Research

The following are the R&D topics that are addressed by the Net4U lab:

• Data Protection
  Privacy and data protection are fundamental rights protected by the EU law. The terms data protection and data privacy are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two. Data privacy...
• Edge intelligence
  With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more data are created by widespread and geographically distributed mobile and IoT devices. Offloading such huge data from the edge to the cloud...
• Immersive Multimedia and Metaverse
  Progress in technology has led to the development of new forms of media technologies and services in the areas of virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). New imaging modalities, such as texture-plus-depth, light field,...
• Internet of Things
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm that is rapidly gaining ground in the scenario of modern wireless telecommunications. The basic idea of this concept is the pervasive presence around us of a variety...
• Network Security and Blockchain
  Network security is becoming more and more a key aspect in modern communication networks to provide enhanced services in various contexts, e.g., radio mobile access, smart cities, power distribution, smart industries, etc. The availability...
• Quality of Experience
  A major driving viewpoint in the development of the Next Generation Networks concerns the importance of the user/customer needs in the provisioning of the requested service. Indeed, according to this view is the customer...
• Smart Buildings
  The term Smart Building or Intelligent Building refers to a set of technologies that enable different sensors, actuators and smart objects within a building to communicate and interact with one other, so as to...
• Smart Mobility
  In this research area we address the problems related to the current limited diffusion of the modality for people sustainable mobility, with particular reference to: urban and extra-urban mass transport services, carsharing, carpooling, and...
• xG Mobile Networks
  Multicast/Broadcast Services in 6G Wireless Point-To-Multipoint (PTM), also referred as multicast/broadcast delivery is considered as a suitable transport mechanism for simultaneously delivering the same content to multiple devices within the covered area with a...