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.