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Blockchain and Edge Computing Nexus: A Large-scale Systematic Literature Review
Zeinab Nezami, Zhuolun Li, Chuhao Qin +3
Blockchain and edge computing are two instrumental paradigms of decentralized computation, driving key advancements in Smart Cities applications such as supply chain, energy and mo…
SoK: Consensus for Fair Message Ordering
Zhuolun Li, Evangelos Pournaras
Distributed ledgers rely on consensus protocols to commit messages in an agreed order. In practice, this order is often chosen for profit, which raises fairness concerns. For examp…
When Computing follows Vehicles: Decentralized Mobility-Aware Resource Allocation for Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Zeinab Nezami, Emmanouil Chaniotakis, Evangelos Pournaras
The transformation of smart mobility is unprecedented--Autonomous, shared and electric connected vehicles, along with the urgent need to meet ambitious net-zero targets by shifting…
SMOTEC: An Edge Computing Testbed for Adaptive Smart Mobility Experimentation
Zeinab Nezami, Evangelos Pournaras, Amir Borzouie +1
Smart mobility becomes paramount for meeting net-zero targets. However, autonomous, self-driving and electric vehicles require more than ever before an efficient, resilient and tru…
Discrete-choice Multi-agent Optimization: Decentralized Hard Constraint Satisfaction for Smart Cities
Srijoni Majumdar, Chuhao Qin, Evangelos Pournaras
Making Smart Cities more sustainable, resilient and democratic is emerging as an endeavor of satisfying hard constraints, for instance meeting net-zero targets. Decentralized multi…
Containing Future Epidemics with Trustworthy Federated Systems for Ubiquitous Warning and Response
Dick Carrillo, Lam Duc Nguyen, Pedro H. J. Nardelli +11
In this paper, we propose a global digital platform to avoid and combat epidemics by providing relevant real-time information to support selective lockdowns. It leverages the perva…
Self-healing Dilemmas in Distributed Systems: Fault Correction vs. Fault Tolerance
Jovan Nikolic, Nursultan Jubatyrov, Evangelos Pournaras
Large-scale decentralized systems of autonomous agents interacting via asynchronous communication often experience the following self-healing dilemma: fault detection inherits netw…
Decentralized Edge-to-Cloud Load-balancing: Service Placement for the Internet of Things
Zeinab Nezami, Kamran Zamanifar, Karim Djemame +1
The Internet of Things (IoT) requires a new processing paradigm that inherits the scalability of the cloud while minimizing network latency using resources closer to the network ed…
Structural Self-adaptation for Decentralized Pervasive Intelligence
Jovan Nikolic, Evangelos Pournaras
Communication structure plays a key role in the learning capability of decentralized systems. Structural self-adaptation, by means of self-organization, changes the order as well a…
Privacy-enhancing Aggregation of Internet of Things Data via Sensors Grouping
Stefano Bennati, Evangelos Pournaras
Big data collection practices using Internet of Things (IoT) pervasive technologies are often privacy-intrusive and result in surveillance, profiling, and discriminatory actions ov…