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The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges

  • June 1, 2021
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COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive impact on healthcare, social life, and economies on a global scale. Apparently, technology has a vital role to enable ubiquitous and accessible digital health services in pandemic conditions as well as against “re-emergence” of COVID-19 disease in a post-pandemic era. Accordingly, 5G systems and 5G-enabled e-health solutions are paramount. This […]

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Survey on blockchain-based smart contracts: Technical aspects and future research

  • March 1, 2021
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The industrial and computing research context revolutionized in various directions during the last decades. The blockchain-based smart contract embraced as a significant research interest due to its distinguishing features such as decentralized storage of transactions, autonomous execution of contract codes, and decentralized establishment of the trust. Blockchain-based smart contracts can transform the working architecture of […]

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Survey on Multi-Access Edge Computing Security and Privacy

  • February 26, 2021
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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has introduced the paradigm of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to enable efficient and fast data processing in mobile networks. Among other technological requirements, security and privacy are significant factors in the realization of MECdeployments. In this paper, we analyse the security and privacy of the MEC system. We introduce […]

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A survey on mobile augmented reality with 5G mobile edge computing: architectures, applications, and technical aspects

  • February 25, 2021
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The Augmented Reality (AR) technology enhances the human perception of the world by combining the real environment with the virtual space. With the explosive growth of powerful, less expensive mobile devices, and the emergence of sophisticated communication infrastructure, Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) applications are gaining increased popularity. MAR allows users to run AR applications on […]

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Secure and user efficient eap-based authentication protocol for ieee 802.11 wireless lans

  • December 10, 2020
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Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have experienced significant growth in the last two decades due to the extensive use of wireless devices. Security (especially authentication) is a staple concern as the wireless medium is accessible to everybody. Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is thewidely used authentication framework in WLANs to secure communication. The authentication mechanism designed […]

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Performance analysis of local 5G operator architectures for industrial internet

  • October 18, 2020
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5G calls for a network architecture that ensures ultraresponsive and ultrareliable communication links, in addition to the high degree of flexibility and customization required by different vertical sectors. The novel concept called local 5G networks enables a versatile set of stakeholders to operate 5G networks within their premises with guaranteed quality and reliability to complement […]

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Novel MEC Based Approaches for Smart Hospitals to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic

Novel MEC-based Approaches for Smart Hospitals to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic

  • October 15, 2020
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COVID-19 or Coronavirus has thrilled the entire world population with uncertainty over their survival and well-being. The impact this pathogen has caused over the globe has been profound due to its unique transmission features; that urges for contact-less strategies to interact and treat the infected. The impending 5G mobile technology is immersing the applications that […]

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Local 5g operator architecture for delay critical telehealth applications

  • September 10, 2020
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Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are widely adopted in the Network softwarization enables the novel concept of Local 5G Operator (L5GO) networks, for deploying localized 5G solutions to serve case and location specific communication needs. This paper proposes a L5GO network architecture for delay critical future telehealth services, considering two use cases […]

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Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges

  • September 1, 2020
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Blockchain is one of the disruptive technical innovation in the recent computing paradigm. Many applications already notoriously hard and complex are fortunate to ameliorate the service with the blessings of blockchain and smart contracts. The decentralized and autonomous execution with in-built transparency of blockchain based smart contracts revolutionize most of the applications with optimum and effective functionality. […]

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