2026 Gian Pietro Picco: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	57	3804	3699	77	75	222	14229

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2014 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Gian Pietro Picco is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research spans engineering and computer science, with a focus on computer networks, communications, and electrical engineering. The primary specialties include indoor and outdoor localization technologies, ultra-wideband communications technology, and wireless networks and protocols.

The scientist's work also covers Bluetooth and wireless communication technologies, COVID-19 digital contact tracing, human mobility and location-based analysis, and smart grid security and resilience.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Timofei Istomin, Amy L. Murphy, Davide Molteni, Pablo Corbalán, and Elia Leoni.

Gian Pietro Picco has published multiple papers in notable venues such as ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, IEEE Access, arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento).

Selected recent publications are:

Ultra-wideband concurrent ranging, 2020, Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
Self-Localization of Ultra-Wideband Anchors: From Theory to Practice, 2023, IEEE Access
Janus, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
The Wireless Control Bus: Enabling Efficient Multi-hop Event-Triggered Control with Concurrent Transmissions, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Measuring close proximity interactions in summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

The scientist holds the ACM Senior Member award received in 2014.

Best Publications

Understanding code mobility

A. Fuggetta;G.P. Picco;G. Vigna

1905
Citations
Socially-aware routing for publish-subscribe in delay-tolerant mobile ad hoc networks

P. Costa;C. Mascolo;M. Musolesi;G.P. Picco

686
Citations
LIME: Linda meets mobility

Gian Pietro Picco;Amy L. Murphy;Gruia-Catalin Roman

592
Citations
LIME: a middleware for physical and logical mobility

A.L. Murphy;G.P. Picco;G.-C. Roman

588
Citations
Programming wireless sensor networks: Fundamental concepts and state of the art

Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco

574
Citations
Designing distributed applications with mobile code paradigms

Antonio Carzaniga;Gian Pietro Picco;Giovanni Vigna

522
Citations
Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks: The Torre Aquila deployment

Matteo Ceriotti;Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco;Amy L. Murphy

504
Citations
LIME: A coordination model and middleware supporting mobility of hosts and agents

Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco;Gruia-Catalin Roman

402
Citations
Exploiting Code Mobility in Decentralized and Flexible Network Management

Mario Baldi;Silvano Gai;Gian Pietro Picco

333
Citations
Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks

Antonio Carzaniga;Luciano Baresi;Gino Biondini;Fabiano Cattaneo

263
Citations
Evaluating the tradeoffs of mobile code design paradigms in network management applications

Mario Baldi;Gian Pietro Picco

263
Citations
Software engineering for mobility: a roadmap

Gruia-Catalin Roman;Gian Pietro Picco;Amy L. Murphy

231
Citations
Reliable Communication for Highly Mobile Agents

Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco

223
Citations
Reliable communication for highly mobile agents

A.L. Murphy;G.P. Picco

223
Citations
TinyLIME: bridging mobile and sensor networks through middleware

C. Curino;M. Giani;M. Giorgetta;A. Giusti

214
Citations
Mobile agents: an introduction

Gian Pietro Picco

192
Citations
The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario

P. Costa;G. Coulson;R. Gold;M. Lad

188
Citations
Modeling and improving an industrial software process

S. Bandinelli;A. Fuggetta;L. Lavazza;M. Loi

183
Citations
Analyzing Mobile Code Languages

Gianpaolo Cugola;Carlo Ghezzi;Gian Pietro Picco;Giovanni Vigna

181
Citations
Logical neighborhoods: a programming abstraction for wireless sensor networks

Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco

180
Citations
Understanding code mobility (tutorial session)

Gian Pietro Picco

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy L. Murphy Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Luca Mottola Polytechnic University of Milan

Kay Römer Graz University of Technology

Gianpaolo Cugola Polytechnic University of Milan

Gruia-Catalin Roman University of New Mexico

Paolo Costa Microsoft (United States)

Florian Daniel Polytechnic University of Milan

Stamatis Karnouskos Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)

Fabio Casati University of Trento

Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge

External Links

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