Luca Mottola

Efficient CNN Inference on Ultra-Low-Power MCUs via Saturation-Aware Convolution

Li, Shiming; Mottola, Luca; Yao, Yuan; Kaxiras, Stefanos

2026

Special Session - Intermittent TinyML: Powering Sustainable Deep Intelligence Without Batteries

Mendis, Hashan Roshantha; Yildirim, Kasim Sinan; Zimmerling, Marco; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of 2025 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED SOFTWARE, EMSOFT 2025, p. 13-22, 2025

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Fault Tolerance in Space with Heterogeneous Hardware: Experiences from a 68-day CubeSat Deployment in LEO

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Voigt, Thiemo; Ruemmer, Philipp; Mottola, Luca

2025

Detecting Energy Attacks in the Battery-Less Internet of Things

Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo

Part of FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICE OF SECURITY, FPS 2024, PT II, p. 156-173, 2025

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Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Intermittent Computing

Maioli, Andrea; Quinones, Kevin Alessandro; Ahmed, Saad; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad et al.

Part of ACM transactions on sensor networks, 2025

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Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Intermittent Computing

Maioli, Andrea; Quinones, Kevin Alessandro; Ahmed, Saad; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad et al.

Part of ACM transactions on sensor networks, 2025

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Acoustic Localization System for Precise Drone Landing

He, Yuan; Wang, Weiguo; Mottola, Luca; Li, Shuai et al.

Part of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, p. 4126-4144, 2024

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Indoor Drone Localization and Tracking Based on Acoustic Inertial Measurement

Sun, Yimiao; Wang, Weiguo; Mottola, Luca; Zhang, Jia et al.

Part of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, p. 7537-7551, 2024

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Scheduling Dynamic Software Updates in Mobile Robots

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo; Rümmer, Philipp

Part of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, p. 1-27, 2023

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Acoustic localization of drones in precise landing: The research and practice with micnest

Wang, Weiguo; He, Yuan; Mottola, Luca; Li, Shuai et al.

Part of GetMobile, p. 27-32, 2023

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The FlyZone Testbed Architecture for Aerial Drone Applications

Afanasov, Mikhail; Mottola, Luca

Part of GetMobile, 2020

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Fast and Energy-efficient State Checkpointing for Intermittent Computing

Ahmed, Saad; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad; Siddiqui, Junaid Haroon et al.

Part of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2020

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Demystifying Energy Consumption Dynamics in Transiently powered Computers

Ahmed, Saad; Nawaz, Muhammad; Bakar, Abu; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar et al.

Part of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2020

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Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services

Zimmerling, Marco; Mottola, Luca; Santini, Silvia

Part of ACM Computing Surveys, 2020

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makeSense: Simplifying the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks into Business Processes

Mottola, Luca; Picco, Gian Pietro; Oppermann, Felix; Eriksson, Joakim et al.

Part of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, p. 576-596, 2019

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Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones

Mottola, Luca; Whitehouse, Kamin

Part of Communications of the ACM, p. 96-104, 2018

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Software Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Afanasov, Mikhail; Mottola, Luca; Ghezzi, Carlo

Part of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2018

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Embedded Sensing through Energy Harvesting at the Mithræum of Circus Maximus

Afanasov, Mikhail; Anwar Bhatti, Naveed; Dolui, Koustabh; Mottola, Luca

Part of Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo, p. 271-299, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2022

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Efficient CNN Inference on Ultra-Low-Power MCUs via Saturation-Aware Convolution

Li, Shiming; Mottola, Luca; Yao, Yuan; Kaxiras, Stefanos

2026

Special Session - Intermittent TinyML: Powering Sustainable Deep Intelligence Without Batteries

Mendis, Hashan Roshantha; Yildirim, Kasim Sinan; Zimmerling, Marco; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of 2025 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED SOFTWARE, EMSOFT 2025, p. 13-22, 2025

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Fault Tolerance in Space with Heterogeneous Hardware: Experiences from a 68-day CubeSat Deployment in LEO

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Voigt, Thiemo; Ruemmer, Philipp; Mottola, Luca

2025

Detecting Energy Attacks in the Battery-Less Internet of Things

Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo

Part of FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICE OF SECURITY, FPS 2024, PT II, p. 156-173, 2025

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Poster: Fault Tolerance with Time Guarantees in Mobile Systems for Extreme Environments

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo; Rümmer, Philipp

Part of HOTMOBILE '24, p. 138-138, 2024

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Energy Attacks in the Battery-less Internet of Things: Directions for the Future

Mottola, Luca; Hameed, Arlsan; Voigt, Thiemo

Part of EuroSec '24, p. 29-36, 2024

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Intermittent Inference: Trading a 1% Accuracy Loss for a 1.9x Throughput Speedup

Barjami, Rei; Miele, Antonio; Mottola, Luca

Part of SenSys '24, p. 647-660, 2024

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Acoustic Side-channel Communications for Aerial Drones with HUM

Sharma, Suryansh; Lica, Robert; Prasad, R. Venkatesha; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of SenSys '24, p. 267-280, 2024

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TaDA: Task Decoupling Architecture for the Battery-less Internet of Things

Song, Weining; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Voigt, Thiemo; Yao, Yuan et al.

Part of SenSys '24, p. 409-421, 2024

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EXTREMIS: Static Frequency Switching for Battery-less Devices

Rovelli, Veronica; Maioli, Andrea; Mottola, Luca

Part of ENSsys '24, p. 28-34, 2024

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Timing Analysis of Embedded Software Updates

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo; Rümmer, Philipp

2023

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Silent Stores in the Battery-less Internet of Things: A Good Idea?

Song, Weining; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo et al.

Part of Ewsn '23, p. 40-45, 2023

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CNN-Based Estimation of Water Depth from Multispectral Drone Imagery for Mosquito Control

Shen, Qianyao; Mahima, K. T. Y.; De Zoysa, Kasun; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), p. 3250-3254, 2023

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Application-aware Energy Attack Mitigation in the Battery-less Internet of Things

Singhal, Chetna; Voigt, Thiemo; Mottola, Luca

Part of MobiWac '23, p. 35-43, 2023

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AIM: Acoustic Inertial Measurement for Indoor Drone Localization and Tracking

Sun, Yimiao; Wang, Weiguo; Mottola, Luca; Wang, Ruijin et al.

Part of SenSys '22, p. 476-488, 2023

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MM4Drone: A Multi-Spectral Image and mmWave Radar Approach for Identifying Mosquito Breeding Grounds via Aerial Drones

Mahima, K. T. Y.; Weerasekara, Malith; De Zoysa, Kasun; Keppitiyagama, Chamath et al.

Part of Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, p. 412-426, 2022

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RF Information Harvesting for Medium Access in Event-driven Batteryless Sensing

Hokke, N H; Sharma, S; Prasad, R V; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of 2022 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), p. 377-389, 2022

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MicNest: Long-Range Instant Acoustic Localization of Drones in Precise Landing

Wang, Weiguo; Mottola, Luca; He, Yuan; Li, Jinming et al.

Part of SenSys '22, p. 504-517, 2022

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Poster Abstract: Scheduling Dynamic Software Updates in Safety-critical Embedded Systems: the Case of Aerial Drones

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo; Rümmer, Philipp

Part of 2022 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), p. 284-285, 2022

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Poster: Exploring Energy Harvesting Possibilities in Embankment Dams

Lundberg, Axel; Järvström, William; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo et al.

Part of EWSN '22, p. 200-201, 2022

Fighting Dengue Fever with Aerial Drones

Mahima, K.T.Y; Weerasekara, Malith; De Zoysa, Kasun; Keppitiyagama, Chamath et al.

Part of EWSN '22, p. 206-207, 2022

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The Case for Approximate Intermittent Computing

Bambusi, Fulvio; Cerizzi, Francesco; Lee, Yamin; Mottola, Luca

Part of 2022 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ISPN 2022), p. 463-476, 2022

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NeRTA: Enabling Dynamic Software Updates in Mobile Robotics

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo; Rümmer, Philipp

2022

Virtual Memory for Intermittent Computing

Maioli, Andrea; Mottola, Luca

Part of Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, p. 261-273, 2021

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Discovering the hidden anomalies of intermittent computing

Maioli, Andrea; Mottola, Luca; Hamad Alizai, Muhammad; Haroon Siddiqui, Junaid

Part of International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) 2021, p. 1-12, 2021

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Intermittence Anomalies not Considered Harmful

Maioli, Andrea; Mottola, Luca

Part of Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems, 2020

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Intermittent Computing with Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling

Ahmed, Saad; Ul Ain, Qurat; Siddiqui, Junaid Haroon; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of EWSN '20, p. 97-107, 2020

LOCI: Privacy-aware, Device-free, Low-power Localization of Multiple Persons using IR Sensors

Narayana, Sujay; Rao, Vijay; Prasad, R. Venkatesha; Kanthila, A. K. et al.

Part of 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), p. 121-132, 2020

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Hummingbird: energy efficient GPS receiver for small satellites

Narayana, Sujay; Prasad, R. Venkatesha; Rao, Vijay; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of MobiCom '20, p. 1-13, 2020

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On Securing Persistent State in Intermittent Computing

Asad, Hafiz Areeb; Wouters, Erik Henricus; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar; Mottola, Luca et al.

Part of ENSsys '20, p. 8-14, 2020

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Battery-less zero-maintenance embedded sensing at the mithræum of circus maximus

Afanasov, Mikhail; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar; Campagna, Dennis; Caslini, Giacomo et al.

Part of SenSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, p. 368-381, 2020

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Efficient Intermittent Computing with Differential Checkpointing

Ahmed, Saad; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad; Siddiqui, Junaid et al.

Part of LCTES 2019 Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, p. 70-81, 2019

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On Intermittence Bugs in the Battery-less Internet of Things

Maioli, Andrea; Mottola, Luca; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad; Siddiqui, Junaid Haroon

Part of LCTES 2019 Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, p. 203-207, 2019

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Intermittent Intermittent Asynchronous Peripheral Operations

Branco, Adriano; Mottola, Luca; Alizai, Hamad; Haroon Siddiqui, Junaid

Part of SenSys ´19 Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SENSYS), 2019

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The Betrayal of Constant Power × Time: Finding the Missing Joules of Transiently-powered Computers

Ahmed, Saad; Bhakar, Abu; Bhatti, Naveed Anwar; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad et al.

Part of Proceedings of the 20th ACMSIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Toolsfor Embedded Systems (LCTES ’19), 2019

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FlyZone: A Testbed for Experimenting with Aerial Drone Applications

Afanasov, Mikhail; Djordjevic, Alessandro; Liu, Feng; Mottola, Luca

Part of MobiSys '19 Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, p. 67-78, 2019

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IoTBench: Towards a Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking

Boano, Carlo Alberto; Duquennoy, Simon; Foster, Anna; Gnawali, Omprakash et al.

Part of Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems, 2018

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TUF: Time-bounded Fault Tolerance for Nano-satellites

El Yaacoub, Ahmed; Mottola, Luca; Voigt, Thiemo; Rümmer, Philipp et al.