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I was awarded the Chair of Excellence 2019-20 at Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain, and given the opportunity to cooperate in the domain of connectivity and signal processing for smart [...]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), referred also as to drones, find application in many fields. In my recent keynote at the IEEE Intellect 2019 Conference, I gave an overview of key applications [...]

[…]  Significant progress in the analysis and design of communication systems has been rendered possible by the milestone work of C. Shannon that provided a methodological plant to attack [...]

The idea of processing and dispatching units of electrical energy has been around since some time and rhetorically referred to as Internet of energy, Energy of internet, Packet energy, Bit [...]

Radio access networks are moving towards the small-cell based paradigm, where the macro-cell base stations are aided by additional ones with small coverage but high traffic capabilities. This is [...]

An extremely relevant task is to grant safety, reliability and uninterrupted availability of transmission and distribution power grids. In one word, maintenance is  fundamental in power grids.  [...]

    This post is an excerpt from an article appeared in ESI Africa magazine. With the use of ubiquitous PLC, reduced deployment time and costs as well as increased maintenance planning are [...]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used in numerous industrial and commercial applications that include aerial photography, agricultural and environmental surveillance, parcel delivery. UAVs can [...]

In many engineering applications, physical systems are controlled by a set of external inputs and their behavior is monitored by the system states. The system states may not be measured or [...]

State-of-the-art power line communications (PLC) channel models follow either a bottom-up or a top-down strategy. The forner uses transmission line theory and it captures the physics of [...]