Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
The rise of machine learning for detection and classification of malware: Research developments, trends and challenges	267
Machine learning based solutions for security of Internet of Things (IoT): A survey	254
Blockchain for 5G and beyond networks: A state of the art survey	229
UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges	225
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges	198
A systematic review of IoT in healthcare: Applications, techniques, and trends	179
Deep learning methods in network intrusion detection: A survey and an objective comparison	175
A survey on computation offloading modeling for edge computing	158
Domain-specific knowledge graphs: A survey	146
Communication and networking technologies for UAVs: A survey	144
Blockchain-based identity management systems: A review	142
A–Z survey of Internet of Things: Architectures, protocols, applications, recent advances, future directions and recommendations	140
Blockchain for IoT-based smart cities: Recent advances, requirements, and future challenges	137
IoT-based telemedicine for disease prevention and health promotion: State-of-the-Art	137
Applications of link prediction in social networks: A review	137
The rise of traffic classification in IoT networks: A survey	136
Detecting Internet of Things attacks using distributed deep learning	130
Blockchain based solutions to secure IoT: Background, integration trends and a way forward	116
Security and privacy protection in cloud computing: Discussions and challenges	115
A comprehensive survey and taxonomy of the SVM-based intrusion detection systems	115
Security of Cryptocurrencies in blockchain technology: State-of-art, challenges and future prospects	115
Security in SDN: A comprehensive survey	114
Blockchain-based decentralized storage networks: A survey	98
IoMT amid COVID-19 pandemic: Application, architecture, technology, and security	93
The convergence of IoT and distributed ledger technologies (DLT): Opportunities, challenges, and solutions	90

A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction	88
A survey on the role of Internet of Things for adopting and promoting Agriculture 4.0	87
A review and categorization of techniques on device-free human activity recognition	85
Detecting false data attacks using machine learning techniques in smart grid: A survey	85
An autonomous computation offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A deep learning-based hybrid approach	84
A comprehensive survey of interface protocols for software defined networks	82
Machine learning for intelligent optical networks: A comprehensive survey	80
Applying machine learning techniques for caching in next-generation edge networks: A comprehensive survey	79
Automated DDOS attack detection in software defined networking	79
A survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies	79
Network traffic classification using deep convolutional recurrent autoencoder neural networks for spatial–temporal features extraction	77
A novel hybrid model for intrusion detection systems in SDNs based on CNN and a new regularization technique	75
Adversarial attacks on deep-learning-based SAR image target recognition	73
Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey	73
Enhancing collaborative intrusion detection via disagreement-based semi-supervised learning in IoT environments	72
A survey on technologies and security protocols: Reference for future generation IoT	70
A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research	70
Survey on computation offloading in UAV-Enabled mobile edge computing	70
Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview	69
Context-aware scheduling in Fog computing: A survey, taxonomy, challenges and future directions	67
DISTILLER: Encrypted traffic classification via multimodal multitask deep learning	67
A GRU deep learning system against attacks in software defined networks	66
Proxy re-encryption enabled secure and anonymous IoT data sharing platform based on blockchain	66
Blockchain and smart contract for access control in healthcare: A survey, issues and challenges, and open issues	66
Review on cyber-physical and cyber-security system in smart grid: Standards, protocols, constraints, and recommendations	64
A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network	64
UAV assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks: A survey	61
Fog-based smart homes: A systematic review	59
Energy efficient transmission trends towards future green cognitive radio networks (5G): Progress, taxonomy and open challenges	57
A system call refinement-based enhanced Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance method for ransomware early detection	57
Secure data aggregation methods and countermeasures against various attacks in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review	57
Application placement in Fog computing with AI approach: Taxonomy and a state of the art survey	55
Privacy enhancing technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox: Taxonomy and survey	54
Deadline-aware and energy-efficient IoT task scheduling in fog computing systems: A semi-greedy approach	54
From smart parking towards autonomous valet parking: A survey, challenges and future Works	53
Adopting elitism-based Genetic Algorithm for minimizing multi-objective problems of IoT service placement in fog computing environment	53
A comprehensive survey on resource allocation for CRAN in 5G and beyond networks	53
A secure and efficient data sharing scheme based on blockchain in industrial Internet of Things	52
Internet of Healthcare Things: A contemporary survey	50
Towards secure intrusion detection systems using deep learning techniques: Comprehensive analysis and review	50
Security in product lifecycle of IoT devices: A survey	49
A survey on Zero touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for 5G and beyond networks	48
Application deployment using containers with auto-scaling for microservices in cloud environment	47
ABC-RuleMiner: User behavioral rule-based machine learning method for context-aware intelligent services	47
Renewable energy powered sustainable 5G network infrastructure: Opportunities, challenges and perspectives	46
IoT for energy efficient green highway lighting systems: Challenges and issues	46
MedHypChain: A patient-centered interoperability hyperledger-based medical healthcare system: Regulation in COVID-19 pandemic	46
Security and privacy of internet of medical things: A contemporary review in the age of surveillance, botnets, and adversarial ML	45
DRL-R: Deep reinforcement learning approach for intelligent routing in software-defined data-center networks	45
The rise of software vulnerability: Taxonomy of software vulnerabilities detection and machine learning approaches	45

A network intrusion detection method based on semantic Re-encoding and deep learning	44
The Blockchain Random Neural Network for cybersecure IoT and 5G infrastructure in Smart Cities	44
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	43
A Systematic Review of Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning: Recent Trend and Future Vision	42
Mobile cloud computing models security issues: A systematic review	42
Virtual reality: A survey of enabling technologies and its applications in IoT	42
Blockchain for Internet of things applications: A review and open issues	42
Recent advances in energy management for Green-IoT: An up-to-date and comprehensive survey	41
A survey on energy efficiency in underwater wireless communications	40
Dissecting bitcoin blockchain: Empirical analysis of bitcoin network (2009–2020)	39
On the classification of fog computing applications: A machine learning perspective	39
Industrial digital twins at the nexus of NextG wireless networks and computational intelligence: A survey	39
A dynamic and hierarchical access control for IoT in multi-authority cloud storage	39
Minimizing the spread of misinformation in online social networks: A survey	39
Machine learning (ML)-centric resource management in cloud computing: A review and future directions	39
Blockchain for IoT access control: Recent trends and future research directions	38
Emerging DDoS attack detection and mitigation strategies in software-defined networks: Taxonomy, challenges and future directions	37
Privacy preserving based logistic regression on big data	37
Fake news outbreak 2021: Can we stop the viral spread?	36
Smart contracts for blockchain-based reputation systems: A systematic literature review	36
Security and blockchain convergence with Internet of Multimedia Things: Current trends, research challenges and future directions	35
Fog computing systems: State of the art, research issues and future trends, with a focus on resilience	35
Towards development of IoT-ML driven healthcare systems: A survey	35
Attacks and defenses in user authentication systems: A survey	35
Secure two-factor lightweight authentication protocol using self-certified public key cryptography for multi-server 5G networks	35
Wi-Fi HaLow for the Internet of Things: An up-to-date survey on IEEE 802.11ah research	34
Encrypted traffic classification based on Gaussian mixture models and Hidden Markov Models	34
Swarm intelligence for next-generation networks: Recent advances and applications	34
QoS-aware service provisioning in fog computing	34
A heuristic scheduling approach for fog-cloud computing environment with stationary IoT devices	33
Routing in the Space Internet: A contact graph routing tutorial	33
Progressive researches on IoT security: An exhaustive analysis from the perspective of protocols, vulnerabilities, and preemptive architectonics	33
Incentive techniques for the Internet of Things: A survey	32
Multi-access Edge Computing fundamentals, services, enablers and challenges: A complete survey	31
A survey on security challenges and solutions in the IOTA	31
Online DDoS attack detection using Mahalanobis distance and Kernel-based learning algorithm	31
Towards DDoS detection mechanisms in Software-Defined Networking	30
Resource slicing and customization in RAN with dueling deep Q-Network	30
Distributed real-time SlowDoS attacks detection over encrypted traffic using Artificial Intelligence	30
QCM2R: A QoS-aware cross-layered multichannel multisink routing protocol for stream based wireless sensor networks	29
A Survey on Blockchain in Robotics: Issues, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions	29
A trustworthy and incentivized smart grid energy trading framework using distributed ledger and smart contracts	29
Fog data management: A vision, challenges, and future directions	29
Data-intensive application scheduling on Mobile Edge Cloud Computing	29
Spatial-temporal constrained particle filter for cooperative target tracking	29
NOMA and future 5G & B5G wireless networks: A paradigm	29
Protected Resource Allocation in Space Division Multiplexing-Elastic Optical Networks with Fluctuating Traffic	29
An adversarial attack on DNN-based black-box object detectors	28
A Survey of Channel Modeling Techniques for Visible Light Communications	28
Multimedia communication over cognitive radio networks from QoS/QoE perspective: A comprehensive survey	28
Artificial Immune Systems approaches to secure the internet of things: A systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future research	28
Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive survey	28
RC-chain: Reputation-based crowdsourcing blockchain for vehicular networks	27
Bot recognition in a Web store: An approach based on unsupervised learning	27
A survey on deep learning for challenged networks: Applications and trends	27
An automated implementation of hybrid cloud for performance evaluation of distributed databases	27
Towards blockchain-IoT based shared mobility: Car-sharing and leasing as a case study	26
Master-slave chain based trusted cross-domain authentication mechanism in IoT	25
Towards end-to-end resource provisioning in Fog Computing over Low Power Wide Area Networks	25
Privacy-preserving mechanisms for location privacy in mobile crowdsensing: A survey	25
SDRS: A stable data-based recruitment system in IoT crowdsensing for localization tasks	25
Performance comparison of container orchestration platforms with low cost devices in the fog, assisting Internet of Things applications	25
A high-performance framework for a network programmable packet processor using P4 and FPGA	25
Belief and fairness: A secure two-party protocol toward the view of entropy for IoT devices	25
Machine learning techniques in emerging cloud computing integrated paradigms: A survey and taxonomy	25
Fog computing approaches in IoT-enabled smart cities	24
LMAAS-IoT: Lightweight multi-factor authentication and authorization scheme for real-time data access in IoT cloud-based environment	24
MARIO: A spatio-temporal data mining framework on Google Cloud to explore mobility dynamics from taxi trajectories	24
Scalable edge cloud platforms for IoT services	24
Transformation from IoT to IoV for waste management in smart cities	24
A swipe-based unlocking mechanism with supervised learning on smartphones: Design and evaluation	24
Optimizing AP and Beacon Placement in WiFi and BLE hybrid localization	23
The road to BOFUSS: The basic OpenFlow userspace software switch	23
DroneCells: Improving spectral efficiency using drone-mounted flying base stations	23
Automatic guarantee scheme for intent-driven network slicing and reconfiguration	23
Unknown hostile environment-oriented autonomous WSN deployment using a mobile robot	23
Joint edge caching and dynamic service migration in SDN based mobile edge computing	22
Blockchain-based delegated Quantum Cloud architecture for medical big data security	22
A bibliometric overview of the Journal of Network and Computer Applications between 1997 and 2019	22
RFLS - Resilient Fault-proof Localization System in IoT and Crowd-based Sensing Applications	21

A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning	21
Survey and taxonomy of clustering algorithms in 5G	21
Yet efficient routing protocols for half- and full-duplex cognitive radio Ad-Hoc Networks over IoT environment	21
Energy-efficient scheduling of small cells in 5G: A meta-heuristic approach	21
Composing and deploying parallelized service function chains	21
Two-sided preferences task matching mechanisms for blockchain-based crowdsourcing	21
Deep learning for online AC False Data Injection Attack detection in smart grids: An approach using LSTM-Autoencoder	20
An optimized ensemble prediction model using AutoML based on soft voting classifier for network intrusion detection	20
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	20
Reinforcement learning-based dynamic routing using mobile sink for data collection in WSNs and IoT applications	20
LIDDE: A differential evolution algorithm based on local-influence-descending search strategy for influence maximization in social networks	20
A hierarchical approach for accelerating IoT data management process based on SDN principles	20
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	20
A review on reversible quantum adders	19
HeporCloud: An energy and performance efficient resource orchestrator for hybrid heterogeneous cloud computing environments	19
Mutual authentication with multi-factor in IoT-Fog-Cloud environment	19
DNA computing and table based data accessing in the cloud environment	19
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	19
A privacy-preserving protocol for continuous and dynamic data collection in IoT enabled mobile app recommendation system (MARS)	19
Spectrum utilization efficiency in the cognitive radio enabled 5G-based IoT	19
DP-GAN: Differentially private consecutive data publishing using generative adversarial nets	19
Blockchain technology in Named Data Networks: A detailed survey	19
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	19
The path planning scheme for joint charging and data collection in WRSNs: A multi-objective optimization method	19
A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems	18
An enhanced deep learning based framework for web attacks detection, mitigation and attacker profiling	18
When RSSI encounters deep learning: An area localization scheme for pervasive sensing systems	18
RANet: Network intrusion detection with group-gating convolutional neural network	18
Collaborative resource allocation for Cloud of Things systems	18
An Integration of feature extraction and Guided Regularized Random Forest feature selection for Smartphone based Human Activity Recognition	18
SmartSteganogaphy: Light-weight generative audio steganography model for smart embedding application	18
A review on trust management in fog/edge computing: Techniques, trends, and challenges	18
RNN-DP: A new differential privacy scheme base on Recurrent Neural Network for Dynamic trajectory privacy protection	17
A multi-objective optimized replication using fuzzy based self-defense algorithm for cloud computing	17
Joint topology control and routing in a UAV swarm for crowd surveillance	17
A survey of Layer-two blockchain protocols	17
On the use of big data frameworks for big service composition	17
A survey on the placement of virtual network functions	16
Blockchain-based solutions for cloud computing: A survey	16
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	16
Reliability-aware virtual network function placement in carrier networks	16
A QoS-Based routing algorithm over software defined networks	16
Hybrid End-to-End VPN Security Approach for Smart IoT Objects	16
A lightweight and secure handover authentication scheme for 5G network using neighbour base stations	16
An adaptive hierarchical data dissemination mechanism for mobile data collector enabled dynamic wireless sensor network	16
Energy-efficient activity recognition framework using wearable accelerometers	16
Performance analyses of the IEEE 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Network with heterogeneous traffic	16
HELPHED: Hybrid Ensemble Learning PHishing Email Detection	15
Secure multiparty learning from the aggregation of locally trained models	15
MutualRec: Joint friend and item recommendations with mutualistic attentional graph neural networks	15
DNC: A Deep Neural Network-based Clustering-oriented Network Embedding Algorithm	15
The convergence of blockchain, IoT and 6G: Potential, opportunities, challenges and research roadmap	15
Integrating blockchain and Internet of Things systems: A systematic review on objectives and designs	15
Application-aware resource allocation and data management for MEC-assisted IoT service providers	15
A comprehensive survey of authentication methods in Internet-of-Things and its conjunctions	15
Prepare for trouble and make it double! Supervised – Unsupervised stacking for anomaly-based intrusion detection	15
Fine-grained flow classification using deep learning for software defined data center networks	15
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-time detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains	15
Collaborative hierarchical caching and transcoding in edge network with CE-D2D communication	14
Holistic survey on energy aware routing techniques for IoT applications	14
Towards efficient motion-blurred public security video super-resolution based on back-projection networks	14
R-Dedup: Secure client-side deduplication for encrypted data without involving a third-party entity	14
User preference-aware navigation for mobile robot in domestic via defined virtual area	14
Influential nodes selection to enhance data dissemination in mobile social networks: A survey	14
A selective ensemble model for cognitive cybersecurity analysis	14
A two-stage scheduler based on New Caledonian Crow Learning Algorithm and reinforcement learning strategy for cloud environment	14
Deep reinforcement learning-based algorithms selectors for the resource scheduling in hierarchical Cloud computing	14
Graph partition based privacy-preserving scheme in social networks	14
A survey on QoE-oriented wireless resources scheduling	14
Physical layer security for beyond 5G/6G networks: Emerging technologies and future directions	14
Efficient solutions to the placement and chaining problem of User Plane Functions in 5G networks	14
An efficient and lightweight identity-based scheme for secure communication in clustered wireless sensor networks	14
Towards reliable and efficient data retrieving in ICN-based satellite networks	13
Software-Defined Networking in wireless ad hoc scenarios: Objectives and control architectures	13
Blockchain for healthcare systems: Architecture, security challenges, trends and future directions	13
An overview on low energy wake-up radio technology: Active and passive circuits associated with MAC and routing protocols	13
Novel resource allocation mechanism for SDN-based data center networks	13
Dew computing-inspired health-meteorological factor analysis for early prediction of bronchial asthma	13
Touch-based continuous mobile device authentication: State-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities	13
Publicly verifiable outsourced data migration scheme supporting efficient integrity checking	13
Aggregating and disaggregating packets with various sizes of payload in P4 switches at 100 Gbps line rate	13
Temporary immutability: A removable blockchain solution for prosumer-side energy trading	13
Service discovery and selection in IoT: A survey and a taxonomy	13
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	12
A survey on the suitability of risk identification techniques in the current networked environment	12
Revealing the landscape of privacy-enhancing technologies in the context of data markets for the IoT: A systematic literature review	12
A fast all-packets-based DDoS attack detection approach based on network graph and graph kernel	12
Red Deer Algorithm based nano-sensor node clustering for IoNT	12
Adaptive priority-based cache replacement and prediction-based cache prefetching in edge computing environment	12
Confidence guided anomaly detection model for anti-concept drift in dynamic logs	12
An enhanced probabilistic fairness-aware group recommendation by incorporating social activeness	12
A survey on network forwarding in Software-Defined Networking	12
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	12
Decentralized authentication and access control protocol for blockchain-based e-health systems	12
A distributed deployment algorithm for communication coverage in wireless robotic networks	12