2025 April - 53 articles
Modern large language models (LLMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance through architectural advancements but require high computational costs for inference. Post-training quantization is a widely adopted approach to reduce these costs by quantizin...
Phase wraparound due to large inter-sensor spacings in multi-channel demixing renders the DUET and AdRess source separation algorithms—known for their low computational complexity and effective speech demixing performance—unsuitable for h...
Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative innovation, providing a transparent, immutable, and decentralized platform that underpins critical applications across industries such as cryptocurrencies, supply chain management, healthcare, and...
Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) in 6G networks is characterized by very high reliability and very low latency to enable mission-critical applications. The ability of a coding scheme to support diverse use cases requires flexibili...
This study examines multi-lexical data sources, utilizing an extracted dataset from an open-source corpus and the Global Terrorism Datasets (GTDs), to predict lexical patterns that are directly linked to terrorism. This is essential as specific patte...
E-commerce applications have emerged as key drivers of digital transformation, reshaping consumer behavior and driving demand for seamless online transactions. Despite the growth of smart mobile technologies, existing methods rely on fixed UI content...
The increasing adoption of smart home technologies has intensified the demand for real-time anomaly detection to improve security, energy efficiency, and device reliability. Traditional cloud-based approaches introduce latency, privacy concerns, and...
The frequency with which fake news or misinformation is published on social networks is constantly increasing. Users of social networks are confronted with many different posts every day, often with sensationalist titles and content of dubious veraci...
eHealth has transformed transplantation care by enhancing communication between patients and clinics, supporting self-management, and improving adherence to medical advice. However, existing research on eHealth in transplantation remains fragmented,...
Moroccan Law 55.19 aims to streamline administrative procedures, fostering trust between citizens and public administrations. To implement this law effectively and enhance public service quality, it is essential to use the Moroccan dialect to involve...
Edge computing (EC) is a distributed computing approach to processing data at the network edge, either by the device or a local server, instead of centralized data centers or the cloud. EC proximity to the data source can provide faster insights, res...
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications technology offers enhanced road safety, traffic efficiency, and connectivity. In V2V, vehicles cooperate by broadcasting safety messages to quickly detect and avoid dangerous situations on time or to avoid and...
Human fall detection is a significant healthcare concern, particularly among the elderly, due to its links to muscle weakness, cardiovascular issues, and locomotive syndrome. Accurate fall detection is crucial for timely intervention and injury preve...
Innovation ecosystems often face challenges such as inadequate coordination, insufficient protection of intellectual property, limited access to quality expertise, and inefficient matchmaking between innovators and experts. This paper provides an in-...
Traditional command and control (C2) frameworks struggle with evasion, automation, and resilience against modern detection techniques. This paper introduces covert C2 (C3), a novel C2 framework designed to enhance operational security and minimize de...
Modern multi-tiered data storage systems optimize file access by managing data across a hybrid composition of caches and storage tiers while using policies whose decisions can severely impact the storage system’s performance. Recently, differen...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized modern communication systems by enabling seamless connectivity among low-power devices. However, the increasing demand for high-performance wireless networks necessitates advanced frameworks that optimi...
Distributed inference in resource-constrained heterogeneous edge clusters is fundamentally limited by disparities in device capabilities and load imbalance issues. Existing methods predominantly focus on optimizing single-pipeline allocation schemes...
The ongoing adoption of Robot Operating Systems (ROSs) not only for research-oriented projects but also for industrial applications demands a more thorough assessment of its security than in the past. This paper highlights that a key ROS component&md...
Adaptive educational systems are essential for addressing the diverse learning needs of students by dynamically adjusting instructional content and user interfaces (UI) based on real-time performance. Traditional adaptive learning environments often...
The mix-zone method is effective in preserving real-time vehicle identity and location privacy in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). However, it has limitations in low-vehicle-density scenarios, where adversaries can still identify the real trajecto...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play a critical role in environmental monitoring and early forest fire detection. However, they are susceptible to sensor malfunctions and network intrusions, which can compromise data integrity and lead to false alarm...
The convergence of Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) offers transformative potential across numerous sectors. However, existing studies often examine these technologies independently or in limited pa...
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) presents complex cybersecurity challenges, particularly against Denial-of-Service (DoS) and spoofing attacks targeting the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. This study leverages the CICIoV2024 dataset, comprising six d...
The increasing demand for enhanced communication systems, driven by applications such as real-time video streaming, online gaming, critical operations, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) services, has necessitated the optimization of cellular networks to m...
With the development of the internet, the incidence of myopia is showing a trend towards younger ages, making routine vision screening increasingly essential. This paper designs an online refractive error screening solution centered on the CFGN (Comp...
This study conducts a systematic literature review following the PRISMA framework and the guidelines of Kitchenham and Charters to analyze the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and deep learning models in monitoring violent actions...
With the rapid growth of Internet applications and network traffic, existing routing algorithms are usually difficult to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) indicators such as delay, bandwidth, and packet loss rate as well as network energy consum...
One of the most emblematic theorems in the theory of distributed databases is Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem. It stresses the tradeoffs between Consistency, Availability, and Partition and states that it is impossible to guarantee all three of them...
Modern database systems are critical for storing sensitive information but are increasingly targeted by cyber threats, including SQL injection (SQLi) attacks. This research proposes a robust security framework leveraging Docker-based virtualisation t...
For efficient radio network planning, empirical path loss (PL) prediction models are utilized to predict signal attenuation in different environments. Alternatively, machine learning (ML) models are proposed to predict path loss. While empirical mode...
Due to the widespread applicability of generative artificial intelligence, we have seen it adopted across many areas of education, providing universities with new opportunities, particularly in cybersecurity education. With the industry facing a skil...
eHealth (electronic health) and mHealth (mobile health) have been rapidly evolving in recent years, offering innovative solutions to healthcare challenges [...]
Continuous integration and delivery are essential for modern software development, enabling teams to automate testing, streamline deployments, and deliver high-quality software more efficiently. As DevOps adoption grows, selecting the right CI/CD pla...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing but present significant technical and legal challenges when confronted with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This paper examines the complexities involved in r...
Community detection in complex networks remains a significant challenge due to noise, outliers, and the dependency on predefined clustering parameters. This study introduces GraphDBSCAN, an adaptive community detection framework that integrates an op...
Cloud computing presents itself as one of the leading technologies in the IT solutions field, providing a variety of services and capabilities. Meanwhile, blockchain-based solutions emerge as advantageous as they permit data immutability, transaction...
With the increasing predominance of public cloud computing, managing the cost of usage for end users has become vital in importance. Task scheduling has emerged as an important target of research in this area. The present work considers the problem o...
Pediatric appendicitis remains a challenging condition to diagnose accurately due to its varied clinical presentations and the non-specific nature of symptoms, particularly in younger patients. Traditional diagnostic approaches often result in delaye...
Digital twin (DT) technology is transforming industrial automation by enabling the real-time simulation, predictive control, and optimization of complex systems. This study presents a DT-based kinematic control method designed for trajectory planning...
The rapid emergence of infectious disease outbreaks has underscored the urgent need for effective communication tools to manage public health crises. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbots have become increasingly important in these situations,...
Collective intelligence inherently relies on knowledge sharing. In security-sensitive organizations, tension arises between the need to develop collective knowledge and organizational culture, which requires secrecy. Drawing on the effects of trust o...
In recent years, advancements in artificial intelligence, speech, and natural language processing technology have enhanced spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), enabling natural, voice-based human–computer interaction. However, discrete, token-based...
Fifth-Generation (5G) cellular networks extensively utilize subscriber identifiers throughout the protocol stack, thereby linking subscribers to their activities on the network. With the inherent use of linked identifiers comes the potential capabili...
The rapid expansion of IoT devices has introduced major challenges in ensuring data interoperability, enabling real-time processing, and achieving scalability, especially in decentralized edge computing environments. In this paper, an advanced framew...
With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the centralized cloud computing service delivery paradigm has been gradually transformed into a cloud continuum that includes edge and fog computing and heterogeneous IoT devices with varying computing...
This work studies the hypothesis of whether the UDP DoS attack affects voice and video flows in a VoIP network. It is a continuation of a previous work that studied the same hypothesis, but the VoIP server was under different types of TCP DoS attacks...
Large language models (LLMs) hold the potential to significantly enhance data annotation for free-text healthcare records. However, ensuring their accuracy and reliability is critical, especially in clinical research applications requiring the extrac...
Digital forensics systems are complex applications consisting of numerous individual components that demand substantial computing resources. By adopting the concept of microservices, forensics applications can be divided into smaller, independently m...
A software-defined network (SDN) is a new architecture approach for constructing and maintaining networks with the main goal of making the network open and programmable. This allows the achievement of specific network behavior by updating and install...
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