A survey of Internet of medical things: technology, application and future directions
May 2026
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...
SecureBadger: a homomorphic encryption-based framework for secure medical inference
May 2026
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology, its adoption in the field of smart healthcare is becoming increasingly pervasive. Leading cloud service providers like...
AiCareNeonates: artificial intelligence powered adaptation of transfer learning models to classify neonate's sleep-wake states for pediatricians in the loop
May 2026
This study monitors neonatal sleep patterns using artificial intelligence through an innovative transfer learning approach integrating video and Electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Leveraging non-intrusive,...
Decentralized and Provably Secure Authentication for Smart Grids via XTR and Blockchain
Available online 28 May 2026
Smart Grid (SG) has garnered significant attention due to its exceptional stability, reliability, and flexibility. Ensuring secure communication between Smart Meters (SMs) and the Data Aggregator (DA)...
Toward collaborative perception for CAVs: A joint optimization of latency, multimodel fusion, and resource allocation
Available online 27 May 2026
In complex traffic environment, the limited sensing range of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) leads to missing Regions of Interest (ROI) when occlusions occur. Collaborative perception can extend...
Model-assisted channel charting for 5G-Advanced localization with sparse data
Available online 27 May 2026
Achieving robust 5G-Advanced indoor localization under sparse data is an active research topic. Pure Channel Charting (CC) preserves local neighborhood structure but yields unitless embeddings with...
Approximate dynamic precision computation in large-scale MIMO systems: analysis and applications
Available online 27 May 2026
As 6G technology advances, it promises to deliver ultra-high transmission speeds and enhanced network capabilities, supported by developments in Massive MIMO and Extremely Large MIMO technologies. However,...
S................F-GNN: A self-supervised robust encrypted traffic classification method based on dynamic heterogeneous graphs
Available online 20 May 2026
Encrypted traffic classification is a critical task in network security and management. However, existing methods often neglect the structural and multi-dimensional correlations of traffic. Furthermore,...
Multi-agent attention-driven adaptive routing for real-time quality of service in 6G-enabled software-defined networks
Available online 19 May 2026
In Sixth-Generation (6G) networks, which demand higher speed, lower delay, greater intelligence, and seamless global coverage, Quality of Service (QoS) aware routing becomes even more challenging. Existing...
Federated learning for UAV surveillance with camera vision and radar point cloud data fusion to enhance sensing-assisted communication
Available online 15 May 2026
With the rapid expansion of the low-altitude economy, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly adopted for a wide range of civilian applications. Nevertheless, their large-scale deployment...
Towards text semantic communication: two-phase variable bitrate control
Available online 15 May 2026
Bitrate plays a crucial role in the transmission of semantic symbols, necessitating a trade-off between semantic information preservation and transmission efficiency. However, most existing Semantic...
Cognitive sovereignty in 6G: architecting a Neuro-Symbolic knowledge plane for verifiable agentic automation
Available online 5 May 2026
This paper proposes a cognitive sovereignty architecture for sixth Generation (6G) networks based on a Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Plane (NSKP) and Large Action Models (LAMs). Unlike traditional knowledge...
SAF-IoMT: Secure Authentication Framework for IoMT-Enabled Smart Healthcare System
Available online 2 May 2026
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents an advanced evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling secure and intelligent interactions among connected medical devices and significantly...
A comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence applications in UAV-enabled wireless networks
April 2026
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...
Computing power networks for unmanned aerial vehicles: a hierarchical resources trading market
April 2026
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed across military and civilian domains due to their operational flexibility, low maintenance costs, and high mobility. With the growing complexity...
Intelligent joint communication and computation scheme of UAV-assisted offloading in high speed rail scenarios
April 2026
With the continuous development of communication and computation technologies, large bandwidth services place higher demands on computing capacity and throughput in High-Speed Rail (HSR) scenarios....
Improved PHY-layer authentication utilizing multi-modal features for mmWave MIMO UAV-enabled systems
April 2026
This paper exploits multi-modal Physical (PHY)-layer features in terms of artificial fingerprint, In-phase/Quadrature (IQ) imbalance and Angle of Arrival (AoA) to propose a novel PHY-layer authentication...
Service chain caching and task offloading in two-tier UAV-assisted vehicular edge computing networks: An attention-DRL method
April 2026
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted Vehicular Edge Computing Networks (VECNs) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance service quality for ground vehicle users. However, the growing demands...
NPO-BAND: Number and placement optimization for backhaul-aware UAV network deployment
April 2026
In emergency communication scenarios, exploiting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as relays to provide wireless communication services for ground users has emerged as a promising application. A key challenge...
Distributed context-aware Transformer-enabled dynamic energy consumption prediction for smart building networks
April 2026
The integration of communication networks and artificial intelligence enables the effective collection of data over smart building networks, facilitating more accurate predictions of Building Energy...
Wireless-optical switching and communication based on metasurfaces: From multi-parameter regulation to potential applications
April 2026
This review provides a comprehensive survey of the most recent developments in metasurfaces for applications in domains including wireless-optical switching and communications. In particular, we focus...
Energy minimized joint resource allocation and task offloading with user association for URLLC and eMBB 5G multi-RAT systems
April 2026
In this paper, a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning-based joint resource allocation and task offloading control technique is proposed to minimize the energy consumption of user equipment (UE) supporting...
Statistical energy consumption analysis and optimization for relaying transmission with wireless power transfer
April 2026
Improving the energy efficiency of information transmission is very critical to the development of future Internet of Things (IoT). Considering the sporadic characteristics for IoT transmissions, the...
CGGM: a conditional graph generation model with adaptive sparsity for node anomaly detection in IoT networks
April 2026
Dynamic graphs are increasingly utilized for detecting anomalous behaviors in nodes within the Internet of Things (IoT). Graph generative models play a pivotal role in addressing the challenge of imbalanced...
Data grading for intelligent connected vehicles: an inference strength-driven framework
April 2026
Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICVs) generate massive heterogeneous multi-modal data during operation, and due to the limited computing resources on board, graded data encryption protection is of great...