance of diabetics patients which resorts to the use of the recently launched 5G cellular networks. The proposed solution allows the provision of a tele-monitoring service for chronic diabetic patients, which provides proactive remote interaction of the...
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Recently, the availability of innovative and affordable COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) technological solutions and the ever-improving results of microelectronics and microsystems technologies have enabled the design of ever smaller yet ever more powerful satellites. The emergence of very capable small satellites heralds an era of new opportunities...
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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2019, held in Florence, Italy, in October 2019. The 27 papers presented were selected from 54 submissions and issue new technologies to provide trustable measuring and communications mechanisms from the data source...
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A key point of Fifth Generation (5G) wireless networking will be the exploitation of higher frequency bands in the millimeter wave (mm-Wave) spectrum to provide unprecedented data rates to mobile users. In such a perspective, the PHYsical (PHY) layer design priorities should be reconsidered. In this paper, we investigate Constant-Envelope Multicarr...
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Effective answers to the major problems in society can be achieved by resorting to the integration of telecommunication platforms, heterogeneous systems of localization, and sensing capabilities and intelligent objects [1]. Particularly, the pursuit of long term technological solutions has to be made with the support of a revolutionary multidiscipl...
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In this paper an end-to-end proof of concept of a low complexity CubeSat-based network architecture for alert dissemination is presented. The adoption of a CubeSat for alert messages broadcasting, of MAMES (Multiple Alert Message Encapsulation over Satellite) as alert messages transport protocol and of a satellite Portable SDR (Software Defined Rad...
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In this paper an end-to-end proof of concept of a low complexity CubeSatbased network architecture for alert dissemination is presented. The adoption of a CubeSat for alert messages broadcasting, of MAMES (Multiple Alert Message Encapsulation over Satellite) as alert messages transport protocol and of a satellite Portable SDR (Software Defined Radi...
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In this paper an end-to-end proof of concept of a low complexity CubeSat-based network architecture for alert dissemination is presented. The adoption of a CubeSat for alert messages broadcasting, of MAMES (Multiple Alert Message Encapsulation over Satellite) as alert messages transport protocol and of a satellite Portable SDR (Software Defined Rad...
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This paper introduces a weighted context-based step length estimation algorithm for pedestrian dead reckoning. Six pedestrian contexts are considered: stationary, walking, walking sideways, climbing and descending stairs, and running. Instead of computing the step length based on a single context, the step lengths computed for different contexts ar...
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Reliability and effectiveness are essential features of satellite transceivers for telemetry and telecommand applications. Modem performance has a strong impact on the success of a satellite mission, in particular, during critical scenarios as the early operation phase, the disposal of a satellite at the end of its life, or the deep-space missions....
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Cellular networks are optimized by targeting multiple objectives. Usually, the different objectives are not coherent: minimizing the transmit power; the number of base station (BS) sleep-mode switchings, ie, active/sleep state transitions; and the activity of the BSs and guaranteeing the quality-of-service (QoS) of users. Hence, suitable trade-offs...
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The modems for telemetry and telecommand applications are a key component in each satellite system: they shall guarantee reliable and effective performance during every mission phases including also critical scenarios such as the control operation of the satellite while it is placed into its orbit, the disposal of a satellite at the end of its life...
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The provision of enhanced augmented reality services to mobile users based on the Human Bond Communication (HBC) paradigm will rely on the definition of a high performance and highly reconfigurable network architecture for the exchange of sensory information. A network capable of securely and efficiently transmitting data, incorporating all the fiv...
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Recently, the concern about energy efficiency in wireless communications has been growing rapidly. Manufacturers and researchers have developed innovative solutions, highlighting the benefits in reducing operational expenditures (OPEX) and carbon footprint. Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) systems, like Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), have been d...
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In this paper, we propose and assess an mm-Wave communication system that is based on the use of constantenvelope multicarrier modulation format, namely ConstantEnvelope OFDM (CE-OFDM) : particularly, in order to establish a preliminary assessment of the affordable performance, we propose and design a Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) slotted ar...
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Physical-layer security is now being considered for information protection in future wireless communications. However, a better understanding of the inherent secrecy of wireless systems under more realistic conditions, with a specific attention to the relative energy consumption costs, has to be pursued. This paper aims at proposing new analysis to...
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In mission critical scenarios, fast and correct data reception is a crucial feature of telecommunication systems: particularly, to cope with unknown and fast variable channel state condition, with large Doppler shifts and low available power, incoherent and computationally light modulation techniques have to be considered. This paper deals with the...
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This paper presents a peer-to-peer cooperative positioning technique together with its performance assessment. The cooperation between the two GPS receivers is realized by means of a wireless LAN connection and is significantly influenced by the accurateness of the synchronization between the two terminals. Both the outdoor-to-indoor and outdoor-to...
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In the near future the capability of the human beings to communicate sensations is going to be enhanced by incorporating the five sensory features in the messages and allowing more expressive and holistic sensory information exchange through communication techniques. The human bond communication (HBC) is currently a vision, but it is expected to be...
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Nowadays, activity recognition is a central topic in numerous applications such as patient and sport activity monitoring, surveillance, and navigation. By focusing on the latter, in particular Pedestrian Dead Reckoning navigation systems, activity recognition is generally exploited to get landmarks on the map of the buildings in order to permit the...
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In the last years, Activity Recognition (AR) has drawn the attention of many researchers in several fields such as user mobility identification and monitoring of patients and of daily activities. In the context of Dead Reckoning (DR) navigation systems, AR has been used so far to get landmarks on the map of the buldings and permit the calibration o...
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The electrical activity signals in plants can provide useful information to monitor environmental conditions, such as atmospheric pollution. Nonetheless the study of the relationship between environmental stimuli and electrical responses of plants is still a critical step in developing technologies that use plants as organic sensing devices. In thi...
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When a disaster occurs, the delivery of alerts to the population is a key element to prevent the loss of life and property and to increase the efficiency of precautionary measures. Advanced information and communication technologies enable new channels to reach people (e.g. mobile phones, Internet connected devices, smart TVs). Satellite systems re...
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The future pervasive communication ecosystem can improve and enhance the quality of our everyday lives by increasing comfort and safety perception, and improving interaction and conditions of activities: remarkable quality and performance will be afforded by the synergistic use of communication, positioning, and monitoring techniques, provided by m...
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This paper deals with an adaptive multiuser detector for DS-CDMA (Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access) wireless communication systems, whose main features are low complexity and joint utilization of the time diversity and blind adaptive processing techniques. The proposed multiuser detector, defined as Pre-combining Advanced Blind Adaptiv...
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Point-to-point communications occur between a single transmitter and a single receiver. In this chapter, we focus on multiuser communications, that occur between a network of fixed and/or mobile users and a common network center probably having access to a wireline network infrastructure. Multiuser communications in a satellite scenario usually ref...
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When a disaster occurs, the delivery of alerts to the population is a key element to prevent the loss of life and property and to increase the efficiency of precautionary measures. Advanced information and communication technologies enable new channels to reach people (e.g. mobile phones, Internet connected devices, smart TVs). Satellite systems re...
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This paper aims at providing a thorough analysis of the energy efficiency of the TeTRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) private cellular system. In particular some effective dynamic radio resource management solutions are presented, highlighting the impact on daily energy consumption. Moreover, the potential benefits of the transition which can be envis...
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Since pilot based channel estimation techniques are commonly used in OFDM systems, the determination of the mean square error (MSE) in the time-frequency domain for these algorithms can provide an effective and general tool to be used to compare all the different approaches. The findings of this paper allow to determine the most suitable strategies...
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The objective of increasing the Energy Efficiency of communication systems must cope with a sustained growth of the market, a greater penetration of broadband services in everyday life, higher data rate services and a large increase of the number of mobile subscriptions. In this scenario, a particular attention has to be devoted to energy saving st...
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Aiming at increasing the satellite link performance, advanced modulation techniques have been thoroughly studied. On the other hand, reliable transmission techniques with a low computational overhead are pursued for many applications in critical scenarios such as: control operation of a satellite while it is placed into its orbit, the disposal of a...
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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is widely used in modern communication systems thanks to the ease of its implementation as well as to a simple design of channel estimation methods. Pilot-based schemes are commonly employed to recover channel information and implement efficient channel equalisation. From the symbols transmitted ove...
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The objective of this paper is the derivation in a closed form of the channel estimation mean square error (MSE) expression in the time-frequency domain for OFDM systems, providing a general tool that can be applied to all linear channel estimation algorithms. The proposed method can be used to identify the best channel estimation algorithms, and t...
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In this work, a peer-to-peer cooperative positioning technique is presented, implemented and tested. Cooperation between two Global Positioning System (GPS) software-defined receivers is realized by resorting to an ad-hoc WLAN. The performance of aided acquisition and positioning algorithms with fine and coarse time assistance is evaluated. The fin...
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Nowadays, the pursuit of energy efficiency is one of the main challenges of present and future mobile communications. The growth of the mobile communication market which has been increased by the proliferation of smartphones and laptops and the rising of data traffic subscriptions claims for an improvement of network capacity and, consequently, of...
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In this letter, we propose frequency domain receivers for an IEEE 802.15.4a short-range communication network: the uplink case is taken into account, considering a scenario where several devices communicate with a coordinator node. The channel model has been also derived according to the IEEE 802.15.4a recommendations. Results show that the propose...
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Restoring the connectivity in the emergency areas and providing NAV/COM services able to support and coordinate the rescue teams represent two of the main telecommunication needs for efficient emergency situation management. The SALICE (Satellite-Assisted LocalIzation and Communication system for Emergency services) Project aimed at identifying the...
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Energy efficiency is one of the main challenges to be faced by mobile communications in the near future. The growth of the mobile communications market which is boosted by the increasing penetration of smartphones and laptops requires an increase of the network capacity and, consequently, a great leap forward also for the infrastructures. In this s...
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The definition of LTE and LTE-Advanced standards aims at improving the performance of cellular networks with the final goal of a fair competition between wired and wireless communication systems. In order to guarantee excellent performance, one of the crucial challenge to cope with is the introduction of advanced channel estimation techniques for M...
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In this paper, a peer-to-peer cooperative algorithm with fine/coarse time acquisition and positioning has been implemented on GPS software-defined receivers. The benefits of the aiding information are considered. Moreover, experimental results evaluate the computational and accuracy performance in the acquisition and positioning processes, respecti...
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SUMMARY This paper deals with the cooperative strategies, which can be adopted in emergency scenarios by integrating space and terrestrial segments, and communication and localization services. First, the cooperative solutions for integrated Navigation and Communication systems are reviewed and an effective software-defined radio implementation is...
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Because of the environmental policies that pursue a significant reduction of global greenhouse gas and to the ambition of the network operators to keep under control operational and maintenance expenditures, energy efficiency has recently become one of the most relevant issues for present and future research activities. This contribution deals with...
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The context refers to “any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity, where an entity can be a person, place, or physical object.” Radio context awareness is defined as the ability of detecting and estimating a system state or parameter, either globally or concerning one of its components, in a radio system for enhanci...
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The objective of the reduction of the energy consumption in the next years has led the scientific community to investigate the possible solution to be adopted in the cellular networks: therefore, a huge attention is currently dedicated to the green radio techniques since even the future business models of the mobile telecom operators will be deeply...
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The RRM strategies and the deployment guidelines to be adopted in a multi-layer heterogeneous mobile network with the goal of the optimization of the Area Power Consumption are presented in this paper: in the considered scenarios, several radio environments are considered, the coverage is guaranteed by different cell types, and the capacity and blo...
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In this paper, the current trends and the most recent advancements in the utilization of aerospace communications for emergency rescue applications will be discussed, with a special focus on the integration of the aerospace segment with terrestrial backbones and ad hoc terrestrial networks for both data connections and assisted localization (inform...