Proof-of-trusted-work: A lightweight blockchain consensus for decentralized IoT networks
August 2025
Traditional Internet of Things (IoT) architectures that rely on centralized servers for data management and decision-making are vulnerable to security threats and privacy leakage. To address this issue,...
Blockchain-based lightweight trusted data interaction scheme for cross-domain IIoT
August 2025
To facilitate cross-domain data interaction in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), establishing trust between multiple administrative domains is essential. Although blockchain technology has been...
Performance analysis of RIS-assisted dual-hop mixed FSO-RF UAV communication systems
August 2025
In this paper, we investigate a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Free-Space Optics–Radio Frequency (FSO–RF) mixed dual-hop communication system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)....
Sum rate maximization in UAV-assisted data harvesting network supported by CF-mMIMO system exploiting statistical CSI
August 2025
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been considered to have great potential in supporting reliable and timely data harvesting for Sensor Nodes (SNs) from an Internet of Things (IoT) perspective. However,...
Interest-aware joint caching, computing, and communication optimization for mobile VR delivery in MEC networks
August 2025
In the upcoming B5G/6G era, Virtual Reality (VR) over wireless has become a typical application, which is an inevitable trend in the development of video. However, in immersive and interactive VR experiences,...
Joint jammer selection and power optimization in covert communications against a warden with uncertain locations
August 2025
In covert communications, joint jammer selection and power optimization are important to improve performance. However, existing schemes usually assume a warden with a known location and perfect Channel...
Cross-chain mapping blockchain: Scalable data management in massive IoT networks
August 2025
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,...
Low-complexity multi-target localization via multi-BS sensing
August 2025
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is envisioned as a promising technology for Sixth-Generation (6G) wireless communications, which enables simultaneous high-rate communication and high-precision...
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...
Enhancing generalized receive spatial modulation by symbol-level precoding: Design guidelines with or without intelligent reflecting surfaces
August 2025
Existing Generalized Receive Spatial Modulation (GRSM) with Symbol-Level Precoding (SLP) forces the received signals (excluding noise) at unintended antennas to be zero, which restricts the generation...
Heterogeneous radio frequency/underwater optical wireless communication relaying systems with MIMO scheme
August 2025
This paper studies a cooperative relay transmission system within the framework of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radio Frequency/Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (MIMO-RF/UOWC), aiming to...
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...
Generalized spatial modulation detector assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surface based on deep learning
August 2025
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is regarded as a cutting-edge technology for the development of future wireless communication networks with improved frequency efficiency and reduced energy...
A lightweight dual authentication scheme for V2V communication in 6G-based vanets
August 2025
The advancement of 6G wireless communication technology has facilitated the integration of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). However, the messages transmitted over the public channel in the open and...
Radio map estimation using a CycleGAN-based learning framework for 6G wireless communication
Available online 28 August 2025
As the 6G era approaches, wireless communication faces challenges such as massive user numbers, high mobility, and spectrum resource sharing. Radio maps are crucial for network design, optimization,...
Low-complexity APSK demodulation algorithm based on K-means clustering in LEO satellite communication systems
Available online 27 August 2025
Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (APSK) is more suitable for the nonlinear channels of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems compared to Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). To tackle...
RIS-assisted cellular networks with multiple D2D pairs: Outage and ergodic achievable rate
Available online 26 August 2025
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is envisioned as a promising technology to improve the system capacity of 6G network, by controlling the electromagnetic wave propagation. Most existing works...
Artificial intelligence enhanced edge server placement for workload balancing and energy efficiency in B5G networks
Available online 25 August 2025
The Internet of Things (IoT) and allied applications have made real-time responsiveness for massive devices over the Internet essential. Cloud-edge/fog ensembles handle such applications' computations....
SecureBadger: a Homomorphic Encryption-based framework for secure medical inference
Available online 18 August 2025
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...
Personalized federated learning for semantic communication with collaborative fine-tuning
Available online 18 August 2025
Semantic Communication (SemCom) is a promising paradigm for future 6G networks, where communication performance hinges on the effectiveness of SemCom models, particularly the source-channel encoder...
A Security Authentication Scheme for Mobile Industrial IoT Supply Chains Based on Blockchain and Group Key Management
Available online 18 August 2025
Driven by globalization and digitization, the Mobile Industrial Supply Chain Internet of Things (IoT) has gradually developed, utilizing mobile devices and IoT technologies to enable real-time monitoring...
Secure transmission for uplink MIMO-OFDM IoT systems: time-domain artificial noise and deep reinforcement learning against intelligent eavesdroppers
Available online 18 August 2025
Physical layer security has emerged as a promising approach to counter eavesdropping threats in the Internet of Things (IoT). With the advancement of technology, eavesdroppers (Eves) are increasingly...
GCRA-FWVAE: Anomaly detection for IIoT univariate time series using time-frequency domain analysis
Available online 18 August 2025
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technologies, the security of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data faces increasing challenges, particularly in time series...