A. Vijaya Krishna¹, A. Anny Leema^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1815-1827, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018455

Abstract The internet of things (IoT) has a wide variety of applications, which in turn raises many challenging issues. IoT technology enables devices to closely monitor their environment, providing context-aware intelligence based on the real-time data collected by their sensor nodes. The IoT not only controls these devices but also monitors their user's behaviour. One of the major issues related to IoT is the need for an energy-efficient communication protocol which uses the heterogeneity and diversity of the objects connected through the internet. Minimizing energy consumption is a requirement for energy-constrained nodes and outsourced nodes. The IoT nodes deployed in different… More >

C. S. S. Anupama¹, L. Natrayan², E. Laxmi Lydia³, Abdul Rahaman Wahab Sait⁴, José Escorcia-Gutierrez⁵, Margarita Gamarra^6,*, Romany F. Mansour⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1297-1313, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018396

Abstract Nowadays, quality improvement and increased accessibility to patient data, at a reasonable cost, are highly challenging tasks in healthcare sector. Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC) architectures are utilized in the development of smart healthcare systems. These entities can support real-time applications by exploiting massive volumes of data, produced by wearable sensor devices. The advent of evolutionary computation algorithms and Deep Learning (DL) models has gained significant attention in healthcare diagnosis, especially in decision making process. Skin cancer is the deadliest disease which affects people across the globe. Automatic skin lesion classification model has a highly important application… More >

Saadia Malik¹, Nadia Tabassum², Muhammad Saleem³, Tahir Alyas⁴, Muhammad Hamid^5,*, Umer Farooq⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.1, pp. 471-480, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019837

Abstract With the ongoing revolution in the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing has made the potential of every stack holder that is connected through the Internet, to exchange and transfer data. Various users perceive this connection and interaction with devices as very helpful and serviceable in their daily life. However, an improperly configured network system is a soft target to security threats, therefore there is a dire need for a security embedded framework for IoT and cloud communication models is the latest research area. In this paper, different IoT and cloud computing frameworks are discussed in detail and describes… More >

Reham Alabduljabbar^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.018102

Abstract It is a common observation that whenever patients arrives at the front desk of a hospital, outpatient clinic, or other health-associated centers, they have to first queue up in a line and wait to fill in their registration form to get admitted. The long waiting time without any status updates is the most common complaint, concerning health officials. In this paper, UrNext, a location-aware mobile-based solution using Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) technology is presented to solve the problem. Recently, a technology-oriented method, the Internet of Things (IoT), has been gaining popularity in helping to solve some of the healthcare sector’s problems.… More >

Chao Li¹, Fan Li^1,2, Wei Du³, Lihua Yin^1,*, Bin Wang⁴, Chonghua Wang⁵, Tianjie Luo¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3383-3397, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.020765

Abstract Material identification is a technology that can help to identify the type of target material. Existing approaches depend on expensive instruments, complicated pre-treatments and professional users. It is difficult to find a substantial yet effective material identification method to meet the daily use demands. In this paper, we introduce a Wi-Fi-signal based material identification approach by measuring the amplitude ratio and phase difference as the key features in the material classifier, which can significantly reduce the cost and guarantee a high level accuracy. In practical measurement of Wi-Fi based material identification, these two features are commonly interrupted by the software/hardware… More >

Vinay Arora¹, Karun Verma¹, Rohan Singh Leekha², Kyungroul Lee³, Chang Choi^4,*, Takshi Gupta⁵, Kashish Bhatia⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 4151-4168, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019178

Abstract The early diagnosis of pre-existing coronary disorders helps to control complications such as pulmonary hypertension, irregular cardiac functioning, and heart failure. Machine-based learning of heart sound is an {efficient} technology which can help minimize the workload of manual auscultation by automatically identifying irregular cardiac sounds. Phonocardiogram (PCG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms provide the much-needed information for the diagnosis of these diseases. In this work, the researchers have converted the heart sound signal into its corresponding repeating pattern-based spectrogram. PhysioNet 2016 and PASCAL 2011 have been taken as the benchmark datasets to perform experimentation. The existing models, viz. MobileNet, Xception, Visual… More >

Mohamed Esmail Karar^1,2, Omar Reyad^1,3,*, Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty⁴, Saud Owyed⁵, Mohd F. Hassan⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 4095-4111, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019059

Abstract Smart precision agriculture utilizes modern information and wireless communication technologies to achieve challenging agricultural processes. Therefore, Internet of Things (IoT) technology can be applied to monitor and detect harmful insect pests such as red palm weevils (RPWs) in the farms of date palm trees. In this paper, we propose a new IoT-based framework for early sound detection of RPWs using fine-tuned transfer learning classifier, namely InceptionResNet-V2. The sound sensors, namely TreeVibes devices are carefully mounted on each palm trunk to setup wireless sensor networks in the farm. Palm trees are labeled based on the sensor node number to identify the… More >

Mykola Beshley¹, Natalia Kryvinska^2,*, Halyna Beshley¹, Mykhailo Medvetskyi¹, Leonard Barolli³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3727-3748, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018625

Abstract The rapidly increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements have made the provisioning of network solutions to meet this demand a major research topic. Providing fast and reliable routing paths based on the QoS requirements of IoT devices is very important task for Industry 4.0. The software-defined network is one of the most current interesting research developments, offering an efficient and effective solution for centralized control and network intelligence. A new SDN-IoT paradigm has been proposed to improve network QoS, taking advantage of SDN architecture in IoT networks. At the present time, most… More >

Sujeet More¹, Jimmy Singla¹, Oh-Young Song^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Sharaf Malebary⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3127-3143, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018230

Abstract Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive, nonradioactive, and meticulous diagnostic modality capability in the field of medical imaging. However, the efficiency of MR image reconstruction is affected by its bulky image sets and slow process implementation. Therefore, to obtain a high-quality reconstructed image we presented a sparse aware noise removal technique that uses convolution neural network (SANR_CNN) for eliminating noise and improving the MR image reconstruction quality. The proposed noise removal or denoising technique adopts a fast CNN architecture that aids in training larger datasets with improved quality, and SARN algorithm is used for building a dictionary learning technique… More >

Harshit Kaushik¹, Dilbag Singh², Shailendra Tiwari³, Manjit Kaur², Chang-Won Jeong⁴, Yunyoung Nam^5,*, Muhammad Attique Khan⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3459-3475, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017337

Abstract In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic due to its uncontrolled global spread. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction is a laboratory test that is widely used for the diagnosis of this deadly disease. However, the limited availability of testing kits and qualified staff and the drastically increasing number of cases have hampered massive testing. To handle COVID-19 testing problems, we apply the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to achieve self-adaptive, secure, and fast resource allocation, real-time tracking, remote screening, and patient monitoring. In addition, we implement a cloud platform for… More >