Paper accepted at IEEE Cluster 2022 Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum

Title: Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum Heidelberg, Germany | September 6-9, 2022 Authors: Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan Abstract: Today’s distributed computing infrastructures encompass complex workflows for real-time data gathering, transferring, storage, and processing, quickly overwhelming centralized cloud centers. Recently, the computing continuum that federates the Cloud services […]

Coordination @ Horizon Europe “Massive Graph Processing of Extreme Data for a Sustainable Economy, Society, and Environment” (Graph-Massivizer) project accepted

Project lead/coordination: Radu ProdanProject partners: IDC Italia, Peracton Limited, Institut Jozef Stefan, Sintef, Universiteit Twente, metaphacts GmbH, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Cineca, Event Registry, Università di Bologna, Robert Bosch GmbH Abstract: Graph-Massivizer researches and develops a high-performance, scalable, and sustainable platform for information processing and reasoning based on the massive graph representation of extreme data. It delivers a toolkit of five open-source software tools and FAIR graph […]

Paper accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Title: FaaScinating Resilience for Serverless Function Choreographies in Federated Clouds Authors: Sasko Ristov, Dragi Kimovski, Thomas Fahringer Abstract: Cloud applications often benefit from deployment on serverless technology Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), which may instantly spawn numerous functions and charge users for the period when serverless functions are running. Maximum benefit is achieved when functions are orchestrated in […]

Paper accepted in IEEE Computer Magazine: Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum: Tapping the Dark Data

Title: Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum: Tapping the Dark Data Authors: Dumitru Roman, Radu Prodan, Nikolay Nikolov, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Andrea Marrella, Dragi Kimovski, Brian Elvesæter, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne, Giannis Ledakis, Hui Song, Francesco Leotta, Evgeny Kharlamov Abstract: Big Data pipelines are essential for leveraging Dark Data, i.e., data collected but not used and […]

Paper accepted in the IEEE Computer Magazine: Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum

Title: Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Sasko Ristov, Radu Prodan Abstract: The introduction of electronic personal health records (EHR) enables nationwide information exchange and curation among different health care systems. However, the current EHR systems do not provide transparent means for diagnosis support, medical research, or can utilize […]

Final Review of the ASPIDE project

The H2020 project ASPIDE impressed the reviewers with the presented scientific achievements in Exascale computing and passed the final EC review with flying colors. The project officer and reviewers echoed the effort put together by the consortium partners for publicly demonstrating and sharing the ASPIDE tools while maintaining a robust scientific output at the highest […]

FFG project “Kärntner Fog” accepted

The project “Kärntner Fog” has been accepted in the BRIDGE funding call of FFG. Abstract: Kärntner Fog aims to contribute with advanced technologies for the distributed optimized provisioning and operation of 5G applications in Austria. For this purpose, it researches and develops a unique infrastructure testbed called the Carinthian Computing Continuum (C3), consisting of heterogeneous Cloud, Fog, and 5G‐Edge […]

Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

The manuscript “Mobility-Aware IoT Application Placement in the Cloud — Edge Continuum” has been accepted for publication in the A* (IF: 5.823) Journal – IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). Autors: Dragi Kimovski, Narges Mehran, Christopher Kerth, Radu Prodan Abstract: The Edge computing extension of the Cloud services towards the network boundaries raises important placement […]

Paper accepted in 17th IEEE eScience conference

Conference: https://escience2021.org/ Title: Where to Encode: A Performance Analysis of x86 and Arm-based Amazon EC2 Instances Authors: Roland Mathá, Dragi Kimovski, Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Christian Timmerer and Radu Prodan Abstract: Video streaming became an undivided part of the Internet. To efficiently utilise the limited network bandwidth it is essential to encode the video content. However, encoding […]

Paper accepted in Springer’s Journal of Computing

Title: Handover Authentication Latency Reduction using Mobile Edge Computing and Mobility Patterns Authors: Fatima Abdullah, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan, and Kashif Munir Abstract: With the advancement in technology and the exponential growth of mobile devices, network traffic has increased manifold in cellular networks. Due to this reason, latency reduction has become a challenging issue for mobile devices. In […]