Journal Publications and Book Chapters

• Indukuri Mani Varma, Neetesh Kumar, Novella Bartolini, "A Polynomial Commitment-driven Zero-knowledge Proof-based Authentication of Autonomous Vehicles in Multi-RSU Broadcast Domains", in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2025, to appear

• Viviana Arrigoni, Matteo Prata, Novella Bartolini, "Recovering Critical Service After Large-Scale Failures with Bayesian Network Tomography", in IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2024, to appear

• Matteo Prata, Giuseppe Masi, Leonardo Berti, Viviana Arrigoni, Andrea Coletta, Irene Cannistraci, Svitlana Vyetrenko, Paola Velardi, Novella Bartolini, "LOB-Based Deep Learning Models for Stock Price Trend Prediction: A Benchmark Study", in Springer Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024, to appear

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, G. Maselli, M. Prata, "TaMaRA: a Task Management and Routing Algorithm for FANETs", in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023, to appear 

• G. Attenni, V. Arrigoni, N. Bartolini, G. Maselli, "Drone-based Delivery Systems: A survey on Route Planning", in IEEE ACCESS, 2023, to appear 

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, F. Giorgi, G. Maselli, M. Prata, D. Silvestri, "Stop & Offload: Periodic Data Offloading in UAV Networks", in Elsevier Computer Communications, 2023, to appear 

• Xiaojie Liu, Xingwei Wang, Min Huang, Jie Jia, Novella Bartolini, Qing Li, Dan Zhao, "Deployment of UAV-BSs for on-demand full communication coverage", in Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks, Vol. 140, 2023

• V. Arrigoni, N. Bartolini, A. Massini, F. Trombetti, “A Bayesian Approach to Network Monitoring for Progressive Failure Localization”, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022

• V. Arrigoni, N. Bartolini, "Network Identifiability: Advances in Separating Systems and Networking Applications", in IEEE Networking Letters, 2022

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, G. Maselli, SIDE: Self drIving DronEs embrace uncertainty, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022

• X. Liu, X. Wang, J. Jia, J. Lv, N. Bartolini, "Distributed Deployment in UAV-Assisted Networks for a Long-Lasting Communication Coverage", IEEE Systems Journal, 2022

• V. Arrigoni, N. Bartolini, A. Massini, Topology Agnostic Bounds on Minimum Requirements for Network Failure Identification, in IEEE ACCESS, Vol. 9, 2021

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, G. Maselli, A. Khalifeh, A Multi-Trip Task Assignment for Early Target Inspection in Squads of Aerial Drones, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 20, n. 11, 2021

• Ala Khalifeh, Khalid Darabkh, Ahmad Khasawneh, Issa Alqaisieh, Shams Alrubaye, Ahmed Al-Abdala, Mohamed Salameh, Anwar Alassaf, Samer Al-HajAli, Radi Al-Wardat, Novella Bartolini, Giancarlo Bongiovanni, Kishore Rajendiran, “Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities: Network Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation”, MPDI Electronics, Vol. 10, n. 2, 2021.

• N. Bartolini, T. He, V. Arrigoni, A. Massini, F. Trombetti, H. Khamfroush, On Fundamental Bounds on Failure Identifiability by Boolean Network Tomography, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 28, n. 2, 2020

• M. Lin, N. Bartolini, M. Giallorenzo, T. La Porta, On interference aware power adjustment and scheduling in femtocell networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 28, n. 2,  2020

• Andrea Coletta, Novella Bartolini, Gaia Maselli, Annalyse Kehs, Peter McCloskey, David P. Hughes, Optimal deployment in crowd sensing for plant disease diagnosis in developing countries, in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, to appear, 2020

• D. Z. Tootaghaj, N. Bartolini, H. Khamfroush, T. La Porta, On Progressive Network Recovery from Massive Failures under Uncertainty,  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 16, n. 1, 2019

• D. Z. Tootaghaj, N. Bartolini, H. Khamfroush, T. He, N. R. Chaudhuri, T. La Porta, Mitigation and Recovery from Cascading Failures in Interdependent Networks under Uncertainty,  IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Vol.6, n.2, 2019

• S. Achleitner, N. Bartolini, T. He, T. La Porta, D. Z. Toothaghaj, Fast Network Configuration in Software Defined Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 15, n.4, 2018

• N. Bartolini, S. Ciavarella, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, On critical service recovery after massive network failures, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 25, n.4, 2017.

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, S. Ciavarella, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, Autonomous mobile sensor placement in complex environments, in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2, Article 7, 2017.

• M. Lin, S. Silvestri, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta, On Selective Activation in Dense Femtocell Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, N. 10, October 2016.

• H. Khamfroush, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta, A. Swami, J. Dillman, On Propagation of Phenomena in Interdependent Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, n. 4, July 2016.

• N.Bartolini, S. Ciavarella, S. Silvestri, T. La Porta, On the vulnerabilities of Voronoi-based approaches to mobile sensor deployment, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 15, N. 12, February 2016.

• N.Bartolini, G. Bongiovanni, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, On the vulnerabilities of the virtual force approach to mobile sensor deployment , in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 3, N. 11, 2014.

• N. Bartolini, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, P&P: an Asynchronous and Distributed Protocol for Mobile Sensor Deployment,  in ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, Vol. 18, N. 4, 2012

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, T. La Porta, C. Petrioli, S. Silvestri, Sensor Activation and Radius Adaptation (SARA) in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 8, n. 3, 2012

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, Autonomous deployment of heterogeneous mobile sensors, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 10, n.6, 2011

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, On adaptive density deployment to mitigate the sink-hole problem in mobile sensor networks, in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 16, n. 1, 2011

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, E. G. Fusco, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, Push and Pull: autonomous deployment of mobile sensors for a complete coverage, ACM Wireless Networks, Vol.16, n. 3, 2010

• N. Bartolini, G. Bongiovanni, S. Silvestri, Self-* through self-learning: overload control for distributed web systems, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 53, n. 5, 2009 

• N. Bartolini, Session Based Access Control in Geographically Replicated Internet Services, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 50, No.18, December 2006

• N. Bartolini, E. Casalicchio, A performance analysis of context transfer protocols for QoS enabled Internet services, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol.50, No. 1, January 2006

• N. Bartolini, E. Casalicchio, S. Tucci, A walk through Content Delivery Networks, Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems: Revised Tutorial Lectures, LNCS Vol. 2965, Springer, Novembre 2003

• N. Bartolini, I. Chlamtac, Improving Call Admission Control Procedures by Using Handoff Rate Information, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, John-Wiley, Vol.1, n.3, 2001

• N. Bartolini, Handoff and Optimal Channel Assignment for Wireless Cellular Networks, ACM MONET, Mobile Networks and Applications, ACM/Kluwer Publishers, Vol. 6, n. 6, 2001

Conference Proceedings

• Federico Trombetti, Viviana Arrigoni, Novella Bartolini, "Distributed Network Tomography for Failure Localization", in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2025)

• Giulio Attenni, Novella Bartolini, “Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers”, in the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO) 2024 

• Viviana Arrigoni, Matteo Finelli, Federico Trombetti, Novella Bartolini, "Minimizing power consumption in SDNs: measurements and optimization", in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2024) - Best paper award

• Viviana Arrigoni, Giulio Attenni, Novella Bartolini, Matteo Finelli, "Energy-aware UAV Parcel Delivery Assignment", in the 7th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE Balkancom 2024)

• N. Bartolini, G. Masi, M. Prata, F. Trombetti, "Patrolling Heterogeneous Targets with FANETs", in the 17th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2024, ex WiSARN) 

• Viviana Arrigoni, Giulio Attenni, Novella Bartolini, Matteo Finelli and Gaia Maselli, "MiKe: Task Scheduling for UAV-based Parcel Delivery", in the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)

• Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Novella Bartolini, Patrick McDaniel, "Host-based Flow Table Size Inference in Multi-hop SDN", in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2023)

• V. Arrigoni, M. Prata, N. Bartolini, "Tomography-based progressive network recovery and critical service restoration after massive failures", to appear in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2023)

• Giuseppe Masi, Matteo Prata, Michele Conti, Novella Bartolini, Svitlana Vyetrenko, "On Correlated Stock Market Time Series Generation", to appear in ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ACM ICAIF 2023)

• Viviana Arrigoni, Giuseppe Masi, Emanuele Mercanti, Novella Bartolini, Svitlana Vyetrenko, "Stock Shocks Modelling and Forecasting", in IEEE ICDCS Workshop FiDeFix 2023

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, F. Giorgi, G. Maselli, M. Prata, D. Silvestri, "Stop & Route: Periodic Data Offloading in UAV Networks", in 18th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WOSN 2023) - Best paper award, runner up

• A. Coletta, M. Prata, M. Conti, E. Mercanti, N. Bartolini, M. Aimerich, S. Vyetrenko, T. Balch, "Towards Realistic Market Simulations: a Generative Adversarial Networks Approach", in ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ACM ICAIF 2021)

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, M. Prata, C. Serino, "On connected deployment of delay-critical FANETs", in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021)

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, A. Gennaro, G. Maselli, M. Prata, “MAD for FANETs:  Movement Assisted Delivery for Flying Ad-hoc Networks”, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2021)

• V. Arrigoni, N. Bartolini, A. Massini, F. Trombetti, Failure Localization through Progressive Network Tomography, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2021)

• N. Bartolini,  A. Coletta,  G. Maselli,  M. Piva,  D. Silvestri,  “GenPath - A Genetic Multi-Round Path Planning Algorithm for Aerial Vehicles”,  in Proceedings  of  the  International  Workshop  on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks, INFOCOM-Workshops, (IEEE WiSARN 2021)

• X. Liu, X. Wang, J. Jia, N. Bartolini, Y. Sun, Deployment of UAV-BS for Congestion Alleviation in Cellular Networks, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021, 12939 LNCS, pp. 46–55, Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2021)

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, G. Maselli, M. Piva, DRUBER: a trustable decentralized drone-based delivery system, in Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications, (ACM  DroNet 2020)

• A. Coletta, N. Bartolini, G. Maselli, D. Hughes, On Optimal Crowd-Sensing Task Management in Developing Countries, in Proceedings of CASPer Workshop, co-located with IEEE PerCom 2020 (IEEE CASPer 2020)

• N. Bartolini, A. Coletta, G. Maselli, On task assignment for early target inspection in squads of aerial drones, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2019)

• Alá Khalifeh, Novella Bartolini, Simone Silvestri, Giancarlo Bongiovanni, Anwar Al-Assaf, Radi Alwardat, Samer Alhaj-Ali, Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks: A Prototype, in IFIP Proceedings of INTERACT, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11749 (IFIP INTERACT 2019)

• D. Z. Tootaghaj, S. Achleitner, T. He, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta, A minimally disruptive rule update approach in Software Defined Networking, poster paper in IFIP Proceedings of Networking (IFIP Networking 2019)

• D. Z. Tootaghaj, N. Bartolini, H. Khamfroush, T. La Porta, Controlling Cascading Failures in Interdependent Networks under Incomplete Knowledge,  in IEEE Proceedings of the International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (IEEE SRDS 2017)

• N. Bartolini, T. He, H. Khamfroush, Fundamental Limits of Failure Identifiability by Boolean Network Tomography, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017)

• S. Ciavarella, N. Bartolini, H. Khamfroush, Tom La Porta, Progressive Damage Assessment and Network Recovery after Massive Failures, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017)

• D. Z. Tootaghaj, H. Khamfroush, N. Bartolini, S. Ciavarella, S. Hayes, T. La Porta, Network Recovery from Massive Failures under Uncertain Knowledge of Damages, in IFIP Proceedings of Networking (IFIP NETWORKING 2017)

• Ting He, Novella Bartolini, Hana Khamfroush, InJung Kim, Liang Ma, Tom La Porta, Service Placement for Detecting and Localizing Failures Using End-to-End Observations, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2016)

• N. Bartolini, S. Ciavarella, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, Network Recovery after Massive Failures, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (IEEE/IFIP DSN 2016)

• M. Lin, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta, Power Adjustment and Scheduling in OFDMA Femtocell Networks, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2016)

• Z. B. Celik, N. Hu, Y. Liy, N. Papernot, P. McDaniel, R. Walls, J. Rowey, K. Levitty, N. Bartolini, T. F. La Porta, and R. Chadhaz, Mapping Sample Scenarios to Operational Models, in Proceedings of the Premier International Conference for Military Communications (MILCOM 2016)

• M. Lin, S. Silvestri, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta, Energy-Efficient Selective Activation in Femtocell Networks,  in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2015)

• N.Hu, T. La Porta, N. Bartolini, Self-Adaptive Resource Allocation for Event Monitoring with Uncertainty in Sensor Networks, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2015)

• H. Khamfroush, N. Bartolini, T. La Porta, On Propagation of Phenomena in Interdependent Networks, poster at DoD DTRA (Defense and Threat Reduction Agency) Basic Research and Technical Review Meeting 2015 - Best poster award

• N.Bartolini, G. Bongiovanni, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, F. Vincenti, Voronoi-based Deployment of Mobile Sensors in the Face of Adversaries, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2014)

• N. Bartolini, G. Bongiovanni, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, On the security vulnerabilities of the virtual force approach to mobile sensor deployment, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2013)

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, T. La Porta, S. Silvestri, Mobile Sensor Deployment in Unknown Fields, in IEEE Proceedings on the International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2010 mini-conference)

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, T. La Porta, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, Autonomous deployment of heterogeneous mobile sensors, in IEEE Proceedings of International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2009) - Best paper award

• N. Bartolini, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, P&P protocol: local coordination of mobile sensors for self-deployment, in ACM Proceedings of International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWIM 2009)

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, Variable density deployment and topology control for the solution of the sink-hole problem, in ICST Proceedings of QShine 2009

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, E. Fusco, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, Autonomous deployment of self-organizing mobile sensors for a complete coverage, in IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2008), Dicembre 2008, Vienna, Austria  (see journal version)

• N. Bartolini, T. Calamoneri, E. Fusco, A. Massini, S. Silvestri, Snap and Spread: a self-deployment algorithm for mobile sensor networks, short paper in IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2008), June 2008, Santorini Island, Greece, (see journal version)

• N. Bartolini, G. Bongiovanni, S.Silvestri, Self-* overload control for distributed web systems, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2008), June 2008, Enschede, The Netherlands (see journal version)

• N.Bartolini, G.Bongiovanni, S.Silvestri, An autonomic admission control policy for distributed web systems,  in IEEE Proc. of International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2007), (see journal version)

• Novella Bartolini, Giancarlo Bongiovanni, Simone Silvestri, Distributed Server Selection and Admission Control in Replicated Web Systems, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC2007), July 2007, Hagenberg, Austria

• Novella Bartolini, Giancarlo Bongiovanni, Simone Silvestri,  An Adaptive Admission Control Policy for Geographically Distributed Web Systems, in ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE2007), June 2007, Suzhou, China

• Novella Bartolini, Enrico Tronci, On Optimizing Service Availability of an Internet Based Architecture for Infrastructure Protection, In Proceeedings of CNIP '06, Rome, Italy

• Francesco Lo Presti, Novella Bartolini, Chiara Petrioli, Dynamic Replica Placement and User Request Redirection in Content Delivery Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2005, Seoul Korea, 16-20 May 2005

• Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Paolo Campegiani, Salvatore Tucci, A Performance Study of Context Transfer Protocol for QoS Support, Lecture notes in Computer Science: Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 3280, Springer, November 2004

• Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Imrich Chlamtac, Session Based Access Control in Content Delivery Networks in Presence of Congestion, IEEE/ACM Int'l Conf on QoS in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks, QSHINE 2004, Dallas, Texas, 18-20 October 2004

• Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Paolo Campegiani, Salvatore Tucci, A Performance Study of Context Transfer Protocol for QoS support, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2004, Kemer - Antalya, Turkey, 27-29 October 2004

• Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Salvatore Tucci, Optimal Mobility-Aware Admission Control in Content Delivery Networks, IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2003, Orlando, Florida, 12-15 October 2003

• Novella Bartolini, Francesco Lo Presti, Chiara Petrioli, Optimal Dynamic Replica Placement in Content Delivery Networks, IEEE ICON 2003, Sydney, Australia, 28 September -1 October 2003

• Novella Bartolini, Imrich Chlamtac, Call Admission Control in Wireless Multimedia Networks, IEEE PIMRC 2002, Lisbona, Settembre 2002

• Novella Bartolini, Imrich Chlamtac, Call Admission Control: Solution of a General Decision Model with State Related Hand-off Rate, IEEE/ACM Wireless Communication and Networking Conference - WCNC 2000, Chicago IL, September 23-28, 2000

• Novella Bartolini, Optimal Channel Assignment in Mobile Cellular Networks, IEEE/ACM Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobility, DialM 97, Budapest, October 1, 1997

Edited Books

• Novella Bartolini, Sotiris Nikoletseas, Prasun Sinha, Valeria Cardellini, Anirban Mahanti, "Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks, 2009", Springer Lecture Notes of ICST, ISBN: 978-3-642-10624-8

• Virgilio Almeida, Novella Bartolini, Giovanni Pacifici, "Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, 2006", ACM Press, ISBN: 1-59593-505-3

• Novella Bartolini, Ludmila Cherkasova, Michele Colajanni, "Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, 2005", IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 0-7695-2525-3

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