Alina Buzachis, M. Fazio, A. Galletta, A. Celesti, M. Villari
{"title":"Infrastructureless IoT-as-a-Service for Public Safety and Disaster Response","authors":"Alina Buzachis, M. Fazio, A. Galletta, A. Celesti, M. Villari","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00026","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a novel cost-effective, robust, reliable and flexible infrastructureless IoT multi-hop Wireless Mesh Network (IoT-WMN) for Public Safety and Disaster Response (PSDR). The proposed system is able to auto-detect an Emergency Relief State (ERS) due to a disaster and to auto-configure itself in order to remain up and running, regardless of the disaster nature, to help victims to be timely rescued. To achieve this goal, these networks must be installed quickly and transparently for users, as victims cannot be expected to perform configuration operations or certain multi-hop-enabled software installed on their devices. in case of ERS detection, the system sets up ad hoc connections self-organizing links according to a tandem-based WMN topology and self-configuring access points (APs) for wireless devices (e.g., mobile phones of disaster victims). Devices connected to ad hoc APs become APs in turn, thus extending the network coverage. Available devices of different stockholders (e.g., municipality, first aid organizations, volunteer groups,...) are federated in a whole cooperating system, where each device works at the same time as node, gateway and router.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117137903","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":"Secure and Efficient Cluster Head Election in a UAV-Aided Wireless Sensor Network","authors":"Soojeon Lee, Byoung-Sun Lee, J. Ahn","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00014","url":null,"abstract":"In a UAV-aided WSN (Wireless Sensor Network), a UAV makes data collection work energy-efficient and completed rapidly. In a UAV-aided WSN, CHs (Cluster Heads) take charge of a crucial role such as gathering data from members and delivering the gathered data to a UAV. Such an important and critical role of CHs makes attackers enthusiastic in turning their compromised nodes to CHs. In the general CH election framework, each node determines its CH role by itself, and this allows a compromised node to become a CH even if it is a disqualified node. This paper presents a UAV-aided CH election framework where a UAV gathers residual energy of nodes and delivers them to the sink, which elects new CHs or disqualified candidates and delivers the new CHs or the disqualified candidates to the network. As depicted in simulation results, the UAV-aided CH election framework significantly diminishes CH elections of compromised nodes and corrupted messages per second. In addition, the UAV-aided CH election framework hugely diminishes energy consumption of nodes, and extends both lifetime of nodes and network lifetime. An important future work item is to implement other CH election protocols under out CH election framework, and to compare them in terms of security and performance.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124886997","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":"On the Cost of the Management of user Applications in a Multicloud Environment","authors":"G. Modica, A. Stefano, G. Morana, O. Tomarchio","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00032","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-cloud solutions are becoming increasingly popular among enterprises and, today, it is easy to find organizations that use resources and services belonging to two or more cloud providers. It is well-known that the adoption of a multi-cloud infrastructure provides several advantages: it limits vendor lock-in and/or dependence on a single provider, enables cost reduction, grants the access to a wide variety of services and computational resources and allows the exploitation of the geographical location of the servers (e.g., to be consistent with data compliance policies). These advantages, however, have a cost in terms of greater complexity in resources' configuration and management: e.g., security policies have to be adapted and made consistent among all the different cloud providers. This complexity implies that most of the companies that use a multi-cloud infrastructure manage the resources belonging to different providers as independent and autonomous, exploiting only a portion of the advantages that could be benefited if those resources were used in an integrated and optimized way. In this paper, we will describe and discuss some of the aspects related to the inter-networking among resources belonging to multiple providers, a necessary and fundamental step towards a strong integration among different clouds.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123409911","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}
Yudith Cardinale, Simón Bolívar, Patrick Wang, Zakia Kazi-Aoul, Fang-Fang Chua, Yunli Lee, Dongjin Yu, Akramul Azim, Alex Ng, I. Kumara, Khaled M. Khan
{"title":"FiCloud-2019 Program Committee","authors":"Yudith Cardinale, Simón Bolívar, Patrick Wang, Zakia Kazi-Aoul, Fang-Fang Chua, Yunli Lee, Dongjin Yu, Akramul Azim, Alex Ng, I. Kumara, Khaled M. Khan","doi":"10.1109/ficloud.2019.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ficloud.2019.00007","url":null,"abstract":"Rafael Angarita, INRIA and Isep, Paris, France (Chair) Yudith Cardinale, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela Patrick Wang, ISEP Paris, France Zakia Kazi-Aoul, ISEP Paris, France Fang-Fang Chua, Multimedia University, Malaysia Yunli Lee, Sunway University, Malaysia R.Kanesaraj Ramasamy, Multimedia University, Malaysia Judith Barrios, University of the Andes, Venezuela Souraya Hamida, Batna 2 University, Algeria Mohamed Sellami, Télécom SudParis, France Maude Manouvrier, Paris Dauphine University, France Chan Gaik-Yee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Marta Rukoz, Paris Dauphine University/Paris Nanterre University, France Cristhian Parra, Universidad Católica de Asunción, Uruguay Georgios Bouloukakis, Inria, France and UC Irvine, USA Marco Perez Hernandez, University of Cambridge, UK Rachit Agarwal, INRIA, France Sara Ayoubi, INRIA, France Qin MA, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116071658","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":"[Copyright notice]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ficloud.2019.00003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ficloud.2019.00003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129765120","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}
Andreas Mladenow, Regina Cernicka, C. Strauss, Valerie Busse, M. Greguš
{"title":"Equity Crowdfunding in Real Estate","authors":"Andreas Mladenow, Regina Cernicka, C. Strauss, Valerie Busse, M. Greguš","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00029","url":null,"abstract":"Equity crowdfunding represents a relatively novel way of alternative funding for entrepreneurial initiatives. The presented paper aims at providing evidence that crowdfunding had developed into an acknowledged, sustainable adequate means of funding and its suitability for investments in commercial real estate projects. For this reason we provide (i) an overview of risks associated with equity crowdfunding from the viewpoint of entrepreneurs, of investors and of platforms, (ii) a selection of equity crowdfunding applications and its industry sectors, (iii) evidence from literature that equity crowdfunding is an acknowledged approach in research which is elaborated on in various scientific disciplines, (iv) an analysis of success factors for crowdfunding campaigns on basis of nine empirical studies, and (v) a detailed discussion of advantages and disadvantages from an investor's viewpoint based on a SWOT analysis.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121439544","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":"Multi-tier Edge-to-Cloud Architecture for Adaptive Video Delivery","authors":"R. Immich, L. Villas, L. Bittencourt, E. Madeira","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00012","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few years, there has been a rapid proliferation of a wide range of real-time video services and applications. These technologies flood the wireless systems with video content on a daily basis. As a result of this sharp increase in video traffic, the prospect of errors due to network interference and congestion rises. Incidentally, the adoption of the 5th generation of wireless systems (5G) will allow this growth to be even greater due to its high bandwidth capacity and low latency. However, even with these improvements on the wireless capabilities, a reliable and high-quality video transmission still imposes several challenges, such as how to handle a large number of heterogeneous devices and how to better use the resource-richer Edge, Fog, and Cloud computing sources to meet the user's requirements. To overcome these issues, this work proposes a multi-tier video delivery architecture relying upon several technologies such as Multi-access Edge computing (MEC), 5G slices, and microservice placement/chaining. Furthermore, to assess the proposed idea an experimental proof-of-concept testbed of the multi-tier architecture was designed, implemented, and evaluated using real-world tools and actual video sequences. The results obtained supported our claim that a multi-tier video delivery system is feasible and can greatly benefit the end-users.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131177431","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":"Self-Healing Anonymous Routing in Unstable Sensor Networks","authors":"Nikita Baranov, M. Bashkin, V. Bashkin","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00020","url":null,"abstract":"A lightweight decentralized adaptive anonymous routing scheme is presented that combines onion routing for the initial global route request and threshold-based secret sharing for the subsequent local route tuning/healing. The encrypted propagation of the partial routes information allows to handle minor network topology changes locally, without new route requests and with a limited deanonymization of participants. The intermediate node can discover/decrypt the local routing data only together with its designated neigbour (threshold-based secret sharing is used) and only in the event of a topology change.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133266696","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}
Z. H. C. Soh, I. H. Hamzah, S. Abdullah, M. A. Shafie, S. N. Sulaiman, K. Daud
{"title":"Energy Consumption Monitoring and Alert System via IoT","authors":"Z. H. C. Soh, I. H. Hamzah, S. Abdullah, M. A. Shafie, S. N. Sulaiman, K. Daud","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a home energy consumption monitoring system and alerts on Ubidots Cloud Services. In this research work, an Internet of Things (IoT) framework has been implemented to monitor the energy consumption data at home and send the energy consumption data to IoT Cloud. The system utilizes a sensor module (ACS712) that connected with Intel Edison microcontroller to measure the power consumption at the home. The power consumption data is collected and stored into Ubidots IoT Cloud Services. The consumers can monitor the energy consumption at home on daily basis and therefore can control the amount of energy usage daily. The data collection experiment is carried out to see the amount of power consumption at home. The power consumption data is also displayed on the LCD for before and after the load is connected on the system. The IoT dashboard accessible online by user to look into their daily power consumption using IoT dashboard. IoT Cloud perform some event analytic on the collected power consumption data and notify home owner a caution, recommendation through email and telegram which will alert their client about their electrical power utilization have exceed their power consumption limit, thus helps to reduce over usage of power.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132689689","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":"SD: A Divergence-Based Estimation Method for Service Demands in Cloud Systems","authors":"Salvatore Dipietro, G. Casale","doi":"10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00035","url":null,"abstract":"Estimating performance models parameters of cloud systems presents several challenges due to the distributed nature of the applications, the chains of interactions of requests with architectural nodes, and the parallelism and coordination mechanisms implemented within these systems. In this work, we present a new inference algorithm for model parameters, called state divergence (SD) algorithm, to accurately estimate resource demands in a complex cloud application. Differently from existing approaches, SD attempts to minimize the divergence between observed and modeled marginal state probabilities for individual nodes within an application, therefore requiring the availability of probabilistic measures from both the system and the underpinning model. Validation against a case study using the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database and random experiments show that SD can accurately predict demands and improve system behavior modeling and prediction.","PeriodicalId":268882,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133239789","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}