Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Trustworthiness possesses numerous design challenges for the researchers and scientists in the global era of internet of things. The solution to deal with these challenges lies in trust management mechanisms (TMM). The integration of TMM on the ...

In the last decade, Software-defined networking (SDN) has been an eye-catching network architecture. As the essential protocol of SDN, OpenFlow provides the ability to control switches forwarding plane by the remote controller. Currently, ...

This paper introduces a decentralized ride-sharing system called BRIP that utilizes blockchain technology. BRIP addresses various issues commonly associated with centralized ride-sharing such as single points of failure, privacy violations, lack ...

• An enhanced decentralized ride-sharing system, called BRIP, is proposed and a prototype of it is implemented as a decentralized application (DApp) on the top of Ethereum, a real-world public blockchain platform. This enables users to ...

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have become a promising solution to entirely replace traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. EV owners face the “Range Anxiety” problem which is the fear that their remaining charge would not be enough to reach ...

Smartphone-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) uses spatiotemporal time series data collected from a smartphone’s in-built accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensor. Real-time HAR datasets such as UCI-HAR and UCI-HAPT extract time and ...

In duty-cycle wireless sensor networks(WSNs), as nodes are not necessarily synchronized, many asynchronous neighbor discovery algorithms have been proposed over the past several years. However, existing algorithms are not strong enough to support ...

IoT systems are widely used in various applications, including healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and smart cities. However, these systems still have limitations, such as lack of security, high latency, energy inefficiency, the inefficiency ...

• A detailed exploration of the architectural nuances and deployments of the blockchain-based edge IoT.
• An exhaustive analysis of security necessities, complemented with potential solutions for prevalent security concerns.
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Cloud computing is a thriving and ever-expanding sector in the industry world. This growth has sparked increased interest from organizations seeking to harness its potential. However, the sheer volume of services and offerings in this field has ...

With the advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and the substantial surge in associated traffic, coupled with the rise in demand for low-latency mobile applications, the utilization of remote cloud computing infrastructure has ...

• We investigate resource provisioning and allocation for Function-as-a-Service model in Mobile Edge Computing.
• We propose a many-to-one assignment mechanism inspired by the school choice problem to minimize the completion time of users’ ...

This paper proposes a video caching and transcoding strategy for delay-constrained content delivery in multi-tier wireless networks. Particularly for multimedia services whose content can be encoded into multiple quality versions and consists of ...

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a modern paradigm that involves moving computing and storage resources closer to the network edge, reducing latency, and enabling innovative, delay-sensitive applications. Within MEC, computation offloading refers ...

Future protocols in the digital society will be built on the foundation of smart contracts, which are code and algorithmic contracts. Smart contracts enable all phases of the contracting process without the need for outside parties by using ...

• We introduce the background of Ethereum.
• Then, the security challenges faced by blockchain smart contracts are proposed.
• We summarize several types of smart contract security solutions related to the topic of smart contract ...

In the era of digitization, Data Center Networks (DCN) have emerged as a critical component supporting infrastructure for cloud computing, big data analytics, online services, and more. With the exponential growth in data transmission and ...

• Conducting an extensive literature review to create a cohesive research framework.
• Thoroughly analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of flow optimization strategies.
• Suggesting forthcoming trends and expectations to guide research ...

With the growing popularity of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies and the recent development of edge private cloud systems to fulfill the demands of industrial environments for high data rates, low latency, and powerful computing ...