Somayeh Soltani¹, Seyed Amin Hosseini Seno¹, Juli Rejito², Rahmat Budiarto^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5891-5910, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023697

Abstract Satellite networks are recognized as the most essential communication infrastructures in the world today, which complement land networks and provide valuable services for their users. Extensive coverage and service stability of these networks have increased their popularity. Since eavesdropping and active intrusion in satellite communications are much easier than in terrestrial networks, securing satellite communications is vital. So far, several protocols have been proposed for authentication and key exchange of satellite communications, but none of them fully meet the security requirements. In this paper, we examine one of these protocols and identify its security vulnerabilities. Moreover, we propose a robust… More >

Sumaira Azhar¹, Naveed Ahmed Azam^2,*, Umar Hayat¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4971-4988, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023685

Abstract The demand for data security schemes has increased with the significant advancement in the field of computation and communication networks. We propose a novel three-step text encryption scheme that has provable security against computation attacks such as key attack and statistical attack. The proposed scheme is based on the Pell sequence and elliptic curves, where at the first step the plain text is diffused to get a meaningless plain text by applying a cyclic shift on the symbol set. In the second step, we hide the elements of the diffused plain text from the attackers. For this purpose, we use… More >

Khalid A. El Drandaly¹, Walid Khedr¹, Islam S. Mohamed¹, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5253-5270, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023684

Abstract Information security is one of the most important methods of protecting the confidentiality and privacy of internet users. The greater the volume of data, the more the need to increase the security methods for protecting data from intruders. This task can be challenging for researchers in terms of managing enormous data and maintaining their safety and effectiveness. Protection of digital content is a major issue in maintaining the privacy and secrecy of data. Toward this end, digital watermarking is based on the concept of information security through the insertion and detection of an embedded watermark in an efficient manner. Recent… More >

Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeidabadi¹, Ali Dehghani², Mohammad Dehghani³, Zeinab Montazeri⁴, Štěpán Hubálovský⁵, Pavel Trojovský^3,*, Gaurav Dhiman⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4237-4256, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023682

Abstract Finding the suitable solution to optimization problems is a fundamental challenge in various sciences. Optimization algorithms are one of the effective stochastic methods in solving optimization problems. In this paper, a new stochastic optimization algorithm called Search Step Adjustment Based Algorithm (SSABA) is presented to provide quasi-optimal solutions to various optimization problems. In the initial iterations of the algorithm, the step index is set to the highest value for a comprehensive search of the search space. Then, with increasing repetitions in order to focus the search of the algorithm in achieving the optimal solution closer to the global optimal, the… More >

Qaisar Abbas^1,*, Mostafa E. A. Ibrahim^1,2, Abdul Rauf Baig¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4573-4590, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023670

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy (DR) diagnosis through digital fundus images requires clinical experts to recognize the presence and importance of many intricate features. This task is very difficult for ophthalmologists and time-consuming. Therefore, many computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems were developed to automate this screening process of DR. In this paper, a CAD-DR system is proposed based on preprocessing and a pre-train transfer learning-based convolutional neural network (PCNN) to recognize the five stages of DR through retinal fundus images. To develop this CAD-DR system, a preprocessing step is performed in a perceptual-oriented color space to enhance the DR-related lesions and then a standard… More >

Saeed Ahmed^1,2, Noor Gul^1,3, Jahangir Khan⁴, Junsu Kim¹, Su Min Kim^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5061-5082, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023639

Abstract Flash floods are deemed the most fatal and disastrous natural hazards globally due to their prompt onset that requires a short prime time for emergency response. Cognitive Internet of things (CIoT) technologies including inherent characteristics of cognitive radio (CR) are potential candidates to develop a monitoring and early warning system (MEWS) that helps in efficiently utilizing the short response time to save lives during flash floods. However, most CIoT devices are battery-limited and thus, it reduces the lifetime of the MEWS. To tackle these problems, we propose a CIoT-based MEWS to slash the fatalities of flash floods. To extend the… More >

Yasmeen Al-Saeed^1,2, Wael A. Gab-Allah¹, Hassan Soliman¹, Maysoon F. Abulkhair³, Wafaa M. Shalash⁴, Mohammed Elmogy^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4871-4894, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023638

Abstract One of the leading causes of mortality worldwide is liver cancer. The earlier the detection of hepatic tumors, the lower the mortality rate. This paper introduces a computer-aided diagnosis system to extract hepatic tumors from computed tomography scans and classify them into malignant or benign tumors. Segmenting hepatic tumors from computed tomography scans is considered a challenging task due to the fuzziness in the liver pixel range, intensity values overlap between the liver and neighboring organs, high noise from computed tomography scanner, and large variance in tumors shapes. The proposed method consists of three main stages; liver segmentation using Fast… More >

Anatoliy Zabrovskiy^1,3, Prateek Agrawal^1,2,*, Vladislav Kashansky¹, Roland Kersche⁴, Christian Timmerer^1,4, Radu Prodan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5677-5697, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023630

Abstract HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) of video content is becoming an undivided part of the Internet and accounts for most of today's network traffic. Video compression technology plays a vital role in efficiently utilizing network channels, but encoding videos into multiple representations with selected encoding parameters is a significant challenge. However, video encoding is a computationally intensive and time-consuming operation that requires high-performance resources provided by on-premise infrastructures or public clouds. In turn, the public clouds, such as Amazon elastic compute cloud (EC2), provide hundreds of computing instances optimized for different purposes and clients’ budgets. Thus, there is a need for… More >

Dheeraj Kumar Dixit^*, Amit Bhagat, Dharmendra Dangi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5733-5750, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023628

Abstract In recent years, social media platforms have gained immense popularity. As a result, there has been a tremendous increase in content on social media platforms. This content can be related to an individual's sentiments, thoughts, stories, advertisements, and news, among many other content types. With the recent increase in online content, the importance of identifying fake and real news has increased. Although, there is a lot of work present to detect fake news, a study on Fuzzy CRNN was not explored into this direction. In this work, a system is designed to classify fake and real news using fuzzy logic.… More >

Waleed Rafique¹, Ayesha Khan², Ahmad Almogren³, Jehangir Arshad¹, Adnan Yousaf⁴, Mujtaba Hussain Jaffery¹, Ateeq Ur Rehman⁵, Muhammad Shafiq^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4275-4293, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023588

Abstract An excessive use of non-linear devices in industry results in current harmonics that degrades the power quality with an unfavorable effect on power system performance. In this research, a novel control technique-based Hybrid-Active Power-Filter (HAPF) is implemented for reactive power compensation and harmonic current component for balanced load by improving the Power-Factor (PF) and Total–Hormonic Distortion (THD) and the performance of a system. This work proposed a soft-computing technique based on Particle Swarm-Optimization (PSO) and Adaptive Fuzzy technique to avoid the phase delays caused by conventional control methods. Moreover, the control algorithms are implemented for an instantaneous reactive and active… More >