Publications
Journals
2. X. Tao, D. Monaco, A. Sacco, S. Silvestri, and G. Marchetto. “Delay-Aware Routing in Software-Defined Networks via Network Tomography and Reinforcement Learning.” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2024.
1. A. K. Singh, B. J. BalabayglooBehzad, B. BekeeBarituka, S. W. Blair, S. Fey, F. Fotouhi, A. Gupta, A. Jha, J. C. Martinez-Palomares, K. Menke, A. Prestholt, V. K. Tanwar, X. Tao, A. Vangala, M.E. Carroll, S. K. Das, G. DePaula, P. Kyveryga, S. Sarkar, M. Segovia, S. Silvestri, and C. Valdivia. “Smart Connected Farms and Networked Farmers to Improve Crop Production, Sustainability and Profitability.” Frontiers in Agronomy, Vol. 6, 2024.
International Conferences & Workshops
14. J. Guess, X. Tao and S. Silvestri, "A Method for Assessing the Impact of Altitude on Aerial Imagery for Crop and Weed Detection," 2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2025.
13. X. Tao, J. Butcher, S. Silvestri, and S. K. Das. “iCrop+: An Edge-boosted Crop Disease Detection System via TinyML and LoRa Communication.” IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PerCom Demo Track), 2025 (Best Demo Runner Up Paper Award).
12. X. Tao, C. Cumini, A. Sacco, S. Silvestri, S. C. Montserrat and G. Marchetto. “FertilizeSmart: Exploiting IoT and Differential Evolution for Optimizing Crop Fertilization.” IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), 2025.
11. X. Tao, R. Zhao, S. Chehida, D. Conzon, E. Ferrera, and S. Bensalem. “A User-Centric Privacy Control Framework for Decentralized IoT Platforms.” International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2024.
10. X. Tao, E. Damron, and S. Silvestri. “High-Precision Crop Monitoring Through UAV-Aided Sensor Data Collection.” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024.
9. X. Tao, J. Butcher, S. Silvestri, and Flavio Esposito. “iCrop: Enabling High-Precision Crop Disease Detection via LoRa Technology.” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2024.
8. X. Tao and S. Silvestri. “Network Tomography and Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Routing.” IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 2023.
7. S. Chehida, S. Bensalem, D. Conzon, and E. Ferrera, Xu Tao. “BRAIN-IoT Architecture and Platform for Building IoT Systems.” International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS) 2022.
6. X. Tao, D. Conzon, E. Ferrera, L. M. Emmanuel Michel, M. Diaz-Nava, S. Li, A. Baouya, S. Chehida, and J. Goetz. “Model Based Methodology and Framework for Design and Management of Next-Gen IoT Systems.” Eclipse Research International Conference on Security, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling for the Next Generation Internet of Things (SAMIoT), 2020.
5. R. Zhao, X. Tao, D. Conzon, and E. Ferrera, “A Cross-platform Communication Mechanism for ROS-based Cyber-physical System.” Eclipse Research International Conference on Security, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling for the Next Generation Internet of Things, 2020. 2/4
4. E. Ferrera, X. Tao, D. Conzon, V. Pombo, M. Cantero, T. Ward, I. Bosi, and M. Sandretto. “BRAIN-IoT: Paving the Way for Next-Generation Internet of Things.” International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS), 2020.
3. R. Nicholson, T. Ward, D. Baum, X. Tao, D. Conzon, and E. Ferrera. “Dynamic fog computing platform for event-driven deployment and orchestration of distributed Internet of Things applications.” World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), 2020.
2. D. Conzon, M. R. A., Rashid, X. Tao, and E. Ferrera. “BRAIN-IoT: Model-Based Framework for Dependable Sensing and Actuation in Intelligent Decentralized IoT Systems.” International Conference on Computing, Communications and Security (ICCCS) 2019. •
1. X Tao, F. Esposito, and G Marchetto. “A Policy-Based Architecture for Container Migration in Software Defined Infrastructures.” IEEE Conference on NetworkSoftwarization (IEEE NetSoft) 2019. Posters and Abstracts
Posters & Abstracts
1. X. Tao, and Simone Silvestri. “Integrating UAV and LoRaWAN in WSN for Intelligent Monitoring in Large-scale Rural Farms.“ IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom Workshops PhD Forum), 2023.
