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Informacje na temat projektu

CLEVER

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 101097560

DOI

10.3030/101097560

Data podpisania przez KE 29 Listopada 2022

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Stycznia 2023

Data zakończenia 31 Grudnia 2025

Finansowanie w ramach

• Digital, Industry and Space

Koszt całkowity

€ 14 974 655,00

Wkład UE

€ 4 497 177,77

Koordynowany przez

SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA
Italy

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Rezultaty

Documents, reports (7)

Testbed setup and data collection

Report on the lab infrastructures and capabilities for test validation required to conduct the use cases in CLEVER. In addition, this deliverable will report on the dataset used for AI training and execution.

Implementation status at M22 of Middleware for Enabling Edge-AI

This deliverable will report on the status at M22 of the WP4 activities related to the implementation of middleware software for enabling AI.

Dissemination, Communication, and Standardization at M24

This report highlights the dissemination, communication, and standardization activities and outcomes during the second year of the project.

Design and preliminary implementation of Middleware for Enabling Edge-AI

This deliverable will report on the design and preliminary implementation of the (i) security solutions for trustworthy edge computing and networking, (ii) graph generation and orchestration through AI-techniques; (iii) semantic representation and smart allocation solutions, (iv) automated orchestration/maintenance technology, and (v) monitoring and telemetry infrastructure. In addition, it will provide the indicators that show how much progress has been achieved with regard to the completion of the activities the limitations, as well as the potential changes in the plans and the corrective actions taken (if needed) to compensate for the deviations.

Design and first implementation of AI-driven applications for the use cases

This deliverable will communicate the detailed status of the CLEVER applications enabling the use cases and based on the CLEVER HW and SW building components and technologies. It will report on the technical progress of all the WP5 tasks and subtasks. In addition, it will provide the indicators that show how much progress has been achieved with regard to the completion of the deliverables, the limitations, as well as the potential changes in the plans and the corrective actions taken (if needed) to compensate for the deviations.

Final CLEVER requirements, specifications, and detailed use case definition

Report on the technical and architectural requirements and system functional specifications (related to Task T2.1) and on the specification of AI solutions for use cases (related to Task T2.2). Furthermore, this deliverable will report on the use case definition, including motivations, reference scenario, expected progresses beyond state of art, specific requirements and KPIs (in-line with Project KPIs), and execution plan with per-partner contributions (related to T3.3)

Dissemination, Communication, and Standardization at M12

This report highlights the dissemination and communication efforts and outcome of activities during the first year of the project. In addition, it lies down the standardization plans for CLEVER.

Publikacje

Conference proceedings (44)

ARM Architecture Optimizations for Line-Rate PQC Communications

Autorzy: A. Cano Aguilera, I. Tafur Monroy, J. J. Vegas Olmos, José L. Imaña
Opublikowane w: 2025 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ONDM65745.2025.11029331

Using Distributed Ledgers To Build Knowledge Graphs For Decentralized Computing Ecosystems

Autorzy: Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Preeja Pradeep, Ahmed Zahran
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024
Wydawca: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3627673.3679644

Comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for the classification of underwater marine debris

Autorzy: B. Jalil, L. Maggiani and L. Valcarenghi
Opublikowane w: 2023
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MetroSea58055.2023.10317314

Safeguarding Blockchain and Dlts From Arbitrary and Malicious Content

Autorzy: Alan Barnett, Merry Globin, Tarek Zaarour, Sean Ahearne, Ahmed Khalid
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858544

Power-aware RoCE Edge Transfer Agent

Autorzy: A. H. Khan, M. Guaitolini, F. Paolucci
Opublikowane w: 2025 25th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125285

Fiber To The Room Challenges and Opportunities

Autorzy: A. Marotta, L. Valcarenghi, K. Kondepu, C. Centofanti, C. Rinaldi, F. Graziosi, D. Cassioli
Opublikowane w: 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS59351.2024.10427248

ELEVATE: Optimal Scheduling of Time-Sensitive Tasks on the Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Edge

Autorzy: Ingo Hoyer, Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Alexander Utz, Karsten Seidl, Ken Brown, Ahmed H. Zahran
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858561

First Line-rate End-to-End Post-Quantum Encrypted Optical Fiber Link Using Data Processing Units (DPUs)

Autorzy: A. Cano Aguilera, R. Abu Bakar, F. Alhamed, C. Rubio Garcia, J.L. Imana, I.Tafur Monroy, F. Cugini, and J.J Vegas Olmos
Opublikowane w: 2024
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2024.M1G.4

Computation offloading in beyond 5G/6G networks with edge computing: implications and challenges

Autorzy: Catalina Stan; Simon Rommel; Juan José Vegas Olmos; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Opublikowane w: Crossref, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-38317-5
Wydawca: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38318-2_47

Adaptive Retraining of AI/ML Model for Beyond 5G Networks: A Predictive Approach

Autorzy: 11. V. Gudepu, V. R. Chintapalli, P. Castoldi, L. Valcarenghi, B. R. Tamma and K. Kondepu
Opublikowane w: 2023
DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175451

Coordinated vDU relocation for an Energy Efficient PON-based Open SD-RAN

Autorzy: L. Valcarenghi
Opublikowane w: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647660

Secure Onboarding of Devices and Applications to a Smart Decentralized Ecosystem

Autorzy: Ali Amin, Tarek Zaarour, Ahmed Khalid, Seàn Óg Murphy, Utz Roedig, Cormac J. Sreenan
Opublikowane w: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SMARTCOMP65954.2025.00034

Energy-Efficient Integrated O-RAN/PON Access Network

Autorzy: L. Valcarenghi, A. Marotta, C. Centofanti, F. Graziosi, K. Kondepu
Opublikowane w: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10622867

First Demonstration of 200 Gbps Regime Line-Rate Quantum-Secure MACsec Optical Links Using Commodity Hardware Offloads

Autorzy: Abraham Cano Aguilera, Carlos Rubio Garcia, Daniel C. Lawo, Idelfonso Tafur, J.L Imaña, J.J Vegas Olmos
Opublikowane w: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, 2025
Wydawca: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2025.TU2D.2

Poster: Using Machine Learning to Infer Network Structure from Security Metadata

Autorzy: Asfa Khalid, Seán Óg Murphy, Cormac J. Sreenan, Utz Roedig
Opublikowane w: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, 2025
Wydawca: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97623-0_6

Efficient Data Confidence Fabrics with Compact Annotations

Autorzy: Asfa Khalid, Seán Óg Murphy, Cormac Sreenan, Utz Roedig
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858579

5G New Radio Techniques for 3D Networks in Connection-critical Scenarios

Autorzy: Luca Valcarenghi, Justine Cris Borromeo, Riccardo Bassoli, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Koteswararao Kondepu, Nicola Andriolli, Henok Berhanu Tsegaye, Claudio Sacchi
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/AERO58975.2024.10521105

Marine Litter Classification Through Multi-Camera System: Perception and Latency

Autorzy: B. Jalil, L. Maggiani, L. Valcarenghi
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/METROSEA62823.2024.10765735

GAN-Based Drift and Anomaly Detection for Open Radio Access Networks

Autorzy: Venkateswarlu Gudepu, Bhargav Chirumamilla, Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, Piero Castoldi, Luca Valcarenghi, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Deepak Kataria, Koteswararao Kondepu
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 25th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HPSR62440.2024.10635911

Enhancing UAV Systems via Task Offloading at the EDGE

Autorzy: R. R. Tella, A. Marotta, P. Castoldi, L. Valcarenghi and K. Kondepu
Opublikowane w: 2023
DOI: 10.1109/ANTS59832.2023.10469506

Hierarchical Software-Defined Control for coordinated RAN and PON-based Transport Scaling

Autorzy: Alessandro Pacini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Carlo Centofanti, Andrea Marotta, Emilio Paolini, Alessio Giorgetti, Luca Valcarenghi
Opublikowane w: NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575208

A Decentralized Federated Learning-Based Approach for Fault Detection in Optical Networks

Autorzy: Andrei N. Ribeiro, Fabrício R. Lobato, Moisés F. Silva, Carlos Natalino, Lena Wosinska, Luca Valcarenghi, Andrea Sgambelluri, João C. W. A. Costa
Opublikowane w: 2025 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ONDM65745.2025.11029366

In-network AI Capabilities through Hardware Switches and Optical Computing

Autorzy: Lorenzo De Marinis, Francesco Paolucci, Filippo Cugini
Opublikowane w: 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SUM65312.2025.11121821

Photonic-accelerated AI for cybersecurity in sustainable 6G networks

Autorzy: E. Paolini, L. Valcarenghi, L. Maggiani and N. Andriolli
Opublikowane w: 2023
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188264

Scalable User-Centric Distributed Massive MIMO Systems with Limited Processing Capacity

Autorzy: M. M. M. Freitas et al.
Opublikowane w: 2023
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279694

Optimized Monitoring of Underwater Marine Waste Using Knowledge Distillation

Autorzy: B. Jalil, L. Maggiani, L. Valcarenghi
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/METROSEA62823.2024.10765682

A Programmable 5G DU-RU SmartNIC based on MPSoC FPGA

Autorzy: Abdelghani Bourenane, Emilio Paolini, Nicola Andriolli, Luca Valcarenghi
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 25th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HPSR62440.2024.10635977

Virtual Try-On Application leveraging RoCE in Low-latency Edge Computing Networks

Autorzy: Michelangelo Guaitolini, Abdul H. Khan, Emilie Le Rouzic, Francesco Paolucci, Filippo Cugini
Opublikowane w: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647389

AI/ML Model Training in O-RAN: Assessing Datasets for Hoarding and Choosing Strategies

Autorzy: Venkateswarlu Gudepu, Bhargav Chirumamilla, Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, Piero Castoldi, Luca Valcarenghi, Koteswararao Kondepu
Opublikowane w: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ANTS59832.2023.10468670

Programmable Packet-Optical Networks using Data Processing Units (DPUs) with Embedded GPU

Autorzy: Piero Castoldi, Rana Abu Bakar, Andrea Sgambelluri, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos, Francesco Paolucci, and Filippo Cugini
Opublikowane w: 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11030206

A pilot study to classify salt treated poplar plants using machine learning algorithms

Autorzy: Bushra Jalil, Iqra Sarfraz, Lorenzo Della Maggiora, Alessandra Francini, Luca Valcarenghi, Luca Sebastiani
Opublikowane w: 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/METROAGRIFOR58484.2023.10424065

Towards Trust-Based Data Weighting in Machine Learning

Autorzy: Seán Óg Murphy, Utz Roedig, Cormac J. Sreenan, Ahmed Khalid
Opublikowane w: 2023 IEEE 31st International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2023
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP59255.2023.10355606

"Virtual Try-On Application leveraging RoCE in Low-latency Edge Computing Networks"", 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024"

Autorzy: M. Guaitolini, A. H. Khan, E. Le Rouzic, F. Paolucci, F. Cugini
Opublikowane w: 2024

Positioning Stabilization With Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Robot Positioning Tasks in Nvidia Omniverse

Autorzy: Abishek Sunilkumar, Fouad Bahrpeyma, Dirk Reichelt
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INDIN58382.2024.10774286

91 1 Gbit/s Quantum-Resistant IPsec Programmable Encryptor

Autorzy: Carlos Rubio Garcia, Abraham Cano, J.J. Vegas Olmos, Simon Rommel, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Opublikowane w: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, 2025
Wydawca: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2025.TU2D.3

Analysis of Noise-Tolerant Free Space Optical Convolution Neural Networks

Autorzy: Maryam Dehbashizadeh Chehreghan, Ripalta Stabile
Opublikowane w: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC65582.2025.11109773

A Cooperative Energy Saving Scheme for NG-PON2-Based 5G X-Haul

Autorzy: L. Valcarenghi, A. Marotta, C. Centofanti, F. Graziosi and K. Kondepu
Opublikowane w: 2023
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PSC57974.2023.10297278

"""A Flexible Forecasting Platform Enabling Zero Touch Networking and Digital Twinning,"" 2023 23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Bucharest, Romania, 2"

Autorzy: L. Valcarenghi, P. Castoldi, A. Sgambelluri, E. Paolini and A. Pacini,
Opublikowane w: 2023

Cross-Domain DRL Agents for Efficient Job Placement in the Cloud-Edge Continuum

Autorzy: Theodoros Aslanidis, Sokol Kosta, Spyros Lalis, Dimitris Chatzopoulos
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, 2025
Wydawca: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3721146.3721934

Enabling Lightweight Federated Learning in NextG Wireless Networks

Autorzy: Emilio Paolini, Luca Valcarenghi, Nicola Andriolli, Luca Maggiani, Flavio Esposito
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft60951.2024.10588916

Effectiveness of Confidentiality-Preserving Clustering Algorithms for Soft Failure Detection in Optical Networks

Autorzy: Azarm Yeganehfallah, Andrea Sgambelluri, Alessandro Pacini, Luca Valcarenghi, Moises Felipe Silva
Opublikowane w: 2024 IEEE 25th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2024
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HPSR62440.2024.10636007

Cascaded Look Up Table Distillation of P4 Deep Neural Network Switches

Autorzy: De Marinis, Lorenzo Paolini, Emilio Rana, Abu Bakar Cugini, Filippo Paolucci, Francesco
Opublikowane w: 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11029806

CATER: A Policy-Based Data Placement Framework for Edge Storage

Autorzy: 5. Ahmed Khalid, Sean Ahearne, Hemant K. Mehta, Utz Roedig, Cormac J. Sreenan
Opublikowane w: 2024
DOI: 10.1109/PDP62718.2024.00013

A Flexible Forecasting Platform Enabling Zero Touch Networking and Digital Twinning

Autorzy: L. Valcarenghi, P. Castoldi, A. Sgambelluri, E. Paolini and A. Pacini
Opublikowane w: 2023
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207209

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Real-Time Clustering Based on Deep Embeddings for Threat Detection in 6G Networks

Autorzy: E. Paolini, L. Valcarenghi, L. Maggiani and N. Andriolli
Opublikowane w: IEEE Access, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Wydawca: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3325721.

PCA-assisted clustering approaches for soft-failure detection in optical networks

Autorzy: A. N. Ribeiro, F. R. L. Lobato, M. F. Silva, A. Sgambelluri, L. Valcarenghi, L. Wosinska, J. C. W. A. Costa
Opublikowane w: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Numer 17, 2025, ISSN 1943-0620
Wydawca: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.549205

Enhancing Network Visibility and Security with Advanced Port Scanning Techniques

Autorzy: Rana Abu Bakar, Boonserm Kijsirikul
Opublikowane w: Sensors, Numer 23, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Wydawca: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/s23177541

tinyHLS: a novel open source high level synthesis tool targeting hardware accelerators for artificial neural network inference

Autorzy: Ingo Hoyer, Alexander Utz, Christoph Hoog Antink, Karsten Seidl
Opublikowane w: Physiological Measurement, Numer 46, 2025, ISSN 0967-3334
Wydawca: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ADA8F0

Optimal procurement under backwardation and the benefits of the manifestation of demand aggregators

Autorzy: Ioannis Avramopoulos, Prodromos Makris, Emmanouel Varvarigos
Opublikowane w: Operations Research Letters, Numer 61, 2025, ISSN 0167-6377
Wydawca: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ORL.2025.107286