Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	298
Editorial Board	226
Terra: Low-latency and reliable event col	197
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for privacy-aware distributed CNN in heterogeneous IoT surveillance systems	173
Enhancement and optimization of FlexE technology within metro transport networks	154
Stackelberg game-based dynamic resource trading for network slicing in 5G networks	153
A cooperative image object recognition framework and task offloading optimization in edge computing	142
The universal federator: A third-party authentication solution to federated cloud, edge, and fog	140
C-PFL: A committee-based personalized federated learning framework	138
MPC	137
A profit-effective function service pricing approach for serverless edge computing function offloading	136
Performance modelling and optimal stage assignment for multistage P4 switches	131
Hierarchical mixture of vital feature experts for mobile target coverage optimization in directional sensor networks	114
DC-PUF: Machine learning-resistant PUF-based authentication protocol using dependency chain for resource-constraint IoT devices	109
SRP: An Efficient Runtime Protection Framework for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts	109
A dynamic spectrum access scheme for Internet of Things with improved federated learning	108
Securing edge based smart city networks with software defined Networking and zero trust architecture	105
Cooperative-centrality enabled investigations on edge-based trustworthy framework for cloud focused internet of things	105
Editorial Board	102
Editorial Board	101
Community detection in complex network based on an improved random algorithm using local and global network information	98
Energy-efficient virtual-machine mapping algorithm (EViMA) for workflow tasks with deadlines in a cloud environment	95
Green grant-free power allocation for ultra-dense Internet of Things: A mean-field perspective	93
BRIP: Towards a privacy-preserving, trustworthy, and transparent ride-sharing system with semantic matching powered by blockchain and IPFS	93
SFTO-Guard: Real-time detection and mitigation system for slow-rate flow table overflow attacks	89

Harnessing federated generative learning for green and sustainable Internet of Things	87
A gateway-assisted blockchain-based authentication scheme for internet-of-things	87
STA-MS: A many-to-many stable task allocation based on multi-round selection in mobile crowdsensing	86
A Stochastic Computational Graph with Ensemble Learning Model for solving Controller Placement Problem in Software-Defined Wide Area Networks	85
CRAMP: Clustering-based RANs association and MEC placement for delay-sensitive applications	85
NOMA and future 5G & B5G wireless networks: A paradigm	81
Integrated probabilistic clustering and Deep Reinforcement Learning for bias mitigation and device heterogeneity of Federated Learning in edge networks	80
Holistic survey on energy aware routing techniques for IoT applications	80
Mobility-aware fog computing in dynamic networks with mobile nodes: A survey	78
Intelligent energy management with IoT framework in smart cities using intelligent analysis: An application of machine learning methods for complex networks and systems	73
Striking the perfect balance: Multi-objective optimization for minimizing deployment cost and maximizing coverage with Harmony Search	69
Hardening of network segmentation using automated referential penetration testing	69
Two formal design solutions for the generalization of network segmentation	66
Editorial Board	65
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	65
A DDoS attack detection method based on IQR and DFFCNN in SDN	65
SAKA: Scalable authentication and key agreement scheme with configurable key evolution in edge-fog-multicloud computing environments	64
Backscatter communication-based wireless sensing (BBWS): Performance enhancement and future applications	61
Attenuating majority attack class bias using hybrid deep learning based IDS framework	60
ALSketch: An adaptive learning-based sketch for accurate network measurement under dynamic traffic distribution	60
Caching or not: An online cost optimization algorithm for geodistributed data analysis in cloud environments	55
Efficient application mapping approach based on grey wolf optimization for network on chip	55
DeFinder: Error-sensitive testing of deep neural networks via vulnerability interpretation	54
Constrained routing in multi-partite graph to solve VNF placement and chaining problem	54
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	53
Heterogeneous IoT/LTE ProSe virtual infrastructure for disaster situations	53
Label-aware learning to enhance unsupervised cross-domain rumor detection	52
FaasOrc: A bi-level function scheduling and caching framework for serverless edge computing	51
OverShard: Scaling blockchain by full sharding with overlapping network and virtual accounts	51
Secure the Core: A novel approach for secure and efficient communication in Service-Based Architectures and beyond 5G networks	50
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	50
Exploring Blockchain-driven security in SDN-based IoT networks	50
Online dynamic replication and placement algorithms for cost optimization of online social networks in two-tier multi-cloud	49
Securing the Industrial Internet of Things against ransomware attacks: A comprehensive analysis of the emerging threat landscape and detection mechanisms	49
CE-VNE: Constraint escalation virtual network embedding algorithm assisted by graph convolutional networks	49
Holistic resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks: An optimization perspective	48
Intelligent routing optimization for SDN based on PPO and GNN	48
Reducing cold start delay in serverless computing using lightweight virtual machines	47
Editorial Board	46
Knowledge reuse in edge computing environments	46
Spectrum allocation method for millimeter-wave train-ground communication in high-speed rail based on multi-agent attention	45
A dynamic state sharding blockchain architecture for scalable and secure crowdsourcing systems	45
Secure event-triggered control for vehicle platooning against dual deception attacks	43
AntCom: An effective and efficient anti-tracking system with dynamic and asymmetric communication channel	42
Editorial Board	42
Editorial Board	42
Comprehensive phishing detection: A multi-channel approach with variants TCN fusion leveraging URL and HTML features	41
AI for AI-based intrusion detection as a service: Reinforcement learning to configure models, tasks, and capacities	40
Fatriot: Fault-tolerant MEC architecture for mission-critical systems using a SmartNIC	40
Addressing security requirements in industrial IoT: A robust three-factor authentication scheme with enhanced features	39

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

The convergence of Digital Twins and Distributed Ledger Technologies: A systematic literature review and an architectural proposal	20
Blockchain for unmanned underwater drones: Research issues, challenges, trends and future directions	20
Editorial Board	20
Energy and density-based stable election routing protocol for wireless IoT network	20
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	20
Robust and energy-aware detection of Mirai botnet for future 6G-enabled IoT networks	20
TD-RA policy-enforcement framework for an SDN-based IoT architecture	20
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	20
Towards defining industry 5.0 vision with intelligent and softwarized wireless network architectures and services: A survey	19
NTP-INT: Network traffic prediction-driven in-band network telemetry for high-load switches	19
5G/6G-enabled metaverse technologies: Taxonomy, applications, and open security challenges with future research directions	19
OpenDriver: An open-road driver state detection benchmark	19
Active RIS-assisted task partitioning and offloading for industrial edge computing	19
DAPNEML: Disease-diet associations prediction in a NEtwork using a machine learning based approach	19
On challenges of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks: A comprehensive survey of requirements, applications, and security issues	19
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	19
Security and privacy of industrial big data: Motivation, opportunities, and challenges	19
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	18
MTD-FRD: Malicious traffic detection method based on feature representation and conditional diffusion model	18
Living on the edge: A survey of Digital Twin-Assisted Task Offloading in safety-critical environments	18
Clear data, clear roads: Imputing missing data for enhanced intersection flow of connected autonomous vehicles	18
New multi-user computation unloading method of edge computing based on improved pelican optimization control strategy for smart city	18
Synchronizing real-time and high-precision LDoS defense of learning model-based in AIoT with programmable data plane, SDN	18
Hierarchical reinforcement learning-based load balancing in datacenter network	18
A survey of longitudinal changes in cellular network architecture: The good, the bad, and the ugly	18
A Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit approach for NDN forwarding	18
Exploiting web content semantic features to detect web robots from weblogs	18
Deep Neural Networks meet computation offloading in mobile edge networks: Applications, taxonomy, and open issues	17
Bidirectional utilization of blockchain and privacy computing: Issues, progress, and challenges	17
Enhanced multi-objective gorilla troops optimizer for real-time multi-user dependent tasks offloading in edge-cloud computing	17
Anomalous state detection in radio access networks: A proof-of-concept	17
A service function chain mapping scheme based on functional aggregation in space-air-ground integrated networks	17
Seamless remote roaming activation in LoRaWAN via an API-driven gateway bridge service	16
A deep density based and self-determining clustering approach to label unknown traffic	16
Multi-UAV aided energy-aware transmissions in mmWave communication network: Action-branching QMIX network	16
Dynamic resource management in integrated NOMA terrestrial–satellite networks using multi-agent reinforcement learning	16
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions	16
MATE: A multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for Traffic Engineering in Hybrid Software Defined Networks	16
A comprehensive survey on channel hopping and scheduling enhancements for TSCH networks	16
Community Detection method based on Random walk and Multi objective Evolutionary algorithm in complex networks	16
A two-sided client-server matching mechanism for resilient Federated Learning	16
From cloud to edge: dynamic placement optimization of business processes in IIoT networks	16
Enhanced energy efficiency in UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing through improved hybrid nature-inspired algorithm for task offloading	16
A systematic review of federated learning: Challenges, aggregation methods, and development tools	15
Fair association and rate maximization in 6G UAV Aided HS only network and HetNet	15
Adaptive context-aware multi-tab website fingerprinting using hierarchical deep learning	15
Editorial Board	15
Dynamic Web Application Firewall detection supported by Cyber Mimic Defense approach	15
Editorial Board	15
A robust eclipse attack detection framework for Ethereum networks	15
5G slicing under the hood: An in-depth analysis of 5G RAN features and configurations	15
NASP: Network slice as a service platform for 5G Networks	15
Designing transport scheme of 3D naked-eye system	15
A survey on security applications with SmartNICs: Taxonomy, implementations, challenges, and future trends	15
Editorial Board	15
PRISM: PSI and Voronoi diagram based Automated Exposure Notification with location privacy	15
Redefining resilience: A hybrid quantum-fuzzy Deep Q-Network paradigm for perpetual wireless rechargeable sensor networks	14
VDFChain: Secure and verifiable decentralized federated learning via committee-based blockchain	14
A survey on essential challenges in relay-aided D2D communication for next-generation cellular networks	14
A slotted random request scheme for connectionless data transmission in bluetooth low energy 5.0	14
MW3F: Improved multi-tab website fingerprinting attacks with Transformer-based feature fusion	14
Red Deer Algorithm based nano-sensor node clustering for IoNT	14
A structured state–reward compatibility framework for reinforcement learning in resource-constrained cyber–physical systems	14
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	14
MTEAL: Network routing optimization of SD-WAN traffic engineering integrating multi-dimensional QoS metrics	14
Early Prevention and Mitigation of Link Flooding Attacks in Software Defined Networks	14
MLRan: A behavioural dataset for ransomware analysis and detection	14
DACS: Distributed adjustable computation scheme in highly scalable data center networks based on multi-protection routing	13
Hybrid connectivity-oriented efficient shielding for robustness enhancement in large-scale networks	13
Optimizing efficiency of P2P content distribution with network coding: Principles, challenges, and future directions	13
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	13
Editorial Board	13
Server load estimation by Burr distribution mixture analysis of TCP SYN response time	13
BLIND: A privacy preserving truth discovery system for mobile crowdsensing	13
Enhanced detection of low-rate DDoS attack patterns using machine learning models	13
Performance enhancement of artificial intelligence: A survey	13
Blockchain-based key management system in Named Data Networking: A survey	13
Secure and efficient data collaboration in cloud computing: Flexible delegation via hierarchical attribute-based signature	13
Recent endeavors in machine learning-powered intrusion detection systems for the Internet of Things	13
PMP: A partition-match parallel mechanism for DNN inference acceleration in cloud–edge collaborative environments	13
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	13
Editorial Board	12
Multi-level video quality services and security guarantees based on compressive sensing in sensor-cloud system	12
A holistic survey of multipath wireless video streaming	12
Secured location-aware mobility-enabled RPL	12
Editorial Board	12
RCA-SI: A Rapid Consensus Algorithm for Swarm Intelligence in unstable network environments	12
A low-storage synchronization framework for blockchain systems	12
RL-based HTTP adaptive streaming with edge collaboration in multi-client environment	12
GNN and GRU-based dynamic NSGA-II algorithm to tolerate Byzantine faults for Software Defined Network	12
Securing SDN: Hybrid autoencoder-random forest for intrusion detection and attack mitigation	12
Understanding the Wi-Fi and VR streaming interplay: A comprehensible simulation and experimental study	11
Boundary node detection in wireless networks with uneven node distribution on open surfaces	11
Region-aware dynamic job scheduling and resource efficiency for load balancing based on adaptive chaotic sparrow search optimization and coalitional game in cloud computing environments	11
Editorial Board	11