Computer Communications, Volume 180

Volume 180, December 2021

Review Articles

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  Alfonso Martínez-Cruz, Kelsey A. Ramírez-Gutiérrez, Claudia Feregrino Uribe, Alicia Morales-Reyes:
  Security on in-vehicle communication protocols: Issues, challenges, and future research directions. 1-20

Special Issue on Network Management in Beyond 5G/6G Networks

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  Zhi Li, Jiye Wang, Yang Wang, Sachula Meng, Sai Wu, Huixia Ding, Zhihui Wang:
  Trade-off analysis between delay and throughput of RAN slicing for smart grid. 21-30

Special Issue on Intelligent Network Communication and Management for Smart Living

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  Koosha Mohammad Hossein, Mohammad Esmaeil Esmaeili, Tooska Dargahi, Ahmad Khonsari, Mauro Conti:
  BCHealth: A Novel Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Architecture for IoT Healthcare Applications. 31-47

Special Issue on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Future Wireless Network Virtualization

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  Dinesh Kumar Sah, Korhan Cengiz, Praveen Kumar Donta, Venkata N. Inukollu, Tarachand Amgoth:
  EDGF: Empirical dataset generation framework for wireless sensor networks. 48-56

Regular Articles

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  Muataz Salam Al Daweri, Salwani Abdullah, Khairul Akram Zainol Ariffin:
  An adaptive method and a new dataset, UKM-IDS20, for the network intrusion detection system. 57-76

Special Issue on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Future Wireless Network Virtualization

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  K. Narayana Rao, K. Venkata Rao, P. V. G. D. Prasad Reddy:
  A hybrid Intrusion Detection System based on Sparse autoencoder and Deep Neural Network. 77-88

Regular Articles

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  Claudia L. Cortés, Neil Guerrero González:
  Constellation diagram processing with convolutional neural networks for channel phase response estimation. 89-96
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  Elmahdi Bentafat, M. Mazhar Rathore, Spiridon Bakiras:
  Towards real-time privacy-preserving video surveillance. 97-108

Special Issue on AI-Empowered Internet of Things for Next Generation Industrial CPSs

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  Lin Yuan, Zhao Qiu:
  Mask-RCNN with spatial attention for pedestrian segmentation in cyber-physical systems. 109-114

Regular Articles

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  Xin Liu, Ruiling Zhang, Gang Xu, Xiu-Bo Chen, Neal N. Xiong:
  Confidentially judging the relationship between an integer and an interval against malicious adversaries and its applications. 115-125

Special Issue on Intelligent Network Communication and Management for Smart Living

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  Suyu Zhang, Margarita Lagutkina, Kevser Ovaz Akpinar, Mustafa Akpinar:
  Improving performance and data transmission security in VANETs. 126-133

Regular Articles

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  Nehuen Gonzalez-Montoro, Jorge M. Finochietto, Andrea Bianco:
  Resource-aware provisioning strategies in translucent elastic optical networks. 134-145

Special Issue on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Future Wireless Network Virtualization

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  Krishna Prasad Satamraju, B. Malarkodi:
  A decentralized framework for device authentication and data security in the next generation internet of medical things. 146-160

Special Issue on Data Driven Discovery of Cyber Physical Systems

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  Ning Jia, Chunjun Zheng:
  Two-level discriminative speech emotion recognition model with wave field dynamics: A personalized speech emotion recognition method. 161-170

Special Issue on Intelligent Network Communication and Management for Smart Living

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  Walid Miloud Dahmane, Samir Ouchani, Hafida Bouarfa:
  Towards a reliable smart city through formal verification and network analysis. 171-187

Regular Articles

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  Mingyang Cui, Weiliang Han, Datong Xu, Pan Zhao, Weixia Zou:
  Hybrid precoding design based on alternating optimization in mmWave massive MIMO systems aided by intelligent reflecting surface. 188-196
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  Zhuangye Luo, Jia Xu, Pengcheng Zhao, Dejun Yang, Lijie Xu, Jian Luo:
  Towards high quality mobile crowdsensing: Incentive mechanism design based on fine-grained ability reputation. 197-209

Review Articles

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  Mohammed Laroui, Boubakr Nour, Hassine Moungla, Moussa Ali Cherif, Hossam Afifi, Mohsen Guizani:
  Edge and fog computing for IoT: A survey on current research activities & future directions. 210-231

Special Issue on Sustainable Solutions for the Internet of Things using B5G/6G-aware Edge/Fog Networks

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  Jianhe Du, Yang Zhang, Yuanzhi Chen, Xingwang Li, Yuan Cheng, M. V. Rajesh:
  Hybrid beamforming NOMA for mmWave half-duplex UAV relay-assisted B5G/6G IoT networks. 232-242

Regular Articles

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  Alberto Bartoli:
  Robustness analysis of DNS paths and web access paths in public administration websites. 243-258

ACM MSWiM 2020 Special Issue

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  Ali Abedi, Tim Brecht, Omid Abari:
  Demystifying frame aggregation in 802.11 networks: Understanding and approximating optimality. 259-270

Regular Articles

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  Peizhi Yan, Salimur Choudhury:
  Deep Q-learning enabled joint optimization of mobile edge computing multi-level task offloading. 271-283

Special Issue on Network Management in Beyond 5G/6G Networks

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  Ghulam Abbas, Ziaul Haq Abbas, Zaiwar Ali, Muhammad Shahwar Asad, Uttam Ghosh, Muhammad Bilal:
  Smart stochastic routing for 6G-enabled massive Internet of Things. 284-294

Special Issue on Data Driven Discovery of Cyber Physical Systems

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  Ying Xing, Xingde Wang, Qianpeng Shen:
  Test case prioritization based on Artificial Fish School Algorithm. 295-302

Regular Articles

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  Taoufik Yeferny, Sadok Ben Yahia:
  A Markov chain-based data dissemination protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks. 303-314

Special Issue on Network Management in Beyond 5G/6G Networks

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  Mosab Hamdan, Suleman Khan, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Shahidatul Sadiah, Nasir Shaikh-Husin, Sattam Al Otaibi, Carsten Maple, Muhammad N. Marsono:
  DPLBAnt: Improved load balancing technique based on detection and rerouting of elephant flows in software-defined networks. 315-327
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  Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Teong Chee Chuah, Ayman A. El-Saleh, Muhammad Shafiq, Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, Shayla Islam, Moez Krichen:
  Constriction Factor Particle Swarm Optimization based load balancing and cell association for 5G heterogeneous networks. 328-337