Reem Alkanhel^1,#, Abuzar B. M. Adam^2,#, Samia Allaoua Chelloug¹, Dina S. M. Hassan^1,*, Mohammed Saleh Ali Muthanna³, Ammar Muthanna⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 607-624, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063206 - 09 June 2025

Abstract The 3GPP standard defines the requirements for next-generation wireless networks, with particular attention to Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC), critical for applications such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In this context, Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique to improve spectrum efficiency and user fairness by allowing multiple users to share the same frequency resources. However, optimizing key parameters–such as beamforming, rate allocation, and UAV trajectory–presents significant challenges due to the nonconvex nature of the problem, especially under stringent URLLC constraints. This paper proposes an advanced deep learning-driven approach to address the resulting… More >

Cui Zhang¹, Maoxin Ji², Qiong Wu^2,*, Pingyi Fan³, Qiang Fan⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 3519-3536, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.061292 - 16 April 2025

Abstract As Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology continues to advance, edge computing has become an important tool for assisting vehicles in handling complex tasks. However, the process of offloading tasks to edge servers may expose vehicles to malicious external attacks, resulting in information loss or even tampering, thereby creating serious security vulnerabilities. Blockchain technology can maintain a shared ledger among servers. In the Raft consensus mechanism, as long as more than half of the nodes remain operational, the system will not collapse, effectively maintaining the system’s robustness and security. To protect vehicle information, we propose a… More >

Woongkyu Park¹, Yeongyu Choi², Mahammad Shareef Mekala³, Gyu Sang Choi¹, Kook-Yeol Yoo¹, Ho-youl Jung^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.3, pp. 3965-3981, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.059966 - 06 March 2025

Abstract Designing fast and accurate neural networks is becoming essential in various vision tasks. Recently, the use of attention mechanisms has increased, aimed at enhancing the vision task performance by selectively focusing on relevant parts of the input. In this paper, we concentrate on squeeze-and-excitation (SE)-based channel attention, considering the trade-off between latency and accuracy. We propose a variation of the SE module, called squeeze-and-excitation with layer normalization (SELN), in which layer normalization (LN) replaces the sigmoid activation function. This approach reduces the vanishing gradient problem while enhancing feature diversity and discriminability of channel attention. In… More >

Ibrar Afzal¹, Noor ul Amin^1,*, Zulfiqar Ahmad^1,*, Abdulmohsen Algarni²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.1, pp. 1377-1399, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057755 - 03 January 2025

Abstract The deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) with smart sensors has facilitated the emergence of fog computing as an important technology for delivering services to smart environments such as campuses, smart cities, and smart transportation systems. Fog computing tackles a range of challenges, including processing, storage, bandwidth, latency, and reliability, by locally distributing secure information through end nodes. Consisting of endpoints, fog nodes, and back-end cloud infrastructure, it provides advanced capabilities beyond traditional cloud computing. In smart environments, particularly within smart city transportation systems, the abundance of devices and nodes poses significant challenges related… More >

Khawaja Tahir Mehmood^1,2,*, Shahid Atiq¹, Intisar Ali Sajjad³, Muhammad Majid Hussain⁴, Malik M. Abdul Basit²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.2, pp. 1673-1708, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.053903 - 27 September 2024

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN), with segregated data and control planes, provides faster data routing, stability, and enhanced quality metrics, such as throughput (T_h), maximum available bandwidth (B_d(max)), data transfer (D_Transfer), and reduction in end-to-end delay (D_(E-E)). This paper explores the critical work of deploying SDN in large­scale Data Center Networks (DCNs) to enhance its Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, using logically distributed control configurations. There is a noticeable increase in Delay_(E-E) when adopting SDN with a unified (single) control structure in big DCNs to handle Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests causing a reduction in network quality parameters (B_d(max), T_h, D_Transfer, D_(E-E),… More > Graphic Abstract

Yu Zhou¹, Yun Zhang¹, Guowei Li¹, Hang Yang¹, Wei Zhang¹, Ting Lyu², Yueqiang Xu^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 1809-1829, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050975 - 15 August 2024

Abstract In current research on task offloading and resource scheduling in vehicular networks, vehicles are commonly assumed to maintain constant speed or relatively stationary states, and the impact of speed variations on task offloading is often overlooked. It is frequently assumed that vehicles can be accurately modeled during actual motion processes. However, in vehicular dynamic environments, both the tasks generated by the vehicles and the vehicles’ surroundings are constantly changing, making it difficult to achieve real-time modeling for actual dynamic vehicular network scenarios. Taking into account the actual dynamic vehicular scenarios, this paper considers the real-time… More >

Wei Wu, Liang Yu, Liping Yang^*, Yadong Zhang, Peng Wang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 587-603, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052655 - 18 July 2024

Abstract As an open network architecture, Wireless Computing Power Networks (WCPN) pose new challenges for achieving efficient and secure resource management in networks, because of issues such as insecure communication channels and untrusted device terminals. Blockchain, as a shared, immutable distributed ledger, provides a secure resource management solution for WCPN. However, integrating blockchain into WCPN faces challenges like device heterogeneity, monitoring communication states, and dynamic network nature. Whereas Digital Twins (DT) can accurately maintain digital models of physical entities through real-time data updates and self-learning, enabling continuous optimization of WCPN, improving synchronization performance, ensuring real-time accuracy, More >

Guojun Wang^1,2, Qi Liu^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 4471-4488, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047669 - 26 March 2024

Abstract With the rapid advancement in exploring perceptual interactions and digital twins, metaverse technology has emerged to transcend the constraints of space-time and reality, facilitating remote AI-based collaboration. In this dynamic metasystem environment, frequent information exchanges necessitate robust security measures, with Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) serving as the primary line of defense to ensure communication security. However, traditional AKA protocols fall short in meeting the low-latency requirements essential for synchronous interactions within the metaverse. To address this challenge and enable nearly latency-free interactions, a novel low-latency AKA protocol based on chaotic maps is proposed. This… 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 - 08 October 2023

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 >

Wan Norsyafizan W. Muhamad¹, Kaharudin Dimyati², Muhammad Awais Javed³, Suzi Seroja Sarnin^1,*, Divine Senanu Ametefe¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 1291-1308, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037214 - 08 June 2023

Abstract The tremendous advancement in distributed computing and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has resulted in the adoption of fog computing as today’s widely used framework complementing cloud computing. Thus, suitable and effective applications could be performed to satisfy the applications’ latency requirement. Resource allocation techniques are essential aspects of fog networks which prevent unbalanced load distribution. Effective resource management techniques can improve the quality of service metrics. Due to the limited and heterogeneous resources available within the fog infrastructure, the fog layer’s resources need to be optimised to efficiently manage and distribute them to different… More >