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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dynamic defenses in cyber security: Techniques, methods and challenges
August 2022
Driven by the rapid development of the Internet of Things, cloud computing and other emerging technologies, the connotation of cyberspace is constantly expanding and becoming the fifth dimension of...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Research advances on blockchain-as-a-service: architectures, applications and challenges
August 2022
Due to the complexity of blockchain technology, it usually costs too much effort to build, maintain and monitor a blockchain system that supports a targeted application. To this end, the emerging “Blockchain...
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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...
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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...
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Lightweight consensus mechanisms in the Internet of Blockchained Things: Thorough analysis and research directions
Available online 6 January 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...
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Pivotal role of digital twins in the metaverse: A review
Available online 19 December 2024
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,...
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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....
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A blockchain-based privacy-preserving and collusion-resistant scheme (PPCR) for double auctions
February 2025
Electronic auctions (e-auctions) remove the physical limitations of traditional auctions and bring this mechanism to the general public. However, most e-auction schemes involve a trusted auctioneer,...
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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...
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Reconfigurable intelligent surface: design the channel – a new opportunity for future wireless networks
April 2022
In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art research outcomes in the burgeoning field of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), given its potential for significant performance enhancement of next-generation...
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Semantic segmentation-based semantic communication system for image transmission
June 2024
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the widespread use of the Internet of Things, semantic communication, as an emerging communication paradigm, has been attracting great interest....
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YOLO-SDLUWD: YOLOv7-based small target detection network for infrared images in complex backgrounds
April 2025
Infrared small-target detection has important applications in many fields due to its high penetration capability and detection distance. This study introduces a detector called “YOLO-SDLUWD” which is...
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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...
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Fast UAV path planning in urban environments based on three-step experience buffer sampling DDPG
August 2024
The path planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a critical issue in emergency communication and rescue operations, especially in adversarial urban environments. Due to the continuity of the flying...
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