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129 Citations
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Challenges Associated with Implementing 5G in Manufacturing

  • Eoin O’Connell,
  • Denis Moore and
  • Thomas Newe

12 June 2020

5G networks will change several industries, including manufacturing. 5G has the potential to become the future communication platform of choice for many industries and in particular the manufacturing sector, driving the future of Industry 4.0 and sma...

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91 Citations
20,885 Views
21 Pages

Stock Market Prediction Using Microblogging Sentiment Analysis and Machine Learning

  • Paraskevas Koukaras,
  • Christina Nousi and
  • Christos Tjortjis

27 May 2022

The use of Machine Learning (ML) and Sentiment Analysis (SA) on data from microblogging sites has become a popular method for stock market prediction. In this work, we developed a model for predicting stock movement utilizing SA on Twitter and StockT...

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87 Citations
5,766 Views
9 Pages

Designing Smart Electromagnetic Environments for Next-Generation Wireless Communications

  • Andrea Massa,
  • Arianna Benoni,
  • Pietro Da Rù,
  • Sotirios K. Goudos and ,
  • Baozhu Li,
  • Giacomo Oliveri,
  • Alessandro Polo,
  • Paolo Rocca and
  • Marco Salucci
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 May 2021

The design of a smart electromagnetic (EM) environment for next-generation wireless communication systems is addressed in this work. The proposed approach aims at synthesizing a desired EM field distribution over a target region, where the receiving...

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85 Citations
9,528 Views
18 Pages

XGB-RF: A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for IoT Intrusion Detection

  • Jabed Al Faysal,
  • Sk Tahmid Mostafa,
  • Jannatul Sultana Tamanna,
  • Khondoker Mirazul Mumenin and ,
  • Md. Mashrur Arifin,
  • Md. Abdul Awal,
  • Atanu Shome and
  • Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 January 2022

In the past few years, Internet of Things (IoT) devices have evolved faster and the use of these devices is exceedingly increasing to make our daily activities easier than ever. However, numerous security flaws persist on IoT devices due to the fact...

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79 Citations
8,165 Views
22 Pages

Review of Localization and Clustering in USV and AUV for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Kaveripakam Sathish,
  • Ravikumar Chinthaginjala Venkata,
  • Rajesh Anbazhagan and
  • Giovanni Pau

11 January 2023

Oceanographic data collection, disaster prevention, aided navigation, critical observation sub-missions, contaminant screening, and seaward scanning are just a few of the submissions that use underwater sensor hubs. Unmanned submerged vehicles (USVs)...

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64 Citations
11,391 Views
14 Pages

Digital Twins: Enabling Interoperability in Smart Manufacturing Networks

  • Eoin O’Connell,
  • William O’Brien,
  • Mangolika Bhattacharya,
  • Denis Moore and
  • Mihai Penica

11 May 2023

As Industry 4.0 networks continue to evolve at a rapid pace, they are becoming increasingly complex and distributed. These networks incorporate a range of technologies that are integrated into smart manufacturing systems, requiring adaptability, secu...

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55 Citations
11,691 Views
33 Pages

16 January 2023

5G and beyond mobile networks are envisioned as the fundamental components that drive business and societal transformation. The deterioration of the natural environment and climate change have raised questions regarding the role of the mobile network...

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53 Citations
14,493 Views
19 Pages

AI-Enabled 6G Internet of Things: Opportunities, Key Technologies, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Madduma Wellalage Pasan Maduranga,
  • Valmik Tilwari,
  • R. M. M. R. Rathnayake and
  • Chamali Sandamini

16 August 2024

The advent of sixth-generation (6G) networks promises revolutionary advancements in wireless communication, marked by unprecedented speeds, ultra-low latency, and ubiquitous connectivity. This research paper delves into the integration of Artificial...

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52 Citations
21,674 Views
33 Pages

9 March 2023

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology-based sensors have found diverse fields of application due to the advancement in semiconductor manufacturing technology, which produces sensitive, low-cost, and powerful sensors. Due to the fabricatio...

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50 Citations
14,496 Views
21 Pages

State-of-the-Art Techniques in RF Energy Harvesting Circuits

  • Ioannis D. Bougas,
  • Maria S. Papadopoulou,
  • Achilles D. Boursianis,
  • Konstantinos Kokkinidis and
  • Sotirios K. Goudos

23 October 2021

The exigency for continuous use of electrical devices has created greater demands for electricity along with more efficient transmission techniques. Energy from natural resources can be solar, thermal, vibration, friction, or Radio Frequencies (RF) s...

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48 Citations
8,536 Views
31 Pages

3 January 2025

This review provides a comprehensive analysis of the design, materials, fabrication techniques, and applications of flexible wearable antennas, with a primary focus on their roles in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and healthcare technologies. We...

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48 Citations
13,772 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2021

Much research effort has been conducted to introduce intelligence into communication networks in order to enhance network performance. Communication networks, both wired and wireless, are ever-expanding as more devices are increasingly connected to t...

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46 Citations
14,310 Views
23 Pages

Towards Climate Smart Farming—A Reference Architecture for Integrated Farming Systems

  • Georgios Kakamoukas,
  • Panagiotis Sarigiannidis,
  • Andreas Maropoulos,
  • Thomas Lagkas and ,
  • Konstantinos Zaralis and
  • Chrysoula Karaiskou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 February 2021

Climate change is emerging as a major threat to farming, food security and the livelihoods of millions of people across the world. Agriculture is strongly affected by climate change due to increasing temperatures, water shortage, heavy rainfall and v...

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45 Citations
21,089 Views
41 Pages

6G Mobile Networks: Key Technologies, Directions, and Advances

  • Ramraj Dangi,
  • Gaurav Choudhary,
  • Nicola Dragoni,
  • Praveen Lalwani and ,
  • Utkarsh Khare and
  • Souradeep Kundu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 December 2023

The exponential growth of the fifth-generation (5G) network gives businesses and universities a chance to turn their attention to the next-generation network. It is widely acknowledged that many IoT devices require more than 5G to send various types...

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41 Citations
18,387 Views
120 Pages

A Comprehensive Survey on Knowledge-Defined Networking

  • Patikiri Arachchige Don Shehan Nilmantha Wijesekara and
  • Subodha Gunawardena

2 August 2023

Traditional networking is hardware-based, having the control plane coupled with the data plane. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which has a logically centralized control plane, has been introduced to increase the programmability and flexibility of...

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40 Citations
9,693 Views
29 Pages

A Survey from Real-Time to Near Real-Time Applications in Fog Computing Environments

  • Eliza Gomes,
  • Felipe Costa,
  • Carlos De Rolt,
  • Patricia Plentz and
  • Mario Dantas

3 December 2021

In this article, we present a comprehensive survey on time-sensitive applications implemented in fog computing environments. The goal is to research what applications are being implemented in fog computing architectures and how the temporal requireme...

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38 Citations
9,093 Views
18 Pages

Wearable Flexible Antenna for UWB On-Body and Implant Communications

  • Mariella Särestöniemi,
  • Marko Sonkki,
  • Sami Myllymäki and
  • Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

6 September 2021

This paper describes the development and evaluation of an on-body flexible antenna designed for an in-body application, as well as on-body communications at ISM and UWB frequency bands. The evaluation is performed via electromagnetic simulations usin...

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36 Citations
8,412 Views
33 Pages

12 March 2021

It had been predicted that by 2020, nearly 26 billion devices would be connected to the Internet, with a big percentage being vehicles. The Internet of Vehicles (IoVa) is a concept that refers to the connection and cooperation of smart vehicles and d...

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35 Citations
14,010 Views
36 Pages

LoRaWAN Communication Protocols: A Comprehensive Survey under an Energy Efficiency Perspective

  • Konstantina Banti,
  • Ioanna Karampelia,
  • Thomas Dimakis,
  • Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos and ,
  • Thomas Kyriakidis and
  • Malamati Louta
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 May 2022

Long range wide area networks (LoRaWANs) have recently received intense scientific, research, and industrial interest. LoRaWANs play a pivotal role in Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to their capability to offer large coverage without sacri...

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35 Citations
7,289 Views
58 Pages

A Vision of 6th Generation of Fixed Networks (F6G): Challenges and Proposed Directions

  • Dimitris Uzunidis,
  • Konstantinos Moschopoulos,
  • Charalampos Papapavlou,
  • Konstantinos Paximadis and ,
  • Dan M. Marom,
  • Moshe Nazarathy,
  • Raul Muñoz and
  • Ioannis Tomkos
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 November 2023

Humankind has entered a new era wherein a main characteristic is the convergence of various technologies providing services and exerting a major impact upon all aspects of human activity, be it social interactions with the natural environment. Fixed...

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35 Citations
5,157 Views
66 Pages

18 July 2023

The functionality of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is improved by the Software-Defined Vehicular Network (SDVN) paradigm. Routing is challenging in vehicular networks due to the dynamic network topology resulting from the high mobility of nodes....

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34 Citations
16,599 Views
27 Pages

Frequency Selective Surfaces: Design, Analysis, and Applications

  • Waseem Afzal,
  • Muhammad Zeeshan Baig,
  • Amir Ebrahimi,
  • Md. Rokunuzzaman Robel and ,
  • Muhammad Tausif Afzal Rana and
  • Wayne Rowe
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 November 2024

This paper aims to provide a general review of the fundamental ideas, varieties, methods, and experimental research of the most advanced frequency selective surfaces available today. Frequency-selective surfaces are periodic structures engineered to...

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31 Citations
6,505 Views
26 Pages

AI-Driven Telecommunications for Smart Classrooms: Transforming Education Through Personalized Learning and Secure Networks

  • Christos Koukaras,
  • Paraskevas Koukaras,
  • Dimosthenis Ioannidis and
  • Stavros G. Stavrinides

27 March 2025

Advances in telecommunications and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping modern educational spaces. Drawing upon diverse resources, this systematic literature review examines how these new advances including 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and AI-...

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31 Citations
7,077 Views
12 Pages

6 July 2020

In this paper, we describe a LoRa (from “Long Range”)-based, linear sensor network we have developed for transmitting location information of personnel and equipment in an underground mine. The system is intended to be used during emergencies when ex...

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30 Citations
7,424 Views
14 Pages

6 May 2021

Mobile networks are expected to face major problems such as low network capacity, high latency, and limited resources but are expected to provide seamless connectivity in the foreseeable future. It is crucial to deliver an adequate level of performan...

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29 Citations
8,787 Views
14 Pages

Feature-Selection-Based DDoS Attack Detection Using AI Algorithms

  • Muhammad Saibtain Raza,
  • Mohammad Nowsin Amin Sheikh,
  • I-Shyan Hwang and
  • Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman

17 April 2024

SDN has the ability to transform network design by providing increased versatility and effective regulation. Its programmable centralized controller gives network administration employees more authority, allowing for more seamless supervision. Howeve...

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27 Citations
20,910 Views
40 Pages

RF Energy-Harvesting Techniques: Applications, Recent Developments, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

  • Stella N. Arinze,
  • Emenike Raymond Obi,
  • Solomon H. Ebenuwa and
  • Augustine O. Nwajana

The increasing demand for sustainable and renewable energy solutions has made radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) a promising technique for powering low-power electronic devices. RFEH captures ambient RF signals from wireless communication syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Communication: Applications and Developments)
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27 Citations
11,967 Views
26 Pages

V2X Communication over Cellular Networks: Capabilities and Challenges

  • Athanasios Kanavos,
  • Dimitrios Fragkos and
  • Alexandros Kaloxylos

13 January 2021

Vehicular communications is expected to be one of the key applications for cellular networks during the following decades. Key international organizations have already described in detail a number of related use cases, along with their requirements....

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26 Citations
5,550 Views
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Feature Importances: A Tool to Explain Radio Propagation and Reduce Model Complexity

  • Sotirios P. Sotiroudis,
  • Sotirios K. Goudos and
  • Katherine Siakavara

21 August 2020

Machine learning models have been widely deployed to tackle the problem of radio propagation. In addition to helping in the estimation of path loss, they can also be used to better understand the details of various propagation scenarios. Our current...

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26 Citations
15,739 Views
16 Pages

5 November 2021

Nowadays, the demand for connection between the remote offices of a company, or between research locations, and constantly increasing work mobility (partly due to the current pandemic emergency) have grown hand in hand with the quality and speed of b...

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26 Citations
9,105 Views
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Phishing Detection in Blockchain Transaction Networks Using Ensemble Learning

  • Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun,
  • Micheal Olaolu Arowolo,
  • Robertas Damaševičius and
  • Sanjay Misra

31 May 2023

The recent progress in blockchain and wireless communication infrastructures has paved the way for creating blockchain-based systems that protect data integrity and enable secure information sharing. Despite these advancements, concerns regarding sec...

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26 Citations
13,680 Views
56 Pages

Fifty Years of Fixed Optical Networks Evolution: A Survey of Architectural and Technological Developments in a Layered Approach

  • Dimitris Uzunidis,
  • Michael Logothetis,
  • Alexandros Stavdas,
  • David Hillerkuss and
  • Ioannis Tomkos

11 November 2022

Over the past fifty years, telecommunications has transformed, in an unprecedented manner, the way we live, work and communicate. For telecommunications, fixed networks are the one pillar and wireless networks the other. The wireless networks and the...

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24 Citations
5,217 Views
11 Pages

Prediction of RF-EMF Exposure by Outdoor Drive Test Measurements

  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Taghrid Mazloum and
  • Joe Wiart

28 June 2022

In this paper, we exploit the artificial neural network (ANN) model for a spatial reconstruction of radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure in an outdoor urban environment. To this end, we have carried out a drive test measurement c...

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21 Citations
22,826 Views
47 Pages

Toward SDM-Based Submarine Optical Networks: A Review of Their Evolution and Upcoming Trends

  • Charalampos Papapavlou,
  • Konstantinos Paximadis,
  • Dimitrios Uzunidis and
  • Ioannis Tomkos

11 April 2022

Submarine networks have evolved alongside terrestrial ones over the past several decades. Although there are similarities between these two network categories (e.g., the need to cover ultra-long-haul distances and transport huge amounts of data), the...

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20 Citations
7,488 Views
20 Pages

A Brief Overview of Energy Efficiency Resources in Emerging Wireless Communication Systems

  • Augustus Ehiremen Ibhaze,
  • Agbotiname Lucky Imoize and
  • Obinna Okoyeigbo

28 April 2022

It is crucial to design new communication technologies to surmount the setbacks in RF communication systems. A suitable energy-efficiency scheme helps evade needless energy consumption in wireless communication. Appropriate choice of the most suitabl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Wireless Communication)
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20 Citations
6,970 Views
17 Pages

Machine Learning Based Recommendation System for Web-Search Learning

  • Veeramanickam M. R. M.,
  • Ciro Rodriguez,
  • Carlos Navarro Depaz,
  • Ulises Roman Concha and ,
  • Bishwajeet Pandey,
  • Reena S. Kharat and
  • Raja Marappan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 February 2023

Nowadays, e-learning and web-based learning are the most integrated new learning methods in schools, colleges, and higher educational institutions. The recent web-search-based learning methodological approach has helped online users (learners) to sea...

(This article belongs to the Topic Next Generation Intelligent Communications and Networks)
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19 Citations
4,939 Views
16 Pages

1 July 2021

UAV path planning for remote sensing aims to find the best-fitted routes to complete a data collection mission. UAVs plan the routes and move through them to remotely collect environmental data from particular target zones by using sensory devices su...

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19 Citations
7,692 Views
23 Pages

4 March 2022

The interconnection of devices, intended to collect and transmit data via the Internet, is called the Internet of Things (IoT). This technology has the potential to revolutionize both the economic and industrial sectors, especially in terms of data c...

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19 Citations
6,501 Views
21 Pages

5G Network Deployment Planning Using Metaheuristic Approaches

  • Binod Sapkota,
  • Rijan Ghimire,
  • Paras Pujara,
  • Shashank Ghimire and ,
  • Ujjwal Shrestha,
  • Roshani Ghimire,
  • Babu R. Dawadi and
  • Shashidhar R. Joshi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 July 2024

The present research focuses on optimizing 5G base station deployment and visualization, addressing the escalating demands for high data rates and low latency. The study compares the effectiveness of Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimizatio...

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18 Citations
6,016 Views
15 Pages

A Low Complexity Channel Estimation and Detection for Massive MIMO Using SC-FDE

  • Mário Marques da Silva,
  • Rui Dinis and
  • João Guerreiro

14 March 2020

5G Communications will support millimeter waves (mm-Wave), alongside the conventional centimeter waves, which will enable much higher throughputs and facilitate the employment of hundreds or thousands of antenna elements, commonly referred to as mass...

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18 Citations
1,521 Views
23 Pages

1 April 2026

As mobile networks evolve toward Beyond 5G and 6G architectures, energy efficiency and sustainability have become increasingly critical due to growing traffic volumes, denser base station deployments, and the rising number of connected devices. Suppo...

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18 Citations
5,865 Views
17 Pages

An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach for UAV-Aided Offloading of 5G Cellular Networks

  • Lefteris Tsipi,
  • Michail Karavolos and
  • Demosthenes Vouyioukas

20 January 2022

Today’s terrestrial cellular communications networks face difficulties in serving coexisting users and devices due to the enormous demands of mass connectivity. Further, natural disasters and unexpected events lead to an unpredictable amount of...

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17 Citations
7,222 Views
14 Pages

High-Efficiency Triple-Band RF-to-DC Rectifier Primary Design for RF Energy-Harvesting Systems

  • Maria S. Papadopoulou,
  • Achilles D. Boursianis,
  • Christos K. Volos,
  • Ioannis N. Stouboulos and ,
  • Spyridon Nikolaidis and
  • Sotirios K. Goudos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 August 2021

Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting has been emerged as a potentially reliable method to replace the costly and difficult to maintain source of low-power wireless sensor networks. A plethora of dual-band rectifier designs has been proposed in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies on Communications 2020)
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17 Citations
5,548 Views
35 Pages

Supporting Global Communications of 6G Networks Using AI, Digital Twin, Hybrid and Integrated Networks, and Cloud: Features, Challenges, and Recommendations

  • Shaymaa Ayad Mohammed,
  • Sallar S. Murad,
  • Havot J. Albeyboni,
  • Mohammad Dehghani Soltani and ,
  • Reham A. Ahmed,
  • Rozin Badeel and
  • Ping Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The commercial deployment of fifth generation (5G) mobile communication networks has begun, bringing with it novel offerings, improved user activities, and a variety of opportunities for different types of organizations. However, there still exist se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Communication: Applications and Developments)
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17 Citations
10,035 Views
17 Pages

Development of an Analog Gauge Reading Solution Based on Computer Vision and Deep Learning for an IoT Application

  • João Peixoto,
  • João Sousa,
  • Ricardo Carvalho,
  • Gonçalo Santos and ,
  • Joaquim Mendes,
  • Ricardo Cardoso and
  • Ana Reis
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2022

In many industries, analog gauges are monitored manually, thus posing problems, especially in large facilities where gauges are often placed in hard-to-access or dangerous locations. This work proposes a solution based on a microcontroller (ESP32-CAM...

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16 Citations
11,468 Views
23 Pages

Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later: A Temporal Cybersecurity Risk in the Quantum Transition

  • Francis Kagai,
  • Philip Branch,
  • Jason But and
  • Rebecca Allen

18 December 2025

Telecommunication infrastructures rely on cryptographic protocols designed for long-term confidentiality, yet data exchanged today faces future exposure when adversaries acquire quantum or large-scale computational capabilities. This harvest-now, dec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies in Communications and Machine Learning)
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16 Citations
5,743 Views
18 Pages

9 February 2021

Vehicular Named Data Networking (VNDN) is a revolutionary information-centric architecture specifically conceived for vehicular networks and characterized by name-based forwarding and in-network caching. So far, a variety of caching schemes have been...

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16 Citations
5,467 Views
23 Pages

Secure-by-Design Real-Time Internet of Medical Things Architecture: e-Health Population Monitoring (RTPM)

  • Jims Marchang,
  • Jade McDonald,
  • Solan Keishing,
  • Kavyan Zoughalian and ,
  • Raymond Mawanda,
  • Corentin Delhon-Bugard,
  • Nicolas Bouillet and
  • Ben Sanders
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 July 2024

The healthcare sector has undergone a profound transformation, owing to the influential role played by Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technology. However, there are substantial concerns over these devices’ security and privacy-preserving mec...

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16 Citations
8,406 Views
11 Pages

23 February 2023

This study aims to analyze and discuss the risks facing construction projects by reviewing some of the processes and procedures that address risks through the use of the digital twin technology. The paper studies generic risks and their treatment, an...

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