@proceedings {423, title = {Characterizing IoT Cloud Federation}, journal = {2016 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) - Workshop on Cloud Computing Project and Initiatives - CCPI{\textquoteright}16}, year = {2016}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Le R{\'e}gent Congress Centre, Crans-Montana, Switzerland}, abstract = {

The advent of both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. Generally, we talk about IoT Cloud to indicate a new type of distributed system consisting of a set of smart devices interconnected with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet and able to provide IoT as a Service (IoTaaS).\ In this paper, we discuss the near future evolution of IoT Clouds towards federated ecosystems, where IoT providers cooperate to offer more flexible services.\ Moreover, we present a general three-layer IoT Cloud Federation architecture, highlighting new business opportunities and challenges.\ 

}, keywords = {cloud computing, containers, federation, IoT, virtualisation}, issn = {978-1-5090-2461-2/16}, doi = {10.1109/WAINA.2016.152}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7471179}, author = {Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonio Puliafito and Massimo Villari} } @proceedings {434, title = {Exploring Container Virtualization in IoT Clouds}, journal = {2016 International Conference on Smart Computing Workshops (SMARTCOMP Workshops)}, year = {2016}, pages = {1-6}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {May 18, 2016 {\textendash} St. Louis, Missouri}, abstract = {

The advent of both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. Generally, we talk about IoT Cloud to indicate a new type of distributed system consisting of a set of smart objects, e.g., single board computers running Linux-based operating systems, interconnected with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet and able to provide IoT as a Service (IoTaaS). In this context, container-based virtualization is a lightweight alternative to the hypervisor-based approach that can be adopted on smart objects, for enhancing the IoT Cloud service provisioning.\ 
In particular, considering different IoT application scenarios, container-based virtualization allows IoT Cloud providers to deploy and customize in a flexible fashion pieces of software on smart objects. In this paper, we explore the container-based virtualization on smart objects in the perspective of a IoT Cloud scenarios analyzing its advantages and performances.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, containers, IoT, Virtualization}, issn = {978-1-5090-0898-8}, doi = {10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2016.7501691}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7501691}, author = {Antonio Celesti and Davide Mulfari and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @inbook {291, title = {Embedded systems for supporting computer accessibility}, booktitle = {Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE)}, number = {217: Assistive Technology}, year = {2015}, pages = {378-385}, publisher = {IOS Press}, organization = {IOS Press}, edition = {Series: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics}, address = {Budapest, Hungary}, abstract = {Nowadays, customized AT software solutions allow their users to interact with various kinds of computer systems. Such tools are generally available on personal devices (e.g., smartphones, laptops and so on) commonly used by a person with a disability. In this paper, we investigate a way of using the aforementioned AT equipments in order to access many different devices without assistive preferences. The solution takes advantage of open source hardware and its core component consists of an affordable Linux embedded system: it grabs data coming from the assistive software, which runs on the user{\textquoteright}s personal device, then, after processing, it generates native keyboard and mouse HID commands for the target computing device controlled by the end user. This process supports any operating system available on the target machine and it requires no specialized software installation; therefore the user with a disability can rely on a single assistive tool to control a wide range of computing platforms, including conventional computers and many kinds of mobile devices, which receive input commands through the USB HID protocol.}, keywords = {Assistive Technology, cloud computing, IoT}, isbn = {978-1-61499-565-4 (print) | 978-1-61499-566-1 (online)}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-566-1-378}, url = {http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/40681}, author = {Davide Mulfari and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @article {Longo2015235, title = {Towards the future internet: The RESERVOIR, VISION cloud, and CloudWave experiences}, journal = {International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking}, volume = {8}, number = {3}, year = {2015}, note = {cited By 0}, pages = {235-247}, publisher = {Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.}, abstract = {

The future internet is evolving as an internet of services, things and infrastructure, and the European Commission is supporting research projects that are contributing to its evolution. Among the others, RESERVOIR, VISION Cloud and CloudWave are three interesting examples of how infrastructures and data can be managed in an effective way and how applications can adapt to the infrastructure, and the infrastructure to the services requested, in order to improve the overall quality of the service provided. From our experience in these three successful projects, we show in this paper how they try to address the challenges described above, providing an important boost to making the future internet vision concrete. We also discuss our view of the future internet where sensors, actuators and objects are part of the cloud. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

}, keywords = {Adaptation, Clouds, European Commission, Future internet, IaaS, Information management, Internet, Internet of Services, IoT, Overall quality, Sensors}, issn = {17400562}, doi = {10.1504/IJHPCN.2015.071260}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940376740\&partnerID=40\&md5=8cfa4a88d00a48cee9ec543c43d7a425}, author = {Francesco Longo and Dario Bruneo and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito and Eliot Salant and Yaron Wolfsthal} } @article {351, title = {Towards the Integration Between IoT and Cloud Computing: An Approach for the Secure Self-Configuration of Embedded Devices}, journal = {International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks}, volume = {2015}, year = {2015}, month = {2016}, pages = {1-9}, abstract = {

The secure boot up and setup of Internet of Things\ (IoT) devices connected over the Cloud represents a challenging open issue. This paper deals with the automatic configuration\ of IoT devices in a secure way through the Cloud, in order\ to provide new added-value services. After a discussion on the\ limits of current IoT and Cloud solutions in terms of secure selfconfiguration,\ we present a Cloud-based architecture that allows\ IoT devices to interact with several federated Cloud providers.\ In particular, we present two possible scenarios, i.e., single Cloud\ and a federated Cloud environments interacting with IoT devices\ and we address specific issues of both. Moreover, we present\ several design highlights on how to operate considering real open\ hardware and software products already available in the market.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, federation, IoT, security, self-configuration}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/286860}, url = {http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/2015/286860/}, author = {Antonio Puliafito and Antonio Celesti and Massimo Villari and Maria Fazio} }