Towards a Simulation as a Service Platform for the Cloud-to-Things Continuum

In the past years, we have seen an unprecedented pace of technological development in smart applications. Smart Systems incorporate securely connected sensors, actuators, and data processing resources to provide digital services. They provide a wide range of smart applications using emerging technologies that address governmental or industrial processes or citizen life in smart cities, and many of them have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which involved a general lack of trust. Integrating Blockchain-based data management into smart systems can enhance the performance, trust, and privacy of their applications, which are getting more and more crucial. In this paper, we propose a vision for a unified Simulation as a Service platform, which will be able to model and investigate Blockchain-based smart systems exploiting IoT, Fog, and Cloud Computing infrastructures.