Modern interconnected systems of systems, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), demand the presence of access and usage control mechanisms which will be able to manage the right of access to the corresponding services, and the plethora of information...
Distributed environments such as Internet of Things, have an increasing need of introducing access and usage control mechanisms, to manage the rights to perform specific operations and regulate the access to the plethora of information daily generated...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are offering new capabilities for a wide range of military and civilian applications. The interoperability of heterogeneous AUVs with different skills is critical to accomplish such complex tasks. Indeed, the...
Seamless authentication is a desired feature which is becoming more and more relevant, due to the distribution of personal and wearable mobile devices. With seamless authentication, biometric features such as human gait, become a way to control...
Human gait seamless continuous authentication, based on wearable accelerometers, is a novel biometric instrument which can be exploited to identify the user of mobile and wearable devices. In this paper, we present a study on recognition of user...
Parental Control functionalities currently included in Smart TVs, DBS decoders and Pay TV services are cumbersome to use, not flexible and, in the end, are seldom used. This paper presents a framework for dynamic enforcement of parental control policies...
The work analyses the cybersecurity weakness in state-of-art automotive in-vehicle networks and discusses possible countermeasures at architecture level. Due to stringent real-time constraints (throughput and latency) of fail-safe automotive...
Tenants in a cloud environment run services, such as Virtual Network Function instantiations, that may legitimately generate millions of packets per second. The hosting platform, hence, needs robust packet scheduling mechanisms that support these rates...
Chipless sensors are entirely passive devices whose electromagnetic signature is intelligible in time or frequency domain. The variations of the electromagnetic response of these devices can be used to sense environmental parameters at a very limited...
An extension of the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (UTD) has been recently proposed to analyze Complex-Source Beam (CSB) diffraction by a perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) wedge. In the context of high-frequency techniques, the proposed...
Several projects deploy probes in the Internet. Probes are systems that continuously perform traceroutes and other networking measurements (e.g., ping) towards selected targets. Measurements can be stored and analyzed to gain knowledge on several...
The Internet is constantly evolving and changing over time. Outages, attacks, upgrades, censorships, and policy changes modify the routing very frequently everywhere in the world. To give the possibility to the Internet Service Providers and to the...
Bipedal robots have gained a lot of locomotion capabilities the past few years, especially in the control level. Navigation over complex and unstructured environments using exteroceptive perception, is still an active research topic. In this paper, we...
In this paper we propose a semi-autonomous control framework for manipulation tasks that is focused on debris removal setups. The proposed method enables an efficient and safe removal of long stick-like shaped debris. The manipulation module includes...
Complex interactions with unstructured environments require the application of appropriate restoring forces in response to the imposed displacements. Impedance control techniques provide effective solutions to achieve this, however, their quasi-static...
Industry 4.0 envisions the integration of flexible and quickly reconfigurable robotic systems in assembly lines. This has led to the development of light-weight and adaptive collaborative robots with limited power and payload constraints. Hence,...
This paper introduces a novel concept of visual-haptic display for situational awareness improvement for crowded and low altitude airspace situations. The visual augmentation display that constitutes of Virtual Fences delimiting no-fly zones, and a...
The paper presents an overview of the recent and ongoing research activities of the Italian Interuniversity Center on Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment (ISME) in the field of geotechnical seismic surveying. Such activities, performed in the...
Systems-on-a-Chip are among the best-performing and complete solutions for complex electronic systems. This is also true in the field of network security, an application requiring high performance with low resource usage. This work presents an Advanced...
In recent years, the information technology world have faced broad security issues due to the large amount of data flowing over the network. HW security solutions are often preferred in contexts where an high level of performance is required. Multiple...