Computer Science, Information Systems

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A Survey on Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Network Security in 6G

Hongzhi Guo, Jingyi Li, Jiajia Liu, Na Tian, Nei Kato

Summary: Space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN), as a promising network architecture for 6G, faces unprecedented security challenges. This paper provides a detailed survey on the recent progress and ongoing research on SAGSIN security, covering security threats, attack methodologies, and defense countermeasures. Unlike existing surveys, this paper presents a comprehensive overview of the security status of the entire SAGSIN network.

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS (2022)

Article Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

Distributed Deep Learning-based Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing Networks

Liang Huang, Xu Feng, Anqi Feng, Yupin Huang, Li Ping Qian

Summary: This paper proposes a deep learning-based algorithm to solve the offloading decision problem in mobile edge computing networks. By using multiple parallel DNNs to generate offloading decisions and utilizing a shared replay memory to further train and improve DNNs, near-optimal offloading decisions can be generated quickly.

MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS (2022)

Article Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Informed Machine Learning - A Taxonomy and Survey of Integrating Prior Knowledge into Learning Systems

Laura von Rueden, Sebastian Mayer, Katharina Beckh, Bogdan Georgiev, Sven Giesselbach, Raoul Heese, Birgit Kirsch, Julius Pfrommer, Annika Pick, Rajkumar Ramamurthy, Michal Walczak, Jochen Garcke, Christian Bauckhage, Jannis Schuecker

Summary: Despite the success of machine learning, it has limitations when dealing with insufficient training data. Informed machine learning, which integrates prior knowledge into the training process, is a potential solution. This paper provides a structured overview of various approaches in this field, defines informed machine learning, and introduces a taxonomy for classification. The evaluation of numerous papers based on this taxonomy uncovers key methods in the field.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING (2023)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Hierarchical Adversarial Attacks Against Graph-Neural-Network-Based IoT Network Intrusion Detection System

Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang, Weimin Li, Ke Yan, Shohei Shimizu, Kevin I-Kai Wang

Summary: The study introduces a novel adversarial attack generation method to degrade the classification precision of intelligent intrusion detection in IoT systems by identifying critical feature elements and minimal perturbations. The method also develops a hierarchical node selection algorithm based on random walk with restart to select more vulnerable nodes.

IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL (2022)

Article Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

A Traceable and Revocable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-based Encryption Scheme Based on Privacy Protection

Dezhi Han, Nannan Pan, Kuan-Ching Li

Summary: The proposed CP-ABE scheme in this article achieves revocation, white-box traceability, and the application of hidden policy. The ciphertext is composed of two parts: the access policy encrypted by attribute value and the revocation information related to a binary tree. The scheme is proven to be IND-CPA secure, efficient, and promising in the standard model.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Blockchain-Based Cross-Domain Authentication for Intelligent 5G-Enabled Internet of Drones

Chaosheng Feng, Bin Liu, Zhen Guo, Keping Yu, Zhiguang Qin, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Summary: This article proposes a blockchain-based cross-domain authentication scheme for intelligent 5G-enabled Internet of drones. By utilizing multiple signatures and smart contracts to establish an identity federation for collaborative domains, the scheme supports domain joining and exiting, and ensures reliable communication between cross-domain devices.

IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Multi-strategy particle swarm and ant colony hybrid optimization for airport taxiway planning problem

Wu Deng, Lirong Zhang, Xiangbing Zhou, Yongquan Zhou, Yuzhu Sun, Weihong Zhu, Huayue Chen, Wuquan Deng, Huiling Chen, Huimin Zhao

Summary: The study proposed a multi-strategy particle swarm and ant colony hybrid optimization algorithm (MPSACO) to solve airport taxiway planning problems, aiming to enhance resource utilization efficiency and reduce conflicts through optimization algorithms.

INFORMATION SCIENCES (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Understanding dark side of artificial intelligence (AI) integrated business analytics: assessing firm's operational inefficiency and competitiveness

Nripendra P. Rana, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Shahriar Akter

Summary: The study examines the impact of AI-integrated business analytics on a firm's competitive advantage, finding that opacity, suboptimal business decisions, and perceived risk may result in operational inefficiency and competitive disadvantage.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

A Survey on Fundamental Limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication

An Liu, Zhe Huang, Min Li, Yubo Wan, Wenrui Li, Tony Xiao Han, Chenchen Liu, Rui Du, Danny Kai Pin Tan, Jianmin Lu, Yuan Shen, Fabiola Colone, Kevin Chetty

Summary: Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a key technology in future wireless systems, as it combines high-performance sensing and wireless communications in the same frequency band and hardware. ISAC has attracted significant research interest and attention in both academia and industry, considering the requirements of various applications in 5G and beyond. Understanding the fundamental limits of ISAC is crucial for developing better ISAC technologies that approach the performance limits.

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Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Partial Computation Offloading and Adaptive Task Scheduling for 5G-Enabled Vehicular Networks

Zhaolong Ning, Peiran Dong, Xiaojie Wang, Xiping Hu, Jiangchuan Liu, Lei Guo, Bin Hu, Ricky Y. K. Kwok, Victor C. M. Leung

Summary: This study proposes an efficient partial computation offloading and adaptive task scheduling algorithm for 5G-enabled vehicular networks, considering the incentive compatibility and individual rationality of vehicular users, with the aim of maximizing the overall system-wide profit.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Subject independent emotion recognition from EEG using VMD and deep learning

Pallavi Pandey, K. R. Seeja

Summary: Emotion recognition from EEG is important in subject-independent situations. This paper proposes a subject-independent emotion recognition technique using VMD and Deep Neural Network, and achieves better performance compared to state-of-the-art techniques, as validated by the DEAP dataset.

JOURNAL OF KING SAUD UNIVERSITY-COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Efficient Identity-Based Provable Multi-Copy Data Possession in Multi-Cloud Storage

Jiguo Li, Hao Yan, Yichen Zhang

Summary: To increase the availability and durability of outsourced data, many customers store multiple copies on multiple cloud servers. Existing PDP protocols mainly focus on single-copy storage and rely on PKI technique, which has security vulnerabilities and high communication/computational costs. In this paper, we propose a novel identity-based PDP scheme for multi-copy on multiple cloud storage servers, achieving both security and efficiency.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

A Survey of Incentive Mechanism Design for Federated Learning

Yufeng Zhan, Jie Zhang, Zicong Hong, Leijie Wu, Peng Li, Song Guo

Summary: This article discusses the incentive mechanism design for federated learning, focusing on the classification of existing incentive mechanisms and comparing different approaches. It also explores future directions for incentivizing clients in federated learning.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TOPICS IN COMPUTING (2022)

Article Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

A Survey of Community Detection Approaches: From Statistical Modeling to Deep Learning

Di Jin, Zhizhi Yu, Pengfei Jiao, Shirui Pan, Dongxiao He, Jia Wu, Philip S. Yu, Weixiong Zhang

Summary: Community detection is a fundamental task in network analysis, aiming to partition a network into sub-structures to reveal their latent functions. Traditional approaches utilize probabilistic graphical models, while new approaches use deep learning to convert networked data into low dimensional representation. There is a lack of understanding of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of community detection, which is critical for the future development of network analysis.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING (2023)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

TCDA: Truthful Combinatorial Double Auctions for Mobile Edge Computing in Industrial Internet of Things

Lianbo Ma, Xueyi Wang, Xingwei Wang, Liang Wang, Ying Shi, Min Huang

Summary: This paper proposes a truthful combinatorial double auction mechanism for the mobile edge computing system, which guarantees truthfulness and budget-balance. The mechanism considers the locality characteristics of the MEC system and achieves optimal allocation and pricing using padding method and efficient pricing strategy.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Efficient Dependent Task Offloading for Multiple Applications in MEC-Cloud System

Jiagang Liu, Ju Ren, Yongmin Zhang, Xuhong Peng, Yaoxue Zhang, Yuanyuan Yang

Summary: In this paper, a dependent task offloading framework (COFE) is proposed, which allows mobile devices to offload compute-intensive tasks with dependent constraints to the MEC-Cloud system to improve user experience. The task offloading problem is formulated as an average makespan minimization problem, and a heuristic ranking-based algorithm is proposed to assign the offloaded tasks. Theoretical analysis proves the stability of the system under the proposed algorithm, and extensive simulations validate its effectiveness in reducing average makespan and deadline violation probabilities.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING (2023)

Article Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Learning Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Spatial-Temporal Graph Data for Traffic Forecasting

Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Huaiyu Wan, Xiucheng Li, Gao Cong

Summary: Accurate traffic forecasting is crucial for intelligent transportation systems, but it still faces challenges in modeling the dynamics of traffic data and capturing the periodicity and spatial heterogeneity. In this paper, an Attention based Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Network (ASTGNN) is proposed to overcome these challenges, and experimental results show that ASTGNN outperforms existing baselines.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING (2022)

Proceedings Paper Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Explainable AI Methods - A Brief Overview

Andreas Holzinger, Anna Saranti, Christoph Molnar, Przemyslaw Biecek, Wojciech Samek

Summary: This article provides a brief overview of selected methods in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), aiming to give beginners a quick summary of the current state of the art.

XXAI - BEYOND EXPLAINABLE AI: International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with ICML 2020, July 18, 2020, Vienna, Austria, Revised and Extended Papers (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Lyapunov Optimization-Based Trade-Off Policy for Mobile Cloud Offloading in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Yun Li, Shichao Xia, Mengyan Zheng, Bin Cao, Qilie Liu

Summary: In order to improve mobile users' service experience, careful design of offloading policy is necessary in mobile cloud computing. This paper investigates the offloading policy in heterogeneous wireless networks by formulating the mobile users' workload offloading problem and proposing optimization frameworks and methods. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed methods for deterministic and random WiFi connections.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING (2022)

Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Cellular, Wide-Area, and Non-Terrestrial IoT: A Survey on 5G Advances and the Road Toward 6G

Mojtaba Vaezi, Amin Azari, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, M. Mahdi Azari, Danai Chasaki, Petar Popovski

Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive survey on existing and emerging communication solutions for serving IoT applications in the context of cellular, wide-area, as well as non-terrestrial networks. The solutions include grant-free access and channel coding for short-packet communications, non-orthogonal multiple access, and on-device intelligence. It also discusses the potential of using emerging deep learning and federated learning techniques for enhancing the efficiency and security of IoT communication.

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS (2022)