• MAC/routing protocols design for mmwave and full-duplex communications

• Dynamic content caching and distribution

• Performance optimization in HetNet scenarios

• Context-aware protocol design

• Predictive and context-aware handover strategies

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People: Michele Zorzi (contact person), Andrea Zanella, Leonardo Badia

This topic addresses the application of advanced machine-learning techniques and, in particular, of generative unsupervised neural networks to the network optimization (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2471178).

• Cognition-Based Networking (COBANET).

• Dynamic spectrum access

• Context and content-aware video streaming management

• Cognitive management of Software Defined Networks (SDNs)

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People: Michele Zorzi (contact person), Michele Rossi, Andrea Zanella, Leonardo Badia, Simone Friso

• Management of complex networks: distributed transport layer (video caching), very dense MIMO, network coding and content sharing

• Applications of game theory to complex networks: network formation based on individual incentives, exchange of information and services, collaboration via social recognition

• Epidemic models: spread of viral content, characterization of security threats in distributed systems, cellular automata

• Brain networks and their structure: distributed signal processing, clustering of neurons

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People: Leonardo Badia (contact person)

• Machine-to-Machine communications

• Software architectures for IoT solutions

• Energy harvesting

• Energy efficient protocols

• In-node signal processing

• Data analytics techniques for information extraction from IoT data

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People: Michele Zorzi (contact person), Lorenzo Vangelista, Michele Rossi, Andrea Zanella

Design of smart city services:

• Smart City service characterization and QoS requirements

• Traffic modeling for Smart City applications

• Protocols interoperability in Smart City scenarios

• Low Power Wide Area Networks technologies

• Experimentation of Smart City services

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People: Lorenzo Vangelista (contact person), Michele Rossi, Michele Zorzi, Andrea Zanella

• Characterization and modeling of the underwater acoustic channel

• Protocol design for underwater communications

• Development of simulation modules for underwater communications

• Experimentation of underwater networks

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People: Michele Zorzi (contact person), Roee Diamant