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2025

  • We are glad to announce that our recent research paper "Dynamic Scheduling in NR-V2X Mode 2: Probability of Successful Packet Delivery and Packet Inter-Reception" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. The paper provides the first set of analytical tools to evaluate the performance of the dynamic scheduling scheme introduced in the 5G NR-V2X standard. The probability of correctly receiving a packet as a function  of the distance between a transmitter-receiver pair of vehicles  is determined, and the time lag between the  successful reception of two consecutive packets belonging to the  same service flow is statistically characterized. The analysis accounts for all the causes of  packet losses (from transmission impairments due to the  hostile vehicular communication environment, to collisions and  half-duplex radio limitations). The model is validated through numerical simulations, conducted with our MoReV2X simulator, to prove  its accuracy and highlight the influence  of several parameters on system performance. 
  • We are glad to announce that we will work on the PEDESTRIAN project, which is a 6G-focused project aiming to enhance road safety by predicting the trajectories of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) through Federated Learning and transformer models. It leverages data from Connected Vehicles and Road Side Units across edge/cloud infrastructures, preserving privacy while ensuring realistic and distributed training. The project evaluates centralized, distributed, and hierarchical FL setups, considering mobility, data rates, and resource needs, and integrates with the 6G-BRICKS EUR platform for orchestration.
  • Simone Travagliati will attend the 3rd Federated Machine Learning Summer School held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from July 7 to July 18. The purpose of the school is to provide a strong foundation in Federated Learning (FL), covering core concepts, system architectures, optimization techniques, and emerging industry applications.
  • Mattia Andreani and Prof. Maria Luisa Merani will participate in the 2025 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom) held in Nice, France, from July 7 to July 10. During the conference, Mattia will present the paper "Age of Information and Transmission Cost Trade-Off in NR-V2X SL Perception Messages" resulting from a collaboration between our laboratory and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, Italy.
  • Vehicomlab present! Prof. Maria Luisa Merani and Mattia Andreani will attend the RESTART Plenary Dissemination Workshop held in Naples, Italy, from June 30 to July 1.
  • Vehicomlab present! Mattia Andreani, Federico Pasquinucci and Simone Travagliati attended the "Telecommunications of the Future" event, organized by Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario delle Telecomunicazioni (CNIT) and held in Rome, Italy, from April 8 to April 9.
  • IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT : Prof. Maria Luisa Merani served as the General Chair of the 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) held in Milan, Italy, from March 24 to March 27. IEEE WCNC is the world premier wireless event that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to share ideas on wireless communications and networking technologies. WCNC 2025 featured a comprehensive technical program with papers showcasing the latest technologies, applications and services. The conference program included workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from industrial leaders and renowned academics, panel discussions, and exhibition.
           
 
  • Federico Pasquinucci, Mattia Andreani, Simone Travagliati, and Prof. Maria Luisa Merani attended the 21st Italian Networking Workshop (INW 2025) held in Moena, Italy, from January 20 to January 22. During the workshop, Federico, Mattia and Simone presented a poster entitled "Feature Extraction from Multi-Modal Datasets to Realistically Investigate VRU Protection and Cooperative Perception". The poster explained how multi-modal datasets can be used to investigate VRU protection and to generate different types of safety messages.

                                                                           

2024

  • Ameur Lelio Chelli , Luca lusvarghi and Federico Pasquinucci presented their paper NR-V2X for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control during the 100th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, held in Whashington DC, from October 7 to October 10. The paper resulted from a collaboration with the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Union.
  • Federico Pasquinucci and Mattia Andreani attended the Lipari Summer School on Open and Programmable 6G Networks in the Cloud/Edge Continuum. The purpose of the school was to provide students with an up-to-date overview of the enabling technologies and fundamental reseatch channlges of upcoming 6G systems and networks, considering the increasing synergies with the cloud-to-edge continuum.
  • Vehicomlab present! Federico Pasquinucci, Mattia Andreani and Prof. Maria Luisa Merani attended the RESTART Plenary Dissemination Workshop held in Catania, Italy, from July 4 to July 5.
  • Prof. Maria Luisa Merani, Federico Pasquinucci and Mattia Andreani attended the Open Network Intelligence for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (ONI-CAV) Workshop held in Catania, Italy, on July 3. The workshop, supported by PNRR Project RESTART, has been a networking and dissemination event to provide an overview on the current state of the art on connected and autonomous vehicles both from an academia and industrial point of view. Prof. Maria Luisa Merani presented the recent work carried out in our laboratory with a talk titled "Serving CAV and VRU traffic: an all-around view". The talk highlighted several interesting aspects related to 5G NR-V2X SL communications applied to road safety applications.
  • Mattia Andreani and Federico Pasquinucci attended the 1st RESTART Camp on Soft Skills held in Bologna, Italy, from January 29 to February 2. The training initiative was inteded for graduates, PhD students, post-docs, and junior researchers. In particular, leadership, team working, and public speaking were the focus of the initiative. The program also included elements of emotinal intelligence, human communication and other fundamental relational/social skills.
  • Mattia Andreani, Federico Pasquinucci and Prof. Maria Luisa Merani participated in the 20th Italian Networking workshop (INW 2024) held in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, from January 22 to January 24. During the workshop, Mattia and Federico presented their ongoing research activities "Analysis of Connected Automated Vehicles as Traffic Sources" and "Use of GPS Data for Awareness Messages Generation by Vulnerable Road Users". Indeed, Mattia's research is focused on developing analytical tools to characterize connected automated vehicles as data sources relying on the objects that are detected over time, while Federico's investigation aims at enhancing VRUs protection through the dissemination of VAM messages.

2023

  • Mattia Andreani and Prof. Maria Luisa Merani participated in the 6th 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) held in Baltimore, MD, USA from 13 to 15 Novembre 2023. During the conference, Mattia presented the paper "A Statistical Characterization of the Actual Cooperative Perception Messages and a Generative Model to Reproduce Them".
  • Mattia Andreani won a travel grant to participate in the 35th International Teletraffic Conference (ITC) held in Turin, Italy, from 3rd to 5th October 2023. During the conference, Mattia presented his article "A Novel Queuing Theory Approach to Model Connected Automated Vehicles as Traffic Sources" at the Ph.D. Workshop.
  • Luca Lusvarghi, a fresh Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" and a former member of our laboratory, has received the GTTI Ph.D. award 2023 for the best national Ph.D. thesis in the Communication Technologies field. In his thesis, entitled "Vehicular Connectivity in 5G and Beyond" and supervised by Professor Maria Luisa Merani, Luca presented a complete and exhaustive analysis of the 5G Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication technology from the simulative, experimental, and analytical perspectives. In his work, Luca also developed the first AI-based scheduling algorithm for the resource allocation in V2V networks. The GTTI PhD award is a prestigious annual award established by the GTTI (Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell'Informazione) in recognition of the best PhD thesis defended at an Italian University in the areas of Communication Technologies (Signal Processing, Digital Communications, Networking). The award aims to highlight the importance of the research activity carried out by young researchers for the scientific community and to motivate the pursuit of high-quality standards. Luca's thesis was selected by a committee whose members are distinguished professors and non-academic experts in the field and it was chosen among the many submitted from several national universities. The award ceremony took place on September 11, 2023, at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome during the annual GTTI meeting, attended by professors, researchers, and industrial partners working in the field of telecommunication engineering.
  • Federico Pasquinucci won a grant to attend the Beyond 5G (B5G) Student Workshop in Madrid from 2nd to 8th July 2023. The workshop was organized by the Instituto Madrileńo De Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Networks Institute and it was aimed at Master’s and Ph.D. students with a focus on 5G and beyond topics. IMDEA Networks Institute is one of the seven IMDEA Institutes created by the Madrid Regional Government as part of the IV Regional Plan of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation 2005-2008, of which the aim is to put in place advanced research centers and higher education and training in the Community of Madrid.

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  • Luca Lusvarghi, Ph.D. student in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), won the Premio Vetrya 2019 award for the best thesis on the topic "Applications and services which employ the mobile 5G network". In his thesis, entitled "Vehicular Communications from 4G to 5G: Assessing the Achievable Performance", Luca presented an innovative simulator for the fifth generation of vehicular networks.

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