• Existing technologies like smart grid (SG) and smart meters play a significant role in meeting the everlasting demand of energy consumption, supply, and generation for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading between different distributed ...

Existing technology like smart grid (SG) and smart meters play a significant role in meeting the everlasting demand of energy consumption, supply, and generation for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading between different distributed prosumers. ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolutionizes the technology landscape by enabling a wide spectrum of services and applications, characterized by a large number of devices, communication protocols, and data formats. Seamless integration ...

• Designed a framework for device integration and communication across microservices.

Deep Neural Network (DNN), one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms, is increasingly leveraged to overcome the bottleneck of effectively exploring and analyzing massive data to boost advanced scientific development. It is not a ...

• We provide a taxonomy of privacy attacks and defenses based on the phases of the occurrence in the workflow of the cloud-based neural network.
• We classify the attacks into four types based on the targeted information. Besides, we group ...

• A fully reusable WoT microservice architecture for smart ports is provided.
• The ...

Major advances in telecommunications and the Internet of Things have given rise to numerous smart city scenarios in which smart services are provided. What was once a dream for the future has now become reality. However, the need to ...

• Facilitating the Monitoring and Management of Structural Health in Civil Infrastructures.

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is nowadays a requirement for civil infrastructures like tunnels, bridges and viaducts. With the advances provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) in recent years in areas such as wireless ...

• Propose an efficient server-aided MPC protocol, which minimizes the computation overhead for all the client parties.

Cloud computing has become one of the most popular distributed computing paradigms in recent years. With its advantages of low cost, on-demand flexibility, and high data processing abilities, more and more enterprises have adopted the ...

• Dynamic distributed tree creation and maintenance based on stable link selection for a distributed environment.
• By inserting highly stable (Links Expiration Time) edges into the multicast tree, the tree fragmentation is significantly ...

The modern driver-assistance and autonomous technologies in vehicles increase the ease of driving vehicles. The increased vehicle usage increases the requirement of efficient group communication between the vehicles to support the safety as well ...

• Atmosphere is a three-tier software architecture for IoT edge-fog-cloud computing.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has grown significantly in popularity, accompanied by increased capacity and lower cost of communications, and overwhelming development of technologies. At the same time, big data and real-time data ...

• This paper presents a solution for the component-wise migration of cloud applications.

The development of applications independent of the cloud providers where they are going to be deployed is still an open issue. In fact, cloud agnostic software development presents important challenges to be solved. One of these issues ...

• We propose a software-defined scheme for energy efficient and QoS-aware data gathering for WSNs-based SG applications.

The smart grid is an emerging concept that introduces innovative ways to handle the power quality and reliability issues for both service provider and consumers. The key aims of the smart grid (SG) in smart cities (SCs) is to preserve ...

• A data-centric middleware responsible for real-time communication and data storage in smart grids.

This paper presents a data-centric middleware responsible for real-time communication and data storage in smart grids. The middleware offers a high level programming model that provides ways of storing/getting information from/to the ...

• Cloud consumers need services that, in addition to meeting their business requirements, provide them with a certain level of quality of service (QoS). On the ...

Negotiation is used when two or more parties with conflicting goals pursue their own interests. Service trading in cloud computing is a case in which automated negotiation system (ANS) can be used to achieve high satisfaction levels ...

• Several holistic frameworks for web application development are compared, and an effective framework for integrating an enterprise's information systems with ...

Companies currently encounter obstacles in networking, integration, and global manufacturing as mobile devices as well as computers increasingly facilitate commercial activities. Accordingly, we propose a new web-based enterprise ...

Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe (DCPS) is an architectural and communication paradigm where applications exchange data-content through a common data-space using publish-subscribe interactions. Due to its focus on data-content, DCPS is especially suitable ...

Despite the tremendous growth of the capacity of computation and storage IT solutions over the last years there is still a deep mismatch between the e-Infrastructures and the e-Science applications that use instruments, sensors, and laboratory ...

In this paper, we propose an economics-based distributed negotiation scheme among mobile devices in mobile grid. In our model, there are energy negotiation and transactions between buyer devices and seller devices. Dynamic allocation of energy resources ...

In this paper, we investigate the recent popular computing technique called grid computing, and use video conversion and 3D rendering applications to demonstrate this technology's effectiveness and high performance. We also report on developing a ...

With recent advances in computing and communication technologies enabling mobile devices more powerful, the scope of Grid computing has been broadened to include mobile and pervasive devices. Energy has become a critical resource in such devices. So, ...

In this paper we address the problem of the efficient peer selection in P2P distributed platforms. To this end, we have developed a P2P distributed platform using Sun's JXTA technology, which is endowed with resource brokerage strategies to efficiently ...

In metal cutting processes, an effective monitoring system, based on a suitably developed scheme or set of algorithms can maintain machine tools in good condition and delay the occurrence of tool wear. In this paper, an approach is developed for fault ...