Combining edge and cloud computing for mobility analytics

The article analyzes the existing methods of managing data flows in mobile radio communications. During the analysis, the peculiarities of the functioning and construction of these networks were considered. It has been established that such networks have features different from other networks, such as mobility, dynamic topology, independent organization, use of mobile means of communication, lack of fixed data transmission routes, etc. The task of providing routing in mobile radio communication devices, mobile radio networks, and the types of routing in communication networks are considered. The conditions for the implementation of the routing task and the features that characterize the routing process have been established. The levels of the OSI open systems model and the most well-known protocols that work at these levels and are used in data flow management are considered. Data flow management methods are classified by type and a list of requirements for the process of data flow transmission in mobile radio networks is defined, taking into account the peculiarities of the functioning of mobile radio communication means, which must be taken into account when building a mobile radio network management system. It has been established that at the current stage of information technology development, data flow management methods are mostly adapted for use in computer, wired or fixed networks and do not take into account the conditions of use in mobile radio communication devices. It has been established that the construction and operation of an effective data flow control subsystem in the control systems of mobile radio networks and mobile radio communication means requires the use of the latest technologies and modern approaches in the development of data flow control methods and methods that will ensure the functioning of the corresponding data flow control subsystem. When choosing protocols, methods, methods of managing data flows, it is proposed to focus on adaptation, modification of approaches or their combined use based on the target function, taking into account the peculiarities of the functioning of mobile radio networks and mobile radio communication means.

Process-driven applications evolve rapidly through the interaction between executable BPMN (Business Process Modeling and Notation) models, business tasks, and external services. Given these components operate on some shared process data, it is imperative to recover the latent data by visiting relation, which is known as data flow among these tasks. Data flow will benefit some typical applications including data flow anomaly checking and data privacy protection. However, in most cases, the complete data flow in a business process is not explicitly defined but hidden in model elements such as form declarations, variable declarations, and program code. Some methods to recovering data flow based on process model analysis of source code have some drawbacks; i.e., for security reasons, users do not want to provide source code but only encapsulated methods; therefore, data flows are difficult to analyze. We propose a method to generate running logs that are used to produce a complete data flow picture combined with the static code analysis method. This method combines the simple and easy-to-use characteristics of static code analysis methods and makes up for the shortcomings of static code analysis methods that cannot adapt to complex business processes, and as a result, the analyzed data flow is inaccurate. Moreover, a holistic framework is proposed to generate the data flow graph. The prototype system designed on Camunda and Flowable BPM (business process management) engine proves the applicability of the solution. The effectiveness of our method is validated on the prototype system.

The Constant Murmur of Data

EU-UK Data Flows, Brexit and No-Deal: Adequacy or Disarray?

Data streaming has become an important paradigm for the real-time processing of continuous data flows in domains such as finance, telecommunications, networking, Some applications in these domains require to process massive data flows that current technology is unable to manage, that is, streams that, even for a single query operator, require the capacity of potentially many machines. Research efforts on data streaming have mainly focused on scaling in the number of queries or query operators, but overlooked the scalability issue with respect to the stream volume. In this paper, we present StreamCloud a large scale data streaming system for processing large data stream volumes. We focus on how to parallelize continuous queries to obtain a highly scalable data streaming infrastructure. StreamCloud goes beyond the state of the art by using a novel parallelization technique that splits queries into subqueries that are allocated to independent sets of nodes in a way that minimizes the distribution overhead. StreamCloud is implemented as a middleware and is highly independent of the underlying data streaming engine. We explore and evaluate different strategies to parallelize data streaming and tackle with the main bottlenecks and overheads to achieve scalability. The paper presents the system design, implementation and a thorough evaluation of the scalability of the fully implemented system.

Our daily use of Internet and related technologies generates continuously large amount of heterogeneous data flows. Several RDF Stream Processing (RSP) systems have been proposed. Existing RSP systems benefit from the advantages of semantic web technologies and traditional data flow management systems. C-SPARQL, CQELS, SPARQL\(_{stream}\), EP-SPARQL, and Sparkwave extend the semantic query language SPARQL and are examples of those systems. Considering that the storage and processing of all these streams become expensive, we propose a solution to reduce the load while keeping data semantics, and optimizing treatments. In this paper, we propose to extend C-SPARQL for continuously generating samples on RDF graphs. We add three sampling operators (UNIFORM, RESERVOIR and CHAIN) to the C-SPARQL query syntax. These operators have been implemented into Esper, the C-SPARQL’s data flow management module. The experiments show the performance of our extension in terms of execution time and preserving data semantics.

Streaming data is widely generated in our lives. This has promoted a lot of research on streaming data mining, such as streaming data clustering and filtering. In our work, we present a problem about data stream processing, namely, streaming data sorting. There are some important characteristics of streaming data. Firstly, streaming data comes in the form of streams. It is usually assumed that streaming data is infinite, so it cannot be stored completely in memory. Secondly, we must process the streaming data in real time, otherwise we may lose the opportunity to deal with it forever. Based on these characteristics, we propose a dynamic algorithm that can make full use of memory and minimize error to solve the problem of streaming data sorting, which is further combined with the BFR algorithm to sort a particular type of streaming data. Some experiments are conducted to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

Cloud computing and big data: Technologies and applications

Cutting-edge IoT revolutionizes the delivery of healthcare information services to meet the global demand. The convergence of smart sensors has prioritized the development of eHealth technologies. In a telecommunication system, it is primarily concerned with the development of core technologies that enable electronic applications associated with 5G networks to achieve the confidential connectivity. Of late, it has increasingly been drawing its research interest for big data, IoT, fog, and cloud computing. However, security and privacy are still challenging to eHealth applications including the Internet of Medical Things, Internet of Health Things, and Mobile Internet of Things. Such guaranteed characteristics converge communication, computing, and caching (3C) to inherit large-scale economic and societal benefits. Thus, this work presents the challenges of secure authentication and key agreement (S-AKA) schemes that envision the security efficiencies of intelligent sensing technologies. S-AKA schemes are hard to break in real-time practice and have become the most useful contribution to modern cryptography. Such authentication schemes allow two or more communication parties to establish a secure session key to ensure data authenticity, confidentiality, and non-repudiation.

The exponential rise of data/information and network resources made most of the organizations investing their resources to develop the biggest data centers (DCs) to accommodate. In the process, controlling the workload at the DCs with minimum response time, there is a need for an effective load-balancing system for which routing applications are playing an important role. Some of the routing applications based on software-defined networking (SDN) available in the market handling the traffic loads of these DCs efficiently. Using the centralized routing allows the network engineers to adjust different types of network elements such as switches, links, and ports dynamically based on the traffic loads. The data flow management at these DCs is managed by the routing applications sometimes face a non-conflicting way for the flow of data and towards the instructions for the switches as well. The security of routing applications plays an important role in safeguarding the control of data flow routing or scheduling from the attackers. The possibility of attackers controlling the traffic, servers, and switches at a DC is a serious threat and someone 2may even shut down the complete system/server. Such attacks may disrupt the routing application and also data flow management. In this chapter, various challenges and security analysis of SDN concerning to routing, cloud, Wi-Fi, and big data will be explored. Different types of design considerations for security requirements are discussed with considerable examples and code analysis. SDN cloud applications and security challenges that are related to the cloud are explained with detailed analysis. Some of the mitigation techniques are proposed for spoofing, data tampering, and repudiation issues. In addition, a detailed discussion on the big data using Apache Hadoop for processing and analyzing the large data sets will be explored.

This paper aims to present the structure and data flows in a hybrid model for structuring, storing and processing distributed data on the Internet. The proposed organization of data storage is a combination of centralized tables (entity - relationships) and data marts (star schema) which are the basis of operational, distributed and centralized data repositories. The presented data flow diagram illustrates the interaction between individual data sources, data storage and delivery components, and user applications.

Do we all really know what a fog node is? Current trends towards an open definition

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept has been around for some time and applications such as transportation, health-care, education, travel, smart grid, retail, are and will be major benefactors of this concept. However, only recently, due to technological advances in sensor devices and rich wireless connectivity, Internet of Things at scale is becoming reality. For example, Cisco's Internet of Things Group predicts over 50 billion connected sensory devices by 2020. In this talk, we will discuss the Internet of Mobile Things (IoMT) since several game-changing technological advances happened on ‘mobile things’ such as mobile phones, trains, and cars, where rich sets of sensors, connected via diverse sets of wireless Internet technologies, are changing and influencing how people communicate, move, and download and distribute information. In this space, challenges come from the needs to determine (1) contextual information such as location, duration of contact, density of devices, utilizing networked sensory information; (2) higher level knowledge such as users' activity detection, mood detection, applications usage pattern detection and user interactions on ‘mobile things’, utilizing contextual information; and (3) adaptive and real-time parallel and distributed architectures that integrate context, activity, mood, usage patterns into mobile application services on mobile ‘things’. Solving these challenges will provide enormous opportunities to improve the utility of mobile ‘things’, optimizing scarce resources on mobile ‘things’ such as energy, memory, and bandwidth.

A configurable process model is an integrated representation of multiple variants of a business process. It is designed to be individualized to meet a particular set of requirements. As such, configurable process models promote systematic reuse of proven or common practices. Existing notations for configurable process modeling focus on capturing tasks and control-flow dependencies, neglecting equally important aspects of business processes such as data flow, material flow and resource management. This paper fills this gap by proposing an integrated meta-model for configurable processes with advanced features for capturing resources involved in the performance of tasks (through task-role associations) as well as flow of data and physical artifacts (through task-object associations). Although embodied as an extension of a popular process modeling notation, namely EPC, the meta-model is defined in an abstract and formal manner to make it applicable to other notations.KeywordsProcess modelconfigurationresourceobject flow

This report details the progress made in the development of the Reprocessing Plant Toolkit (RPTk) for the DOE Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program. RPTk is an ongoing development effort intended to provide users with an extensible, integrated, and scalable software framework for the modeling and simulation of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plants by enabling the insertion and coupling of user-developed physicochemical modules of variable fidelity. The NEAMS Safeguards and Separations IPSC (SafeSeps) and the Enabling Computational Technologies (ECT) supporting program element have partnered to release an initial version of the RPTk with a focus on software usability and utility. RPTk implements a data flow architecture that is the source of the system's extensibility and scalability. Data flows through physicochemical modules sequentially, with each module importing data, evolving it, and exporting the updated data to the next downstream module. This is accomplished through various architectural abstractions designed to give RPTk true plug-and-play capabilities. A simple application of this architecture, as well as RPTk data flow and evolution, is demonstrated in Section 6 with an application consisting of two coupled physicochemical modules. The remaining sections describe this ongoing work in full, from system vision and design inception to full implementation. Section 3 describes the relevant software development processes used by the RPTk development team. These processes allow the team to manage system complexity and ensure stakeholder satisfaction. This section also details the work done on the RPTk ``black box'' and ``white box'' models, with a special focus on the separation of concerns between the RPTk user interface and application runtime. Section 4 and 5 discuss that application runtime component in more detail, and describe the dependencies, behavior, and rigorous testing of its constituent components.