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On November 14, Prof. Luiz Bittencourt hosted Prof. Fredrik Heintz and PhD student Amath Sow from Linköping University, Sweden, at UNICAMP's Instituto de Computação. Joined by representatives from Ericsson Research Brazil, UFABC, and UNICAMP students, the meeting explored drone collision avoidance and route planning, delivery scenarios, and video streaming.

SMARTNESS 2030 actively participated in the 2024 IEEE NFV-SDN conference in Natal, Brazil, presenting papers, demos, and tutorials on topics from ECMP routing resilience to cloud gaming traffic classification, winning multiple awards, including Best Demo and Best PhD Symposium. Keynote presentations and tutorials further highlighted the use of programmable infrastructures in 6G research.

Marina Martinelli, PhD researcher at the Institute of Geosciences and SMARTNESS 2030, was excited to attend the international 6G Briefing 2024 event. The event brought together many members of academia and industry equally.

Professors Rafael Pasquini (UFU) and Christian Esteve Rothenberg (SMARTNESS) contributed to the AI in Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop at UdelaR, Uruguay. Organized by MINA, the event explored AI, ML, and networking, featuring a 12-hour course blending theory and hands-on practice.

Phd candidate Md Tariqul Islam awarded the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper for his distinguished work “QoE Evaluation for Emerging Media Applications: Network-Level Analysis and Traffic Modeling.”

The SMARTNESS 2030 Engineering Research Center held several Open Science activities, including a lecture by Prof. Dr. Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros during SMARTNESS HOUR, participation of Dr. Eduardo Sartori in UNICAMP's LOVE DATA DAY, and a presentation on Research Ethics and Open Science.

The SBSeg 2024 was held in São José dos Campos, where researchers from the CPE SMARTNESS presented their latest work. Highlights include Ph.D. student Caio Teixeira's award-winning paper on post-quantum cryptography in vehicular networks and Master's student Rodrigo Pierini's exploration of the Forro14 cipher in programmable hardware. USP student Thiago Ferreira also received an honorable mention for his fuzzing technique paper.

Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez Cesen, and M.Sc. student Arthur J. Simas had their paper "eZtunnel: Leveraging eBPF to Transparently Offload Service Mesh Data Plane Networking" accepted at IEEE CloudNet 2024, in Rio de Janeiro. The research addresses performance bottlenecks in service meshes like Istio, using eBPF to optimize networking traffic in Kubernetes nodes. Experiments show that eZtunnel reduces median latency by over 20% and jitter by nearly 10%.

SMARTNESS researchers have had their paper, "Convolutional Evolutive Granular Neural Network for Image Flow Classification," accepted at the XXV Brazilian Congress of Automation (CBA), 2024. The paper introduces a novel approach combining convolutional neural networks and granular evolutive models to enhance image recognition and classification. CBA 2024, held from October 15 to 18, 2024, is a crucial event for automation and control in Brazil.

Marina Martinelli, a PhD researcher from the SMARTNESS 2030 ERC at UNICAMP, recently participated as a speaker and mediator at Futurecom, Latin America's most significant technology and telecommunications event.