A Speculative Study on 6G

While 5G is being tested worldwide and anticipated to be rolled out gradually in 2019, researchers around the world are beginning to turn their attention to what 6G might be in 10+ years time, and there are already initiatives in various countries focusing on the research of possible 6G technologies. This article aims to extend the vision of 5G to more ambitious scenarios in a more distant future and speculates on the visionary technologies that could provide the step changes needed for enabling 6G.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version mayno longer be accessibl

Emerging privacy challenges and approaches in CAV systems

The growth of Internet-connected devices, Internet-enabled services and Internet of Things systems continues at a rapid pace, and their application to transport systems is heralded as game-changing. Numerous developing CAV (Connected and Autonomous Vehicle) functions, such as traffic planning, optimisation, management, safety-critical and cooperative autonomous driving applications, rely on data from various sources. The efficacy of these functions is highly dependent on the dimensionality, amount and accuracy of the data being shared. It holds, in general, that the greater the amount of data available, the greater the efficacy of the function. However, much of this data is privacy-sensitive, including personal, commercial and research data. Location data and its correlation with identity and temporal data can help infer other personal information, such as home/work locations, age, job, behavioural features, habits, social relationships. This work categorises the emerging privacy challenges and solutions for CAV systems and identifies the knowledge gap for future research, which will minimise and mitigate privacy concerns without hampering the efficacy of the functions

The future of Cybersecurity in Italy: Strategic focus area

This volume has been created as a continuation of the previous one, with the aim of outlining a set of focus areas and actions that the Italian Nation research community considers essential. The book touches many aspects of cyber security, ranging from the definition of the infrastructure and controls needed to organize cyberdefence to the actions and technologies to be developed to be better protected, from the identification of the main technologies to be defended to the proposal of a set of horizontal actions for training, awareness raising, and risk management

Vodafone : the Importance of Dynamic Capabilities in an Innovative Market

The Global Telecommunications Market is probably the most competitive industry worldwide. In the market of the Telecommunications Operators (TelCo’s) everything occurs at a vertiginous speed, making use of the most innovative technologies, implemented in a planetary scale. I trusted that it could be the ideal scenario for my dissertation, whose aim is analysing Competitive Advantage Theories and learning how a market leader does to keep growing and be the most innovator player. The challenges faced by the Global Market will be addressed, in the form of a case study, focusing specifically on Vodafone, one of the largest Telco’s, worldwide, and analysing evidence of how it ensures its competitiveness in the present and projects the future. It is intended that this case study can be used as a teaching tool, providing practical clues from a concrete example, to analyse the strategic structures, their general principles and applicable theories. The case focuses on the analysis of resources and capabilities, taking into account external shocks and internal changes. With the analysis of this case study, I intend to identify evidences that could help to answer to the research question: “What are the unique resources and capabilities that Vodafone possesses that constitute its competitive advantage and in what way did they’ve been developed”.O Mercado Global das Telecomunicações é, porventura, o setor mais competitivo do Mundo. À volta das Operadoras de Telecomunicações (TelCo’s) tudo ocorre a uma velocidade vertiginosa, tirando partido das tecnologias mais inovadoras e implementando-as à escala planetária. Entendi, por essa razão, que este poderia ser o cenário ideal para a minha dissertação, cujo objetivo é analisar as Teorias das Vantagens Competitivas e aprender como um líder de mercado consegue fazer para continuar a crescer e a ser o player mais inovador. Serão abordados, na forma de Caso de Estudo, os desafios enfrentados pelo mercado global, focando-nos, especificamente, na Vodafone, uma das maiores empresas de telecomunicações do Mundo, e identificando evidências que permitam assegurar a sua competitividade, no presente, e perspetivando o futuro. Pretende-se que esta dissertação possa ser utilizada como ferramenta prática de trabalho, na aprendizagem, a partir de um exemplo concreto, da análise às estruturas estratégicas, seus princípios gerais e teorias aplicáveis. O caso foca-se na análise de recursos e capacidades, tomando em conta impactos externos e mudanças internas. Com a análise deste estudo de caso, sugerem-se evidências que possam ajudar a responder à pergunta de pesquisa: “Quais são os recursos e capacidades únicos que a Vodafone possui e que constituem a sua vantagem competitiva e de que forma têm vindo a ser desenvolvidos?”

New Waves of IoT Technologies Research – Transcending Intelligence and Senses at the Edge to Create Multi Experience Environments

The next wave of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) brings new technological developments that incorporate radical advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), edge computing processing, new sensing capabilities, more security protection and autonomous functions accelerating progress towards the ability for IoT systems to self-develop, self-maintain and self-optimise. The emergence of hyper autonomous IoT applications with enhanced sensing, distributed intelligence, edge processing and connectivity, combined with human augmentation, has the potential to power the transformation and optimisation of industrial sectors and to change the innovation landscape. This chapter is reviewing the most recent advances in the next wave of the IoT by looking not only at the technology enabling the IoT but also at the platforms and smart data aspects that will bring intelligence, sustainability, dependability, autonomy, and will support human-centric solutions.acceptedVersio

Next Generation Internet of Things – Distributed Intelligence at the Edge and Human-Machine Interactions

This book provides an overview of the next generation Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from research, innovation, development priorities, to enabling technologies in a global context. It is intended as a standalone in a series covering the activities of the Internet of Things European Research Cluster (IERC), including research, technological innovation, validation, and deployment.The following chapters build on the ideas put forward by the European Research Cluster, the IoT European Platform Initiative (IoT–EPI), the IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Programme and the IoT European Security and Privacy Projects, presenting global views and state-of-the-art results regarding the next generation of IoT research, innovation, development, and deployment.The IoT and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are evolving towards the next generation of Tactile IoT/IIoT, bringing together hyperconnectivity (5G and beyond), edge computing, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), virtual/ andaugmented reality (VR/AR), and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation.Following the wider adoption of consumer IoT, the next generation of IoT/IIoT innovation for business is driven by industries, addressing interoperability issues and providing new end-to-end security solutions to face continuous treats.The advances of AI technology in vision, speech recognition, natural language processing and dialog are enabling the development of end-to-end intelligent systems encapsulating multiple technologies, delivering services in real-time using limited resources. These developments are focusing on designing and delivering embedded and hierarchical AI solutions in IoT/IIoT, edge computing, using distributed architectures, DLTs platforms and distributed end-to-end security, which provide real-time decisions using less data and computational resources, while accessing each type of resource in a way that enhances the accuracy and performance of models in the various IoT/IIoT applications.The convergence and combination of IoT, AI and other related technologies to derive insights, decisions and revenue from sensor data provide new business models and sources of monetization. Meanwhile, scalable, IoT-enabled applications have become part of larger business objectives, enabling digital transformation with a focus on new services and applications.Serving the next generation of Tactile IoT/IIoT real-time use cases over 5G and Network Slicing technology is essential for consumer and industrial applications and support reducing operational costs, increasing efficiency and leveraging additional capabilities for real-time autonomous systems.New IoT distributed architectures, combined with system-level architectures for edge/fog computing, are evolving IoT platforms, including AI and DLTs, with embedded intelligence into the hyperconnectivity infrastructure.The next generation of IoT/IIoT technologies are highly transformational, enabling innovation at scale, and autonomous decision-making in various application domains such as healthcare, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, energy, agriculture, transportation and autonomous vehicles, the military, logistics and supply chain, retail and wholesale, manufacturing, mining and oil and gas