Salaheddine Kably^1,2,*, Mounir Arioua¹, Nabih Alaoui²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5271-5291, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020833

Abstract Blockchain technology is regarded as the emergent security solution for many applications related to the Internet of Things (IoT). In concept, blockchain has a linear structure that grows with the number of transactions entered. This growth in size is the main obstacle to the blockchain, which makes it unsuitable for resource-constrained IoT environments. Moreover, conventional consensus algorithms such as PoW, PoS are very computationally heavy. This paper solves these problems by introducing a new lightweight blockchain structure and lightweight consensus algorithm. The Multi-Zone Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) Blockchain (Multizone-DAG-Blockchain) framework is proposed for the fog-based IoT environment. In this context,… More >

Ritam Sharma¹, Janki Ballabh Sharma¹, Ranjan Maheshwari¹, Praveen Agarwal^2,3,4,5,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.130, No.2, pp. 923-947, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.016065

Abstract In this paper, a novel hybrid texture feature set and fractional derivative filter-based breast cancer detection model is introduced. This paper also introduces the application of a histogram of linear bipolar pattern features (HLBP) for breast thermogram classification. Initially, breast tissues are separated by masking operation and filtered by Grmwald–Letnikov fractional derivative-based Sobel mask to enhance the texture and rectify the noise. A novel hybrid feature set using HLBP and other statistical feature sets is derived and reduced by principal component analysis. Radial basis function kernel-based support vector machine is employed for detecting the abnormality in the thermogram. The performance… More >

CSS Anupama¹, T. J. Benedict Jose², Heba F. Eid³, Nojood O Aljehane⁴, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^5,*, Marwa Obayya⁶, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 3969-3983, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022701

Abstract Biomedical images are used for capturing the images for diagnosis process and to examine the present condition of organs or tissues. Biomedical image processing concepts are identical to biomedical signal processing, which includes the investigation, improvement, and exhibition of images gathered using x-ray, ultrasound, MRI, etc. At the same time, cervical cancer becomes a major reason for increased women's mortality rate. But cervical cancer is an identified at an earlier stage using regular pap smear images. In this aspect, this paper devises a new biomedical pap smear image classification using cascaded deep forest (BPSIC-CDF) model on Internet of Things (IoT)… More >

Mesfer Al Duhayyim¹, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi², Radwa Marzouk³, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁴, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^4,*, Majdy M. Eltahir²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1443-1457, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021873

Abstract Latest advancements made in the processing abilities of smart devices have resulted in the designing of Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) environment. This advanced environment enables the nodes to connect, collect, perceive, and examine useful data from its surroundings. Wireless Multimedia Surveillance Networks (WMSNs) form a vital part in IoT-assisted environment since it contains visual sensors that examine the surroundings from a number of overlapping views by capturing the images incessantly. Since IoT devices generate a massive quantity of digital media, it is therefore required to save the media, especially images, in a secure way. In order to achieve security,… More >

Insaf Ullah^1,*, Hira Zahid² , Fahad Algarni³, Muhammad Asghar Khan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4307-4321, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.017380

Abstract

When the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is combined with the Internet of Things (IoT), it can be employed in a wide range of applications, such as agriculture, industry 4.0, health care, smart homes, among others. Accessing the big data generated by these applications in Cloud Servers (CSs), requires higher levels of authenticity and confidentiality during communication conducted through the Internet. Signcryption is one of the most promising approaches nowadays for overcoming such obstacles, due to its combined nature, i.e., signature and encryption. A number of researchers have developed schemes to address issues related to access control in the IoT literature,… More >

J. V. Anchitaalagammai¹, T. Jayasankar^2,*, P. Selvaraj³, Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar⁴, M. Zakarya^5,6, Mohamed Elhoseny⁷, K. Shankar⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1247-1261, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.017910

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is a technological revolution that redefined communication and computation of modern era. IoT generally refers to a network of gadgets linked via wireless network and communicates via internet. Resource management, especially energy management, is a critical issue when designing IoT devices. Several studies reported that clustering and routing are energy efficient solutions for optimal management of resources in IoT environment. In this point of view, the current study devises a new Energy-Efficient Clustering-based Routing technique for Resource Management i.e., EECBRM in IoT environment. The proposed EECBRM model has three stages namely, fuzzy logic-based clustering, Lion Whale… 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 >

C. Rajinikanth¹, P. Selvaraj², Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar³, T. Jayasankar⁴, Seifedine Kadry⁵, Yunyoung Nam^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2013-2029, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018719

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) has become a major technological development which offers smart infrastructure for the cloud-edge services by the interconnection of physical devices and virtual things among mobile applications and embedded devices. The e-healthcare application solely depends on the IoT and cloud computing environment, has provided several characteristics and applications. Prior research works reported that the energy consumption for transmission process is significantly higher compared to sensing and processing, which led to quick exhaustion of energy. In this view, this paper introduces a new energy efficient cluster enabled clinical decision support system (EEC-CDSS) for embedded IoT environment. The presented… More >

Thavavel Vaiyapuri^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 487-503, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015998

Abstract The era of the Internet of things (IoT) has marked a continued exploration of applications and services that can make people’s lives more convenient than ever before. However, the exploration of IoT services also means that people face unprecedented difficulties in spontaneously selecting the most appropriate services. Thus, there is a paramount need for a recommendation system that can help improve the experience of the users of IoT services to ensure the best quality of service. Most of the existing techniques—including collaborative filtering (CF), which is most widely adopted when building recommendation systems—suffer from rating sparsity and cold-start problems, preventing… More >