Federated-ANN based Critical Path Analysis and Health Recommendations for MapReduce Workflows in Consumer Electronics Applications (2023)
Journal Article
Demirbaga, U., & Aujla, G. S. (2023). Federated-ANN based Critical Path Analysis and Health Recommendations for MapReduce Workflows in Consumer Electronics Applications. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2023.3318813

Although much research has been done to improve the performance of big data systems, predicting the performance degradation of these systems quickly and efficiently remains a significant challenge. Unfortunately, the complexity of big data systems is... Read More about Federated-ANN based Critical Path Analysis and Health Recommendations for MapReduce Workflows in Consumer Electronics Applications.

Trusted Explainable AI for 6G-Enabled Edge Cloud Ecosystem (2023)
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Garg, S., Kaur, K., Aujla, G. S., Kaddoum, G., Garigipati, P., & Guizani, M. (2023). Trusted Explainable AI for 6G-Enabled Edge Cloud Ecosystem. IEEE Wireless Communications, 30(3), 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1109/mwc.016.220047

The journey to the next decade of smart cellular connectivity, sixth-generation (6G) networks, has already begun, even though 6G is still in its nascent stages and far from its deployment. In telecommunications, 6G networks have gained the attention... Read More about Trusted Explainable AI for 6G-Enabled Edge Cloud Ecosystem.

Compliance Checking of Cloud Providers: Design and Implementation (2023)
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Barati, M., Adu-Duodu, K., Rana, O., Aujla, G. S., & Ranjan, R. (2023). Compliance Checking of Cloud Providers: Design and Implementation. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, 2(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3585538

The recognition of capabilities supplied by cloud systems is presently growing. Collecting or sharing healthcare data and sensitive information especially during the Covid-19 pandemic has motivated organizations and enterprises to leverage the upside... Read More about Compliance Checking of Cloud Providers: Design and Implementation.

GDPR compliance verification through a user-centric blockchain approach in multi-cloud environment (2023)
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Ahmad, H., & Aujla, G. S. (2023). GDPR compliance verification through a user-centric blockchain approach in multi-cloud environment. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2023.108747

With cloud-hosted web applications becoming ubiquitous, the security risks presented for user personal data that is migrated to the cloud are at an all-time high. When using a cloud-hosted web application, users only ever interact with web interfaces... Read More about GDPR compliance verification through a user-centric blockchain approach in multi-cloud environment.

Health Monitoring and Diagnosis for Geo-Distributed Edge Ecosystem in Smart City (2023)
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Wen, W., Demirbaga, U., Singh, A., Jindal, A., Batth, R. S., Zhang, P., & Aujla, G. S. (2023). Health Monitoring and Diagnosis for Geo-Distributed Edge Ecosystem in Smart City. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10(21), 18571-18578. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2023.3247640

With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices being deployed and used in daily life, the load on computational devices has grown exponentially. This situation is more prevalent in smart cities where such devices are used for autonomo... Read More about Health Monitoring and Diagnosis for Geo-Distributed Edge Ecosystem in Smart City.

Ubiquitous Micro Mapping of Air Pollution Using Vehicular Edge-Based Connected IoT Services (2022)
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Mahajan, P., Krishna, C. R., Aujla, G. S., Bali, R. S., & Garg, N. (2022). Ubiquitous Micro Mapping of Air Pollution Using Vehicular Edge-Based Connected IoT Services. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 5(4), https://doi.org/10.1109/iotm.001.2200144

Guest Editorial: Coexistence of Drone and Terrestrial Networks (2022)
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Aujla, G. S., Dhillon, H. S., Niyato, D., & Saha, C. (2022). Guest Editorial: Coexistence of Drone and Terrestrial Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications, 29(6), 12-13. https://doi.org/10.1109/mwc.2022.10003079

A distributed task orchestration scheme in collaborative vehicular cloud edge networks (2022)
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Mittal, S., Dudeja, R. K., Bali, R. S., & Aujla, G. S. (2022). A distributed task orchestration scheme in collaborative vehicular cloud edge networks. Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-022-01119-9

The next generation vehicular networks would be expected to support a wide array of cutting edge applications concerning intelligent transportation system (ITS). Due to this reason, the scale and complexity of ITS-based compute-intensive tasks has ex... Read More about A distributed task orchestration scheme in collaborative vehicular cloud edge networks.

MapChain: A Blockchain-based Verifiable Healthcare Service Management in IoT-based Big Data Ecosystem (2022)
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Demirbaga, U., & Aujla, G. S. (2022). MapChain: A Blockchain-based Verifiable Healthcare Service Management in IoT-based Big Data Ecosystem. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 19(4), 3896-3907. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsm.2022.3204851

Internet of Things (IoT)-based Healthcare services, which are becoming more widespread today, continuously generate huge amounts of data which is often called big data. Due to the magnitude and intricacy of the data, it is difficult to find valuable... Read More about MapChain: A Blockchain-based Verifiable Healthcare Service Management in IoT-based Big Data Ecosystem.

A comprehensive survey on software‐defined networking for smart communities (2022)
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Chaudhary, R., Aujla, G. S., Kumar, N., & Chouhan, P. K. (2022). A comprehensive survey on software‐defined networking for smart communities. International Journal of Communication Systems, https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.5296

The need to provide services closer to the end-user proximity leads to the exchange of a large volume of data generated from the smart devices deployed at different geo-distributed sites. The massive amount of data generated from the smart devices ne... Read More about A comprehensive survey on software‐defined networking for smart communities.

Rendering Secure and Trustworthy Edge Intelligence in 5G-Enabled IIoT using Proof of Learning Consensus Protocol (2022)
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Qiu, C., Aujla, G. S., Jiang, J., Wen, W., & Zhang, P. (2023). Rendering Secure and Trustworthy Edge Intelligence in 5G-Enabled IIoT using Proof of Learning Consensus Protocol. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 19(1), 900-909. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2022.3179272

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and fifth generation (5G) network have fueled the development of Industry 4.0 by providing an unparalleled connectivity and intelligence to ensure timely (or real time) and optimal decision making. Under this umbr... Read More about Rendering Secure and Trustworthy Edge Intelligence in 5G-Enabled IIoT using Proof of Learning Consensus Protocol.

Dynamic Bandwidth Slicing for Time-Critical IoT Data Streams in the Edge-Cloud Continuum (2022)
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Habeeb, F., Alwasel, K., Noor, A., Jha, D. N., Alqattan, D., Li, Y., …Ranjan, R. (2022). Dynamic Bandwidth Slicing for Time-Critical IoT Data Streams in the Edge-Cloud Continuum. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(11), 8017-8026. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2022.3169971

Edge computing has gained momentum in recent years, as complementary to cloud computing, for supporting applications (e.g. industrial control systems) that require Time-Critical communication guarantees. While edge computing can provide immediate ana... Read More about Dynamic Bandwidth Slicing for Time-Critical IoT Data Streams in the Edge-Cloud Continuum.

A Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme and Secure Architecture for IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems (2022)
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Zhang, P., Wang, Y., Aujla, G. S., Jindal, A., & Al-Otaibi, Y. D. (2023). A Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme and Secure Architecture for IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(2), 2322 - 2331. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2022.3159485

Although modern Maritime Transportation Systems (MTS) have been extensively benefited from Internet of Things (IoT) technology, but still the risks and challenges in safety and reliability have increased substantially. The involvement of different ma... Read More about A Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme and Secure Architecture for IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems.

CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics (2022)
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Singh, M., Aujla, G. S., Bali, R. S., Batth, R. S., Singh, A., Vashisht, S., & Jindal, A. (2022). CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics. Computing, 104(7), 1589-1613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-022-01064-7

With increase in the use of contactless deliveries during the times such as COVID-19 pandemic, the emphasis was to minimize the human presence to reduce the spread of virus. In this regard, drones are one promising alternative to be used as delivery... Read More about CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics.

Energy-Efficient Virtual Resource Allocation of Slices in Vehicles-Assisted B5G Networks (2022)
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Cao, H., Zhao, H., Jindal, A., Aujla, G. S., & Yang, L. (2022). Energy-Efficient Virtual Resource Allocation of Slices in Vehicles-Assisted B5G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 6(3), 1408-1417. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgcn.2022.3159227

Academia community started the research beyond 5G (B5G) while 5G systems and networks are still being landed for large-scale commercial applications. In order to enhance the agility and flexibility attributes of B5G networks, network function virtual... Read More about Energy-Efficient Virtual Resource Allocation of Slices in Vehicles-Assisted B5G Networks.

Secure and pervasive communication framework using Named Data Networking for connected healthcare (2022)
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Dudeja, R. K., Bali, R. S., & Aujla, G. S. (2022). Secure and pervasive communication framework using Named Data Networking for connected healthcare. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 100, Article 107806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2022.107806

Connected healthcare system is one of the most critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications offering numerous healthcare services. But it requires the next-generation technologies to collude with the IoT standards to provide prompt end-user service... Read More about Secure and pervasive communication framework using Named Data Networking for connected healthcare.

An optimal content indexing approach for named data networking in software‐defined IoT system (2022)
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Dudeja, R. K., Singh, A., Bali, R. S., & Aujla, G. S. (2022). An optimal content indexing approach for named data networking in software‐defined IoT system. IET Smart Cities, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1049/smc2.12023

The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has increased the number of connected devices in the network. This has shifted the focus from IP-based network architecture towards content-centric networking (CCN). CCN eliminates the need for address-co... Read More about An optimal content indexing approach for named data networking in software‐defined IoT system.

Derived blockchain architecture for security-conscious data dissemination in edge-envisioned Internet of Drones ecosystem (2022)
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Singh, M., Aujla, G. S., & Bali, R. S. (2022). Derived blockchain architecture for security-conscious data dissemination in edge-envisioned Internet of Drones ecosystem. Cluster Computing, 25(3), 2281-2302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-021-03497-9

Internet of Drones (IoD) facilitates the autonomous operations of drones into every application (warfare, surveillance, photography, etc) across the world. The transmission of data (to and fro) related to these applications occur between the drones a... Read More about Derived blockchain architecture for security-conscious data dissemination in edge-envisioned Internet of Drones ecosystem.

ReLeDP: Reinforcement-Learning-Assisted Dynamic Pricing for Wireless Smart Grid (2021)
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Zhang, P., Wang, C., Aujla, G. S., & Batth, R. S. (2021). ReLeDP: Reinforcement-Learning-Assisted Dynamic Pricing for Wireless Smart Grid. IEEE Wireless Communications, 28(6), 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1109/mwc.011.2000431

The smart grid must ensure that power providers can obtain substantial benefits by selling energy, while at the same time, they need to consider the cost of consumers. To realize this win-win situation, the smart grid relies on dynamic pricing mechan... Read More about ReLeDP: Reinforcement-Learning-Assisted Dynamic Pricing for Wireless Smart Grid.

Leveraging Blockchain for Secure Drone-to-Everything Communications (2021)
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Aujla, G. S., Vashisht, S., Garg, S., Kumar, N., & Kaddoum, G. (2021). Leveraging Blockchain for Secure Drone-to-Everything Communications. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 5(4), 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcomstd.0001.2100012

The popularity of drones has increased their deployment in a wide range of applications like commercial delivery, industrial systems, monitoring, surveillance, and surveys. The facility of fast deployment and cost effectiveness make drones a potentia... Read More about Leveraging Blockchain for Secure Drone-to-Everything Communications.