Roberto Minerva

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at Institut Mines-Télécom

The development and operation of smart cities relyheavily on large-scale Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks and sensor infrastructures that continuously monitor various aspects of urban environments. These networks generate vast amounts of data, posing challenges related to bandwidth usage, energy consumption, and system scalability. This paper intr...

In recent years, the refinements in industrial processes and the increasing complexity of managing privacy-sensitive data in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices have highlighted the need for secure, robust, and adaptive data management solutions. In this work, we propose a smart contract-assisted access control scheme for IIoT, which emplo...

The Digital Twin is strongly associated with the evolution of sensing and actuation capabilities; Data Management, Big data and Artificial Intelligence techniques; and Service Platform for development and execution of large applications over widely distribute Edge Cloud systems. The concept is also an enabler for the development of many applicati...

Microservice architecture offers a decentralized structure using componentization of large applications. This approach can be coupled with Edge computing principles: applications with stringent response time can benefit from different deployment options. However, it is crucial to gain profound insights into correlations between the deployment of di...

In the era of burgeoning data diversity in heterogeneous sources, unlocking valuable insights becomes pivotal. Raw data often lack context and meaning, necessitating the deployment of services that link and enhance data, thereby extracting meaningful patterns and information. For example, exploring the significance of IoT sensors in measuring air q...

Traffic flow prediction is an important feature for smart cities, as it helps in implementing effective traffic policies. However, accurate prediction and successful traffic management rely on reliable traffic information, which may not always be available due to the deployment and management costs of a specialized traffic intensity sensor infrastr...

The conventional approaches for traffic intensity (TI) detection in Smart Cities use specialized sensors such as loop detectors, cameras, and radar. These sensors come with high costs, limited reuse, and specialized maintenance. Thus, we propose the utilization of general-purpose sensing, which involves the use of cost-effective and easily deployab...

The price of crude oil is one of the most critical factors of the world economy, as it is volatile and sensibly affected by the macro-economic, thus attracting large-scale speculative activities. Well known for its vulnerability, some price fluctuations are affected by external factors, such as the financial crisis and oil trade war, while others a...

Cities have undergone significant changes due to the rapid increase in urban population, heightened demand for resources, and growing concerns over climate change. To address these challenges, digital transformation has become a necessity. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sensing techniques, such as synthetic sensing, can ele...

Although Digital Twins (DTs) became very popular in industry, nowadays they represent a pre-requisite of many systems across different domains, by taking advantage of the disrupting digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Edge Computing and Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper we present our “opportunistic” interpretation, whi...

The progress of communications, processing, storing, and sensing capabilities is increasingly enabling the Digital Twin approach as a means towards digital transformation. Different vertical industries are more and more implementing solutions that are Digital Twins or are inspired to it. These implementations are demonstrating how to move from a ph...

The Digital Twin is crucial and timely for positively affecting how we work, live, and play. It eliminates the gap between experimentation and learning by bridging real and virtual worlds in a powerful methodology, making significant headway in conquering previously unsolvable problems and challenges. Digital Twins are made possible by four widely...

This chapter addresses the value and the synergies of combining Artificial Intelligence technologies with Digital Twins. We begin with a high level, but comprehensive review of AI technologies that may be important for Digital Twins. Then we examine the relationship of AI techniques and methods to the progression of capabilities for Digital Twins i...

Proliferation of data sources associated to Internet of Things (IoT) deployment as well as those bound to Open Data Portals (e.g. European Data Portal, Municipalities Open Data Portals, etc.) and Social Media platforms is creating an abundance of information that is called to bring benefits for both the private and public sectors, through the devel...

The developments of Digital Twin-based solutions is receiving increasing attention from a large community of developers. The concept of the Digital Twin is not anymore confined into the realm of manufacturing. Lots of applications are adopting the approach in different application domains such as smart cities, e-health, logistics, education, and ma...

This chapter addresses the value and the synergies of combining Artificial Intelligence technologies with Digital Twins. We begin with a high level, but comprehensive review of AI technologies that may be important for Digital Twins. Then we examine the relationship of AI techniques and methods to the progression of capabilities for Digital Twins i...

Estimating the Quality of Transmission (QoT) of the optical signal from source to destination nodes is the cornerstone of design engineering and service provisioning in optical transport networks. Recent studies have turned to Machine Learning (ML) techniques to improve the accuracy of QoT estimation. In this paper, we survey the literature on this...

The price of crude oil is one of the most critical factors of the world economy, as it is volatile and sensibly affected by the macro-economic, thus attracting large-scale speculative activities. Well known its vulnerability, some of the price fluctuations are affected by external factors, such as financial crisis, oil trade war, while others are d...

Supply chain finance (SCF) provides credit for small and medium-sized enterprises with low credit lines and small financing scales. The resulting financial credit data and related business transaction data are highly confidential and private. However, traditional SCF management schemes use third-party platforms and centralized designs that cannot a...

Supply chain finance(SCF) is committed to providing credit for small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) with low credit lines and small financing scales. The resulting financial credit data and related business transaction data are highly confidential and private. However, traditional SCF management schemes mostly use third-party platforms and cent...

Traffic prediction is one of the most important use cases for smart cities. Accurate traffic information is key to managing traffic issues. Many approaches that use traffic time series data to predict traffic flow have been proposed. In addition to traffic-specific parameters, some other features (called signatures) may be associated with road traf...

The revolution of Internet of Things (IoT) is pervading many facets of our everyday life. Among the multiple IoT application domains, well-being is becoming one of the popular scenarios in IoT which aims to offer new services including smart fitness. This paper focuses on smart fitness covering IoT-based solutions for this domain as well as the imp...

The Digital Twin has the ability to store historical and current data about the physical object. In IoT, the concept of general-purpose sensing is aiming at determining a set of basic sensing capabilities from which deriving, by means of Artificial Intelligence algorithms and techniques (termed Synthetic Sensing), relevant information for describin...

The Digital Twin is increasingly used in several problem domains and it is an important enabler for Internet of Things applications. It is a useful framework for representing and simulating how physical objects interact in target environments. The Digital Twin has the ability to store and maintain historical and current data about the physical obje...

We propose a Bayesian Optimization-based algorithm to assess the optical parameters that are taken as input by the QoT computation tool. The method reduces the error in computed OSNR down to 0.07dB.

Recent advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) have enabled the development of smart parking systems that use services of third‐party parking recommender system to provide recommendations of personalized parking spot to users based on their past experience. However, the indiscriminate sharing of users' data with an untrusted (or semitrusted) p...

This paper proposes a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant Internet of Things (IoT) Recommender (IoTRec) system, developed in the framework of H2020 EU-KR WISE-IoT (Worldwide Interoperability for Semantic IoT) project, which provides the recommendations of parking spots and routes while protecting users' privacy. It provides recommen...

Traffic flow forecasting is one of the most important use cases related to smart cities. In addition to assisting traffic management authorities, traffic forecasting can help drivers to choose the best path to their destinations. Accurate traffic forecasting is a basic requirement for traffic management. We propose a traffic forecasting approach th...

Digital twin (DT) is an emerging concept that is gaining attention in various industries. It refers to the ability to clone a physical object (PO) into a software counterpart. The softwarized object, termed logical object, reflects all the important properties and characteristics of the original object within a specific application context. To full...

The Digital Twin, DT, is an emerging approach that promises to change the way products and systems are made and used. The DT is attracting increasing interest in the Internet of Things community for its potential applications. Despite the hype, this approach requires a more precise definition and characterization in terms of its properties in relat...

Machine/Deep Learning (ML/DL) techniques have been applied to large data sets in order to extract relevant information and for making predictions. The performance and the outcomes of different ML/DL algorithms may vary depending upon the data sets being used, as well as on the suitability of algorithms to the data and the application domain under c...

We have not reached the cusp of technology evolution yet. Fresh innovations are lined up for disrupting established ‘‘mainstream’’ technologies. Exploring technology evolution provides clues to the next wave of transformation and strategic decisions. Data centers technologies demonstrate how service ‘‘factories’’ can merge client–server front end,...

Telcos have been in charge of network access, control, and intelligence for many decades, but the service ‘webification’ has left them unable to compete in the service arena. Now, Operators seeking to transform the service layer, as well as the Voice session control, find that IMS will only help to migrate traditional services. The IMS framework do...

Information technologies, such as cloud, IoT, virtualization and smart environment, shape new business. Traditional services (e.g., RCS) fail to get traction, compared with new cloud opportunities. While voice migration to webRTC offers low payback, there is more scope in acting as storage providers or data broker. Although “cloud + network” is cha...

Telcos’ viewpoint is “Network is King”. Webcos’ viewpoint is “Service is King”—the web client and its services are the center points. However, it is not easy to define what “service” is: a bunch of resource; collection of tasks; particular interactions and semantics; or all the above. By exploring the concepts of service, we can see how services an...

The future network must gear up to cope with massive data growth, but also provide what is not available on the Internet today—security, reliability, mobility, and predictability. Current Internet structures have become too rigid, and overlay solutions result in complex management. Hence, the future Internet network is evolving as a complete new co...

This chapter outlines the context, motivation, contributions, and organization of this book. This book aims to discover the right architecture for the emerging types of services and the constantly evolving technologies that are rewriting the whole landscape. The main focal question is whether the telecoms industry is undergoing a structural transfo...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as a set of vertical application domains that share a limited number of common basic functionalities. In this view, consumer-centric solutions, platforms, data management, and business models have to be developed and consolidated in order to deploy effective solutions in the specific fields. The availability of...

The articles in this special section address new applications supported by the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as a set of vertical application domains that share a limited number of common basic functionalities. In this view, consumer-centric solutions, platforms, data management, and business models have to be developed a...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as a set of vertical application domains that share a limited number of common basic functionalities. In this view, consumer-centric solutions, platforms, data management, and business models have to be developed and consolidated in order to deploy effective solutions in the specific fields. The availability of...

The articles in this special section are devoted to the topic of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is seen as a set of vertical application domains that share a limited number of common basic functionalities. In this view, consumer-centric solutions, platforms, data management, and business models have to be developed and consolidated in order...

The articles in this special section were presented at the IEEE World Forum (WF) on IoT held in Seoul, Korea, from March 6???8, 2015.

This paper aims at introducing a set of requirements for large Internet of Things platforms. These platforms should enable the programming of many services comprising functions provided by a large number of sensors and intelligent resources. The paper aims at showing how virtualization and cognitive capabilities will play a fundamental role in orde...

Technology advances are making available huge amounts of processing, storage, networking capabilities at the edge (i.e., up to End-Users premises) of current networks. It is argued that these trends, coupled with new emerging paradigms such as Software Defined Networks, will impact deeply the evolution of future networks, allowing to design highly...

This article addresses the potential impact of emerging technologies and solutions, such as software defined networking and network function virtualization, on carriers' network evolution. It is argued that standard hardware advances and these emerging paradigms can bring the most impactful disruption at the network's edge, enabling the deployment...

The telecommunications industry is going through a difficult phase because of profound technological changes, mainly originated by the development of the Internet. They have a major impact on the telecommunications industry as a whole and, consequently, the future deployment of new networks, platforms and services. The evolution of the Internet has...

The challenge for the Telco is to find a viable technological and market perspective for escaping from the consolidation of current business. The paper argues that the virtualization and the creation of a platform for supporting a Virtual Continuum between real objects and their clones in the cloud can be a means to radically transform the present...

The technological and market scenarios of cloud computing is dominated by web companies. They are offering cloud services in a walled garden fashion creating a wide segmentation in the market. Telcos will successfully compete in this market if they bring disruption at the technological and at the market level. This means to introduce new technical...

The chapter addresses the potential impact of technologies like Autonomic, Cognitive, and Software Defined Networking on future networks evolution. It is argued that said technologies, coupled with a wide adoption of virtualization, will bring an impactful disruption at the edge of current networks: in less than a decade developing distributed clou...

This paper presents Halos Networks as an architectural paradigm for developing ubiquitous networking and computing services at the edge of the networks A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of deliv...

Personal data is assumed to become the “energy” or the “new currency” for digital world. Currently personal data potentiality is not fully exploited due to “organization-centric” approaches in the management of personal data. This paper presents a “user-centric” model, which aims at unlocking such potentiality, by enabling individuals to control th...

Nowadays Telcos are facing a radical change in technologies, business models and ecosystems of the communications domain. These changes can be dealt with in a traditional manner, i.e., pursuing a smooth technical evolution (e.g., moving from 3G to 4G architectures) or in a radical manner by introducing disruption at the platform level and to propos...

Computing and storage powers are progressively embedded in all sort of electronic devices interconnected by ubiquitous communications. This creates pervasive and complex environments fostering the development and evolution of services eco-systems. Autonomic technologies coupled with additional bio-inspired principles can provide strong elements for...

Increasing complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamism of current networks (telecommunications, ICT, and Internet) are making current computational and communication infrastructures brittle, inefficient, and almost unmanageable. As a matter of fact, computing and storage are progressively embedded in all sorts of nodes and devices that are interconnect...

The paper presents a new approach to identity layer construction for the Internet based on user ownership of identity information. The paper argues that current limitations in Identity innovation are due to a conservative business model that privileges the Identity Broker instead of empowering the users. Scenarios are provided illustrating the leve...

Future networks will be based on optical core infrastructures (with a limited number of nodes) inter-connecting different local networks (with optical and/or radio local connectivity) populated with a myriads of heterogeneous nodes with communication, processing and storage capabilities. This evolution will transform future networks into complex sy...

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/sdp/programme.html

http://www.cost.eu/events/smartcities

http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/NewsandEvents/Past_Events/2011_FUTURENETWORKSTECHNO.aspx

The paper proposes the introduction of a Network Operating System, based on autonomic and cognitive capabilities, in order to improve manageability, QoS provision, and flexibility of future communication and processing infrastructures. The Network Operating System exploits a logically decentralized control logic through three planes: Network Contro...

http://www.telecomitalia.com/content/dam/telecomitalia/it/archivio/documenti/Innovazione/NotiziarioTecnico/2011/n1-2011/capitolo3_bassa.pdf

An ecosystem is a biological environment inhabited by species, competing and cooperating for own benefits while conserving the environment. Actually, biological species achieve self-management through entirely fully distributed and emergent ways of processing knowledge. The adoption of ecosystem metaphors is a promising approach to drive the evolut...

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FBslNp9xWDcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA43&dq=related:70hwrrQ3EJUJ:scholar.google.com/&ots=eom9eqaTmt&sig=zX2pOLHqLjWi_9oLJvXoELeUCC0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.connect-world.com/index.php/magazine/emea/item/9877-boundary-blurring-between-telecom-and-the-internet

An approach based on overlay networking can lead to a novel P2P Service Platform (PSP) that Operators can fruitfully use to compete with Web Companies. The merits and the strengths of the approach are highlighted respect to the de-perimeterization of services. Critical points of overlay networking are tackled by the integration of technologies like...

The adoption of IT-based interfaces to monitor and control telco capabilities is a consolidated approach. In such a scenario the end-users design composite services that orchestrate functions implemented through one or more resources managed by telecom operators. In addition to the issues that have to be faced to support the design of composite ser...

The client - server model, the Application Store model, and cloud computing are emphasising the importance of edges over the network. The talk will compare two (complementary?) approaches for competing with WebCos service offering: to leverage the traditional approach by integrating network functions in terminals; and/or to disrupt the network mode...

http://www.icin.biz/tutorials/2010#workshop1

http://ants.inf.um.es/ict2010/en/index.php?m=1

http://henrystewart.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&eissn=1754-1670&volume=3&issue=2&spage=164

Future, computation, storage and communication services will be highly pervasive: users' devices, smart objects, machines, platforms and the surrounding space will create a highly decentralized common pool of real and virtual resources interconnected by dynamic networks of networks. This trend, along with the evolutions of architecture of participa...

Technological progresses will allow processing, storage and communication services to be pervasively extended to enable any possible interactions of people, machines and smart objects. As a consequence, future Telecommunication network will become more complex and heterogeneous, and the task of ensuring end-to-end Quality of Experience will be even...

Future processing, storage and communication services will be highly pervasive: people, smart objects, machines and the surrounding space (all embedding devices such as with sensors, RFID tags, etc.) will define a highly decentralized cyber environment of resources interconnected by dynamic Networks of Networks. As communications will extend to cov...

Service Innovation Yearbook 2009-2010

The pervasive distribution of digital devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phone, digital camera, music players, RFID, sensors, smart cards) will create a large distributed computational and networking environment that will foster the evolution towards ecosystems of resource, services and data. Dynamicity and ubiquity of said future environments pose new...

Home networking environment is acquiring more and more relevance from the business and technical perspectives. Currently users are left alone in coping with the networking and integration intricacies of putting in place a really working home network solution. Moreover things are getting even more complicated due to the introduction in the homes of...

The richness of functions and the availability of data make the Web the real service platform. Telecomm operators are using an old approach to a new All-IP infrastructure. This enables the WebCos to become the major Service Providers of next generation networks. TelCos should instead use the Web APIs and the cloud computing infrastructure to build...