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This paper presents how the InterConnect project is enhancing the relationship between smart buildings, energy communities and grids, enabling the potential of interoperable flexibility mechanisms and the offer of new energy and non-energy services. Within this framework DSO will leverage its role of neutral market facilitator acting as key enabler for new business models. The paper presents the first technical definition of the DSO Interface of the H2020 InterConnect project that will ensure interoperable integration of flexibility services between DSOs and the different market parties to support the grid operation towards an increasingly decentralized, digitalized and decarbonized electric system. © 2021 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

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The path towards the United Nations objective of providing legal identity for all, including free birth registrations, has been facing several challenges. Particularly, the diversity of social realities, limited ICT infrastructures, inadequate legal frameworks, and unstable political engagement have resulted in solutions highly fitted to a specific scenario, thus hard to be replicated in different regions. Paired with noncomprehensive public services of civil registration, these aspects impact the way identity records are created, stored and used by citizens in their daily interactions. To tackle these impairments, this work introduces IDINA, a non-authoritative approach aiming at a community-oriented identification system underpinned by relations of social trust, inclusiveness, and the use of cutting-edge accessible technologies. © 2021 Owner/Author.

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Packet sampling plays an important role in keeping storage and processing requirements at a manageable level in network management. However, because it reduces the amount of available information, it can also reduce the performance of some related tasks, such as detecting security events. In this context, this work explores how packet sampling impacts machine learning-based tasks, in particular, flow-based C2 TLS malware traffic detection using a deep neural network. Based on a proposed lightweight sampling scheme, the ongoing results show a small reduction in classification accuracy compared with analysing all the traffic, while reducing in 10 fold the number of packets processed.

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Huge efforts and resources are spent every year on prevention and recovery of cyberattacks targeting users, services and network infrastructures. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a technology providing advances to the field of security with the ability of programming the network, promoting high-performance solutions and efficient resource utilization at low costs, as the use of specialized hardware is avoided. The present paper aims at exploring the SDN paradigm to develop an SDN-based framework for prevention and mitigation of malicious attacks throuhgt the network. The framework design and proposal has concerns regarding the efficient use of network and computational resources, distributing the inspection of suspicious flows by distinct Intrusion Detection Systems. For this purpose, a load-balancing strategy for traffic inspection is devised, allowing to balance both the usage of resources and the analysis of traffic flows. In this way, this paper also sheds light on the usage of OpenFlow messages to build distributed SDN-based applications with the mentioned properties.

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