I. D. Falco, G. Pietro, Giovanna Sannino, U. Scafuri, E. Tarantino, A. D. Cioppa, G. Trunfio
{"title":"Deep Neural Network Hyper-Parameter Setting for Classification of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Episodes","authors":"I. D. Falco, G. Pietro, Giovanna Sannino, U. Scafuri, E. Tarantino, A. D. Cioppa, G. Trunfio","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538572","url":null,"abstract":"The wide availability of sensing devices in the medical domain causes the creation of large and very large data sets. Hence, tasks as the classification in such data sets becomes more and more difficult. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very effective in classification, yet finding the best values for their hyper-parameters is a difficult and time-consuming task. This paper introduces an approach to decrease execution times to automatically find good hyper-parameter values for DNN through Evolutionary Algorithms when classification task is faced. This decrease is obtained through the combination of two mechanisms. The former is constituted by a distributed version for a Differential Evolution algorithm. The latter is based on a procedure aimed at reducing the size of the training set and relying on a decomposition into cubes of the space of the data set attributes. Experiments are carried out on a medical data set about Obstructive Sleep Anpnea. They show that sub-optimal DNN hyper-parameter values are obtained in a much lower time with respect to the case where this reduction is not effected, and that this does not come to the detriment of the accuracy in the classification over the test set items.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134099807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. V. L. D. Monte, Vinicius Matos da Silveira Fraga, A. M. N. C. Ribeiro, D. Sadok, J. Kelner
{"title":"IMMS: IoT Management and Monitoring System","authors":"J. V. L. D. Monte, Vinicius Matos da Silveira Fraga, A. M. N. C. Ribeiro, D. Sadok, J. Kelner","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538755","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things already comprehends billions of connected smart devices. The related issues are vast as well, ranging from the lack of standardized communication to big data management. This paper presents IoT Management and Monitoring System (IMMS), a solution focused on the management of big environments such as smart cities. The The proposed platform brings a novel database implementation to handle large volumes of data and provide quick responses to queries. Its design allows scalable and distributed deployments, while accepting diverse data types. The system was evaluated both in a real-world testbed, in a university campus, and a simulated environment. Results showed low CPU costs while consuming 1.1GB to store 21.5 million measurements. Besides, its scalability behaved as expected, maintaining its performance adequate as data volume increased.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132795360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognitive Management of Bandwidth Allocation Models with Case-Based Reasoning - Evidences Towards Dynamic BAM Reconfiguration","authors":"E. Oliveira, R. Reale, Joberto S. B. Martins","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538667","url":null,"abstract":"Management is a complex task in today’s heterogeneous and large scale networks like Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. Likewise, researchers and developers envision the use of artificial intelligence techniques to create cognitive and autonomic management tools that aim better assist and enhance the management process cycle. Bandwidth Allocation Models (BAMs) are a resource allocation solution for networks that need to share and optimize limited resources like bandwidth, fiber or optical slots in a flexible and dynamic way. This paper proposes and evaluates the use of Case-based Reasoning (CBR) for the cognitive management of BAM reconfiguration in MPLS networks. The results suggest that CBR learns about bandwidth request profiles associated with the current network state and is able to dynamically define or assist in BAM reconfiguration. The BAM reconfiguration approach adopted is based on switching among available BAM implementations (Maximum Allocation Model, Russian Dolls Model and AllocTC-Sharing). The cognitive management proposed allows BAMs self-configuration and results in optimizing the utilization of network resources.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134159948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Content Distribution Optimization Algorithms in Vehicular Networks","authors":"J.C.G. Conde, Carlos R. Senna, S. Sargento","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538592","url":null,"abstract":"Content distribution strategies for delayed-tolerance networks (DTNs), such as Local Rarest Bundle First (LRBF), reach high delivery rate in the vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), in spite of their continuous node mobility and their wide geographical dispersion. However, to reach a high delivery rate, this strategy requires each node to periodically send control packets with information of which content bundles it contains and that are available to its neighbours, increasing the network overhead. To overcome this problem, we are proposing two content distribution approaches to minimize the size of the control packets. Our results show that our algorithms can reduce more than 90% the size of control packets, while decreasing the network overhead without changing the delivery rate and endto-end delay.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133365330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NPM: An Anti-attacking Analysis Model of the MTD system Based on Martingale Theory","authors":"Xin Yang, Hui Li, Han Wang","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538520","url":null,"abstract":"Moving target defense (MTD) techniques are effective solutions to improve the network security by continuously reconfiguring the system setting. On the other hand, continuously transforming also increase the cost of defenders, so it is important to analyze the effectiveness of MTDs compared with their cost. Current researches lack of analyzing the effectiveness by mathematical theory compared with analyzing by experiment. Motivated by the above, we propose a novel three-dimension model named NPM jointly use N-version programming, Poisson process, Markov chain and martingale theory to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed MTD model. Our analysis points out the difficulty for a successful adversary to defeat the MTD system, which is related to the system configuration, such as the number of executors and the judgment criterion in every node, the transforming period and rang of system MTD transformation. Finally, we give advices on the design of the system in the daily defense and the attacked defense, with the goal of guaranteeing security with minimal cost.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116795471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benevid Felix Silva, Igor Steuck, A. Santos, Stefano Secci, M. N. Lima
{"title":"Redundant Packet Scheduling by Uncorrelated Paths in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks","authors":"Benevid Felix Silva, Igor Steuck, A. Santos, Stefano Secci, M. N. Lima","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538641","url":null,"abstract":"Heterogeneous wireless networks operate under un-certainties as traffic load variation and failures. Redundant packet scheduling algorithms seek to timely cope with these uncertainties to meet the latency and throughput requirements for delay-sensitive applications, such as online gaming, voice and video streaming. The Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) can rely on a redundant scheduler to fulfill this demand, replicating data packets on multiple paths to mitigate negative effects of heterogeneity, such as fluctuations in delay, loss rate, and bandwidth. However, shared bottlenecks among paths can compromise the benefits of the redundant scheduler and restrain the MPTCP performance. Thus, this paper introduces a new scheduler, called RED (REdundant Diversity scheduling), to prioritize packet replication by uncorrelated paths. RED selects paths and replicates packets based on the Spearman's correlation coefficient. Results show that RED achieves low delay and enhances the usage of low correlated paths, improving transmission performance.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123851235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. d'Hollosy, L. V. Velsen, Alexander Henket, H. Hermens
{"title":"An Interoperable eHealth Reference Architecture for Primary Care","authors":"W. d'Hollosy, L. V. Velsen, Alexander Henket, H. Hermens","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538576","url":null,"abstract":"eHealth is still not widely used in primary care, because barriers still exist around integrated and interoperable technological infrastructures for eHealth. This paper describes the design of an interoperable eHealth reference architecture for primary care and its evaluation with experts. This reference architecture aims to facilitate IT specialists in setting up interoperable eHealth infrastructures within primary healthcare organizations. The design of the reference architecture was based on the results of 14 working sessions with 10 eHealth Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and the theory behind the Refined eHealth European Interoperability Framework (ReEIF). The evaluation with experts revealed additional conditions that – next to the reference architecture – are needed before interoperable eHealth in primary care can actually be achieved.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124688912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diego Azevedo, Michel S. Bonfim, Leonidas Lima, S. Fernandes
{"title":"Towards an Accurate Bandwidth Estimation Tool for 802.11n Wireless Networks","authors":"Diego Azevedo, Michel S. Bonfim, Leonidas Lima, S. Fernandes","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538751","url":null,"abstract":"Available Bandwidth Estimation (ABE) has been the subject of several studies in recent years. ABE tools based on the PRM approach have been the primary choice for production environments since they are more suitable for applications that are far from users (e.g., Cloud applications). At the same time, the 802.11n wireless network standard has been increasingly used in companies and homes. However, the 802.11n introduced significant changes to improve efficiency such as Frame Aggregation (FA) and the Channel Bonding (CB), which directly influence the accuracy of ABE techniques. Therefore, this work aims to provide a solution that reduces the impact of the new 802.11n arrangements in ABE. For this, we initially performed experiments on a testbed to assess how much these 802.11n MAC layer factors influence the estimates of four ABE tools: ASSOLO, PTR, PathChirp, and YAZ. Results showed that YAZ achieved the best efficiency. Nevertheless, its accuracy is significantly affected in FA-enabled scenarios. Then, we performed an indepth analysis of YAZ aiming to identify the causes of that problem. Finally, we proposed and evaluated the YAZ++, a tool that implements a new technique to improve ABE accuracy in FA scenarios. Results showed an improvement in the estimated values.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130293899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucas S. Cerqueira, A. Vieira, L. Vieira, M. Vieira, J. Nacif
{"title":"COPPER: Increasing Underwater Sensor Network Performance Through Nodes Cooperation","authors":"Lucas S. Cerqueira, A. Vieira, L. Vieira, M. Vieira, J. Nacif","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538444","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring underwater environments is still a hard and costly task. Indeed, electromagnetic and optical waves suffer high attenuation, being absorbed in a few meters and even acoustic communication presents low throughput and high bit error rate. Most of the existing approaches to enhance underwater communication performance relies on developing acoustic modems, multiple access to the communication channel and, data routing. In this paper, we present COPPER: a COoperative Protocol for PERvasive Underwater Acoustic Networks. COPPER synchronously/asynchronously works on top of TDMA method combined with an ARQ scheme based on selective repeat technique. It uses idle sensor nodes as relay nodes, enhancing communication space diversity. Our simulations show that, when compared to a non-cooperative protocol, COPPER enhances overall network performance metrics. For instance, it reduces packet error rate by 28.32% and increases goodput by 16.87% while spending less than 1% more energy.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127366344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alina Buzachis, G. Bernava, Mario Busa, G. Pioggia, M. Villari
{"title":"Towards Osmotic Computing: Future Prospect for the Health Information Technology (HIT) Systems of ISASI-CNR (ME)","authors":"Alina Buzachis, G. Bernava, Mario Busa, G. Pioggia, M. Villari","doi":"10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538714","url":null,"abstract":"During the last decade, the healthcare topic has moved on the top of the development agenda not only for private organizations but also for public administrations. The information technology advances in the healthcare sector have designed an innovative model, the so-called eHealth, that leverages the Cloud Computing paradigm. Even more, with the medical devices (seen as IoT devices) proliferation, there have been introduced new challenges for the Cloud-IoT centric infrastructure. In this context, traditional Health Information Technology (HIT) systems present several limitations, such as scalability, faulttolerance, interoperability, data management and so on. Starting from the experience reported at ISASI-CNR (ME), a healthcare and research center, in this paper, we motivate the need to move the traditional HIT systems into innovative infrastructures based on the Osmotic Computing paradigm. In particular, we introduce two real uses cases, Ataxia and Dyslexia projects.","PeriodicalId":233592,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130035145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}