Wireless Mesh Networks for IoT and Smart Cities: Technologies and Applications

Luca Davoli is a fixed-term assistant professor at the University of Parma, Italy. Since January 2014, he has been a member of the Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory (https: //iotlab.unipr.it) at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma, Italy. His main research interests include Internet of Things, software defined networking, big stream and peer-to-peer networks. He is an IEEE and a GTTI member. He received his PhD in information technologies from the Department of Information Engineering of the same university with a thesis entitled "Architecture and Technologies for the Internet of Things". Gianluigi Ferrari is an associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Parma, Italy. Since September 2006 he has been the Coordinator of the Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory ( http://iotlab.unipr.it/ ) and, since 2016, the co-founder, president and CEO of things2i s.r.l. ( http://www.things2i.com/ ), a spin-off company of the University of Parma dedicated to IoT and smart systems. His research activities revolve around signal processing, communication/networking, and IoT. He has published extensively in these areas and coordinated several technical projects, including EU-funded competitive projects. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He received his PhD in information technologies from the University of Parma, Italy.