Publications

Journals

1. Secure Private Blockchain-based Instant Messaging Platform for Social Media Services
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pg. 106-109, June 2024.

2. Edge-based Data Sensing and Processing Platform for Urban Noise Classification
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 8, no.5, pg. 1-4, May 2024.

3. Improving Remote Patient Monitoring Systems Using a Fog-based IoT Platform with Speech Recognition
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 23, no. 15, pg. 17611-17618, August 2023.

4. Federated Kalman Filter for Secure IoT-based Device Monitoring Services
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pg. 91-94, June 2023.

5. Federated Learning and Blockchain-Enabled Fog-IoT Platform for Wearables in Predictive Healthcare
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos, KN Plataniotis
   in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, pg. 1732 - 1741, January 2023.

6. Public-Key Reinforced Blockchain Platform for Fog-IoT Network System Administration
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos, KN Plataniotis
   in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 22, pg.22366-22374, August 2021.

7. Internet-of-Things Devices and Assistive Technologies for Health Care: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos, S Gregori
   in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 38, no. 4, pg.65-77, June 2021.

8. IoT-Based Smart Home Device Monitor Using Private Blockchain Technology and Localization
   MJ Baucas, SA Gadsden, P Spachos
   in IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pg.52-55, March 2021.

9. Using Cloud and Fog Computing for Large Scale IoT-Based Urban Sound Classification
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, vol. 101, May 2020.

10. A Scalable IoT-Fog Framework for Urban Sound Sensing
    MJ Baucas, P Spachos
    in Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 153, pg. 302-310, March 2020.

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Conference Papers

1. Enhancing Mobile User Experience for Individuals with Essential Tremor through Wearable Devices
   W Botros, MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), Accepted (Chania, Greece).

2. Private Blockchain and Federated Learning-based Edge-IoT Platform for Secure Urban Noise Monitoring
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Accepted (Montreal, Canada).

3. Private Blockchain-Based Edge IoT Platform for Secure Large Language Model Services
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos, S Gregori
   in 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2025 (Milan, Italy).

4. Secure Social Network Applications via Private Blockchain and End-to-End Encryption
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2024 (Cape Town, South Africa).

5. Formation Control Design for Remote Field Monitoring with IoT-enabled Mobile Robots
   MJ Baucas, Z Xu, P Spachos, SA Gadsden
   in 2024 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WFIoT), November 2024 (Ottawa, Canada).

6. Federated Learning Platform for Secure Object Recognition in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos, S Gregori
   in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2024 (Denver, Colorado, USA).

7. Fog-based Smart Contract Platform for Wearable IoT-enabled Telemedicine
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2023 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

8. Private Blockchain-Based Wireless Body Area Network Platform for Wearable Internet of Thing Devices in Healthcare
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos, S Gregori
   in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2023 (Rome, Italy).

9. Permissioned Blockchain Reinforced API Platform for Data Management in IoT-based Sensor Networks
   MJ Baucas, P Spachos
   in 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2021 (Madrid, Spain).
   Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference.

10. Fog and Iot-Based Remote Patient Monitoring Architecture Using Speech Recognition
    MJ Baucas, P Spachos
    in 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), July 2020 (Rennes, France).
    Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference.

11. Permissioned Blockchain-Driven Internet of Things Gateway Using Bluetooth Low Energy
    MJ Baucas, P Spachos
    in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) , June 2020 (Virtual Conference).

12. Speech Recognition Driven Assistive Framework for Remote Patient Monitoring
    MJ Baucas, P Spachos
    in 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), November 2019 (Ottawa, Canada).

13. A Testbed for Adaptive Microphones in Ultra-Low-Power Systems
    E Fallis, M Lipski, A Mackey, MJ Baucas, M James, P Spachos, S Gregori
    in 2019 IEEE Sustainability through ICT Summit (StICT), June 2019 (Montreal, Canada).