Nowadays there is a growing interest in wireless sensor networks, one of the most significant technologies of the 21𝑠𝑡 century. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is essentially composed by a large number of electronic ...

The thesis focuses on statistical approaches to model, mitigate, and prevent distributed network attacks. When dealing with distributed network attacks (and, more in general, with cyber-security problems), three fundamental ...

Kinematically redundant robots possess more degrees of freedom than those strictly required to execute a given task. Such a charac- teristic gives the system a higher degree of dexterity and mobility that can be exploited ...

The following doctoral thesis comprises two distinct sections, both describing a specific applied research concerning the macro-theme of computer security. The first section describes a proposal for the improvement and ...

Power electronics is since decades in the focus of very important technology innovations, as the characteristics and the performances of power supplies can severely condition and limit the performances of the system to be ...

The mission of homeland security is ensuring the safety of living communities and protecting citizens from unforeseen events. In this research field, intelligent and advanced systems are extremely useful to prevent from ...

A cryptographic protocol is defined by the behaviour of the involved parties and the messages that those parties send to each other. Beside the functionality and the security that a cryptographic protocol provides, it is ...

Entity authentication is the process allowing a user, in a distributed system, to gain confidence in the identity of one (or more) communication user. Such a process may be either unilateral (the users are involved in a ...

The overarching goal of this work has been that of devising novel methods for building functional neuromarkers from resting-state fMRI data to describe healthy and pathological human behaviour. Observing spontaneous ...

In the field of logistics, the study of systems that follow the recommended requirements of the ``Industry 4.0'' is now of paramount importance. Since traditional hierarchical and centralized control architectures have ...