Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Machine learning based solutions for security of Internet of Things (IoT): A survey	261
Blockchain for 5G and beyond networks: A state of the art survey	237
UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges	231
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges	204
A systematic review of IoT in healthcare: Applications, techniques, and trends	186
Deep learning methods in network intrusion detection: A survey and an objective comparison	180
A survey on computation offloading modeling for edge computing	161
Domain-specific knowledge graphs: A survey	158
Communication and networking technologies for UAVs: A survey	152
Blockchain-based identity management systems: A review	149
A–Z survey of Internet of Things: Architectures, protocols, applications, recent advances, future directions and recommendations	143
Blockchain for IoT-based smart cities: Recent advances, requirements, and future challenges	142
IoT-based telemedicine for disease prevention and health promotion: State-of-the-Art	141
Applications of link prediction in social networks: A review	137
Detecting Internet of Things attacks using distributed deep learning	135
Security and privacy protection in cloud computing: Discussions and challenges	127
A comprehensive survey and taxonomy of the SVM-based intrusion detection systems	121
Blockchain based solutions to secure IoT: Background, integration trends and a way forward	120
Security of Cryptocurrencies in blockchain technology: State-of-art, challenges and future prospects	118
Security in SDN: A comprehensive survey	117
Blockchain-based decentralized storage networks: A survey	100
IoMT amid COVID-19 pandemic: Application, architecture, technology, and security	96
A survey on the role of Internet of Things for adopting and promoting Agriculture 4.0	95
The convergence of IoT and distributed ledger technologies (DLT): Opportunities, challenges, and solutions	93
A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction	92

A review and categorization of techniques on device-free human activity recognition	91
An autonomous computation offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A deep learning-based hybrid approach	87
Detecting false data attacks using machine learning techniques in smart grid: A survey	87
A comprehensive survey of interface protocols for software defined networks	86
A novel hybrid model for intrusion detection systems in SDNs based on CNN and a new regularization technique	85
Automated DDOS attack detection in software defined networking	85
Machine learning for intelligent optical networks: A comprehensive survey	82
Applying machine learning techniques for caching in next-generation edge networks: A comprehensive survey	80
A survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies	80
Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey	78
Network traffic classification using deep convolutional recurrent autoencoder neural networks for spatial–temporal features extraction	77
Survey on computation offloading in UAV-Enabled mobile edge computing	77
Adversarial attacks on deep-learning-based SAR image target recognition	74
A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research	74
Context-aware scheduling in Fog computing: A survey, taxonomy, challenges and future directions	73
Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview	73
A survey on technologies and security protocols: Reference for future generation IoT	73
Enhancing collaborative intrusion detection via disagreement-based semi-supervised learning in IoT environments	73
Review on cyber-physical and cyber-security system in smart grid: Standards, protocols, constraints, and recommendations	71
A GRU deep learning system against attacks in software defined networks	70
DISTILLER: Encrypted traffic classification via multimodal multitask deep learning	68
Proxy re-encryption enabled secure and anonymous IoT data sharing platform based on blockchain	68
Blockchain and smart contract for access control in healthcare: A survey, issues and challenges, and open issues	67
A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network	67
UAV assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks: A survey	61
A system call refinement-based enhanced Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance method for ransomware early detection	59
Deadline-aware and energy-efficient IoT task scheduling in fog computing systems: A semi-greedy approach	58
Secure data aggregation methods and countermeasures against various attacks in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review	58
Energy efficient transmission trends towards future green cognitive radio networks (5G): Progress, taxonomy and open challenges	57
Privacy enhancing technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox: Taxonomy and survey	57
Application placement in Fog computing with AI approach: Taxonomy and a state of the art survey	56
Adopting elitism-based Genetic Algorithm for minimizing multi-objective problems of IoT service placement in fog computing environment	55
A comprehensive survey on resource allocation for CRAN in 5G and beyond networks	55
A secure and efficient data sharing scheme based on blockchain in industrial Internet of Things	53
From smart parking towards autonomous valet parking: A survey, challenges and future Works	53
Towards secure intrusion detection systems using deep learning techniques: Comprehensive analysis and review	53
A survey on Zero touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for 5G and beyond networks	51
The rise of software vulnerability: Taxonomy of software vulnerabilities detection and machine learning approaches	51
A Systematic Review of Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning: Recent Trend and Future Vision	50
Internet of Healthcare Things: A contemporary survey	50
Security in product lifecycle of IoT devices: A survey	49
Security and privacy of internet of medical things: A contemporary review in the age of surveillance, botnets, and adversarial ML	49
ABC-RuleMiner: User behavioral rule-based machine learning method for context-aware intelligent services	48
Renewable energy powered sustainable 5G network infrastructure: Opportunities, challenges and perspectives	48
DRL-R: Deep reinforcement learning approach for intelligent routing in software-defined data-center networks	48
Application deployment using containers with auto-scaling for microservices in cloud environment	48
MedHypChain: A patient-centered interoperability hyperledger-based medical healthcare system: Regulation in COVID-19 pandemic	47
IoT for energy efficient green highway lighting systems: Challenges and issues	46
The Blockchain Random Neural Network for cybersecure IoT and 5G infrastructure in Smart Cities	46
Blockchain for IoT access control: Recent trends and future research directions	44

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

Two-sided preferences task matching mechanisms for blockchain-based crowdsourcing	22
A bibliometric overview of the Journal of Network and Computer Applications between 1997 and 2019	22
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	22
Energy-efficient scheduling of small cells in 5G: A meta-heuristic approach	21
Composing and deploying parallelized service function chains	21
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	21
A survey of Layer-two blockchain protocols	21
A hierarchical approach for accelerating IoT data management process based on SDN principles	21
A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning	21
Mutual authentication with multi-factor in IoT-Fog-Cloud environment	21
DNA computing and table based data accessing in the cloud environment	21
Reinforcement learning-based dynamic routing using mobile sink for data collection in WSNs and IoT applications	20
DP-GAN: Differentially private consecutive data publishing using generative adversarial nets	20
Blockchain technology in Named Data Networks: A detailed survey	20
RANet: Network intrusion detection with group-gating convolutional neural network	20
A review on reversible quantum adders	20
An optimized ensemble prediction model using AutoML based on soft voting classifier for network intrusion detection	20
LIDDE: A differential evolution algorithm based on local-influence-descending search strategy for influence maximization in social networks	20
The path planning scheme for joint charging and data collection in WRSNs: A multi-objective optimization method	19
HeporCloud: An energy and performance efficient resource orchestrator for hybrid heterogeneous cloud computing environments	19
Spectrum utilization efficiency in the cognitive radio enabled 5G-based IoT	19
A privacy-preserving protocol for continuous and dynamic data collection in IoT enabled mobile app recommendation system (MARS)	19
When RSSI encounters deep learning: An area localization scheme for pervasive sensing systems	18
SmartSteganogaphy: Light-weight generative audio steganography model for smart embedding application	18
On the use of big data frameworks for big service composition	18
An Integration of feature extraction and Guided Regularized Random Forest feature selection for Smartphone based Human Activity Recognition	18
An enhanced deep learning based framework for web attacks detection, mitigation and attacker profiling	18
A review on trust management in fog/edge computing: Techniques, trends, and challenges	18
A survey on the placement of virtual network functions	18
A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems	18
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	18