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Multilevel Modeling as a Methodology for the Simulation of Human Mobility
Luca Serena, Moreno Marzolla, Gabriele D'Angelo +1
Multilevel modeling is increasingly relevant in the context of modelling and simulation since it leads to several potential benefits, such as software reuse and integration, the sp…
Security Analysis of Distributed Ledgers and Blockchains through Agent-based Simulation
Luca Serena, Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti
In this paper we describe LUNES-Blockchain, an agent-based simulator of blockchains that relies on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) techniques to obtain high scalability.…
Cryptocurrencies Activity as a Complex Network: Analysis of Transactions Graphs
Luca Serena, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
The number of users approaching the world of cryptocurrencies exploded in the last years, and consequently the daily interactions on their underlying distributed ledgers have inten…
Simulation of Hybrid Edge Computing Architectures
Luca Serena, Mirko Zichichi, Gabriele D'Angelo +1
Dealing with a growing amount of data is a crucial challenge for the future of information and communication technologies. More and more devices are expected to transfer data throu…
Simulation of Dissemination Strategies on Temporal Networks
Luca Serena, Mirko Zichichi, Gabriele D'Angelo +1
In distributed environments, such as distributed ledgers technologies and other peer-to-peer architectures, communication represents a crucial topic. The ability to efficiently dis…
Governing Decentralized Complex Queries Through a DAO
Mirko Zichichi, Luca Serena, Stefano Ferretti +1
Recently, a new generation of P2P systems capable of addressing data integrity and authenticity has emerged for the development of new applications for a "more" decentralized Inter…
Towards Decentralized Complex Queries over Distributed Ledgers: a Data Marketplace Use-case
Mirko Zichichi, Luca Serena, Stefano Ferretti +1
Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Decentralized File Storages (DFS) are becoming increasingly used to create common, decentralized and trustless infrastructures where parti…
MOVO: a dApp for DLT-based Smart Mobility
Mirko Zichichi, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
Plenty of research on smart mobility is currently devoted to the inclusion of novel decentralized software architectures to these systems, due to the inherent advantages in terms o…
Personal Data Access Control Through Distributed Authorization
Mirko Zichichi, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo +1
This paper presents an architecture of a Personal Information Management System, in which individuals can define the access to their personal data by means of smart contracts. Thes…
Implications of Dissemination Strategies on the Security of Distributed Ledgers
Luca Serena, Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti
This paper describes a simulation study on security attacks over Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). We specifically focus on attacks at the underlying peer-to-peer layer of th…
DiLeNA: Distributed Ledger Network Analyzer
Luca Serena, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
This paper describes the Distributed Ledger Network Analyzer (DiLeNA), a new software tool for the analysis of the transactions network recorded in Distributed Ledger Technologies…
On the Efficiency of Decentralized File Storage for Personal Information Management Systems
Mirko Zichichi, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
This paper presents an architecture, based on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and Decentralized File Storage (DFS) systems, to support the use of Personal Information Manage…
Are Distributed Ledger Technologies Ready for Smart Transportation Systems?
Mirko Zichichi, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
The aim of this paper is to understand whether Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) are ready to support complex services, such as those related to Intelligent Transportation Sys…
Parallel Data Distribution Management on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Moreno Marzolla, Gabriele D'Angelo
The problem of identifying intersections between two sets of d-dimensional axis-parallel rectangles appears frequently in the context of agent-based simulation studies. For this re…
Fast Session Resumption in DTLS for Mobile Communications
Gyordan Caminati, Sara Kiade, Gabriele D'Angelo +2
DTLS is a protocol that provides security guarantees to Internet communications. It can operate on top of both TCP and UDP transport protocols. Thus, it is particularly suited for…
A Distributed Ledger Based Infrastructure for Smart Transportation System and Social Good
Mirko Zichichi, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
This paper presents a system architecture to promote the development of smart transportation systems. Thanks to the use of distributed ledgers and related technologies, it is possi…
On the Ethereum Blockchain Structure: a Complex Networks Theory Perspective
Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo
In this paper, we analyze the Ethereum blockchain using the complex networks modeling framework. Accounts acting on the blockchain are represented as nodes, while the interactions…
Agent-based Simulation of Blockchains
Edoardo Rosa, Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti
In this paper, we describe LUNES-Blockchain, an agent-based simulator of blockchains that is able to exploit Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) techniques to offer a high l…
Internet-based Adaptive Distributed Simulation of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti, Gary S. H. Tan
In this paper we focus on Internet-based simulation, a form of distributed simulation in which a set of execution units that are physically located around the globe work together t…
LikeStarter: a Smart-contract based Social DAO for Crowdfunding
Mirko Zichichi, Michele Contu, Stefano Ferretti +1
Crowdfunding has become a popular form of collective funding, in which small donations or investments, made by groups of people, support the development of new projects in exchange…
Fault Tolerant Adaptive Parallel and Distributed Simulation through Functional Replication
Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti, Moreno Marzolla
This paper presents FT-GAIA, a software-based fault-tolerant parallel and distributed simulation middleware. FT-GAIA has being designed to reliably handle Parallel And Distributed…
Anonymity and Confidentiality in Secure Distributed Simulation
Antonio Magnani, Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti +1
Research on data confidentiality, integrity and availability is gaining momentum in the ICT community, due to the intrinsically insecure nature of the Internet. While many distribu…
A Blockchain-based Flight Data Recorder for Cloud Accountability
Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti, Moreno Marzolla
Many companies rely on Cloud infrastructures for their computation, communication and data storage requirements. While Cloud services provide some benefits, e.g., replacing high up…
Distributed Hybrid Simulation of the Internet of Things and Smart Territories
Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti, Vittorio Ghini
This paper deals with the use of hybrid simulation to build and compose heterogeneous simulation scenarios that can be proficiently exploited to model and represent the Internet of…