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Paolo Bellavista

Paolo Bellavista

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
11413
World Ranking
6386
National Ranking
146

Paolo Bellavista publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paolo Bellavista sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 418 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Paolo Bellavista D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paolo Bellavista sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Paolo Bellavista is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has a significant body of research mainly within computer science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, information systems, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's research topics concentrate on areas such as IoT and edge/fog computing, digital transformation in industry, privacy-preserving technologies in data, blockchain technology applications and security, software-defined networks and 5G, human mobility and location-based analysis, and energy harvesting in wireless networks.

Frequent coauthors in Paolo Bellavista's research include:

  • Luca Foschini
  • Rebecca Montanari
  • Carlo Giannelli
  • Antonio Corradi
  • Armir Bujari

The scientist typically publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Access
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Some notable recent papers by Paolo Bellavista include:

  • "Vision-Based Semantic Segmentation in Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving: Recent Achievements, Challenges, and Outlooks" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • "AI and 6G Into the Metaverse: Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Research Trends" (2024), IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • "Application-Driven Network-Aware Digital Twin Management in Industrial Edge Environments" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • "Efficient Security and Authentication for Edge-Based Internet of Medical Things" (2020), IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • "Visual tracking in complex scenes: A location fusion mechanism based on the combination of multiple visual cognition flows" (2023), Information Fusion

Their research contributions have been recognized with awards such as the ACM Senior Member designation received in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Convergence of MANET and WSN in IoT Urban Scenarios

    Paolo Bellavista;Giuseppe Cardone;Antonio Corradi;Luca Foschini

  • Efficient Deep CNN-Based Fire Detection and Localization in Video Surveillance Applications

    Khan Muhammad;Jamil Ahmad;Zhihan Lv;Paolo Bellavista

  • Mobeyes: smart mobs for urban monitoring with a vehicular sensor network

    Uichin Lee;Biao Zhou;M. Gerla;E. Magistretti

  • A Software Defined Networking architecture for the Internet-of-Things

    Zhijing Qin;Grit Denker;Carlo Giannelli;Paolo Bellavista

  • A survey of context data distribution for mobile ubiquitous systems

    Paolo Bellavista;Antonio Corradi;Mario Fanelli;Luca Foschini

  • Fostering participaction in smart cities: a geo-social crowdsensing platform

    G. Cardone;L. Foschini;P. Bellavista;A. Corradi

  • Location-Based Services: Back to the Future

    P. Bellavista;A. Kupper;S. Helal

  • Dissemination and Harvesting of Urban Data Using Vehicular Sensing Platforms

    Uichin Lee;E. Magistretti;M. Gerla;P. Bellavista

  • A survey on fog computing for the Internet of Things

    Paolo Bellavista;Javier Berrocal;Antonio Corradi;Sajal K. Das

  • Mobile agent middleware for mobile computing

    P. Bellavista;A. Corradi;C. Stefanelli

  • Context-aware middleware for resource management in the wireless Internet

    P. Bellavista;A. Corradi;R. Montanari;C. Stefanelli

  • Feasibility of Fog Computing Deployment based on Docker Containerization over RaspberryPi

    Paolo Bellavista;Alessandro Zanni

  • A privacy-preserving cryptosystem for IoT E-healthcare

    Rafik Hamza;Rafik Hamza;Zheng Yan;Zheng Yan;Khan Muhammad;Paolo Bellavista

  • Vision-Based Semantic Segmentation in Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving: Recent Achievements, Challenges, and Outlooks

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  • Efficient data harvesting in mobile sensor platforms

    U. Lee;E. Magistretti;Biao Zhou;M. Gerla

  • The ubiquitous provisioning of internet services to portable devices

    P. Bellavista;A. Corradi;C. Stefanelli

  • Visual tracking in complex scenes: A location fusion mechanism based on the combination of multiple visual cognition flows

    Unknown

  • Application-Driven Network-Aware Digital Twin Management in Industrial Edge Environments

    Paolo Bellavista;Carlo Giannelli;Marco Mamei;Matteo Mendula

  • Efficient Security and Authentication for Edge-Based Internet of Medical Things

    Shabir A. Parah;Javaid A. Kaw;Paolo Bellavista;Nazir A. Loan

  • A Mobile Delay-Tolerant Approach to Long-Term Energy-Efficient Underwater Sensor Networking

    E. Magistretti;Jiejun Kong;Uichin Lee;M. Gerla

  • Container Orchestration Engines: A Thorough Functional and Performance Comparison

    Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh;Paolo Bellavista;Filippo Bosi;Luca Foschini

  • Efficient Exploitation of Mobile Edge Computing for Virtualized 5G in EPC Architectures

    Eleonora Cau;Marius Corici;Paolo Bellavista;Luca Foschini

  • Mobile social networking middleware: A survey

    Paolo Bellavista;Rebecca Montanari;Sajal K. Das

  • Context-aware handoff middleware for transparent service continuity in wireless networks

    Paolo Bellavista;Antonio Corradi;Luca Foschini

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Corradi
Antonio Corradi University of Bologna
Luca Foschini
Luca Foschini University of Bologna
Andrea Reale
Andrea Reale University of Rome Tor Vergata
Mario Gerla
Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angeles
Uichin Lee
Uichin Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jalel Ben-Othman
Jalel Ben-Othman Paris 13 University
Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis
Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis University of Western Macedonia
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine
Stefano Chessa
Stefano Chessa University of Pisa

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