Dac-Nhuong Le^1,2,3,*, Gia Nhu Nguyen^2,4, Harish Garg⁵, Quyet-Thang Huynh⁶, Trinh Ngoc Bao⁷, Nguyen Ngoc Tuan⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 993-1010, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012464 - 30 October 2020

Abstract This paper presents a Game-theoretic optimization via Parallel MinMax Ant System (PMMAS) algorithm is used in practice to determine the Nash equilibrium value to resolve the confusion in choosing appropriate bidders of multi-round procurement problem in software project management. To this end, we introduce an approach that proposes: (i) A Game-theoretic model of multiround procurement problem (ii) A Nash equilibrium strategy corresponds to multi-round strategy bid (iii) An application of PSO for the determination of global Nash equilibrium. The balance point in Nash Equilibrium can help to maintain a sustainable structure not only in terms… More >

Ganeshan Keerthana^1,*, Panneerselvam Anandan², Nandhagopal Nachimuthu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 903-917, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012255 - 30 October 2020

Abstract Due to the recent proliferation of cyber-attacks, highly robust wireless sensor networks (WSN) become a critical issue as they survive node failures. Scale-free WSN is essential because they endure random attacks effectively. But they are susceptible to malicious attacks, which mainly targets particular significant nodes. Therefore, the robustness of the network becomes important for ensuring the network security. This paper presents a Robust Hybrid Artificial Fish Swarm Simulated Annealing Optimization (RHAFS-SA) Algorithm. It is introduced for improving the robust nature of free scale networks over malicious attacks (MA) with no change in degree distribution. The More >

Lejun Zhang^1,2,*, Minghui Peng¹, Weizheng Wang³ , Yansen Su⁴, Shuna Cui^5,6, Seokhoon Kim⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 499-515, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012205 - 30 October 2020

Abstract In the digital era, electronic medical record (EMR) has been a major way for hospitals to store patients’ medical data. The traditional centralized medical system and semi-trusted cloud storage are difficult to achieve dynamic balance between privacy protection and data sharing. The storage capacity of blockchain is limited and single blockchain schemes have poor scalability and low throughput. To address these issues, we propose a secure and efficient medical data storage and sharing scheme based on double blockchain. In our scheme, we encrypt the original EMR and store it in the cloud. The storage blockchain… More >

Jiao Ge^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.3, pp. 1083-1100, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.013039 - 15 December 2020

Abstract With the rapid development of medical informatization and the popularization of digital imaging equipment, DICOM images contain the personal privacy of patients, and there are security risks in the process of storage and transmission, so it needs to be encrypted. In order to solve the security problem of medical images on mobile devices, a safe and efficient medical image encryption algorithm called ALCencryption is designed. The algorithm first analyzes the medical image and distinguishes the color image from the gray image. For gray images, the improved Arnold map is used to scramble them according to More >

O. S. Dahham¹, N. Z. Noriman^1,2,*, H. Jaya¹, R. Hamzah¹, M. U. Umar^2,3, I. Johari⁴

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.12, pp. 1633-1645, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.011377 - 12 November 2020

Abstract In this work, Epoxidized natural rubber/sawdust short fiber (ENR-50/ SD) composites at different fiber content (5, 10, 15 and 20 phr) and size (fine size at 60–100 μm and coarse size at 10–20 mm) were prepared using two-roll mill and electrical-hydraulic hot press machine respectively. Curing characteristics, water uptake, tensile, morphological, physical, and thermal properties of the composites were investigated. Results indicated that the scorch time and cure time became shorter whereas torque improved as SD content increase. Though the decline of tensile strength and elongation at break values, modulus, hardness and crosslinking density have More >

Sivaranjani Balakrishnan^1,∗, D. Surendran^2,†

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.5, pp. 357-366, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.357

Abstract With the arrival of on-demand computing, data centre requirements are extensive, with fluid boundaries. Loaded Internet applications, service-oriented architectures, virtualization and security provisioning are the major operations of a data centre. Security is an absolute necessity of any network architecture, and the virtual IT data centre is no exception. At the boundary, security is focused on securing the terminals of the data centre from external threats and providing a secure gateway to the Internet. The paradigm shift towards a new computing environment makes communications more complicated for Infrastructure Providers (InP). This complexity includes the security… More >

Jin Wang^{1, 2}, Wencheng Chen¹, Lei Wang^{3, *}, R. Simon Sherratt⁴, Osama Alfarraj⁵, Amr Tolba^{5, 6}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2365-2384, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011567 - 16 September 2020

Abstract As the number of sensor network application scenarios continues to grow, the security problems inherent in this approach have become obstacles that hinder its wide application. However, it has attracted increasing attention from industry and academia. The blockchain is based on a distributed network and has the characteristics of nontampering and traceability of block data. It is thus naturally able to solve the security problems of the sensor networks. Accordingly, this paper first analyzes the security risks associated with data storage in the sensor networks, then proposes using blockchain technology to ensure that data storage… More >

Nithya Rekha Sivakumar^{1, *}, Sara Ghorashi¹, Mona Jamjoom¹, Mai Alduailij¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 1925-1943, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011505 - 16 September 2020

Abstract In today’s world, smart phones offer various applications namely face detection, augmented-reality, image and video processing, video gaming and speech recognition. With the increasing demand for computing resources, these applications become more complicated. Cloud Computing (CC) environment provides access to unlimited resource pool with several features, including on demand self-service, elasticity, wide network access, resource pooling, low cost, and ease of use. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) aimed at overcoming drawbacks of smart phone devices. The task remains in combining CC technology to the mobile devices with improved battery life and therefore resulting in significant performance.… More >

Qirun Wang¹, Fujian Zhu², Sai Ji², Yongjun Ren^{2, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1753-1769, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07366 - 20 August 2020

Abstract At present, the provenance of electronic records is stored centrally. The centralized way of information storage has huge risks. Whether the database itself is destroyed or the communication between the central database and the external interruption occurs, the provenance information of the stored electronic records will not play its role. At the same time, uncertainties such as fires and earthquakes will also pose a potential threat to centralized databases. Moreover, the existing security provenance model is not specifically designed for electronic records. In this paper, a security provenance model of electronic records is constructed based More >

Yan Chang^{1, *}, Shibin Zhang¹, Lili Yan¹, Xueyang Li¹, Tian Cao¹, Qirun Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 879-896, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010042 - 23 July 2020

Abstract The secure key rate of quantum key distribution (QKD) is greatly reduced because of the untrusted devices. In this paper, to raise the secure key rate of QKD, a device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) protocol is proposed based on hyper-entangled states and Bell inequalities. The security of the protocol is analyzed against the individual attack by an adversary only limited by the no-signaling condition. Based on the formalization of Clauser-Horne Shimony-Holt (CHSH) violation measurement on local correlation, the probability of a secure secret bit is obtained, which is produced by a pair of hyper-entangled particles. More >