Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges	250
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	209
A survey on computation offloading modeling for edge computing	198
Domain-specific knowledge graphs: A survey	196
Communication and networking technologies for UAVs: A survey	192
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	145
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	127
Review on cyber-physical and cyber-security system in smart grid: Standards, protocols, constraints, and recommendations	124
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
Automated DDOS attack detection in software defined networking	115
The convergence of IoT and distributed ledger technologies (DLT): Opportunities, challenges, and solutions	114
Survey on computation offloading in UAV-Enabled mobile edge computing	111
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	105
A review and categorization of techniques on device-free human activity recognition	102
Context-aware scheduling in Fog computing: A survey, taxonomy, challenges and future directions	100
Applying machine learning techniques for caching in next-generation edge networks: A comprehensive survey	97
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 survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies	91
A GRU deep learning system against attacks in software defined networks	90
A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network	85
Blockchain and smart contract for access control in healthcare: A survey, issues and challenges, and open issues	85
A survey on technologies and security protocols: Reference for future generation IoT	85
Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview	83
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
Proxy re-encryption enabled secure and anonymous IoT data sharing platform based on blockchain	79
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
A survey on Zero touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for 5G and beyond networks	69
A system call refinement-based enhanced Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance method for ransomware early detection	69
Towards secure intrusion detection systems using deep learning techniques: Comprehensive analysis and review	69
Adopting elitism-based Genetic Algorithm for minimizing multi-objective problems of IoT service placement in fog computing environment	69
Security and privacy of internet of medical things: A contemporary review in the age of surveillance, botnets, and adversarial ML	68
Privacy enhancing technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox: Taxonomy and survey	68
Secure data aggregation methods and countermeasures against various attacks in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review	66
Energy efficient transmission trends towards future green cognitive radio networks (5G): Progress, taxonomy and open challenges	65
From smart parking towards autonomous valet parking: A survey, challenges and future Works	64
Blockchain for IoT access control: Recent trends and future research directions	63
Renewable energy powered sustainable 5G network infrastructure: Opportunities, challenges and perspectives	63
Internet of Healthcare Things: A contemporary survey	63
A secure and efficient data sharing scheme based on blockchain in industrial Internet of Things	63
DRL-R: Deep reinforcement learning approach for intelligent routing in software-defined data-center networks	63
Application placement in Fog computing with AI approach: Taxonomy and a state of the art survey	61
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	60
Security in product lifecycle of IoT devices: A survey	59
Virtual reality: A survey of enabling technologies and its applications in IoT	55
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
ABC-RuleMiner: User behavioral rule-based machine learning method for context-aware intelligent services	53
The Blockchain Random Neural Network for cybersecure IoT and 5G infrastructure in Smart Cities	53
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	51
Recent advances in energy management for Green-IoT: An up-to-date and comprehensive survey	51
Industrial digital twins at the nexus of NextG wireless networks and computational intelligence: A survey	51
A survey on energy efficiency in underwater wireless communications	51
Emerging DDoS attack detection and mitigation strategies in software-defined networks: Taxonomy, challenges and future directions	50
Smart contracts for blockchain-based reputation systems: A systematic literature review	50
Mobile cloud computing models security issues: A systematic review	49
Dissecting bitcoin blockchain: Empirical analysis of bitcoin network (2009–2020)	49
Privacy preserving based logistic regression on big data	48
Towards development of IoT-ML driven healthcare systems: A survey	47
Fake news outbreak 2021: Can we stop the viral spread?	47
Routing in the Space Internet: A contact graph routing tutorial	47
Incentive techniques for the Internet of Things: A survey	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
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	45
Minimizing the spread of misinformation in online social networks: A survey	45
Attacks and defenses in user authentication systems: A survey	44
A Survey on Blockchain in Robotics: Issues, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions	44
Wi-Fi HaLow for the Internet of Things: An up-to-date survey on IEEE 802.11ah research	44
Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive 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
Swarm intelligence for next-generation networks: Recent advances and applications	43
Fog computing approaches in IoT-enabled smart cities	43
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
Privacy-preserving mechanisms for location privacy in mobile crowdsensing: A survey	40
Blockchain-based delegated Quantum Cloud architecture for medical big data security	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
Fog data management: A vision, challenges, and future directions	38
Distributed real-time SlowDoS attacks detection over encrypted traffic using Artificial Intelligence	38
Towards blockchain-IoT based shared mobility: Car-sharing and leasing as a case study	38
A survey on security challenges and solutions in the IOTA	37
Progressive researches on IoT security: An exhaustive analysis from the perspective of protocols, vulnerabilities, and preemptive architectonics	37
The convergence of blockchain, IoT and 6G: Potential, opportunities, challenges and research roadmap	36
Online DDoS attack detection using Mahalanobis distance and Kernel-based learning algorithm	36
An optimized ensemble prediction model using AutoML based on soft voting classifier for network intrusion detection	36
A survey on deep learning for challenged networks: Applications and trends	36
Master-slave chain based trusted cross-domain authentication mechanism in IoT	35
A survey of Layer-two blockchain protocols	35
Fog computing systems: State of the art, research issues and future trends, with a focus on resilience	35
Data-intensive application scheduling on Mobile Edge Cloud Computing	34
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	34
A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning	33
RC-chain: Reputation-based crowdsourcing blockchain for vehicular networks	33
Spatial-temporal constrained particle filter for cooperative target tracking	32
Blockchain for healthcare systems: Architecture, security challenges, trends and future directions	32
Transformation from IoT to IoV for waste management in smart cities	32
Deep learning for online AC False Data Injection Attack detection in smart grids: An approach using LSTM-Autoencoder	31
Towards end-to-end resource provisioning in Fog Computing over Low Power Wide Area Networks	31
Multimedia communication over cognitive radio networks from QoS/QoE perspective: A comprehensive survey	31
A trustworthy and incentivized smart grid energy trading framework using distributed ledger and smart contracts	31
An automated implementation of hybrid cloud for performance evaluation of distributed databases	31
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
LMAAS-IoT: Lightweight multi-factor authentication and authorization scheme for real-time data access in IoT cloud-based environment	29
SDRS: A stable data-based recruitment system in IoT crowdsensing for localization tasks	29
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	29
Joint topology control and routing in a UAV swarm for crowd surveillance	28
DroneCells: Improving spectral efficiency using drone-mounted flying base stations	28
Intelligent approaches toward intrusion detection systems for Industrial Internet of Things: A systematic comprehensive review	28
HELPHED: Hybrid Ensemble Learning PHishing Email Detection	28
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	28
Performance comparison of container orchestration platforms with low cost devices in the fog, assisting Internet of Things applications	28
LIDDE: A differential evolution algorithm based on local-influence-descending search strategy for influence maximization in social networks	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
Review on the application of deep learning in network attack detection	28
Joint edge caching and dynamic service migration in SDN based mobile edge computing	27
Two-sided preferences task matching mechanisms for blockchain-based crowdsourcing	27
Automatic guarantee scheme for intent-driven network slicing and reconfiguration	26
Scalable edge cloud platforms for IoT services	26
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	25
An efficient and lightweight identity-based scheme for secure communication in clustered wireless sensor networks	25
Physical layer security for beyond 5G/6G networks: Emerging technologies and future directions	25
When RSSI encounters deep learning: An area localization scheme for pervasive sensing systems	25
A review on trust management in fog/edge computing: Techniques, trends, and challenges	25
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
An enhanced deep learning based framework for web attacks detection, mitigation and attacker profiling	24
Reinforcement learning-based dynamic routing using mobile sink for data collection in WSNs and IoT applications	24
RNN-DP: A new differential privacy scheme base on Recurrent Neural Network for Dynamic trajectory privacy protection	24
Toward Metaverse of everything: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions of the next generation of visual/virtual communications	24
A review on reversible quantum adders	24
A comprehensive survey on reinforcement-learning-based computation offloading techniques in Edge Computing Systems	24
Unknown hostile environment-oriented autonomous WSN deployment using a mobile robot	24
A survey on the placement of virtual network functions	23
A hierarchical approach for accelerating IoT data management process based on SDN principles	23
A comprehensive survey of authentication methods in Internet-of-Things and its conjunctions	23
AI augmented Edge and Fog computing: Trends and challenges	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
Service discovery and selection in IoT: A survey and a taxonomy	21
Touch-based continuous mobile device authentication: State-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities	21
Application-aware resource allocation and data management for MEC-assisted IoT service providers	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
Blockchain-based solutions for cloud computing: A survey	20
A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems	20
Efficient solutions to the placement and chaining problem of User Plane Functions in 5G networks	20
A systematic review of federated learning: Challenges, aggregation methods, and development tools	20
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-time detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains	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
An adaptive hierarchical data dissemination mechanism for mobile data collector enabled dynamic wireless sensor network	19
A lightweight and secure handover authentication scheme for 5G network using neighbour base stations	19
Deep reinforcement learning-based algorithms selectors for the resource scheduling in hierarchical Cloud computing	19
API-MalDetect: Automated malware detection framework for windows based on API calls and deep learning techniques	19
A provably secure ECC-based access and handover authentication protocol for space information networks	18
Revealing the landscape of privacy-enhancing technologies in the context of data markets for the IoT: A systematic literature review	18
TrailChain: Traceability of data ownership across blockchain-enabled multiple marketplaces	18
RVC: A reputation and voting based blockchain consensus mechanism for edge computing-enabled IoT systems	18
Fine-grained flow classification using deep learning for software defined data center networks	18
Energy-efficient activity recognition framework using wearable accelerometers	18
DTL-IDS: An optimized Intrusion Detection Framework using Deep Transfer Learning and Genetic Algorithm	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
Prepare for trouble and make it double! Supervised – Unsupervised stacking for anomaly-based intrusion detection	18