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15 October 2026

The widespread use of Computer-Aided Learning Platforms (CALPs) has led to several cybersecurity issues, like illegal access, data breaches, privacy violations, insecure communications, and service disruptions. Deciding on a safe educational platform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Approaches for Solving Software Problems with AI Techniques, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,603 Views
24 Pages

11 October 2025

As rail transit systems advance toward greater automation and intelligence, cloud computing technology, with its remarkable scalability and robust data processing capabilities, has been steadily expanding its footprint in this domain. However, the ad...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
247 Citations
44,312 Views
34 Pages

Cyber Security in IoT-Based Cloud Computing: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Waqas Ahmad,
  • Aamir Rasool,
  • Abdul Rehman Javed,
  • Thar Baker and
  • Zunera Jalil

Cloud computing provides the flexible architecture where data and resources are dispersed at various locations and are accessible from various industrial environments. Cloud computing has changed the using, storing, and sharing of resources such as d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security for Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,818 Views
58 Pages

A Comprehensive Evaluation of IoT Cloud Platforms: A Feature-Driven Review with a Decision-Making Tool

  • Ioannis Chrysovalantis Panagou,
  • Stylianos Katsoulis,
  • Evangelos Nannos,
  • Fotios Zantalis and
  • Grigorios Koulouras

18 August 2025

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has led to a growing ecosystem of Cloud Platforms designed to manage, process, and analyze IoT data. Selecting the optimal IoT Cloud Platform is a critical decision for businesses and develo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,638 Views
37 Pages

IMSC-EIoTD: Identity Management and Secure Communication for Edge IoT Devices

  • Kazi Masum Sadique,
  • Rahim Rahmani and
  • Paul Johannesson

16 November 2020

The Internet of things (IoT) will accommodate several billions of devices to the Internet to enhance human society as well as to improve the quality of living. A huge number of sensors, actuators, gateways, servers, and related end-user applications...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,773 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2022

Currently, Android is the most popular operating system among mobile devices. However, as the number of devices with the Android operating system increases, so does the danger of using them. This is especially important as smartphones increasingly au...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,963 Views
25 Pages

Dependable and Non-Dependable Multi-Authentication Access Constraints to Regulate Third-Party Libraries and Plug-Ins across Platforms

  • Santosh Kumar Henge,
  • Gnaniyan Uma Maheswari,
  • Rajakumar Ramalingam,
  • Sultan S. Alshamrani,
  • Mamoon Rashid and
  • Jayalakshmi Murugan

21 May 2023

This article discusses the importance of cross-platform UX/UI designs and frameworks and their effectiveness in building web applications and websites. Third-party libraries (TPL) and plug-ins are also emphasized, as they can help developers quickly...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,838 Views
3 Pages

Development of an Open Source Tool and a Multi-Platform for Generation of Forensic Reports

  • Mireia Martí Vilas,
  • Pilar Vila Avendaño and
  • José M. Vázquez-Naya

Computer Forensics is a science that is part of computer security and focuses on identifying, preserving, analyzing and presenting electronic evidence that has been found on a device. This process has to be thoroughly documented by the expert who car...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 3rd XoveTIC Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,098 Views
16 Pages

A Blockchain-Based Trusted Edge Platform in Edge Computing Environment

  • Jinnan Zhang,
  • Changqi Lu,
  • Gang Cheng,
  • Teng Guo,
  • Jian Kang,
  • Xia Zhang,
  • Xueguang Yuan and
  • Xin Yan

18 March 2021

Edge computing is a product of the evolution of IoT and the development of cloud computing technology, providing computing, storage, network, and other infrastructure close to users. Compared with the centralized deployment model of traditional cloud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for Trustworthy Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,773 Views
13 Pages

Virtualization Airborne Trusted General Computing Technology

  • Shuang Zhang,
  • Yuanxun Wang,
  • Xinyu Wan,
  • Zhihui Li and
  • Yangming Guo

19 January 2023

Aircraft information service systems, such as airborne information systems, airborne integrated maintenance management systems, and cabin management systems, have greatly improved the ease of use and maintenance of civil aircraft. The current computi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology of Intelligent Control and Simulation Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,919 Views
15 Pages

A Fine-Grained Secure Service Provisioning Platform for Hypervisor Systems

  • Junho Seo,
  • Seonah Lee,
  • Ki-Il Kim and
  • Kyong Hoon Kim

As computing technology has been recently widely adopted, most computing devices provide security-related services as basic requirements, which is an important research issue for sustainability of computing devices. The rapid increase of software com...

(This article belongs to the Topic Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
12,993 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2019

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are embedded with software, electronics, and sensors, and feature connectivity with constrained resources. They require the edge computing paradigm, with modular characteristics relying on microservices, to provide an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing in the Internet of Things)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,705 Views
26 Pages

A Modular IoT Hardware Platform for Distributed and Secured Extreme Edge Computing

  • Pablo Merino,
  • Gabriel Mujica,
  • Jaime Señor and
  • Jorge Portilla

The hardware of networked embedded sensor nodes is in continuous evolution, from those 8-bit MCUs-based platforms such as Mica, up to powerful Edge nodes that even include custom hardware devices, such as FPGAs in the Cookies platform. This evolution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Embedded Computing, Intelligence and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,575 Views
17 Pages

We discuss the impact of physical computing techniques to classifying network security issues for ultra-low power networked IoT devices. Physical computing approaches enable at least a factor of 1000 improvement in computational energy efficiency emp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
20,509 Views
19 Pages

Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments

  • David G. Rosado,
  • Rafael Gómez,
  • Daniel Mellado and
  • Eduardo Fernández-Medina

8 May 2012

Cloud computing is a new paradigm that combines several computing concepts and technologies of the Internet creating a platform for more agile and cost-effective business applications and IT infrastructure. The adoption of Cloud computing has been in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Web Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
11,468 Views
21 Pages

Design of Secure Protocol for Cloud-Assisted Electronic Health Record System Using Blockchain

  • MyeongHyun Kim,
  • SungJin Yu,
  • JoonYoung Lee,
  • YoHan Park and
  • YoungHo Park

21 May 2020

In the traditional electronic health record (EHR) management system, each medical service center manages their own health records, respectively, which are difficult to share on the different medical platforms. Recently, blockchain technology is one o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchains in the Era of Smart Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,426 Views
15 Pages

Blockchain-Based Secure Authentication with Improved Performance for Fog Computing

  • Otuekong Umoren,
  • Raman Singh,
  • Shahid Awan,
  • Zeeshan Pervez and
  • Keshav Dahal

19 November 2022

Advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing has escalated the number of connected edge devices in a smart city environment. Having billions more devices has contributed to security concerns, and an attack-proof authentication mech...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
8,503 Views
16 Pages

18 May 2019

Edge computing provides a unified platform for computing, networking, and storage resources, enabling data to be processed in a timely and efficient manner near the source. Thus, it has become the basic platform for industrial Internet of things (IIo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Perception, Application and Security Mechanism in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,974 Views
15 Pages

16 May 2024

For the secure deployment of network platforms tailored for IoT devices, the encryption of data transmission is equally as crucial as the process of authentication. In this context, we introduce the Secure and Scalable IoT network (SSI) network platf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Data and Information Security III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,961 Views
16 Pages

17 July 2017

Currently, the exchange cycles of various computers, smartphones, tablets, and others have become shorter, because new high-performance devices continue to roll out rapidly. However, existing legacy devices are not old-fashioned or obsolete to use. F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,932 Views
17 Pages

Developing Quantum Trusted Platform Module (QTPM) to Advance IoT Security

  • Guobin Xu,
  • Oluwole Adetifa,
  • Jianzhou Mao,
  • Eric Sakk and
  • Shuangbao Wang

26 April 2025

Randomness is integral to computer security, influencing fields such as cryptography and machine learning. In the context of cybersecurity, particularly for the Internet of Things (IoT), high levels of randomness are essential to secure cryptographic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security in the New “Edge Computing and IoT” World, 2nd Edition)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
133 Citations
12,422 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2022

In recent years, research into blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown rapidly due to an increase in media coverage. Many different blockchain applications and platforms have been developed for different purposes, such as foo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain for Internet of Things Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,644 Views
17 Pages

4 February 2020

With the development of the fourth industrial technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, developed countries including the U.S. are investigating the efficiency of national defense, the public sector and national innovation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,974 Views
32 Pages

SELAMAT: A New Secure and Lightweight Multi-Factor Authentication Scheme for Cross-Platform Industrial IoT Systems

  • Haqi Khalid,
  • Shaiful Jahari Hashim,
  • Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad,
  • Fazirulhisyam Hashim and
  • Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary

18 February 2021

The development of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promotes the integration of the cross-platform systems in fog computing, which enable users to obtain access to multiple application located in different geographical locations. Fog users at...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Securing the Industrial Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,432 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2021

The cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT-Cloud) combines the advantages of the IoT and cloud computing, which not only expands the scope of cloud computing but also enhances the data processing capability of the IoT. Users always seek affordable and e...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,199 Views
17 Pages

SMWE: A Framework for Secure and Makespan-Oriented Workflow Execution in Serverless Computing

  • Hao Liang,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Xinlei Liu,
  • Guozhen Cheng,
  • Hailong Ma and
  • Qingfeng Wang

15 August 2024

Serverless computing is a promising paradigm that greatly simplifies cloud programming. With serverless computing, developers simply provide event-driven functions to a serverless platform, and these functions can be orchestrated as serverless workfl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Applications of Network Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,417 Views
20 Pages

Hybridized Hierarchical Watermarking and Selective Encryption for Social Image Security

  • Conghuan Ye,
  • Shenglong Tan,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Binghua Shi and
  • Li Shi

7 July 2023

With the advent of cloud computing and social multimedia communication, more and more social images are being collected on social media platforms, such as Facebook, TikTok, Flirk, and YouTube. The amount of social images produced and disseminated is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Encryption and Privacy Protection Based on Chaotic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,888 Views
14 Pages

24 July 2014

In a cloud computing environment, user data is encrypted and stored using a large number of distributed servers. Global Internet service companies such as Google and Yahoo have recognized the importance of Internet service platforms and conducted the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Applied Cryptography and Enhanced Security for Ubiquitous Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,794 Views
25 Pages

17 June 2017

Fog (from core to edge) computing is a newly emerging computing platform, which utilizes a large number of network devices at the edge of a network to provide ubiquitous computing, thus having great development potential. However, the issue of securi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy Challenges in Emerging Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,280 Views
24 Pages

14 November 2025

Achieving long-term stable optimization in complex industrial processes (CIPs) is notoriously challenging due to their unclear physical/chemical reaction mechanisms, fluctuating operating conditions, and stringent regulatory constraints. A significan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Industrial Artificial Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing and Sustainable Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,385 Views
15 Pages

Blockchain-Enabled Access Management System for Edge Computing

  • Yong Zhu,
  • Chao Huang,
  • Zhihui Hu,
  • Abdullah Al-Dhelaan and
  • Mohammed Al-Dhelaan

In the post-cloud era, edge computing is a new computing paradigm with data processed at the edge of the network, which can process the data close to the end-user in real time and offload the cloud task intelligently. Meanwhile, the decentralization,...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,341 Views
24 Pages

A Microservice and Serverless Architecture for Secure IoT System

  • Ruiqi Ouyang,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Hefeng Xu,
  • Shixiong Chen,
  • Xuanrui Xiong,
  • Amr Tolba and
  • Xingguo Zhang

18 May 2023

In cross-border transactions, the transmission and processing of logistics information directly affect the trading experience and efficiency. The use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology can make this process more intelligent, efficient, and secure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security in IoT Environments)
  • Review
  • Open Access
188 Citations
33,466 Views
25 Pages

A Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Cloud Computing Security

  • Umer Ahmed Butt,
  • Muhammad Mehmood,
  • Syed Bilal Hussain Shah,
  • Rashid Amin,
  • M. Waqas Shaukat,
  • Syed Mohsan Raza,
  • Doug Young Suh and
  • Md. Jalil Piran

Cloud computing (CC) is on-demand accessibility of network resources, especially data storage and processing power, without special and direct management by the users. CC recently has emerged as a set of public and private datacenters that offers the...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,742 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2020

Due to the increasing growth of technologies and the diversity of user needs in the field of information technology, the position of cloud computing is becoming more apparent. The development of computing infrastructure in any organization requires s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Smart Grids and Microgrids: Operation, Control, Protection and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,438 Views
26 Pages

29 March 2023

In today’s business environment, reducing costs is crucial due to the variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and security infrastructure. However, applying security measures to complex business scenarios can lead to performance degradation...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,019 Views
15 Pages

Secure Boot for Reconfigurable Architectures

  • Ali Shuja Siddiqui,
  • Yutian Gui and
  • Fareena Saqib

Reconfigurable computing is becoming ubiquitous in the form of consumer-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Reconfigurable computing architectures have found their place in safety-critical infrastructures such as the automotive industry. As the t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Hardware Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
3,068 Views
19 Pages

Social Image Security with Encryption and Watermarking in Hybrid Domains

  • Conghuan Ye,
  • Shenglong Tan,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Li Shi,
  • Qiankun Zuo and
  • Wei Feng

6 March 2025

In this digital era, social images are the most vital information carrier on multimedia social platforms. More and more users are interested in sharing social images with mobile terminals on multimedia social platforms. Social image sharing also face...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,644 Views
17 Pages

13 August 2021

The traditional cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) architecture places extremely high demands on computers and storage on cloud servers. At the same time, the strong dependence on centralized servers causes major trust problems. Blockchain provides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,983 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2019

System security monitoring has become more and more difficult with the ever-growing complexity and dynamicity of the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we develop an Intelligent Maintenance and Lightweight Anomaly Detection System (IMLADS) for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Privacy and Security for Resource Constrained IoT Devices and Networks)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,503 Views
45 Pages

Cloud Platforms for Context-Adaptive Positioning and Localisation in GNSS-Denied Scenarios—A Systematic Review

  • Darwin Quezada-Gaibor,
  • Joaquín Torres-Sospedra,
  • Jari Nurmi,
  • Yevgeni Koucheryavy and
  • Joaquín Huerta

24 December 2021

Cloud Computing and Cloud Platforms have become an essential resource for businesses, due to their advanced capabilities, performance, and functionalities. Data redundancy, scalability, and security, are among the key features offered by cloud platfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications and Innovations on Sensor-Enabled Wearable Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,275 Views
22 Pages

Application and Research of IoT Architecture for End-Net-Cloud Edge Computing

  • Yongqiang Zhang,
  • Hongchang Yu,
  • Wanzhen Zhou and
  • Menghua Man

At the edge of the network close to the source of the data, edge computing deploys computing, storage and other capabilities to provide intelligent services in close proximity and offers low bandwidth consumption, low latency and high security. It sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Internet of Things (IoT): Sensing Techniques, Hardware, and Software Architectures for the Next Generation Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,253 Views
24 Pages

Neural Network Implementation for Fire Detection in Critical Infrastructures: A Comparative Analysis on Embedded Edge Devices

  • Jon Aramendia,
  • Andrea Cabrera,
  • Jon Martín,
  • Jose Ángel Gumiel and
  • Koldo Basterretxea

This paper explores the application of artificial intelligence on edge devices to enhance security in critical infrastructures, with a specific focus on the use case of a battery-powered mobile system for fire detection in tunnels. The study leverage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computation Offloading for Mobile-Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,740 Views
16 Pages

10 March 2023

Hyperledger Fabric is a distributed ledger solution platform based on a modular architecture. The cryptographic algorithm is the core of the platform to ensure the security and tamper-resistant of the data on the chain. However, the original Fabric p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Network Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,354 Views
21 Pages

As a new type of service computing model, cloud computing provides various services through the Internet. Virtual machine (VM) hopping is a security issue often encountered in the virtualization layer. Once it occurs, it directly affects the reliabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,828 Views
18 Pages

A Hardware Platform for Ensuring OS Kernel Integrity on RISC-V

  • Donghyun Kwon,
  • Dongil Hwang and
  • Yunheung Paek

26 August 2021

The OS kernel is typically preassumed as a trusted computing base in most computing systems. However, it also implies that once an attacker takes control of the OS kernel, the attacker can seize the entire system. Because of such security importance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing: Current Trends and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,788 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2024

Compared to traditional platform environments in the online realm, the metaverse, as a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world, exposes more identity data to the network. Once these data are compromised, it leads to privacy breaches. Therefore, how to e...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,372 Views
23 Pages

Next-Generation Blockchain-Enabled Virtualized Cloud Security Solutions: Review and Open Challenges

  • Mueen Uddin,
  • Anjum Khalique,
  • Awais Khan Jumani,
  • Syed Sajid Ullah and
  • Saddam Hussain

13 October 2021

Cloud computing is a well-known technology that provides flexible, efficient, and cost-effective IT solutions for multinationals to offer improved and enhanced quality of business services to end-users. The cloud computing paradigm is instigated from...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
4,575 Views
26 Pages

Deep Q-Learning Technique for Offloading Offline/Online Computation in Blockchain-Enabled Green IoT-Edge Scenarios

  • Arash Heidari,
  • Mohammad Ali Jabraeil Jamali,
  • Nima Jafari Navimipour and
  • Shahin Akbarpour

17 August 2022

The number of Internet of Things (IoT)-related innovations has recently increased exponentially, with numerous IoT objects being invented one after the other. Where and how many resources can be transferred to carry out tasks or applications is known...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,043 Views
16 Pages

10 August 2022

The study addressed broad aspects related to digital technology platforms and renewable energy sources, including the integration of these systems and concepts. The main objective was to identify the implementation environment for a digital technolog...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digitalization for Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,899 Views
23 Pages

Design and Implementation of Virtual Security Function Based on Multiple Enclaves

  • Juan Wang,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Yi Li,
  • Chengyang Fan and
  • Shirong Hao

6 January 2021

Network function virtualization (NFV) provides flexible and scalable network function for the emerging platform, such as the cloud computing, edge computing, and IoT platforms, while it faces more security challenges, such as tampering with network p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Future Internet—Internet of Things Section)

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