Quantum key distribution (QKD) networks promise information-theoretic security for multiple nodes by leveraging the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. In practice, QKD networks require dedicated routing protocols to coordinate secure key distribu...
Cybersecurity has become a major concern in the modern world due to our heavy reliance on cyber systems. Advanced automated systems utilize many sensors for intelligent decision-making, and any malicious activity of these sensors could potentially le...
Sensor networks for various event detection applications cannot function effectively if they are vulnerable to attacks. Malicious nodes can generate incorrect readings and misleading reports in such a way that event detection accuracy and false alarm...
This research utilizes machine learning (ML)-based malicious node detection techniques to effectively incorporate security and trustworthiness into fifth-generation (5G) and Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) systems, in contrast to traditional methods...
False messages sent by malicious or selfish vehicle nodes will reduce the operation efficiency of the Internet of Vehicles, and can even endanger drivers in serious cases. Therefore, it is very important to detect malicious vehicle nodes in the netwo...
Securing communication in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is hampered by numerous constraints, making it more difficult. First, traditional security schemes cannot be directly applied in VANET because they consider fixed topology. Second, VANET en...
Modern vehicle communication development is a continuous process in which cutting-edge security systems are required. Security is a main problem in the Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET). Malicious node detection is one of the critical issues found in...
The accuracy of node localization plays a crucial role in the performance and reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which are widely utilized in fields like security systems and environmental monitoring. The integrity of these networks is o...
Vehicular ad hoc networks have played a key role in intelligent transportation systems that considerably improve road safety and management. This new technology allows vehicles to communicate and share road information. However, malicious users may i...
Cognitive radio is considered as a pioneering technique in the domain of wireless communication as it enables and permits the Cognitive Users (CU) to exploit the unused channels of the Primary Users (PU) for communication and networking. The CU nodes...
Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) aim to provide a comfortable driving experience. Sharing messages in VANETs can help with traffic management, congestion mitigation, and driving safety. However, forged or false messages may undermine the efficiency...
Edge computing provides higher computational power and lower transmission latency by offloading tasks to nearby edge nodes with available computational resources to meet the requirements of time-sensitive tasks and computationally complex tasks. Reso...
V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communications play a crucial role in enabling the efficient and reliable exchange of information among vehicles, infrastructure, and other entities in smart transportation systems. However, the inherent vulnerabilities an...
Precise and robust localization in three-dimensional underwater sensor networks is still an important research problem. This problem is particularly challenging if there are some malicious anchors among ordinary anchor nodes that will broadcast their...
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a group of nodes constituting a network of mobile nodes without predefined and pre-established architecture where mobile nodes can communicate without any dedicated access points or base stations. In MANETs, a node...
Secure multimedia communication enhances the safety of passengers by providing visual pictures of accidents and danger situations. In this paper we proposed a framework for secure multimedia communication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs). Our pr...
In wireless sensors networks, nodes may be easily captured and act non-cooperatively, for example by not defending forwarding packets in response to their own limited resources. If most of these nodes are obtained by attackers, and an attack by an in...
Resource management is a key issue that needs to be addressed in the future smart Internet of Things (IoT). This paper focuses on a Federated Learning (FL)-based resource management mechanism in IoT. It incorporates blockchain technology to guarantee...
Resource bound security solutions have facilitated the mitigation of spatio-temporal attacks by altering protocol semantics to provide minimal security while maintaining an acceptable level of performance. The Dynamic Window Secured Implicit Geograph...
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...
Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networking studies have begun with the global implementation of fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems. It is predicted that multiple heterogeneity applications and facilities may be supported by modern wireless communi...
Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed framework that enables clients to conduct distributed learning and globally share models without requiring data to leave the local. In the FL process, participants are required to contribute data res...
Networks are beneficial to those being connected but can also be used as carriers of contagious hostile attacks. These attacks are often facilitated by exploiting corrupt network users. To protect against the attacks, users can resort to costly defen...
In this paper, we address the low efficiency of cluster-based communication for the crossroad scenario in the Vehicular Cyber-Physical System (VCPS), which is due to the overload of the cluster head resulting from a large number of transmission bandwi...
The world has experienced a huge advancement in computing technology. People prefer outsourcing their confidential data for storage and processing in cloud computing because of the auspicious services provided by cloud service providers. As promising...
This paper proposes a blockchain-based node authentication model for the Internet of sensor things (IoST). The nodes in the network are authenticated based on their credentials to make the network free from malicious nodes. In IoST, sensor nodes gath...
As a core enabler of the emerging low-altitude economy, UAV networks face significant security risks during operation, including malicious node infiltration and data tampering. Existing trust management schemes suffer from deficiencies such as strong...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are highly susceptible to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks due to their resource-constrained and distributed nature. In this study, we propose a novel trust-based malicious node detection mechanism that leverages a Dept...
This manuscript delineates the development of an avant garde dual-layer blockchain architecture, which has been meticulously engineered to augment the security and operational efficacy of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). VANETs, which are integral...
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...
In this paper, a Per-Hop Acknowledgement (PHACK)-based scheme is proposed for each packet transmission to detect selective forwarding attacks. In our scheme, the sink and each node along the forwarding path generate an acknowledgement (ACK) message f...
The vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) constitutes a key technology for realizing intelligent transportation services. However, VANET is characterized by diverse message types, complex security attributes of communication nodes, and rapid network topol...
Blockchain technology has been gaining great interest from a variety of sectors including healthcare, supply chain, and cryptocurrencies. However, Blockchain suffers from a limited ability to scale (i.e., low throughput and high latency). Several sol...
The transmission environment of underwater wireless sensor networks is open, and important transmission data can be easily intercepted, interfered with, and tampered with by malicious nodes. Malicious nodes can be mixed in the network and are difficu...
In this paper, an encryption and trust evaluation model is proposed on the basis of a blockchain in which the identities of the Aggregator Nodes (ANs) and Sensor Nodes (SNs) are stored. The authentication of ANs and SNs is performed in public and pri...
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...
The academic and research communities are showing significant interest in the modern and highly promising technology of wireless mesh networks (WMNs) due to their low-cost deployment, self-configuration, self-organization, robustness, scalability, an...
Smart cities are powered by several new technologies to enhance connectivity between devices and develop a network of connected objects which can lead to many smart industrial applications. This network known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIo...
Quality lifestyle leads to increasing trends in smart cities by offering modern communication and information technologies. Smart cities offer multiple applications with smart management of resources such as smart agriculture, Intelligent transportat...
Cloud computing is becoming a powerful parallel data processing method, and it can be adopted by many network service providers to build a service framework. Although cloud computing is able to efficiently process a large amount of data, it can be at...
Consensus algorithms are the core technology of a blockchain and directly affect the implementation and application of blockchain systems. Delegated proof of stake (DPoS) significantly reduces the time required for transaction verification by selecti...
For the past few years, centralized decision-making is being used for malicious node identification in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Generally, WSN is the primary technology used to support operations, and security issues are becoming progressivel...
Underwater wireless sensor networks have a wide range of application prospects in important fields such as ocean exploration and underwater environment monitoring. However, the influence of complex underwater environments makes underwater wireless se...
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...
In network function virtualization (NFV) environments, dynamic network traffic prediction with unique symmetric and asymmetric traffic patterns is critical for efficient resource orchestration and service chain optimization. Traditional centralized p...
Intrusions are becoming more complicated with the recent development of adversarial techniques. To boost the detection accuracy of a separate intrusion detector, the collaborative intrusion detection network (CIDN) has thus been developed by allowing...
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) enables vehicles to share data that help vehicles perceive the surrounding environment. However, vehicles can spread false information to other IoV nodes; this incorrect information misleads vehicles and causes confusio...
This study proposes an improved Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus RB-BFT based on the reputation model to address the problems of low reliability of primary nodes and high communication complexity in the practical Byzantine algorithm (PBFT). First,...
Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) can achieve more tasks and prolong the network lifetime. However, they are vulnerable to attacks from the environment or malicious nodes. This paper is concerned with the issues of a consensus secure sch...
We present a study of using game theory for protecting wireless sensor networks (WSNs) from selfish behavior or malicious nodes. Due to scalability, low complexity and disseminated nature of WSNs, malicious attacks can be modeled effectively using ga...
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