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Simulation in Cybersecurity: Understanding Techniques, Applications, and Goals
Luca Serena, Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti +1
Modeling and simulation are widely used in cybersecurity research to assess cyber threats, evaluate defense mechanisms, and analyze vulnerabilities. However, the diversity of appli…
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…
Design Patterns for Multilevel Modeling and Simulation
Luca Serena, Moreno Marzolla, Gabriele D'Angelo +1
Multilevel modeling and simulation (M&S) is becoming increasingly relevant due to the benefits that this methodology offers. Multilevel models allow users to describe a system at m…
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…
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…