Paolo Bellavista

Interoperable Blockchains for Highly-Integrated Supply Chains in Collaborative Manufacturing

2021 · Sensors

Blockchain technology plays a pivotal role in the undergoing fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0. It is considered a tremendous boost to company digitalization; thus, considerable investments in blockchain are being made. However, there is …

Toward Energy-Efficient Distributed Federated Learning for 6G Networks

2021 · IEEE Wireless Communications

The provision of communication services via portable and mobile devices, such as aerial base stations, is a crucial concept to be realized in 5G/6G networks. Conventionally, IoT/edge devices need to transmit data directly to the …

Reservoir computing for enhanced fidelity in hierarchical digital twin ecosystems

2025 · Future Generation Computer Systems

The growing complexity of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in industrial and manufacturing environments calls for more sophisticated methods to represent heterogeneous assets and processes. In response, hierarchical Digital Twins (DTs)–virtual representations of physical, taxonomy-based processes–offer transparent, …