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Luca Mottola is a researcher affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their work spans multiple disciplines within engineering and computer science, focusing primarily on wireless networks, embedded systems, and localization technologies.

The main fields of study for their research include engineering and computer science. Within these broader areas, their work delves into subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, computer networks and communications, aerospace engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, and hardware and architecture.

The research topics frequently addressed by Luca Mottola feature energy harvesting in wireless networks, advanced memory and neural computing, IoT and edge/fog computing, robotics and sensor-based localization, robotic path planning algorithms, green IT and sustainability, as well as cooperative communication and network coding.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Luca Mottola include the following:

  • Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless, 2020, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services, 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • The Internet of Batteryless Things, 2024, Communications of the ACM
  • Indoor Drone Localization and Tracking Based on Acoustic Inertial Measurement, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Acoustic Localization System for Precise Drone Landing, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Luca Mottola has collaborated extensively with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Thiemo Voigt, Marco Zimmerling, and Y. Z. Sun.

Their publications appear regularly in various venues, with the most frequent including arXiv (Cornell University), Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Best Publications

  • Radio link quality estimation in wireless sensor networks: A survey

    Nouha Baccour;Anis Koubâa;Luca Mottola;Marco Antonio Zúñiga

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

    Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco

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

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

  • Low-power wireless bus

    Federico Ferrari;Marco Zimmerling;Luca Mottola;Lothar Thiele

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

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

  • Logical neighborhoods: a programming abstraction for wireless sensor networks

    Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco

  • Towards lightweight information dissemination in inter-vehicular networks

    Paolo Costa;Davide Frey;Matteo Migliavacca;Luca Mottola

  • Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences

    Naveed Anwar Bhatti;Muhammad Hamad Alizai;Affan A. Syed;Luca Mottola

  • Not all wireless sensor networks are created equal: A comparative study on tunnels

    Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco;Matteo Ceriotti;Ştefan Gunǎ

  • pTunes: runtime parameter adaptation for low-power MAC protocols

    Marco Zimmerling;Federico Ferrari;Luca Mottola;Thiemo Voigt

  • MUSTER: Adaptive Energy-Aware Multisink Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

    L. Mottola;G. P. Picco

  • TeenyLIME: transiently shared tuple space middleware for wireless sensor networks

    Paolo Costa;Luca Mottola;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco

  • Programming wireless sensor networks with the TeenyLime middleware

    Paolo Costa;Luca Mottola;Amy L. Murphy;Gian Pietro Picco

  • Efficient routing from multiple sources to multiple sinks in wireless sensor networks

    Pietro Ciciriello;Luca Mottola;Gian Pietro Picco

  • HarvOS: efficient code instrumentation for transiently-powered embedded sensing

    Naveed Anwar Bhatti;Luca Mottola

  • A Self-Repairing Tree Topology Enabling Content-Based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    L. Mottola;G. Cugola;G.P. Picco

  • Reconfigurable Component-based Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems

    Paolo Costa;Geoff Coulson;Cecilia Mascolo;Luca Mottola

  • Adaptive Real-Time Communication for Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems

    Marco Zimmerling;Luca Mottola;Pratyush Kumar;Federico Ferrari

  • Making sensornet MAC protocols robust against interference

    Carlo Alberto Boano;Thiemo Voigt;Nicolas Tsiftes;Luca Mottola

  • The announcement layer: beacon coordination for the sensornet stack

    Adam Dunkels;Luca Mottola;Nicolas Tsiftes;Fredrik Österlind

  • Is there light at the ends of the tunnel? Wireless sensor networks for adaptive lighting in road tunnels

    Matteo Ceriotti;Michele Corra;Leandro D'Orazio;Roberto Doriguzzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Gian Pietro Picco
Gian Pietro Picco University of Trento
Amy L. Murphy
Amy L. Murphy Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Lothar Thiele
Lothar Thiele ETH Zurich
Carlo Ghezzi
Carlo Ghezzi Polytechnic University of Milan
Stamatis Karnouskos
Stamatis Karnouskos Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)
Kay Römer
Kay Römer Graz University of Technology
Luciano Baresi
Luciano Baresi Polytechnic University of Milan
Kamin Whitehouse
Kamin Whitehouse University of Virginia
Paolo Costa
Paolo Costa Microsoft (United States)
Cecilia Mascolo
Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge

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