Roberto Girau

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Roberto Girau is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Girau has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Roberto Girau's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (18 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (8 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (6 papers). Roberto Girau is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (18 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (8 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (6 papers). Roberto Girau collaborates with scholars based in Italy, China and India. Roberto Girau's co-authors include Luigi Atzori, Michele Nitti, Alessandro Floris, Giacomo Morabito, Antonio Iera, Giovanni Delnevo, Daniele Giusto, Catia Prandi, Giovanni Pau and Chiara Ceccarini and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Girau

38 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Trustworthiness Management in the Social Internet of Things

2013 365 citations Michele Nitti, Roberto Girau et al. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering profile →

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Lihua Yin China

Khalid Elgazzar Canada

Ivana Podnar Žarko Croatia

Andrea Vitaletti Italy

Parminder Singh India

Sghaier Guizani Saudi Arabia

José Neuman de Souza Brazil

Sourav Kumar Bhoi India

Carlos Kamienski Brazil

Yashwant Singh India

Lihua Yin China

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20 of 20 papers shown

Girau, Roberto, et al.. (2026). Towards Declarative Deployment and Lifecycle Orchestration of Digital Twin Ecosystems. 1–6.

Melis, Andrea, et al.. (2024). A Federated Architecture for Digital Twins in Automotive: An Integrated Solution for Vehicles, Drivers and Road Environments. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 181–187.

Casadei, Roberto, Giovanni Delnevo, Roberto Girau, & Silvia Mirri. (2024). Modelling Groups of Humans: Towards Crowd Digital Twins. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–6.

Fadda, Mauro, et al.. (2024). A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) Fingerprint Approach Over LTE. IEEE Access. 12. 82083–82094. 1 indexed citations

Melis, Andrea, et al.. (2024). An IIoT Digital Twin Architecture for Anomaly Traffic Analysis of HWIL Devices Using Neural Network. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

Carta, Francesco, et al.. (2023). A Social IoT-Based Solution for Real-Time Forest Fire Detection. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 15–20. 2 indexed citations

Floris, Alessandro, Simone Porcu, Luigi Atzori, & Roberto Girau. (2022). A Social IoT-based platform for the deployment of a smart parking solution. Computer Networks. 205. 108756–108756. 25 indexed citations

Mirri, Silvia, et al.. (2022). Implementation of a sea monitoring system based on social internet of things. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 687–690.

Delnevo, Giovanni, et al.. (2022). On the prediction of air quality within vehicles using outdoor air pollution. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 14–19. 4 indexed citations

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Mirri, Silvia, et al.. (2022). On implementing socialization algorithms on Virtual Objects in the Social IoT. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 307–312. 1 indexed citations

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Anedda, Matteo, et al.. (2022). A Machine Learning-based Approach for Vehicular Tracking in Low Power Wide Area Networks. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–6.

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Floris, Alessandro, Simone Porcu, Roberto Girau, & Luigi Atzori. (2021). An IoT-Based Smart Building Solution for Indoor Environment Management and Occupants Prediction. Energies. 14(10). 2959–2959. 33 indexed citations

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Floris, Alessandro, et al.. (2020). Implementation of a Magnetometer based Vehicle Detection System for Smart Parking applications. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–7. 10 indexed citations

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Girau, Roberto, Virginia Pilloni, & Luigi Atzori. (2018). The virtual user: The holistic manager of our IoT applications. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 149–154. 4 indexed citations

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Atzori, Luigi, et al.. (2017). A SIoT-aware approach to the resource management issue in mobile crowdsensing. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 232–237. 11 indexed citations

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Girau, Roberto, et al.. (2016). Lysis: A Platform for IoT Distributed Applications Over Socially Connected Objects. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 4(1). 40–51. 103 indexed citations

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Girau, Roberto, et al.. (2016). Neighbor discovery algorithms for friendship establishment in the social Internet of Things. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 165–170. 18 indexed citations

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Nitti, Michele, Roberto Girau, Alessandro Floris, & Luigi Atzori. (2014). On adding the social dimension to the Internet of Vehicles: Friendship and middleware. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 134–138. 70 indexed citations

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Nitti, Michele, Roberto Girau, & Luigi Atzori. (2013). Trustworthiness Management in the Social Internet of Things. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 26(5). 1253–1266. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nitti, Michele, Roberto Girau, Luigi Atzori, Antonio Iera, & Giacomo Morabito. (2012). A subjective model for trustworthiness evaluation in the social Internet of Things. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 18–23. 135 indexed citations

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