Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	294
Editorial Board	257
Terra: Low-latency and reliable event col	219
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for privacy-aware distributed CNN in heterogeneous IoT surveillance systems	188
Enhancement and optimization of FlexE technology within metro transport networks	170
Stackelberg game-based dynamic resource trading for network slicing in 5G networks	147
Securing edge based smart city networks with software defined Networking and zero trust architecture	147
A dynamic spectrum access scheme for Internet of Things with improved federated learning	138
A cooperative image object recognition framework and task offloading optimization in edge computing	134
The universal federator: A third-party authentication solution to federated cloud, edge, and fog	131
A profit-effective function service pricing approach for serverless edge computing function offloading	129
Performance modelling and optimal stage assignment for multistage P4 switches	127
Hierarchical mixture of vital feature experts for mobile target coverage optimization in directional sensor networks	125
SRP: An Efficient Runtime Protection Framework for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts	108
DC-PUF: Machine learning-resistant PUF-based authentication protocol using dependency chain for resource-constraint IoT devices	106
MPC	105
C-PFL: A committee-based personalized federated learning framework	105
Editorial Board	104
Cooperative-centrality enabled investigations on edge-based trustworthy framework for cloud focused internet of things	104
Editorial Board	97
Community detection in complex network based on an improved random algorithm using local and global network information	97
Green grant-free power allocation for ultra-dense Internet of Things: A mean-field perspective	94
Energy-efficient virtual-machine mapping algorithm (EViMA) for workflow tasks with deadlines in a cloud environment	94
BRIP: Towards a privacy-preserving, trustworthy, and transparent ride-sharing system with semantic matching powered by blockchain and IPFS	91
Hardening of network segmentation using automated referential penetration testing	89

SFTO-Guard: Real-time detection and mitigation system for slow-rate flow table overflow attacks	85
Intelligent energy management with IoT framework in smart cities using intelligent analysis: An application of machine learning methods for complex networks and systems	85
Integrated probabilistic clustering and Deep Reinforcement Learning for bias mitigation and device heterogeneity of Federated Learning in edge networks	84
A DDoS attack detection method based on IQR and DFFCNN in SDN	84
Mobility-aware fog computing in dynamic networks with mobile nodes: A survey	83
Two formal design solutions for the generalization of network segmentation	82
NOMA and future 5G & B5G wireless networks: A paradigm	77
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	76
A gateway-assisted blockchain-based authentication scheme for internet-of-things	75
Harnessing federated generative learning for green and sustainable Internet of Things	75
A Stochastic Computational Graph with Ensemble Learning Model for solving Controller Placement Problem in Software-Defined Wide Area Networks	68
Striking the perfect balance: Multi-objective optimization for minimizing deployment cost and maximizing coverage with Harmony Search	66
CRAMP: Clustering-based RANs association and MEC placement for delay-sensitive applications	66
Holistic survey on energy aware routing techniques for IoT applications	64
SAKA: Scalable authentication and key agreement scheme with configurable key evolution in edge-fog-multicloud computing environments	62
Editorial Board	62
Caching or not: An online cost optimization algorithm for geodistributed data analysis in cloud environments	61
Heterogeneous IoT/LTE ProSe virtual infrastructure for disaster situations	60
Label-aware learning to enhance unsupervised cross-domain rumor detection	60
Constrained routing in multi-partite graph to solve VNF placement and chaining problem	60
DeFinder: Error-sensitive testing of deep neural networks via vulnerability interpretation	60
CE-VNE: Constraint escalation virtual network embedding algorithm assisted by graph convolutional networks	54
Reducing cold start delay in serverless computing using lightweight virtual machines	54
Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey	54
Securing the Industrial Internet of Things against ransomware attacks: A comprehensive analysis of the emerging threat landscape and detection mechanisms	53
Online dynamic replication and placement algorithms for cost optimization of online social networks in two-tier multi-cloud	50
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	49
Secure the Core: A novel approach for secure and efficient communication in Service-Based Architectures and beyond 5G networks	49
Holistic resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks: An optimization perspective	48
OverShard: Scaling blockchain by full sharding with overlapping network and virtual accounts	48
Intelligent routing optimization for SDN based on PPO and GNN	48
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	48
Efficient application mapping approach based on grey wolf optimization for network on chip	47
Backscatter communication-based wireless sensing (BBWS): Performance enhancement and future applications	47
Exploring Blockchain-driven security in SDN-based IoT networks	47
ALSketch: An adaptive learning-based sketch for accurate network measurement under dynamic traffic distribution	47
Editorial Board	46
Attenuating majority attack class bias using hybrid deep learning based IDS framework	46
Knowledge reuse in edge computing environments	45
Secure event-triggered control for vehicle platooning against dual deception attacks	44
Spectrum allocation method for millimeter-wave train-ground communication in high-speed rail based on multi-agent attention	44
Editorial Board	44
A dynamic state sharding blockchain architecture for scalable and secure crowdsourcing systems	44
AntCom: An effective and efficient anti-tracking system with dynamic and asymmetric communication channel	42
Variational Deep Clustering approaches for anomaly-based cyber-attack detection	41
Editorial Board	41
Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Federated Learning with weighted average aggregation in edge computing	39
Energy-efficient performance optimization in Kubernetes microservices using Generalized Stochastic Petri Net	39
Fatriot: Fault-tolerant MEC architecture for mission-critical systems using a SmartNIC	39
Accelerating the consensus speed of complex networked system via reweighting the edges	38

Addressing security requirements in industrial IoT: A robust three-factor authentication scheme with enhanced features	38
Comprehensive phishing detection: A multi-channel approach with variants TCN fusion leveraging URL and HTML features	38
LCC: Latency-aware Cross-radio Cooperation for energy-optimized data dissemination in heterogeneous IoT	38
Deep Reinforcement Learning based reliable spectrum sensing under SSDF attacks in Cognitive Radio networks	38
ReinFog: A Deep Reinforcement Learning empowered framework for resource management in edge and cloud computing environments	37
Data reconstruction applications for IoT air pollution sensor networks using graph signal processing	36
AI for AI-based intrusion detection as a service: Reinforcement learning to configure models, tasks, and capacities	35
A comprehensive survey on reinforcement-learning-based computation offloading techniques in Edge Computing Systems	34
ST-MemA: Leveraging Swin Transformer and memory-enhanced LSTM for encrypted traffic classification	34
Task-oriented communication-edge inference via Information Bottleneck optimization	34
Optimizing disaster response with UAV-mounted RIS and HAP-enabled edge computing in 6G networks	34
Smart parking optimization with software defined networking and blockchain: SPOSChain	33
Privacy-preserving trajectory data publication: A distributed approach without trusted servers	33
An online service provisioning strategy for container-based cloud brokers	33
Enhancement of cellular networks via an improved clustering technique with D2D communication for mission-critical applications	33
Network Coding-based Resilient Routing for Maintaining Data Security and Availability in Software-Defined Networks	33
Comprehensive review on congestion detection, alleviation, and control for IoT networks	32
Editorial Board	32
A state lossless scheduling strategy in distributed stream computing systems	32
Survey of prominent blockchain development platforms	32
Quality-aware multi-task allocation based on location importance in mobile crowdsensing	32
Artificial intelligence-enhanced zero-knowledge proofs for privacy-preserving digital forensics in cloud environments	31
Socially-aware and energy-efficient resource allocation and power control for D2D multicast content distribution	31
A lightweight SEL for attack detection in IoT/IIoT networks	30
Balancing function performance and cluster load in serverless computing: A reinforcement learning solution	30
An online bi-objective scheduling algorithm for service provisioning in cloud computing	30
A review of graph-powered data quality applications for IoT monitoring sensor networks	30
A bargain game theory assisted interest packet forwarding strategy for information centric network	30
EBDL: Effective blockchain-based covert storage channel with dynamic labels	29
Intelligent congestion control in 5G URLLC Software-Defined Networks using adaptive resource management via Reinforced Dueling Deep Q-Networks	29
Towards IT/OT integration in industry digitalization: A comprehensive survey	28
RVC: A reputation and voting based blockchain consensus mechanism for edge computing-enabled IoT systems	28
ELA-RCP: An energy-efficient and load balanced algorithm for reliable controller placement in software-defined networks	28
Efficient privacy-preserving ML for IoT: Cluster-based split federated learning scheme for non-IID data	28
Intelligent aerial video streaming: Achievements and challenges	28
Broadcast/multicast delivery integration in B5G/6G environments	27
Task scheduling of cloud computing system by frilled lizard optimization with time varying expansion mixed function oscillation and horned lizard camouflage strategy	27
Editorial Board	27
Firm social management system for supporting IoT users in application environment	26
Design, implementation, and performance evaluation of an earliest-deadline-first packet scheduling scheme in P4 hardware switches	26
Device-to-device communication in 5G heterogeneous network based on game-theoretic approaches: A comprehensive survey	26
Energy-efficient hierarchical dynamic depth adjustment routing protocol for UWSN with distributed sink mobility and semantic self-healing	26
MUSE: MUlti-lead Sub-beat ECG for remote AI based atrial fibrillation detection	26
Skin lesion classification using modified deep and multi-directional invariant handcrafted features	26
Large-scale web tracking and cookie compliance: Evaluating one million websites under GDPR with AI categorization	26
DNCCQ-PPO: A dynamic network congestion control algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning for XQUIC	26
A novel secure and distributed architecture for privacy-preserving healthcare system	26
DQN-based intelligent controller for multiple edge domains	25
Data transmission reduction using prediction and aggregation techniques in IoT-based wireless sensor networks	25
A comprehensive plane-wise review of DDoS attacks in SDN: Leveraging detection and mitigation through machine learning and deep learning	25
CPSketch: A ‘couple’ sketch-based heavy flow detection method	25
CPS: Cross-interface network Partitioning and Scheduling towards QoS-aware data flow delivery in multimedia IoT	25
Tree fringe and ridge subgraph-based critical vertex shielding for network resilience improvement	24
A survey on security issues in IoT operating systems	24
AI-enhanced blockchain technology: A review of advancements and opportunities	24
Controller load optimization strategies in Software-Defined Networking: A survey	24
Unfolding the blockchain era: Timeline, evolution, types and real-world applications	23
Hybrid Al-Biruni and Puma Optimization (BERPO) for boosting the classification of Quality-of-Service (QoS) in 5G networks	23
Predictive safe delivery with machine learning and digital twins collaboration for decentralized crowdsourced systems	23
ParallelC-Store: A committee structure-based reliable parallel storage mechanism for permissioned blockchain sharding	23
Bitcoin attacks: A comprehensive study	23
Multipoint communication using a fog-robotic coordinated nodal conveying system for wireless networks	22
Immersive intelligence: ST-GNN guided and RL-optimized multimodal intent-driven Kubernetes Orchestration for 6G resource management	22
End-to-end active queue management with Named-Data Networking	22
TridentShell: An enhanced covert and scalable backdoor injection attack on web applications	22
Dynamic and Adaptive Scheduling of Cognitive Sensors for collaborative target tracking in energy-efficient IOT environments	22
Network traffic feature representation with contrastive learning for traffic engineering in hybrid software defined networks	21
Light up that Droid! On the effectiveness of static analysis features against app obfuscation for Android malware detection	21
Evolving techniques in cyber threat hunting: A systematic review	21
Efficient congestion control scheme based on caching strategy in NDN	21
Blockchain for the metaverse: Recent advances, taxonomy, and future challenges	21
DBASC: Decentralized blockchain-based architecture with integration of smart contracts for secure communication in VANETs	21
Distributed enhanced multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition for cluster analysis in wireless sensor network	21
Neglected infrastructures for 6G—Underwater communications: How mature are they?	21
Node cooperation for workload offloading in a fog computing network via multi-objective optimization	21
USAGE : Uncertain flow graph and spatio-temporal graph convolutional network-based saturation attack detection method	20
NTP-INT: Network traffic prediction-driven in-band network telemetry for high-load switches	20
Next-generation AI for advanced threat detection and security enhancement in DNS over HTTPS	20
Robust and energy-aware detection of Mirai botnet for future 6G-enabled IoT networks	20
Lurking in the shadows: Unsupervised decoding of beaconing communication for enhanced cyber threat hunting	20

SSBM: A spatially separated boxes-based multi-tab website fingerprinting model	20
Intelligent Load-Aware gNB Optimization for Energy Saving in 5G via NWDAF-Orchestrated Agent Framework	20
TD-RA policy-enforcement framework for an SDN-based IoT architecture	19
Editorial Board	19
Blockchain for unmanned underwater drones: Research issues, challenges, trends and future directions	19
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	19
OpenDriver: An open-road driver state detection benchmark	19
Energy and density-based stable election routing protocol for wireless IoT network	19
Review of healthcare industry 4.0 application-based blockchain in terms of security and privacy development attributes: Comprehensive taxonomy, open issues and challenges and recommended solution	19
DIMY: Enabling privacy-preserving contact tracing	19
MTD-FRD: Malicious traffic detection method based on feature representation and conditional diffusion model	19
Active RIS-assisted task partitioning and offloading for industrial edge computing	19
Clear data, clear roads: Imputing missing data for enhanced intersection flow of connected autonomous vehicles	19
Living on the edge: A survey of Digital Twin-Assisted Task Offloading in safety-critical environments	18
5G/6G-enabled metaverse technologies: Taxonomy, applications, and open security challenges with future research directions	18
A survey of longitudinal changes in cellular network architecture: The good, the bad, and the ugly	18
New multi-user computation unloading method of edge computing based on improved pelican optimization control strategy for smart city	18
DAPNEML: Disease-diet associations prediction in a NEtwork using a machine learning based approach	18
A Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit approach for NDN forwarding	18
On challenges of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks: A comprehensive survey of requirements, applications, and security issues	18
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	18
Towards defining industry 5.0 vision with intelligent and softwarized wireless network architectures and services: A survey	18
The convergence of Digital Twins and Distributed Ledger Technologies: A systematic literature review and an architectural proposal	18
An open-source implementation and validation of 5G NR configured grant for URLLC in ns-3 5G LENA: A scheduling case study in industry 4.0 scenarios	18
Synchronizing real-time and high-precision LDoS defense of learning model-based in AIoT with programmable data plane, SDN	18
Anomalous state detection in radio access networks: A proof-of-concept	17
A deep density based and self-determining clustering approach to label unknown traffic	17
Security and privacy of industrial big data: Motivation, opportunities, and challenges	17
Exploiting web content semantic features to detect web robots from weblogs	17
Bidirectional utilization of blockchain and privacy computing: Issues, progress, and challenges	17
A service function chain mapping scheme based on functional aggregation in space-air-ground integrated networks	17
Enhanced energy efficiency in UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing through improved hybrid nature-inspired algorithm for task offloading	17
From cloud to edge: dynamic placement optimization of business processes in IIoT networks	16
Dynamic resource management in integrated NOMA terrestrial–satellite networks using multi-agent reinforcement learning	16
A comprehensive survey on channel hopping and scheduling enhancements for TSCH networks	16
NASP: Network slice as a service platform for 5G Networks	16
Seamless remote roaming activation in LoRaWAN via an API-driven gateway bridge service	16
MATE: A multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for Traffic Engineering in Hybrid Software Defined Networks	16
A systematic review of federated learning: Challenges, aggregation methods, and development tools	16
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions	16
Multi-UAV aided energy-aware transmissions in mmWave communication network: Action-branching QMIX network	16
A two-sided client-server matching mechanism for resilient Federated Learning	16
Community Detection method based on Random walk and Multi objective Evolutionary algorithm in complex networks	16
Enhanced multi-objective gorilla troops optimizer for real-time multi-user dependent tasks offloading in edge-cloud computing	15
MW3F: Improved multi-tab website fingerprinting attacks with Transformer-based feature fusion	15
Enhanced detection of low-rate DDoS attack patterns using machine learning models	15
Deep Neural Networks meet computation offloading in mobile edge networks: Applications, taxonomy, and open issues	15
Recent endeavors in machine learning-powered intrusion detection systems for the Internet of Things	15
DKCIA-B: A dynamic keyword-based cloud data integrity auditing framework with backtracking support	15
Dynamic Web Application Firewall detection supported by Cyber Mimic Defense approach	15
Fair association and rate maximization in 6G UAV Aided HS only network and HetNet	14
A survey on security applications with SmartNICs: Taxonomy, implementations, challenges, and future trends	14
Editorial Board	14
5G slicing under the hood: An in-depth analysis of 5G RAN features and configurations	14
Editorial Board	14
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	14
A robust eclipse attack detection framework for Ethereum networks	14
MTEAL: Network routing optimization of SD-WAN traffic engineering integrating multi-dimensional QoS metrics	14
Designing transport scheme of 3D naked-eye system	14
PRISM: PSI and Voronoi diagram based Automated Exposure Notification with location privacy	14
Editorial Board	14
Adaptive context-aware multi-tab website fingerprinting using hierarchical deep learning	14
Red Deer Algorithm based nano-sensor node clustering for IoNT	13
A survey on essential challenges in relay-aided D2D communication for next-generation cellular networks	13
Hybrid connectivity-oriented efficient shielding for robustness enhancement in large-scale networks	13
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	13
Early Prevention and Mitigation of Link Flooding Attacks in Software Defined Networks	13
Redefining resilience: A hybrid quantum-fuzzy Deep Q-Network paradigm for perpetual wireless rechargeable sensor networks	13
Performance enhancement of artificial intelligence: A survey	13
A slotted random request scheme for connectionless data transmission in bluetooth low energy 5.0	13
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	13
Optimizing efficiency of P2P content distribution with network coding: Principles, challenges, and future directions	13
VDFChain: Secure and verifiable decentralized federated learning via committee-based blockchain	13
BLIND: A privacy preserving truth discovery system for mobile crowdsensing	13
MLRan: A behavioural dataset for ransomware analysis and detection	13
Enhanced detection of imbalanced malicious network traffic with regularized Generative Adversarial Networks	13
PMP: A partition-match parallel mechanism for DNN inference acceleration in cloud–edge collaborative environments	12
Blockchain-based key management system in Named Data Networking: A survey	12
Secure and efficient data collaboration in cloud computing: Flexible delegation via hierarchical attribute-based signature	12
Multi-level video quality services and security guarantees based on compressive sensing in sensor-cloud system	12
Efficient stochastic scheduling for highly complex resource placement in edge clouds	12
DACS: Distributed adjustable computation scheme in highly scalable data center networks based on multi-protection routing	12
No more DoS? An empirical study on defense techniques for web server Denial of Service mitigation	12
RCA-SI: A Rapid Consensus Algorithm for Swarm Intelligence in unstable network environments	12
Editorial Board	12
Server load estimation by Burr distribution mixture analysis of TCP SYN response time	12
RL-based HTTP adaptive streaming with edge collaboration in multi-client environment	12
Editorial Board	12
Complex networks for Smart environments management	11
Book review	11
Node and relevant data selection in distributed predictive analytics: A query-centric approach	11
A holistic survey of multipath wireless video streaming	11
A low-storage synchronization framework for blockchain systems	11
Heuristic and approximate Steiner tree algorithms for ensuring network connectivity in mobile wireless sensor networks	11
Boundary node detection in wireless networks with uneven node distribution on open surfaces	11