Luca Foschini

Luca Foschini
University of Bologna | UNIBO · Department of Computer Science and Engineering DISI

PhD

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Introduction
Luca Foschini, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Distributed and Mobile Systems at the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. (DISI) of the University of Bologna. His research interests span from middleware for mobile computing in general to adaptive multimedia, from context-aware service composition to cloud computing management, from mobile crowdsensing to Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0.

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Publications (302)
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Timely, region-based geo-maps like choropleths are essential for smart city applications like traffic monitoring and urban planning because they can reveal statistical patterns in geotagged data. However, because data overloading is brought on by the quick inflow of massive geospatial data, creating these visualizations in real time presents seriou...
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As available from https://zenodo.org/records/13304677 : This paper discusses the benefit for materials industries to adopt Semantic Knowledge Management (SKM) into its research and development functions and beyond. The approach and results of the OntoTrans project are presented, combining SKM with a data- and model-based approach to address complex...
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Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is an emerging paradigm proposed for enhancing the 5G network infrastructure. O-RAN promotes open vendor-neutral interfaces and virtualized network functions that enable the decoupling of network components and their optimization through intelligent controllers. The decomposition of base station functions enables b...
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Kubernetes is a well-known orchestration and management solution for complex and large-scale service architectures in the Cloud Continuum. While it provides very valuable functions from the operation perspective, the high number of control loops it implements significantly enlarges the already wide space of configuration parameters and policies to...
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The softwarization of networks is increasingly spreading, and one of the main paradigms is SDN (Software-Defined Networking), which allows overcoming the limitations mainly arising from the integration of the control plane and the forwarding plane within the network devices. It extracts the control plane to place it within a new logically centraliz...
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Modern interactive and data-intensive applications must operate under demanding time constraints, prompting a shift toward the adoption of specialized software and hardware network acceleration technologies. This specialization, however, poses significant scalability, flexibility, security, and economic sustainability challenges for application dev...
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Edge computing aims at better supporting low-latency applications. One of its key techniques is computation offloading, the process that outsources computing tasks from resourced-constrained mobile devices and moves them to edge data centers. In this paper, we tackle an emerging problem within the umbrella of computation offloading, i.e., migration...
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The unprecedented availability of sensor networks and GPS-enabled devices has caused the accumulation of voluminous georeferenced data streams. These data streams offer an opportunity to derive valuable insights and facilitate decision making for urban planning. However, processing and managing such data is challenging, given the size and multidime...
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Numerous real-life smart city application scenarios require joint analytics on unified views of georeferenced mobility data with environment contextual data including pollution and meteorological data. particularly, future urban planning requires restricting vehicle access to specific areas of a city to reduce the adverse effect of their engine com...
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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) along with Software Defined Networking (SDN) have brought an evolution in telecommunications laying out the bases for 5G networks and its softwarization. Accordingly, new implementations of telecom standards, such as the 3GPP 5G Core, are defined as fully-virtualized infrastructures consisting of different comp...
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Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) is an emergent and disruptive paradigm that aims to optimize industrial process efficiency and sustainability by leveraging innovative and sophisticated data-driven approaches. It is a technology intensive concept that has the ambition of achieving and maintaining “first-time-right” quality goals in spite of varying...
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The emerging paradigm of resource disaggregation enables the deployment of cloud-like services across a pool of physical and virtualized resources, interconnected using a network fabric. This design embodies several benefits in terms of resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness, service elasticity and adaptability, etc. Application domains benefit...
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Over the past decade, in the industrial sector we have witnessed the rise of a revolutionary movement, known as Industry 4.0, that promotes the digital transformation as the key to increase the competitiveness of manufacturing factories. Among the many technologies recognized as “drivers” of such revolutionary transition, microservices stand out as...
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The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) motivated the emergence of mixed workload scenarios in smart cities, where fast arriving geo-referenced massive amounts data streams need to be joined with archive tables, at scale. This aims at enriching streams with descriptive attributes that enable deeper insightful analytics. More application...
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Network Softwarization, particularly Network Function Virtualization (NFV), is revolutionizing networking by separating the hardware from the supported network functions, demonstrating unprecedented flexibility and cost-efficiency. With the rise of Edge Computing, NFV has found a strategic application at the network edge, where network functions ar...
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Nowadays, Machine learning (ML) plays a significant role in Industrial Analytics. It enables predictive analytics, and helps uncovering essential insights to transform industries. As a result, real-time data analytics has become an essential requirement for industrial engineering jobs. Edge computing enables local intelligence and real-time analyti...
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The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is currently foreseen as a foundation to implement the Industry 4.0 vision. However, device heterogeneity and the need of integration and configuration exposes the industrial infrastructure to potential threats, such as black-hole, man-in-the-middle, and malicious configuration attacks. In this article, we i...
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The advent of 5G and the design of its architecture has become possible because of the previous individual scientific works and standardization efforts on cloud computing and network softwarization. Software-defined networking and network function virtualization started separately to find their convolution into 5G network architecture. Also, the on...
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p>The advent of 5G and the design of its architecture has become possible because of the previous individual scientific works and standardization efforts on cloud computing and network softwarization. Software-defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization started separately to find their convolution into 5G network architecture. Then, the...
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p>The advent of 5G and the design of its architecture has become possible because of the previous individual scientific works and standardization efforts on cloud computing and network softwarization. Software-defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization started separately to find their convolution into 5G network architecture. Then, the...
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The advent of 5G and the design of its architecture has become possible because of the previous individual scientific works and standardization efforts on cloud computing and network softwarization. Software-defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization started separately to find their convolution into 5G network architecture. Then, the on...
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We report on the current state of the development of the Open Translation Environment (OTE), which is based on the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) – a top-level ontology for applied science, to support Translators in the Materials domain. We describe the conceptual architecture of the OTE, as well as some of its main components...
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Serverless computing is an emerging proposition in the cloud offering landscape that promotes a higher level of abstraction, further decoupling software operations from the underlying hardware. Often recognized as an economically driven computational approach, the serverless model relies on the execution of short-lived stateless functions, enabling...
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoI) lays the foundation for a new industrial revolution, the so-called Industry 4.0, in which every element, from machines to processes, is interconnected and fully automated, producing a huge amount of valuable data, crucial for making industrial processes more efficient and profitable. For this reason, it is c...
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The recent trend of moving cloud computing capabilities to the edge of the network is reshaping the way applications and their middleware supports are designed, deployed , and operated. This new model envisions a continuum of virtual resources between the traditional cloud and the network edge, which is potentially more suitable to meet the heterog...
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With the advances in 5G and IoT devices, industries are vastly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for improving classification and prediction-based services. However, the use of AI also raises concerns regarding data privacy and security that can be misused or leaked. Private AI was recently coined to address the data security issue b...
Presentation
OntoTransTraining Framework; Translation for an exemplary use case; Exploratory Search System (ESS); OTE-API / OTE Lib; TriplestoreDB (OntoKB); Results to the translator
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The main objective of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is to bring computational capabilities at the edge of the network to better support low-latency applications. Such capabilities are typically offered by Edge Data Centers (EDC). The MEC paradigm is not tied to a single radio technology, rather it embraces both cellular and other radio access t...
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The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to intensive domains, such as industry, is a key enabler for the automation of critical, real-world processes. The strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of these domains make low-latency computing paradigms, such as fog computing, very attractive for meeting these requirements. Moreover, th...
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Software-defined networking decouples control and data plane in softwarized networks. This allows for centralized management of the network, but complete centralization of the controller functions raises potential issues related to failure, latency, and scalability. Distributed controller deployment is adopted to optimize scalability and latency pr...
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The wide availability of accurate sensors currently hosted by smartphones are enabling new participative urban management opportunities. Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) allows people to actively participate in any aspect of urban planning, by collecting and sharing data, reporting issues to public administrations, proposing solutions to urban planners, a...
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The ever increasing pace of IoT deployment is opening the door to concrete implementations of smart city applications, enabling the large-scale sensing and modeling of (near-)real-time digital replicas of physical processes and environments. This digital replica could serve as the basis of a decision support system, providing insights into possible...
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The Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) enables a new layer of edge middleboxes, acting as local proxies with virtualized resources deployed at edge localities. To support scalable, low-latency, and locally managed service provisioning, MEC relies on computation offloading, the process that outsources computing tasks from resourced constrained mobile...
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Real-time business practices require huge amounts of data directly from the production assets. This new thirst for accurate and timely data has forced the convergence of the traditionally business-focused information technology (IT) environment with the production-focused operational technology (OT). Recently, software-defined network (SDN) methodo...
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When COVID-19 first struck the provinces of Northern Italy in early 2020 (especially in Lombardy and in Emilia-Romagna), the conditions there made it a perfect storm. The virus outbreak spread with an unusual violence (in the period from late February to April 2020), with a catastrophic toll in terms of human deaths. Taken by surprise, Italy mandat...
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The possibility of understanding the dynamics of human mobility and sociality creates the opportunity to re-design the way data are collected by exploiting the crowd. We survey the last decade of experimentation and research in the field of mobile CrowdSensing, a paradigm centred on users’ devices as the primary source for collecting data from urba...
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The main claim of the Industry 4.0 manifesto (I4.0) is the promise of a significant transformation of production and delivery processes due to the digitization of manufacturing. A mandatory requirement of the I4.0 transition is the pervasive adoption of Information Technologies (IT), such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Cyber-physical Syst...
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In the last years, the development of broadband chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectrometers has revolutionized the field of rotational spectroscopy. Currently, it is possible to experimentally obtain a large quantity of spectra that would be difficult to analyze manually due to two main reasons. First, recent instruments allow obtaining...
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The maturity of heterogeneous and hybrid public Cloud environments enables service providers to deploy there their complex IT services trusting these large and complex infrastructures. At the same time, evaluating the impact of changes at service configuration before and at the runtime is still a very challenging and difficult task. Moreover, a com...
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Smart cities use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enrich existing public services and to improve citizens’ quality of life. In this scenario, Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) has become, in the last few years, one of the most prominent paradigms for urban sensing. MCS allow people roaming around with their smart devices to collectively...
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The recent COVID-19 pandemic in Italy has highlighted several critical issues in the management process of infected people. At the health level, the management of the COVID-19 positive was mainly delegated to the regional authorities and centrally monitored by the State. Despite requested common activities (such as diagnosis of virus positivity, ac...