Application-level evidence is needed to evaluate communication-related delay, processing, reliability, and hosting cost when selecting cloud virtual machines for geographically distributed database-backed applications. This study presents a communica...
With the increase in the number of APIs and interconnected applications, API testing has become a critical part of the software testing process. Particularly considering the business-critical systems using API messages, the importance of repetitive A...
The rapid adoption of Android devices comes with the growing prevalence of mobile malware, which leads to serious threats to mobile phone security and attacks private information on mobile devices. In this paper, we designed and implemented a model f...
The GPRO suite is an in-progress bioinformatic project for -omics data analysis. As part of the continued growth of this project, we introduce a client- and server-side solution for comparative transcriptomics and analysis of variants. The client-sid...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and associated hazardous meteorological phenomena cause considerable economic damage and even loss of lives in the mid-latitudes. The mechanisms behind the formation and intensification of MCSs are still not well u...
The paper presents a solar radiation monitoring system, using two scientificpyranometers and an on-line computer home-made data acquisition system. The firstpyranometer measures the global solar radiation and the other one, which is shaded,measure th...
Android is the most used operating system (OS) by mobile devices. Since applications uploaded to Google Play and other stores are not analyzed comprehensively, it is not known whether the applications are malicious software or not. Therefore, there i...
Information technology (IT) security has become a major concern due to the growing demand for information and massive development of client/server applications for various types of applications running on modern IT infrastructure. How has security be...
This research expands the applicability of the Feasible Goals (FGoal) Pareto frontier multiple criteria method to display the Edgeworth–Pareto hull using interactive decision maps (IDMs). Emphasis is placed upon the development of a communicati...
Efficient authentication and key agreement protocols between two entities are required in many application areas. In particular, for client–server type of architectures, the client is mostly represented by a constrained device and thus highly e...
Real-time collaborative editing applications are drastically different from typical client–server applications in that every participant has a copy of the shared document. In this type of environment, each participant acts as both a client and a serv...
Robots are increasingly involved in our daily lives. Fundamental to robots are the communication link (or stream) and the applications that connect the robots to their clients or users. Such communication link and applications are usually supported t...
IoT-based applications operate in a client–server architecture, which requires a specific communication protocol. This protocol is used to establish the client–server communication model, allowing all clients of the system to perform spec...
Standardization and collaborative integration are fundamental for the implementation of Industry 4.0. The Open Communication Platform Unified Architecture (OPC UA) standard plays a crucial role in communication by enabling the development of heteroge...
This research presents a novel Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system called BREAST-CAD, developed to support clinicians in breast cancer detection. Our approach follows a three-phase methodology: Initially, a comprehensive literature review between 2...
The paper presents possible approaches for reducing the volume of data generated by simulation optimisation performed with a digital twin created in accordance with the Industry 4.0 concept. The methodology is validated using an application developed...
Nowadays, various systems were developed in the telecommunications field which make use of technologies for the transmission and reception of information. One of these technologies is the Internet, which was developed in tandem with scientific growth...
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have progressively incorporated machine learning to optimize traffic efficiency, enhance safety, and improve real-time decision-making. However, the traditional centralized machine learning (ML) paradigm faces...
In Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3), a secure connection is established in two sequential stages. Firstly, in the authentication and association stage, a pairwise master key (PMK) is generated. Secondly, in the post-association stage, a pairwise trans...
Obtaining and visualizing the internal state and position information of the remote device using sensors are important aspects of industrial manufacturing. For large-scale geo-sensors that have been recently used, map-based management and visualizati...
Computer networks consist of millions of nodes that need constant protection because of their continued vulnerability to attacks. Classical security methods for protecting such networks will not be effective enough if quantum computers become widespr...
Particle detector systems require data acquisition systems (DAQs) as their back-end. This paper presents a new edge-computing DAQ that is capable of handling multiple pixel detectors simultaneously and was designed for particle-tracking experiments....
For the establishment of future ubiquitous location-aware applications, a scalable indoor localization technique is essential technology. Numerous classification techniques for indoor localization exist, but none have proven to be as quick, secure, a...
The paper presents a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)-aware compiler optimization for task-level parallel code. The optimization is based on Non-Uniform Memory Access—Balanced Task and Loop Parallelism (NUMA-BTLP) algorithm Ştirb, 2018. The alg...
Security management for IoT applications is a critical research field, especially when taking into account the performance variation over the very different IoT devices. In this paper, we present high-performance client/server coordinators on low-cos...
Multifactor authentication is a relevant tool in securing IT infrastructures combining two or more credentials. We can find smartcards and hardware tokens to leverage the authentication process, but they have some limitations. Users connect these dev...
The integration of Deep Learning (DL) models with the HoloLens2 Augmented Reality (AR) headset has enormous potential for real-time AR medical applications. Currently, most applications execute the models on an external server that communicates with...
This research addresses the long-standing dependence on printed maps for navigation and highlights the limitations of existing digital services like Google Street View and Google Street View Player in providing comprehensive solutions for route analy...
Present-day intelligent healthcare applications offer digital healthcare services to users in a distributed manner. The Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT) is the mechanism of the Internet of Things (IoT) found in different healthcare applications,...
This article explores the world of dependable systems, specifically focusing on system design, software solutions, and architectural decisions that facilitate collaborative work on shared text documents across multiple users in near real time. It aim...
With the recent 5G communication technology deployment, Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) significantly enhances road safety by enabling real-time exchange of critical traffic information among vehicles, pedestrians, infrastructure, and networks...
This work focused on prescribing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a pilot project conducted in the Greek power system that addressed balancing and congestion management issues that system operators (SOs) face within the clean energy era. The...
The use of underwater recording is widely implemented across different marine ecology studies as a substitute for more invasive techniques. This is the case of the Deep Scattering Layer (DSL), a biomass-rich layer in the ocean located between 400 and...
Due to the high penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) and emerging DER interconnection and interoperability requirements, fast and standardized information exchange is essential for stable, resilient, and reliable operations in microgrids...
This paper focuses on the application of the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technique in the winemaking process. The HIL technique provides an effective methodology to test and verify the automatic control of industrial processes in 3D laboratory environ...
The usage of digital and intelligent healthcare applications on mobile devices has grown progressively. These applications are generally distributed and access remote healthcare services on the user’s applications from different hospital source...
Cyberspace is a new frontier, not just for hackers, but for engineers. It is a digital ecosystem, the next generation of Internet and network applications, promising a whole new world of distributed and open systems that can interact, self-organize,...
The use of in situ references in Earth observation monitoring is a fundamental need. LUCAS (Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey) is an activity that has performed repeated in situ surveys over Europe every three years since 2006. The dataset is u...
This article aims to evaluate the runtime effectiveness of various one-class classification (OCC) techniques for anomaly detection in an industrial scenario reproduced in a laboratory setting. To address the limitations posed by restricted access to...
As the demand for expansive back-end systems in online applications continues to grow, novel frameworks are necessitated to address the escalating operational demands, energy consumption, and associated costs. Traditional Client–Server models,...
Counterfeit products cause financial losses for both the manufacturer and the enduser; e.g., fake foods and medicines pose significant risks to the public’s health. Moreover, it is challenging to ensure trust in a product’s supply chain,...
Digital technologies are undergoing comprehensive integration across diverse domains and processes of the human economy, politics, culture, society, and ecological civilization. This integration brings forth novel concepts, formats, and models. In th...
Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized approach that aims to establish a global model by aggregating updates from diverse clients without sharing their local data. However, the approach becomes complicated when Byzantine clients join with arbitra...
With increasing numbers of computer vision and object detection application scenarios, those requiring ultra-low service latency times have become increasingly prominent; e.g., those for autonomous and connected vehicles or smart city applications. T...
While there is no rigorous framework to develop nanosatellites flight software, this manuscript aimed to explore and establish processes to design a reliable and reusable flight software architecture for cost-efficient student Cubesat missions such a...
Data integrity and authenticity verification are essential requirements to provide reliability for applications running in a video delivery system. We design a prototype system for handling data integrity as well as encoding sensitive objects in a vi...
Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics with a high d...
Classical client remote state preparation (CC − RSP) is a primitive where a fully classical party (client) can instruct the preparation of a sequence of random quantum states on some distant party (server) in a way that the description is known to th...
Hosting networking applications typically involves a server publicly accessible over the Internet. However, preparing a server requires excessive time and effort, particularly for non-expert users. This is because users configure multiple elements in...
Most of the world’s freshwater lake ecosystems are endangered due to intensive land use conditions. They are subjected to anthropogenic stress and severely degraded because of large-scale aquafarming, agricultural expansion, urbanization, and i...
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