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.