Security and privacy in edge computing: a survey of electric vehicles
February 2026
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have developed into a complex ecosystem that includes many technical components such as task offloading on mobile devices, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and smart grids. Moreover,...
A security authentication scheme for mobile industrial IoT supply chains based on blockchain and group key management
February 2026
Driven by globalization and digitization, the Mobile Industrial Supply Chain Internet of Things (IoT) has gradually developed, utilizing mobile devices and IoT technologies to enable real-time monitoring...
TopoLLM: LLM-driven adaptive tool learning for real-time emergency network topology planning
February 2026
Communication infrastructure is often among the first casualties in natural or human-induced disasters, severely impairing the coordination and efficiency of rescue operations. Rapid deployment of Unmanned...
Risk-aware user satisfaction maximization in vehicle-assisted multi-access edge computing offloading: a game-theoretic approach
February 2026
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) enhances computational efficiency by enabling resource-constrained User Devices (UD) to offload tasks to edge servers. Compared to traditional edge servers fixed on...
Green scheduling for LLM workloads with model and data reuse across geo-distributed data centers
February 2026
The explosive proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) imposes significant energy and operational burdens on Geographically Distributed Data Centers (GDDCs), thereby demanding an efficient mechanism...
Joint user association and cooperative beamforming for multi-IRSs aided mmWave communication systems
February 2026
This paper investigates a downlink millimeter-Wave (mmWave) communication system equipped with multiple cooperative Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs), aiming to extend mmWave signal coverage and...
A digital twin-based quadruped robot system with scene perception, fast communication, and holographic interaction
February 2026
This paper develops a quadruped robot virtual-real interactive control system based on digital twin technology. The system is designed to address key challenges in robotics technology, including real-time...
A blockchain-based user-centric identity management toward 6G networks
January 2026
The developing Sixth-Generation (6G) network aims to establish seamless global connectivity for billions of humans, machines, and devices. However, the rich digital service and the explosive heterogeneous...
Double-side delay alignment modulation for multi-user millimeter wave and terahertz communications
January 2026
Delay Alignment Modulation (DAM) is an innovative broadband modulation technique well-suited for millimeter Wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication...
A cognitive agriculture framework for crop temperature prediction with semantic communication
January 2026
Accurate prediction of environmental temperature is pivotal for promoting sustainable crop growth. At present, the most effective temperature sensing and prediction system is the Agricultural Internet...
RIS-assisted cellular networks with multiple D2D pairs: Outage and ergodic achievable rate
January 2026
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is envisioned as a promising technology to improve the system capacity of 6G network, by controlling the electromagnetic wave propagation. Most existing works...
Enhanced multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for efficient task offloading and resource allocation in vehicular networks
January 2026
In response to the rising demand for low-latency, computation-intensive applications in vehicular networks, this paper proposes an adaptive task offloading approach for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) environments....
Heterogeneous resource allocation with latency guarantee for computing power network
January 2026
Computing Power Network (CPN) is a new paradigm that integrates communication, computing, and storage resources to provide services for tasks. However, tasks composed of non-independent subtasks have...
Single-channel blind source separation empowered joint transceiver optimization for wireless communications using deep learning
January 2026
To tackle the physical layer security challenges in wireless communication, this paper introduces a multi-user architecture that leverages single-channel blind source separation, centered around a Multi-source...
Distributed unsupervised meta-learning algorithm over multi-agent systems
January 2026
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), which consist of multiple interacting agents, are crucial in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), because they improve system adaptability, efficiency, and robustness through parallel...
V-track: Blockchain-enabled IoT system for reliable vehicle location verification
January 2026
Location-Based Services (LBS) have greatly improved efficiency and functionality in various domains, but privacy and security concerns remain due to the centralized nature of many existing systems....
Secformer: Privacy-preserving atomic-level componentized transformer-like model with MPC
January 2026
The global surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been triggered by the impressive performance of deep-learning models based on the Transformer architecture. However, the efficacy of such models...
A novel deviation measurement for scheduled intelligent transportation system via comparative spatial-temporal path networks
January 2026
Transit managers can use Intelligent Transportation System technologies to access large amounts of data to monitor network status. However, the presentation of the data lacks structural information....
Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Critical Review of Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Industry 4.0
January 2026
The concept of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) enables the creation of a complex network that includes sensors integrated into vehicles and infrastructure, facilitating seamless data acquisition and transfer....
A secure mist-fog-assisted cooperative offloading framework for sustainable smart city development
January 2026
Practical applications of smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT) have multiplied, posing many difficulties in network performance, dependability, and security. Concerns of accessibility, reliability,...
A certificateless and KGA-secure searchable encryption scheme with constant trapdoors in smart city
January 2026
Smart cities, as a typical application in the field of the Internet of Things, can combine cloud computing to realize the intelligent control of objects and process massive data. While cloud computing...
Data driven vehicular heterogeneity based intelligent collision avoidance system for Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
January 2026
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an emerging technology that aims to connect vehicles, infrastructure, and other devices to enable intelligent transportation systems. One of the key challenges in IoV...
Optimizing the cyber-physical intelligent transportation system network using enhanced models for data routing and task scheduling
January 2026
Advanced technologies like Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have supported modernizing and automating the transportation region through the introduction of Intelligent Transportation...
Personalized and Sustainable Federated Learning in Integrated Internet of Things
Available online 27 January 2026
Integrated Internet of Things (IoTs) bring novel opportunities for pervasive smart services, as such systems allow for seamless information and resource sharing among IoT devices. Meanwhile, federated...
A survey of AI-driven QoT analysis in lightpath management
Available online 17 January 2026
Quality of Transmission (QoT) analysis is a foundational component in planning and operational management of modern optical networks. Traditional analytical models have limitations in accurately modeling...