Summary of Research Activities

The activities carried out during my research career are in the general field of digital communication systems with particular attention to those in wireless environments. Scientific contributions are transversal to different types of systems, both traditional (point-to-point) and more advanced networking scenarios (with multiple users and ad-hoc communications).

  • Transmission and distributed detection in sensor networks

    • decentralized detection of physical phenomena

    • modeling and applications to IEEE 802.15.4 systems

    • clustered vehicular networks

  • Signal processing for sensor networks

    • efficient in-sensor signal processing

  • Transmission systems on non-ideal channels

    • low-complexity channel estimation in cellular networks

    • communications over the phase noise channel

    • communications of correlated sources over fading channels

  • Advanced applications for communication networks

    • high-accuracy localization in the Internet of Things (IoT)

    • heterogeneous networks and cognitive networking

    • network coding for fast data dissemination and storage

  • Audio signal processing

    • control of the acoustic field with applications to automotive scenarios

ON-GOING PROJECTS

  • Active Control of the Acoustic Regions in a Vehicle. Duration: 2020-2023. Sponsor: ASK Industries S.p.A. (Italy).PI: Riccardo Raheli (University of Parma, Italy).

COMPLETED PROJECTS

  • Next generation smart perception and distributed intelligence for proactive human monitoring in health, wellbeing, and automotive systems (NextPerception). Duration: 2020-2021. Sponsors: the European Commission and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, Università e Ricerca (MIUR, Italy) under the call H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-RIA-two-stage. Project no. 876487. Dr. Martalò acts as lead writer of the deliverable D1.1 “State of the Art Assessment.” PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Airborne DAta COllection on Resilient System Architectures (ADACORSA). Duration: 2020-2021. Sponsors: the European Commission and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, Università e Ricerca (MIUR, Italy) under the call H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-RIA-two-stage. Project no. 876019. PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Intelligent Secure Trustable Things (InSecTT). Duration: 2020-2021. Sponsors: the European Commission and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, Università e Ricerca (MIUR, Italy) under the call H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-IA-two-stage. Project no. 876038. PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica, CINI, Research Unit of Parma).

  • Cyber-Physical Systems for Safety in Production Plants with High Accident Risk with Integration of People/Objects Localization Technologies and Distributed Sensing Systems (CP-SEC). Duration: 2020-2021. Sponsor: Istituto Nazionale contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro (INAIL), Rome, Italy. PIs: Andrea Abrardo (University of Siena) and Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma)

  • Intelligent Antennas for 5G Vehicular Communications. Duration: 2019-2021. Sponsor: ASK Industries S.p.A. (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, CNIT, Research Unit of Parma, 2019-2020; University of Parma, 2020-2023).

  • Acoustic Field Control in a Vehicle Cabin. Duration: 2018-2021. Sponsor: ASK Industries S.p.A. (Italy).PI: Riccardo Raheli (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Aggregate Farming in the Cloud (AFarCloud). Duration: 2018-2021. Sponsors: the European Commission and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, Università e Ricerca (MIUR, Italy) under the call H2020-ECSEL-2017-2-RIA-two-stage. Project no. 783221. PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Acoustic Field Control in a Tractor Cabin. Duration: 2018-2020. Sponsor: Argo Tractors (Italy). Co-PIs: Angelo Farina and Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Prototype Design for Hybrid Radio/Inertial Navigation. Duration: 2019-2020. Sponsor: things2i S.r.l (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Outdoor/Indoor Localization in 5G Networks. Duration: 2018-2020. Sponsor: Huawei Ltd. (China), through the Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP), open call. Agreement No: HO2018085132. PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Analysis and Design of a Localization and Tracking Algorithm. Duration: 2017-2019. Sponsor: Elettric80 S.p.A. (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Advanced Digital Audio Processing Algorithms. Duration: 2014. Sponsor: MOVYM S.r.l. (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (CNIT, Research Unit of Parma).

  • Communication technologies for heterogeneous wireless networks for IoT and M2M scenarios, applied to the creation of intelligent cities and innovative services for the citizens in urban environment (SMART CITY). Duration: 2013-2015. Sponsor: Spinner2013, Regione Emilia-Romagna (50%) and University of Parma (50%). Three-year PhD scholarship assigned to Andrea Gorrieri. Scientific advisor: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Phase Noise Suppression and Frequency Jumps Mitigation Algorithms. Duration: 2012-2013. Sponsor: Huawei GmbH (Germany). PI: Riccardo Raheli (University of Parma, Italy). Cross-Network Effective Traffic Alerts Dissemination (X-NETAD). Duration: 2011-2012. Sponsors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy) and The Israeli Industry Center for R&D (Israel) under the “Israel-Italy Joint Innovation Program for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation in R&D.” Partners: University of Parma and Guglielmo (Italy); Cellint (Israel). PI for the Italian side: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Design and Implementation of Advanced Vertical Handover Algorithms for HSPDA and Wi-Fi Networks. Duration: 2009-2010. Sponsor: Guglielmo S.r.l. (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Low-Complexity Localization in Indoor Scenarios. Sponsor: Regione Emilia-Romagna, through Spinner2013 funding. Duration: 2009. Collaborating company: Elsag Datamat (Italy). One-year scholarship assigned to Dr. Marco Martalò. Scientific tutor: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Algorithm for Audio Signature Detection. Duration: 2008-2009. Sponsor: Elsag Datamat (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • RFID-based System for Supply Chain Management. Duration: 2006-2007. Sponsor: Id-Solutions (Italy). PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).

  • Cooperative Remote Interconnected Measurement Systems Over Networks (CRIMSON). Duration: 2006-2008. Sponsor: Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) through PRIN funding. PI: Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy).