Security in wireless sensor networks is commonly based on symmetric encryption and requires key-management systems to establish and exchange secret keys. A constraint that is common to many key-management approaches is an upper bound to the total num...
Security is one of the major concerns of the Internet of Things (IoT) wireless technologies. LoRaWAN is one of the emerging Low Power Wide Area Networks being developed for IoT applications. The latest LoRaWAN release v.1.1 has provided a security fr...
This paper describes a cloud-scale encryption system. It discusses the constraints that shaped the design of Amazon Web Services’ Key Management Service, and in particular, the challenges that arise from using a standard mode of operation such...
Against the backdrop of rapidly advancing cloud storage technology, as well as 5G and 6G communication technologies, group key management faces increasingly daunting challenges. Traditional key management encounters difficulties in key distribution,...
With the rapid development of vehicle electronic communication technology, in-vehicle bus network system communicates with external electronic devices such as mobile phones and OBD II, causing in-vehicle bus networks to face severe network security t...
With the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in most application scenarios traditional WSNs with static sink nodes will be gradually replaced by Mobile Sinks (MSs), and the corresponding application requires a secure communication environ...
The intelligentization and connectedness of vehicles make vehicle cybersecurity an important research topic. In-vehicle key management is a critical function in vehicle cybersecurity countermeasures. After describing previous research on vehicle key...
The LoRaWAN is one of the new low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standards applied to Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The key features of LPWAN are its low power consumption and long-range coverage. The LoRaWAN 1.1 specification includes a basi...
Since their appearance at the dawn of the second millennium, Delay or Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have gradually evolved, spurring the development of a variety of methods and protocols for making them more secure and resilient. In this contex...
Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) are broadly utilized in critical infrastructures for monitoring and controlling the industrial processes remotely. The real-time transmissions in such systems provoke security breaches. Many security b...
The specificity and complexity of space networks render the traditional key management mechanism no longer applicable. The certificate-less-based distributed spatial network key management scheme proposed in this paper combines the characteristics of...
Safety applications based on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications can significantly enhance road safety and reduce traffic fatalities. Ensuring the security and privacy of the vehicular network is essential for the widespread adoption of V2X co...
This research paper presents a study on designing and implementing a robust key management scheme for lightweight block ciphers in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Key management is a critical concern for IoT devices due to their limited resources...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed our lives drastically. Customers, regulatory bodies, and industrial partners are driving us to use IoT. Although IoT provides new opportunities, security remains a key concern while providing various services....
As resources provided by single unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are limited, we propose a cross-platform UAV swarm key management scheme for task scenarios in denied environments. In denied environments where the communication link is open and the UA...
Human resources management, especially the key employees management, has fundamental influence on companies’ sustainable business, which has to be considered as the priority of any business functioning. The aim of this paper is to evaluate curr...
Since current key management schemes are mainly designed for static and planar networks, they are not very suitable for the layer-cluster wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a WSN layer-cluster key management scheme based on quadratic polynomial and Lag...
In group key management, the implementation of encryption often fails because multicast communication does not provide reliable linkage. In this paper, a new group key management scheme is proposed for multicast communication in fog computing network...
Drone swarms operate collaboratively and serve critical missions, which require a common session encryption key to secure exchanged data. This key must be updated when new drones join—or existing ones depart—the swarm. Classical key manag...
Project management has incorporated sustainability concepts, but their relationship is still widely discussed. In this article, we research key practices for incorporating sustainability in project management from the perspective of 919 Brazilian pro...
Broader understanding of waste management has the potential to bring about broad societal change impacting the climate crisis and public health. We present existing waste management tools and commercially-available games involving waste management, h...
The implementation of the smart grid (SG) and cyber-physical systems (CPS) greatly enhances the safety, reliability, and efficiency of energy production and distribution. Smart grids rely on smart meters (SMs) in converting the power grids (PGs) in a...
In many wireless sensor network application scenarios the key management scheme with a Mobile Sink (MS) should be fully investigated. This paper proposes a key management scheme based on dynamic clustering and optimal-routing choice of MS. The concep...
The existing LTE mobile system uses the vertical model to handle the session-based security management. However, the goal of this paper is to propose a packet key-based security management scheme on the blockchain control plane to enhance the existin...
The wireless body area network (WBAN) is considered as one of the emerging wireless techniques in the healthcare system. Typical WBAN sensors, especially implantable sensors, have limited power capability, which restricts their wide applications in t...
Practical failures of cryptographic key management rarely stem from weak algorithms: they arise from the difficulty users face in memorizing and reliably recalling high-entropy secrets. Password-based and brainwallet approaches collapse under selecti...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are critical in promoting financial inclusion and socio-economic development, particularly in marginalized regions. The success and effectiveness of these institutions heavily rely on leadership and group management....
Wireless body area networks (WBAN) consist of resource constrained sensing devices just like other wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, they differ from WSN in topology, scale and security requirements. Due to these differences, key management sc...
A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous network developed using wireless mobile nodes without the support of any kind of infrastructure. In a MANET, nodes can communicate with each other freely and dynamically. However, MANETs are prone to s...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have developed during the past twenty years as a result of the accessibility of inexpensive, short-range, and simple-to-deploy sensors. A WSN technology sends the real-time sense information of a specific monitoring en...
Vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) consist of vehicles equipped with various sensing devices, such as LiDAR. In a VSN, vehicles and/or roadside units (RSUs) can be organized into a vehicular cloud (VC) to enable the sharing of sensing and computational...
Large construction firms execute management control in preparation for a fast-paced business environment, but small ones are unable to do so. This is because there is no management control model tailored to them. The current study derived Management...
A string inverter converts the low voltage direct current coming from the string of its Photovoltaic (PV) panels into alternating current to be exported to the grid. In today Smart Grid’s context, PV plants feature clusters of cooperating smart...
This study addresses the high computational overhead associated with updating encryption keys and authentication information by delegating these tasks to cloud storage services. This approach reduces the burden on data owners and facilitates the esta...
Luckily, new communication technologies and protocols are nowadays designed considering security issues. A clear example of this can be found in the Internet of Things (IoT) field, a quite recent area where communication technologies such as ZigBee o...
As large scale digitization continues to reform business processes, one critical challenge organizations are currently facing is managing the staggering amount of data flowing. Further, with large datasets comes the added complexity of insuring a cyb...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are self-configuring networks of wireless nodes, i.e., mobile devices. Since communications in MANETs occur via wireless channels, it is of significance to secure communications among wireless and mobile nodes. Group k...
In smart cities, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) of the smart grid facilitates automated metering, control and monitoring of power distribution by employing a wireless network. Due to this wireless nature of communication, there exist potentia...
Security is a critical issue for sensor networks used in hostile environments. When wireless sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network are distributed in an insecure hostile environment, the sensor nodes must be protected: a secret key must be used t...
Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) obtains more attention due to their wide range of applications such as underwater oil field discovery, Tsunami monitoring systems, surveillance systems, and many more. In such a resource-constrained environ...
Deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continues to expand rapidly across a wide range of applications, including environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and disaster response. Despite their increasing ubiquity, UAVs remain inherently...
Autonomous vehicular clouds, as the combination of cloud computing and conventional vehicular ad hoc networks, will provide abundant resources and services by sharing under-utilized resources of future high-end vehicles such as computing power, stora...
It seems that the need to change the existing lifestyle of contemporary societies has never been more urgent. According to experts, the optimal model of sustainable development assumes that change can occur if the global society obtains and develops...
University performance has an important effect on the social influence of universities. With increasing emphasis placed on higher education, it is important to improve and optimize university performance management. However, the performance of univer...
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Performance analysis is an important way for hospitals to achieve higher efficiency and effectiveness in providing services to their customers. The performance of the healthcare system can be measured by many indicators, but it is difficult to improv...
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are an emerging industrial technology for monitoring physiological data. These networks employ medical wearable and implanted biomedical sensors aimed at improving quality of life by providing body-oriented service...
With the rapid development and widespread adoption of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), security has become an increasingly prominent problem. How to establish a session key in node communication is a challenging task for WSNs. Considering the limitat...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) face two important and conflicting challenges with regards to security: preserve the privacy of vehicles in order to prevent malicious entities from tracking users and detect and remove bad actors that attempt to ga...
Many Internet of Things (IoT) services utilize an IoT access network to connect small devices with remote servers. They can share an access network with standard communication technology, such as IEEE 802.11ah. However, an authentication and key mana...
Energy management in the hotel industry remains a cornerstone in mitigating climate change. To successfully deploy energy management practices, correct energy KPIs are needed. Moreover, the development of a uniform taxonomy on how to classify hotel i...
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