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Since July 2024, conducting research as a post-doc at Salzburg Research Ltd. (SRFG) ,
collaborating with University of Salzburg , and specifically PEPSys team;
contributing to the ExDigit project [Please have a look at the research projects below.]
In March 2024, obtaining a doctoral degree in technical science in informatics from Alpen-Adria University (of Klagenfurt), Austria;
From Jan. 2021 until Dec. 2023, being a researcher/developer in the EU DataCloud project.
From Mar. 2018 until Nov. 2022, being a lecturer and research assistant,
In May 2016, obtaining an M.Eng. degree with supervision of Prof. N. Movahhedinia ,
In July 2012, obtaining a B.Eng. degree with supervision of Prof. M.R. Khayyambashi ,
EXDIGIT
Presenting ADApt paper at ICFEC 2025 conference ; [Event ]; [Presentation ]; [Paper ].
Presenting the metadata creation procedure for an OpenSVP tool; [Event ].
A preprint of our paper named DEEP is available on Arxiv.
Presenting PreMatch paper at Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems track of,
Our work, named ADApt, got accepted at IEEE ICFEC 2025 conference ; [Paper ].
ADApt presents an ML clustering-, boosting-based method for Edge device anomaly detection and microservice replica prediction.
This method is an extension of the ADA-PIPE framework developed throughout the DataCloud EU project.
Presenting at i-Day 2025 event of University of Salzburg: Nachhaltige Digitalisierung durch grünes Bewusstsein; [Event ], [Vorträge ].
On 9-10th Dec. 2024, we had a two-day workshop with external advisory board in Salzburg, AT; [Event ]; [GroupPicture ].
Our prediction-based scheduler paper, named PreMatch, got accepted.
Exploring the digitalization of Smart Grid: [Ref-1 , Ref-2 ]
Plenary meeting of the exdigit cooperators for interdisciplinary research: [Event ].
GAIA SHOW / HIDE
GAIA
Contributing to devising a scheduling model for green video encoding services in the Cloud and Edge computing; [1st-Paper ], [2nd-Paper ].
On 21st of November 2023, AAU held a workshop at Bitmovin ; [Event ].
KaerntnerFog
In March 2024, I contributed to the second deliverable for microservices orchestration of Smart-City and Virtual-Reality use cases.
Smart city use case, designed by FH-Kaernten University and Kurt Horvath ,
Virtual reality use case, designed by Selina Isak, focuses on a 360-degree video streaming framework.
DataCloud
On 25th Jun. 2024 , we presented the final demo of DataCloud to the EU project officer and reviewers.
On behalf of AAU, I represented and defended the ADA-PIPE tool.
On 30th Dec. 2023, we submitted the last deliverables of the project. I contributed to the D6.6, D7.4, and D8.3 from the AAU side.
On 4th Dec. 2023, we held the second session of the ADA-PIPE toolkit tutorial and validation workshop in DCI course at AAU ; [Slides ].
AAU led one of the last deliverables and submitted Deliverable - 5.4 : Monitoring and resource behavior analysis.
DataCloud held a one-day toolbox-validation workshop in ICPM2023 conference in Rome; [Event ], [Certificate ].
ADA-PIPE v3 is released!
ADA-PIPE v2 is released!
On 14th Jul. 2023, my colleague Zahra Najafabadi Samani successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at AAU, [Event ].
On 30th Jun. 2023, my colleague Christian Bauer successfully defended his Master thesis at AAU, [Event ].
He collaborates in the DataCloud project to set up a resource utilization-aware prediction model in ADA-PIPE.
On 19th-22nd Jun. 2023, DataCloud meeting was held by iExec in Lyon, France, [Event ], [GroupPicture ], [Slides ].
On 23rd Feb. 2023, DataCloud passed the second review, [Event ], [StanaloneTool ].
ADA-PIPE v1 is released!
Deliverable - 6.3 : DataCloud Integrated Toolbox v1.
Deliverable - 4.3 : Applications and appliances repository.
Deliverable - 5.3 : Event-detection and infrastructure and deployment adaptation.
Deliverable - 5.1 : Data-aware resource provisioning across the computing continuum.
2022
2021
2020
2019
2013-2015
Data Communication (undergraduate course)
Performance and Evaluations of Computer Networks (graduate course)
Internet Engineering (undergraduate course)
Advanced Distributed Systems (graduate course)
Incremental Multilayer Resource Partitioning for Application Placement in Dynamic Fog ZN Samani, N Mehran, D Kimovski, S Benedict, N Saurabh, R Prodan; IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1877-1896, 2023.
Mobility-Aware IoT Applications Placement in the Cloud Edge Continuum Dragi Kimovski, Narges Mehran, Christopher Emanuel Kerth, Radu Prodan; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 3358-3371, 2021.
Randomized_SVD based Probabilistic Caching Strategy in Named Data Networks Narges Mehran, Naser Movahhedinia; Journal of Computing and Security, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 217-231, 2018.
Non-uniform EWMA-PCA based cache size allocation scheme in Named Data Networks Narges Mehran, Naser Movahhedinia; Sci China Inf Sci, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 012104: 1-13, 2018.
Performance Evaluation of Authentication-Encryption and Confidentiality Block Cipher Modes of Operation on Digital Image Narges Mehran, Mohammad Reza Khayyambashi; International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS), Vol.9, No.9, pp. 30-37, 2017.
Proactive SLA-aware Application Placement in the Computing Continuum Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan; 2023 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2023 , [Event ].
MPEC2: Multilayer and Pipeline Video Encoding on the Computing Continuum Samira Afzal, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Christian Timmerer, Radu Prodan; IEEE 21st International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), December 2022 , [Event ].
Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan; IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), September 2022, [Event ].
A Two-Sided Matching Model for Data Stream Processing in the Cloud – Fog Continuum Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan; 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), February 2021, [Presentation ], [Slides ].
MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT Application Placement in a Fog Environment Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan; 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2019), October 2019, [Slides ], [Event ].
Towards Multi-metric Cache Replacement Policies in Vehicular Named Data Networks S. Ostrovskaya, O. Surnin, R. Hussain, S.H. Bouk, J. Lee, N. Mehran, et al.; IEEE International Symposium on Person, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'18), 2018.
A non-uniform cache size allocation scheme in Named Data Networks (in Persian) Narges Mehran, Naser Movahhedinia; 21st Iranian National CSI Computer Conference (CSICC), 2016.
Scheduling of Distributed Applications on the Computing Continuum: A Survey Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Hermann Hellwagner, Dumitru Roman, Ahmet Soylu, and Radu Prodan; 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Edge-Cloud Operations and Services, December 2023, [Event ].
Comparison of Microservice Call Rate Predictions for Replication in the Cloud Narges Mehran, Arman Haghighi, Pedram Aminharati, Nikolay Nikolov, Ahmet Soylu, Dumitru Roman and Radu Prodan; 3rd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum, December 2023, [Recorded presentation ].
VE-Match: Video Encoding Matching-based Model for Cloud and Edge Computing Instances Samira Afzal, Narges Mehran, Sandro Linder, Christian Timmerer, Radu Prodan; 1st International ACM Green Multimedia Systems Workshop, MMSys, 2023, [Event ].
CNN-assisted Road Sign Inspection on the Computing Continuum Narges Mehran, Radu Prodan; 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum, December 2022, [Event ], [Recorded presentation ].
Traces of Edge Device Utilization and Microservice Requirements/Replicas Narges Mehran, Nikolay Nikolov; Dataset (version 1), Zenodo, March 2025.
A trace of microservice time, call rate, and number of replicas Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani; Dataset (version 3), Zenodo, November 2024.
A trace on microservice time and call rates Narges Mehran, Arman Haghighi, Pedram Aminharati, Nikolay Nikolov, Ahmet Soylu, Dumitru Roman and Radu Prodan; Dataset (version 1), Zenodo, October 2023.
Edge infrastructure traces Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Josef Hammer, and Radu Prodan; Dataset (version 1), Zenodo, November 2022.
SC18, SC21, SC22, SC23.
UCC18 , UCC21, UCC22, UCC23.
PDP19 , PDP22, PDP23.
CCGrid19, CCGrid20, CCGrid21, CCGrid24, CCGrid25.
Europar20, Europar21, Europar22, Europar23.
ICFEC21, ICFEC22, ICFEC23, ICFEC25.
IPDPS23, IPDPS24.
GECON18, GECON24.
BPOD2024 (at BigData24).
Intel4EC22 (at UCC22), Intel4EC23 (at UCC23).