Research publications

 

  1. •E. Ulqinaku, J. Stefa, and A. Mei, “Scan-and-Pay on Android is Dangerous”, to appear in IEEE INFOCOM MobiSec 2019, Paris, France, 2019.


  1. •M. La Morgia, A. Mei, S. Raponi, and J. Stefa, “Time-Zone Geolocation of Crowds in the Dark Web”, IEEE ICDCS 2018, Vienna, Austria, 2018. (pdf)


  1. •A. Di Luzio, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, “Uncovering Hidden Social Relationships Through Location-Based Services: The Happn Case Study”, IEEE INFOCOM BigSecurity 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA 2018. (pdf)


  1. •E. Ulqinaku, L. Malisa, J. Stefa, A. Mei, and S. Capkun, "Using Hover to Compromise the Confidentiality of User Input on Android", ACM WiSec 2017, Boston, MA, USA, 2017. (pdf)


  1. •C. A. Ardagna, K. Ariyapala, M. Conti, C. M. Pinotti, and J. Stefa, “Anonymous End-to-End Communications in Adversarial Mobile Clouds”, Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 36, 2017. (pdf)


  1. •A. Di Luzio, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Consensus Robustness and Transaction De-Anonymization in the Ripple Currency Exchange System", IEEE ICDCS 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2017. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei, N. Piroso, and J. Stefa, “Count On Me: Reliable Broadcast and Efficient Routing in DTNs through Social Skeletons”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 96, 2016. (pdf)


  1. •A. Di Luzio, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Mind Your Probes: De-Anonymization of Large Crowds Through Smartphone WiFi Probe Requests", IEEE INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016. (pdf)


  1. •E. Baccarelli, N. Cordeschi, A. Mei, M. Panella, M. Shojafar, and J. Stefa, "Energy-efficient Dynamic Traffic Offloading and Reconfiguration of Networked Datacenters for Big Data Stream Mobile Computing: Review, Challenges, and a Case Study", IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 30(2), 2016. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei, G. Morabito, P. Santi, and J. Stefa, "Social-Aware Stateless Routing in Pocket Switched Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26(1), 2015. (pdf)


  1. •M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, A. Mei, V. C. Perta, and J. Stefa, "Mobile Offloading in the Wild: Findings and Lessons Learned Through a Real-life Experiment with a New Cloud-aware System", IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, 2014. (pdf)


  1. •C. A. Ardagna, M. Conti, M. Leone, and J. Stefa, "An Anonymous End-to-End Communication Protocol for Mobile Cloud Environments", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 7(3), 2014. (pdf)


  1. •M. V. Barbera, A. C. Viana, M. De Amorim, and J. Stefa, "Data Offloading in Social Mobile Networks Through VIP Delegation", Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, vol. 19, 2014. (pdf)


  1. •S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Large-Scale Synthetic Social Networks with SWIM", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 13(1), 2014. (pdf)

  Download SWIM’s source code and pre-computed traces from SWIM’s website.


  1. •D. Mattiacci, S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "Supporting Interoperability of Things in IoT Systems", ACM SENSYS 2013, Demo Session, Rome, Italy, 2013.


  1. •M. V. Barbera, A. Epasto, A. Mei, V. C. Perta, and J. Stefa, “Signals from the Crowd: Uncovering Social Relationships through Smartphone Probes”, ACM/USENIX IMC 2013, Barcelona, Spain, 2013. (pdf)

  To download the datasets go on the Signals from the crowd website.


  1. •S. Kosta, V. C. Perta, J. Stefa, P. Hui, and A. Mei, "Clone2Clone (C2C): Peer-to-Peer Networking of Smartphones on the Cloud", USENIX HotCloud 2013, San Jose, CA, USA, 2013. (pdf)


  1. •M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "To Offload or Not to Offload? The Bandwidth and Energy Costs of Mobile Cloud Computing", IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, 2013. (pdf)


  1. •M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, A. Mei, V. C. Perta, and J. Stefa, "CDroid: Towards a Cloud-Integrated Mobile Operating System", IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Demo Session, Turin, Italy, 2013. Best IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Demo Award. (pdf)


  1. •S. Kosta, V. C. Perta, J. Stefa, P. Hui, and A. Mei, "CloneDoc: Exploiting the Cloud to Leverage Secure Group Collaboration Mechanisms for Smartphones", IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Demo Session, Turin, Italy, 2013. (pdf)


  1. •A. Gaeta, S. Kosta, J. Stefa, and A. Mei, "StreamSmart: P2P Video Streaming for Smartphones Through The Cloud", IEEE SECON 2013, Demo Session, New Orleans, USA, 2013. Best IEEE SECON 2013 Demo Award. (pdf)


  1. •C. A. Ardagna, M. Conti, M. Leone, and J. Stefa, "Preserving Smartphone Users' Anonymity in Cloudy Days", IEEE MobiPST 2013, Nassau, Bahamas, 2013. (pdf)


  1. •M. V. Barbera, S. Kosta, J. Stefa, P. Hui, and A. Mei, "CloudShield: Efficient Anti-Malware Smartphone Patching with a P2P Network on the Cloud", IEEE P2P 2012, Tarragona, Spain, 2012.


  1. •A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Give2Get: Forwarding in Social Mobile Wireless Networks of Selfish Individuals", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 9(4), 2012. (pdf)


  1. •A. Davoli, A. Mei, and J. Stefa, "FAN: Friendship Based Anonymous Routing in Wireless Social Mobile Networks of Malicious Communities", ACM ExtremeCom 2011, In co-operation with SIGCOMM 2011, Manaus, Brazil, 2011. (pdf)


  1. •J. Diaz, A. M.-Spaccamela, D. Mitsche, P. Santi, and J. Stefa, "Social-Aware Forwarding Improves Routing Performance in Pocket Switched Networks", ESA 2011, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2011. (pdf)


  1. •J. Diaz, A. M.-Spaccamela, D. Mitsche, P. Santi and J. Stefa, "Analysis of a Model for Social-Aware Forwarding Routing", GA 2011, Workshop in conjunction with ICALP 2011, Zurich, Switzerland, 2011.


  1. •M.V. Barbera, J. Stefa, A.C. Viana, M. De Amorim and M. Boc, "VIP Delegation: Enabling VIPs to Offload Data in Wireless Social Mobile Networks", IEEE DCOSS 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 2011. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei, G. Morabito, P. Santi and J. Stefa, "Social-Aware Stateless Forwarding in Pocket Switched Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2011 mini-conference, Shanghai, China, 2011. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei, G. Morabito, P. Santi and J. Stefa, "Show me your friends and I’ll tell you what you like", (invited paper) ACM ExtremeCom 2010, Dharamsala, India, 2010. (pdf)


  1. •S. Kosta, A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Small World in Motion (SWIM): Modeling Communities in Ad-Hoc Mobile Networking", IEEE SECON 2010, Boston, MA, USA., 2010. (pdf)

  Download SWIM’s source code and pre-computed traces from SWIM’s website.


  1. •A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Give 2 Get: Forwarding in Social Mobile Wireless Networks of Selfish Individuals", IEEE ICDCS 2010, Genoa, Italy, 2010. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei and J. Stefa, "SWIM: A Simple Model to Generate Small Mobile Worlds", IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009. (pdf)

  Download SWIM’s source code and pre-computed traces from SWIM’s website.


  1. •A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Routing in Outer Space: Fair traffic load in multi-hop wireless networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58(6), 2009. Best PhD student paper of the year, CS Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Routing in outer space: Fair traffic load in multi-hop wireless networks", ACM MobiHoc 2008, Hong Kong, China, 2008. (pdf)


  1. •A. Mei and J. Stefa, "Routing in Outer Space", IEEE INFOCOM 2008 mini-conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2008. (pdf)



Book Chapters


  1. •M. Bauer, N. Bui, J. De Loof, C. Magerkurth, A. Nettsträter, J. Stefa, and J. W Walewski, "IoT Reference Model", Enabling Things to Talk, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.


  1. •M. Bauer, M. Boussard, N. Bui, J. De Loof, C. Magerkurth, S. Meissner, A. Nettsträter, J. Stefa, M. Thoma, and J. W Walewski, "IoT Reference Architecture", Enabling Things to Talk, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.


  1. •G. Baldini, T. Peirce, M. Handte, D. Rotondi, S. Gusmeroli, S. Piccione, B. Copigneaux, F. Le Gall, F. Melakessou, P. Smadja, A. Serbanati, and J. Stefa, "Internet of Things  Privacy, Security, and Governance", Internet of Things - Converging Technologies for Smart Environments and Integrated Ecosystems, River Publishers, 2013.



PhD Thesis


  1. •J. Stefa, "Outer Space, Selfishness, and Innovative Services in Networks of Mobile Individuals”, CS Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, December 2009. (pdf)