The Section “Networks” provides full coverage of all topics of interest involved in the networking area. The purpose of this Section is to bring together researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research about the theoretical and practical aspects in the application domains of computer communications and networks.

As all of the articles published in our journal are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 listed below:

1. “Threat Analysis and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack Recognition in the Internet of Things (IoT)”
by Mohammed Hasan Ali, Mustafa Musa Jaber, Sura Khalil Abd, Amjad Rehman, Mazhar Javed Awan, Robertas Damaševičius and Saeed Ali Bahaj
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030494
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/494

2. “IMIDS: An Intelligent Intrusion Detection System against Cyber Threats in IoT”
by Kim-Hung Le, Minh-Huy Nguyen, Trong-Dat Tran and Ngoc-Duan Tran
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 524; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040524
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/524

3. “Deep Learning-Based Object Detection and Scene Perception under Bad Weather Conditions”
by Teena Sharma, Benoit Debaque, Nicolas Duclos, Abdellah Chehri, Bruno Kinder and Paul Fortier
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 563; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040563  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/563

4. “Securing Drug Distribution Systems from Tampering Using Blockchain”
by Mamoona Humayun, Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, Mahmood Niazi, Fathi Amsaad and Isma Masood
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1195; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081195
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1195

5. “Cooperative SWIPT THz-NOMA/6G Performance Analysis”
by Haider W. Oleiwi and Hamed Al-Raweshidy
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 873; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060873
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/873

6. “CMT-SCTP and MPTCP Multipath Transport Protocols: A Comprehensive Review”
by Parul Tomar, Gyanendra Kumar, Lal Pratap Verma, Varun Kumar Sharma, Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Sur Singh Rawat and Youseef Alotaibi
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2384; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152384
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2384

7. “Lightweight Challenge-Response Authentication in SDN-Based UAVs Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography”
by Muhammad Usman, Rashid Amin, Hamza Aldabbas and Bader Alouffi
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1026; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1026

8. “Blockchain-Enabled: Multi-Layered Security Federated Learning Platform for Preserving Data Privacy”
by Zeba Mahmood and Vacius Jusas
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1624; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101624
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1624

9. “An Intelligent System to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats in Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT)”
by Safdar Hussain Javed, Maaz Bin Ahmad, Muhammad Asif, Sultan H. Almotiri, Khalid Masood and Mohammad A. Al Ghamdi
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 742; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050742  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/742

10. “Machine Learning for Radio Resource Management in Multibeam GEO Satellite Systems”
by Flor G. Ortiz-Gomez, Lei Lei, Eva Lagunas, Ramon Martinez, Daniele Tarchi, Jorge Querol, Miguel A. Salas-Natera and Symeon Chatzinotas
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 992; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11070992  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/992

11. “A Visual Cryptography-Based Watermarking Approach for the Detection and Localization of Image Forgery”
by Moataz Z. Salim, Ali J. Abboud and Remzi Yildirim
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 136; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010136
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/136

12. “BiGRU-CNN Neural Network Applied to Electric Energy Theft Detection”
by Lucas Duarte Soares, Altamira de Souza Queiroz, Gloria P. López, Edgar M. Carreño-Franco, Jesús M. López-Lezama and Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 693; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050693
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/693

13. “A Comprehensive Review of Channel Modeling for Land Mobile Satellite Communications”
by Mauro Tropea and Floriano De Rango
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 820; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050820
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/820

14. “Effectiveness Evaluation of Different IDSs Using Integrated Fuzzy MCDM Model”
by Hashem Alyami, Md Tarique Jamal Ansari, Abdullah Alharbi, Wael Alosaimi, Majid Alshammari, Dhirendra Pandey, Alka Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar and Raees Ahmad Khan
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 859; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060859  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/859

15. “Beyond Perceptual Thresholds and Personal Preference: Towards Novel Research Questions and Methodologies of Quality of Experience Studies on Light Field Visualization”
by Peter A. Kara, Roopak R. Tamboli, Edris Shafiee, Maria G. Martini, Aniko Simon and Mary Guindy
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 953; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060953
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/953

16. “SAGMAD—A Signature Agnostic Malware Detection System Based on Binary Visualisation and Fuzzy Sets”
by Betty Saridou, Joseph Ryan Rose, Stavros Shiaeles and Basil Papadopoulos
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1044; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071044
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1044

17. “Statistical Channel Model and Systematic Random Linear Network Coding Based QoS Oriented and Energy Efficient UWSN Routing Protocol”
by Pramod Halebeedu Basavaraju, Gururaj Harinahalli Lokesh, Gowtham Mohan, Noor Zaman Jhanjhi and Francesco Flammini
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2590; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162590
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2590

18. “An Approach to Combine the Power of Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Graph Neural Network for Routing Optimization”
by Bo Chen, Di Zhu, Yuwei Wang and Peng Zhang
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030368
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/368

19. “A Novel Android Botnet Detection System Using Image-Based and Manifest File Features”
by Suleiman Y. Yerima and Abul Bashar
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 486; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030486
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/486

20. “Overview of Prospects for Service-Aware Radio Access towards 6G Networks”
by Zixiao Zhao, Qinghe Du, Dawei Wang, Xiao Tang and Houbing Song
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1262; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081262
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1262