Background: This problem requires an innovative approach to enhance the efficiency and transparency of faculty self-appraisal in the university settings. Through a robust web-based platform, the system should address the complexities associated with traditional evaluation processes. It should capture and manages intricate details of faculty activit...
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Background: India has a tremendous opportunity to harness the potential of its youth by addressing the skills gap between education and industry requirements. While vocational education programs exist, they are often undervalued compared to traditional academic paths and need enhancement to provide students with the skills demanded by today’s job m...
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Problem Overview Innovation is a key driver of growth and success in educational institutions. Tracking and measuring innovation excellence is essential for fostering a culture of continuous improvement, recognizing achievements, and guiding strategic decisions. However, identifying, quantifying, and presenting innovation indicators can be challeng...
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Background: Disaster response agencies often stuggle to gather timely and specific information about emergencies from various sources. Social media platforms serve as a valuable repository of such data, but manually monitoring and sorting through the vast amount of information is inefficient and resource-intensive.
Description: There is a pressin...
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Technological solution as per queuing models in OPDs/availability of beds/admission of patients would be one area. Study of dispensation of various types of medicines/consumables and Inventory management modules at hospital level are key areas requiring support.
NIC has already developed some modules but their implementation in Delhi is yet to be...
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Suitable technological module for testing and monitoring of quality of medicines and consumables being received in hospitals would be required so that the system ensures necessary compilance and rejection of low quality supplies without manual intervention
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Background: NCIIPC shares detail of cyber incidents to corresponding stakeholders in order to inform them about cyber activities related to their IT/OT infrastructure.
This empowers them to take necessary actions to mitigate further risk. Description: In order to achieve objective of protecting Critical Information Infrastructure (CIIs) of the Na...
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This is a panel paper which discusses the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to address production level problems in semiconductor manufacturing.
We have gathered a group of expert semiconductor researchers and practitioners from around the world who have applied AI techniques to semiconductor problems and the paper provides their a...
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In India, there are continuously more criminal cases filed, which results in an increase in the number of cases still outstanding. These ongoing increases in criminal cases make them challenging to categorise and resolve.
Therefore, it's crucial to identify a location's patterns of criminal activity in order to stop it from happening in order to ...
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In the age of cloud computing, cloud users with limited storage can outsource their data to remote servers. These servers, in lieu of monetary benefits, offer retrievability of their clients’ data at any point of time.
Secure cloud storage protocols enable a client to check integrity of outsourced data. In this article, we explore the possibili...
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In the age of cloud computing, cloud users with limited storage can outsource their data to remote servers. These servers, in lieu of monetary benefits, offer retrievability of their clients’ data at any point of time.
Secure cloud storage protocols enable a client to check integrity of outsourced data. In this article, we explore the possibili...
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Bus Pass Management System it is the web application that will manage all the records of pass which is issue by bus administrative.
Bus Pass Management System which is a automatic system which delivering data processing in a very high speed in the systematic manner. This system helps bus administrative to keep records of bus passes. Before this...
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Cloud computing offers on-demand availability of computing resources over the Internet. To attract users, cloud providers offer their resources as services at reasonable prices and provide various price models to reflect higher level of quality of service (QoS), which are referred as pricing schemes. k-times anonymous authentication (k-TAA) is an a...
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Quantum computing is envisaged as an evolving paradigm for solving computationally complex optimization problems with a large-number factorization and exhaustive search.Recently, there has been a proliferating growth of the size of multi-dimensional datasets, the input-output space dimensionality, and data structures. Hence, the conventional machin...
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Offloading computation-intensive tasks (e.g., blockchain consensus processes and data processing tasks) to the edge/cloud is a promising solution for blockchain-empowered mobile edge computing. However, the traditional offloading approaches (e.g., auction-based and game-theory approaches) fail to adjust the policy according to the changing environ...
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Offloading computation-intensive tasks (e.g., block chain agreement cycles and information handling undertakings) to the edge/cloud is a promising answer for block chain-enabled versatile edge figuring. Nonetheless, the conventional offloading approaches (e.g., sell off based and game-hypothesis draws near) neglect to change the strategy as per the...
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With the emergence of cloud native technology, the network slicing enables automatic service orchestration, flexible network scheduling and scalable network resource allocation, which profoundly affects the traditional security solution. Security is regarded as a technology independent of the cloud native architecture in the initial design, traditi...
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The concept of a Smart City highlights the need to enhance quality, interconnection and performance of various urban services with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Smart City technologies promote cloud-based and Internet of Things (IoT) based services in which real-world user interfaces use smart phones, sensors and RFID...
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Many retail stores, as well as other organizations that employ a multitude of part-time employees, rely on developing schedules frequently, since the availabilities of the employees as well as the needs of the business change often. This process is often performed on a weekly basis, and is complex and time-consuming. The schedule must typically sat...
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This Web Application helps user to register individual home or apartment to assist you in finding the perfect rental home or property. Also we can find your next rental from search view in your targeted area. This website is designed to attend to all our needs from buying property, selling property or renting/leasing of property in India. Here we f...
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This article investigates the basic design principles for a new Wireless Network Operating System (WNOS), a radically different approach to software-defined networking (SDN) for infrastructure-less wireless networks. Departing from well understood approaches inspired by Open Flow, WNOS provides the network designer with an abstraction hiding (i) th...
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We consider the downlink of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular network consisting of multiple cooperative UAVs, whose operations are coordinated by a central ground controller using wireless fronthaul links, to serve multiple ground user equipments (UEs). A problem of jointly designing UAVs’ positions, transmit beamforming, as well ...
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The flexibility offered by reconfigurable wireless networks, provide new opportunities for various applications such as online AR/VR gaming, high-quality video streaming and autonomous vehicles, that desire high-bandwidth, reliable and low-latency communications. These applications come with very stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and ...
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In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) network, where the UAV is responsible for sustaining the network with all devices on the ground. The sustainable charge process operates periodically, i.e., in each working period, the UAV flies from and back to a landing position. The initial remainin...
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In ultra-dense networks, the increasing popularity of computation intensive applications imposes challenges to the resource-constrained smart mobile devices (SMDs), which may be solved by offloading these computation tasks to the nearby mobile edge computing centers. However, when massive SMDs offload computation tasks in a dynamic wireless environ...
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Energy supplies, spectrum resources, and transmission overheads of wireless nodes are the bottlenecks in decentralized networks (e.g., device-to-device communication networks). In this paper, we study the total power minimization problem of secondary users (SUs) for a multiuser simultaneous wireless information and power transfer-based cognitive ad...
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) has recently emerged as a promising technique to provide sustainable energy supply for widely distributed low-power ground devices (GDs) in large-scale wireless networks. Compared with the energy transmitters (ETs) in conventional WPT systems which are deployed at fixed locations, ...
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This article proposes and evaluates a technique to predict the level of interference in wireless networks. We design a recursive predictor that estimates future interference values by filtering measured interference at a given location. The predictor’s parameterization is done offline by translating the autocorrelation of interference into an autor...
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This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for a wireless communication network with distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In this network, multiple RISs are spatially distributed to serve wireless users and the energy efficiency of the network is maximized by dynamically controlling the on-off status of each RIS a...
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Replacing base stations with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to serve the communication of ground users has attracted a lot of attention recently. In this paper, we study the joint resource allocation and UAV trajectory optimization for maximizing the total energy efficiency in UAV-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink wireless netwo...
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This study exploits a quantum neural network (QNN) for resource allocation in wireless communications. A QNN is presented to reduce time complexity while still maintaining performance. Moreover, a reinforcement-learning-inspired QNN (RL-QNN) is presented to improve the performance. Quantum circuit design of the QNN is presented to ensure the practi...
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Intelligent network management for reconfigurable wireless networks such as 5G and beyond applications is crucial for many industrial applications, and has been the subject of ongoing research. This paper proposes an Artificial Intelligence(AI)-Assisted energy-efficient and intelligent routing, based on both energy efficiency prioritization and AI ...
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Age of information (AoI) is a newly proposed metric to quantify the freshness of system status. However, in many cases, the original raw data collected by IoT devices needs to be preprocessed in real-time to extract the hidden effective information, which is usually time consuming. To this end, we promote an edge computing assisted approach and aim...
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Interference management and power transfer can provide a significant improvement over the 5th generation mobile networks (5G) dense Internet of Things (IoT) heterogeneous networks (HetNets). In this paper, we present a novel approach to simultaneously manage inferences at the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL), and to identify opportunities for power tr...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is playing an increasingly vital role in multiple industries and our everyday life. A pressing practical problem of IoT devices (IoT-Ds) is their explosive growth of connectivity which leads to large energy consumption. One of the most promising solutions to achieve a sustainable green IoT network is unmanned aerial veh...
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Deploying a mobile edge computing (MEC) server in the mobile blockchain-enabled Internet of things (IoT) system is a promising approach to improve the system performance, however, it imposes a significant challenge on the trust of the MEC server. To address this problem, we first propose an untrusted MEC proof of work (PoW) scheme in mobile blockch...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) edge network has connected lots of heterogeneous smart devices, thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their groundbreaking emerging applications. Limited computational capacity and energy availability have been major factors hindering the performance of edge user equipment (UE) and IoT devices in IoT edge networ...
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We develop a novel framework for efficiently and effectively discovering crowdsourced services that move in close proximity to a user over a period of time. We introduce a moving crowdsourced service model which is modelled as a moving region. We propose a deep reinforcement learning-based composition approach to select and compose moving IoT servi...
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Cloud computing is becoming an popular model of computing. Due to the increasing complexity of the cloud service requests, it often exploits heterogeneous architecture. Moreover, some service requests (SRs)/tasks exhibit real-time features, which are required to be handled within a specified duration. Along with the stipulated temporal management, ...
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Delivering cloud-like computing facilities at the network edge provides computing services with ultra-low-latency access, yielding highly responsive computing services to application requests. The concept of fog computing has emerged as a computing paradigm that adds layers of computing nodes between the edge and the cloud, also known as cloudlets,...
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As a rising star of social apps, short video apps, e.g., TikTok, have attracted a large number of mobile users by providing fresh and short video contents that highly match their watching preferences. Meanwhile, the booming growth of short video apps imposes new technical challenges on the existing computation and communication infrastructure. Trad...
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In a public blockchain system applying Proof of Work (PoW), the participants need to compete with their computing resources for reward, which is challenging for resource-limited devices. Mobile blockchain is proposed to facilitate the application of blockchain for mobile service, in which the lightweight devices can participate mining by renting re...
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In this paper, we consider an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network that supports two types of devices, namely static devices (SDs) and dynamic devices (DDs), with multiple channels. The notion of power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is applied so that DDs can not only dynamically change channels, but also transmit signals with a high powe...
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In narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), a link adaptation technique can be performed, considering multiple resource unit types, repetition numbers, and modulation-coding schemes, to enhance transmission reliability. Then, a base station should allocate downlink and uplink resources for each device using the link adaptation decision to transmit d...
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Data in modern industrial applications and data science presents multidimensional progressively, the dimension and the structural complexity of these data are becoming extremely high, which renders existing data analysis methods and machine learning algorithms inadequate to the extent. In addition, high-dimensional data in actual scenarios often sh...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has been widely applied to Internet of Thing (IoT) and one of key applications is intelligence data collection from billions of IoT devices. However, many AI based data collection approaches lack security considerations leading to availability restricted. In this paper, an Intelligent Trust Collaboration Netw...
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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique to alleviate the energy limitation of Internet of things (IoT) devices, as it can offload local computing tasks to the edge server through a cellular network. By leveraging extreme value theory (EVT), this work proposes a priority-differentiated offloading strategy that takes into account the str...
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Satisfying the software requirements of emerging service-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications has become challenging for cloud-centric architectures, as applications demand fast response times and availability of computational resources closer to end-users. As such, meeting application demands must occur at runtime, facing uncertainty and in...
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Fog/edge computing has been recently regarded as a promising approach for supporting emerging mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications on capacity and battery constrained devices. By harvesting and collaborating a massive crowd of devices in close proximity for computation, communication and caching resource sharing (i.e., 3C resource...
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Nowadays, IoT systems can better satisfy the service requirements of users with effectively utilizing edge computing resources. Designing an appropriate pricing scheme is critical for users to obtain the optimal computing resources at a reasonable price and for service providers to maximize profits. This problem is complicated with incomplete infor...
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Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) exploits the potential of power domain to enhance the connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT). Due to time-varying communication channels, dynamic user clustering is a promising method to increase the throughput of NOMA-IoT networks. This paper develops an intelligent resource allocation scheme for uplink NOM...
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Performing deep neural network (DNN) inference in real time requires excessive network resources, which poses a great challenge to the resource-limited industrial Internet of things (IIoT) networks. To address the challenge, in this paper, we introduce an end-edge-cloud orchestration architecture, in which the inference task assignment and DNN mode...
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In this paper, we propose and study an energy-efficient trajectory optimization scheme for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In such networks, a single UAV is powered by both solar energy and charging stations (CSs), resulting in sustainable communication services, while avoiding energy outage. In particular,...
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Cloud Data Centers (CDCs) have become a vital computing infrastructure for enterprises. However, CDCs consume substantial energy due to the increased demand for computing power, especially for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Although a great deal of research in green resource allocation algorithms have been proposed to reduce the energy ...
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Data-driven approaches are envisioned to build future Edge-IoT systems that satisfy IoT devices demands for edge resources. However, significant challenges and technical barriers exist which complicate resource management of such systems. IoT devices can demonstrate a wide range of behaviors in the devices resource demand that are extremely difficu...
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Since the advent of network function virtualization (NFV), cloud service providers (CSPs) can implement traditional dedicated network devices as software and flexibly instantiate network functions (NFs) on common off-the-shelf servers. NFV technology enables CSPs to deploy their NFs to a cloud data center in the form of virtual network functions (V...
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Cloud Data Centers (CDCs) have become a vital computing infrastructure for enterprises. However, CDCs consume substantial energy due to the increased demand for computing power, especially for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Although a great deal of research in green resource allocation algorithms have been proposed to reduce the energy ...
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Cloud data centers provide services for an increasing number of applications. The virtual machines (VMs) that perform the corresponding application tasks need to be allocated to physical machines (PMs). For VM allocation, cloud service centers consider both energy consumption and quality of service (QoS), while cloud users are primarily concerned w...
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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging architecture for accommodating latency sensitive virtualized services (VSs). Many of these VSs are expected to be safety critical, and will have some form of reliability requirements. In order to support provisioning reliability to such VSs in MEC in an efficient and confidentiality preserving manner, in t...
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Edge computing has emerged as a new paradigm to bring cloud applications closer to users for increased performance. Unlike back-end cloud systems which consolidate their resources in a centralized data center location with virtually unlimited capacity, edge-clouds comprise distributed resources at various computation spots, each with very limited c...
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With the emergence of cloud native technology, the network slicing enables automatic service orchestration, flexible network scheduling and scalable network resource allocation, which profoundly affects the traditional security solution. Security is regarded as a technology independent of the cloud native architecture in the initial design, traditi...
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Mobile edge computing enables resource-limited edge clouds (ECs) in federation to help each other with resource-hungry yet delay-sensitive service requests. Contrary to common practice, we acknowledge that mobile services are heterogeneous and the limited storage resources of ECs allow only a subset of services to be placed at the same time. This p...
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The rapid growth of mobile device (e.g., smart phone and bracelet) has spawned a lot of new applications, during which the requirements of applications are increasing, while the capacities of some mobile devices are still limited. Such contradiction drives the emergency of computation migration among mobile edge devices, which is a lack of research...
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Nowadays, IoT systems can better satisfy the service requirements of users with effectively utilizing edge computing resources. Designing an appropriate pricing scheme is critical for users to obtain the optimal computing resources at a reasonable price and for service providers to maximize profits. This problem is complicated with incomplete infor...
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This paper proposes a backup resource allocation model that provides a probabilistic protection for primary physical machines in a cloud provider to minimize the required total capacity. When any random failure occurs, workloads are transferred to preplanned and dedicated backup physical machines for prompt recovery. In the proposed model, a probab...
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IaaS from the public cloud is becoming a new option for organizations in need of HPC capabilities. IaaS offers greater flexibility in hardware choices and operational costs. Furthermore, IaaS enables small organizations to access resources previously reserved for organizations with larger capitals. This study uses the HPCG benchmark to assess the p...
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We study federated learning (FL) at the wireless edge, where power-limited devices with local datasets collaboratively train a joint model with the help of a remote parameter server (PS). We assume that the devices are connected to the PS through a bandwidth-limited shared wireless channel. At each iteration of FL, a subset of the devices are sched...
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This correspondence studies resource allocation for a wireless-powered relay network, where a hybrid relay with constant energy supply assists an energy-constrained source to send confidential information to a destination in the presence of an eavesdropper. We propose a novel transmission protocol termed charge-then-cooperate to support secure comm...
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The multi-hop protocols are proved effective in the railway disaster wireless monitoring system. However, farther transmission distance with the larger data will decline the valid lifetime and reliability of the system. Most existing studies focused primarily on the communication protocols optimization, and some works tried to utilize the limited c...
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Wireless virtualization has emerged as one of the efficient ways to overcome numerous wireless networking challenges such as RF resource sharing. RF spectrum sharing in wireless networks focuses on increasing the usage efficiency of radio frequency (RF) spectrum with its increasing demand. To reduce uncertainties that accompany the spectrum sharing...
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In this paper, a video service enhancement strategy is investigated under an edge-cloud collaboration framework, where video caching and delivery decisions are made in the cloud and edge respectively. We aim to guarantee the user fairness in terms of video coding rate under statistical delay constraint and edge caching capacity constraint. A hy...
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Mobile cloud and edge computing protocols make it possible to offer computationally heavy applications to mobile devices via computational offloading from devices to nearby edge servers or more powerful, but remote, cloud servers. Previous work assumed that computational tasks can be fractionally offloaded at both cloud processor (CP) and at a l...
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The supply-demand matching (SDM) strategy is an important part of the transaction mechanism design of cloud manufacturing (CMfg) platforms, which has a significant impact on the evolution trend of cloud manufacturing ecosystems (CMEs). To help CMfg platform operators choose the appropriate SDM strategy, first, the evolution process of the CME was q...
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Computation partitioning is an important technique to improve the application performance by selectively offloading some computations from the mobile devices to the nearby edge cloud. In a dynamic environment in which the network bandwidth to the edge cloud may change frequently, the partitioning of the computation needs to be updated according...
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Vehicular cloud computing has emerged as a promising solution to fulfill users’ demands on processing computation-intensive applications in modern driving environments. Such applications are commonly represented by graphs consisting of components and edges. However, encouraging vehicles to share resources poses significant challenges owing to users...
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The current global pandemic crisis has unquestionably disrupted the higher education sector, forcing educational institutions to rapidly embrace technology-enhanced learning. However, the COVID-19 containment measures that forced people to work or stay at home, have determined a significant increase in the Internet traffic that puts tremendous pres...
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Appropriate allocation of system resources is essential for meeting the increased user-traffic demands in the next generation wireless technologies.Traditionally, the system relies on channel state information (CSI) of the users for optimizing the resource allocation, which becomes costly for fast-varying channel conditions.Considering that future ...
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Online process mining refers to a class of techniques for analyzing in real-time event streams generated by the execution of business processes. These techniques are crucial in the reactive monitoring of business processes, timely resource allocation and detection/prevention of dysfunctional behavior. This paper fills the gap by identifying a set o...
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Fairness and efficiency are two important metrics for users in modern data center computing system. Due to the heterogeneous resource demands of CPU, memory, and network I/O for users’ tasks, it cannot achieve the strict100%fairness and the maximum efficiency at the same time. Existing fairness-efficiency schedulers (e.g., Tetris) can balance such ...
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Fog computing as an extension of the cloud based infrastructure, provides a better computing platform than cloud computing for mobile computing, Internet of Things, etc. One of the problems is how to make full use of the resources of the fog so that more requests of applications can be executed on the edge, reducing the pressure on the network and ...
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Cloud firewalls stand as one of the major building blocks of the cloud security framework protecting the Virtual Private Infrastructure against attacks such as the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). In order to fully characterize the cloud firewall operation and gain actionable insights on the design of cloud security, performance models for the...
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Cloud computing (CC) is a centralized computing paradigm that accumulates resources centrally and provides these resources to users through Internet. Although CC holds a large number of resources, it may not be acceptable by real-time mobile applications, as it is usually far away from users geographically. On the other hand, edge computing (EC), w...
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Containers are lightweight and provide the potential to reduce more energy consumption of data centers than Virtual Machines (VMs) in container-based clouds. The on-line resource allocation is the most common operation in clouds. However, the on-line Resource Allocation in Container-based clouds (RAC) is new and challenging because of its two-level...
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