Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges	262
A systematic review of IoT in healthcare: Applications, techniques, and trends	226
Deep learning methods in network intrusion detection: A survey and an objective comparison	221
A survey on computation offloading modeling for edge computing	198
Domain-specific knowledge graphs: A survey	196
Blockchain for IoT-based smart cities: Recent advances, requirements, and future challenges	174
IoT-based telemedicine for disease prevention and health promotion: State-of-the-Art	162
A comprehensive survey and taxonomy of the SVM-based intrusion detection systems	156
Review on cyber-physical and cyber-security system in smart grid: Standards, protocols, constraints, and recommendations	140
Blockchain based solutions to secure IoT: Background, integration trends and a way forward	140
A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction	139
A survey on the role of Internet of Things for adopting and promoting Agriculture 4.0	132
A novel hybrid model for intrusion detection systems in SDNs based on CNN and a new regularization technique	120
Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey	119
Survey on computation offloading in UAV-Enabled mobile edge computing	116
Automated DDOS attack detection in software defined networking	115
The convergence of IoT and distributed ledger technologies (DLT): Opportunities, challenges, and solutions	114
A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research	110
IoMT amid COVID-19 pandemic: Application, architecture, technology, and security	109
Detecting false data attacks using machine learning techniques in smart grid: A survey	108
Context-aware scheduling in Fog computing: A survey, taxonomy, challenges and future directions	100
A survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies	98
Applying machine learning techniques for caching in next-generation edge networks: A comprehensive survey	97
Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview	94
Blockchain and smart contract for access control in healthcare: A survey, issues and challenges, and open issues	93

An autonomous computation offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A deep learning-based hybrid approach	92
Network traffic classification using deep convolutional recurrent autoencoder neural networks for spatial–temporal features extraction	91
A GRU deep learning system against attacks in software defined networks	90
A survey on technologies and security protocols: Reference for future generation IoT	90
A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network	85
Proxy re-encryption enabled secure and anonymous IoT data sharing platform based on blockchain	82
Deadline-aware and energy-efficient IoT task scheduling in fog computing systems: A semi-greedy approach	82
DISTILLER: Encrypted traffic classification via multimodal multitask deep learning	80
UAV assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks: A survey	77
A Systematic Review of Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning: Recent Trend and Future Vision	72
The rise of software vulnerability: Taxonomy of software vulnerabilities detection and machine learning approaches	70
Adopting elitism-based Genetic Algorithm for minimizing multi-objective problems of IoT service placement in fog computing environment	69
Towards secure intrusion detection systems using deep learning techniques: Comprehensive analysis and review	69
A survey on Zero touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for 5G and beyond networks	69
Privacy enhancing technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox: Taxonomy and survey	68
Security and privacy of internet of medical things: A contemporary review in the age of surveillance, botnets, and adversarial ML	68
Secure data aggregation methods and countermeasures against various attacks in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review	66
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	66
Internet of Healthcare Things: A contemporary survey	65
From smart parking towards autonomous valet parking: A survey, challenges and future Works	64
DRL-R: Deep reinforcement learning approach for intelligent routing in software-defined data-center networks	63
Renewable energy powered sustainable 5G network infrastructure: Opportunities, challenges and perspectives	63
Blockchain for IoT access control: Recent trends and future research directions	63
Application placement in Fog computing with AI approach: Taxonomy and a state of the art survey	61
Machine learning (ML)-centric resource management in cloud computing: A review and future directions	60
Security in product lifecycle of IoT devices: A survey	59
Recent advances in energy management for Green-IoT: An up-to-date and comprehensive survey	55
Virtual reality: A survey of enabling technologies and its applications in IoT	55
The Blockchain Random Neural Network for cybersecure IoT and 5G infrastructure in Smart Cities	53
MedHypChain: A patient-centered interoperability hyperledger-based medical healthcare system: Regulation in COVID-19 pandemic	53
Blockchain for Internet of things applications: A review and open issues	53
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	52
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	51
A survey on energy efficiency in underwater wireless communications	51
Privacy preserving based logistic regression on big data	51
Dissecting bitcoin blockchain: Empirical analysis of bitcoin network (2009–2020)	51
Industrial digital twins at the nexus of NextG wireless networks and computational intelligence: A survey	51
Emerging DDoS attack detection and mitigation strategies in software-defined networks: Taxonomy, challenges and future directions	50
Routing in the Space Internet: A contact graph routing tutorial	50
Smart contracts for blockchain-based reputation systems: A systematic literature review	50
Mobile cloud computing models security issues: A systematic review	49
Towards development of IoT-ML driven healthcare systems: A survey	47
Incentive techniques for the Internet of Things: A survey	47
Fake news outbreak 2021: Can we stop the viral spread?	47
Towards DDoS detection mechanisms in Software-Defined Networking	46
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	46
NOMA and future 5G & B5G wireless networks: A paradigm	45
Wi-Fi HaLow for the Internet of Things: An up-to-date survey on IEEE 802.11ah research	45
Minimizing the spread of misinformation in online social networks: A survey	45
An optimized ensemble prediction model using AutoML based on soft voting classifier for network intrusion detection	44

Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive survey	44
Privacy-preserving mechanisms for location privacy in mobile crowdsensing: A survey	44
Security and blockchain convergence with Internet of Multimedia Things: Current trends, research challenges and future directions	44
A survey of UAV-based data collection: Challenges, solutions and future perspectives	44
Attacks and defenses in user authentication systems: A survey	44
A Survey on Blockchain in Robotics: Issues, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions	44
Fog computing approaches in IoT-enabled smart cities	43
Swarm intelligence for next-generation networks: Recent advances and applications	43
A survey of Layer-two blockchain protocols	42
A heuristic scheduling approach for fog-cloud computing environment with stationary IoT devices	41
Machine learning techniques in emerging cloud computing integrated paradigms: A survey and taxonomy	41
Distributed real-time SlowDoS attacks detection over encrypted traffic using Artificial Intelligence	39
Multi-access Edge Computing fundamentals, services, enablers and challenges: A complete survey	39
A Survey of Channel Modeling Techniques for Visible Light Communications	39
Blockchain-based delegated Quantum Cloud architecture for medical big data security	39
Towards blockchain-IoT based shared mobility: Car-sharing and leasing as a case study	38
Fog data management: A vision, challenges, and future directions	38
A survey on security challenges and solutions in the IOTA	37
The convergence of blockchain, IoT and 6G: Potential, opportunities, challenges and research roadmap	36
Review on the application of deep learning in network attack detection	36
A survey on deep learning for challenged networks: Applications and trends	36
Fog computing systems: State of the art, research issues and future trends, with a focus on resilience	35
Master-slave chain based trusted cross-domain authentication mechanism in IoT	35
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	34
RC-chain: Reputation-based crowdsourcing blockchain for vehicular networks	33
A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning	33
Transformation from IoT to IoV for waste management in smart cities	32
Multimedia communication over cognitive radio networks from QoS/QoE perspective: A comprehensive survey	32
Spatial-temporal constrained particle filter for cooperative target tracking	32
Blockchain for healthcare systems: Architecture, security challenges, trends and future directions	32
Deep learning for online AC False Data Injection Attack detection in smart grids: An approach using LSTM-Autoencoder	31
Performance comparison of container orchestration platforms with low cost devices in the fog, assisting Internet of Things applications	31
LIDDE: A differential evolution algorithm based on local-influence-descending search strategy for influence maximization in social networks	31
A trustworthy and incentivized smart grid energy trading framework using distributed ledger and smart contracts	31
Towards end-to-end resource provisioning in Fog Computing over Low Power Wide Area Networks	31
SDRS: A stable data-based recruitment system in IoT crowdsensing for localization tasks	30
LMAAS-IoT: Lightweight multi-factor authentication and authorization scheme for real-time data access in IoT cloud-based environment	30
An Integration of feature extraction and Guided Regularized Random Forest feature selection for Smartphone based Human Activity Recognition	30
Protected Resource Allocation in Space Division Multiplexing-Elastic Optical Networks with Fluctuating Traffic	30
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	29
HELPHED: Hybrid Ensemble Learning PHishing Email Detection	28
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	28
Intelligent approaches toward intrusion detection systems for Industrial Internet of Things: A systematic comprehensive review	28
An efficient and lightweight identity-based scheme for secure communication in clustered wireless sensor networks	28
Joint topology control and routing in a UAV swarm for crowd surveillance	28
DroneCells: Improving spectral efficiency using drone-mounted flying base stations	28
Deep transfer learning for intrusion detection in industrial control networks: A comprehensive review	28
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	28
Toward Metaverse of everything: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions of the next generation of visual/virtual communications	28
Two-sided preferences task matching mechanisms for blockchain-based crowdsourcing	27
Joint edge caching and dynamic service migration in SDN based mobile edge computing	27
Scalable edge cloud platforms for IoT services	26
Automatic guarantee scheme for intent-driven network slicing and reconfiguration	26
When RSSI encounters deep learning: An area localization scheme for pervasive sensing systems	25
Physical layer security for beyond 5G/6G networks: Emerging technologies and future directions	25
A comprehensive survey on reinforcement-learning-based computation offloading techniques in Edge Computing Systems	25
A review on trust management in fog/edge computing: Techniques, trends, and challenges	25
A comprehensive survey of authentication methods in Internet-of-Things and its conjunctions	25
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	25
Reinforcement learning-based dynamic routing using mobile sink for data collection in WSNs and IoT applications	24
An enhanced deep learning based framework for web attacks detection, mitigation and attacker profiling	24
A review on reversible quantum adders	24
Unknown hostile environment-oriented autonomous WSN deployment using a mobile robot	24
Mutual authentication with multi-factor in IoT-Fog-Cloud environment	24
RFLS - Resilient Fault-proof Localization System in IoT and Crowd-based Sensing Applications	24
A hierarchical approach for accelerating IoT data management process based on SDN principles	23
AI augmented Edge and Fog computing: Trends and challenges	23
A survey on the placement of virtual network functions	23
DNA computing and table based data accessing in the cloud environment	22
Energy-efficient scheduling of small cells in 5G: A meta-heuristic approach	22
HeporCloud: An energy and performance efficient resource orchestrator for hybrid heterogeneous cloud computing environments	22
A privacy-preserving protocol for continuous and dynamic data collection in IoT enabled mobile app recommendation system (MARS)	22
RANet: Network intrusion detection with group-gating convolutional neural network	22
Yet efficient routing protocols for half- and full-duplex cognitive radio Ad-Hoc Networks over IoT environment	22
Blockchain technology in Named Data Networks: A detailed survey	21
Application-aware resource allocation and data management for MEC-assisted IoT service providers	21
Touch-based continuous mobile device authentication: State-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities	21
Service discovery and selection in IoT: A survey and a taxonomy	21
DP-GAN: Differentially private consecutive data publishing using generative adversarial nets	21
A multi-objective optimized replication using fuzzy based self-defense algorithm for cloud computing	21

A lightweight and secure handover authentication scheme for 5G network using neighbour base stations	20
A systematic review of federated learning: Challenges, aggregation methods, and development tools	20
Efficient solutions to the placement and chaining problem of User Plane Functions in 5G networks	20
Prepare for trouble and make it double! Supervised – Unsupervised stacking for anomaly-based intrusion detection	20
Blockchain-based solutions for cloud computing: A survey	20
A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems	20
Deep reinforcement learning-based algorithms selectors for the resource scheduling in hierarchical Cloud computing	19
SEEDGT: Secure and energy efficient data gathering technique for IoT applications based WSNs	19
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-time detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains	19
An adaptive hierarchical data dissemination mechanism for mobile data collector enabled dynamic wireless sensor network	19
API-MalDetect: Automated malware detection framework for windows based on API calls and deep learning techniques	19
Graph partition based privacy-preserving scheme in social networks	19
Influential nodes selection to enhance data dissemination in mobile social networks: A survey	19
RVC: A reputation and voting based blockchain consensus mechanism for edge computing-enabled IoT systems	18
Revealing the landscape of privacy-enhancing technologies in the context of data markets for the IoT: A systematic literature review	18
DNC: A Deep Neural Network-based Clustering-oriented Network Embedding Algorithm	18
Collaborative hierarchical caching and transcoding in edge network with CE-D2D communication	18
Decentralized authentication and access control protocol for blockchain-based e-health systems	18
TrailChain: Traceability of data ownership across blockchain-enabled multiple marketplaces	18
A provably secure ECC-based access and handover authentication protocol for space information networks	18
DTL-IDS: An optimized Intrusion Detection Framework using Deep Transfer Learning and Genetic Algorithm	18
A novel Q-learning-based hybrid algorithm for the optimal offloading and scheduling in mobile edge computing environments	17
A two-stage scheduler based on New Caledonian Crow Learning Algorithm and reinforcement learning strategy for cloud environment	17
A load-adaptive fair access protocol for MAC in underwater acoustic sensor networks	17
Towards reliable and efficient data retrieving in ICN-based satellite networks	17
Optimal cross-layer resource allocation in fog computing: A market-based framework	17
A selective ensemble model for cognitive cybersecurity analysis	17
MutualRec: Joint friend and item recommendations with mutualistic attentional graph neural networks	17
Publicly verifiable outsourced data migration scheme supporting efficient integrity checking	17
Integrating blockchain and Internet of Things systems: A systematic review on objectives and designs	17
Survey on the authentication and key agreement of 6LoWPAN: Open issues and future direction	17
Holistic survey on energy aware routing techniques for IoT applications	17
A QoS-Based routing algorithm over software defined networks	17
Deep learning-based privacy-preserving framework for synthetic trajectory generation	17
Scalable anomaly-based intrusion detection for secure Internet of Things using generative adversarial networks in fog environment	16
A context-aware information-based clone node attack detection scheme in Internet of Things	16
Tensor based framework for Distributed Denial of Service attack detection	16
Software-Defined Networking in wireless ad hoc scenarios: Objectives and control architectures	16
A distributed deployment algorithm for communication coverage in wireless robotic networks	16
User preference-aware navigation for mobile robot in domestic via defined virtual area	16
A survey on the suitability of risk identification techniques in the current networked environment	16
When machine learning meets Network Management and Orchestration in Edge-based networking paradigms	16
Unfolding the blockchain era: Timeline, evolution, types and real-world applications	15
A survey on network forwarding in Software-Defined Networking	15
Traffic Engineering in Hybrid Software Defined Network via Reinforcement Learning	15
A cost aware topology formation scheme for latency sensitive applications in edge infrastructure-as-a-service paradigm	15
An overview on low energy wake-up radio technology: Active and passive circuits associated with MAC and routing protocols	15
Cross-layer multipath approach for critical traffic in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks	15
User-centric privacy preserving models for a new era of the Internet of Things	15
Dew computing-inspired health-meteorological factor analysis for early prediction of bronchial asthma	15
Blockchain for unmanned underwater drones: Research issues, challenges, trends and future directions	15
Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Network: A Comprehensive Survey	15
Self sovereign and blockchain based access control: Supporting attributes privacy with zero knowledge	15
Regulating data sharing across MQTT environments	15
Temporary immutability: A removable blockchain solution for prosumer-side energy trading	15
Design and implementation of NDN-based Ethereum blockchain	15
Design and implementation of an intrusion detection system by using Extended BPF in the Linux kernel	14
Deep Q-Network and Traffic Prediction based Routing Optimization in Software Defined Networks	14
Content delivery enhancement in Vehicular Social Network with better routing and caching mechanism	14
SoftIoT: A resource-aware SDN/NFV-based IoT network	14
A fast all-packets-based DDoS attack detection approach based on network graph and graph kernel	14
Multi-neural network based tiled 360°video caching with Mobile Edge Computing	14
Context-oriented performance evaluation of network selection algorithms in 5G heterogeneous networks	14
A survey on essential challenges in relay-aided D2D communication for next-generation cellular networks	14
Fault tolerance in SDN data plane considering network and application based metrics	14
Building multi-subtopic Bi-level network for micro-blog hot topic based on feature Co-Occurrence and semantic community division	14
Machine learning based malicious payload identification in software-defined networking	14
An optimized content caching strategy for video stream in edge-cloud environment	14
A co-evolutionary genetic algorithm for robust and balanced controller placement in software-defined networks	14
Worm computing: A blockchain-based resource sharing and cybersecurity framework	13
Age of Information minimization in UAV-aided data collection for WSN and IoT applications: A systematic review	13
Energy-efficient virtual-machine mapping algorithm (EViMA) for workflow tasks with deadlines in a cloud environment	13
Data transmission reduction using prediction and aggregation techniques in IoT-based wireless sensor networks	13
Red Deer Algorithm based nano-sensor node clustering for IoNT	13
Exploring an edge convolution and normalization based approach for link prediction in complex networks	13
SPO: A Secure and Performance-aware Optimization for MapReduce Scheduling	13
A matching game-based crowdsourcing framework for last-mile delivery: Ground-vehicles and Unmanned-Aerial Vehicles	13
SmartDR:A device-to-device communication for post-disaster recovery	13
Towards a privacy-preserving smart contract-based data aggregation and quality-driven incentive mechanism for mobile crowdsensing	13
Traffic flow control using multi-agent reinforcement learning	13
Multicast-aware optimization for resource allocation with edge computing and caching	12
NLP methods in host-based intrusion detection systems: A systematic review and future directions	12
Strategizing secured image storing and efficient image retrieval through a new cloud framework	12
Cost-aware automatic scaling and workload-aware replica management for edge-cloud environment	12
Review of Underwater Mobile Sensor Network for ocean phenomena monitoring	12
End-to-end CNN-based dueling deep Q-Network for autonomous cell activation in Cloud-RANs	12
SmartValidator: A framework for automatic identification and classification of cyber threat data	12
Adaptive Small Cell position algorithm (ASPA) for green farming using NB-IoT	12
TRAQR: Trust aware End-to-End QoS routing in multi-domain SDN using Blockchain	12
A multi-type and decentralized data transaction scheme based on smart contracts and digital watermarks	12
5G/6G-enabled metaverse technologies: Taxonomy, applications, and open security challenges with future research directions	12
RPIFL: Reliable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for the Internet of Things	11
On the scalability of Big Data Cyber Security Analytics systems	11
Service migration in multi-access edge computing: A joint state adaptation and reinforcement learning mechanism	11
Dynamic Security Metrics for Software-Defined Network-based Moving Target Defense	11