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21 Citations
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Attack Graph Generation with Machine Learning for Network Security

  • Kijong Koo,
  • Daesung Moon,
  • Jun-Ho Huh,
  • Se-Hoon Jung and
  • Hansung Lee

Recently, with the discovery of various security threats, diversification of hacking attacks, and changes in the network environment such as the Internet of Things, security threats on the network are increasing. Attack graph is being actively studie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Smart Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,741 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2024

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the development of computer networks has been advancing rapidly, and the world has gradually entered a new era of digital connectivity. While enjoying the convenience brought by digitization, people are also f...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,446 Views
26 Pages

Multiple Linear-Combination Security Network Coding

  • Yang Bai,
  • Xuan Guang and
  • Raymond W. Yeung

28 July 2023

In this paper, we put forward the model of multiple linear-combination security multicast network coding, where the wiretapper desires to obtain some information about a predefined set of multiple linear combinations of the source symbols by eavesdro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Network Coding II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,376 Views
29 Pages

Network Slicing Security Controls and Assurance for Verticals

  • Tomasz Wichary,
  • Jordi Mongay Batalla,
  • Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis,
  • Jerzy Żurek and
  • George Mastorakis

This paper focuses on the security challenges of network slice implementation in 5G networks. We propose that network slice controllers support security by enabling security controls at different network layers. The slice controller orchestrates mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,664 Views
23 Pages

Advanced Network and System Security Teaching

  • Mihajlo Ogrizović,
  • Pavle Vuletić and
  • Žarko Stanisavljević

In an attempt to address the growing shortage of cybersecurity specialists in the country, the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, started the course entitled Advanced Network and System Security (ANS) in the 2019/2020 school ye...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,817 Views
30 Pages

Optical Network Security: Threats, Techniques, and Future Directions

  • Anna Gazani,
  • Athanasios Mantzavinos,
  • Polyxeni Tsompanoglou,
  • Konstantinos Kantelis and ,
  • Sophia Petridou,
  • Petros Nicopolitidis and
  • Georgios Papadimitriou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 February 2026

Optical networks constitute the backbone of contemporary communication infrastructures, supporting massive bandwidth, low-latency services, and high levels of scalability across core, metro, and access domains. As these systems evolve toward elastic,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,141 Views
22 Pages

Toward Secure and Resilient Networks: A Zero-Trust Security Framework with Quantum Fingerprinting for Devices Accessing Network

  • Bassfar Zaid,
  • Ashar Sayeed,
  • Priti Bala,
  • Ali Alshehri and ,
  • Abdulaziz Mohammed Alanazi and
  • Swaleha Zubair
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2023

The importance of network security has increased with the emergence of networked systems in contemporary computing, making it an essential aspect of protecting digital assets and safeguarding against cyber threats. The current security mechanisms, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Complex Networks and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,052 Views
29 Pages

FO-Sketch: A Fast Oblivious Sketch for Secure Network Measurement Service in the Cloud

  • Lingtong Liu,
  • Yulong Shen,
  • Shuiguang Zeng and
  • Zhiwei Zhang

20 August 2021

Network measurements are the foundation for network applications. The metrics generated by those measurements help applications improve their performance of the monitored network and harden their security. As severe network attacks using leaked infor...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,562 Views
13 Pages

Marine Network Protocols and Security Risks

  • Ky Tran,
  • Sid Keene,
  • Erik Fretheim and
  • Michail Tsikerdekis

14 April 2021

Marine network protocols are domain-specific network protocols that aim to incorporate particular features within the specialized marine context that devices are implemented in. Devices implemented in such vessels involve critical equipment; however,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Intelligent Security and Privacy Approaches against Cyber Threats)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,460 Views
32 Pages

Network slicing empowers 5G with enhanced network performance and efficiency, cost saving, and better QoS and customer satisfaction, and expands the commercial application scenarios of 5G networks. However, the introduction of new techniques usually...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,408 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2022

Recently, more and more mobile devices have been connected to the Internet. The Internet environment is complicated, and network security incidents emerge endlessly. Traditional blocking and killing passive defense measures cannot fundamentally meet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Communications Section 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,854 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2015

Since wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been designed to be deployed in an unsecured, public environment, secured communication is really vital for their wide-spread use. Among all of the communication protocols developed for WSN, the Security Pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,068 Views
14 Pages

Security Service Function Chain Based on Graph Neural Network

  • Wei Li,
  • Haomin Wang,
  • Xiaoliang Zhang,
  • Dingding Li and ,
  • Lijing Yan,
  • Qi Fan,
  • Yuan Jiang and
  • Ruoyu Yao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 February 2022

With the rapid development and wide application of cloud computing, security protection in cloud environment has become an urgent problem to be solved. However, traditional security service equipment is closely coupled with the network topology, so i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,819 Views
24 Pages

The Internet of things (IoT) has revolutionized the use of connectivity and has given birth to new transmission technologies to satisfy the requirements of diverse IoT applications. Low powered wide area networks (LPWAN) is one of those transmission...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Privacy and Trustworthiness of Wireless Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,770 Views
27 Pages

30 August 2023

Network security is paramount in today’s digital landscape, where cyberthreats continue to evolve and pose significant risks. We propose a DPDK-based scanner based on a study on advanced port scanning techniques to improve network visibility an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security Issues and Solutions in Sensing Systems and Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,893 Views
20 Pages

Network security situational awareness is based on the extraction and analysis of big data, and by understanding these data to evaluate the current network security status and predict future development trends, provide feedback to decision-makers to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,897 Views
33 Pages

2 September 2013

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can act as a scalable backbone by connecting separate sensor networks and even by connecting WMNs to a wired network. The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) is the default routing protocol for the 802.11s WMN. The rout...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,243 Views
22 Pages

6 January 2020

The integrated air-ground multi-domain network provides users with a set of shared infrastructures. Security policies can be defined flexibly in the context of multi-domain network semantics. The packet filter module in the security gateway can run e...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,582 Views
18 Pages

Network security and intrusion detection and response (IDR) are necessary issues nowadays. Enhancing our cyber defense by discovering advanced machine learning models, such as reinforcement learning and Q-learning, is a crucial security measure. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition for Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
11,719 Views
36 Pages

Enhancing Network Slicing Security: Machine Learning, Software-Defined Networking, and Network Functions Virtualization-Driven Strategies

  • José Cunha,
  • Pedro Ferreira,
  • Eva M. Castro,
  • Paula Cristina Oliveira and ,
  • Maria João Nicolau,
  • Iván Núñez,
  • Xosé Ramon Sousa and
  • Carlos Serôdio
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The rapid development of 5G networks and the anticipation of 6G technologies have ushered in an era of highly customizable network environments facilitated by the innovative concept of network slicing. This technology allows the creation of multiple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Privacy and Security in Computing Continuum and Data-Driven Workflows)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
7,381 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Industrial IoT Network Security through Blockchain Integration

  • Yash Bobde,
  • Gokuleshwaran Narayanan,
  • Manas Jati,
  • Raja Soosaimarian Peter Raj and ,
  • Ivan Cvitić and
  • Dragan Peraković
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In the rapidly evolving landscape of industrial ecosystems, Industrial IoT networks face increasing security challenges. Traditional security methods often struggle to protect these networks adequately, posing risks to data integrity, confidentiality...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,660 Views
23 Pages

This work demonstrates the feasibility of using Kali Linux in the process of power electronic device research. The novelty in this work is the use of Kali Linux in the process of power electronic device research. This operating system is mainly used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,247 Views
22 Pages

Wireless Sensor Network in Agriculture: Model of Cyber Security

  • Radomir Prodanović,
  • Dejan Rančić,
  • Ivan Vulić,
  • Nenad Zorić and ,
  • Dušan Bogićević,
  • Gordana Ostojić,
  • Sohail Sarang and
  • Stevan Stankovski
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 November 2020

Nowadays, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely used in agriculture monitoring to improve the quality and productivity of farming. In this application, sensors gather different types of data (i.e., humidity, carbon dioxide level, and temperature)...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,232 Views
22 Pages

Research on a Critical Link Discovery Method for Network Security Situational Awareness

  • Guozheng Yang,
  • Yongheng Zhang,
  • Yuliang Lu,
  • Yi Xie and
  • Jiayi Yu

4 April 2024

Network security situational awareness (NSSA) aims to capture, understand, and display security elements in large-scale network environments in order to predict security trends in the relevant network environment. With the internet’s increasing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Complex Networks and Their Applications, from COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023)
  • Review
  • Open Access
113 Citations
17,691 Views
28 Pages

ML-Based 5G Network Slicing Security: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Ramraj Dangi,
  • Akshay Jadhav,
  • Gaurav Choudhary,
  • Nicola Dragoni and ,
  • Manas Kumar Mishra and
  • Praveen Lalwani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Fifth-generation networks efficiently support and fulfill the demands of mobile broadband and communication services. There has been a continuing advancement from 4G to 5G networks, with 5G mainly providing the three services of enhanced mobile broad...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,462 Views
25 Pages

1 July 2023

We propose an optimized Clockwork Recurrent Neural Network (CW-RNN) based approach to address temporal dynamics and nonlinearity in network security situations, improving prediction accuracy and real-time performance. By leveraging the clock-cycle RN...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,193 Views
17 Pages

Digital Security by Design (DSbD) is an initiative supported by the UK government aimed at transforming digital technology to deliver necessary digital resilience and prosperity across the UK. As emerging challenges in the field of digital security e...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data Mining and Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,379 Views
16 Pages

Network slicing is a core enabler of multi-tenant 5th Generation (5G) architectures, allowing heterogeneous services to coexist over shared infrastructure. However, ensuring effective isolation between slices remains a critical security challenge, as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intrusion/Malware Detection and Prevention in Networks—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,742 Views
11 Pages

26 October 2022

Machine-to-machine (M2M) intelligent network devices are exposed to vulnerable networks and security threats always exist. The devices are composed of low-capacity hardware by their nature and are exposed to various security threats such as worms, vi...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,279 Views
20 Pages

DCSS Protocol for Data Caching and Sharing Security in a 5G Network

  • Ed Kamya Kiyemba Edris,
  • Mahdi Aiash and
  • Jonathan Loo

7 July 2021

Fifth Generation mobile networks (5G) promise to make network services provided by various Service Providers (SP) such as Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and third-party SPs accessible from anywhere by the end-users through their User Equipment (UE)....

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,437 Views
25 Pages

Security in Wireless Body Sensor Network: A Multivocal Literature Study

  • Najm Us Sama,
  • Kartinah Zen,
  • Mamoona Humayun,
  • Noor Zaman Jhanjhi and
  • Atiq Ur Rahman

The wireless body sensor network (WBSN) is a wireless communication that might enable 24/7 patient monitoring and health findings through the online platform. Although BSN design is becoming simpler, building a secure BSN seems to be more challenging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,303 Views
25 Pages

Analysis of Factors Affecting the Spatial Association Network of Food Security Level in China

  • Chuansong Zhao,
  • Chunxia Li,
  • Jianxu Liu,
  • Haixia Lian and
  • Woraphon Yamaka

26 October 2024

Food security serves as the cornerstone of national security, intricately linked to social stability and economic progress. Currently, with the swift evolutions in social economy, logistics and transport, information dissemination, and technological...

(This article belongs to the Topic Novel Studies in Agricultural Economics and Sustainable Farm Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,745 Views
20 Pages

European LNG Import Network Analysis and Investigation of Supply Security

  • Konstantinos I. Savvakis and
  • Tatiana P. Moschovou

30 January 2025

The shift of European countries to more environmentally friendly sources of energy is leading to an increase in the share of natural gas in the energy mix. At the same time, the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of maritime transport are making liqu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting and Optimization in Transport Energy Management Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,161 Views
16 Pages

12 September 2024

This paper presents an innovative model, VGGIncepNet, which integrates non-image-to-image conversion techniques with deep learning modules, specifically VGG16 and Inception, aiming to enhance performance in network intrusion detection and IoT securit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,892 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2023

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is used in various industries to achieve industrial automation and intelligence. Therefore, it is important to assess the network security situation of the IIoT. The existing network situation assessment metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Intelligence, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,539 Views
15 Pages

Accurately extracting network security situation elements is an important basis for improving the situational awareness of industrial Internet security. This paper proposes an industrial internet security situation element extraction algorithm based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Solutions for Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,341 Views
24 Pages

MOMTA-HN: A Secure and Reliable Multi-Objective Optimized Multipath Transmission Algorithm for Heterogeneous Networks

  • Shengyuan Qi,
  • Lin Yang,
  • Linru Ma,
  • Shanqing Jiang and ,
  • Yuyang Zhou and
  • Guang Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the rapid development of heterogeneous network technologies, such as mobile edge computing, satellite communications, self-organizing networks, and the wired Internet, satisfying users’ increasingly diversified and complex communication ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Security Management in Heterogeneous Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,575 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Criteria Selection of Network Security Configuration Using NSGA-II

  • Bagdat Yagaliyeva,
  • Valery Lakhno,
  • Myroslav Lakhno,
  • Boris Gusev and ,
  • Kaiyrbek Makulov and
  • Tomiris Sundet
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The problem of multi-criteria selection of network security configurations (NSC) under resource constraints and the necessity to comply with information security (IS) policies is addressed in this study. A formal mathematical model of the problem has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Networks Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,146 Views
13 Pages

Rethinking the Security Assurances of MTD: A Gap Analysis for Network Defense

  • Łukasz Jalowski,
  • Marek Zmuda,
  • Mariusz Rawski and
  • Paulina Rekosz

7 February 2026

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a paradigm that has the potential to revolutionize the approach to network security. Although a significant number of papers have been published on the topic, there are still no standards or any dominant implementations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, 3rd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,895 Views
19 Pages

A Survey on MAC-Based Physical Layer Security over Wireless Sensor Network

  • Attique Ur Rehman,
  • Muhammad Sajid Mahmood,
  • Shoaib Zafar,
  • Muhammad Ahsan Raza and ,
  • Fahad Qaswar,
  • Sumayh S. Aljameel,
  • Irfan Ullah Khan and
  • Nida Aslam
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 August 2022

Physical layer security for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a laborious and highly critical issue in the world. Wireless sensor networks have great importance in civil and military fields or applications. Security of data/information through wirel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Driven Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Technologies for Next Generation Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,164 Views
19 Pages

12 April 2019

With the rapid development of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), sensors are being widely applied in industry and human life. Sensor networks based on IoT have strong Information transmission and processing capabilities. The security of sensor networks is...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,029 Views
51 Pages

Network Security Challenges and Countermeasures for Software-Defined Smart Grids: A Survey

  • Dennis Agnew,
  • Sharon Boamah,
  • Arturo Bretas and
  • Janise McNair

2 August 2024

The rise of grid modernization has been prompted by the escalating demand for power, the deteriorating state of infrastructure, and the growing concern regarding the reliability of electric utilities. The smart grid encompasses recent advancements in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
6,029 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2021

To better understand the behavior of attackers and describe the network state, we construct an LSTM-DT model for network security situation awareness, which provides risk assessment indicators and quantitative methods. This paper introduces the conce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy, Security, and Trust in New Technological Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,753 Views
21 Pages

28 June 2017

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used in different disciplines, including transportation systems, agriculture field environment monitoring, healthcare systems, and industrial monitoring. The security challenge of the wireless communication...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,457 Views
20 Pages

ISSA-ELM: A Network Security Situation Prediction Model

  • Hongzhe Sun,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Zhi Li and
  • Jinjin Li

To resolve the problems of low prediction accuracy and slow convergence speed of traditional extreme learning machines in network security situation prediction methods, we combine a meta-heuristic search algorithm with neural networks and propose a p...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,806 Views
19 Pages

Food Trade Network and Food Security: From the Perspective of Belt and Road Initiative

  • Mohammed Ismail Alhussam,
  • Jifan Ren,
  • Hongxing Yao and
  • Omar Abu Risha

In recent times, there has been a growing interest in the role of food trade in achieving food security. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between food trade and food security within the context of the Belt and Road Ini...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,834 Views
13 Pages

Prediction of Network Security Situation Based on Attention Mechanism and Convolutional Neural Network–Gated Recurrent Unit

  • Yuan Feng,
  • Hongying Zhao,
  • Jianwei Zhang,
  • Zengyu Cai and ,
  • Liang Zhu and
  • Ran Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2024

Network-security situation prediction is a crucial aspect in the field of network security. It is primarily achieved through monitoring network behavior and identifying potential threats to prevent and respond to network attacks. In order to enhance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,101 Views
22 Pages

Ensuring Security and Energy Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Network by Using Blockchain

  • Abdul Rehman,
  • Saima Abdullah,
  • Muqaddas Fatima,
  • Muhammad Waseem Iqbal and ,
  • Khalid Ali Almarhabi,
  • M. Usman Ashraf and
  • Saqib Ali
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 October 2022

With the advancement of new technology, security is the biggest issue nowadays. To solve security problems, blockchain technology will be used. In recent work, most of the work has been done on homogeneous systems, but in our research, the primary fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied and Innovative Computational Intelligence Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,109 Views
15 Pages

5G Network Slicing: Security Challenges, Attack Vectors, and Mitigation Approaches

  • José Dias,
  • Pedro Pinto,
  • Ricardo Santos and
  • Silvestre Malta

24 June 2025

This paper explores the security challenges associated with network slicing in 5th Generation (5G) networks, a technology that enables the creation of virtual networks tailored to different use cases. This study contributes to network slicing researc...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,927 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2017

For a Software Defined Network (SDN), security is an important factor affecting its large-scale deployment. The existing security solutions for SDN mainly focus on the controller itself, which has to handle all the security protection tasks by using...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Identification, Information & Knowledge in the Internet of Things)

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