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%.