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The rise of big data on cloud computing

Fog/edge computing has been proposed to be integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) to enable computing services devices deployed at network edge, aiming to improve the user’s experience and resilience of the services in case of failures. With the advantage of distributed architecture and close to end-users, fog/edge computing can provide faster response and greater quality of service for IoT applications. Thus, fog/edge computing-based IoT becomes future infrastructure on IoT development. To develop fog/edge computing-based IoT infrastructure, the architecture, enabling techniques, and issues related to IoT should be investigated first, and then the integration of fog/edge computing and IoT should be explored. To this end, this paper conducts a comprehensive overview of IoT with respect to system architecture, enabling technologies, security and privacy issues, and present the integration of fog/edge computing and IoT, and applications. Particularly, this paper first explores the relationship between cyber-physical systems and IoT, both of which play important roles in realizing an intelligent cyber-physical world. Then, existing architectures, enabling technologies, and security and privacy issues in IoT are presented to enhance the understanding of the state of the art IoT development. To investigate the fog/edge computing-based IoT, this paper also investigate the relationship between IoT and fog/edge computing, and discuss issues in fog/edge computing-based IoT. Finally, several applications, including the smart grid, smart transportation, and smart cities, are presented to demonstrate how fog/edge computing-based IoT to be implemented in real-world applications.

A Survey on Internet of Things: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, Security and Privacy, and Applications

http://wpage.unina.it/valerio.persico/pubs/CloudIoT_FGCS.pdf

Integration of Cloud computing and Internet of Things

https://iris.polito.it/bitstream/11583/2522888/1/SmartCity_Trends_%20paper.pdf

Current trends in Smart City initiatives: some stylised facts

A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues

In the last years the problem of measuring and monitoring broadband performance has attracted a lot of attention. In this paper we present our recent work in this area, providing the following main contributions: firstly, we analyze the literature, illustrating the different existing approaches and the main requirements of platforms implementing these approaches; secondly, we describe the lessons learned designing and implementing a platform called HoBBIT; thirdly, we analyze and share the results obtained from the current deployment in Italy. The lessons learned and the design guidelines of the platform can be of help in light of the recent research and standardization efforts in this area. The results and the dataset we shared with the community provide information on the current status of broadband in Italy and allow other researchers to access fresh measurements from a real and large scale deployment.

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HoBBIT: A Platform for Monitoring Broadband Performance from the User Network

http://wpage.unina.it/a.botta/pub/JSS15.pdf

IP packet interleaving for UDP bursty losses

Internet like control for MPLS based traffic engineering: performance evaluation

Maintaining performance and reliability in wireless networks is a challenging task due to the nature of wireless channels. Multipath data transmission has been used in wired scenarios to reduce latency, improve throughput, and - when/where possible - balance the load. In this paper, we propose an approach for multipath data transmission over wireless networks. We demonstrate that the problem under study can be formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP) and we propose an algorithm called On-line Policy Iteration (OPI), to solve the formulated MDP in real time. We verified the proposed approach using simulations with ns-2 and data collected from real heterogeneous wired/wireless networks. The results indicate that we improve both delay and loss characteristics of end-to-end wireless communications outperforming the classical multi-path schemes including Round Robin and Join the Shortest Queue.

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An MDP-Based Approach for Multipath Data Transmission over Wireless Networks

Cellular technology is widely used for Internet access, also because most operators are now offering Mbit/s data rates at affordable prices. Many studies analyzed the performance of these networks using analytical or simulation approaches. However, due to lack of data from operational environments, very little is known about the performance of real cellular networks. In this paper, we assess the performance of the 3G network of one of the major European telecom operators, using several recent traffic traces of TCP connections to port 80 and 8080. After presenting performance statistics related to all the network users, we focus on heavy users. To assess their performance and to uncover the related causes, we introduce an investigation approach easily repeatable in the very common situation where only data traces are available, with no other information such as mapping of users to cells, network capacity, or packet payload. Analyzing both “single long-lived connections” and “multiple long-lived connections”, we assess the performance of those users, providing insights on how and why performance can vary significantly over time and among different users.

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Alessio Botta

Papers

HoBBIT: A Platform for Monitoring Broadband Performance from the User Network

IP packet interleaving for UDP bursty losses

Internet like control for MPLS based traffic engineering: performance evaluation

An MDP-Based Approach for Multipath Data Transmission over Wireless Networks

Performance footprints of heavy-users in 3G networks via empirical measurement