2025 July - 51 articles
The covert nature of DNS covert channels makes them a widely utilized method for data exfiltration by malicious attackers. In response to this challenge, the present study proposes a detection methodology for DNS covert channels that employs a Deep B...
On a worldwide scale, neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s, face considerable healthcare challenges demanding the development of novel approaches to early detection and efficient treatment...
The evolution of electrical power systems into smart grids has brought about significant advancements in electricity generation, transmission, and utilization. These cutting-edge grids have shown potential as an effective way to maximize energy effic...
The emergence of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has revolutionized intelligent transportation and communication systems. However, IoV presents many complex and ever-changing security challenges and thus requires robust cybersecurity protocols. This p...
This work presents a parallel agent-based framework designed to analyze the dynamics of vegetable trade within a metropolitan area. The system integrates agent-based and discrete event techniques to capture the complex interactions among farmers, ven...
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach for privacy-preserving model training in autonomous vehicle networks, where real-world deployments rely on multiple roadside units (RSUs) serving heterogeneous clients with intermittent conne...
Telemedicine in emergency contexts presents unique challenges, particularly in multilingual and low-resource settings where accurate, clinical understanding and triage decision support are critical. This paper introduces TriagE-NLU, a novel multiling...
There is a growing pressure on industry to secure environments and demonstrate their commitment in taking right steps to secure their products. This is because of the growing number of security compromises in the IT industry, Operational Technology e...
The evolution from 4G to 5G—and eventually to the forthcoming 6G networks—has revolutionized wireless communications by enabling high-speed, low-latency services that support a wide range of applications, including the Internet of Things...
Ransomware, a significant cybersecurity threat, encrypts files and causes substantial damage, making early detection crucial yet challenging. This paper introduces a novel multi-phase framework for early ransomware detection, designed to enhance accu...
The increasing complexity and scale of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) networks pose significant security challenges, necessitating the development of advanced intrusion detection systems (IDS). Traditional IDS approaches, such as rule-based and signature...
This position paper proposes a conceptual framework (CF-BIAI-SXT) for integrating blockchain with AI to enhance ethical governance, transparency, and privacy in high-risk AI applications that ensure societal resilience through the mitigation of sexua...
Federated learning (FL) is an advanced distributed machine learning method that effectively solves the data silo problem. With the increasing popularity of federated learning and the growing importance of privacy protection, federated learning method...
Quantum memory is essential for the prolonged storage and retrieval of quantum information. Nevertheless, no current studies have focused on the creation of effective quantum memory for continuous variables while accounting for the decoherence rate....
Cyber-physical systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) have been applied in industrial automation and infrastructure management for decades. They are hybrid tools for administration, monitoring, and continuous control of real...
Software attack surfaces define the external boundaries—entry points, communication channels, and sensitive data stores through which adversaries may compromise a system. This paper introduces a scoring mechanism that produces a normalized atta...
In next-generation Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite networks, securing inter-satellite communication links (ISLs) through strong authentication is essential due to the network’s dynamic and distributed structure. Traditional authentication syste...
Microservice is a popular architecture for developing cloud-native applications. However, decomposing a monolithic application into microservices remains a challenging task. This complexity arises from the need to account for factors such as componen...
Intelligent transport systems are a major component of smart cities because their deployment should result in reduced journey times, less traffic congestion and a significant reduction in road deaths, which will greatly improve the quality of life of...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of distributed sensor nodes that collect and transmit environmental data, often in resource-constrained and unsecured environments. These characteristics make WSNs highly vulnerable to various security threats....
In the UAV-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) communication system, the UAV receives the data offloaded by multiple ground user devices as an aerial base station. Among them, due to the limited battery storage of a UAV, energy saving is a key issue...
Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) remain a persistent technique used by modern malware to establish stealthy command-and-control (C&C) channels, thereby evading traditional blacklist-based defenses. Detecting such evolving threats is especially...
Internet of Things (IoT) technology in healthcare has enabled innovative services that enhance patient monitoring, diagnostics and medical data management. However, securing sensitive health data while maintaining system efficiency of resource-constr...
The experimentation of agricultural robots has been increasing in recent years, both in greenhouses and open fields. While agricultural robots are inherently useful for automating various farming tasks, their presence can also be leveraged to collect...
There are workloads that do not need the total data ordering enforced by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). For example, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) has a sequence of pixel-based updates in which the order of rectangles can be relaxed. Howe...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), managing the vast volumes of data generated by connected devices presents significant challenges, particularly in B5G IoT environments. One key issue is data redundancy, where identic...
The rapid growth of the railway industry has resulted in the accumulation of large structured data that makes data security a critical component of reliable railway system operations. However, existing methods for identifying and classifying often su...
Efficient and timely data collection in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) for Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) applications remains a significant challenge due to the inherent limitations of the underwater environment. This paper presen...
Pneumothorax is a potentially life-threatening condition defined as the collapse of the lung due to air leakage into the chest cavity. Delays in the diagnosis of pneumothorax can lead to severe complications and even mortality. A significant challeng...
To address the fact that changes in network topology can have an impact on the performance of routing, this paper proposes an Elastic Routing Algorithm based on Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (ERA-MADDPG), which is implemented within...
Background: Machine learning methods are increasingly being used in mobile network optimization systems, especially next-generation mobile networks. The need for enhanced radio resource allocation schemes, improved user mobility and increased through...
We introduce TrustShare, a novel blockchain-based framework designed to enable secure, privacy-preserving, and trust-aware cyber threat intelligence (CTI) sharing across organizational boundaries. Leveraging Hyperledger Fabric, the architecture suppo...
The widespread use of WiFi Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has rendered them valuable tools for detecting information about the physical environment. Recent studies have demonstrated that WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) can detect physical even...
This study introduces a novel method that merges propagation-based transfer learning with word embeddings for rumor detection. This approach aims to use data from languages with abundant resources to enhance performance in languages with limited avai...
The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) networks has become increasingly prevalent with the growth of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. This shift, while enabling enhanced automation, remote mon...
We propose the extension for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-supported learning recommendations within higher education, focusing on enhancing the widely-used Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) and extending it to the Learning eXperience Platform (...
This study presents a system for automatic cookie collection using bots that simulate user browsing behavior. Five bots were deployed, one for each of the most commonly used university browsers, enabling comprehensive data collection across multiple...
The metaverse is a multidimensional reality space that represents the evolving interface between humans, digital systems, and spatial computing. This research aims to provide a comprehensive synthesis of metaverse definitions and architectural framew...
As cyber systems increasingly converge with physical infrastructure and social processes, they give rise to Complex Cyber–Physical–Social Systems (C-CPSS), whose emergent behaviors pose unique risks to security and mission assurance. Trad...
This paper explores the broad area of Smart City services and how the evolving Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum can support application deployment in Smart Cities. We initially introduce a range of Smart City services and highlight their computational needs....
To fully leverage Google Analytics and derive actionable insights, web analytics practitioners must go beyond standard implementation and customize the setup for specific functional requirements, which involves additional web development efforts. Pre...
The rapid expansion of Edge and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems has intensified the risk and complexity of cyberattacks. Detecting advanced intrusions in these heterogeneous and high-dimensional environments remains challenging. As the I...
The rapid development of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has not only provided global users with low-latency and unrestricted high-speed data services but also presented researchers with the challenge of understanding dynamic changes i...
Hybrid beamforming plays a critical role in evaluating wireless communication technology, particularly for millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) communication. Several hybrid beamforming systems are investigated for millimeter-w...
Current tourism route recommendation systems often overemphasize popular destinations, thereby overlooking geographical accessibility between attractions and the experiential coherence of the journey. Leveraging multidimensional attribute perceptions...
Edge computing (EC) faces unique security threats due to its distributed architecture, resource-constrained devices, and diverse applications, making it vulnerable to data breaches, malware infiltration, and device compromise. The mitigation strategi...
The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to an abundance of data streams and real-time dashboards in domains such as smart cities, healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture. However, many current IoT dashboards emphasize complex vis...
Ensuring reliable communication in remote or disaster-affected areas is a technical challenge due to unplanned deployment and mobilization, meaning placement difficulties and high operation costs of conventional telecommunications infrastructures. To...
This research introduces Fortified-Edge 2.0, a novel authentication framework that addresses critical security and privacy challenges in Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)-based systems for collaborative edge computing (CEC). Unlike conventional me...
This research presents an IoT-empowered adaptive mobility framework that integrates high-dimensional gesture recognition with edge-cloud orchestration for safety-critical human–machine interaction. The system architecture establishes a three-ti...
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