Secure and Seamless Edge-to-Cloud Analytics

Project Information

ELEGANT

Grant agreement ID: 957286

DOI

10.3030/957286

Project closed

EC signature date 29 July 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 4 983 250,00

EU contribution

€ 4 983 250,00

Coordinated by

EXUS SOFTWARE MONOPROSOPI ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Report on threat landscape and security solutions

Report of the findings from Task 51 along with a mapping and prioritization list for coverage in ELEGANT

Power/Performance analysis of accelerated kernels (Final)

This report will include the final numbers (a revision of D3.1) regarding the performance improvement and any overheads of the compilation of the ELEGANT data operators as well as final numbers after applying hardware acceleration on cloud deployments.

Project Management Plan

Description of the project management methodology financial aspect administrative forms and templates for management of the project by all partners

Quality Assurance and Risk Management Plan

This deliverable will describe the quality plan of the project and the required activities for the efficient implementation of the quality system It will also include a simple but stateoftheart risk management plan

User requirements

This deliverable will report the PESRD requirements of the intended user groups that will drive the definition of ELEGANT architecture This includes an initial definition of the use cases SLAs data operators and security requirements

Applications' definitions (Final)

Following the successful mid project checkpoint (M2.1), a final re-evaluation of the user and application PESRD requirements will be performed. Having an insight of the applications’ behaviour and performance, a thorough study regarding the successful achievement of their SLAs will be performed. Any additions to D2.2 will be performed and documented in this report along with final versions of ELEGANT’s use cases.

Development and evaluation (Final)

Demonstration of the correct operation of the entire ELEGANT system under operational scenarios demonstrated by the use cases. Report on all results, use cases, and achievement of KPIs.

Quality Assurance and Risk Management Plan - final version

This deliverable will describe the quality plan of the project and the required activities for the efficient implementation of the quality system It will also include a simple but stateoftheart risk management plan

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (7)

ELEGANT Acceleration as a Service Prototype (Final)

The first prototype of the ELEGANT Acceleration Service will be delivered which will include the following: 1) Successful execution on all IoT devices, gateways and cloud configurations of the ELEGANT project, 2) Transparent generation of heterogeneous code for the incoming operators, and 3) Hardware acceleration of data operators implemented up to M18.

Data operators' creation API (Final)

Final version of the APIs for data operators.

Elastic runtime (Final)

Final version of unified elastic runtime for IoT devices and cloud servers.

Cross-cutting development and management tools (Final)

Final version of the cross-cutting development and management tools.

ELEGANT orchestrator (Final)

Includes the final versions of the profiling accumulator, the ML-based scheduler and the physical plan enforcer.

Cybersecurity mechanisms (Final)

This deliverable will include the final report and developed software for all cybersecurity solutions integrated within the ELEGANT stack.

Formal language for specifying security properties and operational model for verification (Final)

Develop and implement simplified models of the most common Java classes needed for verifying security properties in the embedded code in IoT devices using different verification strategies, e.g. incremental bounded model checking and k-induction.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Presentation and Web Portal

A project presentation and the initial project website with elementary information and its logo and setup of the projects social network accounts

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

This report will include the data management plan including all the necessary steps that will be taken in order to ensure GDPR compliance Any amendments to the DMP after M6 will be included in the projects final report

Publications

Conference proceedings (22)

Strengths and weaknesses of deep, convolutional and recurrent neural networks in network intrusion detection deployments

Author(s): Marek Pawlicki
Published in: 31ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (ISD2023 LISBON, PORTUGAL), Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: AIS eLibrary
DOI: 10.62036/isd.2023.54

Scaling Up Performance of Managed Applications on NUMA Systems

Author(s): Orion Papadakis; Andreas Andronikakis; Nikos Foutris; Michail Papadimitriou; Athanasios Stratikopoulos; Foivos Zakkak; Polychronis Xekalakis; Christos Kotselidis
Published in: The 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2023), Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3591195.3595270

Hardware-assisted and Deep-Learning techniques for Low-Power Detection of Cardiovascular Abnormalities in Smart Wearables

Author(s): A. Catalani; Ioannis Chatzigiannakis; Aris Anagnostopoulos; G. Akrivopoulou; Dimitrios Amaxilatis; Athanasios Antoniou
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/smartiot52359.2021.00031

Beehive SPIR-V Toolkit: A Composable and Functional API for Runtime SPIR-V Code Generation

Author(s): Juan Fumero, Gyorgy Rethy, Athanasios Stratikopoulos, Nikos Foutris, Christos Kotselidis
Published in: VMIL 2023: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages, Issue October 2023, 2023, Page(s) 61-72
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3623507.3623555

FuSeBMC v4: Smart Seed Generation for Hybrid Fuzzing: (Competition Contribution)

Author(s): Kaled M. Alshmrany, Mohannad Aldughaim, Ahmed Bhayat, and Lucas C. Cordeiro
Published in: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 25th International Conference, FASE 2022, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022, 2022
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99429-7_19

The Impact of Data Scaling Approaches on Deep Learning, Random Forest and Nearest Neighbour-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems for DoS Detection in IoT Networks

Author(s): Marek Pawlicki, Rafal Kozik, and Michal Choras
Published in: Mobisec2023, Issue 2023, 2024
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11046767

Cross-Language Interoperability of Heterogeneous Code

Author(s): Athanasios Stratikopoulos; Florin Blanaru; Juan Fumero; Maria Xekalaki; Orion Papadakis; Christos Kotselidis
Published in: Programming 2023, MoreVMs 2023, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7845384

Unified Shared Memory: Friend or Foe? Understanding the Implications of Unified Memory on Managed Heaps

Author(s): Juan Fumero, Florin Blanaru, Athanasios Stratikopoulos, Steve Dohrmann, Sandhya Viswanathan, Christos Kotselidis
Published in: MPLR 2023: Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes, Issue October 2023, 2023, Page(s) 143-157
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3617651.3622984

Discovery privacy threats via devicede-anonymizationin LoRaWAN

Author(s): Pietro Spadaccino, Domenico Garlisi, Francesca Cuomo, Giorgio Pillon, Patrizio Pisani
Published in: 19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/medcomnet52149.2021.9501247

Automatically exploiting the memory hierarchy of GPUs through just-in-time compilation

Author(s): Papadimitriou, M., Fumero, J., Stratikopoulos, A., & Kotselidis, C.
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, 2021
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3453933.3454014

Towards Deployment Shift Inhibition Through Transfer Learning in Network Intrusion Detection

Author(s): Marek Pawlicki; Rafał Kozik; Michał Choraś
Published in: ARES '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Issue August 2022, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3538969.3544428

Using IoT Data-Driven Analysis of Water Consumption to support Design for Sustainable Behaviour during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Zecchini, Marco; Griesi, Alessandra Anna; Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis; Mavrommati, Irene; Amaxilatis, Dimitrios; Akrivopoulos, Orestis
Published in: 2021 6th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM), Issue 24-26 September 2021, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SEEDA-CECNSM53056.2021.9566237

Multiple-tasks on multiple-devices (MTMD): exploiting concurrency in heterogeneous managed runtimes

Author(s): Papadimitriou, M., Markou, E., Fumero, J., Stratikopoulos, A., Blanaru, F., & Kotselidis, C.
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on virtual execution environments, 2021
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3453933.3454019

Incremental stream query merging

Author(s): Ankit Chaudhary, Jeyhun Karimov, Steffen Zeuch, Volker Markl
Published in: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023, ISBN 978-3-89318-092-9
Publisher: OpenProceedings.org
DOI: 10.48786/edbt.2023.51

Clouseau: Blockchain-based Data Integrity for HDFS Clusters

Author(s): Konsta, A., Mytilinis, I., Doka, K., Niarchos, S., & Koziris, N.
Published in: 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icde51399.2021.00314

Enabling Edge processing on LoRaWAN architecture

Author(s): Stefano Milani, Domenico Garlisi, Matteo Di Fraia, Patrizio Pisani, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
Published in: 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Issue 29th, Annual, 2023, ISBN 9781450399906
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3570361.3614074

Planning Workflow Executions over the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum

Author(s): Marianna Tzortzi, Charalampos Kleitsikas, Agis Politis, Sotirios Niarchos, Katerina Doka & Nectarios Koziris
Published in: International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, Issue 2023, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-49360-7
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49361-4_1

A Multifaceted Memory Analysis of Java Benchmarks

Author(s): Orion Papadakis, Andreas Andronikakis, Nikos Foutris, Michail Papadimitriou, Athanasios Stratikopoulos, Foivos S. Zakkak, Polychronis Xekalakis, Christos Kotselidis
Published in: MPLR 2023: Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes, 2023, Page(s) 70-84, ISBN 9798400703805
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3617651.3622978

Enabling Pipeline Parallelism in Heterogeneous Managed Runtime Environments via Batch Processing

Author(s): Florin Blanaru; Athanasios Stratikopoulos; Juan Fumero; Christos Kotselidis
Published in: VEE 2022: Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, Issue 3, 2022
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3516807.3516821

Real-Time Leakage Zone Detection in Water Distribution Networks: A Machine Learning-Based Stream Processing Algorithm

Author(s): Domenico Garlisi, Gabriele Restuccia, Ilenia Tinnirello, Francesca Cuomo, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
Published in: Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-49360-7
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10695519

A Coexistence Study of Low-Power Wide-Area Networks based on LoRaWAN and Sigfox

Author(s): Domenico Garlisi, Antonino Pagano, Fabrizio Guiliano, Daniele Croce, Ilenia Tinnirello
Published in: 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 1-7, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-6654-9122-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcnc55385.2023.10118692

How to secure the IoT-based surveillance systems in an ELEGANT way

Author(s): Aleksandra Pawlicka, Damian Puchalski, Marek Pawlicki, Michal Choras
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), Issue 28 August 2023, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/csr57506.2023.10224938

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Enabling Transparent Acceleration of Big Data Frameworks Using Heterogeneous Hardware

Author(s): Maria Xekalaki; Juan Fumero; Athanasios Stratikopoulos; Katerina Doka; Christos Katsakioris; Constantinos Bitsakos; Nectarios Koziris; Christos Kotselidis
Published in: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Issue September 2022, 2022, ISSN 2150-8097
Publisher: VLDB Endowment
DOI: 10.14778/3565838.3565842

The survey and meta-analysis of the attacks, transgressions, countermeasures and security aspects common to the Cloud, Edge and IoT

Author(s): Marek Pawlicki; Aleksandra Pawlicka; Rafał Kozik; Michał Choraś
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue Volume 551, 2023, ISSN 0925-2312
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2023.126533

Discovery privacy threats via device de-anonymization in LoRaWAN

Author(s): Pietro Spadaccino, Domenico Garlisi, Francesca Cuomo, Giorgio Pillon, Patrizio Pisani
Published in: Computer Communications, Issue Volume 189, 2022, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 0140-3664
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2022.02.017

The Application of Deep Learning Imputation and other advanced methods for handling missing values in network intrusion detection

Author(s): Mateusz Szczepański, Marek Pawlicki, Rafał Kozik, Michał Choraś
Published in: Vietnam Journal of Computer Science, 2022, ISSN 2196-8896
Publisher: World Scientific
DOI: 10.1142/s2196888822500257

Model checking C++ programs

Author(s): Felipe R. Monteiro, Mikhail R. Gadelha, Lucas C. Cordeiro
Published in: Journal of Software: Testing, Verification and Reliability, Issue 10991689, 2021, ISSN 1099-1689
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/stvr.1793

Design, Analysis, and Experimental Evaluation of a New Secure Rejoin Mechanism for LoRaWAN Using Elliptic-Curve Cryptography

Author(s): Milani M, Chatzigiannakis I.
Published in: J. Sens. Actuator Netw, Issue 22242708, 2021, ISSN 2224-2708
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jsan10020036

LoRaWAN Behaviour Analysis through Dataset Traffic Investigation

Author(s): Pietro Spadaccino, Francesco Guiseppe Crino, Francesca Cuomo
Published in: Sensors, Issue 22, 2022, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s22072470

Book chapters (2)

EBF 4.2: Black-Box Cooperative Verification for Concurrent Programs

Author(s): Fatima Aljaafari, Fedor Shmarov, Edoardo Manino, Rafael Menezes, Lucas C. Cordeiro
Published in: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Issue April 22–27, 2023, 2023, Page(s) 541-546, ISBN 978-3-031-30819-2
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_33

QNNRepair: Quantized Neural Network Repair

Author(s): Xidan Song; Youcheng Sun; Mustafa A. Mustafa; Lucas C. Cordeiro
Published in: Song , X , Sun , Y , Mustafa , M A & Cordeiro , L C 2023 , QNNRepair : Quantized Neural Network Repair . in 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods ., Issue 13, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-47114-8
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47115-5_18

Monographic books (1)

Wit4Java: A violation-witness validator for Java Verifiers

Author(s): Wu, T., Schrammel, P., Cordeiro, L. C
Published in: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. TACAS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99527-0_36