Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Machine learning based solutions for security of Internet of Things (IoT): A survey	284
UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges	259
Blockchain for 5G and beyond networks: A state of the art survey	254
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges	229
A systematic review of IoT in healthcare: Applications, techniques, and trends	205
Deep learning methods in network intrusion detection: A survey and an objective comparison	194
A survey on computation offloading modeling for edge computing	182
Domain-specific knowledge graphs: A survey	179
Communication and networking technologies for UAVs: A survey	175
Blockchain-based identity management systems: A review	161
Blockchain for IoT-based smart cities: Recent advances, requirements, and future challenges	157
A–Z survey of Internet of Things: Architectures, protocols, applications, recent advances, future directions and recommendations	153
IoT-based telemedicine for disease prevention and health promotion: State-of-the-Art	152
Applications of link prediction in social networks: A review	150
Detecting Internet of Things attacks using distributed deep learning	143
A comprehensive survey and taxonomy of the SVM-based intrusion detection systems	133
Blockchain based solutions to secure IoT: Background, integration trends and a way forward	130
Security of Cryptocurrencies in blockchain technology: State-of-art, challenges and future prospects	126
A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction	116
A survey on the role of Internet of Things for adopting and promoting Agriculture 4.0	113
Blockchain-based decentralized storage networks: A survey	108
The convergence of IoT and distributed ledger technologies (DLT): Opportunities, challenges, and solutions	104
IoMT amid COVID-19 pandemic: Application, architecture, technology, and security	104
Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey	103
A novel hybrid model for intrusion detection systems in SDNs based on CNN and a new regularization technique	102

Automated DDOS attack detection in software defined networking	101
A review and categorization of techniques on device-free human activity recognition	96
Review on cyber-physical and cyber-security system in smart grid: Standards, protocols, constraints, and recommendations	95
Detecting false data attacks using machine learning techniques in smart grid: A survey	95
Context-aware scheduling in Fog computing: A survey, taxonomy, challenges and future directions	93
A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research	90
Applying machine learning techniques for caching in next-generation edge networks: A comprehensive survey	90
An autonomous computation offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A deep learning-based hybrid approach	89
Survey on computation offloading in UAV-Enabled mobile edge computing	88
A survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies	87
Network traffic classification using deep convolutional recurrent autoencoder neural networks for spatial–temporal features extraction	86
Adversarial attacks on deep-learning-based SAR image target recognition	79
A comprehensive survey of load balancing techniques in software-defined network	79
A survey on technologies and security protocols: Reference for future generation IoT	78
Enhancing collaborative intrusion detection via disagreement-based semi-supervised learning in IoT environments	78
Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview	77
Deadline-aware and energy-efficient IoT task scheduling in fog computing systems: A semi-greedy approach	77
A GRU deep learning system against attacks in software defined networks	75
Blockchain and smart contract for access control in healthcare: A survey, issues and challenges, and open issues	74
DISTILLER: Encrypted traffic classification via multimodal multitask deep learning	74
Proxy re-encryption enabled secure and anonymous IoT data sharing platform based on blockchain	74
UAV assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks: A survey	71
A survey on Zero touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for 5G and beyond networks	65
A system call refinement-based enhanced Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance method for ransomware early detection	65
A Systematic Review of Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning: Recent Trend and Future Vision	65
Towards secure intrusion detection systems using deep learning techniques: Comprehensive analysis and review	63
Adopting elitism-based Genetic Algorithm for minimizing multi-objective problems of IoT service placement in fog computing environment	63
The rise of software vulnerability: Taxonomy of software vulnerabilities detection and machine learning approaches	62
Secure data aggregation methods and countermeasures against various attacks in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review	62
Privacy enhancing technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox: Taxonomy and survey	61
Application placement in Fog computing with AI approach: Taxonomy and a state of the art survey	60
From smart parking towards autonomous valet parking: A survey, challenges and future Works	60
Energy efficient transmission trends towards future green cognitive radio networks (5G): Progress, taxonomy and open challenges	60
Renewable energy powered sustainable 5G network infrastructure: Opportunities, challenges and perspectives	57
A secure and efficient data sharing scheme based on blockchain in industrial Internet of Things	57
Internet of Healthcare Things: A contemporary survey	56
Security and privacy of internet of medical things: A contemporary review in the age of surveillance, botnets, and adversarial ML	56
DRL-R: Deep reinforcement learning approach for intelligent routing in software-defined data-center networks	56
Security in product lifecycle of IoT devices: A survey	54
Blockchain for IoT access control: Recent trends and future research directions	52
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	52
A network intrusion detection method based on semantic Re-encoding and deep learning	50
Machine learning (ML)-centric resource management in cloud computing: A review and future directions	50
ABC-RuleMiner: User behavioral rule-based machine learning method for context-aware intelligent services	50
Recent advances in energy management for Green-IoT: An up-to-date and comprehensive survey	49
The Blockchain Random Neural Network for cybersecure IoT and 5G infrastructure in Smart Cities	49
Smart contracts for blockchain-based reputation systems: A systematic literature review	49
MedHypChain: A patient-centered interoperability hyperledger-based medical healthcare system: Regulation in COVID-19 pandemic	49
A survey on energy efficiency in underwater wireless communications	48
Virtual reality: A survey of enabling technologies and its applications in IoT	47

Mobile cloud computing models security issues: A systematic review	47
Industrial digital twins at the nexus of NextG wireless networks and computational intelligence: A survey	46
Blockchain for Internet of things applications: A review and open issues	44
Dissecting bitcoin blockchain: Empirical analysis of bitcoin network (2009–2020)	44
Emerging DDoS attack detection and mitigation strategies in software-defined networks: Taxonomy, challenges and future directions	44
Privacy preserving based logistic regression on big data	44
Minimizing the spread of misinformation in online social networks: A survey	43
Routing in the Space Internet: A contact graph routing tutorial	43
Towards DDoS detection mechanisms in Software-Defined Networking	42
Towards development of IoT-ML driven healthcare systems: A survey	42
Incentive techniques for the Internet of Things: A survey	41
Fake news outbreak 2021: Can we stop the viral spread?	41
Attacks and defenses in user authentication systems: A survey	41
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	40
Security and blockchain convergence with Internet of Multimedia Things: Current trends, research challenges and future directions	39
Wi-Fi HaLow for the Internet of Things: An up-to-date survey on IEEE 802.11ah research	38
NOMA and future 5G & B5G wireless networks: A paradigm	38
Swarm intelligence for next-generation networks: Recent advances and applications	38
Secure two-factor lightweight authentication protocol using self-certified public key cryptography for multi-server 5G networks	38
A heuristic scheduling approach for fog-cloud computing environment with stationary IoT devices	37
Machine learning techniques in emerging cloud computing integrated paradigms: A survey and taxonomy	37
Progressive researches on IoT security: An exhaustive analysis from the perspective of protocols, vulnerabilities, and preemptive architectonics	36
A Survey on Blockchain in Robotics: Issues, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions	36
Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive survey	36
Fog computing approaches in IoT-enabled smart cities	36
Encrypted traffic classification based on Gaussian mixture models and Hidden Markov Models	36
Multi-access Edge Computing fundamentals, services, enablers and challenges: A complete survey	35
QoS-aware service provisioning in fog computing	35
Fog computing systems: State of the art, research issues and future trends, with a focus on resilience	35
Towards blockchain-IoT based shared mobility: Car-sharing and leasing as a case study	34
A survey on security challenges and solutions in the IOTA	34
Distributed real-time SlowDoS attacks detection over encrypted traffic using Artificial Intelligence	34
A Survey of Channel Modeling Techniques for Visible Light Communications	34
Privacy-preserving mechanisms for location privacy in mobile crowdsensing: A survey	34
An adversarial attack on DNN-based black-box object detectors	34
Fog data management: A vision, challenges, and future directions	34
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	33
Online DDoS attack detection using Mahalanobis distance and Kernel-based learning algorithm	33
Data-intensive application scheduling on Mobile Edge Cloud Computing	32
Blockchain-based delegated Quantum Cloud architecture for medical big data security	31
A survey on deep learning for challenged networks: Applications and trends	31
Master-slave chain based trusted cross-domain authentication mechanism in IoT	30
Protected Resource Allocation in Space Division Multiplexing-Elastic Optical Networks with Fluctuating Traffic	30
Multimedia communication over cognitive radio networks from QoS/QoE perspective: A comprehensive survey	30
A trustworthy and incentivized smart grid energy trading framework using distributed ledger and smart contracts	30
Spatial-temporal constrained particle filter for cooperative target tracking	30
Towards end-to-end resource provisioning in Fog Computing over Low Power Wide Area Networks	30
SDRS: A stable data-based recruitment system in IoT crowdsensing for localization tasks	29
Transformation from IoT to IoV for waste management in smart cities	29
An automated implementation of hybrid cloud for performance evaluation of distributed databases	29
RC-chain: Reputation-based crowdsourcing blockchain for vehicular networks	28
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	28
A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning	28
An optimized ensemble prediction model using AutoML based on soft voting classifier for network intrusion detection	28
A survey of UAV-based data collection: Challenges, solutions and future perspectives	28
Performance comparison of container orchestration platforms with low cost devices in the fog, assisting Internet of Things applications	27
A swipe-based unlocking mechanism with supervised learning on smartphones: Design and evaluation	27
LMAAS-IoT: Lightweight multi-factor authentication and authorization scheme for real-time data access in IoT cloud-based environment	27
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	27
A survey of Layer-two blockchain protocols	26
Optimizing AP and Beacon Placement in WiFi and BLE hybrid localization	26
Scalable edge cloud platforms for IoT services	26
Deep learning for online AC False Data Injection Attack detection in smart grids: An approach using LSTM-Autoencoder	26
Belief and fairness: A secure two-party protocol toward the view of entropy for IoT devices	26
Automatic guarantee scheme for intent-driven network slicing and reconfiguration	26
Two-sided preferences task matching mechanisms for blockchain-based crowdsourcing	26
LIDDE: A differential evolution algorithm based on local-influence-descending search strategy for influence maximization in social networks	25
The convergence of blockchain, IoT and 6G: Potential, opportunities, challenges and research roadmap	25
Joint edge caching and dynamic service migration in SDN based mobile edge computing	25
RFLS - Resilient Fault-proof Localization System in IoT and Crowd-based Sensing Applications	24
DroneCells: Improving spectral efficiency using drone-mounted flying base stations	24
MARIO: A spatio-temporal data mining framework on Google Cloud to explore mobility dynamics from taxi trajectories	24
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	24
Unknown hostile environment-oriented autonomous WSN deployment using a mobile robot	24
Joint topology control and routing in a UAV swarm for crowd surveillance	24
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	24
The road to BOFUSS: The basic OpenFlow userspace software switch	24
Intelligent approaches toward intrusion detection systems for Industrial Internet of Things: A systematic comprehensive review	23
An efficient and lightweight identity-based scheme for secure communication in clustered wireless sensor networks	23
An enhanced deep learning based framework for web attacks detection, mitigation and attacker profiling	23

A hierarchical approach for accelerating IoT data management process based on SDN principles	23
Blockchain for healthcare systems: Architecture, security challenges, trends and future directions	23
Mutual authentication with multi-factor in IoT-Fog-Cloud environment	23
A bibliometric overview of the Journal of Network and Computer Applications between 1997 and 2019	23
A comprehensive survey of authentication methods in Internet-of-Things and its conjunctions	22
Energy-efficient scheduling of small cells in 5G: A meta-heuristic approach	22
An Integration of feature extraction and Guided Regularized Random Forest feature selection for Smartphone based Human Activity Recognition	22
DNA computing and table based data accessing in the cloud environment	22
A privacy-preserving protocol for continuous and dynamic data collection in IoT enabled mobile app recommendation system (MARS)	22
When RSSI encounters deep learning: An area localization scheme for pervasive sensing systems	22
Yet efficient routing protocols for half- and full-duplex cognitive radio Ad-Hoc Networks over IoT environment	22
Reinforcement learning-based dynamic routing using mobile sink for data collection in WSNs and IoT applications	21
RNN-DP: A new differential privacy scheme base on Recurrent Neural Network for Dynamic trajectory privacy protection	21
A review on trust management in fog/edge computing: Techniques, trends, and challenges	21
DP-GAN: Differentially private consecutive data publishing using generative adversarial nets	21
HeporCloud: An energy and performance efficient resource orchestrator for hybrid heterogeneous cloud computing environments	21
Composing and deploying parallelized service function chains	21
A review on reversible quantum adders	21
Service discovery and selection in IoT: A survey and a taxonomy	21
A multi-objective optimized replication using fuzzy based self-defense algorithm for cloud computing	20
RANet: Network intrusion detection with group-gating convolutional neural network	20
Physical layer security for beyond 5G/6G networks: Emerging technologies and future directions	20
Blockchain technology in Named Data Networks: A detailed survey	20
A survey on the placement of virtual network functions	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
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	19
Spectrum utilization efficiency in the cognitive radio enabled 5G-based IoT	19
Blockchain-based solutions for cloud computing: A survey	19
SmartSteganogaphy: Light-weight generative audio steganography model for smart embedding application	19
DNC: A Deep Neural Network-based Clustering-oriented Network Embedding Algorithm	18
An adaptive hierarchical data dissemination mechanism for mobile data collector enabled dynamic wireless sensor network	18
Influential nodes selection to enhance data dissemination in mobile social networks: A survey	18
Application-aware resource allocation and data management for MEC-assisted IoT service providers	18
HELPHED: Hybrid Ensemble Learning PHishing Email Detection	18
A survey of link flooding attacks in software defined network ecosystems	18
On the use of big data frameworks for big service composition	18
Deep reinforcement learning-based algorithms selectors for the resource scheduling in hierarchical Cloud computing	18
Fine-grained flow classification using deep learning for software defined data center networks	18
A lightweight and secure handover authentication scheme for 5G network using neighbour base stations	18