Future Internet, Volume 14, Issue 5

Generalized spatial modulation (GSM) technology is an extension of spatial modulation (SM) technology, and one of its main advantages is to further improve band efficiency. However, the multiple active antennas for transmission also brings the demodu...

Security is a challenging issue for M2M/IoT applications due to the deployment, decentralization and heterogeneity of M2M and IoT devices. Typical security solutions may not be suitable for M2M/IoT systems regarding the difficulties encountered for t...

The domain of information-centric networking (ICN) is expanding as more devices are becoming a part of connected technologies. New methods for serving content from a producer to a consumer are being explored, and Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of...

The digital transformation is exciting the uptake of Internet-of-Things technologies, and raises the questions surrounding our knowledge of the positions of many of these things. A review of indoor localization technologies summarized in this paper s...

Blockchain is believed to have the potential to digitally transform and disrupt industry sectors such as finance, supply chain, healthcare, marketing, and entertainment [...]

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are characterized by highly dynamic phenomena and volatility. These features have a significant impact on network performance and should be present in the scenarios of experiments for the assessment of MANET-related te...

In today’s healthcare setting, the accurate and timely diagnosis of breast cancer is critical for recovery and treatment in the early stages. In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has experienced a transformation that allows the analysi...

In QoE fairness optimization of multiple video streams, a distributed video stream fairness scheduling strategy based on federated deep reinforcement learning is designed to address the problem of low bandwidth utilization due to unfair bandwidth all...

Adaptive streaming has become a key technology for various multimedia services, such as online learning, mobile streaming, Internet TV, etc. However, because of throughput fluctuations, video quality may be dramatically varying during a streaming ses...

The adoption of remote assisted care was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This type of system acquires data from various sensors, runs analytics to understand people’s activities, behavior, and living problems, and disseminates information...

Within a supply chain organisation, where millions of messages are processed, reliability and performance of message throughput are important. Problems can occur with the ingestion of messages; if they arrive more quickly than they can be processed,...

Driver acceptance studies are vital from the manufacturer’s perspective as well as the driver’s perspective. Most empirical investigations are limited to populations in the United States and Europe. Asian communities, particularly in Sout...

The proliferation of online news, especially during the “infodemic” that emerged along with the COVID-19 pandemic, has rapidly increased the risk of and, more importantly, the volume of online misinformation. Online Social Networks (OSNs)...

From self-driving cars to detecting cancer, the applications of modern artificial intelligence (AI) rely primarily on deep neural networks (DNNs). Given raw sensory data, DNNs are able to extract high-level features after the network has been trained...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are networks of small devices with limited resources which are able to collect different information for a variety of purposes. Energy and security play a key role in these networks and MAC aspects are fundamental in t...

The World Wide Web is evolving rapidly, and the Internet is now accessible to millions of users, providing them with the means to access a wealth of information, entertainment and e-commerce opportunities. Web browsing is largely impersonal and anony...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has had a tremendous impact on the evolution and adoption of information and communication technology. In the modern world, data are generated by individuals and collected automatically by physical objects that are fitted...

Users of web or chat social networks typically use emojis (e.g., smilies, memes, hearts) to convey in their textual interactions the emotions underlying the context of the communication, aiming for better interpretability, especially for short polyse...

Microblogs are one of the major social networks in people’s daily life. The increasing amount of timely microblog data brings new opportunities for enterprises to predict short-term product sales based on microblogs because the daily microblogs...

Digital communication over power lines is an active field of research and most studies in this field focus on low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power systems. Nevertheless, as power companies are starting to provide communication services and...

This work presents a Self Sovereign Identity based system proposal to show how Blockchain, Building Information Modeling, Internet of Thing devices, and Self Sovereign Identity concepts can support the process of building digitalization, guaranteeing...

Distributed machine learning paradigms have benefited from the concurrent advancement of deep learning and the Internet of Things (IoT), among which federated learning is one of the most promising frameworks, where a central server collaborates with...

Complex systems are often designed in a decentralized and open way so that they can operate on heterogeneous entities that communicate with each other. Numerous studies consider the process of components simulation in a complex system as a proven app...

Energy management in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is becoming more prevalent as the usage of distributed Electric Vehicles (EV) grows. As a result, Demand Response (DR) management has been introduced to achieve efficient energy management in IoV. T...

As an emerging paradigm of service infrastructure, social internet of things (SIoT) applies the social networking aspects to the internet of things (IoT). Each object in SIoT can establish the social relationship without human intervention, which wil...

Artificial intelligence models are increasingly used in manufacturing to inform decision making. Responsible decision making requires accurate forecasts and an understanding of the models’ behavior. Furthermore, the insights into the models&rsq...

The multi-agent environment is now widely recognised as a key design abstraction for constructing multi-agent systems, equally important as the agents. An explicitly designed environment may have several roles, such as the inter-mediation between age...

Do employees with high ethical and moral values perform better? Comparing personality characteristics, moral values, and risk-taking behavior with individual and team performance has long been researched. Until now, these determinants of individual p...

SNS24, the Portuguese National Health Contact Center, is a telephone and digital public service that provides clinical services. SNS24 plays an important role in the identification of users’ clinical situations according to their symptoms. Curr...

Dynamic resource provisioning is made more accessible with cloud computing. Monitoring a running service is critical, and modifications are performed when specific criteria are exceeded. It is a standard practice to add or delete resources in such si...

Knowledge graphs have, for the past decade, been a hot topic both in public and private domains, typically used for large-scale integration and analysis of data using graph-based data models. One of the central concepts in this area is the Semantic W...

Virtual power plants (VPPs) are promising solutions to address the decarbonization and energy efficiency goals in the smart energy grid. They assume the coordination of local energy resources such as energy generation, storage, and consumption. They...

The aim of this paper is to examine and analyze how actors in an open data ecosystem collaborate, as well as their activities, to generate value. Thirteen interviews were conducted with actors in the open data network. The information gathered was us...

The emergence of digital technologies has profoundly affected and transformed almost every aspect of societal relations. These impacts have also reached public administration, including its governance. Digital technologies’ rise has paved the w...

With the fast development of Fifth-/Sixth-Generation (5G/6G) communications and the Internet of Video Things (IoVT), a broad range of mega-scale data applications emerge (e.g., all-weather all-time video). These network-based applications highly depe...

To help developers discover libraries suited to their software projects, automated approaches often start from already employed libraries and recommend more based on co-occurrence patterns in other projects. The most accurate project–library re...

Traditional social network analysis can be generalized to model some networked systems by multilayer structures where the individual nodes develop relationships in multiple layers. A multilayer network is called multiplex if each layer shares at leas...

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a new type of P2P file system, enables people to obtain data from other peer nodes in a distributed system without the need to establish a connection with a distant server. However, IPFS suffers from low resolut...