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State-of-the-Art Future Internet Technology in Italy 2024–2025

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1667

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Massimo Cafaro

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1. Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
2. Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: parallel; distributed; grid/cloud/P2P computing; data mining; machine learning; deep learning; security and cryptography
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Dr. Italo Epicoco

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Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: parallel; distributed; grid/cloud/P2P computing; data mining and security
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Dr. Marco Pulimeno

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Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: parallel computing; distributed computing; data mining; machine learning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in Future Internet Technology in Italy. We welcome the submission of research articles that will consolidate our understanding in this area. This Special Issue will publish full research papers and reviews. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

  • Advanced communications network infrastructures;
  • Internet of Things;
  • Centralized and distributed data centers;
  • Industrial Internet;
  • Embedded computing;
  • Software-defined network functions and network virtualization;
  • Cloud-let and fog-computing;
  • Cyber-physical systems;
  • Smart energy systems;
  • Smart health-care systems;
  • Smart manufacturing lines;
  • Smart city;
  • Human-computer interaction and usability;
  • Smart learning systems;
  • Artificial and augmented intelligence;
  • Cyber-security compliance.

Prof. Dr. Massimo Cafaro
Dr. Italo Epicoco
Dr. Marco Pulimeno
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • artificial and augmented intelligence
  • software-defined network functions and network virtualization
  • cybersecurity

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A Methodological Approach to Securing Cyber-Physical Systems for Critical Infrastructures
by Antonello Calabrò, Enrico Cambiaso, Manuel Cheminod, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, Luca Durante, Agostino Forestiero, Flavio Lombardi, Giuseppe Manco, Eda Marchetti, Albina Orlando and Giuseppe Papuzzo
Future Internet 2024, 16(11), 418; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16110418 - 12 Nov 2024
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Modern ICT infrastructures, i.e., cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructures relying on interconnected IT (Information Technology)- and OT (Operational Technology)-based components and (sub-)systems, raise complex challenges in tackling security and safety issues. Nowadays, many security controls and mechanisms have been made available and exploitable [...] Read more.
Modern ICT infrastructures, i.e., cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructures relying on interconnected IT (Information Technology)- and OT (Operational Technology)-based components and (sub-)systems, raise complex challenges in tackling security and safety issues. Nowadays, many security controls and mechanisms have been made available and exploitable to solve specific security needs, but, when dealing with very complex and multifaceted heterogeneous systems, a methodology is needed on top of the selection of each security control that will allow the designer/maintainer to drive her/his choices to build and keep the system secure as a whole, leaving the choice of the security controls to the last step of the system design/development. This paper aims at providing a comprehensive methodological approach to design and preliminarily implement an Open Platform Architecture (OPA) to secure the cyber-physical systems of critical infrastructures. Here, the Open Platform Architecture (OPA) depicts how an already existing or under-design target system (TS) can be equipped with technologies that are modern or currently under development, to monitor and timely detect possibly dangerous situations and to react in an automatic way by putting in place suitable countermeasures. A multifaceted use case (UC) that is able to show the OPA, starting from the security and safety requirements to the fully designed system, will be developed step by step to show the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Future Internet Technology in Italy 2024–2025)
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Increasing the Security of Network Data Transmission with a Configurable Hardware Firewall Based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays
by Marco Grossi, Fabrizio Alfonsi, Marco Prandini and Alessandro Gabrielli
Future Internet 2024, 16(9), 303; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16090303 - 23 Aug 2024
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One of the most common mitigations against network-borne security threats is the deployment of firewalls, i.e., systems that can observe traffic and apply rules to let it through if it is benign or drop packets that are recognized as malicious. Cheap and open-source [...] Read more.
One of the most common mitigations against network-borne security threats is the deployment of firewalls, i.e., systems that can observe traffic and apply rules to let it through if it is benign or drop packets that are recognized as malicious. Cheap and open-source (a feature that is greatly appreciated in the security world) software solutions are available but may be too slow for high-rate channels. Hardware appliances are efficient but opaque and they are often very expensive. In this paper, an open-hardware approach is proposed for the design of a firewall, implemented on off-the-shelf components such as an FPGA (the Xilinx KC705 development board), and it is tested using controlled Ethernet traffic created with a packet generator as well as with real internet traffic. The proposed system can filter packets based on a set of rules that can use the whitelist or blacklist approach. It generates a set of statistics, such as the number of received/transmitted packets and the amount of received/transmitted data, which can be used to detect potential anomalies in the network traffic. The firewall has been experimentally validated in the case of a network data throughput of 1 Gb/s, and preliminary simulations have shown that the system can be upgraded with minor modifications to work at 10 Gb/s. Test results have shown that the proposed firewall features a latency of 627 ns and a maximum data throughput of 0.982 Gb/s. Full article
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