Browsing by Author "Selimi, Mennan"
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A lightweight service placement approach for community network micro-clouds
(2019-03)
Article
Open AccessCommunity networks (CNs) have gained momentum in the last few years with the increasing number of spontaneously deployed WiFi hotspots and home networks. These networks, owned and managed by volunteers, offer various ... -
A monitoring system for distributed edge infrastructures with decentralized coordination
(Springer, 2019)
Conference report
Open AccessWe present the case of monitoring a decentralized and crowdsourced network infrastructure, that needs to be monitored over geographically distributed devices at the network edge. It is a characteristic of the target ... -
A simheuristic algorithm for service placement in community networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
Conference report
Open AccessThe growing demand for network connectivity has boosted the number of community networks (CNs). CNs are decentralized and self-organized communication networks owned and managed at the edge by volunteers. Due to the ... -
A two-stage multi-criteria optimization method for service placement in decentralized edge micro-clouds
(Elsevier, 2021-08)
Article
Open AccessCommunity networks are becoming increasingly popular due to the growing demand for network connectivity in both rural and urban areas. Community networks are owned and managed at the edge by volunteers. Their irregular ... -
BePOCH: Improving federated learning performance in resource-constrained computing devices
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
Conference report
Open AccessInference with trained machine learning models is now possible with small computing devices while only a few years ago it was run mostly in the cloud only. The recent technique of Federated Learning offers now a way to do ... -
Blockchain for economically sustainable wireless mesh networks
(2020-06-25)
Article
Open AccessDecentralization, in the form of mesh networking and blockchain, two promising technologies, is coming to the telecommunications industry. Mesh networking allows wider low-cost Internet access with infrastructures built ... -
Cloud services in the Guifi.net community network
(2015-02-15)
Article
Open AccessInternet and communication technologies have lowered the costs to collaborate for communities, leading to new services like user-generated content and social computing and, through collaboration, collectively built ... -
Cloud-based extension for Community-Lab
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyCommunity-Lab is an open, distributed infrastructure for researchers to carry out experiments within wireless community networks. Community networks are an emergent model of infrastructures built with off-the-shelf ... -
Contract networking for crowdsourced connectivity
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
Conference report
Open AccessUniversal connectivity is still unavailable or expensive for half of the global population, despite being critical for social participation. The deployment of crowdsourced networking infrastructures creates an opportunity ... -
Demo: An experimental environment based on mini-PCs for federated learning research
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
Conference report
Open AccessThere is a growing research interest in Federated Learning (FL), a promising approach for data privacy preservation and proximity of training to the network edge, where data is generated. Resource consumption for Machine ... -
Designing a double LoRa connectivity for the Arduino Portenta H7
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
Conference report
Open AccessMachine learning is moving to the smallest computing devices. Today machine learning is applied even in tiny IoT microcontroller boards. In the IoT, LoRa is a popular communication technology to connect remote devices with ... -
DIMON: Distributed Monitoring System for decentralized edge clouds in Guifi.net
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference report
Open AccessCommunity-built telecommunication networks such as Guifi.net demonstrate how end users can actively collaborate in the self-provision of network services, for instance by operating a self-organized distributed monitoring ... -
End user-managed service deployments in microclouds at the network edge
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference report
Open AccessCloud computing is moving from data centers to the network edge. Edge computing introduces lightweight computing devices closer to where data are produced. Local processing enables faster response times for cloud-based ... -
Experiences with distributed heterogeneous clouds over community networks
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyCommunity networks [1] are decentralized and self-organized communication networks built and operated by citizens and for citizens. They are an emergent model of infrastructure that aims to satisfy a community's demand for ... -
Gelly-scheduling: distributed graph processing for service placement in community networks
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018)
Conference report
Open AccessCommunity networks (CNs) have seen an increase in the last fifteen years. Their members contact nodes which operate Internet proxies, web servers, user file storage and video streaming services, to name a few. Detecting ... -
Information-Centric Multi-Access Edge Computing Platform for Community Mesh Networks
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018)
Conference report
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Integration of assisted P2P live streaming service in community network clouds
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
Conference report
Open AccessWireless community networks (CNs) are large-scale, self-organized and decentralized communication infrastructures built and operated by citizens for citizens. CN cloud infrastructures have been recently introduced to run ... -
MeshDapp: Blockchain-enabled sustainable business models for networks
(Springer, 2019)
Conference report
Open AccessThe digital world demands a network infrastructure to supply connectivity to any participant anywhere. Sustainable networks require balanced value flows. Value is connectivity delivered at a material and service cost to ... -
On the service placement in community network micro-clouds
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-05-22)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessCommunity networks (CNs) have gained momentum in the last few years in response to the growing demand for network connectivity in rural and urban areas. These networks, owned and managed by volunteers, offer various services ... -
Performance evaluation of a distributed storage service in community network clouds
(Wiley, 2015-09-20)
Article
Open AccessCommunity networks are self-organized and decentralized communication networks built and operated by citizens, for citizens. The consolidation of today's cloud technologies offers now, for community networks, the possibility ...
