Publications

@article{granelli2026survey,
  title = {{A Survey on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Communications: State-of-the-Art, Existing Standards and Future Directions}},
  author = {Fabrizio Granelli and Yan-Ping Lu and Qingqing Wu and Zhenhui Yuan and Aly Sabri Abdalla and Vuk Marojevic and Yifan Jiang and Fatemeh Afghah and Giovanni Geraci and Anandarup Mukherjee and Sabur Baidya and Giovanni Grieco and Abid Yaqoob and Muhammad Abul Hassan and Kamesh R. Namuduri and Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad and Laaziz Lahlou and John Sengendo and Gabriel‐Miro Muntean},
  journal = {IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1109/ojcoms.2026.3675046},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2026.3675046}
}

@article{grieco2025iodsim,
  title = {{IoD-Sim: An Open-Source Simulator for 6G Integrated Terrestrial/Non-Terrestrial Networks}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Daniele Pugliese and Adnan Rashid and Ilaria Cianci},
  journal = {Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 274, 111876},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111876},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111876}
}

@misc{grieco2025spatial,
  title = {{Spatial Situational Awareness for Safe UAVs in XAI-enhanced 6G Networks: Vision, Challenges, and Opportunities}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Arcangela Rago and Gennaro Boggia and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  howpublished = {TechRxiv (preprint)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.36227/techrxiv.175695641.10388179/v1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.175695641.10388179/v1}
}

@inproceedings{grieco2025detection,
  title = {{Detection, Tracking, and Identification of Drones: an Overview on Counter-UAS Techniques, and Open Challenges}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Danilo Amendola and D. Chris Anderson},
  booktitle = {2025 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/icns65417.2025.10976862},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/icns65417.2025.10976862}
}

@phdthesis{grieco2025design,
  title = {{Design and Experimental Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Communications}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco},
  school = {PhD thesis, Polytechnic University of Bari},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.60576/poliba/iris/grieco-giovanni_phd2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.60576/poliba/iris/grieco-giovanni_phd2025}
}

@inproceedings{boffetti2025towards,
  title = {{Towards the Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: a Testbed for in-Lab Evaluation}},
  author = {Enrico Boffetti and Salvatore Carbonara and Daniele Pugliese and Giovanni Grieco and Carolina Sbiroli and Alessio Fascista and Arcangela Rago and Giuseppe Piro},
  booktitle = {2025 17th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/icumt67815.2025.11268725},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/icumt67815.2025.11268725}
}

@inproceedings{carbonara2025indoor,
  title = {{An Indoor Experimental Testbed for 5G-Based UAV Control and Communication}},
  author = {Salvatore Carbonara and Daniele Pugliese and Enrico Boffetti and Fabrizio Greco and Barbara Didonna and Giovanni Grieco and Alessio Fascista and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  booktitle = {2025 21st International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/wimob66857.2025.11257529},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/wimob66857.2025.11257529}
}

@inproceedings{amendola2025towards,
  title = {{Towards an Open-Source Simulation Platform for Counter-UAS Sensor Fusion}},
  author = {Danilo Amendola and Giovanni Grieco},
  booktitle = {2025 16th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.23919/wmnc67099.2025.11299256},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.23919/wmnc67099.2025.11299256}
}

@article{grieco2024systemlevel,
  title = {{A System-Level Simulation Module for Multi-UAV IRS-Assisted Communications}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Giovanni Iacovelli and Daniele Pugliese and Domenico Striccoli and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 5},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1109/tvt.2023.3342298},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2023.3342298}
}

@article{iacovelli2024fair,
  title = {{Fair Energy and Data Rate Maximization in UAV-Powered IoT-Satellite Integrated Networks}},
  author = {Giovanni Iacovelli and Giovanni Grieco and Antonio Petrosino and Luigi Alfredo Grieco and Gennaro Boggia},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 4},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1109/tcomm.2023.3343417},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2023.3343417}
}

@techreport{grieco2024counterdrone,
  title = {{Counter-drone systems and data fusion}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Danilo Amendola and D. Chris Anderson},
  institution = {JRC Technical Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.2760/6037951},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.2760/6037951}
}

@inproceedings{grieco2023preliminary,
  title = {{Preliminary Performance Evaluation of a Satellite-to-HAP Communication Link}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Giovanni Iacovelli and Mattia Sandri and Marco Giordani and Michele Zorzi and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  booktitle = {European Wireless 2023; 28th European Wireless Conference, Rome},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2310.01143},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.01143}
}

@article{grieco2023internet,
  title = {{Internet of Drones Simulator: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Giovanni Iacovelli and Pietro Boccadoro and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 2},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1109/jiot.2022.3207324},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2022.3207324}
}

@inproceedings{grieco2022authentication,
  title = {{Authentication and Authorization in Cyber-Security Frameworks: a Novel Approach for Securing Digital Service Chains}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Domenico Striccoli and Giuseppe Piro and Raffaele Bolla and Gennaro Boggia and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Milan},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1109/netsoft54395.2022.9844030},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/netsoft54395.2022.9844030}
}

@incollection{carrega2022reference,
  title = {{A Reference Architecture for Management of Security Operations in Digital Service Chains}},
  author = {Alessandro Carrega and Giovanni Grieco and Domenico Striccoli and Manos Papoutsakis and Tomas Lima and José Ignacio Carretero and Matteo Repetto},
  booktitle = {Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 13300, Springer},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-04036-8_1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04036-8_1}
}

@inproceedings{grieco2021design,
  title = {{On the Design of the Drone Control Layer}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Giovanni Iacovelli and Pietro Boccadoro and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  booktitle = {European Wireless 2021; 26th European Wireless Conference, Verona},
  year = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{petrosino2020dynamic,
  title = {{Dynamic Management of Forwarding Rules in a T-SDN Architecture with Energy and Bandwidth Constraints}},
  author = {Antonio Petrosino and Giancarlo Sciddurlo and Giovanni Grieco and Awais Aziz Shah and Giuseppe Piro and Luigi Alfredo Grieco and Gennaro Boggia},
  booktitle = {ADHOC-NOW 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 12338, Springer},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_1}
}

@inproceedings{shah2020realtime,
  title = {{A Real-time Simulation Framework for Complex and Large-scale Optical Transport Networks based on the SDN Paradigm}},
  author = {Awais Aziz Shah and Marco Mussini and F. Nicassio and G. Parladori and Francesco Triggiani and Giovanni Grieco and G. Iaffaldano and Giuseppe Piro},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1109/ds-rt50469.2020.9213701},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ds-rt50469.2020.9213701}
}

@inproceedings{grieco2019open,
  title = {{An Open Source and System-Level Simulator for the Internet of Drones}},
  author = {Giovanni Grieco and Roberto Artuso and Pietro Boccadoro and Giuseppe Piro and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
  booktitle = {2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC Workshops), Istanbul},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1109/pimrcw.2019.8880832},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/pimrcw.2019.8880832}
}