@conference {8875501,
	title = {Enabling Container-Based Fog Computing with OpenStack},
	booktitle = {2019 International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData)},
	year = {2019},
	month = {July},
	pages = {1049-1056},
	abstract = {Operating system-level virtualization using containerization technologies have changed the world of application development and software by bringing flexibility, efficiency and new methods for managing and distributing software. Edge/Fog computing complements nowadays powerful centralized approach leveraging datacenters resources with a number of distributed fog nodes with relatively capable resources in order to provide advanced services in proximity to end users and data sources. In fact, this emerging paradigm provides ubiquitous processing abilities through scattered heterogeneous hardware with different energy availability and computational capabilities. This paper aims at presenting an extension of an IoT centric infrastructure Cloud framework, named Stack4Things, towards the edge through an integration with two of the OpenStack subsystems (i.e., Zun and Kuryr) that deal with containers management.},
	keywords = {Application development, Cloud, cloud computing, computer centres, container management, container-based fog computing, containerization technologies, containers, datacenter resources, distributed fog nodes, distributing software, Ecosystems, Edge/Fog computing, Internet of Things, IoT, IoT centric infrastructure cloud framework, Kuryr, Neutrons, OpenStack, OpenStack subsystems, operating system-level virtualization, Servers, software management, ubiquitous processing abilities, virtualisation, Virtualization, Zun},
	doi = {10.1109/iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData.2019.00181},
	author = {Zakaria Benomar and F. Longo and G. Merlino and A. Puliafito}
}
@conference {9066039,
	title = {A Mininet-Based Emulated Testbed for the I/Ocloud},
	booktitle = {2019 15th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN)},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {277-283},
	abstract = {Considering the proliferation of smart devices connected to the Internet, typically going under the aegis of Internet of Things (IoT), a trend has arisen to promote the Cloud paradigm as a suitable management system for such a complex environment. In this context, an effort to extend the OpenStack ecosystem to make it able to support the management of the IoT infrastructure has been made by virtue of the I/Ocloud approach, leading up to its reference implementation, the Stack4Things (S4T) middleware. S4T provides a set of suitable capabilities and features to make the (remote) IoT devices able to join an edge-based IaaS/PaaS Cloud. In the interest of enhancing the S4T middleware scalability and explore new capabilities in particular, ones related to Fog and Edge paradigms, it is becoming a must to test new features in practice at a low financial cost and particular constraints for instance, number/type of devices, network conditions, etc. For this purpose, the use of network emulation tools is a practical and suitable approach. In this paper, we present an integration between the S4T middleware and an emulation tool namely Containernet. Through the integration approach, we model network conditions (e.g., latency, bandwidth, packet loss) and devices (in forms of containers) using Containernet, and we manage the devices (i.e., containers) by means of S4T.},
	keywords = {aegis, cloud computing, Cloud paradigm, complex environment, Containernet, containers, Edge computing, Edge/Fog computing, Emulation, input-output programs, Internet of Things, IoT, IoT devices, IoT infrastructure, low financial cost, middleware, Mininet, mininet-based, model network conditions, network emulation tools, OpenStack, OpenStack ecosystem, reference implementation, S4T middleware scalability, smart devices, Stack4Things middleware, suitable management system, Task analysis, Tools, virtualisation},
	doi = {10.1109/MSN48538.2019.00060},
	author = {Zakaria Benomar and D. Bruneo and F. Longo and G. Merlino and A. Puliafito}
}
@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 = {<p class="rtejustify">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).\&nbsp;In this paper, we discuss the near future evolution of IoT Clouds towards federated ecosystems, where IoT providers cooperate to offer more flexible services.\&nbsp;Moreover, we present a general three-layer IoT Cloud Federation architecture, highlighting new business opportunities and challenges.\&nbsp;</p>
},
	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}
}
@conference {6726193,
	title = {Using Virtualization and Guacamole/VNC to Provide Adaptive User Interfaces to Disabled People in Cloud Computing},
	booktitle = {Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on and 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC)},
	year = {2013},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {72-79},
	keywords = {adaptive user interfaces, Adaptive User Interfaces and Tools, assisted living, Assistive Technology, AT software, AT tools, Browsers, CLEVER, cloud computing, Computer architecture, Computers, disabled people, graphical user interfaces, Guacamole, handicapped aids, HTML5, HTML5 remote desktop gateway, HTML5-based Web interface, hypermedia markup languages, hypervisor, Internet, internetworking, Keyboards, middleware, networked computer, online front-ends, personalized virtual desktops, Psychological Factors, Remote desktop, SaaS, Servers, software as a service, VIM middleware, Virtual Box, virtual infrastructure manager middleware, virtual machine monitor, virtual machines, virtual network computing, virtualisation, Virtualization, VNC, Web browser, Web-accessed VM},
	doi = {10.1109/UIC-ATC.2013.42},
	author = {Mulfari, D. and Celesti, A. and Villari, M. and Puliafito, A.}
}
