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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 survey on deep learning for textual emotion analysis in social networks
October 2022
Textual Emotion Analysis (TEA) aims to extract and analyze user emotional states in texts. Various Deep Learning (DL) methods have developed rapidly, and they have proven to be successful in many fields...
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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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A review of optimization methods for computation offloading in edge computing networks
April 2023
Handling the massive amount of data generated by Smart Mobile Devices (SMDs) is a challenging computational problem. Edge Computing is an emerging computation paradigm that is employed to conquer this...
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A highly reliable encoding and decoding communication framework based on semantic information
June 2024
Increasing research has focused on semantic communication, the goal of which is to convey accurately the meaning instead of transmitting symbols from the sender to the receiver. In this paper, we design...
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Cross-chain mapping blockchain: scalable data management in massive IoT networks
Available online 13 November 2024
We propose a Cross-Chain Mapping Blockchain (CCMB) for scalable data management in massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Specifically, CCMB aims to improve the scalability of securely storing,...
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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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Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains
November 2020
In the blockchain, the consensus mechanism plays a key role in maintaining the security and legitimation of contents recorded in the blocks. Various blockchain consensus mechanisms have been proposed....
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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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How AI-enabled SDN technologies improve the security and functionality of industrial IoT network: Architectures, enabling technologies, and opportunities
December 2023
The ongoing expansion of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is enabling the possibility of effective Industry 4.0, where massive sensing devices in heterogeneous environments are connected through...
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