Ahmed Barnawi^1,*, Krishan Kumar², Neeraj Kumar¹, Bander Alzahrani¹, Amal Almansour¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.2, pp. 2117-2137, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.044184

Abstract Landmines continue to pose an ongoing threat in various regions around the world, with countless buried landmines affecting numerous human lives. The detonation of these landmines results in thousands of casualties reported worldwide annually. Therefore, there is a pressing need to employ diverse landmine detection techniques for their removal. One effective approach for landmine detection is UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) based Airborne Magnetometry, which identifies magnetic anomalies in the local terrestrial magnetic field. It can generate a contour plot or heat map that visually represents the magnetic field strength. Despite the effectiveness of this approach,… More >

Ming Gao^1,#, Weiwei Cai^1,#, Yizhang Jiang¹, Wenjun Hu³, Jian Yao², Pengjiang Qian^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.1, pp. 259-277, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.029015

Abstract Currently, applications accessing remote computing resources through cloud data centers is the main mode of operation, but this mode of operation greatly increases communication latency and reduces overall quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE). Edge computing technology extends cloud service functionality to the edge of the mobile network, closer to the task execution end, and can effectively mitigate the communication latency problem. However, the massive and heterogeneous nature of servers in edge computing systems brings new challenges to task scheduling and resource management, and the booming development of artificial neural networks provides More >

Seungwoo Kang¹, Seyha Ros¹, Inseok Song¹, Prohim Tam¹, Sa Math², Seokhoon Kim^1,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1967-1983, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045020

Abstract Intelligent healthcare networks represent a significant component in digital applications, where the requirements hold within quality-of-service (QoS) reliability and safeguarding privacy. This paper addresses these requirements through the integration of enabler paradigms, including federated learning (FL), cloud/edge computing, software-defined/virtualized networking infrastructure, and converged prediction algorithms. The study focuses on achieving reliability and efficiency in real-time prediction models, which depend on the interaction flows and network topology. In response to these challenges, we introduce a modified version of federated logistic regression (FLR) that takes into account convergence latencies and the accuracy of the final FL model… More >

Tariq Qayyum¹, Zouheir Trabelsi^1,*, Asadullah Tariq¹, Muhammad Ali², Kadhim Hayawi³, Irfan Ud Din⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1739-1757, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.043684

Abstract Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative and privacy-preserving training of machine learning models within the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) realm. While FL effectively tackles privacy concerns, it also imposes significant resource requirements. In traditional FL, trained models are transmitted to a central server for global aggregation, typically in the cloud. This approach often leads to network congestion and bandwidth limitations when numerous devices communicate with the same server. The need for Flexible Global Aggregation and Dynamic Client Selection in FL for the IoV arises from the inherent characteristics of IoV environments. These include diverse and distributed… More >

Ying Zhang¹, Weiming Niu², Supu Xiu^1,3, Guangchen Mu^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1865-1884, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030114

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency maximization for mobile edge computing (MEC) in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. In particular, UAV can collect the computing tasks of the terrestrial users and transmit the results back to them after computing. We jointly optimize the users’ transmitted beamforming and uploading ratios, the phase shift matrix of IRS, and the UAV trajectory to improve the energy efficiency. The formulated optimization problem is highly non-convex and difficult to be solved directly. Therefore, we decompose the original problem into three sub-problems. We first More >

Jianmao Xiao¹, Ridong Huang¹, Jiangyu Wang¹, Zhean Zhong¹, Chenyu Liu¹, Yuanlong Cao^1,*, Chuying Ouyang²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 2815-2834, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039716

Abstract Audio copyright is a crucial issue in the music industry, as it protects the rights and interests of creators and distributors. This paper studies the current situation of digital music copyright certification and proposes a music copyright certification framework based on “blockchain + edge computing mode,” abbreviated as MBE, by integrating edge computing into the Hyperledger Fabric system. MBE framework compresses and splits the audio into small chunks, performs Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to extract the peak points of each frequency and combines them to obtain unique audio fingerprint information. After being confirmed by various… More >

Tianzhe Jiao, Xiaoyue Feng, Chaopeng Guo, Dongqi Wang, Jie Song^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3585-3603, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040068

Abstract Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for the fifth-generation (5G) and sixth-generation (6G) architectures, which provides resourceful computing capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as virtual reality, mobile devices, and smart cities. In general, these IoT applications always bring higher energy consumption than traditional applications, which are usually energy-constrained. To provide persistent energy, many references have studied the offloading problem to save energy consumption. However, the dynamic environment dramatically increases the optimization difficulty of the offloading decision. In this paper, we aim to minimize the energy consumption of the entire MEC system… More >

Lei Yu¹, Yucong Duan^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3949-3965, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038970

Abstract Cloud computing and edge computing brought more software, which also brought a new danger of malicious software attacks. Data synchronization mechanisms of software can further help reverse data modifications. Based on the mechanisms, attackers can cover themselves behind the network and modify data undetected. Related knowledge of software reverse engineering can be organized as rules to accelerate the attacks, when attackers intrude cloud server to access the source or binary codes. Therefore, we proposed a novel method to resist this kind of reverse engineering by breaking these rules. Our method is based on software obfuscations… More >

Naveed Khan¹, Jianbiao Zhang^1,*, Ghulam Ali Mallah², Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3877-3896, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032553

Abstract The mobile cellular network provides internet connectivity for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The cellular network consists of several towers installed at appropriate locations within a smart city. These cellular towers can be utilized for various tasks, such as e-healthcare systems, smart city surveillance, traffic monitoring, infrastructure surveillance, or sidewalk checking. Security is a primary concern in data broadcasting, particularly authentication, because the strength of a cellular network’s signal is much higher frequency than the associated one, and their frequencies can sometimes be aligned, posing a significant challenge. As a result, that requires attention, More >

Ying Zhang^1,*, Weiming Niu², Leibing Yan¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.1, pp. 885-902, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.029234

Abstract In this paper, we consider mobile edge computing (MEC) networks against proactive eavesdropping. To maximize the transmission rate, IRS assisted UAV communications are applied. We take the joint design of the trajectory of UAV, the transmitting beamforming of users, and the phase shift matrix of IRS. The original problem is strong non-convex and difficult to solve. We first propose two basic modes of the proactive eavesdropper, and obtain the closed-form solution for the boundary conditions of the two modes. Then we transform the original problem into an equivalent one and propose an alternating optimization (AO) More >