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4 Citations
4,613 Views
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With the increasing demand for intelligent services of the Internet of Things (IoT), its security issues have attracted widespread attention recently. Since most of the existing identity authentication policies are based on a single authentication mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art of Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,748 Views
14 Pages

Improving Collaborative Intrusion Detection System Using Blockchain and Pluggable Authentication Modules for Sustainable Smart City

  • Rajeev Kumar Gupta,
  • Vedant Chawla,
  • Rajesh Kumar Pateriya,
  • Piyush Kumar Shukla and ,
  • Saoucene Mahfoudh and
  • Syed Bilal Hussain Shah
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 January 2023

The threat of cyber-attacks is ever increasing in today’s society. There is a clear need for better and more effective defensive tools. Intrusion detection can be defined as the detection of anomalous behavior either in the host or in the netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,593 Views
21 Pages

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cybercriminals are targeting critical infrastructures such as traffic light systems and smart grids. A major concern is the security of such systems, which can be broken down into a number of categories...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Blockchain/IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,784 Views
26 Pages

8 October 2025

Collaborative design is recognized as a promising approach to strengthening preservice teachers’ digital competence, yet its potential when design tasks approximate the complexities of classroom practice remains underexplored. This mixed-method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Empowering Teacher Education with Digital Competences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
605 Views
29 Pages

As Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) are highly vulnerable to security threats such as identity spoofing, session replay and man-in-the-middle attacks in open-air channels, it is crucial to design an authentication key agreement (AKA) scheme to ensure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptography and Computer Security, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,512 Views
28 Pages

This research introduces Fortified-Edge 2.0, a novel authentication framework that addresses critical security and privacy challenges in Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)-based systems for collaborative edge computing (CEC). Unlike conventional me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT–Edge–Cloud Computing and Decentralized Applications for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
23 Pages

Since its founding in 2007, Airbnb has articulated its corporate identity around the mission “Belong Anywhere”, anchoring its brand promise in peer-to-peer hospitality, host empowerment, and authentic local experience. While this declared...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Power of Experience: Competitiveness, Engagement and Sustainable Tourism)
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,543 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2021

Collaboration is problematic in the public sector, yet many smart city theorists advocate relationships fully dependent upon collaboration to address the intense complexity encountered by city governments and achieve city objectives of quality of lif...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
888 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2025

There is a growing demand for digital innovation to facilitate authentic communication during the learning experience at Australian Universities. Student’s communication is considered ‘authentic’ in various ways, from using discipli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Power and Promise of Authentic Learning in Higher Education: Critical Approaches and Practical Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
487 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2026

In contexts of growing social polarisation and cultural complexity, tertiary educators are increasingly called upon to move beyond celebratory multiculturalism towards critically informed intercultural praxis in preparing students for 21st-century cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Music Education and Cultures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
866 Views
15 Pages

Developing Peer-to-Peer Feedback Literacy Through Authentic, Situated Learning Experiences

  • Peter Carew,
  • Jocelyn Phillips,
  • Carolyn Cracknell,
  • Selwyn Prea and ,
  • Debra Virtue,
  • Christine Nearchou and
  • Tandy Hastings-Ison
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 March 2026

Authentic, situated learning experiences which mirror the collaborative nature of healthcare practice are essential in preparing students for their future professions. Feedback literacy may be thought of as the understanding, capacity, and dispositio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Power and Promise of Authentic Learning in Higher Education: Critical Approaches and Practical Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,353 Views
26 Pages

A Secure Message Authentication Method in the Internet of Vehicles Using Cloud-Edge-Client Architecture

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Zihan Zhou,
  • Chang Jiang,
  • Wei Huang and ,
  • Yifei Zheng,
  • Tianli Tang and
  • Khadka Anish
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 October 2025

With the rapid deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has become an increasingly vital component in the development of smart cities. However, the openness of IoV also gives rise to critical issues such...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Methods to Transportation: Modeling and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
952 Views
17 Pages

28 April 2026

The purpose of this study is to examine how three pedagogical interventions, collaborative learning, authentic problem-solving, and ongoing formative feedback, are associated with student engagement in a design thinking course. While prior research h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Belonging and Engagement of Students in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
390 Views
30 Pages

19 August 2026

The growing use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in engineering education has created a need for measures that capture students’ creativity with these tools in engineering contexts. This research developed and validated the GAI-Assis...

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

Blockchain-assisted authentication frameworks have been introduced to mitigate the single point-of-failure problem in centralized IoT collaboration environments. Recently, a lightweight trust management framework based on a permissioned blockchain wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication Systems, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,220 Views
14 Pages

6 March 2023

The development of food tourism, with an emphasis on authentic gastronomy, is important to ensure the long-term sustainability of tourism, especially in rural areas. Success in developing this type of tourism is largely dependent on strong stakeholde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Tourism Planning and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
313 Views
26 Pages

Joint Access Authentication and Task Collaboration for Dynamic Cross-Domain Resource Management in Satellite Networks

  • Jiali Zhu,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Yuan Yao and ,
  • Weiwei Qi and
  • Yun Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 August 2026

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems provide wide-area Earth coverage and constitute an important component of the integrated space–air–ground network. With the increasing demand for near-data real-time task processing at the near-data...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Fitness influencers increasingly convert follower trust into purchasing behavior through seeding, group-buying, and social selling arrangements within South Korea’s hyperconnected, appearance-oriented digital ecosystem. Yet how they assess bran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brand Engagement and Social Interaction in Digital Commerce)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,576 Views
23 Pages

Integrated STEM for Teacher Professional Learning and Development: “I Need Time for Practice”

  • Andrea C. Burrows,
  • Mike Borowczak,
  • Adam Myers,
  • Andria C. Schwortz and
  • Courtney McKim

5 January 2021

This study compares three pre-collegiate teacher professional learning and development (PLD) integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences framed in astronomy. The study is set in the western United States (USA) and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative/Collaborative Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,501 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2022

The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate college students formed partnerships in informal educational teams to design and build an interdisciplinary, ill-defined, integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated STEM and STEM Partnerships: Teaching and Learning)
  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,056 Views
10 Pages

Dataset for Collaborative Robotics

  • Shurook S. Almohamade,
  • John A. Clark and
  • James Law

10 May 2026

This dataset represents the physical interactions collected by the robot’s sensors during a collaborative effort between humans and robots. The experiment was conducted at the Sheffield Robotics laboratory at the University of Sheffield, UK, ut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
28 Pages

26 May 2026

Privacy-preserving federated learning in the internet of vehicles (IoV) requires low-latency authentication, bounded privacy leakage, and robustness against malicious model updates. However, most existing studies separately design communication authe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Innovative Frameworks and Protocols)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,362 Views
17 Pages

With the rapid popularization of current Internet of Things (IoT) technology and 5G networks, as well as the continuous updating of new service lifestyles and businesses, the era of big data processing for the IoT has arrived. However, centralizing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
12,641 Views
23 Pages

Acquiring Authentic Data in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Chia-Mu Yu,
  • Chi-Yuan Chen,
  • Chun-Shien Lu,
  • Sy-Yen Kuo and
  • Han-Chieh Chao

26 March 2010

An Unattended Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) can be used in many applications to collect valuable data. Nevertheless, due to the unattended nature, the sensors could be compromised and the sensor readings would be maliciously altered so that the sink...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensor Network and Its Application in Advanced Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access

2 November 2026

Digital technologies are increasingly used to create practice-oriented learning experiences in pre-service teacher education, yet authenticity is often treated as a presumed feature of technology-supported practice and receives limited analysis as a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Education and Education for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,005 Views
22 Pages

Generative Unit Assessment: Authenticity in Mathematics Classroom Assessment Practices

  • P. Janelle McFeetors,
  • Richelle Marynowski and
  • Alexandra Candler

In our pursuit to broaden and deepen understandings of what it means to engage in an assessment activity, we explored the designing and implementing of a geometry performance task as an instantiation of authentic assessment to assess elementary schoo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
408 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2026

This conceptual article responds to the growing need for universities to embed sustainability education within programs to develop graduates capable of addressing complex global challenges. Drawing on the literature relating to education for sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,669 Views
16 Pages

20 April 2021

The current world crisis of COVID-19 has enforced international lockdowns in educational institutions, necessitating that these institutions quickly transition to online learning. In mathematics education studies, where collaborative problem-solving...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics Education and Implications to Educational Psychology)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
162 Views
21 Pages

Authentic E-Learning in Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Narrative Review

  • Zibonele Zimba,
  • Agrippa Mabvira,
  • Najma Aghardien,
  • Roshini Pillay and ,
  • Priscalia Khosa,
  • Hlologelo Malatji,
  • Nevashnee Perumal,
  • Uwarren September and
  • Mbongeni Shadrack Sithole
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

22 October 2026

This narrative review examines the state of authentic e-learning in higher education in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular attention paid to social work education in South Africa. It assesses whether the rapid move to online and blend...

(This article belongs to the Topic Rethinking Education in the Twenty-First Century: Innovation, Technologies, Inclusion, Well-Being, and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,383 Views
14 Pages

“Authenticity” as a Pathway to Sustainable Cultural Tourism? The Cases of Gotland and Rapa Nui

  • Marije Eileen Poort,
  • Ulrika Persson-Fischier,
  • Helene Martinsson-Wallin,
  • Evelina Elf Donaldson and
  • Mareike Schaub

2 June 2021

In this paper, two World Heritage island destinations are compared, Gotland in the Baltic and Rapa Nui in the Pacific. Both islands deal with a growing number of tourists, which asks for rethinking of tourism development. As cultural heritage plays a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Possibilities for Sustainable Development in a Baltic Sea Region Context)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,886 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2025

Despite widespread recognition of the critical role that family–school partnerships play in student learning, preservice teacher programs globally still provide only limited preparation for authentic parent engagement. This article synthesizes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Familycentric Approach to Schooling: What It Is, What It Takes, What It Looks Like)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,079 Views
22 Pages

Trusted Access Authentication Technology for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Terminals in a Vehicle Charging Network System

  • Jing Zou,
  • Peizhe Xin,
  • Zhihong Xiao,
  • Jiang Fang and ,
  • Ting Li,
  • Haonan He,
  • Shangyuan Zhuang and
  • Yinlong Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

A vehicle charging network system has to access large-scale heterogeneous terminals to collect charging pile status information, which may also give malicious terminals an opportunity to access. Though some general access authentication solutions aim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,008 Views
19 Pages

23 May 2025

As an important part of the Internet of Things, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has achieved efficient interconnection and collaboration between vehicles and road infrastructure, and between vehicles through advanced information and communication tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,237 Views
17 Pages

Beyond Detection: Redesigning Authentic Assessment in an AI-Mediated World

  • Steven Kickbusch,
  • Kevin Ashford-Rowe,
  • Andrew Kemp,
  • Jennifer Boreland and
  • Henk Huijser

14 November 2025

The rapid uptake of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, DALL·E and MS Copilot) is disrupting conventional notions of authenticity in assessment across higher education. The dominant response, surveillance and AI detection, misdiagnoses the problem....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Power and Promise of Authentic Learning in Higher Education: Critical Approaches and Practical Strategies)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,779 Views
21 Pages

Problem-based learning (PBL) relies on the problem as the generative trigger for inquiry, collaboration, and assessment, yet school-based reports often provide limited guidance on how problems are actually designed. This PRISMA-informed review analyz...

(This article belongs to the Section Curriculum and Instruction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,081 Views
14 Pages

Securing MQTT by Blockchain-Based OTP Authentication

  • Francesco Buccafurri,
  • Vincenzo De Angelis and
  • Roberto Nardone

3 April 2020

The Internet of Things is constantly capturing interest from modern applications, changing our everyday life and empowering industrial applications. Interaction and the collaboration among smart devices offer new challenges to security since they con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain in the Internet of Things: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
987 Views
25 Pages

Lightweight Dual Blockchain Authentication for 6G-Enabled IoT Environments

  • Mouchira Bensari,
  • Azeddine Bilami,
  • Karam Eddine Bilami,
  • Pascal Lorenz and
  • Jaafar Gaber

The emergence of 6G heterogeneous networks integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and fog/edge nodes creates new opportunities for intelligent and latency-sensitive appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,118 Views
11 Pages

22 April 2020

Numerous American national committees have recommended the replacement of traditional labs with a more engaging curriculum that inspires inquiry and enhances scientific skills (examples include the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Undergraduate Research as a High Impact Practice in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,466 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2023

Intertwining smart manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT) is known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). IIoT improves product quality and reliability and requires intelligent connection, real-time data processing, collaborative monito...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Engineering in Cloud Computing and Cloud Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,044 Views
24 Pages

28 March 2025

Cross-domain authentication of drones has played an important role in emergency rescue, collaborative missions, and so on. However, the existing cross-domain authentication protocols for drones may cause privacy leakages and stolen-verifier attacks d...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,922 Views
22 Pages

Amino Acid Fingerprinting of Authentic Nonfat Dry Milk and Skim Milk Powder and Effects of Spiking with Selected Potential Adulterants

  • Sneh D. Bhandari,
  • Tiffany Gallegos-Peretz,
  • Thomas Wheat,
  • Gregory Jaudzems and ,
  • Natalia Kouznetsova,
  • Katya Petrova,
  • Dimple Shah,
  • Daniel Hengst,
  • Erika Vacha and
  • Zhuohong Xie
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

16 September 2022

A collaborative study was undertaken in which five international laboratories participated to determine amino acid fingerprints in 39 authentic nonfat dry milk (NFDM)/skim milk powder (SMP) samples. A rapid method of amino acid analysis involving mic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Methods in Detecting Food Fraud and Food Authenticity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,268 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2025

As urbanization intensifies, the challenge of preserving industrial heritage while fostering authentic intergenerational connections has become increasingly salient. This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Relationship Between Authenticity and Wellbeing in Heritage Tourism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
13,938 Views
23 Pages

13 January 2023

Drawn to the unique natural and geographical advantages of ecotourism scenic areas, tourists can roam the natural environment and, at the same time, promote the sustainable development of the scenic area’s ecology. As a result, ecotourism has g...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,407 Views
9 Pages

13 November 2019

The story of my evolution as a practice-based collaborative researcher is a story that comes full circle. Through exploring my own experiences of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma as a hospital-based social worker, I am able to investigate the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Personal Essays in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,263 Views
19 Pages

5 April 2025

The implementation of the Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocol in the Internet of Drones (IoD) is crucial for enhancing the security and reliability of information transmission. However, almost all existing authentication protocols between...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,214 Views
21 Pages

1 June 2021

Digital technology is instrumental in designing e-government services to achieve environmental sustainability. This study aims to implicate essential human values for designing a Digital Government Collaborative Platform (DGCP), which seeks to enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,226 Views
20 Pages

29 June 2025

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, the demand for cross-domain collaboration between devices and data sharing has grown significantly. Operations confined to a single trust domain can no longer satisfy this requirement, so cross-dom...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
525 Views
17 Pages

A Certificateless Encryption-Based Authentication Protocol for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Network

  • Zhengwei Lv,
  • Zhengxin Tao,
  • Qingpeng Yang,
  • Ziqi Zheng and ,
  • Jiaxi Zhou and
  • Lixia Xiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 August 2026

In this letter, a novel access and handover authentication scheme is proposed for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks, aiming to achieve lightweight computation, privacy preservation, and seamless secure handover for massive sensor users. Differ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,249 Views
26 Pages

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are pivotal for advancing maritime capabilities. These networks predominantly utilize acoustic communication, characterized by an open and shared acoustic channel and energy-limited underwater nodes, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Approaches to Marine Engineering Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,211 Views
20 Pages

20 August 2025

In the domain of multi-agent reinforcement learning, conventional algorithms such as VDN, QMIX, and QTRAN have exhibited favorable performance in static task scenarios. However, these algorithms encounter challenges due to their limited capacity to m...

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