In disaster-stricken areas monitoring, management, search, and rescue operations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in disaster management and emergency communication due to their high mobility. To efficiently coordinate and ...

Efficiently placing applications remains a critical challenge across diverse multi-server environments, including web hosting centers, cloud computing, and edge computing environments. Unfortunately, most existing studies tend to overlook the ...

In this paper, we tackle online Service Function Chaining (SFC) embedding issue in Software Defined Network (SDN)/Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enabled networks using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach. This approach investigates ...

With the rapid development of smart grid, constructing distributed energy trading market (DETM) based on blockchain to coordinate distributed energy resources (DER) has become a future direction. However, existing consensus algorithms of ...

With the integration of virtualization technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding its capabilities and quickly becoming a complex ecosystem of networked devices. The Social Internet of Things (SIoT), where intelligent things include ...

With the rapid proliferation of emerging scientific computing, more and more cloud users (CUs) with large-scale applications are seeking efficient executing paradigms in clouds. Following this trend, a cloud market with multiple cloud service ...

One of the key enabling solutions to in-orbit extract information from Earth Observation images is given by deep learning techniques. However, the accuracy of these algorithms is strictly related to the availability of large datasets of satellite ...

Edge computing migrates tasks to the edge of the network for execution, which can provide users with lower latency and better quality of service (QoS). However, due to the complexity and dynamism of edge environments, many task scheduling ...

Owing to the rapid development of information security technology, the security analysis of encryption protocols has received widespread attention. In this paper, we propose a stateful black-box encryption protocol fuzzing method to analyze the ...

• We propose a stateful black-box encryption protocol fuzzing to test network programs.
• We introduce a mapper to process the encryption and decryption conversion.
• We develop the fuzzing tool SBEPFuzz and design a testing scheme for ...

Due to the continuous expansion of the user base and the heightened demands for quality of service (QoS), real-time data distribution has encountered significant challenges in event matching within large-scale content-based publish/subscribe (CPS)...

In the complex operating environment, it is difficult to find the root of the issue when there are some time-consuming or error performance issues when executing the request. Aiming at resolving the above challenge, this paper designs and ...

Due to the growing demand for time-intensive tasks, several tasks coexist, some of which last for a long time or only occur once in a while, such as emergencies. Emergencies such as natural disasters, accidents or medical emergencies require ...

In recent years, Software-Defined Networking has been gradually applied to cloud gateways to provide efficient, reliable and flexible data transmission services for various large-scale cloud platforms. However, massive concurrent accessing ...

Due to technology development in the recent past, it is observed that an exponential growth in the usage of high speed intelligent devices which includes smart objects, smart home, smart vehicles etc. Therefore, for the efficient transmission ...