Future Internet, Volume 16, Issue 7

The fifth-generation (5G) cellular infrastructure is expected to bring about the widespread use of connected vehicles. This technological progress marks the beginning of a new era in vehicular networks, which includes a range of different types and s...

The rising awareness of cybersecurity among governments and the public underscores the importance of effectively managing security incidents, especially zero-day attacks that exploit previously unknown software vulnerabilities. These zero-day attacks...

Connected devices in IoT systems usually have low computing and storage capacity and lack uniform standards and protocols, making them easy targets for cyberattacks. Implementing security measures like cryptographic authentication, access control, an...

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational technology aiding people with visual impairments (VI) through real-time video chat communication with sighted agents. We conducted a literature review and interviewed 12 RSA users to und...

The proliferation of IoT services has spurred a surge in network attacks, heightening cybersecurity concerns. Essential to network defense, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPSs) identify malicious activities, including denial of service...

In the rapidly evolving field of digital asset management, centralized and decentralized global registries have become essential tools for organizing, tracking, and distributing digital assets. However, existing systems often face challenges regardin...

To mitigate the control overhead of Software-Defined Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (SD-MANETs), this paper proposes a novel approach, termed Software-Defined Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (SD-GPSR), which integrates geographical location information. S...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of drone technology, securing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents critical challenges and demands unique solutions. This paper offers a thorough examination of the security requirements, threat models, and solut...

In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technologies have become one of the teaching tools with the greatest training potential in higher education. Thus, the study of factors that influence the adoption and valuation of VR by the educational agents in...

Fog computing as a paradigm was offered more than a decade ago to solve Cloud Computing issues. Long transmission distances, higher data flow, data loss, latency, and energy consumption lead to providing services at the edge of the network. But, fog...

The diffusion of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has opened new research directions in the context of video content understanding and classification. Emotion recognition from videos aims to automatically detect human emotions such as anxiety...

Ensuring accountability and integrity in MQTT communications is important for enabling several IoT applications. This paper presents a novel approach that combines blockchain technology and the interplanetary file system (IPFS) to achieve non-repudia...

For a communication control system in a disaster area where drones (also called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)) are used as aerial base stations (ABSs), the reliability of communication is a key challenge for drones to provide emergency communicatio...

The complexity and interconnection within the financial ecosystem demand innovative solutions to improve transparency, security, and efficiency in financial reporting and liquidity management, while also reducing accounting fraud. This paper presents...

This work introduces a blockchain-based secure medical prescription-management system seamlessly integrated with a dynamic Internet of Things (IoT) framework. Notably, this integration constitutes a pivotal challenge in the arena of resource-constrai...

Crying is a newborn’s main way of communicating. Despite their apparent similarity, newborn cries are physically generated and have distinct characteristics. Experienced medical professionals, nurses, and parents are able to recognize these var...

Digital deliberation has been steadily growing in recent years, enabling citizens from different geographical locations and diverse opinions and expertise to participate in policy-making processes. Software platforms aiming to support digital deliber...

The performance of 5G/6G cellular systems operating in millimeter wave (mmWave, 30–100 GHz) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz, 100–300 GHz) bands is conventionally assessed by utilizing the static distributions of user locations. The rationale i...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of scientific semiconductor laboratories (commonly known as, cleanrooms), integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), several factors including operational changes, sensor a...

Autonomous vehicles have gained extensive attention in recent years, both in academia and industry. For these self-driving vehicles, decision-making in urban environments poses significant challenges due to the unpredictable behavior of traffic parti...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become ubiquitous. IoT devices are applied in a multitude of applications, e.g., in smart home scenarios, building automation, smart energy and smart cities, healthcare, and industrial environments. Fast and efficient...

In recent years, the attention paid to the metaverse in the scientific world has increased; the hottest topics include system architecture and enabling technologies, as well as business, privacy, ethical, and security issues. On the other side, at th...

In recent years, various Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities on the Internet have been exposed frequently; thus, more and more security researchers have begun to pay attention to the detection of Remote Code Execution attacks. In this paper, we foc...

Irrigation refers to supplying water to soil through pipes, pumps, and spraying systems to ensure even distribution across the field. In traditional farming or gardening, the setup and usage of an agricultural irrigation system solely rely on the per...

Multipath wireless access aims to seamlessly aggregate multiple access networks to increase data rates and decrease latency. It is currently being standardized through the ATSSS architectural framework as part of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular ne...

This article presents a model built for deep digitalization in the construction industry and for making building information modeling achieve a greater level of transparency, verifiability and effectiveness for the benefit of all stakeholders. Thanks...

In light of the ever-increasing complexity of cyber–physical systems (CPSs) and information technology networking systems (ITNs), cyber ranges (CRs) have emerged as a promising solution by providing theoretical and practical cybersecurity knowl...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents a specialized domain within the Internet of Things, focusing on medical devices that require regulatory approval to ensure patient safety. Trusted composition of IoMT systems aims to ensure high assura...

Understanding household energy-consumption patterns is essential for developing effective energy-conservation strategies. This study aims to identify ‘out-profiled’ consumers—households that exhibit atypical energy-usage behaviors&m...

Today, more than ever before, technological progress is evolving rapidly, and in the absence of adequate regulatory frameworks, the big players in the digital market (the so-called Big Techs) are exploiting personal data (name, address, telephone num...

The wide deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) necessitates new machine learning (ML) methods and distributed computing paradigms to enable various ML-based IoT applications to effectively process huge amounts of data [...]

The rapid development of 5G networks and the anticipation of 6G technologies have ushered in an era of highly customizable network environments facilitated by the innovative concept of network slicing. This technology allows the creation of multiple...

Modern building automation systems implement plenty of advanced control and monitoring functions that consider various parameters like users’ activity, lighting, temperature changes, etc. Moreover, novel solutions based on the Internet of Thing...

Quantized large language models are large language models (LLMs) optimized for model size while preserving their efficacy. They can be executed on consumer-grade computers without the powerful features of dedicated servers needed to execute regular (...

The Internet architecture has recently shifted towards a framework characterized by multiple interconnected cloud sites, all linked via an L3 IP network. With this shift, managing networking controls among multiple cloud sites is becoming a significa...

This paper introduces the INFLUTRUST framework that is designed to address challenges in trust-based influencer marketing campaigns on Online Social Networks (OSNs). The INFLUTRUST framework enables the influencers to autonomously select products acr...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical practice has become a critical focus in contemporary medical research. This bibliometric analysis examined the scope of AI utilization across the healthcare spectrum by analyzing a signific...

Public administration frequently deals with geographically scattered personal data between multiple government locations and organizations. As digital technologies advance, public administration is increasingly relying on collaborative intelligence w...

AI chatbots have emerged as powerful tools for providing text-based solutions to a wide range of everyday challenges. Selecting the appropriate chatbot is crucial for optimising outcomes. This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of fi...