8 papers
Pencil Beamforming Increases Human Exposure to ElectroMagnetic Fields: True or False?
Luca Chiaraviglio, Simone Rossetti, Sara Saida +2
According to a very popular belief - very widespread among non-scientific communities - the exploitation of narrow beams, a.k.a. "pencil beamforming", results in a prompt increase…
5G Network Planning under Service and EMF Constraints: Formulation and Solutions
Luca Chiaraviglio, Cristian Di Paolo, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi
We target the planning of a 5G cellular network under 5G service and ElectroMagnetic Fields (EMFs) constraints. We initially model the problem with a Mixed Integer Linear Programmi…
Is It Safe Living in the Vicinity of Cellular Towers? Analysis of Long-Term Human EMF Exposure at Population Scale
Luca Chiaraviglio, Cristian Di Paolo, Giuseppe Bianchi +1
We focus on the ElectroMagnetic Field (EMF) exposure safety for people living in the vicinity of cellular towers. To this aim, we analyze a large dataset of long-term EMF measureme…
Will the Proliferation of 5G Base Stations Increase the Radio-Frequency "Pollution"?
Luca Chiaraviglio, Giuseppe Bianchi, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi +1
A common concern among the population is that installing new 5G Base Stations (BSs) over a given geographic region may result in an uncontrollable increase of Radio-Frequency "Poll…
An Efficient Linux Kernel Implementation of Service Function Chaining for legacy VNFs based on IPv6 Segment Routing
Andrea Mayer, Stefano Salsano, Pier Luigi Ventre +3
We consider the IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) technology for Service Function Chaining of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Most of the VNFs are legacy VNFs (not aware of the SRv6 te…
Planning UAV Activities for Efficient User Coverage in Disaster Areas
Francesco Malandrino, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Claudio Casetti +2
Climate changes brought about by global warming as well as man-made environmental changes are often the cause of sever natural disasters. ICT, which is itself responsible for globa…