An Optimized IoT-enabled Big Data Analytics Architecture for Edge-Cloud Computing.

The awareness of edge computing is attaining eminence and is largely acknowledged with the rise of Internet of Things (IoT). Edge-enabled solutions offer efficient computing and control at the network edge to resolve the scalability and latency-related concerns. Though, it comes to be challenging for edge computing to tackle diverse applications of IoT as they produce massive heterogeneous data.

A Comprehensive Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Scheme With Secure Authentication and Aggregation for Internet of Medical Things.

Data mining, integration, and utilization are the inevitable trend of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in the context of Big Data. With the increasing demand for data privacy, federated learning has emerged as a new paradigm, which enables distributed joint training of medical data sources without leaving the private domain. However, federated learning is suffering from security threats as the shared local model will reveal original datasets.

Hash-MAC-DSDV: Mutual Authentication for Intelligent IoT-Based Cyber-Physical Systems.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) connected in the form of Internet of Things (IoT) are vulnerable to various security threats, due to the infrastructure-less deployment of IoT devices. Device-to-Device (D2D) authentication of these networks ensures the integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality of information in the deployed area. The literature suggests different approaches to address security issues in CPS technologies.

LightIoT: Lightweight and secure communication for energy-efficient IoT in health informatics.

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a key enabler of health informatics. IoT-enabled devices are used for in-hospital and in-home patient monitoring to collect and transfer biomedical data pertaining to blood pressure, electrocardiography (ECG), blood sugar levels, body temperature, etc. Among these devices, wearables have found their presence in a wide range of healthcare applications.

Security and Blockchain Convergence with Internet of Multimedia Things: Current Trends, Research Challenges and Future Directions.

The Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) orchestration enables the integration of systems, software, cloud, and smart sensors into a single platform. The IoMT deals with scalar as well as multimedia data. In these networks, sensor-embedded devices and their data face numerous challenges when it comes to security.

An AI-enabled lightweight data fusion and load optimization approach for Internet of Things.

In the densely populated Internet of Things (IoT) applications, sensing range of the nodes might overlap frequently. In these applications, the nodes gather highly correlated and redundant data in their vicinity. Processing these data depletes the energy of nodes and their upstream transmission towards remote datacentres, in the fog infrastructure, may result in an unbalanced load at the network gateways and edge servers.

A Secured and Intelligent Communication Scheme for IIoT-enabled Pervasive Edge Computing.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ensures reliable and efficient data exchanges among the industrial processes using Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the cyber-physical systems. In the IIoT ecosystem, devices of industrial applications communicate with each other with little human intervention. They need to act intelligently to safeguard the data confidentiality and devices' authenticity.

A Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Privacy-preservation Scheme for Intelligent Wearable Devices in Industrial-CPS.

Industry 5.0 is the digitalization, automation and data exchange of industrial processes that involve artificial intelligence, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (I-CPS). In healthcare, I-CPS enables the intelligent wearable devices to gather data from the real-world and transmit to the virtual world for decision-making.

Intelligent Intraoperative Haptic-AR Navigation for COVID-19 Lung Biopsy Using Deep Hybrid Model.

A novel intelligent navigation technique for accurate image-guided COVID-19 lung biopsy is addressed, which systematically combines augmented reality (AR), customized haptic-enabled surgical tools, and deep neural network to achieve customized surgical navigation. Clinic data from 341 COVID-19 positive patients, with 1598 negative control group, have collected for the model synergy and evaluation. Biomechanics force data from the experiment are applied a WPD-CNN-LSTM (WCL) to learn a new patient-specific COVID-19 surgical model, and the ResNet was employed for the intraoperative force classification.

A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to their efficient, flexible, low-cost and dynamic infrastructures. These networks utilize the available resources efficiently to maintain the Quality of Service (QoS) in a multi-hop communication.

iACP-GAEnsC: Evolutionary genetic algorithm based ensemble classification of anticancer peptides by utilizing hybrid feature space.

Cancer is a fatal disease, responsible for one-quarter of all deaths in developed countries. Traditional anticancer therapies such as, chemotherapy and radiation, are highly expensive, susceptible to errors and ineffective techniques. These conventional techniques induce severe side-effects on human cells.