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Paper Accepted @ Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems – UCC’2021

Title: Monitoring System Architecture for the Multi-Scale Blockchain-based Logistic Network

Authors: Vladislav Kashansky, Radu Prodan, Aso Validi, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Gleb Radchenko

Abstract: Contemporary control processes and methods in multi-scale, cyber-physical systems require precise data collection at various levels, timely transmission, and analysis involving large number of computing and storage elements connected within high-performance permissioned consensus networks. For example, in transport networks, resources tend to form multi-scale dynamical systems with diverse operational requirements, including data exchange policies and consensus protocols. Apart from designing complete topology, chaincodes and consensus logic, effective monitoring of the applications and infrastructure of such complex systems remains a research challenge. In this paper, we discuss important aspects of the data-intensive applications monitoring investigated in the frames of the ADAPT project.

We present highlights on the tool-sets, architectures and details on possible optimization approaches for monitoring data collection. We introduce a dynamic multi-scale monitoring system architecture with preliminary workflow model. It allows obtaining effective low-latency publish-subscribe matching of the dynamically varying monitoring tasks and executing machines.

Keywords: Logistics, transportation, decentralization, blockchain, monitoring systems, optimization, data-intensive systems, hybrid systems

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Farzad Tashtarian to give a talk at the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “Network-Assisted Video Streaming” at the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

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ADAPT Meeting Vienna

Dr. Gerhard Burian and Mag. Vladislav Kashansky participated on behalf of ADAPT collaboration in the international conference: Climate protection: state of play, division of labor, steps forward held at OeNB, Vienna on 07.10.2021.

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DataCloud Meeting in Rome, Italy

The first face-to-face DataCloud Meeting took place in Rome, Italy, from October 04-06, 2021. The consortium discussed the architecture and the business cases in preparation for the first project review.

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Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2021

Ekrem Çetinkaya got the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2021 for his paper titled “Machine Learning Based Video Coding Enhancements for HTTP Adaptive Streaming”. More information about the paper can be found HERE.

ARTICONF Meeting Seville

The first face-to-face ARTICONF Meeting after the pandemic, hosted by Agilia, took place from September 21-24, 2021, in Seville, Spain. The consortium discussed the advancements and progress made this year and listed down strategies for validating and exploiting ARTICONF use cases through real-world testing and external collaboration amid pandemics. In addition, ARTICONF’s technical team addressed existing integration concerns and stressed to finalize the prototype in the coming months. The consortium further pledged to continue its ongoing efforts in disseminating ARTICONF scientific results at high-ranked venues.

Final Review of the ASPIDE project

The H2020 project ASPIDE impressed the reviewers with the presented scientific achievements in Exascale computing and passed the final EC review with flying colors. The project officer and reviewers echoed the effort put together by the consortium partners for publicly demonstrating and sharing the ASPIDE tools while maintaining a robust scientific output at the highest level. The EC reviewers gave very positive input on the scientific tools developed within WP3, which Klagenfurt University led.

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ADAPT Project – GOODIT’21 Conference Presentation

On 10 September 2021, ADAPT project was represented at the GOODIT´21 conference in Rome, Italy by Vladislav Kashanskii.

Here you find his presentation about “The ADAPT Project: Adaptive and Autonomous Data Performance Connectivity and Decentralized Transport Decision-Making Network” as pdf and video.

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Paper accepted – INTENSE: In-depth Studies on Stall Events and Quality Switches and Their Impact on the Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Title: INTENSE: In-depth Studies on Stall Events and Quality Switches and Their Impact on the Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Link: IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE

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Babak Taraghi (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

Abstract: With the recent growth of multimedia traffic over the Internet and emerging multimedia streaming service providers, improving Quality of Experience (QoE) for HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) becomes more important. Alongside other factors, such as the media quality, HAS relies on the performance of the media player’s Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithm to optimize QoE in multimedia streaming sessions. QoE in HAS suffers from weak or unstable internet connections and suboptimal ABR decisions. As a result of imperfect adaptiveness to the characteristics and conditions of the internet connection, stall events and quality level switches could occur and with different durations that negatively affect the QoE. In this paper, we address various identified open issues related to the QoE for HAS, notably (i) the minimum noticeable duration for stall events in HAS;(ii) the correlation between the media quality and the impact of stall events on QoE; (iii) the end-user preference regarding multiple shorter stall events versus a single longer stall event; and (iv) the end-user preference of media quality switches over stall events. Therefore, we have studied these open issues from both objective and subjective evaluation perspectives and presented the correlation between the two types of evaluations. The findings documented in this paper can be used as a baseline for improving ABR algorithms and policies in HAS.

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; HTTP Adaptive Streaming; Quality of Experience; Quality Switches; Stall Events; Subjective Evaluation; Objective Evaluation.

Vignesh V Menon
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Vignesh V Menon to give a talk at the Research@Lunch Special

Vignesh V Menon is invited to talk on “Video Coding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” on the Research@Lunch is a research webinar series by Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India, exclusively for Ph.D. Scholars, UG, and PG Researchers in India.  This talk will introduce the basics of video codecs and highlight the scope of HAS-related research on video encoding.

Time: August 14, 10.00AM-10.30AM (CEST) or 1.30PM- 2.00PM (IST)

Registration form can be found here.