Technologies of blockchain interoperability: A survey
February 2025
Blockchain technology is increasingly popular and has been widely applied in many industrial fields, due to its unique properties of decentralization, immutability, and traceability. Blockchain systems...
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Block-gram: Mining knowledgeable features for efficiently smart contract vulnerability detection
February 2025
Smart contracts are widely used on the blockchain to implement complex transactions, such as decentralized applications on Ethereum. Effective vulnerability detection of large-scale smart contracts...
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A teacher-student based attention network for fine-grained image recognition
February 2025
Fine-grained Image Recognition (FGIR) task is dedicated to distinguishing similar sub-categories that belong to the same super-category, such as bird species and car types. In order to highlight visual...
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A blockchain-based privacy-preserving and collusion-resistant scheme (PPCR) for double auctions
February 2025
Electronic auctions (e-auctions) remove the physical limitations of traditional auctions and bring this mechanism to the general public. However, most e-auction schemes involve a trusted auctioneer,...
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Communication delay-aware cooperative adaptive cruise control with dynamic network topologies—A convergence of communication and control
February 2025
Wireless communication-enabled Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is expected to improve the safety and traffic capacity of vehicle platoons. Existing CACC considers a conventional communication...
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An integrated strategy of AEF attribute evaluation for reliable thunderstorm detection
February 2025
Thunderstorm detection based on the Atmospheric Electric Field (AEF) has evolved from time-domain models to space-domain models. It is especially important to evaluate and determine the particularly...
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Latency minimization for multiuser computation offloading in fog-radio access networks
February 2025
Recently, the Fog-Radio Access Network (F-RAN) has gained considerable attention, because of its flexible architecture that allows rapid response to user requirements. In this paper, computational offloading...
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Trajectory optimization for UAV-enabled relaying with reinforcement learning
February 2025
In this paper, we investigate the application of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-enabled relaying system in emergency communications, where one UAV is applied as a relay to help transmit information...
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Performance analysis of RIS-assisted dual-hop mixed FSO-RF UAV communication systems
Available online 20 February 2025
In this paper, we investigate a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Free-Space Optics–Radio Frequency (FSO–RF) mixed dual-hop communication system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)....
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Optimizing the cyber-physical intelligent transportation system network using enhanced models for data routing and task scheduling
Available online 30 January 2025
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...
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Video Frame Interpolation Based on Invertible Neural Network for Internet of Things
Available online 30 January 2025
Video frame interpolation focuses on directly synthesizing intermediate frames by utilizing inter-frame changes, relying heavily on large, high-frame-rate video datasets for supervised training, which...
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A blockchain-based anonymous and regulated e-taxing protocol for art trading
Available online 22 January 2025
Taxation, the primary source of fiscal revenue, has profound implications in guiding resource allocation, promoting economic growth, adjusting social wealth distribution, and enhancing cultural influence....
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FlyCache: Recommendation-Driven Edge Caching Architecture for Full Life Cycle of Video Streaming
Available online 9 January 2025
With the rapid development of 5G technology, the proportion of video traffic on the Internet is increasing, bringing pressure on the network infrastructure. Edge computing technology provides a feasible...
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Computing Power Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Hierarchical Resources Trading Market
Available online 8 January 2025
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed across military and civilian domains due to their operational flexibility, low maintenance costs, and high mobility. With the growing complexity...
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Lightweight Consensus Mechanisms in the Internet of Blockchained Things: Thorough Analysis and Research Directions
Available online 6 January 2025
The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained substantial attention in both academic research and real-world applications. The proliferation of interconnected devices across various domains promises to deliver...
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Secure intelligent reflecting surface assisted mobile edge computing system with wireless power transfer
December 2024
In this paper, we study an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) assisted Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system under eavesdropping threats, where the IRS is used to enhance the energy signal transmission...
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Joint user association and resource allocation for cost-efficient NOMA-enabled F-RANs
December 2024
Integrating Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) into Fog Radio Access Networks (F-RANs) has shown to be effective in boosting the spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, connectivity, and reducing...
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Chaotic moving video quality enhancement based on deep in-loop filtering
December 2024
The Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) has announced the latest generation of the Versatile Video Coding (VVC, H.266) standard. The in-loop filter in VVC inherits the De-Blocking Filter (DBF) and Sample...
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Cost-aware cloud workflow scheduling using DRL and simulated annealing
December 2024
Cloud workloads are highly dynamic and complex, making task scheduling in cloud computing a challenging problem. While several scheduling algorithms have been proposed in recent years, they are mainly...
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UAV-assisted MEC offloading strategy with peak AOI boundary optimization: A method based on DDQN
December 2024
In response to the requirements for large-scale device access and ultra-reliable and low-latency communication in the power internet of things, unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted multi-access edge computing...
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A new technology perspective of the Metaverse: Its essence, framework and challenges
December 2024
The Metaverse depicts a parallel digitalized world where virtuality and reality are fused. It has economic and social systems like those in the real world and provides intelligent services and applications....
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Digital twin empowered cooperative trajectory planning of platoon vehicles for collision avoidance with unexpected obstacles
December 2024
Road obstacles that unexpectedly appear due to vehicle breakdowns and accidents are major causes of fatal road accidents. Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) can be used to avoid collisions to ensure...
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End-to-end multi-granulation causality extraction model
December 2024
Causality extraction has become a crucial task in natural language processing and knowledge graph. However, most existing methods divide causality extraction into two subtasks: extraction of candidate...
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A secure mist-fog-assisted cooperative offloading framework for sustainable smart city development
Available online 31 December 2024
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,...
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