eBOS Technologies (Cyprus)

Digital Twins have been deployed for multiple purposes in Cybersecurity. Cyber-Physical Systems and similar systems are benefited from teaming with this technology. The goal of protecting the main systems or devices is easily reached as Digital Twins are known for their success and flexibility in multitasking and can provide adaptability to any device they clone. honeypots are excellent filtering and protection cyber tools capable of investigating and logging malicious activity around a network or device. This cyber tool mimics any network device or system and lures the attacker into a protected surveillance environment. It is not yet given the freedom, though, to act independently other than managing a few tasks and necessitates human intervention to change tactics or configuration. The framework proposed in this paper combines these two technologies, Digital Twins and honeypot, to fill this gap. The DiTwinIHon framework makes the physical honeypot easily adaptable in any network situation while enhancing its Threat Intelligence and providing additional features for detecting and investigating various threats, such as Advanced Persistent Threats.

The evolution of emerging technologies that use Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) has increased the interest of the scientific community and society regarding the possible adverse effects on human health and the environment. This article provides NextGEM's vision to assure safety for EU citizens when employing existing and future EMF-based telecommunication technologies. This is accomplished by generating relevant knowledge that ascertains appropriate prevention and control/actuation actions regarding RF-EMF exposure in residential, public, and occupational settings. Fulfilling this vision, NextGEM commits to the need for a healthy living and working environment under safe RF-EMF exposure conditions that can be trusted by people and be in line with the regulations and laws developed by public authorities. NextGEM provides a framework for generating health-relevant scientific knowledge and data on new scenarios of exposure to RF-EMF in multiple frequency bands and developing and validating tools for evidence-based risk assessment. Finally, NextGEM's Innovation and Knowledge Hub (NIKH) will offer a standardized way for European regulatory authorities and the scientific community to store and assess project outcomes and provide access to findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data.

5G Stand Alone (SA) networks are starting to be considered, designed and implemented in multiple countries in various forms (public, private, experimental). 5G SA networks mass adoption is expected to materialize by 2025. Mass deployment is anticipated at a large scale, due to the rich features and capabilities offered by 5G networks, including but not limited to slicing, service orchestration and automation, bringing the benefits of 5G among industry stakeholders and verticals. The concept of Network Applications is gaining momentum, as a way to ease the process of deploying industry-specific services and applications and to integrate them seamlessly with the new 5G networks and customer-specific application components. We target deploying and operating the novel 5G SA testbeds, Network Application and related capabilities in different T&L facilities across Europe. We envision the architectural advancement in terms of 5G features, such as orchestration, multi-slice implementation, Quality of Service (QoS)/Quality of Experience (QoE) and an innovative end-to-end monitoring framework, for network and application KPIs. In this paper, 5G open testbed advancements (3GPP Rel. 16 compliant) and readiness for Network Application experiments in real-life scenarios are presented, integrated as a unitary whole within the EU-funded VITAL-5G project.

Increasingly smaller and lighter power electronics converters are needed for the advancement of electrified transport. The development of high heat flux heat sinks is imperative to maintain modern converters at an operable temperature. So far, liquid metal based heat sinks have not received as much attention as other solutions, yet they provide a multitude of benefits beyond their superior thermal conductivity. Their use with compact magnetohydrodynamic pumping systems, straight-forward incorporations of active cooling techniques, elimination of water corrosion issues in power converter systems using press-pack IGBT’s and a significant increase in thermal performance in conventional pin–fin structures are demonstrated in this paper. Some additional functionalities of liquid metal systems which could be explored in the future are also highlighted.

Novel orchestration architectures for 5G networks have primarily focused on enhancing Quality of Service, yet have neglected to address Quality of Experience concerns. Consequently, these systems struggle with intent recognition and End-to-End interpretability, resulting in the possibility of suboptimal control policies being developed. The 5G-ERA project has proposed and demonstrated an AI-driven intent-based networking solution for autonomous robots to address this issue. Specifically, the proposed solution employs a workflow consisting of four tools - Action Sequence Generation, Network Intent Estimation, Resource Usage Forecasting, and OSM Control Policy Generation - to map an individual vertical action's intent to a global OSM control policy. The paper describes how the 5G-ERA platform enables the onboarding and control of 5G-enabled robots and how we demonstrate the platform’s capabilities through the project’s use cases.

The European Union (EU) Horizon Europe project NextGEM provides a framework for generating health-relevant scientific knowledge and data on new exposure scenarios to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (RF-EMFs) and developing and validating tools for evidence-based risk assessment. Practical guidelines for different societal stakeholders for RF-EMF exposure awareness and preventive actions will be created. This abstract outlines the goals of these guidelines, the definitions used to keep the guidelines specific and practical and the procedure that will ultimately generate the guidelines. This abstract will be limited to guidelines addressed to two types of stakeholders: citizens and public authorities. Citizens are defined as the aggregate of the general public, activist groups, workers, and the vulnerable. Public authorities are the accumulation of administrators, policy makers, and inspectors. NextGEM is a project funded by the EU, with partners also from countries outside of the EU. One of the project's challenges are the large differences between the participating countries in terms of legislation, the presence of activist groups, workers' organizations, etc. Therefore it is important that the guidelines can be implemented in all different countries.

In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating the aggregated services offered to the user through a multimodal travel planner. The effective design of a multimodal travel planner is considered a complex task since it requires the identification of the best possible route that combines segments of different transport modes. We describe a novel architecture and its respective connectivity infrastructure that incorporates all available travel-related services through the integration of several application programming interfaces (APIs) and we analyze its robustness regarding unplanned service interruptions using well-known mathematical tools such as the Stochastic Automata Networks. Additionally, we demonstrate the system's availability and effectiveness through realistic measurements obtained from the testing environments of various Global Distribution Systems (GDSs) and transport operators that result in the enhancement of the required Quality of Service (QoS) and Experience (QoE) for such intelligent systems.