Combinatorial testing (CT) can efficiently detect failures caused by interactions of parameters of software under test. The CT study has undergone a transition from traditional CT to constrained CT, which is crucial for real‐world systems ...

Suppose a target is hidden in one of the vertices of an edge-weighted graph according to a known probability distribution. Starting from a fixed root node, an expanding search visits the vertices sequentially until it finds the target, where the next ...

In order to solve the problem of low accuracy and efficiency of soil moisture content prediction in tea plantations and improve the level of soil water content prediction, a soil moisture content prediction model for tea plantations based on the ...

Partial discharge (PD) signals are an important index to evaluate the operation state of intelligent substations. The correct distinction of PD pulse and interference pulse has become a challenging task. Because of the noise and the low signal‐...

Software defect prediction is an important software quality assurance technique. Nevertheless, the prediction performance of the constructed model is easily susceptible to irrelevant or redundant features in the software projects and is not ...

In this research, a new method for population initialisation in meta‐heuristic algorithms based on the Pareto 80/20 rule is presented. The population in a meta‐heuristic algorithm has two important tasks, including pushing the algorithm toward the ...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) node localisation technology based on received signal strength indication (RSSI) is widely used as it does not need additional hardware devices. The ranging accuracy of RSSI is poor, and the particle swarm ...

Safe operation of the power grid requires a complete and robust control network to ensure full observability. However, redundancy measurements can create problems in expense, management, and control. The optimal phasor measurement unit (PMU) ...

Android malware is a serious threat to the mobile users and their data. The losses incurred are unimaginable, which stretch to the extent of identity theft, financial loss, sensitive information loss, espionage, sabotage, cyber fraud, to mention a ...

Searching relevant papers is a fundamental task for the elaboration of secondary studies. This task is known to be tedious and time‐consuming when it is made manually, especially with the presence of several academic repositories. Recently, ...

A time‐specific encrypted range query scheme that has the following properties is proposed. (1) The proposed scheme has trapdoor privacy and data privacy so that a semi‐honest cloud is not able to get any useful information from given ciphertexts ...

In this manuscript, an upgraded Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm (FFOA) is proposed for optimising task scheduling and resource management processes. The proposed FOA algorithm is utilized to address the issues. In the proposed algorithm, every ...

MIMO systems employing sphere decoding (SD) algorithm are known to achieve near maximum likelihood (ML) performance at a reduced complexity by restricting the candidate search space to a sphere of a certain radius. The performance of SD depends on the ...

Achieving high quality of service (QOS) at the end‐users while maintaining the low interference power at the primary users is the main goal in underlay cognitive radio networks. This goal becomes a more difficult task in the designing of beamforming ...

Energy efficiency (EE) maximisation is one of the most important necessities of the fifth‐generation (5G) wireless networks. In this study, both power allocation and channel assignment issues for the cellular network underlaid with device to device (D2D) ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled networks can enhance wireless connectivity and support emerging services. However, this would require system‐level understanding to modify and extend the existing terrestrial network infrastructure. In this study, ...

Sustainable operation of energy‐restrained wireless network services requires multiple objectives to be satisfied synchronously. Among these objectives, reduced spectrum outage, energy conservation, and minimal packet transmission failures considerably ...

In infrastructure‐less scenarios such as rural environments, wild emergency response, military applications and disaster relief, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of providing enhanced mobile edge computing (MEC) services for ground users. ...

In this study, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is elected for tenant authentication, data encryption, and data decryption due to its minimum key size. The proposed ECC‐based authentication approach allows the authorised person to access private data; ...

Presently, the single‐carrier frequency division multiplexing (SCFDM)‐based visible light communication (VLC) system is extensively implemented for secure and high‐speed data transmission. However, the effect of additive white Gaussian noise in VLC with ...