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Secure and Intelligent Service Function Chain for Sustainable Services in Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems (2022)
Journal Article

The gradual integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has made the healthcare cyber physical systems (CPSs) ubiquitous and complex. Since IoT devices are heterogeneous, it is crucial to virtualize these devices in a general way so as to orchest... Read More about Secure and Intelligent Service Function Chain for Sustainable Services in Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems.

Deterministic protocols in the SINR model without knowledge of coordinates (2021)
Journal Article

MapChain: A Blockchain-based Verifiable Healthcare Service Management in IoT-based Big Data Ecosystem (2022)
Journal Article

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.

On the Analysis and Evaluation of Proximity Based Load Balancing Policies (2022)
Journal Article

Distributed load balancing is the act of allocating jobs among a set of servers as evenly as possible. The static interpretation of distributed load balancing leads to formulating the load balancing problem as a classical balls and bins problem with... Read More about On the Analysis and Evaluation of Proximity Based Load Balancing Policies.

Round-competitive algorithms for uncertainty problems with parallel queries (2022)
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In computing with explorable uncertainty, one considers problems where the values of some input elements are uncertain, typically represented as intervals, but can be obtained using queries. Previous work has considered query minimization in the sett... Read More about Round-competitive algorithms for uncertainty problems with parallel queries.

Rendering Secure and Trustworthy Edge Intelligence in 5G-Enabled IIoT using Proof of Learning Consensus Protocol (2022)
Journal Article

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.

A comprehensive survey on software‐defined networking for smart communities (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Resource-Efficient Seamless Transitions For High-Performance Multi-hop UAV Multicasting (2022)
Journal Article

Many UAV-related applications require group communications between UAVs to reliably and efficiently deliver rich media content as well as to extend line-of-sight coverage between sky and ground. This paper is among the first to study fast yet resourc... Read More about Resource-Efficient Seamless Transitions For High-Performance Multi-hop UAV Multicasting.

A Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme and Secure Architecture for IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems (2022)
Journal Article

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.

An optimal content indexing approach for named data networking in software‐defined IoT system (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Blockchain for the Internet of Drones: Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions (2021)
Journal Article

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which started as a byproduct of military research, are passing through their most popular period and are being used on broader horizons, and more possibilities are being explored in commercial applications.... Read More about Blockchain for the Internet of Drones: Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions.

Secure and pervasive communication framework using Named Data Networking for connected healthcare (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Energy-Efficient Virtual Resource Allocation of Slices in Vehicles-Assisted B5G Networks (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Dynamic Bandwidth Slicing for Time-Critical IoT Data Streams in the Edge-Cloud Continuum (2022)
Journal Article

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.

CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Exploration of k-Edge-Deficient Temporal Graphs (2022)
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A temporal graph with lifetime L is a sequence of L graphs G1, . . . , GL, called layers, all of which have the same vertex set V but can have different edge sets. The underlying graph is the graph with vertex set V that contains all the edges that a... Read More about Exploration of k-Edge-Deficient Temporal Graphs.

Car-Sharing between Two Locations: Online Scheduling with Flexible Advance Bookings (2022)
Journal Article

We study an online scheduling problem that is motivated by applications such as car-sharing. Users submit ride requests, and the scheduler aims to accept requests of maximum total profit using a single server (car). Each ride request specifies the pi... Read More about Car-Sharing between Two Locations: Online Scheduling with Flexible Advance Bookings.

ReLeDP: Reinforcement-Learning-Assisted Dynamic Pricing for Wireless Smart Grid (2021)
Journal Article

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.