Future Internet, Volume 15, Issue 9

With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, industries such as healthcare have started using low-powered sensor-based devices. Because IoT devices are typically low-powered, they are susceptible to cyber intrusions. As an emerging...

Distributed smart home systems using wireless communication are increasingly installed and operated in households. Their popularity is due to the ease of installation and configuration. This paper presents a comprehensive technical, quality, and ener...

This paper introduces a novel distributed algorithm designed to optimize the deployment of access points within Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) for better service quality in infrastructure-less environments. The algorithm operates based on local, ind...

In this paper we consider the research and development of classifiers that are trained to predict the task solved by source code. Possible applications of such task detection algorithms include method name prediction, hardware–software partitio...

The increased penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in electricity markets has given rise to a new category of energy players, called Aggregators, whose role is to ensure fair remuneration for energy supplied by DERs, and support the smo...

The Special Issue “Software Engineering and Data Science, Volume II” is the natural continuation of its greatly successful predecessor, Volume I [...]

The rapid expansion of social media platforms has resulted in an unprecedented surge of short text content being generated on a daily basis. Extracting valuable insights and patterns from this vast volume of textual data necessitates specialized tech...

The trend of the next generation of the internet has already been scrutinized by top analytics enterprises. According to Gartner investigations, it is predicted that, by 2024, 75% of the global population will have their personal data covered under p...

Data trust in IoT is crucial for safeguarding privacy, security, reliable decision-making, user acceptance, and complying with regulations. Various approaches based on supervised or unsupervised machine learning (ML) have recently been proposed for e...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has risen significantly in recent years and has provided better quality of life by enabling IoMT-based health monitoring systems. Despite that fact, innovative security mechanisms are required to meet the securit...

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables us to gain access to a wide range of data from the physical world that can be analyzed for deriving critical state information. In this regard, machine learning (ML) is a valuable tool that can be used to develop...

Sequential programs can benefit from parallel execution to improve their performance. When developing a parallel application, several techniques are employed to achieve the desired behavior: identifying parts that can run in parallel, synchronizing a...

Web 3.0 is the basis on which the proposed metaverse, a seamless virtual world enabled by computers and interconnected devices, hopes to interact with its users, but beyond the high-level project overview of what Web 3.0 applications try to achieve,...

Hospital readmission and length-of-stay predictions provide information on how to manage hospital bed capacity and the number of required staff, especially during pandemics. We present a hybrid deep model called the Genetic Algorithm-Optimized Convol...

This paper presents the operation of a remotely controlled, wheel-legged robot. The developed Wi-Fi connection framework is established on a popular ARM microcontroller board. The implementation provides a low-cost solution that is in congruence with...

Digital twins can reflect the dynamical behavior of the identified system, enabling self-diagnosis and prediction in the digital world to optimize the intelligent manufacturing process. One of the key benefits of digital twins is the ability to provi...

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, the number of wireless devices is increasing rapidly. Because of the limited battery capacity, these devices may suffer from the issue of power depletion. Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting te...

Traditional 3D animation creation involves a process of motion acquisition, dubbing, and mouth movement data binding for each character. To streamline animation creation, we propose combining artificial intelligence (AI) with a motion capture system....

This paper presents two precoding techniques for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) double quadrature spatial modulation (DQSM) downlink transmission system. Instead of being appl...

Network traffic classification (NTC) has attracted great attention in many applications such as secure communications, intrusion detection systems. The existing NTC methods based on supervised learning rely on sufficient labeled datasets in the train...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of internet usage, ensuring robust cybersecurity measures has become a paramount concern across diverse fields. Among the numerous cyber threats, denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attac...

Federated Learning is identified as a reliable technique for distributed training of ML models. Specifically, a set of dispersed nodes may collaborate through a federation in producing a jointly trained ML model without disclosing their data to each...

In the quest to optimize user experience, network, and service, providers continually seek to deliver high-quality content tailored to individual preferences. However, predicting user perception of quality remains a challenging task, given the subjec...

Computer vision has experienced significant advancements and great success in areas closely related to human society, which aims to enable computer systems to automatically see, recognize, and understand the visual world by simulating the mechanism o...

Blockchain represents a decentralized and distributed ledger technology, ensuring transparent and secure transaction recording across networks. This innovative technology offers several benefits, including increased security, trust, and transparency,...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) environment monitoring and smart city applications present challenges for maintaining network connectivity when, for example, dynamic events occur. Such applications can benefit from recent technologies such as software-...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been associated with conditions like depression, anxiety, epilepsy, etc., due to its impact on an individual’s educational, social, and employment. Since diagnosis is challenging and there is no cure, the goal...

Fifth-generation (5G) networks require efficient radio resource management (RRM) which should dynamically adapt to the current network load and user needs. Monitoring and forecasting network performance requirements and metrics helps with this task....

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with communication technologies have gained significant attention as a promising solution for providing wireless connectivity in remote, disaster-stricken areas lacking communication infrastructure. However, e...

Cloud computing has become ubiquitous in the enterprise environment as its on-demand model realizes technical and economic benefits for users. Cloud users demand a level of reliability, availability, and quality of service. Improvements to reliabilit...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are useful in medicine for monitoring the vital signs of elderly patients. These sensors allow for remote monitoring of a patient’s state of health, making it easier for elderly patients, and allowing to avoid or...

Generative AI (artificial intelligence) refers to algorithms and models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that can be prompted to generate various types of content. In this narrative review, we present a selection of representative examples of generat...

The complex and interconnected infrastructure of smart cities offers several opportunities for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities and carry out cyberattacks that can have serious consequences for the functioning of cities’ critical infrastruc...

Nowadays, virtual reality is a new and rapidly developing technology that provides the opportunity for a new, more immersive form of data visualization. Evaluating digitized pathological serial sections and establishing the appropriate diagnosis is o...

With the growing demand for data sharing file formats in financial applications driven by open banking, the use of the OFD (open fixed-layout document) format has become widespread. However, ensuring data security, traceability, and accountability po...

This article examines how digital twins have been used in a multi-national corporation, what technologies have been used, what benefits have been delivered, and the significance of people- and process-related issues in achieving successful implementa...