OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Network and Systems Management is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
DeepVRM: Deep Learning Based Virtual Resource Management for Energy Efficiency	150
Flow Migration for Service Function Chains: Correctness Criteria and Their Relaxation	109
RLSK_US: An Improved Dynamic Virtual Machine Consolidation Model to Optimize Energy and SLA Violations in Cloud Datacenter	74
Deterministic Scheduling of Periodic Messages for Low Latency in Cloud RAN	70
High Precision Latency Forwarding for Wide Area Networks Through Intelligent In-Packet Header Processing (gLBF)	69
An Analysis of Cloud Gaming Platforms Behaviour Under Synthetic Network Constraints and Real Cellular Networks Conditions	56
Path Enumeration Solution for Evaluating Reliability, Based on the Path Algebra Framework	55
Edge Deployment of Optimized 5G Core Network for Efficient Inter-edge Handovers	55
4MIDable: Flexible Network Offloading For Security VNFs	51
A P4-Based Adversarial Attack Mitigation on Machine Learning Models in Data Plane Devices	48
Enhancing the Security of Software-Defined Networking through Forensic Memory Analysis	44
Improving Emergency Response: An In-Depth Analysis of an ITS-G5 Messaging Strategy for Bus Blockage Emergencies at Level Crossings	43
Evaluating Cross-Domain Generalisation of Deep Learning Models in Network Traffic Classification: A Statistical and Experimental Analysis of VNF and PNF	36
A Novel Deep Learning-based Intrusion Detection Model for Cybersecurity in Intelligent Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks	34
A Novel Wavelet-Based Model For Android Malware Detection Utilizing System Calls Features	33
Impact of Irrational Users in a Cognitive Radio Network Game: Spectrum Market Stability Analysis	28
Genetic-Based Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Fog–Cloud Environment	28
Integrating Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks into IoT Using MQTT-SN	27
Defense-in-Depth and Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection for Industrial Control Systems	24
Performance Evaluation of IoT-Based Industrial Automation Using Edge, Fog, and Cloud Architectures	23
Deep-Learning Based Detection for Cyber-Attacks in IoT Networks: A Distributed Attack Detection Framework	23
Enhancing Network Threat Detection with Random Forest-Based NIDS and Permutation Feature Importance	22
BTR-SDN: A Blockchain-Enabled Trusted Routing Scheme for SDN Interdomain	22
Smart Hospital Patient Monitoring System Aided by Edge-Fog-Cloud Continuum: A Performability Evaluation Focusing on Distinct Sensor Sources	21
Deployment of Future Services in a Multi-access Edge Computing Environment Using Intelligence at the Edge	21

SereWay: Toward SEcurity and REliability Benchmarking for the RailWAY IIoT	21
QoS-Aware Service Migration in Multi-access Edge Compute Using Closed-Loop Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm	21
One Class Density Estimation Approach for Fault Detection and Rootcause Analysis in Computer Networks	21
Deep Learning and Fuzzy Logic Integration for Virtual Network Function Deployment	20
C3S-TTP: A Trusted Third Party for Configuration Security in TOSCA-Based Cloud Services	19
Correction to: Proactive Self-Scheduling Energy Balancing Routing Approach Based Lifetime Maximization Using Cluster Control Fragmentation in WSN	19
A Honeynet-Driven Privacy Preserving Incremental Learning Framework for Cyberattack Classification in Industry 4.0 Environments	18
LogAnomEX: An Unsupervised Log Anomaly Detection Method Based on Electra-DP and Gated Bilinear Neural Networks	17
Responsible Workload Sequence Anomaly Detection with Bi-View Feature Fusion	17
eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Transparent Optimization of Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Systems	17
Towards NICE-by-Design Cybersecurity Learning Environments: A Cyber Range for SOC Teams	17
Toward Generating a Large Scale Intrusion Detection Dataset and Intruders Behavioral Profiling Using Network and Transportation Layers Traffic Flow Analyzer (NTLFlowLyzer)	17
QoE Evaluation in Adaptive Streaming: Enhanced MDT with Deep Learning	16
SA-O2DCA: Seasonal Adapted Online Outlier Detection and Classification Approach for WSN	16
X-CLNN: A Hybrid Neural Network-Based Approach Combining CNN and RNN for Communication Services Classification	16
Optimizing Completion Time of Requests in Serverless Computing	16
A Survey on the Optimization of Security Components Placement in Internet of Things	15
On the Integration of Blockchain and SDN: Overview, Applications, and Future Perspectives	15
A Hybrid Heuristic Task Offloading Algorithm in Mobile Edge Computing for Joint Optimization of Delay and Energy Consumption	15
PV+TESLA: A Secure Integrated Approach to Reduce Message Verification Delay in V2V Networks	15
SDBlock-IoT: A Blockchain-Enabled Software-Defined Multicontroller Architecture to Safeguard OpenFlow Tables	15
Deep Learning Based Hybrid Intrusion Detection Systems to Protect Satellite Networks	15
Dynamic Frequency Shift Keying: A Lightweight Modulation for Energy, Latency, and Throughput Optimization in IoT Networks	15
A Comprehensive Review of Recent Developments in VANET for Traffic, Safety & Remote Monitoring Applications	15
Enabling RPL on the Internet of Underwater Things	15
An Advanced Hierarchical Identity-Based Security Mechanism by Blockchain in Named Data Networking	14
Optimized Placement of Security Controllers for Enhancing Intrusion Detection and Resilience in Software-Defined IoT Networks	14
Parametric Machine Learning-Based Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for Efficient IoT Data Collection in Environmental Monitoring	13
Policy-Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning for Maximizing Operator’s Profit in Open-RAN	13
Distributed Maximum Utility Task Offloading for Delay-Sensitive IoT Applications in Cloud and Edge Computing	13
Distributed AgriFood Supply Chains	13
Cross-DistBlock: Blockchain-Enabled Multi-stage Flow Verification in Multi-domain Software-Defined Networks	13
An Adaptable and Agnostic Flow Scheduling Approach for Data Center Networks	13
An Deep Ensemble Learning Model with Metaheuristic Hyperparameter Optimization for Smart Grid Intrusion Detection	13
A Perspicacious Multi-level Defense System Against DDoS Attacks in Cloud Using Information Metric & Game Theoretical Approach	13
A Model of Encrypted Network Traffic Classification that Trades Off Accuracy and Efficiency	12
Intent-Driven Network Isolation for the Cloud Computing Continuum	12
BBNAC: Blockchain Based Network Access Control for IT/OT Infrastructures	12
Efficient Task Allocation in Data Center Environments Based on Information Theory	12
Novel Initialization Functions for Metaheuristic-Based Online Virtual Network Embedding	12
Effect of Messaging Model on the Reliable Data Transfer Latency in a Fog System	12
Securing and Ensuring the Confidentiality of Medical Data in the Era of Decentralized Technologies: A Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity-Based Approach	12
Mitigating Mobility Uncertainty in Vehicular Cloud Networks Through Kalman Prediction and Evaluating Blockchain Protocol Security	11
A Distributed Virtual-Machine Placement and Migration Approach Based on Modern Portfolio Theory	11
Assisted Monitoring and Security Provisioning for 5G Microservices-Based Network Slices with SWEETEN	11
Federated Detection of Malicious Domain Names in the Internet of Things with Heterogeneous Data Distribution	11
Customizable Mapping of Virtualized Network Services in Multi-datacenter Environments Based on Genetic Metaheuristics	11
Maximizing Lifetime and Target Coverage in Dynamic Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks Using an Enhanced Genetic Algorithm	11
Dynamic Microservice Provisioning in 5G Networks Using Edge–Cloud Continuum	11
Link State Estimator for VANETs Using Neural Networks	11

Empowering UAV Communications with AI-Assisted Software-Defined Networks: A Review on Performance, Security, and Efficiency	10
Machine Learning based Cyber Attack Detection and Classification in O-RAN	10
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Driven Optimization of End-to-End Key Provision in QKD Systems	10
Priority-Aware Resource Reallocation in Edge Computing Using Reinforcement Learning	10
End-to-End No-wait Scheduling for Time-Triggered Streams in Mixed Wired-Wireless Networks	10
Intelligent Congestion Control and Scheduling in VANETs: An SDN-Based PPO Approach	10
SGR-MOP Based Secrecy-Enabled Resource Allocation Scheme for 5G Networks	10
Efficient Scheduling of Charger-UAV in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Social Group Optimization Based Approach	10
Smart Homes App Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review	10
Service Function Chain Live Migration with Bi-GRU Resource Prediction in Substrate Networks	10
MM-DCPR: Dual Controller Optimization for Distributed Control and Energy-Efficient Routing in SDWSNs	10
Optimized Route Selection in RPL: Static and Dynamic Parent Evaluation for Energy-Efficient IoT Networks	10
Adaptive Computation Offloading Decision Optimization in MEC-Assisted FL	10
Optimized Feature Selection Using Rough Sets for Intrusion Detection in 802.11 Wireless Networks	10
Correction: Path Enumeration Solution for Evaluating Reliability, Based on the Path Algebra Framework	9
Delay Constrained SFC Orchestration for Edge Intelligence-Enabled IIoT: A DRL Approach	9
SECAP Switch—Defeating Topology Poisoning Attacks Using P4 Data Planes	9
Enhancing Performance Models with Intelligent Configuration Space Coverage	9
Network Security Anomaly Node Detection Based on Graph Neural Network and Attention Mechanism	9
Sequential Network Tomography: Exploiting the Temporal Correlation in Network Monitoring	9
Optimal Joint Scheduling and Congestion Window Estimation for Congestion Avoidance in Mobile Opportunistic Networks	9
Enabling Integrity Measurement for Secure Applications in the Enarx Framework	9
A Novel Approach to Malware Detection: Converting Hardware Memory Data to 2D Barcodes Using Mobile Networks	9
QoS-Aware Augmented Reality Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Cloud-Edge Collaboration Environment	9
Towards a Deep Learning Approach for IoT Attack Detection Based on a New Generative Adversarial Network Architecture and Gated Recurrent Unit	9
Seeing Through the Overlay: Unveiling Potential Bottlenecks in SD-WANs	9
Defending Against Multifaceted Network Attacks: A Multi-Label Meta-Learning and Lorenz Chaos MTD based Security Paradigm	9
Detection of False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grid Using Bi-LSTM with an Attention Mechanism	9
BoostSec: Adaptive Attack Detection for Vehicular Networks	9
Efficient Intelligent Intrusion Detection System for Heterogeneous Internet of Things (HetIoT)	9
Intelligent and Resource-Efficient Framework for AR-DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation in Programmable Data Plane Using QCNN	9
Energy-Aware Adaptive Routing for Mobile Sink Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks Leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy-Based Clustering	8
A Comprehensive Survey on Blockchain-Based Security Mechanisms for the Internet of Vehicles	8
SynFloWatch: An Entropy-Based Live Defense System against SYN Spoofing DDoS Attacks in Hybrid SDN	8
EnGINE: Flexible Research Infrastructure for Reliable and Scalable Time Sensitive Networks	8
Privacy-Preserving Container Attestation	8
Performance Analysis of the Multi-connection Tactile Internet Protocol over 5G	8
DomURLs_BERT: Pre-trained BERT-based Model for Malicious Domains and URLs Detection and Classification	8
Joint Optimization of UAV-Mounted RIS-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	8
Service Function Chain Deployment in NFV-Enabled Networks: A Comprehensive Survey	8
ATENA: Adaptive TEchniques for Network Area Coverage and Routing in IoT-Based Edge Computing	8
MLP-Based Intrusion Detection for Securing IoT Networks	8
Machine Learning-Based Network Monitoring for Cybersecurity Threat Detection	8
Hi-SAM: A High-Scalable Authentication Model for Satellite-Ground Zero-Trust System Using Mean Field Game	8
Optimizing Network and Systems Management for Fraud Detection: A High-Performance Approach Using Random Light Gradient-Based CatBoost Ensemble with Enhanced Gold Rush Algorithm	8
Stochastic Machine Learning Based Attacks Detection System in Wireless Sensor Networks	8
A Survey on the Use of Lightweight Virtualization in I4.0 Manufacturing Environments	8
On the Deployment Problem of Multiple Drones in Millimeter Wave Systems	8
Novel Statistical Modelling and Optimization Techniques of Fading Channel Coefficients for 5G Network Performance	8
Towards Intelligent Decision Making for Charging Scheduling in Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks	8
Simplifying Forwarding Data Plane Operations with XOR-Based Source Routing	8