The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) connects vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and cloud or edge platforms to support safer and more efficient transportation. This connectivity also exposes vehicular networks to message spoofing, denial-of-service, and m...
Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and agricultural intensification, habitat fragmentation and declining ecological connectivity have become increasingly pronounced. To address the limitations of conventional ecological security pattern (ESP)...
Currently, optimization models for the safe and reliable operation of power systems deal with two major challenges: the first one is the reduction of the computational load when considering
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved tremendous success in solving complex classification problems. Motivated by this success, there have been proposed various compression methods for downsizing the CNNs to deploy them on resource-const...
Provincial power grids with high wind and photovoltaic penetration face poor out-of-sample security under limited data, whereas robust scheduling can be overly conservative. This study develops an integrated scheduling framework for secure provincial...
This paper considers the physical layer security (PLS) of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) relay communication system composed of a legitimate source–destination pair and some eavesdroppers. Supposing a disturbance...
Currently, algorithms to embed watermarks into digital images are increasing exponentially, for example in image copyright protection. However, when a watermarking algorithm is applied, the preservation of the image’s quality is of utmost impor...
The traditional consensus-based distributed economic dispatch strategy may lose system convergency and cause imbalanced power when facing an information attack on the individual power generation unit; thus, it is unable to achieve the dispatching goa...
The increasing deployment of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cyber-physical and safety-critical missions has amplified the need for intrusion detection systems that are accurate, privacy-preserving, and resilient to adversarial manipulation. In th...
This paper investigates the robust adaptive synchronization of multi-mode fractional-order chaotic systems (MMFOCS). To that end, synchronization was performed with unknown parameters, unknown time delays, the presence of disturbance, and uncertainty...
In this paper, the multi-state synchronization of chaotic systems with non-identical, unknown, and time-varying delay in the presence of external perturbations and parametric uncertainties was studied. The presence of unknown delays, unknown bounds o...
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a leading imaging technique for diagnosing retinal disorders such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Its ability to detect structural changes, especially in the optic nerve head, has ma...
The complexity and isomerization of communication networks have put forth new requirements for cryptographic schemes to ensure the operation of network security protocols. Robust cryptographic schemes have been gradually favored. The robust initializ...
Smart grids (SGs) are attracting attention as high value-added platforms, which mass-produce new business models through real-time information sharing. However, the open-ended information structure of SGs increases the risk of exposure to cyberattack...
To ensure the security of online-shared power data, this paper adopts a robust soliton distribution-based zero-watermarking approach for tracing semi-structured power data. The method involves extracting partial key-value pairs to generate a feature...
Large language models (LLMs) are adopted in financial services, yet existing benchmarks provide limited insight into financial-domain capability, regulatory compliance-action performance, and security robustness. This study proposes a unified multidi...
Secure QR-based data transfer requires a careful balance between confidentiality, payload size, decoding reliability, and resistance to visual degradation. This paper presents a reproducible comparative framework for studying secure QR code transmiss...
Side-channel analysis (SCA) remains a significant threat to embedded cryptographic implementations, yet hardware security evaluation often lacks a systematic workflow that links leakage detection, exploitability validation, trace-efficiency estimatio...
Research examining the security of network intrusion detection systems is vital for protecting modern digital infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated threats. This study investigates how machine learning network security models, trained with t...
Image watermarking is the process of securely embedding a higher amount of information in the host object. These processes ensure authentication, image integration, and content verification. Several existing methods face complicated problems, such as...
With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence and big data, intelligent security robots not only improve the efficiency of the traditional intelligent security industry but also propose higher requirements for intelligent security. Aiming to...
Copyright protection of multimedia content is confronted with great challenges such as easy access to the Internet. Digital watermarking is widely applicable technique for copyright protection of multimedia contents. In this paper, a blind symmetric...
Malware triage is essential for the security of cyber-physical systems, particularly against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Proper data for this task, however, are hard to come by, as organizations are often reluctant to share their network data...
Natural resources are a boon for human beings, and their conservation for future uses is indispensable. Most importantly, energy-food-water security (EFWS) nexus management is the utmost need of our time. An effective managerial policy for the curren...
This paper presents a multi-dimensional robustness evaluation framework for ultra-dense Internet of Things (UD-IoT) networks in smart city environments. The framework addresses the need to assess robustness beyond isolated indicators such as latency,...
The proliferation of biometric authentication systems in critical security applications has highlighted the urgent need for robust defense mechanisms against sophisticated adversarial attacks. This paper presents ShieldNet, an adversarially resilient...
This study investigates multiple synchronizations of distributed fractional-order chaotic systems. These systems consider unknown parameters, disturbance, and time delays. A robust adaptive control method is designed for multistage distributed fracti...
Text-based CAPTCHAs remain a widely deployed mechanism for mitigating automated attacks across web platforms. However, the increasing effectiveness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and advanced computer vision models poses significant challeng...
A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of sensors connected with a wireless communications infrastructure designed to monitor and send collected data to the primary server. The WSN is the cornerstone of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4...
Artificial Intelligence is an indispensable element of the modern world, constantly evolving and contributing to the emergence of new technologies. We meet it in everyday applications, primarily using intelligent systems that aim to improve our lives...
With the emerging growth of digital data in information systems, technology faces the challenge of knowledge prevention, ownership rights protection, security, and privacy measurement of valuable and sensitive data. On-demand availability of various...
With the continuously rising penetration rate of variable renewable energy (VRE), issues related to power balance and frequency stability in power systems have become increasingly prominent. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) with grid-forming cap...
Current language model deployments face growing security challenges from prompt-based attacks, including jailbreaks, direct and indirect prompt injection, and instruction hijacking, which often evade traditional rule-based safeguards. As these models...
Directional modulation (DM) technique has the ability to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of wireless communications. Conventional DM schemes are usually based on a single antenna array with the basic assumption that eavesdroppers (Eves) and...
Hiding the identity of involved participants in the network, known as anonymity, is a crucial issue in some cryptographic applications such as electronic voting systems, auctions, digital signatures, and Byzantine agreements. This paper proposes a ne...
Cyber security is identified as an emerging concern for information technology management in business and society, owing to swift advances in telecommunication and wireless technologies. Cyberspace security has had a tremendous impact on numerous cru...
Improving a risk assessment technique for the problem of cyber security is required to modify the technique’s capability to identify, evaluate, assess, and mitigate potential cyber threats and ambiguities. The major theme of this paper is to fi...
The rapid evolution of cyber threats requires intelligence sharing between organizations while ensuring data privacy and contributor credibility. Existing centralized cyber threat intelligence (CTI) systems suffer from single points of failure, priva...
Robust digital image watermarking is an information security technique that has been widely used to solve several issues related mainly with copyright protection as well as ownership authentication. In general terms, robust watermarking conceals a sm...
Arabic-speaking populations face disproportionate cybersecurity risks due to the predominantly English-centric design of existing awareness materials, which fail to accommodate Arabic dialectal diversity, script complexity, and culturally embedded co...
Anomaly-based attack detection methods depend on some form of machine learning to detect data falsification attacks in smart living cyber–physical systems. However, there is a lack of studies that consider the presence of attacks during the tra...
Cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms require secure transaction-level admission decisions when tasks, relay roles, control privileges, or mission assets are transferred between aircraft. Existing authentication and intrusion-detection mec...
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Reputation systems provide a form of social control and reveal behaviour patterns in the uncertain and riskladen environment of the open Internet. However, proposed reputation systems typically focus on the effectiveness and accuracy of reputation ma...
The interest in studying energy systems’ resilience is increasing due to a rising awareness of the importance of having a secure energy supply. This growing trend is a result of a series of recent disruptions, among others also affecting electr...
Visual object tracking is an important technology in camera-based sensor networks, which has a wide range of practicability in auto-drive systems. A transformer is a deep learning model that adopts the mechanism of self-attention, and it differential...
Federated learning (FL) leaves training records with participating clients, but restrictions on the visibility and retention of model updates can limit later verification, robustness checks, and deletion. This review examines these dependencies acros...
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments face a security challenge that neither physics-based nor AI-based anomaly detection addresses alone: physics models are adversarially robust but miss behavioral attacks that remain within physical boun...
TinyML models now run inference directly on microcontrollers with only kilobytes of memory, inside sensors, wearables, and industrial devices that often have no cloud link and no way to receive a patch once deployed. This makes them an easy target, s...
Transformer-based models are driving a significant revolution in the field of machine learning at the moment. Among these innovations, vision transformers (ViTs) stand out for their application of transformer architectures to vision-related tasks. By...
Constructing an ecological security pattern (ESP) represents an effective strategy for alleviating regional landscape fragmentation, which is crucial for maintaining regional ecological health. This study focuses on the Jinan metropolitan area as a c...
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