IEEE Guide to the Internet of Things

Roberto Minerva holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and Telecommunications from Telecom Sud Paris, France, and a Master Degree in Computer Science from Bari University, Italy. Roberto is the Chairman of the IEEE IoT Initiative. It aims at aggregating a large technical community of experts and to leverage resources, knowledge, and skills available in IEEE in order to foster the research and innovation in several IoT fields. Roberto is in TILab in the Research Coordination group, where he is currently involved in research activities related to SDN, NFV, 5G, Big Data, architecture for IoT, and ICT technologies for leveraging new business models. He is authors of several papers published in international conferences, books and magazine.

Luca Mottola is an assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a senior researcher at SICS Swedish ICT. Previously, he was a research scholar at the University of Southern California (USA). He completed his Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2008, after obtaining a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) and a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He was listed twice amongst Postscapes “Internet of Things Top 100 Thinkers” and has received the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, the MIT TR35 Italia Young Innovator Award, the EWSN/CONET European Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2011, the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2009, and the Best Demo Award at ACM SenSys 2007. Since 2006, he authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and a widely recognized tutorial on sensor network programming with 200+ attendees to date, held at ACM PLDI, CPSWEEK, ACM/USENIX Middleware, and numerous summer schools.

Luigi Atzori is associate professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy). His main research topics of interest are in service management in next generation networks, with particular attention to architectural solutions for the Internet of Things, QoS, service-oriented networking, bandwidth management and multimedia networking. He has published more than 100 journal articles and refereed conference papers.

Giacomo Morabito received the laurea degree in Electrical Engineering and the PhD in Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the Istituto di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, University of Catania, Catania (Italy), in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From November 1999 to April 2001, he was with the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory of the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Research Engineer. Since April 2001 he is with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni of the University of Catania where he is currently Associate Professor. He serves (or has served) in the Editorial Boards of Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and IEEE Wireless Communications. Furthermore, he has been editor or co-guest editor of special issues of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Computer Networks and MONET. His research interests focus on analysis and solutions for broadband and wireless networks.

Francisco Falcone received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communication Engineering (2005), both at the Public University of Navarre in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer, Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer, Telefonica Moviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless. From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis. He has over 400 contributions in journal and conference publications.

Agusti Solanas is the head of the Smart Health Research Group, Serra Hunter Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from URV in 2004 with honors (Outstanding Graduation Award). He received a Ph.D. in Telematics Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia in 2007 with honors (A cum laude). He is senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Currently he is the vice-president of the Computer Society Spain Chapter.

Antoni Martinez-Balleste achieved Engineer in Computer Science and Technology (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2002) and PhD in Telematics Engineering (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, thesis Real-Time Pay-per-view of Multimedia Content Protected, 2004). Specialist in the European Higher Education Space (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2006). Tenured associate professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics in Universitat Rovira i Virgili (since 2003). Head of studies at URV’s Technical School of Engineering (since 2005). Consultant teacher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (since 2003). Member of the IEEE.

Antonio Iera graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1991 and received a Master Diploma in Information Technology from CEFRIEL/Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1992 and a PhD from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1996. From 1994 to 1995 he was with Siemens AG – Munich, Germany and since 1997 with the University Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria.