Participation at the NextGCom

Dissemination, August 27, 2024

This week, Annisa and Thilina will participate to NextGCcom, a Training School and Research Colloquium. They will present their activities within the 5G-MODaNeI project.

Read more about NextGenCOM here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, August 16, 2024

A paper, titled "DRL-Based Availability-Aware Migration of a MEC Service" and authored by Annisa Sarah, Gianfranco Nencioni, and Muhidul I. Khan, has been accepted at IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Read the paper on IEEE Xplore.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, May 12, 2024

A paper, titled "Adaptive Methods for Revenue Model learning of a Slice Broker in the Presence of Adversaries" and authored by Muhidul I. Khan and Gianfranco Nencioni, has been accepted at Wireless Personal Communications.

Read the paper on Springer Link.

New extension of the project

Info, May 4, 2024

The Norwegian Research Council (NFR) has extended the 5G-MODaNeI project to the end of March 2025. Stay tuned!

Talk at the University of Bucharest

Dissemination, April 24, 2024

On April 18th, Thilina gave a talk to the 1st-year students enrolled in the master program on Security and Applied Logics during the course on Network Security, taught by Ruxandra. This talk was part of Thilina's mobility at the University of Bucharest within the 5G-MODaNeI project.

Read more about the master program on Security and Applied Logics here.

Visit at the Orange 5G Lab

Dissemination, March 9, 2024

On Friday, Ruxandra, Annisa, and Thilina visited the Orange 5G Lab at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. They discussed about opportunities and challenges of 5G and beyond.

Read more about the Orange 5G Lab here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, January 8, 2024

A paper, titled "Joint multi-objective MEH selection and traffic path computation in 5G-MEC systems" and authored by Prachi V. Wadatkar, Rosario G. Garroppo, Gianfranco Nencioni, and Marco Volpi, has been accepted at Elsevier Computer Networks.

Read the paper on ScienceDirect.

Talk at Smart City Symposium

Dissemination, November 26, 2023

On December 6 at the symposium organized by the smart sustainable cities research network and titled "Is the Smart City loosing traction – and what may come next?", there is a panel on "Wireless communication for smart cities". In the panel, there will be a talk by Annisa Sarah titled "Wireless Technology Revolution for Smart City: the promises and the pitfalls", where 5G-MODaNeI will be mentioned.

More information about the symposium here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, November 20, 2023

A paper, titled "Resource allocation for cost minimization of a slice broker in a 5G-MEC scenario" and authored by Annisa Sarah and Gianfranco Nencioni, has been accepted at Elsevier Computer Communications.

Read the paper on ScienceDirect.

Demostration at MobiCom 2023

Dissemination, October 12, 2023

Last week Prachi has successfully presented the demostration titled "MigraMEC: Hybrid Testbed for MEC App Migration" at the Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom) in Madrid, Spain.

Read the poster or the short paper on ACM Digital Library.

Upcoming 5G-MODaNeI Workshop

Dissemination, August 25, 2023

On Friday 8th September, there will be the 5G-MODaNeI Workshop in Stavanger. In the workshop, there will be presentations from the 5G-MODaNeI team and other guests, and it is open to anyone. Read the preliminary program on LinkedIn and fill in this form to join.

Deadline to join: Friday 1st September.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, August 24, 2023

A paper, titled "Resource Allocation in Networking and Computing Systems: a Security and Dependability Perspective" and authored by Muhidul Khan and Gianfranco Nencioni, has been accepted at IEEE Access.

Read the paper on IEEE Xplore.

New accepted demo

Dissemination, August 3, 2023

A demo, titled "MigraMEC: Hybrid Testbed for MEC App Migration" and authored by Prachi V. Wadatkar, Rosario G. Garroppo, and Gianfranco Nencioni, has been accepted at the Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom).

Read more about the conference here.

Presentation at ICCCN 2023

Dissemination, August 2, 2023

Last week Thilina has successfully presented the paper titled "Availability Model of a 5G-MEC System" at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) in Honolulu, USA.

Read the preprint here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, June 22, 2023

A paper, titled "5G Multi-access Edge Computing: a Survey on Security, Dependability, and Performance" and authored by Gianfranco Nencioni, Rosario G. Garroppo, and Ruxandra F. Olimid, has been accepted at IEEE Access.

Read the paper on IEEE Xplore.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, June 5, 2023

A paper, titled "Distributed Ledger Technology based Integrated Healthcare Solution for Bangladesh" and authored by Muhidul Khan et al., has been accepted at IEEE Access.

Read the paper on IEEE Xplore.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, May 9, 2023

A paper, titled "5G-MEC Testbeds for V2X Applications" and authored by Prachi V. Wadatkar, Rosario G. Garroppo, and Gianfranco Nencioni, has been accepted at MDPI Futute Internet.

Read the paper here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, April 26, 2023

A paper titled "Revenue Maximization of a Slice Broker in the Presence of Byzantine Faults" has been accepted at a workshop of the Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). The paper is authored by M. Khan and G. Nencioni and will be presented at the workshop on June 27.

Read more about the workshop here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, April 26, 2023

A paper titled "Availability Model of a 5G-MEC System" has been accepted at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN). The paper is authored by T. Pathirana and G. Nencioni and will be presented at the conference on July 24-27.

Read more about the conference here and the preprint here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, March 24, 2023

A paper titled "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Selfish Nodes Detection in a Blockchain" has been accepted at the third French Regional Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS). The paper is authored by Muhidul Khan and will be presented at the conference on May 31 - June 2.

Read more about the conference here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, March 18, 2023

A paper, titled "Resource Allocation in Multi-Access Edge Computing for 5G-and-Beyond Networks" and authored by Annisa Sarah, Gianfranco Nencioni, and Muhidul Khan, has been accepted at Elsevier Computer Networks.

Read the paper on ScienceDirect.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, November 16, 2022

A paper titled "MEC Application Migration by using AdvantEDGE" has been accepted at the 2022 EAI International Conference on Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies (TRIDENTCOM). The paper is authored by Prachi V. Wadatkar, Rosario G. Garroppo, and Gianfranco Nencioni. It will be presented at the conference on November 23-25.

Read more about the conference here.

Presentation at 5G RAKSHA annual workshop

Dissemination, November 15, 2022

On November 11, the 5G-MODaNeI team participated at the annual meeting of the 5G RAKSHA project at Sintef, Trondheim. At the workshop, the 5G-MODaNeI project was introduced, and the past and current research activities were presented.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, October 22, 2022

A paper titled "Experimental comparison of migration strategies for MEC-assisted 5G-V2X applications" and authored by Mohammed A. Hathibelagal, Rosario G. Garroppo, and Gianfranco Nencioni, has been accepted at Elsevier Computer Communications.

Read the paper on ScienceDirect.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, October 21, 2022

A paper titled "Revenue-Model Learning for a Slice Broker in the Presence of Adversaries" has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS). The paper is authored by Muhidul Khan and Gianfranco Nencioni. It will be presented at the conference on December 18-21.

Read more about the conference here.

Published paper

Dissemination, October 19, 2022

The paper titled "Improved security solutions for DDoS mitigation in 5G Multi-access Edge Computing" and presented at the SECITC 2021, has been published at Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The paper was authored by the project partner of the University of Bucharest, Ruxandra F. Olimid, together with her former master student, Marian Gusatu.

Read the published paper here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, July 19, 2022

A paper titled "Experimental Evaluation of Handover Strategies in 5G-MEC Scenario by using AdvantEDGE" has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom). The paper is authored by Rosario G. Garroppo, Marco Volpi, Gianfranco Nencioni, and Prachi V. Wadatkar. It will be presented at the conference on September.

Read more about the conference here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, July 5, 2022

A paper titled "Using Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Resource Orchestration in a Network Slicing Scenario" in collaboration with researchers from the University of Padua, Italy, has been accepted at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Read the paper on IEEE Xplore.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, June 9, 2022

An extended abstract titled "Secure and Privacy-Aware Distributed Resource Allocation in 5G Multi-Access Edge Computing based Healthcare Applications" and authored by Muhidul Khan has beed accepted at hAIst Conference – Health-related Artificial Intelligence in Stavanger. A related poster will be presented next week.

Read more about the conference here.

Presentations at UiS-CTU collaboration

Dissemination, June 9, 2022

Within the "Czech-Norwegian Alliance for Research Cooperation towards resilient, smart and sustainable cities and regions" funded by EEA Norway, there will be two presentations where 5G-MODaNeI will be mentioned. On June 2, there has been a presentation on "Wireless Communications for the Future Smart Cities" at UiS. On June 9, there is a presentation on "The Applications of 5G Wireless Technology and its Relation to the Environment" at CTU Prague.

For more details and presentation slides, read the collaboration website here.

Work on WP4

Dissemination, April 27, 2022

A manuscript based on the thesis of Marco Volpi, a master student from the University of Pisa has been submitted to Elsevier Computer Networks. The manuscript is authored by Rosario G. Garroppo, Marco Volpi, Gianfranco Nencioni, and Prachi V. Wadatkar.

The submitted manuscript is available here.

Call for Expressions of Interest - MSCA PF 2022

Open Positions, March 16, 2022

The University of Stavanger (UiS) is looking for outstanding researchers wishing to apply for the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for a period of two years, with UiS as the Host Institution. Researchers of any nationality, who wish to develop their research and collaboration with UiS, are welcome to apply. Interested researcher must identify an UiS supervisor from the ‘Find your PF supervisor’. Search and select "Gianfranco Nencioni" as supervisor for a postdoc on topics that are the extension of 5G-MODaNeI towards 6G. The deadline to apply is 31st March 2022.

See more information and apply here.

Extension of the project

Info, January 7, 2022

Due to the pandemic situation, the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) has extended the 5G-MODaNeI project to the end of September 2024. Stay tuned!

Video of the Guest Talk at UiS

Dissemination, November 30, 2021

The video of the guest talk on "Modern Sensing, Communication, and Learning technologies for advanced “smart” services" by Andrea Zanella and Federico Mason from the University of Padova (Italy) is now available online.

See the video on YouTube.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, November 23, 2021

Our paper titled "Improved security solutions for DDoS mitigation in 5G Multi-access Edge Computing" has been accepted at the 14th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications – SECITC 2021. The paper is from the project partner of the University of Bucharest, Ruxandra F. Olimid, together with one of her master students, Marian Gusatu. The paper will be presented by Marian at the virtual conference on November 25.

Read the preprint on arXiv.

Guest Talk at UiS

Dissemination, November 18, 2021

On November 26 at the University of Stavanger, there will be a guest talk by Professor Andrea Zanella and PhD student Federico Mason from the University of Padova, Italy. The talk is titled "Modern Sensing, Communication, and Learning technologies for advanced “smart” services". The talk is organized by the ComNet Research Group together with the Stavanger AI Lab and the Smart Sustainable City Research Network.

More information here.

Talk at Smart City Research Symposium

Dissemination, September 17, 2021

On September 22 at the Smart City Research Symposium (part of the Nordic Edge Expo 2021) in the panel on "Enabling Smart Cities: From current communication technologies to 5G and beyond", there will be a talk by Gianfranco Nencioni titled "Wireless Communications for the Future Smart Cities", where 5G-MODaNeI will be mentioned.

More information and free registration here.

Survey on 5G MEC

Dissemination, July 28, 2021

A manuscript that surveys security, dependability, and performance of 5G MEC has been submitted to IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. The manuscript is authored by Gianfranco Nencioni, Rosario G. Garroppo, and Ruxandra F. Olimid.

Read the submitted manuscript on arXiv.

New member of the team

Members, July 12, 2021

Today Annisa Sarah has joined the 5G-MODaNeI team. She will be a PhD student working on the WP3 to develop solutions for the resource allocation in 5G MEC. Gianfranco Nencioni is the supervisor. Welcome to the team!

New member of the team

Members, June 24, 2021

Today Muhidul Khan has joined the 5G-MODaNeI team. He will be a postdoc working on the WP3 to develop ML-based solutions for the resource allocation in 5G MEC. Welcome to the team!

New member of the team

Members, June 21, 2021

Today Thilina Pathirana has joined the 5G-MODaNeI team. He will be a PhD student working on the WP2 to evaluate the security and dependability of 5G MEC. Gianfranco Nencioni is the supervisor and Ruxandra F. Olimid is the co-supervisor. Welcome to the team!

Video of the Talk at Innoasis Science Forum

Dissemination, April 25, 2021

The video of the talk about Edge Computing and 5G at the Innoasis Science Forum is now available online.

See the video on Vimeo or YouTube.

Smart City Research Symposium

Dissemination, April 8, 2021

The University of Stavanger and Nordic Edge are organizing a research symposium on smart city during the Nordic Edge Expo 2021 on September 22. Within the symposium, there will be 12 different panels. One of the panels is on "Enabling Smart Cities: From current communication technologies to 5G and beyond", which is including topics related to 5G-MODaNeI. The deadline for abstract submission is June 1.

See the call for abstracts and more information here.

Talk at Innoasis Science Forum

Dissemination, March 29, 2021

5G-MODaNeI will be presented at the Innoasis Science Forum organized by Nordic Edge and University of Stavanger on April 20. In the talk, Edge Computing and 5G will introduced together with the related challenges on security, depenability, and performance.

See more information and register to the event here.

New accepted paper

Dissemination, January 15, 2021

Our paper titled "Minimizing the Cost of 5G Network Slice Broker" has been accepted at the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN), an IEEE INFOCOM workshop. The paper is in collaboration with Ali Gohar, PhD student working within the UiS smart sustainable cities research network. The paper will be presented by Ali at the virtual conference on May 10.

New member of the team

Members, December 21, 2020

Today Prachi V. Wadatkar has joined the 5G-MODaNeI team. She will be a PhD student working on the WP4 to create a 5G-MEC testbed for V2X communications. Her supervisors are Gianfranco Nencioni and Rosario G. Garroppo. Her PhD will be in cotutelle with the University of Pisa. Welcome to the team!

Stavanger AI Lab

Other news, November 6, 2020

The Stavanger Artificial Intelliget (AI) Labortory has been launched today. The Stavanger AI Lab is a node for research, innovation and education in artificial intelligence at University of Stavanger. The Stavanger AI Lab is part of NORA and CLAIRE. ComNet is one of the associated research groups. 5G-MODaNeI will benefit by Stavanger AI Lab especially regarding the research activity of WP3, which is focused in finding AI solutions for the resource allocation in 5G MEC.

See more information about Stavanger AI Lab here.

ComNet Research Group

Other news, September 28, 2020

Today there was the kickoff meeting of the Computer Networks (ComNet) research group at the University of Stavanger. The group is led by associate professor Gianfranco Nencioni and co-led by associate professor Naeem Khademi. ComNet focuses on finding innovative and advanced solutions in the area of communication technology and emerging wired and wireless networking. 5G-MODaNeI will be one of the main reaserch activities of the group.

See more information about ComNet here.

Opening for one Postdoctor

Open Positions, June 12, 2020

One postdoc position within 5G-MODaNeI has been open. The postdoctor will be based at the University of Stavanger, Norway. The postdoctor will work at the WP3. The deadline for apply to the position is 30th September 2020.

See more information about the position and apply here.

Opening for one Ph.D. student

Open Positions, June 12, 2020

One new Ph.D. position within 5G-MODaNeI has been open. The Ph.D. student will be based at the University of Stavanger, Norway. The Ph.D. student will work at the WP3. The deadline for apply to the position is 30th September 2020.

See more information about the position and apply here.

Opening for two Ph.D. students

Open Positions, April 30, 2020

Two Ph.D. positions within 5G-MODaNeI have been open. The two Ph.D. students will be based at the University of Stavanger, Norway. One Ph.D. student will work at the WP2 and the other one will work at the WP4. The deadline for apply to the position is 31st July 2020.

See more information about the positions and apply here.

Presentation at CityZEN update workshop

Dissemination, Feb 6, 2020

During the CityZEN update workshop held at the University of Stavanger, 5G-MODaNeI has been presented by highlighting the similarity, difference, and complementarity with the activities that would be performed within CityZEN.

Article on the CityZEN website

About this project, Nov 19, 2019

In the CityZEN website, the grant of 5G-MODaNeI project has been announced. CityZEN is the proposal of a center for research-based innovation and is focused on Smart City. The 5G-MODaNeI team would be contributing to the Working Package on "Communication and Data Computing". If the Norwegian Research Council will accept the proposal, 5G-MODaNeI will definetly benifit from the collaboration with the center.

Here you can find the article.

Article on the University of Stavanger website

About this project, Nov 12, 2019

The University of Stavanger (Norway) announced the grant from the Norwegian Research Council to fund 5G-MODaNeI project.

Here you can find the article in English.

Here you can find the article in Norwegian.