Leonardo Militano

Personal profile

Projects

• NEPHELE – A Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuum / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Digital Mobility/Logistics Hub / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Militano, Leonardo; Arteaga, Adriana; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Mitton, Nathalie,

  2023.

  The cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum as an enabler for search and rescue operations.

  Future Internet.

  15(2), pp. 55.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15020055

• Murphy, Seán; Militano, Leonardo; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Maurer, Remo,

  2022.

  Efficient delivery of robotics programming educational content using cloud robotics [paper].

  In:

  2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2022).

  7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE), Singapore, 18-20 November 2022.

  IEEE.

  pp. 222-226.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAE56463.2022.10056179

• Toffetti, Giovanni; Militano, Leonardo; Murphy, Seán; Maurer, Remo; Straub, Mark,

  2022.

  Cloud native robotic applications with GPU sharing on Kubernetes [paper].

  In:

  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022.

  arXiv.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.03936

• Militano, Leonardo; Zafeiropoulos, Anastasios; Fotopoulou, Eleni; Bruschi, Roberto; Lombardo, Chiara; Edmonds, Andy; Papavassiliou, Symeon,

  2022.

  AI-powered Infrastructures for intelligence and automation in beyond-5G systems [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of 2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps).

  2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Madrid, Spain, 7-11 December 2021.

  IEEE.

  pp. 1-6.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9682117

• Baumann, Louis; Benz, Stefan; Militano, Leonardo; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

  2019.

  Monitoring resilience in a rook-managed containerized cloud storage system [paper].

  In:

  European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Valencia, Spain, 18-21 June 2019.

  IEEE.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2798

• Höppli, Remo; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Militano, Leonardo,

  2018.

  Hera Object Storage : a seamless, automated multi-tiering solution on top of OpenStack Swift [paper].

  In:

  8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2018), Paris, France, 18-21 November 2018.

  IEEE.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SC2.2018.00011

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Journals and magazines

J1. O. Galinina, L. Militano, S. Andreev, A. Pyattaev, K. Johnsson, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, A. Iera, M. Dohler, Y. Koucheryavy, "Analyzing Competition and Cooperation Dynamics of the Aerial mmWave Access Market," IEEE Access, 2019
J2. S. Pizzi, C. Suraci, L. Militano, A. Orsino, A., Molinaro, A., Iera, G. Araniti, “Enabling Trustworthy Multicast Wireless Services through D2D Communications in 5G Networks”, Future Internet, 2018.
J3. I. Farris, A. Orsino, L. Militano, G. Araniti, A. Iera, "Federated IoT Services Leveraging 5G Technologies at the Edge", Elsevier Ad Hoc Journal, 2018
J4. L. Militano, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, A. Iera, "NB-IoT for D2D-enhanced Content Uploading with Social Trustworthiness in 5G Systems", Special Issue on Recent Advances in Cellular D2D Communications, MDPI Future Internet, 2018
J5. A. Orsino, A. Samuylov, D. Moltchanov, S. Andreev, L. Militano, G. Araniti, Y. Koucheryavy "Time-Dependent Energy and Resource Management in Mobility-Aware D2D-Empowered 5G Systems", IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2017
J6. A. Orsino, A. Ometov, G. Fodor, D. Moltchanov, L. Militano, S. Andreev, O. Yilmaz, T. Tirronen, J. Torsner, G. Araniti, A. Iera, M. Dohler, Y. Koucheryavy "Effects of Heterogeneous Mobility on D2D- and Drone-Assisted Mission-Critical MTC in 5G", IEEE Communication Magazine Special Issue on "Practical Perspectives on IoT in 5G Networks: From Theory to Industrial Challenges and Business Opportunities", 2016
J7. L. Militano, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, “Trust-based and Social-aware Coalition Formation Game for Multihop Data Uploading in 5G Systems”, Computer Networks, Special Issue on "Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking", 2016
J8. A. Ometov, A. Orsino, L. Militano, D. Moltchanov, G. Araniti, E. Olshannikova, G. Fodor, S. Andreev, T. Olsson, A. Iera, J. Torsner, Y. Koucheryavy, T. Mikkonen, “Towards Trusted, Social-Aware D2D Connectivity: Bridging Across Technology and Sociality Realms”, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Special Issue on "Device-to-Device (D2D) Communications with social awareness", 2016
J9. I. Farris, L. Militano, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, "MIFaaS: A Mobile-IoT-Federation-as-a-Service model for dynamic cooperation of IoT Cloud Providers", Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges", 2016
J10. L. Militano, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, "Enhancing the navigability in a social network of smart objects: A Shapley-value based approach", Computer Networks, 2016
J11. A. Orsino, G. Araniti, L. Militano, J. Alonzo-Zarate, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, “Energy Efficient IoT Data Collection in Smart Cities Exploiting D2D Communications”, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue "Smart City: Vision and Reality", 2016
J12. A. Ometov, A. Orsino, L. Militano, G. Araniti, D. Moltchanov, S. Andreev, “A Novel Security-Centric Framework for D2D Connectivity Based on Spatial and Social Proximity”, Computer Networks, 2016.
J13. G. Araniti, A. Orsino, L. Militano, L. Wang, A. Iera, “Context-aware Information Diffusion for Alerting Messages in 5G Mobile Social Networks”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2016
J14. A. Orsino, D. Moltchanov, M. Gapeyenko, A. Samuilov, L. Militano, G. Araniti, S. Andreev, and Y. Koucheryavy, “Direct Connection on the Move: Characterization of User Mobility in Cellular-Assisted D2D Systems,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 2016
J15. L. Militano, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, "A Constrained Coalition Formation Game for Multihop D2D Content Uploading," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2016
J16. I. Farris, L. Militano, A. Iera, S.C. Spinella, "Assessing the Performance of a Novel Tag-based Reader-to-Reader Communication Paradigm under Noisy Channel Conditions", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2016
J17. W. Xiang, K. Zheng, D. Niyato, L. Militano, G. Araniti, "Editorial of ETT Special Issue: emerging topics in device to device communications as enabling technology for 5G systems", Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2016
J18. I. Farris, R. Girau, L. Militano, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, G. Morabito "Social Virtual Objects in the Edge Cloud", IEEE Cloud Computing, 2016
J19. I. Farris, L. Militano, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, S.C. Spinella. "Tag-based cooperative data gathering and energy recharging in wide area RFID sensor networks", Ad Hoc Networks, 2016
J20. L. Militano, M. Erdelj, A. Molinaro, N. Mitton, A. Iera "Recharging versus Replacing Sensor Nodes Using Mobile Robots for Network Maintenance", Telecommunication Systems, 2016
J21. L. Militano, M. Condoluci, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, G.-M. Muntean. "Single Frequency-Based Device-to-Device-Enhanced Video Delivery for Evolved Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2015
J22. L. Militano, G. Araniti, M. Condoluci, I. Farris, A. Iera "Device-to-Device Communications for 5G Internet of Things", EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things, 2015
J23. L. Militano, D. Niyato, M. Condoluci, G. Araniti, A. Iera, G. Molica Bisci. "Radio Resource Management for Group-Oriented Services in LTE-A", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2014
J24. L. Militano, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, F. Scarcello. "Energy saving analysis in cellular-WLAN cooperative scenarios", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2014
J25. L. Militano, M. Condoluci, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, "When D2D communication improves group oriented services in beyond 4G networks", Wireless Networks, 2014
J26. L. Militano, G. Araniti, "Introducing Fairness-Efficiency Trade-off for Energy Savings in Wireless Cooperative Networks", Wireless Personal Communications, 2014
J27. G. Araniti, M. Condoluci, L. Militano, A. Iera “Adaptive Resource Allocation to Multicast Services in LTE Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasing, 2013
J28. L. Militano, A. Iera, F. Scarcello: "A fair cooperative content-sharing service", Computer Networks, 2013.
J29. G. Araniti, M. Condoluci, A. Iera, L. Militano, B. Pansera. "Analytical Modeling of Bargaining Solutions for Multicast Cellular Services", Electronic journal of differential equations, 2013
J30. L. Militano, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, A. Petkovics. “A Game Theoretic Approach to Guarantee Fairness in Cooperation among Green Mobile Network Operators”, Special Issue on "Green networking and computing", International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (IJBDCN), 2013
J31. C. Campolo, A. Iera, L. Militano, A. Molinaro, “Scenario-adaptive and gain-aware content sharing policies for cooperative wireless environments”, Computer Communications, 2012
J32. A. Iera, L. Militano, L. Romeo, F. Scarcello, “Fair cost allocation in cellular-bluetooth cooperation scenarios,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2011
J33. L. Militano, F. Fitzek, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, “Network coding and evolutionary theory for performance enhancement in wireless cooperative clusters”, in European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2010

International conferences

C1. D. Ostrikova, F. Rinaldi, V. Beschstnyi, I. Gudkova, L. Militano, G. Araniti, A. Iera, K. Samouylov, "Analytical Model for Multicast Subgrouping in 5G-Mobile eMBMS Environment", IEEE ICUMT 2017
C2. C. Marche, L. Atzori, A. Iera, L. Militano, M. Nitti, "Navigability in Social Networks of Objects: the Importance of Friendship Type and Nodes' Distance", IEEE Globecom Workshops - LPWA4IoT, 2017
C3. O. Galinina, L. Militano, A. Orsino, S. Andreev, G. Araniti, A. Iera, Y. Koucheryavy "Comparing Customer Taste Distributions in Vertically Differentiated Mobile Service Markets", invited paper at Gamenets 2017
C4. G. Araniti, A. Orsino, L. Militano, G. Putrino, S. Andreev, Y. Koucheryavy, A. Iera "D2D-based Relaying Scheme for Multicast Services over LTE-A Systems", IEEE BMSB 2017
C5. A. Orsino, I. Farris, L. Militano, G. Araniti, S. Andreev, I.A. Gudkova, Y. Koucheryavy, A. Iera, "Exploiting D2D Communications at the Network Edge for Mission-Critical IoT Applications" European Wireless 2017
C6. I. Farris, A. Orsino, L. Militano, M. Nitti, G. Araniti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, "Federations of Connected Things for Delay-sensitive IoT Services in 5G Environments", IEEE ICC Symposium Internet of Things, 2017
C7. L. Militano, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, "Trusted D2D-based Data Uploading in In-band Narrowband-IoT with Social Awareness", IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2016
C8. A. Orsino, L. Militano, G. Araniti, A. Iera, "Social-aware Content Delivery with D2D Communications Support for Emergency Scenarios in 5G Systems", European Wireless, 2016
C9. A. Orsino, M. Gapeyenko, L. Militano, D. Moltchanov, S. Andreev, Y. Koucheryavy, G. Araniti, "Assisted Handover Based on Device-to-Device Communications in 3GPP LTE Systems", IEEE Globecom Workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Cellular Networks, 2015
C10. L. Militano, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera. "Overlapping Coalitions for D2D-supported Data Uploading in LTE-A Systems", IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2015
C11. M. Condoluci, L. Militano, A. Orsino, J. Alonso-Zarate, G. Araniti. "LTE-Direct vs. WiFi-Direct for Machine-Type Communications over LTE-A Systems", Workshop on M2M Communications: Challenges, Solutions and Applications, IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2015
C12. I. Farris, L. Militano, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera, "Federated edge-assisted mobile clouds for service provisioning in heterogeneous iot environments", IEEE 2nd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2015
C13. L. Militano, M. Nitti, L. Atzori, A. Iera. "Using a Distributed Shapley-value Based Approach to Ensure Navigability in a Social Network of Smart Objects", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2015
C14. L. Militano, A. Orsino, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, L. Wang. "Efficient Spectrum Management Exploiting D2D Communication in 5G Systems", IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, 2015
C15. A. Orsino, L. Militano, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera. "Efficient Data Uploading Supported by D2D Communications in LTE-A Systems", International Workshop on Device-to-Device Communication for 5G Systems (WD2DC), European Wireless 2015
C16. M. Merenda, I. Farris, C. Felini, L. Militano, S.C. Spinella, F.G. Della Corte, A. Iera. "Performance assessment of an enhanced RFID sensor tag for long-run sensing applications", IEEE Sensors, 2014
C17. I. Farris, A. Iera, L. Militano, S. Spinella. "Performance evaluation of RFID Tag-based "Virtual" Communication Channels", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2014
C18. L. Militano, M. Condoluci, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera. "Wi-Fi Cooperation or D2D-based Multicast Content Distribution in LTE-A: A Comparative Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)- COCONET Workshop, 2014
C19. M. Condoluci, L. Militano, G. Araniti, A. Molinaro, A. Iera. "Multicasting in LTE-A Networks Enhanced by Device-to-Device Communications", IEEE Globecom workshops, 2013
C20. L. Militano, M. Condoluci, G. Araniti, A. Iera. "Multicast service delivery solutions in LTE-Advanced systems", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2013
C21. L. Militano, M. Condoluci, G. Araniti, A. Iera. “Bargaining Solutions for Multicast Subgroup Formation in LTE”, Wireless Access, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2012-Fall, 2012
C22. L. Militano, A. Iera. “Adopting Bargaining Solutions for Bluetooth-based User Cooperation”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2012
C23. L. Militano, A. Molinaro, A. Iera, A. Petkovics. “Introducing Fairness in Cooperation among Green Mobile Network Operators”, International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2012
C24. L. Militano, F. Fitzek, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, “Data Seeding in Nomadic Cooperative Groups,” Sixteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2011) - Sixth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN), 2011
C25. L. Militano, F. H. P. Fitzek, A. Iera, A. Molinaro. “Group Interactions in Wireless Cooperative Networks”, Wireless Access, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring 2011
C26. L. Militano, F. H. P. Fitzek, A. Iera, A. Molinaro. “A Genetic Algorithm for Source Election in Cooperative Clusters Implementing Network Coding”, in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2010
C27. M. V. Pedersen, J. Heide, P. Vingelmann, L. Militano, F. Fitzek. “Network coding on mobile devices”. Poster session presentato a Workshop on Network Coding, Theory and Applications (NetCod), 2009
C28. L. Militano, F. H. P. Fitzek, A. Iera, A. Molinaro. “Evolutionary Theory for Cluster Head Election in Cooperative Clusters implementing Network Coding”, in European Wireless, 2009
C29. C. Campolo, A. Iera, L. Militano, A. Molinaro. “Dynamic Bargaining of Content Shares in Wireless Cooperative Systems”, in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2008
C30. L. Militano, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, F. H. P. Fitzek. “Wireless peer-to-peer cooperation: when is it worth adopting this paradigm?” in International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications(WPMC), 2008
C31. L. Militano, F.H.P. Fitzek, A. Iera, A. Molinaro. “On the beneficial effects of Cooperative Wireless Peer to Peer Networking”, in Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, 2007

Book chapters

B1. L. Militano, A. Ranschellà, G. Araniti, A. Orsino, A. Iera, "Cognitive management strategies for dynamic spectrum access", Handbook of Cognitive Radio – Section “Dynamic Spectrum Access and Sharing”, 2017
B2. G. Araniti, A. Ranschellà, A. Orsino, L. Militano, M. Condoluci, “Device-to-Device Communications over 5G Systems: Standardization, Challenges and Open Issues” – Key Enabling Technologies for 5G Mobile Communications, 2016
B3. L. Militano, A. Iera, F. Scarcello, A. Molinaro, G. Araniti, "Game Theoretic Approaches for Wireless Cooperative Content-Sharing" in Game Theory Framework Applied to Wireless Communication Networks, IGI Global, 2016
B4. J. Heide, L. Militano, “Introduction to Network Coding for Mobile Peer to Peer (P2P)”, in Mobile Peer to Peer (P2P): A Tutorial Guide (eds F. H. P. Fitzek and H. Charaf), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2009
B5. L. Militano, G. Csùcs, F.H.P. Fitzek. “Energy Saving Aspects and Services for Cooperative Wireless Networks”, in Mobile Phone Programming and its Application to Wireless Networking (eds F. H. P. Fitzek and F. Reichert), Springer, 2007
B6. L. Militano, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, "Symbian Based Test-Bed Implementation of Wireless Cooperative Scenarios", in Mobile Telephones: Networks, Applications, and Performance, Nova Science Publishers, 2008

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