A key concern in the design of 5G is the radio access network, which is expected to be significantly denser and more advanced, with considerably higher infrastructure and power consumption cost than that of conventional mobile network standards. Novel ...

The integral cryptanalysis is a powerful cryptanalytic technique for the security evaluation of block cipher. However, when using the MILP‐aided division property to search the integral distinguishers, many candidates of initial division properties need ...

Software rejuvenation is an effective technique to counteract software ageing in continuously‐running applications such as web‐service‐based systems. In a client‐server application, where the server is intended to run perpetually, rejuvenation of the ...

Huge demand for bandwidth and capacity is exhibited by various wireless users and applications, for that purpose now the light‐fidelity (Li‐Fi)‐based technologies are developing. In visible light communication, the hybrid networks based on Wi‐Fi and Li‐Fi ...

Cloud computing and virtualisation are recent approaches to develop minimum energy usage in virtualised cloud data centre (DC) for resource management. One of the major problems faced by cloud DCs is energy consumption which increases the cost of cloud ...

There are two main classes of decision fusion methods, namely hard decision fusion (HD) and soft decision fusion (SD), in which the number of bits transmitted by each local sensor to the fusion centre (FC) is always same, namely one bit in HD and n (n ≥ 2)...

Software product lines (SPL) emulate the industrial production lines that are capable of generating large volumes of products through reuse schemes and mass production. A multi product line (MPL) aims to reuse of several SPL. Feature models are often used ...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is one of the emerging techniques, providing pervasive computing for different implementations. Some of the renowned problems in WSN are energy consumption, as well as, the extension of network lifetime. Moreover, cluster ...

The relevance of the related‐key model is usually controversial. However, in some cases, related‐key properties have already been used to reduce the effective key length of the cipher in the single‐key model. Hence, research into this direction can be ...

In multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems, rank deficient channels are the most common and key areas of research. In these channels, the number of transmit antennas (M_Tx) is higher than receive antennas (M_Rx) and subsequently the unknown variables ...

Exploiting mobile sink (MS) for data gathering in the wireless sensor networks has been extensively studied in the recent researches to address energy‐hole issues, thereby facilitating balanced energy consumption among nodes and so prolonging network ...

The notion of confidential transactions plays a central role in ensuring the confidentiality of transaction amounts in a block‐chain‐based cryptocurrency. Past researches have confirmed that the access policy of transaction amounts influences the ...

The architectural properties of product‐line architecture (PLA) design have been successfully optimised by multi‐objective genetic algorithms (GAs). Memetic algorithms (MAs) extend GA by adding a local search after the global search process. MA ...

Search‐based Software Engineering stands for an important area of research which involves finding optimal solutions for software engineering problems according to a set of conflicting objectives. One of these problems is improving the software quality ...

Modern multi‐core mobile devices are the main application objects of mobile cloud computing (MCC). In previous works, researchers have formulated various heuristic algorithms to solve the NP problem. This work combines MCC with multi‐threaded computing (...

The teaching–learning‐based optimisation (TLBO) algorithm is a population‐based metaheuristic inspired on the teaching–learning process observed in a classroom. It has been successfully used in a wide range of applications. In this study, the authors ...

This study introduces a two‐level strategy for efficient execution of multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of complex heterogeneous sequences. The two levels of the proposed technique are comprised of: designing the discrete firefly algorithm (DFFA) for the ...

Optical orthogonal codes play an important role in optical code division multiple access networks and optical wireless systems. In this study, by combining combinatorial design and meta‐heuristic search algorithm, a mixed construction of (v,k,1)‐OOCs is ...

This study presents a new perspective for autonomous mobile robots path searching by proposing a biasing direction towards causal entropy maximisation during random tree generation. Maximum entropy‐biased rapidly‐exploring random tree (ME‐RRT) is proposed ...

Feature matching has been frequently applied in computer vision and pattern recognition. In this paper, the authors propose a fast feature matching algorithm for vector‐based feature. Their algorithm searches r ‐nearest neighborhood clusters for the query ...