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Power Line Monitoring-Based Consensus Algorithm for Performance Enhancement of Energy Blockchain Applications in Smart Grid 2.0

  • January 31, 2025
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Energy blockchain applications are becoming inevitable with the transformation of electricity distributionnetworks into the decentralized Smart Grid 2.0 architecture. The scalability of the blockchain platform plays a key role in catering to the increasing number of nodes connected due to consumerturned-prosumers being integrated into the distribution grid in a distributed manner. Hence, this study aims […]

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A Novel Authentication Protocol for 5G gNodeBs in Service Migration Scenarios of MEC

Edge computing paradigms were an expedient innovation for elevating the contemporary standards of mobile and Internet networks. As specified in Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) standardization, edge computing serviceable infrastructures are running on virtualization technologies to provide dynamic and flexible service instances. Since the inception and operation of the services are executing at the edge level […]

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Utilization of a blockchainized reputation management service for performance enhancement of Smart Grid 2.0 applications

  • February 6, 2024
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Blockchain has become the technology enabler in delivering modern Smart Grid 2.0 functionalities. Many services including Peer-to-Peer energy trading, distribution network management, financial settlements, and energy data management are catered through blockchain-enabled platforms. However, areas such as service quality-based pricing strategies, supply-demand balancing in distribution system to attain enhanced reliability and consumption-oriented rewarding mechanisms need […]

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Rec-Def: A Recommendation-based Defence Mechanism for Privacy Preservation in Federated Learning Systems

  • November 19, 2023
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An emergence of attention and regulations on consumer privacy can be observed over the recent years with the ubiquitous availability of IoT systems handling personal data. Federated Learning (FL) arises as a privacy-preserved Machine Learning (ML) technique where data can be kept private within these devices without transmitting to third parties. Yet, many privacy attacks […]

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The Role of Security Orchestrator in Network Slicing for Future Networks

  • November 17, 2023
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The traditional paradigm of connecting mobile devices over the telecommunication networks for voice communication has evolved to a myriad of novel applications with heterogeneous network requirements. The conventional telecom-munication networks require a radical change to support these applications. Network Slicing (NS) is one of the utilitarian technologies in future telecommunication networks to address this challenge […]

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A Novel Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) Platformfor Local 5G Operators

  • February 1, 2023
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5G is a promising technology that has the potentialto support verticals and applications such as Industrial Internetof Things IoT (IIoT), smart cities, autonomous vehicles, remotesurgeries, virtual and augmented realities, and so on. Theseverticals have a diverse set of network connectivity requirements,and it is challenging to deliver customized services for eachby using a common 5G infrastructure. […]

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Proof-of-Monitoring (PoM): A Novel ConsensusMechanism for Blockchain-based Secure ServiceLevel Agreement Management

  • February 1, 2023
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AIn the current 5th Generation (5G) networkingparadigm, the enforcement of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)is a non-trivial measure to ensure the scope and the qual-ity of services and standards between tenants and serviceproviders (SPs). On top of this, Secure Service Level Agree-ments (SSLA) are introduced to ensure that SPs deliver themost critical and required security-related standards […]

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Need of 6G for the Metaverse Realization

  • December 1, 2022
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The concept of the Metaverse aims to bring a fully-fledged extended reality environment to provide next generation applications and services. Development of the Metaverse is backed by many technologies, including, 5G, artificial intelligence, edge computing and extended reality. The advent of 6G is envisaged to mark a significant milestone in the development of the Metaverse, […]

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DROAD: Demand-aware reconfigurable optically-switched agile data center network

  • September 20, 2022
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We present a Demand-aware Reconfigurable Data Center Network architecture design (DROAD) with integrated fast-switching optics and space switches that allows dynamic reconfiguration and separation of intra- and inter-cluster connections. The performance analysis results show a 64% improvement in average Flow Completion Time and a significant reduction in TCP session time, as well as a reduced […]

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