Ali Alqarni^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.1, pp. 389-406, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.059238 - 03 January 2025

Abstract Open networks and heterogeneous services in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) can lead to security and privacy challenges. One key requirement for such systems is the preservation of user privacy, ensuring a seamless experience in driving, navigation, and communication. These privacy needs are influenced by various factors, such as data collected at different intervals, trip durations, and user interactions. To address this, the paper proposes a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model designed to process large amounts of aggregated data and recommend privacy-preserving measures. The model analyzes data based on user demands and interactions with service More >

Chongzhen Zhang^1,2,*, Zhichen Liu³, Xiangrui Xu³, Fuqiang Hu³, Jiao Dai³, Baigen Cai¹, Wei Wang³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 385-404, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.055596 - 17 December 2024

Abstract In the realm of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems, effective multi-party collaboration is crucial due to concerns over privacy and data silos. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a promising approach to facilitate such collaboration, allowing diverse entities to collectively enhance machine learning models without the need to share sensitive training data. However, existing works have highlighted VFL’s susceptibility to privacy inference attacks, where an honest but curious server could potentially reconstruct a client’s raw data from embeddings uploaded by the client. This vulnerability poses a significant threat to VFL-based intelligent railway transportation systems. In… More >

Chan Hyeong Cho, Hyun Min Song^*, Taek-Young Youn^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.3, pp. 1911-1931, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.053430 - 31 October 2024

Abstract With the advancement of video recording devices and network infrastructure, we use surveillance cameras to protect our valuable assets. This paper proposes a novel system for encrypting personal information within recorded surveillance videos to enhance efficiency and security. The proposed method leverages Dlib’s CNN-based facial recognition technology to identify Regions of Interest (ROIs) within the video, linking these ROIs to generate unique IDs. These IDs are then combined with a master key to create entity-specific keys, which are used to encrypt the ROIs within the video. This system supports selective decryption, effectively protecting personal information More >

Muhammad Imran Ghafoor¹, Awad Bin Naeem^2,*, Biswaranjan Senapati³, Md. Sakiul Islam Sudman⁴, Satyabrata Pradhan⁵, Debabrata Das⁶, Friban Almeida⁶, Hesham A. Sakr⁷

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.5, pp. 783-803, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.050819 - 31 October 2024

Abstract The confidentiality of pseudonymous authentication and secure data transmission is essential for the protection of information and mitigating risks posed by compromised vehicles. The Internet of Vehicles has meaningful applications, enabling connected and autonomous vehicles to interact with infrastructure, sensors, computing nodes, humans, and fellow vehicles. Vehicular hoc networks play an essential role in enhancing driving efficiency and safety by reducing traffic congestion while adhering to cryptographic security standards. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving Vehicle-to-Infrastructure authentication, utilizing encryption and the Moore curve. The proposed approach enables a vehicle to deduce the planned itinerary of Roadside More >

Yongsheng Zhu^1,2,*, Chong Liu^3,4, Chunlei Chen⁵, Xiaoting Lyu^3,4, Zheng Chen^3,4, Bin Wang⁶, Fuqiang Hu^3,4, Hanxi Li^3,4, Jiao Dai^3,4, Baigen Cai¹, Wei Wang^3,4

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.2, pp. 1305-1325, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.054820 - 27 September 2024

Abstract The development of Intelligent Railway Transportation Systems necessitates incorporating privacy-preserving mechanisms into AI models to protect sensitive information and enhance system efficiency. Federated learning offers a promising solution by allowing multiple clients to train models collaboratively without sharing private data. However, despite its privacy benefits, federated learning systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where adversaries alter local model parameters on compromised clients and send malicious updates to the server, potentially compromising the global model’s accuracy. In this study, we introduce PMM (Perturbation coefficient Multiplied by Maximum value), a new poisoning attack method that perturbs model More >

Cong Shen^1,*, Wei Zhang^1,2,*, Tanping Zhou^1,2, Yiming Zhang¹, Lingling Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 4729-4748, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.054434 - 12 September 2024

Abstract With the increasing awareness of privacy protection and the improvement of relevant laws, federal learning has gradually become a new choice for cross-agency and cross-device machine learning. In order to solve the problems of privacy leakage, high computational overhead and high traffic in some federated learning schemes, this paper proposes a multiplicative double privacy mask algorithm which is convenient for homomorphic addition aggregation. The combination of homomorphic encryption and secret sharing ensures that the server cannot compromise user privacy from the private gradient uploaded by the participants. At the same time, the proposed TQRR (Top-Q-Random-R) More >

Peicong He, Yang Xin^*, Yixian Yang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 3067-3084, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.054777 - 15 August 2024

Abstract The proliferation of intelligent, connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices facilitates data collection. However, task workers may be reluctant to participate in data collection due to privacy concerns, and task requesters may be concerned about the validity of the collected data. Hence, it is vital to evaluate the quality of the data collected by the task workers while protecting privacy in spatial crowdsourcing (SC) data collection tasks with IoT. To this end, this paper proposes a privacy-preserving data reliability evaluation for SC in IoT, named PARE. First, we design a data uploading format using blockchain More >

Ahmad Rahdari^1,6, Ahmad Jalili², Mehdi Esnaashari³, Mehdi Gheisari^1,4,7,8,*, Alisa A. Vorobeva⁵, Zhaoxi Fang¹, Panjun Sun^1,*, Viktoriia M. Korzhuk⁵, Ilya Popov⁵, Zongda Wu¹, Hamid Tahaei¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2511-2533, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052994 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) represents a significant paradigm shift in network architecture, separating network logic from the underlying forwarding devices to enhance flexibility and centralize deployment. Concurrently, the Internet of Things (IoT) connects numerous devices to the Internet, enabling autonomous interactions with minimal human intervention. However, implementing and managing an SDN-IoT system is inherently complex, particularly for those with limited resources, as the dynamic and distributed nature of IoT infrastructures creates security and privacy challenges during SDN integration. The findings of this study underscore the primary security and privacy challenges across application, control, and data planes.… More >

Qiuyan Wang, Haibing Dong^*, Yongfei Huang, Zenglei Liu, Yundong Gou

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 1967-1983, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052775 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Sharing data while protecting privacy in the industrial Internet is a significant challenge. Traditional machine learning methods require a combination of all data for training; however, this approach can be limited by data availability and privacy concerns. Federated learning (FL) has gained considerable attention because it allows for decentralized training on multiple local datasets. However, the training data collected by data providers are often non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID), resulting in poor FL performance. This paper proposes a privacy-preserving approach for sharing non-IID data in the industrial Internet using an FL approach based on blockchain… More >

Fang Hu¹, Siyi Qiu², Xiaolian Yang¹, Chaolei Wu¹, Miguel Baptista Nunes³, Hui Chen^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2897-2915, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052570 - 15 August 2024

Abstract As the volume of healthcare and medical data increases from diverse sources, real-world scenarios involving data sharing and collaboration have certain challenges, including the risk of privacy leakage, difficulty in data fusion, low reliability of data storage, low effectiveness of data sharing, etc. To guarantee the service quality of data collaboration, this paper presents a privacy-preserving Healthcare and Medical Data Collaboration Service System combining Blockchain with Federated Learning, termed FL-HMChain. This system is composed of three layers: Data extraction and storage, data management, and data application. Focusing on healthcare and medical data, a healthcare and… More >