PUF-TraceAuth: a lightweight PUF-based signal source traceable authentication protocol for UAV communication
Available online 10 November 2026
The rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology has led to its widespread adoption in high-security scenarios such as military or special missions due to its flexibility and ease of...
BackupChain: a decentralized multi-cloud backup management method under the cloud-blockchain fusion framework
Available online 9 November 2026
To enhance the flexibility, scalability, and resilience of disaster recovery, an increasing number of enterprises are backing up their data to multiple cloud platforms. However, unified management across...
A generalized framework for downlink coverage analysis in polar-orbit LEO satellite
October 2026
Recent advancements in stochastic geometry have enabled tractable performance analysis of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations by modeling satellite locations as random point processes. These...
Hybrid beamforming and resource allocation in UAV-RIS-assisted post-disaster IABN under imperfect CSI via multi-agent DRL
October 2026
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can serve as relays in an Integrated Access and Backhaul Network (IABN) by reconfiguring transmit signals and enhancing...
Hierarchical optimization based multi-objective dynamic regulation scheme for VANET topology
October 2026
As a core technology of intelligent transportation systems, vehicular ad-hoc networks support latency-sensitive services such as safety warning and cooperative perception via vehicle-to-everything communications....
Secure outsourced data sharing from SM9-based revocable broadcast proxy re-encryption and blockchain
October 2026
As cloud storage becomes increasingly prevalent for data sharing, ensuring data security and fine-grained access control is crucial. Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE) is a powerful cryptographic technique that...
Protocol state machine-based vulnerability discovery in 5G core control plane: an automated fuzzing approach
October 2026
To meet the security vulnerability discovery demands of 5G control planes, we develop an automated fuzzing framework integrating Protocol State Machines (PSMs) with security attribute orchestration....
Superdirective antenna arrays-aided wireless communications: a tutorial and review of recent advances
October 2026
Superdirective antenna arrays, characterized by their ability to achieve extremely high directivity in compact antenna arrays, hold significant promise for advancing wireless communications. This review...
IGSO constellation based polar satellite communication: System design, performance analysis, and LLM-based adaptive transmission
October 2026
Reliable communication is essential for supporting scientific exploration, navigation, and ocean-going voyages in the Arctic region. However, the vast geographical distances and extreme climatic conditions...
An efficient bit-wise iterative stochastic decoder for turbo product codes
October 2026
Turbo Product Codes (TPCs) are increasingly considered efficient Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes in modern high-speed communication systems. A key obstacle to their implementation lies in the...
Robust entangled-photon ranging via correlation-aware dual-channel time-series reconstruction
October 2026
Intelligent transportation and autonomous driving require accurate and secure ranging. Quantum entanglement-based ranging provides physical-layer security and picosecond-level synchronization but remains...
PLDKT: Few-Shot Chinese NER for Network Communication Environment and Content Security via Prompt Learning and Domain-invariant Knowledge Transfer
Available online 31 October 2026
Extracting relevant entities such as malware, trending incidents, and involved organizations or individuals from cyber threat intelligence and social network content is critical to ensuring the security...
Joint beam focusing and localization for extremely large-scale RIS in near-field
Available online 26 October 2026
•We employ a single loss, the mean squared error (MSE) of position, to drive simultaneous UE localization and codebook-free beam focusing, enabling slot-level updates and eliminating error cascades...
End-to-End robust H.265 video watermarking over lossy channels: A differentiable encoding and spatio-temporal feature synergy framework
Available online 17 October 2026
•A differentiable H.265 simulation layer is designed to overcome the gradient non-differentiability problem caused by rounding quantization and rate-distortion optimization.•The encoder integrates 3D...
Queue-aware end-edge-cloud collaborative DNN inference in 6G industrial IoT: A multi-agent learning approach
Available online 17 October 2026
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has introduced Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based inference tasks into Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. These tasks are often computation-intensive,...
LWDS: A lightweight dynamic Shamir secret sharing-based security protocol for edge federated learning
Available online 15 October 2026
Edge Federated Learning (EFL) enables collaborative model training without transferring raw data away from edge devices. However, dynamic node participation, unstable links, limited device resources,...
6G Intelligent Perceptive Networks: from ISAC to Integration of Network Sensing, Communication and AI Computing
Available online 14 October 2026
As the development of sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks accelerates, there is a growing demand for networks capable of not only high-speed communication but also intelligent perception and computation....
Anomaly detection in industrial control networks based on deep reinforcement learning and data reconstruction
September 2026
Any anomaly in the data flow of industrial control networks can directly translate into security vulnerabilities within the control system. Therefore, maintaining continuous situational awareness of...
Asymmetric digital backpropagation for long-haul digital subcarrier multiplexing fiber optical transmission
September 2026
Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing (DSM) has emerged as a preferred solution over its Single-Carrier (SC) counterpart for high-speed long-haul Standard Single Mode Fiber (SSMF) transmission, owing to its...
Lightweight adversarial membership inference attack with temporal evolution against federated learning
September 2026
Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) pose a significant privacy threat to Federated Learning (FL) by enabling adversaries to exploit behavioral discrepancies between original and perturbed samples. However,...
A two-stage directed acyclic graph based privacy and incentive federated learning approach in industrial internet of things
September 2026
To leverage industrial big data effectively, Federated Learning (FL) in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) networks for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) control systems has been integrated to facilitate...
Beyond theory: a comprehensive survey of clustering algorithm applications in wireless and media communications
September 2026
The burgeoning advancement in communication technologies, coupled with the widespread adoption of mobile devices, has led to an exponential increase in communication data volumes. Navigating this deluge...
A generalizable BERT-GNN hybrid framework for unified log anomaly detection
September 2026
Logs are essential for monitoring large-scale distributed systems, yet their volume and structural heterogeneity pose substantial challenges for automated analysis. Conventional approaches often struggle...
TAR-PZKP: a secure transmission scheme for vehicle accident reports using PUF and zero-knowledge proof
September 2026
In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), the large-scale deployment of smart vehicles has triggered new road traffic safety challenges. Particularly, existing vehicle accident report transmission schemes...
Securing healthcare IoT: a meta-synthesis of challenges, solutions, and technology convergence
September 2026
The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed the healthcare industry, with technologies such as big data, blockchain, and artificial intelligence driving significant benefits through technology convergence....