Publications

2024

• Rei Barjami, Antonio Miele, and Luca Mottola. Intermittent Inference: Trading a 1% Accuracy Loss for a 1.9 x Throughput Speedup. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Hangzhou (China), November 2024.
• Suryansh Sharma, Robert Lica, Venkatesha Prasad, Luca Mottola, Leszek Ambroziak. Acoustic Side-Channel Communications for Aerial Drones with HUM. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Hangzhou (China), November 2024.
• Weining Song, Stefanos Kaxiras, Thiemo Voigt, Yuan Yao, and Luca Mottola. TaDA: Task Decoupling Architecture for the Battery-less Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Hangzhou (China), November 2024.
• Veronica Rovelli, Andrea Maioli, and Luca Mottola. EXTREMIS: Static Frequency Switching for Battery-less Devices. In Proceedings of the 12nd ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS – colocated with ACM SENSYS), Hangzhou (China), November 2024.
• Mousa Sondoqah, Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Kristina Popova, Moira McGregor, Joseph La Delfa, Rachael Garrett, Airi Lampinen, Luca Mottola, and Kristina Höök. Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Programming in Perception–Action Loops. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Copenhagen, July 2024.
• Matteo Visotto and Luca Mottola. Enabling Location-aware Operation in Decentralized IoT Communications. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Environmental Sensing Systems for Smart Cities (ENVSYS – colocated with ACM MOBISYS), Tokyo, June 2024.
• Mousa Sondoqah, Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Kristina Popova, Moira McGregor, Joseph La Delfa, Rachael Garrett, Airi Lampinen, Luca Mottola, and Kristina Höök. Programming Human-Drone Interactions: Lessons from the Drone Arena Challenge. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (DRONET – colocated with ACM MOBISYS), Tokyo, June 2024.
• Luca Mottola, Arslan Hameed, and Thiemo Voigt. Energy Attacks in the Battery-less Internet of Things: Directions for the Future. In Proceedings of the 17th European Workshop on Systems Security (EUROSEC – colocated with ACM EUROSYS), Athens (Greece), April 2024.
• Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Marco Zimmerling, Przemysław Pawełczak, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Brandon Lucia, Luca Mottola, Jacob Sorber, and Josiah Hester. The Internet of Batteryless Things. In Communications of the ACM. March 2024.

2023

• Weiguo Wang, Yuan He, Luca Mottola, Shuai Li, Yimiao Sun, Jinming Li, Hua Jing, Ting Wang, and Yulei Wang. Acoustic Localization of Drones in Precise Landing. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. November 2023.
• Chetna Singhal, Thiemo Voigt, and Luca Mottola. Application-aware Energy Attack Mitigation in the Battery-less Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), Montreal (Canada), October 2023.
• Yimiao Sun, Weiguo Wang, Jia Zhang, Ruijin Wang, and Yuan He. Indoor Drone Localization and Tracking Based on Acoustic Inertial Measurement. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. December 2023.
• Ahmed El Yaacoub, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, and Philipp Rümmer. Scheduling Dynamic Software Updates in Mobile Robots. In ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems. September 2023.
• Suryansh Sharma, Ashutosh Simha, R Venkatesha Prasad, Shubham Deshmukh, Kavin B Saravanan, Ravi Ramesh, and Luca Mottola. BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), Madrid (Spain), November 2023.
• Qianyao Shen, K.T.Y. Mahima, Kasun De Zoysa, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, and Markus Flierl. CNN-based Estimation of Water Depth from Multispectral Drone Imagery for Mosquito Control. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Kuala Lampur (Malaysia), October 2023.
• Weining Song, Stefanos Kaxiras, Thiemo Voigt, and Yuan Yao. Silent Stores in the Battery-less Internet of Things: A Good Idea? In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Rende (Italy), September 2023.
• Ahmed El Yaacoub, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, and Philipp Rümmer. Timing Analysis of Embedded Software Updates. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Niigata (Japan), August 2023. Best Paper Award.
• Yuan He, Weiguo Wang, Luca Mottola, Shuai Li, Yimiao Sun, Jinming Li, Hua Jing, Ting Wang, and Yulei Wang. Acoustic Localization System for Precise Drone Landing. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. June 2023.

2022

• K.T.Y. Mahima, Malith Weerasekara, Kasun De Zoysa, Chamath Keppitiyagama, Markus Flierl, Luca Mottola, and Thiemo Voigt. MM4Drone: A Multi-Spectral Image and MmWave Radar Approach for Identifying Mosquito Breeding Grounds via Aerial Drones. In Proceedings of the 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), Thessaloniki (Greece), December 2022.
• Yimiao Sun, Weiguo Wang, Ruijin Wang, and Yuan He. AIM: Acoustic Inertial Measurement for Indoor Drone Localization and Tracking. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Boston (MA, US), November 2022.
• Weiguo Wang, Luca Mottola, Yuan He, Jinming Li, Yimiao Sun, Shuai Li, Hua Jing, and Yulei Wang. MicNest: Long-Range Instant Acoustic Localization of Drones in Precise Landing. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Boston (MA, US), November 2022.
• Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Luca Mottola, and TV Prabhakar. Hummingbird: An Energy-efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites. In Communications of the ACM. November 2022.
• Mikhail Afanasov, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Koustabh Dolui, and Luca Mottola. Embedded Sensing through Energy Harvesting at the Mithraeum of Circus Maximus. Chapter in “Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo: Studio Preliminare di un Monumento Inedito tra Archeologia, Conservazione e Fruizione”. Federica Fontana ed Emanuela Murgia eds., EUT – Polymnia Archeologia, 2022.
• Ahmed El Yaacoub, Luca Mottola, Philipp Ruemmer, and Thiemo Voigt. NeRTA: Enabling Dynamic Software Updates in Mobile Robotics.  In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Linz (Austria), October 2022.
• Fulvio Bambusi, Francesco Cerizzi, Yamin Lee, and Luca Mottola. The Case for Approximate Intermittent Computing. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Milano (Italy), May 2022.
• Niels Hokke, Suryansh Sharma, Venkatesha Prasad, Luca Mottola, Sujay Narayana, Vijay Rao, and Nikos Kouvelas. RF Information Harvesting for Medium Access in Event-driven Batteryless Sensing. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Milano (Italy), May 2022.

2021

• Andrea Maioli and Luca Mottola. AFRED: Virtual Memory for Intermittent Computing. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Coimbra (Portugal), November 2021. Teaser. 
• Andrea Maioli, Luca Mottola, Junaid Siddiqui, and Hamad Alizaii. Discovering the Hidden Anomalies of Intermittent Computing. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Delft (The Netherlands), February 2021. Talk. 

2020

• Mikhail Afanasov, Naveed Bhatti, Dennis Campagna, Giacomo Caslini, Fabio Massimo Centonze, Koustabh Dolui, Andrea Maioli, Erica Barone, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, and Luca Mottola. Battery-less Zero-maintenance Embedded Sensing at the Mithræum of Circus Maximus. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020. Teaser, Talk. 
• Hafiz Areeb Asad, Erik Wouters, Naveed Bhatti, Luca Mottola, and Thiemo Voigt. On Securing Persistent State in Intermittent Computing. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS – colocated with ACM SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020. Teaser. 
• Andrea Maioli and Luca Mottola. Intermittence Anomalies not Considered Harmful. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-neutral Sensing Systems (ENSSYS – colocated with ACM SENSYS), Yokohama (Japan), November 2020. Best Paper Award. Best Pitch Video Award. Pitch, Talk.
• Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, and Silvia Santini. Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services. In ACM Computing Surveys. December 2020.
• Mikhail Afanasov and Luca Mottola. The FlyZone Testbed Architecture for Aerial Drone Applications. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. March 2020. Cover Page Feature.
• Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Nawaz, Abu Bhakar, Naveed Bhatti, Junaid Siddiqui, Hamad Alizai, and Luca Mottola. Demystifying Energy Consumption Dynamics in Transiently-powered Computers. In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. September 2020.
• Saad Ahmed, Naveed Bhatti, Junaid Siddiqui, Hamad Alizai, and Luca Mottola. Fast and Energy-efficient State Checkpointing for Intermittent Computing. In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. September 2020.
• Sujay Narayana, Vijay Rao, Kavya Managundi, Ajay Keshava, Venkatesha Prasad, Luca Mottola, and TV Prabhakar. LOCI: Privacy-aware, Device-free, Low-power Localization of Multiple Persons using IR Sensors. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Sydney (Australia), April 2020.
• Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Luca Mottola, and TV Prabhakar. Hummingbird: Energy Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), London (UK), September 2020. Best Paper Award. ACM SigMobile Research Highlight.
• Saad Ahmed, Qurat Ul Ain, Junaid Siddiqui, Luca Mottola, and Hamad Alizaii. Intermittent Computing with Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Lyon (France), February 2020. Best Paper Candidate.

2019

• Adriano Branco, Luca Mottola, Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Siddiqui. Intermittent Intermittent Asynchronous Peripheral Operations. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), New York (NY, US), November 2019. Best Paper Candidate.
• Saad Ahmed, Naveed Bhatti, Hamad Alizai, Junaid Siddiqui, and Luca Mottola. Efficient Intermittent Computing with Differential Checkpointing. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix (AZ, US), June 2019.
• Saad Ahmed, Abu Bhakar, Naveed Bhatti, Junaid Siddiqui, Hamad Alizai, and Luca Mottola. The Betrayal of Constant Power × Time: Finding the Missing Joules of Transiently-powered Computers. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix (AZ, US), June 2019.
• Andrea Maioli, Luca Mottola, Hamad Alizai, and Junaid Siddiqui. On Intermittence Bugs in the Battery-less Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix (AZ, US), June 2019.
• Mikhail Afanasov, Alessandro Djordjevic, Feng Liu, and Luca Mottola. FlyZone: A Testbed for Experimenting with Aerial Drone Applications. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Seoul (South Korea), June 2019. Best Paper Candidate.

2018

• Luca Mottola and Kamin Whitehouse. Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones. In Communications of the ACM. October 2018.
• Carlo Alberto Boano, Simon Duquennoy, Anna Forster, Omprakash Gnawali, Romain Jacob, Hyung-Sin Kim, Olaf Landsiedel, Ramona Marfievici, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne, and Marco Zimmerling. IoTBench: Towards a Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBENCH – colocated with CPSWEEK), Porto (Portugal), April 2018.
• Mikhail Afanasov, Luca Mottola, and Carlo Ghezzi. Software Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. January 2018.

2017

• Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Felix Oppermann, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, Harald Fuchs, Andrea Gaglione, Stamatis Karnouskos, Pablo Moreno Montero, Nina Oertel, Kay Roemer, Patrik Spiess, Stefano Tranquillini, and Thiemo Voigt. makeSense: Simplifying the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks into Business Processes. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. December 2017.
• Mikhail Afanasov, Aleksandr Iavorskii, and Luca Mottola. Programming Support for Time-sensitive Adaptation in Cyberphysical Systems. In ACM SIGBED Review. November 2017.
• Naveed Bhatti and Luca Mottola. HarvOS: Efficient Code Instrumentation for Transiently-powered Embedded Devices. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Pittsburg (PA, USA), April 2017.
• Luca Mottola and Kamin Whitehouse. Flying Blind with Reactive Control of Aerial Drones. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. March 2017.
• Laura Stefanizzi, Luca Mottola, Luca Mainetti, and Luigi Patrono. COIN: Opening the Internet of Things to People’s Mobile Devices. In IEEE Communications – Special Issue on People-centric Internet of Things. February 2017.
• Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Pratyush Kumar, Federico Ferrari, and Lothar Thiele. Adaptive Real-time Communication for Wireless Cyber-physical Systems. In ACM Transactions on Cyber-physical Systems. February 2017.

2016

• Luca Mottola and Kamin Whitehouse. Mobile Systems Research with Drones. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. October 2016.
• Giovanni Tarter, Luca Mottola, and Gian Pietro Picco. Directional Antennas for Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks: Are They a Good Idea? In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Brasilia (Brazil), October 2016.
• Endri Bregu, Nicola Casamassima, Daniel Cantoni, Luca Mottola, and Kamin Whitehouse. Reactive Control of Autonomous Drones. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Singapore, June 2016. Best Paper Award. ACM SigMobile Research Highlight.
• Andrea Patelli and Luca Mottola. Model-based Real-time Testing of Drone Autopilots. In Proceedings of the 2th International Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (DRONET – colocated with ACM MOBISYS), Singapore, June 2016. Best Paper Award.
• Naveed Bhatti, Hamad Alizai, Affan Syed, and Luca Mottola. Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. August 2016.
• Arshad Jhumka and Luca Mottola. View Consistency in Wireless Sensor Networks. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. August 2016.
• Alessandro Sivieri, Luca Mottola, and Gianpaolo Cugola. Building Internet of Things Software
  with ELIoT. In International Journal on Computer Communications – Special Issue on
  Internet of Things: Research challenges and Solutions. September 2016.
• Naveed Bhatti and Luca Mottola. Efficient State Retention for Transiently-powered Embedded Sensing. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) Graz (Austria), February 2016.
• Mathieu Michel, Luca Mottola, Nicolas Tsiftes, and Thiemo Voigt. Predictable MAC-level Performance in Low-power Wireless under Interference. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) Graz (Austria), February 2016.