Network traffic classification: Techniques, datasets, and challenges
June 2024
In network traffic classification, it is important to understand the correlation between network traffic and its causal application, protocol, or service group, for example, in facilitating lawful interception,...
Integration of data science with the intelligent IoT (IIoT): Current challenges and future perspectives
April 2025
The Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT) involves real-world things that communicate or interact with each other through networking technologies by collecting data from these “things” and using intelligent...
From sensing to energy savings: A comprehensive survey on integrating emerging technologies for energy efficiency in WBANs
August 2025
Energy is essential for human existence, and its high consumption is a growing concern in today's technology-driven society. Global initiatives aim to reduce energy consumption and pollution by developing...
An analysis of energy consumption and carbon footprints of cryptocurrencies and possible solutions
February 2023
There is an urgent need to control global warming caused by humans to achieve a sustainable future. CO2 levels are rising steadily, and while countries worldwide are actively moving toward the sustainability...
IDS-INT: Intrusion detection system using transformer-based transfer learning for imbalanced network traffic
February 2024
A network intrusion detection system is critical for cyber security against illegitimate attacks. In terms of feature perspectives, network traffic may include a variety of elements such as attack reference,...
A survey on semantic communications: Technologies, solutions, applications and challenges
June 2024
Semantic Communication (SC) has emerged as a novel communication paradigm that provides a receiver with meaningful information extracted from the source to maximize information transmission throughput...
Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Critical Review of Integration of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) and Industry 4.0
Available online 2 July 2025
The concept of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) enables the creation of a complex network that includes sensors integrated into vehicles and infrastructure, facilitating seamless data acquisition and transfer....
A survey on communication protocols and performance evaluations for Internet of Things
December 2022
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a large-scale network of devices capable of sensing, data processing, and communicating with each other through different communication protocols. In today's technology...
Balancing sustainability and security: a review of 5G and IoT in smart cities
Available online 30 June 2025
This century's rapid urbanization has disrupted urban governance, sustainability, and resource management. The Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G have the potential to transform smart cities through real-time...
A review on edge analytics: Issues, challenges, opportunities, promises, future directions, and applications
June 2024
Edge technology aims to bring cloud resources (specifically, the computation, storage, and network) to the closed proximity of the edge devices, i.e., smart devices where the data are produced and consumed....
A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security
May 2020
Since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper on Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain has (slowly) become one of the most frequently discussed methods for securing data storage and transfer through...
Software defined satellite networks: A survey
December 2023
In recent years, satellite networks have been proposed as an essential part of next-generation mobile communication systems. Software defined networking techniques are introduced in satellite networks...
Autonomous network management for 6G communication: a comprehensive survey
Available online 10 July 2025
The rapid advancement of 6G communication networks presents both considerable problems and opportunities in network management, necessitating sophisticated solutions that extend beyond conventional...
Pivotal role of digital twins in the metaverse: A review
October 2025
The ascent of the metaverse signifies a profound transformation in our digital landscape, ushering in a complex network of interlinked virtual domains and digital spaces. In this burgeoning metaverse,...
ExplainableDetector: Exploring transformer-based language modeling approach for SMS spam detection with explainability analysis
October 2025
Short Message Service (SMS) is a widely used and cost-effective communication medium that has unfortunately become a frequent target for unsolicited messages - commonly known as SMS spam. With the rapid...
Visible light communication: Applications, architecture, standardization and research challenges
May 2017
The Radio Frequency (RF) communication suffers from interference and high latency issues. Along with this, RF communication requires a separate setup for transmission and reception of RF waves. Overcoming...
Feature extraction for machine learning-based intrusion detection in IoT networks
February 2024
A large number of network security breaches in IoT networks have demonstrated the unreliability of current Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs). Consequently, network interruptions and loss of...
Lightweight consensus mechanisms in the Internet of Blockchained Things: Thorough analysis and research directions
August 2025
The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained substantial attention in both academic research and real-world applications. The proliferation of interconnected devices across various domains promises to deliver...
Internet of robotic things for mobile robots: Concepts, technologies, challenges, applications, and future directions
December 2023
Nowadays, Multi Robotic System (MRS) consisting of different robot shapes, sizes and capabilities has received significant attention from researchers and are being deployed in a variety of real-world...
Security and privacy in 6G networks: New areas and new challenges
August 2020
With the deployment of more and more 5g networks, the limitations of 5g networks have been found, which undoubtedly promotes the exploratory research of 6G networks as the next generation solutions....
A Comprehensive Survey of Artificial Intelligence Applications in UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks
Available online 20 November 2024
This comprehensive survey paper examines the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless networks. With the increasing demand for efficient and adaptive...
A survey of internet of medical things: technology, application and future directions
Available online 22 November 2024
As the healthcare industry continues to embrace digital transformation, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) emerges as a key technology. IoMT plays a critical role in revolutionizing healthcare delivery...
COVID-19 pandemic and the cyberthreat landscape: Research challenges and opportunities
February 2023
Although cyber technologies benefit our society, there are also some related cybersecurity risks. For example, cybercriminals may exploit vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technologies during...
A new technology perspective of the Metaverse: Its essence, framework and challenges
December 2024
The Metaverse depicts a parallel digitalized world where virtuality and reality are fused. It has economic and social systems like those in the real world and provides intelligent services and applications....
Technologies of blockchain interoperability: A survey
February 2025
Blockchain technology is increasingly popular and has been widely applied in many industrial fields, due to its unique properties of decentralization, immutability, and traceability. Blockchain systems...