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D. Nicoì, degree, in telecommunications engineering and with honors, respectively. In 2013 he received the PhD degree in electronics, telecommunications and information technologies. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at DEI, University of Bologna, Italy he spent a year as visiting student of the Wireless Communication and Network Sciences Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) His research interests include ultra-wide bandwidth communications systems, radio localization, wireless sensor networks and RFID. Dr. Decarli serves as reviewer for numerous IEEE Journals and Conferences . He was a member of the local organization committee for the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-WideBand and TPC member of the IEEE ICC 2015 Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN), 2007.