@proceedings {Merlino2015909, title = {Software defined cities: A novel paradigm for smart cities through IoT clouds}, journal = {Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 20}, year = {2015}, note = {cited By 1; Conference of Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015 ; Conference Date: 10 August 2015 Through 14 August 2015; Conference Code:122811}, pages = {909-916}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}, address = {Beijing (China)}, abstract = {

A Smart City represents an improvement of today cities that strategically exploits many smart factors to increase the city sustainable growth and strengthen city functions, while ensuring citizen quality of life and health. Cities can be perceived as an ecosystem of "things" which citizens daily interact with: street furniture, public buildings, transportation, monuments, public lighting as well as personal smartphones. Thanks to recent advances in ICT such things can be considered always interconnected also providing sensing and actuating facilities according to the Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems models. Creating smart services that exploit such a complex infrastructure is a fundamental and current challenge. To this end, aim of this paper is the design and implementation of the Software Defined Cities approach: a Cloud-based infrastructure that, starting from the well known concept of Software Defined paradigms, is able to transform this complex ecosystem in a simple and "programmable" environment where municipalities, companies, scientists, and citizens can easily collaborate in developing innovative smart services. The overall architecture is presented focusing on both the function virtualization and infrastructure aspects also giving details about the software stacks used (e.g., Open Stack) while a use case is laid out to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed approach. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.

}, keywords = {Big Data, Clouds, Complex ecosystems, Complex infrastructures, Cyber physical systems (CPSs), Design and implementations, Ecology, Ecosystems, embedded systems, Internet, Internet of Things, Sensing and actuating, smart cities, Sustainable development, Sustainable growth, Trusted Computing, Ubiquitous computing, Virtual reality, Virtualizations}, isbn = {9781467372114}, doi = {10.1109/UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP.2015.174}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84983438378\&doi=10.1109\%2fUIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP.2015.174\&partnerID=40\&md5=790a6042e6e80594e42b64695d6b014e}, author = {Giovanni Merlino and Dario Bruneo and Francesco Longo and Antonio Puliafito and Salvatore Distefano} } @proceedings {6618763, title = {Remote and deep attestations to mitigate threats in Cloud Mash-Up services}, journal = {World Congress on Computer and Information Technology (WCCIT)}, year = {2013}, month = {June}, pages = {1-6}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Sousse}, abstract = {

Cloud computing is an emerging technology able to offer a plethora of new advanced services. Cloud operators can use and combine such services in order to build new Mash-up Cloud platform and applications. However, security issues have strongly limited the large-scale adoption of Cloud computing, especially in business environments and similar application scenarios, where sensitive date need to be protected. At the same time the Trusted Computing technology is bringing a new way of thinking about security of systems. This paper deals with the importance to leverage the Trusted Computing for encouraging the development of secure distributed Mash-up Cloud services. We show how the Remote and Deep Attestation protocols make secure both the physical hosts and the virtual machines in a Cloud infrastructure, providing a solid framework for the deployment of federated environments.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, Deep Attestation, federation, PaaS, Trusted Computing, Virtual Machine}, issn = {978-1-4799-0460-0}, doi = {10.1109/WCCIT.2013.6618763}, author = {Celesti, A. and Fazio, M. and Villari, M. and Puliafito, A. and Mulfari, D.} }