Digital Communications and Networks

Article	Citations
A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security	362
Security and privacy in 6G networks: New areas and new challenges	198
A survey of edge computing-based designs for IoT security	164
A new type of blockchain for secure message exchange in VANET	160
Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains	149
Service-aware 6G: An intelligent and open network based on the convergence of communication, computing and caching	131
Tracing manufacturing processes using blockchain-based token compositions	123
Blockchain-enabled resource management and sharing for 6G communications	116
Privacy preservation in permissionless blockchain: A survey	101
Attacks and defences on intelligent connected vehicles: a survey	96
Recent advances in mobile edge computing and content caching	72
Survey on recent advances in IoT application layer protocols and machine learning scope for research directions	60
Intent-based networks for 6G: Insights and challenges	60
A survey on deep learning for textual emotion analysis in social networks	58
A blockchain-empowered AAA scheme in the large-scale HetNet	57
Pervasive intelligent endogenous 6G wireless systems: Prospects, theories and key technologies	57
Trust management-based and energy efficient hierarchical routing protocol in wireless sensor networks	53
Towards asynchronous federated learning for heterogeneous edge-powered internet of things	47
An intelligent task offloading algorithm (iTOA) for UAV edge computing network	46
A survey on user-centric cell-free massive MIMO systems	46
Security and privacy issues of physical objects in the IoT: Challenges and opportunities	44
A comprehensive layered approach for implementing internet of things-enabled smart grid: A survey	40
Deep learning for the internet of things: Potential benefits and use-cases	39
Entropy-based redundancy analysis and information screening	39
Machine learning-based real-time visible fatigue crack growth detection	38

A new adaptive co-site broadband interference cancellation method with auxiliary channel	37
Lightweight authentication protocol for e-health clouds in IoT-based applications through 5G technology	37
A survey on communication protocols and performance evaluations for Internet of Things	37
A survey on deploying mobile deep learning applications: A systemic and technical perspective	36
Dynamic traffic congestion pricing and electric vehicle charging management system for the internet of vehicles in smart cities	35
Analysis of identifiers in IoT platforms	35
Reconfigurable intelligent surface: design the channel – a new opportunity for future wireless networks	33
A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance	33
Extended Kalman Filter-based localization algorithm by edge computing in Wireless Sensor Networks	32
Machine learning-based zero-touch network and service management: a survey	32
Help from space: grant-free massive access for satellite-based IoT in the 6G era	32
Feature extraction for machine learning-based intrusion detection in IoT networks	29
An ensemble deep learning model for cyber threat hunting in industrial internet of things	29
Towards a blockchain-SDN-based secure architecture for cloud computing in smart industrial IoT	29
Capability-based IoT access control using blockchain	29
Joint resource allocation for hybrid NOMA-assisted MEC in 6G networks	29
Chiller faults detection and diagnosis with sensor network and adaptive 1D CNN	29
A review of optimization methods for computation offloading in edge computing networks	28
Research advances on blockchain-as-a-service: architectures, applications and challenges	27
An enhanced scheme for mutual authentication for healthcare services	27
Robot and its living space: A roadmap for robot development based on the view of living space	27
Securing color image transmission using compression-encryption model with dynamic key generator and efficient symmetric key distribution	26
Green indoor optical wireless communication systems: Pathway towards pervasive deployment	25
Attention-based spatio-temporal graph convolutional network considering external factors for multi-step traffic flow prediction	25
Identifying influential nodes in social networks via community structure and influence distribution difference	25
A survey on blockchain-based integrity auditing for cloud data	25
Enhancing IoT anomaly detection performance for federated learning	24
Dynamic defenses in cyber security: Techniques, methods and challenges	24
A blockchain based privacy-preserving federated learning scheme for Internet of Vehicles	24
Energy-efficient task offloading strategy in mobile edge computing for resource-intensive mobile applications	24
Intrusion detection and prevention system for an IoT environment	23
An efficient hash-based authenticated key agreement scheme for multi-server architecture resilient to key compromise impersonation	23
Safeguarding cross-silo federated learning with local differential privacy	23
Blockchain-based data transmission control for Tactical Data Link	22
Network traffic classification: Techniques, datasets, and challenges	22
Machine learning in vehicular networking: An overview	22
The detection method of low-rate DoS attack based on multi-feature fusion	22
Smart contract token-based privacy-preserving access control system for industrial Internet of Things	22
A new technology perspective of the Metaverse: Its essence, framework and challenges	21
Building an interoperable space for smart agriculture	21
Can blockchain link the future?	21
Fooling intrusion detection systems using adversarially autoencoder	20
Smart industrial IoT empowered crowd sensing for safety monitoring in coal mine	20
An efficient data aggregation scheme with local differential privacy in smart grid	20
Video transcoding for adaptive bitrate streaming over edge-cloud continuum	20
Challenge-based collaborative intrusion detection in software-defined networking: an evaluation	20
An analysis of energy consumption and carbon footprints of cryptocurrencies and possible solutions	19
A notary group-based cross-chain mechanism	19
Delay-CJ: A novel cryptojacking covert attack method based on delayed strategy and its detection	18
IDS-INT: Intrusion detection system using transformer-based transfer learning for imbalanced network traffic	18

Learning-based joint UAV trajectory and power allocation optimization for secure IoT networks	18
A synchronous duty-cycled reservation based MAC protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks	18
Survey on digital twins for Internet of Vehicles: Fundamentals, challenges, and opportunities	18
Poisoning attacks and countermeasures in intelligent networks: Status quo and prospects	17
Evolutionary privacy-preserving learning strategies for edge-based IoT data sharing schemes	17
AFSTGCN: Prediction for multivariate time series using an adaptive fused spatial-temporal graph convolutional network	17
Internet of things: Conceptual network structure, main challenges and future directions	16
Fast wireless sensor for anomaly detection based on data stream in an edge-computing-enabled smart greenhouse	16
A digital twins enabled underwater intelligent internet vehicle path planning system via reinforcement learning and edge computing	16
Leveraging UAV-assisted communications to improve secrecy for URLLC in 6G systems	15
A blockchain-empowered authentication scheme for worm detection in wireless sensor network	15
An intelligent and privacy-enhanced data sharing strategy for blockchain-empowered Internet of Things	15
Sports match prediction model for training and exercise using attention-based LSTM network	15
Software defined satellite networks: A survey	15
User location privacy protection mechanism for location-based services	15
Capacity maximizing in massive MIMO with linear precoding for SSF and LSF channel with perfect CSI	14
Accurate threat hunting in industrial internet of things edge devices	14
FedCDR: Privacy-preserving federated cross-domain recommendation	14
Visually meaningful image encryption algorithm based on digital signature	14
A secure spectrum auction scheme without the trusted party based on the smart contract	14
Internet of things intrusion detection model and algorithm based on cloud computing and multi-feature extraction extreme learning machine	14
A blockchain-based trustworthy collaborative power trading scheme for 5G-enabled social internet of vehicles	14
N-gram MalGAN: Evading machine learning detection via feature n-gram	14
Joint position optimization, user association, and resource allocation for load balancing in UAV-assisted wireless networks	14
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for edge information sharing in vehicular networks	14
3D placement of unmanned aerial vehicles and partially overlapped channel assignment for throughput maximization	13
Petahertz communication: Harmonizing optical spectra for wireless communications	13
Adversarial attacks and defenses for digital communication signals identification	13
Enhancing the robustness of object detection via 6G vehicular edge computing	13
Edge robotics: are we ready? an experimental evaluation of current vision and future directions	13
A statistical approach for enhancing security in VANETs with efficient rogue node detection using fog computing	13
Bayonet-corpus: a trajectory prediction method based on bayonet context and bidirectional GRU	13
Distributed privacy protection strategy for MEC enhanced wireless body area networks	13
Towards improving detection performance for malware with a correntropy-based deep learning method	13
Light gradient boosting machine with optimized hyperparameters for identification of malicious access in IoT network	12
Application of meta-learning in cyberspace security: a survey	12
Energy-efficient task allocation for reliable parallel computation of cluster-based wireless sensor network in edge computing	12
On recommendation-aware content caching for 6G: An artificial intelligence and optimization empowered paradigm	12
A novel nest-based scheduling method for mobile wireless body area networks	12
Semi-asynchronous personalized federated learning for short-term photovoltaic power forecasting	12
Toward intelligent wireless communications: Deep learning - based physical layer technologies	12
Multi-objective optimization for task offloading based on network calculus in fog environments	12
Generating routes for autonomous driving in vehicle-to-infrastructure communications	12
Information mining and similarity computation for semi- / un-structured sentences from the social data	12
The effect of propagation delay on the dynamic evolution of the Bitcoin blockchain	11
EA-DFPSO: An intelligent energy-efficient scheduling algorithm for mobile edge networks	11
COVID-19 pandemic and the cyberthreat landscape: Research challenges and opportunities	11
Smart and collaborative industrial IoT: A federated learning and data space approach	11
Design and optimization of an integrated MEMS gas chamber with high transmissivity	11
A blockchain-based audit approach for encrypted data in federated learning	11
Optimal dynamic spectrum allocation-assisted latency minimization for multiuser mobile edge computing	11
Directional neighbor discovery in mmWave wireless networks	11
DeepPOSE: Detecting GPS spoofing attack via deep recurrent neural network	10
A classification-based privacy-preserving decision-making for secure data sharing in Internet of Things assisted applications	10
Adaptive delay-energy balanced partial offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing networks	10
Blockchain-based DDoS attack mitigation protocol for device-to-device interaction in smart home	10
Cache in fog computing design, concepts, contributions, and security issues in machine learning prospective	10
Splitting and placement of data-intensive applications with machine learning for power system in cloud computing	10
A novel intrusion detection model for the CAN bus packet of in-vehicle network based on attention mechanism and autoencoder	10
Deep reinforcement learning-based resource allocation for D2D communications in heterogeneous cellular networks	10
Joint optimization for secure ambient backscatter communication in NOMA-enabled IoT networks	10
Performance evaluation of a two-way relay network with energy harvesting and hardware noises	10
A LoRa-based protocol for connecting IoT edge computing nodes to provide small-data-based services	10
ICS-SVM: A user retweet prediction method for hot topics based on improved SVM	10
A fixed clustering protocol based on random relay strategy for EHWSN	10
DroidEnemy: Battling adversarial example attacks for Android malware detection	10
Self-healing and SDN: bridging the gap	10
Adaptive multi-channel Bayesian graph attention network for IoT transaction security	10
A comprehensive survey on Segment Routing Traffic Engineering	9
Clustering-based label estimation for network anomaly detection	9
Jointly optimizing user clustering, power management, and wireless channel allocation for NOMA-based Internet of Things	9
Substring-searchable attribute-based encryption and its application for IoT devices	9
Public integrity verification for data sharing in cloud with asynchronous revocation	9
A novel slot scheduling technique for duty-cycle based data transmission for wireless sensor network	9
RFID-based 3D human pose tracking: A subject generalization approach	9
Robust resource allocation for NOMA-assisted heterogeneous networks	9
EBAKE-SE: A novel ECC-based authenticated key exchange between industrial IoT devices using secure element	9
A data complementary method for thunderstorm point charge localization based on atmospheric electric field apparatus array group	9
A survey on blockchain-enabled federated learning and its prospects with digital twin	9
A dynamic incentive and reputation mechanism for energy-efficient federated learning in 6G	9

Unintentional forking analysis in wireless blockchain networks	9
Image analysis and machine learning-based malaria assessment system	9
Towards machine-learning-driven effective mashup recommendations from big data in mobile networks and the Internet-of-Things	9
Sparse array of sub-surface aided blockage-free multi-user mmWave communication systems	8
Multi-stage online task assignment driven by offline data under spatio-temporal crowdsourcing	8
A review on edge analytics: Issues, challenges, opportunities, promises, future directions, and applications	8
Theoretical analysis and comparison of OAM waves generated by three kinds of antenna array	8
Efficient pipelined flow classification for intelligent data processing in IoT	8
Smart object recommendation based on topic learning and joint features in the social internet of things	8
Detection and defending the XSS attack using novel hybrid stacking ensemble learning-based DNN approach	8
ED-SWE: Event detection based on scoring and word embedding in online social networks for the internet of people	8
Design of a USIM and ECC based handover authentication scheme for 5G-WLAN heterogeneous networks	8
Electromagnetic spectrum chipless radio frequency identification: A review	8
Moving target defense of routing randomization with deep reinforcement learning against eavesdropping attack	8
AQROM: A quality of service aware routing optimization mechanism based on asynchronous advantage actor-critic in software-defined networks	7
Time to forge ahead: The Internet of Things for healthcare	7
Generative adversarial network-based atmospheric scattering model for image dehazing	7
Information security through controlled quantum teleportation networks	7
Improving the utility of locally differentially private protocols for longitudinal and multidimensional frequency estimates	7
Request pattern change-based cache pollution attack detection and defense in edge computing	7
Task offloading mechanism based on federated reinforcement learning in mobile edge computing	7
Prototyping low-cost automatic weather stations for natural disaster monitoring	7
A deep learning based misbehavior classification scheme for intrusion detection in cooperative intelligent transportation systems	7
Anonymous data collection scheme for cloud-aided mobile edge networks	7
Secure K-Nearest neighbor queries in two-tiered mobile wireless sensor networks	7
How AI-enabled SDN technologies improve the security and functionality of industrial IoT network: Architectures, enabling technologies, and opportunities	7
Private membership test protocol with low communication complexity	7
Blockchain-based continuous data integrity checking protocol with zero-knowledge privacy protection	7
Mobility-driven user-centric AP clustering in mobile edge computing-based ultra-dense networks	7
FedRec: Trusted rank-based recommender scheme for service provisioning in federated cloud environment	7
A renewal theory based performance and configuration framework of the IEEE 802.11ah RAW mechanism	7
UTM: A trajectory privacy evaluating model for online health monitoring	7
Alamouti code based on block repetition in FBMC/OQAM systems	6
Federated learning based QoS-aware caching decisions in fog-enabled internet of things networks	6
Length matters: Scalable fast encrypted internet traffic service classification based on multiple protocol data unit length sequence with composite deep learning	6
UAV-supported intelligent truth discovery to achieve low-cost communications in mobile crowd sensing	6
Digital twin- and extended reality-based telepresence for collaborative robot programming in the 6G perspective	6
On the design of an AI-driven secure communication scheme for internet of medical things environment	6
Similar physical entity matching strategy for mobile edge search	6
An Ethereum-based solution for energy trading in smart grids	6
Towards Yo-Yo attack mitigation in cloud auto-scaling mechanism	6
VPFL: A verifiable privacy-preserving federated learning scheme for edge computing systems	6
An intelligent hybrid MAC protocol for a sensor-based personalized healthcare system	6
Learning-based user association and dynamic resource allocation in multi-connectivity enabled unmanned aerial vehicle networks	6
A mobility compensation method for drones in SG-eIoT	6
A geographic routing protocol based on trunk line in VANETs	6
On-chain is not enough: Ensuring pre-data on the chain credibility for blockchain-based source-tracing systems	6
An efficient resource optimization scheme for D2D communication	6
An architecture for digital hate content reduction with mobile edge computing	6
GRADE: Deep learning and garlic routing-based secure data sharing framework for IIoT beyond 5G	6
Joint offloading strategy based on quantum particle swarm optimization for MEC-enabled vehicular networks	6
Classification with ensembles and case study on functional magnetic resonance imaging	6
Semantic segmentation-based semantic communication system for image transmission	6
UAV-assisted cooperative offloading energy efficiency system for mobile edge computing	6
Comparing the efficiency of artificial neural networks in sEMG-based simultaneous and continuous estimation of hand kinematics	6
A broad learning-based comprehensive defence against SSDP reflection attacks in IoTs	6
ML-SLD: A message-level stateless design for cloud-native 5G core network	6
Protecting the trust and credibility of data by tracking forgery trace based on GANs	6
SMDP-based sleep policy for base stations in heterogeneous cellular networks	6
An autoencoder-based feature level fusion for speech emotion recognition	5
Fast UAV path planning in urban environments based on three-step experience buffer sampling DDPG	5
Performance analysis of a hybrid optical CDMA/DWDM system against inter-symbol interference and four wave mixing	5
Software defined intelligent satellite-terrestrial integrated networks: Insights and challenges	5
Set pair three-way overlapping community discovery algorithm for weighted social internet of things	5
Research on optimal intelligent routing algorithm for IoV with machine learning and smart contract	5
Ambient BackCom in beyond 5G NOMA networks: A multi-cell resource allocation framework	5
A novel fault-tolerant scheduling approach for collaborative workflows in an edge-IoT environment	5
A simple 2D modulation code in single-reader two-track reading BPMR systems	5
352-Gbit/s single line rate THz wired transmission based on PS-4096QAM employing hollow-core fiber	5
A multi-point collaborative DDoS defense mechanism for IIoT environment	5
Achieving dynamic privacy measurement and protection based on reinforcement learning for mobile edge crowdsensing of IoT	5
Joint MAP channel estimation and data detection for OFDM in presence of phase noise from free running and phase locked loop oscillator	5
A malware propagation prediction model based on representation learning and graph convolutional networks	5
Network traffic identification in packet sampling environment	5
Blockchain-based fog radio access networks: Architecture, key technologies, and challenges	5
Secure and reliable computation offloading in blockchain-assisted cyber-physical IoT systems	5
Extended context-based semantic communication system for text transmission	5
Decentralized content sharing in mobile ad-hoc networks: A survey	5
Users' experience matter: Delay sensitivity-aware computation offloading in mobile edge computing	5
Review on application progress of federated learning model and security hazard protection	5
VRS-DB: preserve confidentiality of users’ data using encryption approach	5
Dynamic channel estimation-aware routing protocol in mobile cognitive radio networks for smart IIoT applications	5
iPAS: A deep Monte Carlo Tree Search-based intelligent pilot-power allocation scheme for massive MIMO system	5
Game-theoretic physical layer authentication for spoofing detection in internet of things	5
Twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient-based intelligent computation offloading for IoT	5
Graph neural network-based scheduling for multi-UAV-enabled communications in D2D networks	5
The analysis of coverage probability, ASE and EE in heterogeneous ultra-dense networks with power control	5
A credibility-aware swarm-federated deep learning framework in internet of vehicles	5
Throughput-oriented associated transaction assignment in sharding blockchains for IoT social data storage	5
User scheduling and power allocation for downlink multi-cell multi-carrier NOMA systems	5
Game theory-based attack and defense analysis in virtual wireless networks with jammers and eavesdroppers	4
Low-complexity soft-output signal detector based on adaptive pre-conditioned gradient descent method for uplink multiuser massive MIMO systems	4
Resource allocation for sum-rate maximization in NOMA-based generalized spatial modulation	4
An ellipse-guided routing algorithm in wireless sensor networks	4
Lightweight privacy-preserving truth discovery for vehicular air quality monitoring	4