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  1. HERALD: A Hybrid distributEd leaRning incrementAL & feDerated solution for knowledge distillation in COVID-19 classification

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  2. µ-VF: Enabling Virtualization of Embedded FPGAs

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Vincenzo Bucaria, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  3. Securing Modbus in legacy industrial control systems: A decentralized approach using proxies, Post-Quantum Cryptography and Self-Sovereign Identity

    Article • Journal of Information Security and Applications, November 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  4. An integration perspective of security, privacy, and resource efficiency in IoT-Fog networks: A comprehensive survey

    Article • Computer Networks, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  5. Seamless remote roaming activation in LoRaWAN via an API-driven gateway bridge service

    Article • Journal of Network and Computer Applications, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  6. Bridging ACO-Based Drone Logistics and Computing Continuum for Enhanced Smart City Applications

    Article • Drones, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  7. MocapMe: DeepLabCut-Enhanced Neural Network for Enhanced Markerless Stability in Sit-to-Stand Motion Capture

    Article • Sensors, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  8. A Deep Learning-Driven Self-Conscious Distributed Cyber-Physical System for Renewable Energy Communities

    Article • Sensors, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  9. An NLP-guided ontology development and refinement approach to represent and query visual information

    Article • Expert Systems with Applications, March 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  10. A Resilient Fire Protection System for Software-Defined Factories

    Article • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  11. A Fog-Based Architecture for Latency-Sensitive Monitoring Applications in Industrial Internet of Things

    Article • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  12. A Cloud-Based and Dynamic DNS Approach to Enable the Web of Things

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, November 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  13. Cloud-based Network Virtualization in IoT with OpenStack

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino, Carlo Puliafito

  14. Verifiable and auditable authorizations for smart industries and industrial Internet-of-Things

    Article • Journal of Information Security and Applications, June 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  15. Video representation and suspicious event detection using semantic technologies

    Article • Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability, March 2021, IOS Press

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino, Carlo Puliafito, Ashish Singh Patel

  16. Cloud-based Enabling Mechanisms for Container Deployment and Migration at the Network Edge

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino, Carlo Puliafito

  17. Design of a Trustless Smart City system: The #SmartME experiment

    Article • Internet of Things, June 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  18. A deep learning approach for pressure ulcer prevention using wearable computing

    Article • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  19. Optimal Selection Techniques for Cloud Service Providers

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  20. Transparent, Provenance-assured, and Secure Software-as-a-Service

    Article • September 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  21. Authorization Transparency for Accountable Access to IoT Services

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  22. Enabling Container-Based Fog Computing with OpenStack

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  23. Blockchain-Based Publicly Verifiable Cloud Storage

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  24. Software-Defined City Infrastructure: A Control Plane for Rewireable Smart Cities

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  25. Toward a Trustless Smart City: the #SmartME Experience

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  26. Enabling Workload Engineering in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing through OpenStack-based Middleware

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, April 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  27. Container Migration in the Fog: A Performance Evaluation

    Article • Sensors, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Carlo Puliafito, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  28. An IoT service ecosystem for Smart Cities: The #SmartME project

    Article • Internet of Things, March 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  29. Data agility through clustered edge computing and stream processing

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, December 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  30. Hierarchical load balancing as a service for federated cloud networks

    Article • Computer Communications, September 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  31. Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Systematic Survey

    Article • Sensors, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  32. Extending Openstack for Cloud-Based Networking at the Edge

    Article • July 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  33. Blockchain-Based IoT-Cloud Authorization and Delegation

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  34. Companion Fog Computing: Supporting Things Mobility Through Container Migration at the Edge

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  35. Virtualization and Migration at the Network Edge: An Overview

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  36. Metropolitan intelligent surveillance systems for urban areas by harnessing IoT and edge computing paradigms

    Article • Software Practice and Experience, May 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  37. Building a Smart City Service Platform in Messina with the #SmartME Project

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  38. Crowdsourcing and Stigmergic Approaches for (Swarm) Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  39. Data Processing in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Through Edge Computing

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  40. Towards a Global Intelligent Surveillance System

    Article • September 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  41. Providing Sensor Services by Data Correlation: The #SmartME Approach

    Article • July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  42. Pushing Intelligence to the Edge with a Stream Processing Architecture

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  43. Head in a Cloud: An approach for Arduino YUN virtualization

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  44. Extending Bluetooth Low Energy PANs to Smart City Scenarios

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  45. Fenci Message from General Co-Chairs

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  46. Orchestrated Multi-Cloud Application Deployment in OpenStack with TOSCA

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  47. Device-Centric Sensing: An Alternative to Data-Centric Approaches

    Article • IEEE Systems Journal, March 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  48. Quantitative evaluation of Cloud-based network virtualization mechanisms for IoT

    Article • January 2017, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  49. User-Space Network Tunneling Under a Mobile Platform: A Case Study for Android Environments

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  50. Personalized Health Tracking with Edge Computing Technologies

    Article • BioNanoScience, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  51. IoT-cloud authorization and delegation mechanisms for ubiquitous sensing and actuation

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  52. Hospitalized Patient Monitoring and Early Treatment Using IoT and Cloud

    Article • BioNanoScience, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  53. A Stack4Things-based platform for mobile crowdsensing services

    Article • November 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  54. Deploying advanced services in the #SmartME infrastructure

    Article • September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  55. Stack4Things: a sensing-and-actuation-as-a-service framework for IoT and cloud integration

    Article • Annals of Telecommunications, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  56. An IoT Testbed for the Software Defined City Vision: The #SmartMe Project

    Article • May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  57. Stack4Things as a fog computing platform for Smart City applications

    Article • April 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  58. Mobile crowdsensing as a service: A platform for applications on top of sensing Clouds

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, March 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  59. A Crowd-Cooperative Approach for Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  60. An OpenStack-Based Implementation of a Volunteer Cloud

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  61. BEACON: A Cloud Network Federation Framework

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  62. Enabling mechanisms for Cloud-based network virtualization in IoT

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  63. Software Defined Cities: A Novel Paradigm for Smart Cities through IoT Clouds

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  64. Stack4Things: An OpenStack-Based Framework for IoT

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  65. A Smart City Lighting Case Study on an OpenStack-Powered Infrastructure

    Article • Sensors, July 2015, MDPI AG

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  66. A utility paradigm for IoT: The sensing Cloud

    Article • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, July 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  67. A Modular Approach to Collaborative Development in an OpenStack Testbed

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  68. Enabling Collaborative Development in an Open Stack Testbed: The Cloud Wave Use Case

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  69. Cloud-Based Network Virtualization: An IoT Use Case

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  70. Stack4Things: Integrating IoT with OpenStack in a Smart City context

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  71. Mobiles for Sensing Clouds: the SAaaS4Mobile Experience

    Article • Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, January 2014, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  72. Application deployment for IoT: An infrastructure approach

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  73. Abstraction of On-Board Resources in Mobiles: SAaaS4Mobile, a First Step towards a Sensing Cloud

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  74. Towards the Cloud of Things Sensing and Actuation as a Service, a Key Enabler for a New Cloud Paradigm

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  75. An Architecture for Runtime Customization of Smart Devices

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  76. Infrastructure Setup and Deployment in Sensing Cloud Environments

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  77. A hypervisor for infrastructure-enabled sensing Clouds

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  78. Exploiting SAaaS in Smart City Scenarios

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  79. The Core Approach of SAaaS in Action: The Planning Agent

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  80. Sensing and Actuation as a Service: A New Development for Clouds

    Article • August 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino

  81. Enabling the Cloud of Things

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Salvatore Distefano, Prof. Giovanni Merlino