Shrouk H. Hessen^1,2,*, Hatem M. Abdul-kader¹, Ayman E. Khedr³, Rashed K. Salem¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3015-3028, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033212

Abstract According to the advances in users’ service requirements, physical hardware accessibility, and speed of resource delivery, Cloud Computing (CC) is an essential technology to be used in many fields. Moreover, the Internet of Things (IoT) is employed for more communication flexibility and richness that are required to obtain fruitful services. A multi-agent system might be a proper solution to control the load balancing of interaction and communication among agents. This paper proposes a multi-agent load balancing framework that consists of two phases to optimize the workload among different servers with large-scale CC power with various utilities and a significant number… More >

Li Ding, Yong Yao^*, Rui Ma

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.2, pp. 1539-1558, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.023003

Abstract With the increasing demand for interactive aerial operations, the application of aerial manipulators is becoming more promising. However, there are a few critical problems on how to improve the energetic efficiency and pose control of the aerial manipulator for practical application. In this paper, a novel cable-driven aerial manipulator used for remote water sampling is proposed and then its rigid-flexible coupling dynamics model is constructed which takes joint flexibility into account. To achieve high precision joint position tracking under lumped disturbances, a newly controller, which consists of three parts: linear extended state observer, adaptive super-twisting strategy, and fractional-order nonsingular terminal… More >

Li Ding^1,*, Rui Ma¹, Zhengtian Wu², Rongzhi Qi¹, Wenrui Ruan¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 441-464, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022642

Abstract This article proposes a novel method for maintaining the trajectory of an aerial manipulator by utilizing a fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode (FNTSM) manifold and a linear extended state observer (LESO). The developed control method applies an FNTSM to ensure the tracking performance’s control accuracy, and an LESO to estimate the system’s unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances. Additionally, an improved salp swarm algorithm (ISSA) is employed to parameter tune the suggested controller by integrating the salp swarm technique with a cloud model. This approach also uses a model-free scheme to reduce the complexity of controller design without relying on complex… More >

Vinod Kumar Menaria¹, Anand Nayyar², Sandeep Kumar³, Ketan Kotecha^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1199-1216, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032162

Abstract In today’s information technology (IT) world, the multi-hop wireless sensor networks (MHWSNs) are considered the building block for the Internet of Things (IoT) enabled communication systems for controlling everyday tasks of organizations and industry to provide quality of service (QoS) in a stipulated time slot to end-user over the Internet. Smart city (SC) is an example of one such application which can automate a group of civil services like automatic control of traffic lights, weather prediction, surveillance, etc., in our daily life. These IoT-based networks with multi-hop communication and multiple sink nodes provide efficient communication in terms of performance parameters… More >

Saravanan Manikandan¹, Mosiur Rahaman¹, Yu-Lin Song^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5789-5808, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031490

Abstract The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has evolved as an advancement over the conventional Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) in pursuing a more optimal intelligent transportation system that can provide various intelligent solutions and enable a variety of applications for vehicular traffic. Massive volumes of data are produced and communicated wirelessly among the different relayed entities in these vehicular networks, which might entice adversaries and endanger the system with a wide range of security attacks. To ensure the security of such a sensitive network, we proposed a distributed authentication mechanism for IoV based on blockchain technology as a distributed ledger with an… More >

Jing-Wen Zhang¹, Xiu-Bo Chen^1,*, Gang Xu^2,3, Heng-Ji Li⁴, Ya-Lan Wang⁵, Li-Hua Miao⁶, Yi-Xian Yang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2835-2848, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029125

Abstract The significant advantage of the quantum homomorphic encryption scheme is to ensure the perfect security of quantum private data. In this paper, a novel secure multiparty quantum homomorphic encryption scheme is proposed, which can complete arbitrary quantum computation on the private data of multiple clients without decryption by an almost dishonest server. Firstly, each client obtains a secure encryption key through the measurement device independent quantum key distribution protocol and encrypts the private data by using the encryption operator and key. Secondly, with the help of the almost dishonest server, the non-maximally entangled states are pre-shared between the client and… More >

R. Soundhara Raja Pandian^*, C. Christopher Columbus

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 1749-1762, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.028014

Abstract Currently, e-learning is one of the most prevalent educational methods because of its need in today’s world. Virtual classrooms and web-based learning are becoming the new method of teaching remotely. The students experience a lack of access to resources commonly the educational material. In remote locations, educational institutions face significant challenges in accessing various web-based materials due to bandwidth and network infrastructure limitations. The objective of this study is to demonstrate an optimization and queueing technique for allocating optimal servers and slots for users to access cloud-based e-learning applications. The proposed method provides the optimization and queueing algorithm for multi-server… More >

M. Hema^1,*, S. Kanaga Suba Raja²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 143-156, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024895

Abstract In cloud data centers, the consolidation of workload is one of the phases during which the available hosts are allocated tasks. This phenomenon ensures that the least possible number of hosts is used without compromise in meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA). To consolidate the workloads, the hosts are segregated into three categories: normal hosts, under-loaded hosts, and overloaded hosts based on their utilization. It is to be noted that the identification of an extensively used host or underloaded host is challenging to accomplish. Threshold values were proposed in the literature to detect this scenario. The current study aims to… More >

R. N. Karthika^*, C. Valliyammai, M. Naveena

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 777-795, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024086

Abstract The data in the cloud is protected by various mechanisms to ensure security aspects and user’s privacy. But, deceptive attacks like phishing might obtain the user’s data and use it for malicious purposes. In Spite of much technological advancement, phishing acts as the first step in a series of attacks. With technological advancements, availability and access to the phishing kits has improved drastically, thus making it an ideal tool for the hackers to execute the attacks. The phishing cases indicate use of foreign characters to disguise the original Uniform Resource Locator (URL), typosquatting the popular domain names, using reserved characters… More >

M. Manicka Raja^1,*, S. Manoj Kumar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 1017-1032, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025665

Abstract Privacy of data in Internet of Things (IoT) over fog networks is the biggest challenge in security of Wireless communication networks. In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), current research on fog computing with IoT is gaining popularity among IoT devices over network. Moreover, the data aggregation will reduce the energy consumption in WSN. Due to the open and hostile nature of WSN, secure data aggregation is the major issue. The existing data aggregation methods in IoT and its associated approaches are lack of limited aggregation functions, heavyweight, issues related to the performance overhead. Besides, the overload on fog node will result… More >