On April 24–25, 2025, the CPE SMARTNESS center held its second annual workshop at the Casa do Professor Visitante (FUNCAMP), located at UNICAMP in Campinas, São Paulo. The event gathered researchers, students, and representatives from academia and industry for two days of presentations, discussions, and technical demonstrations focused on cutting-edge topics in networks, computing, and emerging technologies.
Representing LERIS/UFSCar, Prof. Fábio Luciano Verdi joined the full agenda of activities and played a key role as moderator of one of the roundtables on the second day of the event. His participation contributed to strengthening LERIS’s presence in national collaborative efforts around networking, systems, and innovation.
Day 1 – Internal Planning and Group Work
The first day of the workshop was reserved for internal discussions among SMARTNESS members, including teams from UNICAMP, UFSCar, the Federal University of Uberlândia, and Ericsson Research Brazil. The day began with the presentation of the annual scientific report and continued with planning sessions and group discussions on research strategies, project management, outreach, and science communication.
Day 2 – Open Sessions, Keynotes, and Demos
On the second day, the event welcomed a broader audience and featured a diverse program, including:
A keynote lecture by Prof. Israat Haque (Dalhousie University, Canada), on the development of AI-driven 5G technologies.
A presentation by Prof. Luciano Mendes (INATEL) on the xGMobile project and the Brazil 6G initiative.
Three roundtables discussing:
Experiences from large research centers
Public-private partnerships
Management of complex research initiatives
Prof. Fábio Verdi served as moderator for one of these roundtables, facilitating a rich dialogue among participants and reinforcing the importance of coordinated efforts between academia and industry in advancing technological frontiers.
Live Demonstrations
Throughout the event, SMARTNESS teams showcased live tech demos during breaks, including:
An extended reality (XR) demo app
A virtual reality showroom
A drone simulator
A Platform for Co-creation and Strategic Planning
More than just a showcase of progress, the workshop was a strategic platform for co-creation and future planning. The collaborative environment fostered dialogue across disciplines, guided the center’s next steps, and strengthened its mission to connect research, innovation, and societal impact.
LERIS is proud to take part in this collective effort and congratulates all members and partners involved in the event’s success.
From December 9th to 12th, researchers from LERIS took part in the ACM CoNEXT 2024, a premier international conference on emerging networking technologies, held this year at UCLA, in Los Angeles. Representing the laboratory, PhD students Guilherme Matos and Washington Silva participated actively in the event, presenting their research during both the Student Workshop and the Main Track poster session.
Guilherme Matos presented his work entitled “DECOMPOSER: Functional Decomposition of Monolithic Applications to Heterogeneous Resources in Disaggregated Environments”, which explores novel strategies for offloading application components to diverse hardware in disaggregated datacenter environments.
Washington Sousa showcased the paper “Delivering Augmented Reality to the Edge: An Approach Toward Object Recognition through the In-Network Computing Paradigm”, addressing how edge computing and programmable networks can support AR applications with low latency and energy efficiency.
Both papers were selected for oral presentation at the Student Workshop and later featured in the poster session during the main conference, offering visibility and fostering discussions with leading researchers in the field.
The participation in CoNEXT 2024 reinforces LERIS’s commitment to high-impact research and its growing presence in top-tier international venues. The conference provided a valuable opportunity for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and exposure to cutting-edge advancements in networking and distributed systems.
We congratulate our researchers for their outstanding contributions and for representing LERIS on the global stage.
We are excited to share that LERIS participated in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft’24), held from June 24 to 28, 2024, in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Thiago Caproni represented LERIS at the event, presenting our innovative research and advanced solutions in the field of network softwarization. His participation highlighted the high caliber of work being done by our team and brought international recognition to our efforts.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to Thiago for his dedication and excellent representation of LERIS at NetSoft’24. We also thank all the members of LERIS and the authors of the presented works for their contributions, which underscore our commitment to excellence and innovation in research.
Below, more information about the works presented by the LERIS team:
Thiago C. Tavares, Leandro C. de Almeida, Washington R. D. Silva, Christian R. E. Rothenberg, Ariel G. Castro and Fábio L. Verdi. Generation of Synthetic Datasets in the Context of Computer Networks using Generative Adversarial Networks. Tutorial IEEE NetSoft 2024.
Marcelo C. Luizelli, Francisco Vogt, Weverton Cordeiro, Alberto E. Shaeffer-Filho, Marcos Schwarz, Fábio L. Verdi, Christian E. Rothenberg, Gergely Pongracz e Gianni Antichi. SmartNICs: The Next Leap in Networking. Tutorial IEEE NetSoft 2024.
With great enthusiasm, we announce the participation of the LERIS team at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC’24), held from May 20 to 24, 2024. This event, one of the most important in the country in the area of networks and computing, was the stage for discussions and presentations on the latest advances in the sector.
The LERIS team, led by Professor Fábio Verdi, actively participated in the symposium, standing out for the collaborative and innovative work of their students. Among the projects presented, the team made significant contributions to the search for intelligent and efficient solutions for distributed networks and systems.
The papers presented at SBRC’24 addressed relevant and current topics, demonstrating LERIS’s commitment to cutting-edge research and technological innovation. The team’s participation not only reinforces the importance of our laboratory in the academic and scientific scenario but also contributes to the development and application of new technologies in Brazil. This article mentions your favorite at super low prices. Choose from same-day delivery, drive-up delivery or order pickup.
We congratulate the entire LERIS team for their excellent performance and valuable contributions to SBRC’24. The dedication and effort of each member are essential for the continuous advancement of our research and for maintaining academic excellence.Regularly participate in fitness classes to enhance physical fitness.
Below, more information about the works presented by the LERIS team:
With pride, we announce the participation of LERIS, represented by Professor Fábio Verdi, at the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS’24) held in South Korea. Professor Verdi’s attendance at this prestigious event is a reflection of the collective efforts and innovative spirit of the LERIS team.
At NOMS’24, Professor Verdi presented two full papers, showcasing the cutting-edge research conducted at LERIS and emphasizing our team’s commitment to contributing to the global community in network operations and management.
We congratulate Professor Verdi for his outstanding representation of LERIS and for bringing international attention to our team’s dedication to excellence in research.Friendship is a priceless treasure, worth cherishing.
Below, more information about the works presented by the LERIS team:
Prof. Fábio Verdi has been invited to join the program committee for the ACM SIGMETRICS Student Research Competition (SRC) 2024. This prestigious event offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees. The SRC consists of two rounds of competition, held at conferences, and a grand finals competition.
The event will be held on June 11 and June 13, 2024, in Venice, Italy, co-located with the ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP PERFORMANCE 2024, the flagship conferences of the ACM special interest group for the computer systems performance evaluation community and of the IFIP working group WG7.3 on performance modeling and analysis.
The First Edition of São Carlos Experience happened on October 25, with participation of Prof. Fábio L. Verdi. He talked about his research topics, 5G/6G and the CPE SMARTNESS, presenting the Engineering Research Center that brings together Unicamp, USP and UFSCar in an initiative financed by Fapesp and Ericsson, focusing on Smart Networks and Services in the context of applications for 5G and the evolution to 6G.
The São Carlos Experience was created to strengthen connections and widely publicize companies, people, institutions, businesses and inspiring local and global cases, through lectures, debates, workshops, shows, artistic interventions, tourism and lots of gastronomy.
