Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2025
- Authors: Zakaria Benomar, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 8 3 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 8 3 8 - 7
Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries offers a comprehensive approach on how to design… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAs dealing with complex systems has become increasingly difficult, CPSs are increasingly critical to cope with integrating software, which people are used to, with hardware, which is distributed among different domains. This book shows how to deal with such systems where there is no distinction among the different parts: computing, storage, networking, and IoT all contribute to setting up the modern processing environments, thus it is mandatory to keep them simultaneously under control.
- Employs a versatile, bottom-up, horizontal approach to CPS infrastructure and applications
- Utilizes the Stack4Things framework, an evolution of the well-known OpenStack environment, to construct a virtual representation of the systems under exam and manage complex systems of systems, both in the fields of smart cities and industry 4.0
- Considers green aspects as a driving principle in the design and operational phase
- Explores systems construction green principles throughout the whole book
- Follows a practically oriented approach throughout the book, with theory always supported by guided experiments related to smart cities and smart industries as the main application fields
Part I: Fundamentals
1. Cyber Physical systems
2. Demystifying OpenStack
3. The Cloud of Things
4. I/Ocloud: a multi-tenant IoT solution
5. Network virtualization in IoT (networking)
6. SOA/microsevices in IoT (containers+DNS)
7. Deviceless
(Serverless at the Edge)
8. Security and decentralization for CPS
9. Heterogeneous computing
Part II: Applications
10. Steps for S4T deployment
11. Practical testbeds (WoT, virtual networking, research infrastructure SLICES RI…)
12. Use cases (smart city, industry 4.0, smart building use cases)
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443298370
- eBook ISBN: 9780443298387
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Zakaria Benomar
Zakaria Benomar is a research fellow at INRIA Paris, France. He holds a Ph.D. in cyber-physical systems from the University of Messina, Italy. His main research interests are currently focused on cloud computing, mobile and distributed systems with particular emphasis on the Internet of Things, edge/fog computing as well as systems’ interoperability.
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Francesco Longo
Francesco Longo received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Messina, Italy, where he is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. His main research interests include analytical modeling and performance evaluation; reliability and availability of distributed systems; Grid and Cloud computing; Internet of Things and Fog/Edge computing and their applications in the context of Smart Cities; blockchain technologies and their use for IoT, Cloud, and Fog/Edge computing. He is one of the co- founders of SmartMe.IO Srl, an academic spinoff of the University of Messina focusing on transforming the advances of scientific research in the IoT field into solutions available on the market. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Horcynus Orca Foundation and of the Messina Evolved Social District.
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Giovanni Merlino
Giovanni Merlino is tenure-track (senior) Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at the
Department of Engineering, University of Messina. He holds an international PhD in
Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the Department of Engineering (DIEEI) at the University of Catania. His research activity is currently focused on mobile and distributed systems with particular emphasis on Cloud paradigms, Edge computing, Internet of Things, Network Virtualization, Smart sensors, and crowdsensing, co-leading the design of Stack4Things, an OpenStack-based Sensing-and-Actuation-as-a-Service framework for I/O clouds. He has co-authored over 100 papers in international journals and conferences and participated in technical program committees of international conferences. He is co-founder of smartme.IO, an academic spin-off company, co-inventor and holder of an Italian patent in the smart home domain, and an IEEE/ACM member.AP