Research

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Armstrong

Our research is tailored towards solving cutting-edge industrial and research problems related to Security, Service, Network and Computation Optimization and Management in Emerging Technologies including Internet of Things, Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Vehicular and Mobile Systems and Networks, and Federated Learning. Our target is to efficiently use the computing resources while optimizing the network and service quality. We build state-of-the-art solutions, embedding Optimization, Game Theoretical, Semantics and Artificial Intelligence models, to solve real-life problems within multiple paradigms. Security and Privacy measurements are always our utmost priorities to assure trustworthy environments.

Projects

Optimizing and Managing Federated Learning

The aim of this project is to investigate the problems related to Federated Learning within Internet of Things.

Security Management and Federation Formation in Cloud and Fog Computing

The aim of this project is to address the problems related to Cloud and Fog federations considered as the key enablers for smart cities.

Security, Service and Computation Optimization and Management in On-Demand Fog and Edge Computing

The aim of this project is to address the problems related to edge-level computations within IoT environment for computing tasks, processing generated data, hosting services for time-critical applications and ensuring security.

Spam Detection and Ontology-Based Analysis in Social Networks

The aim of this project is to address the problems related to online social network analysis with a focus on the limitations of the Twitter API.


Service and Computation Optimization and Management in Mobile Cloud Computing

The aim of this project is to address problems related to the limited CPU power and insufficient memory and battery capacities affecting personas performance and physical device viability.

Security and Trust Optimization in Cloud and Web Services

This project studies the optimal ways of forming cloud and fog federations using efficient coalition formation mechanisms, including Game Theory and Metaheuristics.

Security Optimization and Management in Composed Web Services

The aim of this project is to propose a new framework for the dynamic enforcement of composite Web services security, which is based on a synergy between Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and BPEL (Business Process Execution Language).

Security and Network Optimization and Management in Mobile/Vehicular Ad Hoc Systems

The aim of this project is to address quality of service of QoS-OLSR routing protocol for Mobile and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (MANET and VANET) taking into consideration selfish users that might over or under speed in order not to be selected as MPR.