About me

• In March 2024, I obtained my doctoral degree in informatics from Alpen-Adria University (of Klagenfurt), Austria; [Presentation]; [Event]; [Open-access dissertation]
• From Jan. 2021 until Dec. 2023, I was a researcher/developer in the EU DataCloud project.
• From Mar. 2018 until Nov. 2022, I was a lecturer and research assistant in distributed and parallel systems group at Alpen-Adria University (of Klagenfurt), Austria.
           

Research project

• DataCloud
  • On the 30th of December 2023, we submitted the last deliverables of the project. I contributed to the D6.6, D7.4 and D8.3 from AAU side.
  • On the 4th of December 2023, we held the second session of the ADA-PIPE toolkit tutorial and validation workshop in DCI course at AAU; [Slides].
  • On 21st of November 2023, AAU held a one-day workshop at Bitmovin.
  • 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, a previous collaborator who set up DataCloud's private repository and docker registry, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at AAU, [Event].
  • On 30th Jun. 2023, my colleague Christian Bauer, a previous collaborator of DataCloud project, successfully defended his Master thesis at AAU, [Event].
  • 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.

Teaching

• 2022
• Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (SS2022)
• Distributed Systems (SS2022)
• 2021
• Introduction to object-based programming (WS2021)
• Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (SS2021)
• Distributed Systems (SS2021)
• 2020
• Introduction to object-based programming (WS2020)
• Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (SS2020)
• Distributed Systems (SS2020)
• 2019
• Distributed Systems (SS2019)
• 2013-2015
• Data Communication (undergraduate course)
• Performance and Evaluations of Computer Networks (graduate course)
• Internet Engineering (undergraduate course)
• Advanced Distributed Systems (graduate course)

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Awards

• Recipient of travel grant for IEEE Cluster 2022, presenting C3-Match paper - Summer 2022, [Event].
• Recipient of travel grant for HiPEAC Computer Science Week Spring 2022, presenting at HiPEAC Student Challenge: IoT for Everyone! - Spring 2022, [Event].
• Recipient of 1-year grant and academic award for graduate studies from Iran's National Elites Foundation (INEF) - Fall 2014.

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Publications

Journals

• 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.

Conferences

• 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, [Presention], [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].
• 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.

Workshops

• 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, [RecordedPres.].
• 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], [RecordedPres.].

Datasets

• 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.

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Reviews

Journals

• Future generation computer systems (Elsevier)
• Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Elsevier)
• Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE)
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
• Internet of Things (Elsevier)
• Soft Computing (Springer)
• Big Data (Springer)
• Cloud Computing (Springer)
• Cluster Computing (Springer)

Conferences

• SC18, SC21, SC22, SC23.
• UCC18, UCC21, UCC22, UCC23.
• PDP19, PDP22, PDP23.
• CCGrid19, CCGrid20, CCGrid21.
• Europar20, Europar21, Europar22, Europar23.
• ICFEC23
• IPDPS23, IPDPS24.