Farm to fork: securing a supply chain with direct impact on food security
Food security is currently considered a huge societal challenge which technology providers, technology adopters, policy makers and consumers altogether are facing. A first step towards more secure and safe food has been attempted through the deployment mainly of Internet of Things based solutions and applications that gather information and provide it to the users. However, these systems are susceptible to attacks e.g. data leakage and information modification, keeping our societies away from the target of secure food.
Scaling migrations and replications of Virtual Network Functions based on network traffic forecasting
Migration and replication of virtual network functions (VNFs) are well-known mechanisms to face dynamic resource requests in Internet Service Provider (ISP) edge networks. They are not only used to reallocate resources in carrier networks, but in case of excessive traffic churns also to offload VNFs to third party cloud providers. We propose to study how traffic forecasting can help to reduce the number of required migrations and replications when the traffic dynamically changes in the network.
The Green Blockchains of Circular Economy
Eco-friendly systems are necessitated nowadays, as the global consumption is increasing. A data-driven aspect is prominent, involving the Internet of Things (IoT) as the main enabler of a Circular Economy (CE). Henceforth, IoT equipment records the system’s functionality, with machine learning (ML) optimizing green computing operations.
Electronics 2021, 10, 2008. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10162008
Cybersecurity in ICT Supply Chains: Key Challenges and a Relevant Architecture
The specific demands of supply chains built upon large and complex IoT systems, make it
a must to design a coordinated framework for cyber resilience provisioning, intended to guarantee
trusted supply chains of ICT systems, built upon distributed, dynamic, potentially insecure, and
heterogeneous ICT infrastructures.
Sensors 2021, 21, 6057. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21186057
The Role of Intent-Based Networking in ICT Supply Chains
The evolution towards Industry 4.0 is driving the need for innovative solutions in the area of network management, considering the complex, dynamic and heterogeneous nature of ICT supply chains. To this end, Intent-Based networking (IBN) which is already proven to evolve how network management is driven today, can be implemented as a solution to facilitate the management of large ICT supply chains.
2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR)
Scalability analysis of a blockchain-based security strategy for complex IoT systems
Supply chains constitute a type of IoT system that is becoming increasingly complex today. Providing supply chains with cybersecurity guarantees is becoming a highly topic in current research. This interest is mainly rooted on the fact that supply chains may include different vulnerable components, such as those residing in factories, distribution centres, logistics, or transportation, just to name a few.
2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR)