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3 Citations
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BlockLoader: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for Blockchain Performance Under Various Workload Patterns

  • Gang Wang,
  • Yanfeng Zhang,
  • Chenhao Ying,
  • Qinnan Zhang and ,
  • Zhiyuan Peng,
  • Xiaohua Li and
  • Ge Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 October 2024

Hyperledger Fabric is one of the most popular permissioned blockchain platforms widely adopted in enterprise blockchain solutions. To optimize and fully utilize the platform, it is desired to conduct a thorough performance analysis of Hyperledger Fab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,652 Views
19 Pages

13 June 2022

With the prosperous development of the urban metro network, the characteristics of the topological structure and node importance are changing dynamically. Most studies focus on static comparisons, and dynamic evolution research is rarely conducted. I...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Public Transport in Urban Areas – Optimization, Management and Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,451 Views
14 Pages

Epidemic source detection is one of the most crucial problems in statistical inference. For example, currently, the debate continues to reveal when and where the first spread of COVID-19 occured. For this problem, most of the works have assumed a sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
721 Views
20 Pages

Phenomena from a variety of disciplines, including biology, computer science and sociology, can be modeled by graph dynamics in which nodes are associated with states and the node-state association changes in time. Although general k-state dynamics h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,410 Views
21 Pages

26 August 2024

Among the existing consensus algorithms, there are very few low-latency consensus algorithms that can simultaneously take into account node dynamics, fault tolerance, and scalability, and which are applicable to large-scale open scenarios where low l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
445 Views
35 Pages

Node-level cargo-volume forecasting in logistics sorting networks requires modeling temporal dynamics together with directed inter-node dependencies and planned topology perturbations. This study addresses 1-h-ahead forecasting under a partial-inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,412 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2020

Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) is a typical routing protocol that effectively reduces transmission energy consumption by forming a hierarchical structure between nodes. LEACH on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been widely studied...

(This article belongs to the Collection The Development and Application of Fuzzy Logic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,710 Views
15 Pages

4 February 2019

Due to the dynamic change of the opportunistic network topology and the lack of stable information transmission paths between nodes, the traditional topology-based routing algorithm cannot achieve the desired routing performance. To address of this p...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,161 Views
12 Pages

2 March 2021

Identifying and ranking the node influence in complex networks is an important issue. It helps to understand the dynamics of spreading process for designing efficient strategies to hinder or accelerate information spreading. The idea of decomposing n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,826 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2024

Due to the uniqueness of the underwater environment, traditional data aggregation schemes face many challenges. Most existing data aggregation solutions do not fully consider node trustworthiness, which may result in the inclusion of falsified data s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence, Security, Trust and Privacy Advances in IoT, Bigdata and 5G Networks (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,179 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2025

To address the problem of maximizing desired opinions in social networks, we present the Limited Opinion Maximization with Dynamic Propagation Optimization framework, which is grounded in information entropy theory. Innovatively, we introduce the con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,372 Views
27 Pages

12 September 2024

With the development of the IoT, Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) derive more and more application scenarios with diverse performance requirements. In scenarios where the energy consumption rate of sensor nodes changes dynamically, most...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficient Design in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,425 Views
13 Pages

Synchronization of Complex Dynamical Networks with Stochastic Links Dynamics

  • Juanxia Zhao,
  • Yinhe Wang,
  • Peitao Gao,
  • Shengping Li and
  • Yi Peng

17 October 2023

The mean square synchronization problem of the complex dynamical network (CDN) with the stochastic link dynamics is investigated. In contrast to previous literature, the CDN considered in this paper can be viewed as consisting of two subsystems coupl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synchronization in Time-Evolving Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,268 Views
25 Pages

Online Dynamic Network Visualization Based on SIPA Layout Algorithm

  • Guijuan Wang,
  • Huarong Chen,
  • Rui Zhou,
  • Yadong Wu and ,
  • Wei Gao,
  • Jing Liao and
  • Fupan Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 November 2023

Online dynamic network visualization is imperative for real-time network monitoring and analysis applications. It presents a significant research challenge for maintaining both layout stability and quality amid unpredictable temporal changes. While n...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,491 Views
15 Pages

8 June 2023

With the flourishing development of the urban metro system, the topology of important nodes changes as the metro network structure evolves further. The identical important node has distinct impacts on various metro networks’ resilience. At pres...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,359 Views
18 Pages

RCSS: A Real-Time On-Demand Charging Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks

  • Ping Zhong,
  • Yiwen Zhang,
  • Shuaihua Ma,
  • Xiaoyan Kui and
  • Jianliang Gao

17 May 2018

With the emergence of edge computing, a large number of devices such as sensor nodes have been deployed in the edge network to sense and process data. However, how to provide real-time on-demand energy for these edge devices is a new challenge issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Paradigms in Data Sensing and Processing for Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
529 Views
24 Pages

19 May 2026

Designing informative descriptors for time-varying complex networks is important for characterizing structural reconfiguration in evolving graph data. This paper introduces a thermodynamics-inspired framework for dynamic graph analysis, centered on S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications: Entropy and Information-Theoretic Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,951 Views
33 Pages

20 October 2009

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), there are numerous factors that may cause network congestion problems, such as the many-to-one communication modes, mutual interference of wireless links, dynamic changes of network topology and the memory-restrain...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,825 Views
14 Pages

Dynamic Community Detection Based on Evolutionary DeepWalk

  • Song Qu,
  • Yuqing Du,
  • Mu Zhu,
  • Guan Yuan and ,
  • Jining Wang,
  • Yanmei Zhang and
  • Xiangyu Duan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2022

To fully characterize the evolution process of the topological structure of dynamic communities, we propose a dynamic community detection based on Evolutionary DeepWalk (DEDW) for the high-dimensional data and dynamic characteristics. First, DEDW sol...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,047 Views
21 Pages

12 May 2025

Current methods for public opinion propagation prediction struggle to jointly model temporal dynamics, structural complexity, and dynamic node influence in evolving social networks. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a public opinion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Theoretic Approaches for Machine Learning and AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,233 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2023

Delay-tolerant networks face challenges in efficiently utilizing network resources and real-time sensing of node and message statuses due to the dynamic changes in their topology. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Decision Dynamic Intelligent (MDDI)...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,658 Views
15 Pages

Entropy Flow Analysis of Thermal Transmission Process in Integrated Energy System Part II: Comparative Case Study

  • Changnian Chen,
  • Junjie Wang,
  • Haoran Zhao,
  • Zeting Yu and ,
  • Jitian Han,
  • Jian Chen and
  • Chunyang Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 August 2022

The dynamic characteristics of thermal energy play an important role of multi-scale coupling among heterogeneous energy sources in integrated energy systems (IES). In Part I, for the purpose of accurately describing the dynamic processes of thermal e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,382 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2022

With the vigorous development of the mobile Internet, online social networks have greatly changed the way of life of human beings. As an important branch of online social network research, influence maximization refers to finding K nodes in the netwo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Network Modeling: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,485 Views
32 Pages

27 September 2023

Social Complex Networks in communication networks are pivotal for comprehending the impact of human-like interactions on information flow and communication efficiency. These networks replicate social behavior patterns in the digital realm by modeling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,537 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2023

Traffic flow forecasting is the foundation of intelligent transportation systems. Accurate traffic forecasting is crucial for intelligent traffic management and urban development. However, achieving highly accurate traffic flow prediction is challeng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Network Analysis of Nonlinear Time Series)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,029 Views
23 Pages

This paper addresses the problem of learning temporal graph representations, which capture the changing nature of complex evolving networks. Existing approaches mainly focus on adding new nodes and edges to capture dynamic graph structures. However,...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods: Modeling, Simulations and Optimization of Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,268 Views
21 Pages

23 January 2009

Measurement losses adversely affect the performance of target tracking. The sensor network’s life span depends on how efficiently the sensor nodes consume energy. In this paper, we focus on minimizing the total energy consumed by the sensor nodes whi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
550 Views
28 Pages

4 May 2026

To meet the growing computational demands of expanding intelligence application scenarios, computing networks are becoming increasingly complex. However, operational challenges such as frequent node online/offline events and dynamic link status chang...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,095 Views
14 Pages

Authentication and Key Establishment in Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Ying Qiu,
  • Jianying Zhou,
  • Joonsang Baek and
  • Javier Lopez

13 April 2010

When a sensor node roams within a very large and distributed wireless sensor network, which consists of numerous sensor nodes, its routing path and neighborhood keep changing. In order to provide a high level of security in this environment, the movi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensor Network and Its Application in Advanced Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,628 Views
18 Pages

The home environment is a typical dynamic environment with moveable obstacles. The social robots working in home need to search for feasible paths in this complex dynamic environment. In this work, we propose an improved RRT algorithm to plan feasibl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications and Trends in Social Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,016 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2021

In the area of network analysis, centrality metrics play an important role in defining the “most important” actors in a social network. However, nowadays, most types of networks are dynamic, meaning their topology changes over time. The connection we...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine and Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,711 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2023

Networks are widely used to model the interaction between individual dynamic systems. In many instances, the total number of units and interaction coupling are not fixed in time, and instead constantly evolve. In networks, this means that the number...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,450 Views
14 Pages

Identifying Node Importance in a Complex Network Based on Node Bridging Feature

  • Lincheng Jiang,
  • Yumei Jing,
  • Shengze Hu,
  • Bin Ge and
  • Weidong Xiao

15 October 2018

Identifying node importance in complex networks is of great significance to improve the network damage resistance and robustness. In the era of big data, the size of the network is huge and the network structure tends to change dynamically over time....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,571 Views
16 Pages

Background and purpose: Dynamic 18F-FDG PET-CT scanning can accurately quantify 18F-FDG uptake and has been successfully applied in diagnosing and evaluating therapeutic effects in various malignant tumors. There is no conclusion as to whether it can...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in PET/CT Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,863 Views
21 Pages

5 January 2023

In a satellite network, the inter-satellite link can facilitate the information transmission and exchange between satellites, and the packet routing of the inter-satellite link is the key development direction of satellite communication systems. Aimi...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,913 Views
29 Pages

GNN-DRL-Based Intelligent Routing and Resource Allocation Algorithms for Multi-Layer Wireless Mesh Network

  • Lei Xu,
  • Shu Han,
  • Wei Fu,
  • Ziran Zhu and ,
  • Jing Wu and
  • Xiaorong Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 February 2026

This research introduces a new intelligent routing and resource allocation algorithm called Graph Sample and Aggregate-Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (GraphSAGE-MAPPO), which targets dynamic wireless mesh networks like those present in emer...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,793 Views
19 Pages

A Learnheuristic Algorithm Based on Thompson Sampling for the Heterogeneous and Dynamic Team Orienteering Problem

  • Antonio R. Uguina,
  • Juan F. Gomez,
  • Javier Panadero,
  • Anna Martínez-Gavara and
  • Angel A. Juan

5 June 2024

The team orienteering problem (TOP) is a well-studied optimization challenge in the field of Operations Research, where multiple vehicles aim to maximize the total collected rewards within a given time limit by visiting a subset of nodes in a network...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metaheuristic Algorithms, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,871 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Process-Oriented Graph Storage for Dynamic Geographic Phenomena

  • Cunjin Xue,
  • Chengbin Wu,
  • Jingyi Liu and
  • Fenzhen Su

There exists a sort of dynamic geographic phenomenon in the real world that has a property which is maintained from production through development to death. Using traditional storage units, e.g., point, line, and polygon, researchers face great chall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Databases: Design, Management, and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,289 Views
22 Pages

A Standard-Based Internet of Things Platform and Data Flow Modeling for Smart Environmental Monitoring

  • Tércio Filho,
  • Luiz Fernando,
  • Marcos Rabelo,
  • Sérgio Silva and ,
  • Carlos Santos,
  • Maria Ribeiro,
  • Ian A. Grout,
  • Waldir Moreira and
  • Antonio Oliveira-Jr
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 June 2021

The environment consists of the interaction between the physical, biotic, and anthropic means. As this interaction is dynamic, environmental characteristics tend to change naturally over time, requiring continuous monitoring. In this scenario, the in...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,223 Views
22 Pages

While UAV-aided reconnaissance data collection grows rapidly, its path optimization is severely hindered by environmental dynamics, node mobility, and overlapping security/interference risks. This paper addresses the problem of data collection from m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technologies for Wireless Communications)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,208 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2020

Time synchronization is a key technique in large-scale wireless sensor network applications. In order to tackle the problems of multi-hop synchronization error accumulation, clock frequency skew swinging, and network topology changes, a time synchron...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,182 Views
26 Pages

Stability Analysis of Company Co-Mention Network and Market Graph Over Time Using Graph Similarity Measures

  • Alexey Faizliev,
  • Vladimir Balash,
  • Vladimir Petrov,
  • Alexey Grigoriev and ,
  • Dmitriy Melnichuk and
  • Sergei Sidorov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of news and financial data using their network representation. The formation of network structures from data sources is carried out using two different approaches: by building the so-called market graph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,113 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2024

The accurate assessment of node influence is of vital significance for enhancing system stability. Given the structural redundancy problem triggered by the network topology deviation when an empirical network is copied, as well as the dynamic charact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Complex Networks and Their Applications, from COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,086 Views
20 Pages

Dynamics of Friendship Index in Complex Networks

  • Alexey Grigoriev,
  • Sergei Mironov and
  • Sergei Sidorov

5 September 2024

We study the evolution of the friendship index in complex social networks over time. The elements of the networks are the users, and the connections correspond to the interactions between them. The friendship index of a node is defined as the ratio o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,368 Views
20 Pages

A Novel NODE Approach Combined with LSTM for Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting

  • Songtao Huang,
  • Jun Shen,
  • Qingquan Lv,
  • Qingguo Zhou and
  • Binbin Yong

30 December 2022

Electricity load forecasting has seen increasing importance recently, especially with the effectiveness of deep learning methods growing. Improving the accuracy of electricity load forecasting is vital for public resources management departments. Tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things and Internet of Everything: Current Trends, Challenges, and New Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,414 Views
22 Pages

Dynamic Top-K Interesting Subgraph Query on Large-Scale Labeled Graphs

  • Xiaohuan Shan,
  • Chunjie Jia,
  • Linlin Ding,
  • Xingyan Ding and
  • Baoyan Song

14 February 2019

A labeled graph is a special structure with node identification capability, which is often used in information networks, biological networks, and other fields. The subgraph query is widely used as an important means of graph data analysis. As the siz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
23 Pages

2 July 2026

Change point detection in dynamic social graphs aims to identify significant transitions in evolving interaction patterns. The task is particularly challenging due to sparse and noisy interactions and frequent user turnover, while the existing method...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computational Complex Networks, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,786 Views
20 Pages

17 April 2023

The behavior of the network and its stability are governed by both dynamics of the individual nodes, as well as their topological interconnections. The attention mechanism as an integral part of neural network models was initially designed for natura...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Dynamic Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,506 Views
20 Pages

17 February 2025

Seeking inter-organisation cooperation is an important way to achieve communication technology innovation, and dynamic networked cooperation deserves more attention. The present paper aims to reveal the influence of cooperation network evolution on c...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
489 Views
20 Pages

Marine opportunistic networks are characterized by highly dynamic topology, intermittent connectivity, and severe resource constraints. Traditional routing protocols that rely on fixed-parameter Q-learning cannot adapt to real-time network changes, l...

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