Computer Networks, Volume 198

Volume 198, October 2021

Special section on Recent Advances in Connected and Autonomous Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles

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  Hana Gharrad, Nafaâ Jabeur, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Stéphane Galland, Mohamed Mbarki:
  A five-step drone collaborative planning approach for the management of distributed spatial events and vehicle notification using multi-agent systems and firefly algorithms. 108282

Research Article

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  Mantun Chen, Yongjun Wang, Hongzuo Xu, Xiatian Zhu:
  Few-shot website fingerprinting attack. 108298
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  Lin He, Peng Kuang, Ying Liu, Gang Ren, Jiahai Yang:
  Towards securing Duplicate Address Detection using P4. 108323
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  Fabio Busacca, Giuseppe Faraci, Christian Grasso, Sergio Palazzo, Giovanni Schembra:
  Designing a multi-layer edge-computing platform for energy-efficient and delay-aware offloading in vehicular networks. 108330
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  Beifeng Mao, Jing Liu, Yingxu Lai, Motong Sun:
  MIF: A multi-step attack scenario reconstruction and attack chains extraction method based on multi-information fusion. 108340
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  Maurizio Rea, Domenico Giustiniano, Pablo Jiménez Mateo, Yago Lizarribar, Joerg Widmer:
  Beam searching for mmWave networks with sub-6 GHz WiFi and inertial sensors inputs: An experimental study. 108344
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  Fulong Yan, Hugo Meyer, Changshun Yuan, Xuwei Xue, Bitao Pan, Xiaotao Guo, Nicola Calabretta, Chongjin Xie:
  On the performance investigation of a fast optical switches based optical high performance computing infrastructure. 108349
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  Razie Roostaei, Zahra Dabiri, Zeinab Movahedi:
  A game-theoretic joint optimal pricing and resource allocation for Mobile Edge Computing in NOMA-based 5G networks and beyond. 108352
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  Mahshad Parsa, Seyed Ahmad Motamedi:
  Throughput analysis in a millimeter-wave network for a hybrid unsaturated RCAP/CTAP MAC protocol. 108353

Special section on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Next-Generation IoT Networks

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  Zaiwar Ali, Ziaul Haq Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abdullah Numani, Muhammad Bilal:
  Smart computational offloading for mobile edge computing in next-generation Internet of Things networks. 108356

Special section on Network Traffic Analytics in the Era of AI and SDN

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  Daniel Perdices, Javier Ramos, José Luis García-Dorado, Iván González, Jorge E. López de Vergara:
  Natural language processing for web browsing analytics: Challenges, lessons learned, and opportunities. 108357

Research Article

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  Lingfeng Cai, Xianglin Wei, Chang-you Xing, Xia Zou, Guomin Zhang, Xiulei Wang:
  Failure-resilient DAG task scheduling in edge computing. 108361
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  Amit Nayyer, Aman Kumar Sharma, Lalit Kumar Awasthi:
  Learning-based hybrid routing for scalability in software defined networks. 108362
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  Xiaogang Qi, Jiahui Li, Zhiping Wang, Lifang Liu:
  Probabilistic probe selection algorithm for fault diagnosis in communication networks. 108365
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  Ling Zheng, Weitao Pan, Ya Gao, Huan Liu, Jing Jiang:
  Architecture design and performance analysis of a novel memory system for high-bandwidth onboard switching fabric. 108367
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  Hamza Mokhtar, Xiaoqiang Di, Ying Zhou, Alzubair Hassan, Ziyi Ma, Shafiu Musa:
  Multiple-level threshold load balancing in distributed SDN controllers. 108369
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  Jorge Munilla, Mike Burmester, Raquel Barco:
  An enhanced symmetric-key based 5G-AKA protocol. 108373
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  Rui Xu, Xu Wang, Kirill Morozov:
  Group authentication for cloud-to-things computing: Review and improvement. 108374
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  Dongchao Ma, Xiaofu Huang, Yuekun Hu, Pengyu Wang, Mingwei Xu, Li Ma:
  An adaptive solar-aware framework and strategy for outdoor deployment of WSN. 108375
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  Aviram Zilberman, Yoram Haddad, Sefi Erlich, Yossi Peretz, Amit Dvir:
  Heterogeneous SDN controller placement problem - The Wi-Fi and 4G LTE-U case. 108376
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  Yuchen Liu, Douglas M. Blough:
  Blockage tolerance in roadside millimeter-wave backhaul networks. 108377
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  Luis Antonio Leite Francisco da Costa, Rafael Kunst, Edison Pignaton de Freitas:
  Q-FANET: Improved Q-learning based routing protocol for FANETs. 108379
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  Li Feng, Yiru Yao, Liangmin Wang, Geyong Min:
  Multi-timescale and multi-centrality layered node selection for efficient traffic monitoring in SDNs. 108381
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  Donghai Tian, Qianjin Ying, Xiaoqi Jia, Rui Ma, Changzhen Hu, Wenmao Liu:
  MDCHD: A novel malware detection method in cloud using hardware trace and deep learning. 108394

Special section on Blockchain Based Sustainable, Secure Healthcare Systems

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  Shadab Alam, Mohammed Shuaib, Wazir Zada Khan, Sahil Garg, Georges Kaddoum, M. Shamim Hossain, Yousaf Bin Zikria:
  Blockchain-based Initiatives: Current state and challenges. 108395

Research Article

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  Lan Ding, Ye Tian, Tong Liu, Zhongxiang Wei, Xin Ming Zhang:
  Understanding commercial 5G and its implications to (Multipath) TCP. 108401
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  Changsheng Hou, Bingnan Hou, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai:
  DMatrix: Toward fast and accurate queries in graph stream. 108403

Special section on Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems

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  Unai Rioja, Lejla Batina, Jose Luis Flores, Igor Armendariz:
  Auto-tune POIs: Estimation of distribution algorithms for efficient side-channel analysis. 108405
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  Mahdi Esfahani, Hadi Soleimany, Mohammad Reza Aref:
  Enhanced cache attack on AES applicable on ARM-based devices with new operating systems. 108407
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  Shan Jin, Riccardo Bettati:
  Efficient side-channel attacks beyond divide-and-conquer strategy. 108409

Research Article

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  Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha, Abhay Karandikar:
  5G-Flow: A unified Multi-RAT RAN architecture for beyond 5G networks. 108412
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  Prathapchandran Kannimuthu, Janani Thangamuthu:
  A trust aware security mechanism to detect sinkhole attack in RPL-based IoT environment using random forest - RFTRUST. 108413
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  Levent Eriskin:
  Point coverage with heterogeneous sensor networks: A robust optimization approach under target location uncertainty. 108416
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  Mohammad Shokouhifar:
  Swarm intelligence RFID network planning using multi-antenna readers for asset tracking in hospital environments. 108427