Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) technology, which can charge IoT devices over the air, has become a promising technology for IoT networks. In wireless-powered IoT networks, broadcasting is a fundamental networking service for disseminating messages to the ...

Immersive systems, which offer immersive interactive experiences by tightly coupling the real and virtual worlds, encompassing Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), have undergone rapid development in recent years. The inherent latency issue of ...

Smart cities have drawn a lot of interest in recent years, which employ Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled sensors to gather data from various sources and help enhance the quality of residents’ life in multiple areas, e.g. public safety. Accurate crime ...

Single-modal data has a limitation on fatigue detection, while the shortage of labeled data is pervasive in multimodal sensing data. Besides, it is a time-consuming task for board-certified experts to manually annotate the physiological signals, ...

Due to an explosive growth in mobile devices and the rapid evolution of wireless communication technologies, local-edge-cloud computing is becoming an attractive solution for providing a higher-quality service by exploiting the multi-computation power of ...

Despite considerable technological advances for smart cities, they still face problems such as instability of cloud server connection, insecurity during data transmission, and slight deficiencies in TCP/IP network architecture. To address such issues, we ...

With the rapid development and application of smart city, Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) as its superset is becoming increasingly important, and attracts extensive attentions. For satisfying the smart requirements of CPSS design, a cloud-edge ...

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) have been widely used in industrial applications that require highly reliable and real-time wireless transmission. A lot of works have been done to optimize the Relay Node Placement (RNP), which determines the ...

Connectivity restoration is essential for ensuring continuous operation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, existing works lack enough network robustness when suffering from the secondary external damages. In this paper, we propose a novel ...

Carefully perturbing adversarial inputs degrades the performance of traditional machine learning (ML) models. Adversarial machine learning (AML) that takes adversaries into account during training and learning emerges as a valid technique to defend ...

The number of affirmed COVID-19 cases showed an enormous increase in the recent past throughout the globe. Keeping in view the catastrophic destruction of this devastating virus, there is a must-need situation to maximize the use of existing healthcare ...

Cyber-security intelligence have made a great impact over healthcare industry where several researchers are developing new techniques to improve security for healthcare systems. Besides, Artificial Intelligence (AI) become the tremendous technology in ...

Drones have drawn considerable attention as the agents in wireless data collection for agricultural applications, by virtue of their three-dimensional mobility and dominant line-of-sight communication channels. Existing works mainly exploit dedicated ...

The detection of anomaly status plays a pivotal role in the maintenance of public transportation and facilities in smart cities. Owing to the pervasively deployed sensing devices, one can collect and apply multi-dimensional sensing data to detect and ...

Based on the Internet of Behavior (IoB), mobile crowd-sensing (MCS) utilizes the Internet of Things (IoT) to recruit users by analyzing behavioral patterns. MCS is widely used in numerous large-scale and complex monitoring services, but it cannot provide ...

In this paper, we investigate the topic of designing a sensor network by simultaneously optimizing its data energy efficiency and latency. We propose to design a network structure based on the number of nearest neighbors of wireless nodes and provide an ...

As Internet of Things (IoT) thrives over the whole world, more and more IoT devices and IoT-based protocols have been designed and proposed in order to meet people’s needs. Among those protocols, message queueing telemetry transport (MQTT) is one of the ...

With the advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), outsourcing network functions (NFs) to the MEC is becoming popular among network service providers (NSPs), since it brings the scalability and flexibility for NF ...

The development of 5G has brought new opportunities for the application of Internet of Things (IoT). The integration of 5G and IoT technologies promote high availability, resilience, and reliability of the network infrastructures. IoT deployment ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of nodes distributed in the region of interest (ROI) that forward collected data to the sink. The node’s location plays a vital role in data forwarding to enhance network efficiency by reducing the packet drop rate ...