Recently, there has been growing interest in using smart eHealth systems to manage asthma. However, limitations still exist in providing smart services and accurate predictions tailored to individual patients’ needs. This study aims to develop...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become increasingly popular, and opened new possibilities for applications in various domains. However, the IoT also poses security challenges due to the limited resources of the devices and its dynamic network topolo...
Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) hold significant economic and military value; however, their routing protocols remain inherently vulnerable to external attacks. Unlike terrestrial networks, UWSNs cannot readily adopt complex cryptographic...
In IoT networks, the de facto Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is vulnerable to various attacks. Routing attacks in RPL-based IoT are becoming critical with the increase in the number of IoT applications and devices globally. T...
The Onion Router (Tor), as the most widely used anonymous network, is vulnerable to traffic correlation attacks by powerful passive adversaries, such as Autonomous Systems (AS). AS-level adversaries increase their chances of executing correlation att...
The presence of malevolent nodes in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) would lead to genuine security concerns. These nodes may disturb the routing process or deform the pattern of the data packets passing through the network. The MANET is extremely lia...
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand rapidly, with the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) serving as its core communication backbone. However, RPL remains vulnerable to a range of insider routing attacks such as the V...
In ad-hoc vehicle networks (VANETs), the random mobility causes the rapid network topology change, which leads to the challenge of the reliable data transmission. In this paper, we propose a hybrid-price auction-based secure routing (HPA-SR) protocol...
Secure Shell (SSH) intrusions against Linux servers remain a dominant vector of opportunistic and targeted cyber incidents, yet operational honeypots treat attacker commands either as isolated lookup keys for static templates or as input to a single...
The network area is extended from ground to air. In order to efficiently manage various kinds of nodes, new network paradigms are needed such as cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO). Additionally, security is also considered as...
Security-aware artificial intelligence is becoming essential for protecting future wireless communication networks, particularly 6G terrestrial–non-terrestrial networks (TN–NTNs), where rapid mobility and dynamic routing create new opport...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of selective routing attack in wireless sensor networks by considering a novel threat, named the upstream-node effect, which limits the accuracy of the monitoring functions in deciding whether a monitored nod...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used for applications in numerous fields. One of the main challenges is the limited energy resources when designing secure routing in such networks. Hierarchical organization of nodes in the network ca...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become very popular during the last decade by providing new solutions to modern industry and to entire societies. At the same time, the rise of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has provided various benefits by...
Most existing approaches for solving the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) problem focus on specific security mechanisms, for example, network intrusion detection system (NIDS) detection and firewall configuration, rather than on the packet routin...
The proliferation of the internet of things (IoT) technology has led to numerous challenges in various life domains, such as healthcare, smart systems, and mission-critical applications. The most critical issue is the security of IoT nodes, networks,...
To successfully realize the ubiquitous network environment including home automation or industrial control systems, it is important to be able to resist a jamming attack. This has recently been considered as an extremely threatening attack because it...
This paper proposes a routing protocol for wireless sensor networks to deal with energy-depleting vampire attacks. This resource-conserving protection against energy-draining (RCPED) protocol is compatible with existing routing protocols to detect ab...
The exponentially growing concern of cyber-attacks on extremely dense underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) and the evolution of UWSNs digital threat landscape has brought novel research challenges and issues. Primarily, varied protocol evaluation under...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are essential in many areas, from healthcare to environmental monitoring. However, WSNs are vulnerable to routing attacks that might jeopardize network performance and data integrity due to their inherent vulnerabiliti...
The recent expansion of networks of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites such as Starlink, OneWeb, and Telesat and the evolution of communication systems toward B5G and 6G with densely interconnected devices could generate opportunities for various cyber...
Secure routing is crucial for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because they are vulnerable to various attacks. In this paper, we propose a new secure routing protocol for WSNs in the presence of malicious nodes. For each relay node in the route, assoc...
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) or Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have a “decentralized” architecture and are very susceptible to sophisticated attacks, such as identity forgery attacks using deep learning (DL) methods. Secure routing an...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being used to facilitate monitoring of patients in hospital and home environments. These systems consist of a variety of different components/sensors and many processes like clustering, routing, security, and self-...
Recently, research into Wireless Body-Area Sensor Networks (WBASN) or Wireless Body-Area Networks (WBAN) has gained much importance in medical applications, and now plays a significant role in patient monitoring. Among the various operations, routing...
In the Internet of Things (IoT), the de facto Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is susceptible to several disruptive attacks based on its functionalities and features. Among various RPL security solutions, a trust-based security...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a significant technological advancement that allows for seamless device integration and data flow. The development of the IoT has led to the emergence of several solutions in various sectors. However, rapid popularizat...
Traversal time and hop count analysis (TTHCA) is a recent wormhole detection algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) which provides enhanced detection performance against all wormhole attack variants and network types. TTHCA involves each node m...
Quick and accurate detection of inside packet drop attackers is of critical importance to reduce the damage they can have on the network. Trust mechanisms have been widely used in wireless sensor networks for this purpose. However, existing trust mod...
The emergence of wireless sensor network (WSN) technology is accompanied by intrinsic constraints and vulnerabilities that render it susceptible to malicious exploitation by intruders. The primary objective of this article is to address security issu...
In vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks, security and safety are inherently difficult tasks due to the distinct characteristics of such networks, such as their highly dynamic topology and frequent connectivity disruptions. Jellyfish attacks are a sor...
Security in wireless sensor networks is difficult to achieve because of the resource limitations of the sensor nodes. We propose a trust-based decision framework for wireless sensor networks coupled with a non-deterministic routing protocol. Both pro...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are now key in today’s new world. They are critically needed in many situations when it is crucial to form a network on the fly while not having the luxury of time or resources to configure devices, build infrast...
Most networks strive to provide good security and an acceptable level of performance. Quality of service (QoS) plays an important role in the performance of a network. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a decentralized and self-configuring type of w...
Across a diverse landscape of anonymity designs, the dominant paradigms—onion routing (e.g., Tor) and mix networks (e.g., Loopix)—carry intrinsic constraints: long-lived circuits invite traffic correlation, and mixnets often rely on a net...
A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a sophisticated wireless communication infrastructure incorporating centralized and decentralized control mechanisms, orchestrating seamless data exchange among vehicles. This intricate communication system relie...
In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), high mobility of vehicles issues a huge challenge to the reliability and security of transmitting packets. Therefore, a Secure and Reliable Opportunistic Routing (SROR) is proposed in this paper. During construc...
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is witnessed to play the leading role in the future of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Though many works have focused on IoV improvement, there is still a lack of performance due to insufficient spectrum avail...
The main advantage of software defined networking (SDN) is that it allows intelligent control and management of networking though programmability in real time. It enables efficient utilization of network resources through traffic engineering, and off...
With the continuous growth of global communication demands, the space-ground integrated optical network (SGION), composed of the satellite optical network (SON) and terrestrial optical network (TON), has gradually become a critical component of globa...
As demand increases for ubiquitous network facilities, infrastructure-less and self-configuring systems like Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) are gaining popularity. MANET routing security however, is one of the most significant challenges to wide scal...
Detecting malicious activities in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) is an important research field as it can prevent serious damage within the network and enhance security and privacy. In this regard, a number of approaches based on machine learning...
The current state of security and availability of the Internet is far from being commensurate with its importance. The number and strength of DDoS attacks conducted at the network layer have been steadily increasing. However, the single path (SP) rou...
Effective security support still remains a challenge even for a standardized Internet of Things network protocol such as the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). It provides limited protection against external security attack...
Routing security attacks in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) represent a challenging issue that may dramatically decrease the network performances and even cause hazardous damage in both lives and equipment. This study proposes a new approach named...
In this work, we compare a recently proposed routing protocol, the multi-parent hierarchical (MPH) protocol, with two well-known protocols, the ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) and dynamic source routing (DSR). For this purpose, we have develo...
In this paper, we focus on defending against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in a low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite network (LSN). To enhance the security of LSN, we propose the K-Bottleneck Minimize routing method. The algorithm ensures p...
Vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a vital part of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), offering a variety of advantages from reduced traffic to increased road safety. Despite their benefits, VANETs remain vulnerable to various security threat...
The use of resource-constrained Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs), where the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL) is the de facto routing standard, has increased due to the Internet of Things’ (IoT) explosive growth. Because of the dynamic na...
Security is a mandatory issue in any network, where sensitive data are transferred safely in the required direction. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are the networks formed in hostile areas for different applications. Whatever the application, the WS...
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