Future Internet, Volume 16, Issue 8

Directional sensor networks are a widely used architecture in the sensing layer of the Internet of Things (IoT), which has excellent data collection and transmission capabilities. The coverage hole caused by random deployment of sensors is the main f...

As the complexity and integration of electronic devices increase, understanding and mitigating side-channel vulnerabilities will remain a critical area of cybersecurity research. The new and intriguing software-based thermal side-channel attacks and...

In the near future, commercially accessible quantum computers are anticipated to revolutionize the world as we know it. These advanced machines are predicted to render traditional cryptographic security measures, deeply ingrained in contemporary comm...

Over three-quarters of Taiwan’s landmass consists of mountainous slopes with steep gradients, leading to frequent rockfall hazards that obstruct traffic and cause injuries and fatalities. This study used Google Alerts to compile internet news o...

The proliferation of fake news and fake profiles on social media platforms poses significant threats to information integrity and societal trust. Traditional detection methods, including rule-based approaches, metadata analysis, and human fact-checki...

As we move into the digital era, the pace of technological advancement is accelerating rapidly. Network traffic often becomes congested during the transmission of large data volumes. To mitigate this, data compression plays a crucial role in minimizi...

Smart agriculture stands as a promising domain for IoT-enabled technologies, with the potential to elevate crop quality, quantity, and operational efficiency. However, implementing a smart agriculture system encounters challenges such as the high lat...

Passenger behavior prediction aims to track passenger travel patterns through historical boarding and alighting data, enabling the analysis of urban station passenger flow and timely risk management. This is crucial for smart city development and pub...

Cybersecurity is established as fundamental for organisations and individuals engaging with digital technology. A central topic in cybersecurity is user behaviour, which has been shown to be the root cause or enabler in a majority of all cyber incide...

The closed architecture of modern control systems impedes them from further development in the environment of the industrial IoT. The open control system is proposed to tackle this issue. Numerous open control prototypes have been proposed, but they...

In today’s digital landscape, content delivery networks (CDNs) play a pivotal role in ensuring rapid and seamless access to online content across the globe. By strategically deploying a network of edge servers in close proximity to users, CDNs...

Ransomware is a growing-in-popularity type of malware that restricts access to the victim’s system or data until a ransom is paid. Traditional detection methods rely on analyzing the malware’s content, but these methods are ineffective ag...

In the last few years, blockchain has emerged as a cutting-edge technology whose main advantages are transparency, traceability, immutability, enhanced efficiency, and trust, thanks to its decentralized nature. Although many people still identify blo...

This study investigates the ability of transformer-based models (TBMs) to form stimulus equivalence (SE) classes. We employ BERT and GPT as TBM agents in SE tasks, evaluating their performance across training structures (linear series, one-to-many an...

Self-driving vehicles have attracted significant attention in the automotive industry that is heavily investing to reach the level of reliability needed from these safety critical systems. Security of in-vehicle communications is mandatory to achieve...

Online shopping for clothing has become increasingly popular among many people. However, this trend comes with its own set of challenges. For example, it can be difficult for customers to make informed purchase decisions without trying on the clothes...

The proliferation of fake news poses a significant challenge in today’s information landscape, spanning diverse domains and topics and undermining traditional detection methods confined to specific domains. In response, there is a growing inter...

The adoption of blockchain platforms to bolster the security of Internet of Things (IoT) systems has attracted significant attention in recent years. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive and systematic survey papers in the literature addressin...

This study uses deep learning methods to explore the Internet of Things (IoT) network intrusion detection method based on the CIC-IoT-2023 dataset. This dataset contains extensive data on real-life IoT environments. Based on this, this study proposes...

Nowadays, some of the most well-deployed infrastructures are Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Overlay Networks (ONs). They consist of hardware and software components designed to build private/secure channels, typically over the Internet. They are...

To fully harness the potential of wind turbine systems and meet high power demands while maintaining top-notch power quality, wind farm managers run their systems 24 h a day/7 days a week. However, due to the system’s large size and the complex...

Background: The recent rise of large language models has triggered renewed interest in medical free text data, which holds critical information about patients and diseases. However, medical free text is also highly sensitive. Therefore, de-identifica...

This study introduces a novel meta-learning method to enhance diabetes detection using wearable sensor systems in smart health applications. Wearable sensor technology often needs to operate accurately across a wide range of users, each characterized...

In response to the digital transformation in education, this study explores the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) video games in teaching direct current electrical circuits at a public university in Colombia. Using a mixed-method action research appro...

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has attracted the interest of the research and industrial community to support Internet of things (IoT) applications by enabling efficient data processing and minimizing latency. This paper presents significant contr...

In-store grocery shopping is still widely preferred by consumers despite the rising popularity of online grocery shopping. Moreover, hardware-based in-store navigation systems and shopping list applications such as Walmart’s Store Map, Kroger&r...

The integration of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) is transforming aviation health monitoring systems by combining extensive data collection with advanced analytical capabilities. This study proposes a framework that enhances predictive accu...

Quantum computers have the potential to break the public-key cryptosystems widely used in key exchange and digital signature applications. To address this issue, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers a robust countermeasure against quantum computer a...

Today, AI is primarily narrow, meaning that each model or agent can only perform one task or a narrow range of tasks. However, systems with broad capabilities can be built by connecting multiple narrow AIs. Connecting various AI agents in an open, mu...

This study focuses on trust within water-treatment IoT plants, examining the collaboration between IoT devices, control systems, and skilled personnel. The main aim is to assess the levels of trust between these different critical elements based on s...

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) enable us to have a reconfigurable reflecting surface that can efficiently deflect the transmitted signal toward the receiver. The initial step in the IRS usually involves estimating the channel between a fixed...

Mobile devices (MDs) are used by mobile cloud computing (MCC) customers and by other users because of their portability, robust connectivity, and ability to house and operate third-party applications (apps). However, the apps installed on an MD may p...

Meta-path-based heterogeneous graph neural networks have received widespread attention for better mining the similarities between heterogeneous nodes and for discovering new recommendation rules. Most existing models depend solely on node IDs for lea...

Object detection and human action recognition have great significance in many real-world applications. Understanding how a human being interacts with different objects, i.e., human–object interaction, is also crucial in this regard since it ena...

In the context of the constant evolution and proliferation of AI technology, hybrid intelligence is gaining popularity in reference to a balanced coexistence between human and artificial intelligence. The term has been extensively used over the past...

Collaborative edge intelligence, a distributed computing paradigm, refers to a system where multiple edge devices work together to process data and perform distributed machine learning (DML) tasks locally. Decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) devic...

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has emerged as a pivotal technology in 6G, offering an efficient means of delivering energy to a large quantity of low-power devices while transmitting data concurrently. To address the cha...

Bufferbloat is one of the leading causes of high data transmission latency and jitter on the Internet, which severely impacts the performance of low-latency interactive applications such as online streaming, cloud-based gaming/applications, Internet...

The OHIO (Odin Hospital Indoor cOmpass) project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action program, via ODIN–Open Call, which is issued and executed under the ODIN project and focuses on enhanci...

In modern network security setups, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are crucial elements that play a key role in protecting against unauthorized access, malicious actions, and policy breaches. Despite significant progress in IDS technology, two of t...

This research endeavors to advance energy efficiency (EE) within heterogeneous networks (HetNets) through a comprehensive approach. Initially, we establish a foundational framework by implementing a two-tier network architecture based on Poisson proc...

In resource-intensive Internet of Things applications, Lightweight Stream Ciphers (LWSCs) play a vital role in influencing both the security and performance of the system. Numerous LWSCs have been proposed, each offering certain properties and trade-...

The accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of mental health disorders such as depression remain challenging owing to the complex underlying causes and varied symptomatology. Traditional information extraction methods struggle to adapt to evolving...

We propose a detection system incorporating a weighted voting mechanism that reflects the vote’s reliability based on the accuracy of each detector’s examination, which overcomes the problem of cooperative detection. Collaborative malware...

This paper presents an in-depth review of software-defined named data networking (SD-NDN), a transformative approach in network architectures poised to deliver substantial benefits. By addressing the limitations inherent in traditional host-centric n...