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Characterising resource management performance in Kubernetes
Víctor Medel, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, José Ángel Bañares +2
A key challenge for supporting elastic behaviour in cloud systems is to achieve a good performance in automated (de-)provisioning and scheduling of computing resources. One of the…
Hierarchical and Decentralised Federated Learning
Omer Rana, Theodoros Spyridopoulos, Nathaniel Hudson +4
Federated learning has shown enormous promise as a way of training ML models in distributed environments while reducing communication costs and protecting data privacy. However, th…
AI-based Fog and Edge Computing: A Systematic Review, Taxonomy and Future Directions
Sundas Iftikhar, Sukhpal Singh Gill, Chenghao Song +15
Resource management in computing is a very challenging problem that involves making sequential decisions. Resource limitations, resource heterogeneity, dynamic and diverse nature o…
Exploring the Relationships between Privacy by Design Schemes and Privacy Laws: A Comparative Analysis
Atheer Aljeraisy, Masoud Barati, Omer Rana +1
Internet of Things (IoT) applications have the potential to derive sensitive information about individuals. Therefore, developers must exercise due diligence to make sure that data…
PrivacyCube: A Tangible Device for Improving Privacy Awareness in IoT
Bayan Al Muhander, Omer Rana, Nalin Arachchilage +1
Consumers increasingly bring IoT devices into their living spaces without understanding how their data is collected, processed, and used. We present PrivacyCube, a novel tangible d…
AI for Next Generation Computing: Emerging Trends and Future Directions
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Minxian Xu, Carlo Ottaviani +19
Autonomic computing investigates how systems can achieve (user) specified control outcomes on their own, without the intervention of a human operator. Autonomic computing fundament…
Cybersecurity Challenges in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: An Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) Perspective
Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed, Philipp Reinecke, Pete Burnap +2
The offshore oil and gas industry has recently been going through a digitalisation drive, with use of `smart' equipment using technologies like the Industrial Internet of Things (I…
A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports
Masoud Barati, William J. Buchanan, Owen Lo +1
Digital vaccine passports are one of the main solutions which would allow the restart of travel in a post COVID-19 world. Trust, scalability and security are all key challenges one…
HUNTER: AI based Holistic Resource Management for Sustainable Cloud Computing
Shreshth Tuli, Sukhpal Singh Gill, Minxian Xu +8
The worldwide adoption of cloud data centers (CDCs) has given rise to the ubiquitous demand for hosting application services on the cloud. Further, contemporary data-intensive indu…
Tokenising behaviour change: optimising blockchain technology for sustainable transport interventions
Iain Barclay, Michael Cooper, Alun Preece +2
Transport makes an impact across SDGs, encompassing climate change, health, inequality and sustainability. It is also an area in which individuals are able to make decisions which…
Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review
Hakan Kayan, Matthew Nunes, Omer Rana +2
Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) manage critical infrastructures by controlling the processes based on the "physics" data gathered by edge sensor networks. Recent innovati…
Minimising Delay and Energy in Online Dynamic Fog Systems
Faten Alenizi, Omer Rana
The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices generates a greater demand for data transfers and puts increased pressure on networks. Additionally, connectivity to cloud se…
Synthesising Privacy by Design Knowledge Towards Explainable Internet of Things Application Designing in Healthcare
Lamya Alkhariji, Nada Alhirabi, Mansour Naser Alraja +3
Privacy by Design (PbD) is the most common approach followed by software developers who aim to reduce risks within their application designs, yet it remains commonplace for develop…
Privacy-Aware Internet of Things Notices in Shared Spaces: A Survey
Bayan Al Muhander, Jason Wiese, Omer Rana +1
The balance between protecting users' privacy while providing cost-effective devices that are functional and usable is a key challenge in the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) in…
WattsApp: Power-Aware Container Scheduling
Hemant Mehta, Paul Harvey, Omer Rana +2
Containers are becoming a popular workload deployment mechanism in modern distributed systems. However, there are limited software-based methods (hardware-based methods are expensi…
ThermoSim: Deep Learning based Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Thermal-aware Resource Management for Cloud Computing Environments
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Shreshth Tuli, Adel Nadjaran Toosi +8
Current cloud computing frameworks host millions of physical servers that utilize cloud computing resources in the form of different virtual machines (VM). Cloud Data Center (CDC)…
Cyberattacks and Countermeasures For In-Vehicle Networks
Emad Aliwa, Omer Rana, Charith Perera +1
As connectivity between and within vehicles increases, so does concern about safety and security. Various automotive serial protocols are used inside vehicles such as Controller Ar…
Designing Security and Privacy Requirements in Internet of Things: A Survey
Nada Alhirabi, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
The design and development process for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications is more complicated than that for desktop, mobile, or web applications. First, IoT applications req…
Orchestrating the Development Lifecycle of Machine Learning-Based IoT Applications: A Taxonomy and Survey
Bin Qian, Jie Su, Zhenyu Wen +11
Machine Learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT) are complementary advances: ML techniques unlock complete potentials of IoT with intelligence, and IoT applications increasingly…
Realizing Edge Marketplaces: Challenges and Opportunities
Blesson Varghese, Massimo Villari, Omer Rana +4
The edge of the network has the potential to host services for supporting a variety of user applications, ranging in complexity from data preprocessing, image and video rendering,…
The Internet of Things, Fog and Cloud Continuum: Integration and Challenges
Luiz F. Bittencourt, Roger Immich, Rizos Sakellariou +7
The Internet of Things needs for computing power and storage are expected to remain on the rise in the next decade. Consequently, the amount of data generated by devices at the edg…
Predicting purchasing intent: Automatic Feature Learning using Recurrent Neural Networks
Humphrey Sheil, Omer Rana, Ronan Reilly
We present a neural network for predicting purchasing intent in an Ecommerce setting. Our main contribution is to address the significant investment in feature engineering that is…
Data Capture & Analysis to Assess Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes
Matilda Rhode, Omer Rana, Tim Edwards
Data enables Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to quantify the impact of their initiatives to themselves and to others. The increasing amount of data stored today can be seen a…
A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade
Rajkumar Buyya, Satish Narayana Srirama, Giuliano Casale +22
The Cloud computing paradigm has revolutionised the computer science horizon during the past decade and has enabled the emergence of computing as the fifth utility. It has captured…