Invited Speaker Seminar - Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence: Integration Issues, Challenges, and New Opportunities

Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 11 a.m. 
Location: EV 1.162

Abstract

Proliferation of IoT devices is imposing to carefully plan and design the network infrastructure to support additional traffic load, massive access, quality of service assurances and security guarantees. Moreover, IoT and its pervasiveness can represent a new way to perceive the environment and the place that we live. This can offer a new way to collect information more intensely than what was possible in the past opening the way to create advanced intelligence for the environment and also for the network management.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied as an enabling technology to create novel form of intelligence to efficiently manage smart things and devices but also to organize the overall network infrastructure. To integrate AI in the cloud, in the network, or in the IoT devices, new issues can arise related to the scalability of access network, communication protocols, the data collection strategies. The security and risks for collected data, latency in the answer between AI modules or decision support systems and devices, energy consumption need to be accounted in the networking system design. A shifting of the classical centralized and on the cloud intelligence is imposed and new and more distributed architectures able to localize intelligence or distribute it among devices or at the border (EDGE) of the network is mandatory. During this talk, novel threats, challenges and also opportunities for the tight integration between IoT devices will be discussed with some emphasis also on application domains that can get advantage by this new integration.

Biography

Dr. Floriano De Rango is an Associate Professor in Telecommunication and Networking at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria, since 2017. He received national habilitation as a full Professor in 2016 from the Minister of University and Research (MIUR). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

He was the recipient of Young Researcher Award in 2007 for a Project on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) called ATENA (Autoconfiguring inTelligent vEhicular Network for urban Area). His interests include Internet of Things, Network Security, Distributed Intelligence, Adaptive Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Pervasive Computing, Satellite Networks, and IP QoS architectures.

He has been involved in the organization of many conferences in the following roles: Program Chair of Ambysis Conference in 2009, Track Chair in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2011, Program Chair in Simulation and Performance Evaluation in Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS) 2013-2014, Track Chair of the Wireless Networks track in Wireless Days 2013 in Valencia, Vice-General Chair in Summer Simulation Conference (SCS) 2015 in Chicago, Track Chair of Wireless Communications track in Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2015 in Las Vegas, General Chair of Summer Simulation Conference (SCS) 2016 in Montreal, Program Chair of Simultech 2017 in Madrid, Program Chair of Distributed Simulation and Real Time (DS-RT) 2018 in Madrid, Program Chair of Simultech 2018 in Porto, Portugal, General Chair of Distributed Simulation and Real Time (DSRT) 2019 in Rende (CS), Italy, Program Chair in Simultech 2020 in France (online streaming), Program Chair of Distributed Simulation (DS-RT) 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic, Tutorial Chair in Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2020 in Las Vegas, General Chair of Simultech 2021 (online streaming), Program Chair of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time (DSRT) 2021 in Valencia, Spain, Program Chair in Wireless Days 2021 in Paris, France, General Chair of Simultech 2021-2023, General Chair of ICT-DM 2023 in Italy, Program Chair of MsWim 2023 in Montreal.

In December 2020 he has been ranked in the Top 2% Computer Science World Scientist according to clarivate https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2 . In 2018 he has been ranked in the Top Italian Scientist VIA Academy.

He co-authored till now more than 300 papers in International Conferences and Journals. He is in the editorial board of some International Journals such as Internet Technology Letters (Wiley), Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (Hindawi), Sensors (MDPI), Electronics (MDPI).

He founded two companies: Spintel srl working in the field of IoT design for Home and Building Automation, Energy Saving Systems for Smart Environment and for Remote Monitoring, and Vonet srl working on AI applied at Natural Language Processing (NLP) and automatic responder systems.