Changting Shi^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.3, pp. 635-652, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03754

Abstract In the last decade, IoT has been widely used in smart cities, autonomous driving and Industry 4.0, which lead to improve efficiency, reliability, security and economic benefits. However, with the rapid development of new technologies, such as cognitive communication, cloud computing, quantum computing and big data, the IoT security is being confronted with a series of new threats and challenges. IoT device identification via Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) extracting from radio signals is a physical-layer method for IoT security. In physical-layer, RFF is a unique characteristic of IoT device themselves, which can difficultly be tampered. Just as people’s unique fingerprinting,… More >

Lili He^1,2, Dantong Ouyang^1,2, Meng Wang^1,2, Hongtao Bai^1,2, Qianlong Yang^1,2, Yaqing Liu^3,4, Yu Jiang^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.3, pp. 549-570, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03840

Abstract In this paper, the clustering analysis is applied to the satellite image segmentation, and a cloud-based thunderstorm cloud recognition method is proposed in combination with the strong cloud computing power. The method firstly adopts the fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) to obtain the satellite cloud image segmentation. Secondly, in the cloud image, we dispose the ‘high-density connected’ pixels in the same cloud clusters and the ‘low-density connected’ pixels in different cloud clusters. Therefore, we apply the DBSCAN algorithm to the cloud image obtained in the first step to realize cloud cluster knowledge. Finally, using the method of spectral threshold recognition and… More >

V. Gopinath¹, R. S. Bhuvaneswaran²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.2, pp. 341-352, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.04006

Abstract Cloud computing is the highly demanded technology nowadays. Due to the service oriented architecture, seamless accessibility and other advantages of this advent technology, many transaction rich applications are making use of it. At the same time, it is vulnerable to hacks and threats. Hence securing this environment is of at most important and many research works are being reported focusing on it. This paper proposes a safe storage mechanism using Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the Transaction Rich Applications (TRA). With ECC based security scheme, the security level of the protected system will be increased and it is more suitable… More >

Yong Jiang¹, Xiaolin Zhong^1,*, Yong Guo¹, Meixia Duan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.2, pp. 321-340, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03796

Abstract The emergency communication system based on rail is an unconventional emergency communication mode, it is a complement equipment for that conventional communication system can’t work while tunnel mine accident occurs. Medium of transmission channel is the widely existing rail in the tunnel. In this paper we analyzed the characteristics of the rail transmission channel, verified the feasibility that information is transmitted by vibration signal in rail, we proposed the realization plan of the system. Communication protocol and processing mechanism suitable for rail transmission are designed according to the characteristics of channel bandwidth and low data transmission. Information communication with low… More >

Chak Fong Cheang^1,*, Yiqin Wang¹, Zhiping Cai², Gen Xu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.2, pp. 297-306, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03808

Abstract Cloud computing provides easy and on-demand access to computing resources in a configurable pool. The flexibility of the cloud environment attracts more and more network services to be deployed on the cloud using groups of virtual machines (VMs), instead of being restricted on a single physical server. When more and more network services are deployed on the cloud, the detection of the intrusion likes Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack becomes much more challenging than that on the traditional servers because even a single network service now is possibly provided by groups of VMs across the cloud system. In this paper, we… More >

Baojia Wang¹, Pingzeng Liu^1,*, Zhang Chao¹, Wang Junmei¹, Weijie Chen¹, Ning Cao², Gregory M.P. O’Hare³, Fujiang Wen¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.2, pp. 283-296, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03791

Abstract Garlic prices fluctuate dramatically in recent years and it is very difficult to predict garlic prices. The autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model is currently the most important method for predicting garlic prices. However, the ARIMA model can only predict the linear part of the garlic prices, and cannot predict its nonlinear part. Therefore, it is urgent to adopt a method to analyze the nonlinear characteristics of garlic prices. After comparing the advantages and disadvantages of several major prediction models which used to forecast nonlinear time series, using support vector machine (SVM) model to predict the nonlinear part of garlic… More >

Yongli Tang¹, Huanhuan Lian¹, Zemao Zhao², Xixi Yan^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 339-352, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02965

Abstract With the widespread use of cloud computing technology, more and more users and enterprises decide to store their data in a cloud server by outsourcing. However, these huge amounts of data may contain personal privacy, business secrets and other sensitive information of the users and enterprises. Thus, at present, how to protect, retrieve, and legally use the sensitive information while preventing illegal accesses are security challenges of data storage in the cloud environment. A new proxy re-encryption with keyword search scheme is proposed in this paper in order to solve the problem of the low retrieval efficiency of the encrypted… More >

Wenjie Liu^1,2,*, Zhenyu Chen², Jinsuo Liu³, Zhaofeng Su⁴, Lianhua Chi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 211-223, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02288

Abstract The delegating private quantum computation (DQC) protocol with the universal quantum gate set {X,Z,H,P,R,CNOT} was firstly proposed by Broadbent et al. [Broadbent (2015)], and then Tan et al. [Tan and Zhou (2017)] tried to put forward a half-blind DQC protocol (HDQC) with another universal set {H,P,CNOT,T}. However, the decryption circuit of Toffoli gate (i.e. T) is a little redundant, and Tan et al.’s protocol [Tan and Zhou (2017)] exists the information leak. In addition, both of these two protocols just focus on the blindness of data (i.e. the client’s input and output), but do not consider the blindness of computation… More >

Lizhi Xiong^1,*, Yunqing Shi²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 523-539, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.01791

Abstract Advanced cloud computing technology provides cost saving and flexibility of services for users. With the explosion of multimedia data, more and more data owners would outsource their personal multimedia data on the cloud. In the meantime, some computationally expensive tasks are also undertaken by cloud servers. However, the outsourced multimedia data and its applications may reveal the data owner’s private information because the data owners lose the control of their data. Recently, this thought has aroused new research interest on privacy-preserving reversible data hiding over outsourced multimedia data. In this paper, two reversible data hiding schemes are proposed for encrypted… More >

Xian Tang^1,*, Ziyang Chen², Haiyan Zhang³, Xiang Liu¹, Yunyu Shi¹, Asad Shahzadi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.2, pp. 267-283, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.01839

Abstract Answering reachability queries is one of the fundamental graph operations. Existing approaches either accelerate index construction by constructing an index that covers only partial reachability relationship, which may result in performing cost traversing operation when answering a query; or accelerate query answering by constructing an index covering the complete reachability relationship, which may be inefficient due to comparing the complete node labels. We propose a novel labeling scheme, which covers the complete reachability relationship, to accelerate reachability queries processing. The idea is to decompose the given directed acyclic graph (DAG) G into two subgraphs, G1 and G2. For G1, we… More >