2022 November - 44 articles
Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) is an enabling technology for efficient 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) New Radio (NR) deployment. The key feature of IAB is multi-hop wireless backhauling, allowing utilizing relaying IAB-nodes to provide cost-effici...
Data reconciliation in general, and filesystem synchronization in particular, lacks rigorous theoretical foundation. This paper presents, for the first time, a complete analysis of synchronization for two replicas of a theoretical filesystem. Synchro...
Interactivity has been a very sought-after feature in professional journalism ever since the media industry transitioned from print into the online space. Within this context, chatbots started to infiltrate the media sphere and provide news organizat...
The ongoing deployment of 5G networks is seen as a key enabler for realizing upcoming interconnected services at scale, including the massive deployment of the Internet of Things, providing V2X communications to support autonomous vehicles, and the i...
In today’s world, phishing attacks are gradually increasing, resulting in individuals losing valuables, assets, personal information, etc., to unauthorized parties. In phishing, attackers craft malicious websites disguised as well-known, legiti...
The real-world use cases of blockchain technology, such as faster cross-border payments, identity management, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and supply chain–blockchain technology are here to stay and have become the next innovation, just like th...
Identity federation allows one to link a user’s digital identities across several identity management systems. Federated identity management (FIM) ensures that users have easy access to the available resources. However, scaling FIM to numerous...
Dynamic and smart Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures allow the development of smart healthcare systems, which are equipped with mobile health and embedded healthcare sensors to enable a broad range of healthcare applications. These IoT applicat...
The area of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber–physical systems (CPS) has created a great opportunity for interdisciplinary research concerning both fundamental theoretical studies as well as their application in practice [...]
Modern Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) allow users to create and maintain centrally stored cryptographic certificates. These infrastructures use a so-called certificate chain. At the root of the chain, a root Certification Authority (CA) is respons...
The first week of August 2022 saw the world’s cryptographers grapple with the second shocker of the year. Another one of the four post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms selected by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) i...
This Special Issue of Future Internet features the best papers from the 9th annual conference “Comparative Media Studies in Today’s World (CMSTW’2021)”, which was held between 20 and 21 April 2021, in St [...]
Cloud–fog computing is a large-scale service environment developed to deliver fast, scalable services to clients. The fog nodes of such environments are distributed in diverse places and operate independently by deciding on which data to proces...
Sentiment analysis of online Chinese buzzwords (OCBs) is important for healthy development of platforms, such as games and social networking, which can avoid transmission of negative emotions through prediction of users’ sentiment tendencies. B...
It is meaningful to analyze the market correlations for stock selection in the field of financial investment. Since it is difficult for existing deep clustering methods to mine the complex and nonlinear features contained in financial time series, in...
Many IoT-blockchain systems in which blockchain connections run on an infrastructure-based network, such as Wi-Fi or LTE, face a severe problem: the single point of failure (SPoF) (i.e., depending on the availability, an access point of an LTE base s...
The growth and impact of video games in education at an international level is a reality. Research shows that gamers can increase their knowledge, skills, and behavioural flexibility. However, there has been no in-depth research into the relationship...
Even though both internet-of-cloud services and biometric systems (BSs) are used worldwide, popular and expanded among public and private services, their utilization has not been extended among Greek users, and in particular within Greek HEIs. This p...
Technological evolution and its potential impacts are of significant interest to governments, corporate organizations and for academic enquiry; but assessments of technology progression are often highly subjective. This paper prototypes potential obj...
With the blooming of blockchain-based smart contracts in decentralized applications, the security problem of smart contracts has become a critical issue, as vulnerable contracts have resulted in severe financial losses. Existing research works have e...
The development of ubiquitous computing technology and the emergence of XR could provide pedestrian navigation with more options for user interfaces and interactions. In this work, we aim investigate the role of a mixed-reality map interface in urban...
The increasing prevalence of marine pollution during the past few decades motivated recent research to help ease the situation. Typical water quality assessment requires continuous monitoring of water and sediments at remote locations with labour-int...
Within the scope of precision agriculture, many applications have been developed to support decision making and yield enhancement. Fruit detection has attracted considerable attention from researchers, and it can be used offline. In contrast, some ap...
Modern internet of things (IoT) applications can benefit from advanced communication paradigms, including multicast and anycast. Next-generation internet architectures, such as information-centric networking (ICN), promise to support these paradigms,...
The blockchain is an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the gaming industry among a wide range of different business fields. So far, only a few studies have been conducted about blockchain gaming. This study introduces a mobi...
Intentionally deceptive online content represents a significant issue for society. Multiple techniques have been proposed to identify and combat its spread. To understand how to inform individuals most effectively about the potential biases of and ot...
The violation traffic laws by driving at high speeds, the overloading of passengers, and the unfastening of seatbelts are of high risk and can be fatal in the event of any accident. Several systems have been proposed to improve passenger safety, and...
Collaborative networks and systems (CNS) have received much attention in recent decades to reach a competitive advantage [...]
The increasing digitalization in all areas of life is leading step-by-step to a data-driven society [...]
With the wider adoption of edge computing services, intelligent edge devices, and high-speed V2X communication, compute-intensive tasks for autonomous vehicles, such as object detection using camera, LiDAR, and/or radar data, can be partially offload...
The introduction of Data Protection by Default and Design (DPbDD) brought in as part of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, has necessitated that businesses review how best to incorporate privacy into their processes in a transpare...
This study aims to investigate the effect of metaphorical content on e-participation in healthcare. With this objective, the study assesses the awareness and capability of e-participants to navigate through healthcare metaphors during their participa...
The educational model faced unprecedented changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the remote communication between teachers and learners was affected due to either the lack of or a poor Internet connection at home. Hence, television faci...
The advantages of LoRaWAN over conventional networks (GSM, 4G, 5G) in terms of investment and operating costs have been proven for network coverage in urban and rural areas. However, the theoretical coverage compared to the reality on the ground and...
Molecular communication is a promising communication technology that uses biomolecules such as proteins and ions to establish a communication link between nanoscale devices. In diffusive molecular communication, which uses diffusion characteristics o...
The term Metaverse has received much attention in various industries, in society, and, increasingly, in scientific communities. This creates demand for a comprehensive and broadly accepted definition of the subject, which is well grounded in research...
We propose a novel vision to trade and allocate wireless spectrum in 6G communication networks inspired by the concept of the sharing economy. We argue that such an approach will help ease the surge in demands for wireless spectrum that will characte...
Natural disasters such as severe flooding can cause catastrophic losses to properties and human lives. Constant real-time water level monitoring prior to a flooding event can minimise damages and casualties. Many of the currently deployed water level...
In order to improve the downlink communication performance of the traditional LoRa wide area network (LoRaWAN), a LoRaWAN downlink routing control strategy based on the software defined networks (SDN) framework and the improved auto-regressive integr...
In the last few years, data-driven software solutions have attracted a lot of attention in research and development at academic, industry, business, and government levels to exploit the hidden knowledge and big data that can be offered to cities and...
In the field of software development, the efficient prioritizing of software risks was essential and play significant roles. However, finding a viable solution to this issue is a difficult challenge. The software developers have to adhere strictly to...
To support the decision-making process of new investors, this paper aims to implement Machine Learning algorithms to generate investment indications, considering the Brazilian scenario. Three artificial intelligence techniques were implemented, namel...
Currently, medium and small businesses face a significant change in the way consumers purchase their services, products, or goods. This change is fundamentally due to the pandemic caused by the 2019 coronavirus disease, during which people were force...
The present information age is characterized by an ever-increasing digitalization. Smart devices quantify our entire lives. These collected data provide the foundation for data-driven services called smart services. They are able to adapt to a given...
