Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a key technology for network automation and has been instrumental to materialize the disruptive view of 5G and beyond mobile networks. In particular, 5G embraces NFV to support the automated and agile provisi...
Service-network design in transportation applications has attracted much scientific attention due to the rapid growth of online shopping. Practical service-network planning tools could help express service providers in minimizing the total cost while...
In an IoT network, the networked servers form a service layer, providing services to the users and the devices. The request to the service servers is routed through the gateway on one side of the services layer and the networked controllers on the ot...
This paper focuses on preventing forms of social dysfunction such as invasions of privacy and stalking by understanding the diversified situation of the rapidly increasing number of social media users who use social media services, which are various...
We propose a multi-layer data mining architecture for web services discovery using word embedding and clustering techniques to improve the web service discovery process. The proposed architecture consists of five layers: web services description and...
Internet of Things (IoT) is a massive network based on tiny devices connected internally and to the internet. Each connected device is uniquely identified in this network through a dedicated IP address and can share the information with other devices...
Chatbot technologies have made our lives easier. To create a chatbot with high intelligence, a significant amount of knowledge processing is required. However, this can slow down the reaction time; hence, a mechanism to enable a quick response is nee...
The 5G New Radio (NR) technology operating in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is designed for support bandwidth-greedy applications requiring extraordinary rates at the access interface. However, the use of directional antenna radiation patte...
Fine-grained optical transport networks (fgOTNs) have attracted increasing interest in recent years for their ability to deliver small-granularity services with high flexibility and efficiency. To further improve the performance of fgOTNs in deliveri...
Most IoT systems designed for the implementation of mission-critical systems are multi-layered. Much of the computing is done in the service and gateway layers. The gateway layer connects the internal section of the IoT to the cloud through the Inter...
The service life of concretes exposed to sulfate decreases as the concrete body expands due to the formation of gypsum and ettringite. Bacteria-based repair coating layers, which have been studied lately, are aerobic and very effective on the sulfate...
The diversity of IoT services and applications brings enormous challenges to improving the performance of multiple computer tasks’ scheduling in cross-layer cloud computing systems. Unfortunately, the commonly-employed frameworks fail to adapt...
Urban accessibility is increasingly shaped by the interaction between physical mobility, digital accessibility, and social relationships. However, most existing urban simulation models primarily focus on physical transportation and rarely incorporate...
In the future market operation of new power systems, establishing a fair and reasonable cost allocation mechanism for ramping ancillary services is crucial. Such a mechanism would incentivize both the generation and load sides to reduce ramping deman...
Transverse shrinkage cracking is considered to be one of the main factors leading to the degradation of sustainable service performance for asphalt pavement, but the effect of base layers on it is rarely studied. To investigate the effect of asphalt...
The application layer in the Internet protocol suite offers a significant degree of freedom regarding the orchestration of distributed denial-of-service attacks due to many different and unstandardized protocols. The primary focus of defending agains...
The study aims at lowering the pressure drop and extending the service life at a given set of filter materials implementing a space between the filter layers. As design factors, the web-to-web space was implemented by inserting either a bulk air gap...
In web-based services, users are often required to submit personal data, which may be shared with third parties. Although privacy regulations mandate the disclosure of intended recipients in privacy policies, this does not fully alleviate users&rsquo...
The article focuses on the identification and mapping of cultural ecosystem service (CES) resources in the territory of the Local Action Group Lednice–Valtice Area (LAG LVA). The Consolidated Layer of Ecosystems (CLE) was used for mapping, and...
Internet of Things networks evolve as a rapidly growing field for security threats, such as Denial-of-Service cross-layer attacks, due to their heterogeneous and resource-constrained environment. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) serve as a vital de...
To address the issue of high auxiliary service costs caused by the grid connection of new energy generation, a dual layer optimization scheduling method for high penetration new energy power grids is proposed, taking into account the auxiliary servic...
Urbanization exerts significant stress on urban river ecosystems, leading to their degradation and the loss of environmental functions. Several studies have focused on restoring these urban rivers to enhance environmental quality and contribute to ov...
At present, Internet of Things (IoT) networks are attracting much attention since they provide emerging opportunities and applications. In IoT networks, the asymmetric and symmetric studies on medical and biomedical video transmissions have become an...
Caching has attracted much attention recently because it holds the promise of scaling the service capability of radio access networks (RANs). We envision that caching will ultimately make next-generation RANs more than bit-pipelines and emerge as a m...
The distributed denial of service attack poses a significant threat to network security. Despite the availability of various methods for detecting DDoS attacks, the challenge remains in creating real-time detectors with minimal computational overhead...
Service recommendation is key to improving users’ online experience. The development of the Internet has accelerated the creation of many services, and whether users can obtain good experiences among the massive number of services mainly depend...
To address the severe coverage blind spots and concurrent collision bottlenecks faced by LoRa networks in dense deployments and complex three-dimensional (3D) occlusion environments, this paper proposes a distributed cross-layer protocol framework fo...
The rapid growth in Internet-based services has increased the demand for user data to enable personalized and adaptive digital experiences. These services typically require users to disclose various types of personal information, which are organized...
Over the past fifty years, telecommunications has transformed, in an unprecedented manner, the way we live, work and communicate. For telecommunications, fixed networks are the one pillar and wireless networks the other. The wireless networks and the...
Retrieval-augmented generation improves the factual consistency, knowledge timeliness, and scenario adaptability of large model inference services by incorporating external knowledge. However, it also introduces structural privacy risks, including pr...
With the increasing demand for data exchange between nearby devices in proximity-based services, enhancing the security of wireless mutual broadcast (WMB) networks is crucial. However, WMB networks are inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping due to th...
Wireless communication has become an integral part of modern vehicles. However, securing the information exchanged between interconnected terminals poses a significant challenge. Effective security solutions should be computationally inexpensive, ult...
With the widespread adoption of smartphones and wearable devices, localization systems have become increasingly important in modern society. While Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is widely accepted as a standard outdoors, accurately determ...
The DICOM (Digital Imaging and COmmunication in Medicine) standard provides a framework for a diagnostically-accurate representation, processing, transfer, storage and display of medical imaging data. Information hiding in DICOM is currently limited...
Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), i.e., concrete produced with recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) has been heavily investigated recently, and the structural design of RAC is entering into design codes. Nonetheless, the service load deflection behavio...
Facial recognition systems are increasingly used for authentication across domains such as finance, e-commerce, and public services, but their growing adoption raises significant concerns about spoofing attacks enabled by printed photos, replayed vid...
Researchers have proposed the dynamic heterogeneous redundancy (DHR) architecture, which integrates dynamic, heterogeneous, redundant, and closed-loop feedback elements into the system, to fortify the reliability of the railway passenger service syst...
In recent years, there have been a number of new application architectures developed (examples include microservices and containerisation) that introduce significant security challenges for inter-service communication. Whereas internal calls made wit...
Antarctica is a key location for many research fields. The lack of telecommunication systems that interconnect remote base camps hardens the possibility of building synergies among different polar research studies. This paper defines a network archit...
International organizations and governments have argued that animal health service providers can play a vital role in limiting antimicrobial resistance by promoting the prudent use of antimicrobials. However, there is little research on the impact of...
The increasing threat of Distributed DDoS attacks necessitates robust, big data-driven methods to detect and mitigate complex Network and Transport Layer (NTL) attacks. This paper proposes EffiGRU-GhostNet, a deep-learning ensemble model for high-acc...
A foundation pit is constructed in the floodplain of Yangtze River, and a deep and thick layer of large-particle pebble gravel exists below the base slab, thus forming a connected supply channel with the adjacent Yangtze River. The large water volume...
In order to improve the management mechanisms of the electric energy transport infrastructures, the smart grid networks have associated data networks that are responsible for transporting the necessary information between the different elements of th...
Space agencies, international and national organisations and institutions recognize the importance of regularly updated and homogenized land cover information, in the context of both nomenclature and spatial resolution. Moreover, ensuring credibility...
With the proliferation of heterogeneous networks, there is a need to provide multimedia stream services in a sustainable manner. It is especially critical to maintain the Quality of Service (QoS) standards. Existing multimedia streaming services have...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gradually adopted in the industrial world due to their advantages over wired networks. In addition to saving cabling costs, WSNs widen the realm of environments feasible for monitoring. They thus add sensing and ac...
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a common target of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in today’s cloud computing environment (CCE). However, most existing datasets for Intrusion Detection System (IDS) evaluations are not sui...
This paper discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and the security challenges associated with it. IoT is a network of interconnected devices that share information. However, the low power and resources of IoT devices make them vulnerable to attacks....
Advances in the future communication technologies and capabilities of new services in heterogeneous network systems have increased the need for modelling and analysing various aspects of both the resilience of networked systems and usability from the...
Continuous-variable quantum communication (CVQC) operates under finite-resolution inference (finite data windows, calibration uncertainty, and estimator tolerances) and hardware control/readout limits that can be exploited by structured and adversari...
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