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Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchain in Internet of Things: A Preference-Driven Committee Member Auction Consensus Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Mathur, A., Barati, M., Aujla, G. S., & Rana, O. (online). Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchain in Internet of Things: A Preference-Driven Committee Member Auction Consensus Approach. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1145/3700149

Blockchain technology is acclaimed for eliminating the need for a central authority while ensuring stability, security, and immutability. However, its integration into Internet of Things (IoT) environments is hampered by the limited computational res... Read More about Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchain in Internet of Things: A Preference-Driven Committee Member Auction Consensus Approach.

Two-fold Strategy towards Sustainable Renewable Energy Networks when Uncertainty is Certain (2024)
Journal Article
Garg, A., Singh, A., Singh Aujla, G., & Sun, H. (online). Two-fold Strategy towards Sustainable Renewable Energy Networks when Uncertainty is Certain. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2024.3475581

With renewable energy sources (RESs) integrated into modern power systems, energy consumers participate in the energy market making the entire network more complex and uncertain. Therefore, adaptive strategies are needed to address the various uncert... Read More about Two-fold Strategy towards Sustainable Renewable Energy Networks when Uncertainty is Certain.

Classification and evaluation of the algorithms for vector bin packing (2024)
Journal Article
Mommessin, C., Erlebach, T., & Shakhlevich, N. V. (online). Classification and evaluation of the algorithms for vector bin packing. Computers and Operations Research, Article 106860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2024.106860

Heuristics for Vector Bin Packing (VBP) play an important role in modern distributed computing systems and other applications aimed at optimizing the usage of multidimensional resources. In this paper we perform a systematic classification of heurist... Read More about Classification and evaluation of the algorithms for vector bin packing.

Big Data Analytics: Theory, Techniques, Platforms, and Applications (2024)
Book
Demirbaga, Ü., Aujla, G. S., Jindal, A., & Kalyon, O. (2024). Big Data Analytics: Theory, Techniques, Platforms, and Applications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55639-5

This book introduces readers to big data analytics. It covers the background to and the concepts of big data, big data analytics, and cloud computing, along with the process of setting up, configuring, and getting familiar with the big data analytics... Read More about Big Data Analytics: Theory, Techniques, Platforms, and Applications.

Efficient live exploration of a dynamic ring with mobile robots (2023)
Journal Article
Mandal, S., Molla, A. R., & Moses Jr., W. K. (2023). Efficient live exploration of a dynamic ring with mobile robots. Theoretical Computer Science, 980, Article 114201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2023.114201

The graph exploration problem requires a group of mobile robots, initially placed arbitrarily on the nodes of a graph, to work collaboratively to explore the graph such that each node is eventually visited by at least one robot. One important require... Read More about Efficient live exploration of a dynamic ring with mobile robots.

Federated-ANN-Based Critical Path Analysis and Health Recommendations for MapReduce Workflows in Consumer Electronics Applications (2023)
Journal Article
Demirbaga, U., & Aujla, G. S. (2024). Federated-ANN-Based Critical Path Analysis and Health Recommendations for MapReduce Workflows in Consumer Electronics Applications. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 70(1), 2639-2647. 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.

Physical-layer Jammer Detection in Multi-hop IoT Networks (2023)
Journal Article
Abdollahi, M., Malekinasab, K., Tu, W., & Bag-Mohammadi, M. (2023). Physical-layer Jammer Detection in Multi-hop IoT Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10(23), 20574 - 20585. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2023.3291997

The presence of a jammer in an IoT network severely degrades all communication efforts between adjacent wireless devices. The situation is getting worse due to retransmission attempts made by affected devices. Therefore, jammers must be detected or l... Read More about Physical-layer Jammer Detection in Multi-hop IoT Networks.

Trusted Explainable AI for 6G-Enabled Edge Cloud Ecosystem (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Termination of amnesiac flooding (2023)
Journal Article
Hussak, W., & Trehan, A. (2023). Termination of amnesiac flooding. Distributed Computing, 36(2), 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00446-023-00448-y

We consider a stateless ‘amnesiac’ variant of the stateful distributed network flooding algorithm, expanding on our conference papers [PODC’19, STACS’20]. Flooding begins with a set of source ‘initial’ nodes I seeking to broadcast a message M in roun... Read More about Termination of amnesiac flooding.

An accurate RSS/AoA-based localization method for internet of underwater things (2023)
Journal Article
Pourkabirian, A., Kooshki, F., Anisi, M. H., & Jindal, A. (2023). An accurate RSS/AoA-based localization method for internet of underwater things. Ad Hoc Networks, 145, Article 103177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2023.103177

Localization is an important issue for Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) since the performance of a large number of underwater applications highly relies on the position information of underwater sensors. In this paper, we propose a hybrid localiz... Read More about An accurate RSS/AoA-based localization method for internet of underwater things.

Parameterized temporal exploration problems (2023)
Journal Article
Erlebach, T., & Spooner, J. T. (2023). Parameterized temporal exploration problems. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 135, 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2023.01.003

In this paper we study the fixed-parameter tractability of the problem of deciding whether a given temporal graph G admits a temporal walk that visits all vertices (temporal exploration) or, in some problem variants, a certain subset of the vertices.... Read More about Parameterized temporal exploration problems.

Health Monitoring and Diagnosis for Geo-Distributed Edge Ecosystem in Smart City (2023)
Journal Article
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.