Future Internet, Volume 16, Issue 10

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Distributed Computing Systems (DCS) is transforming business models across industries. IoT devices allow immediate monitoring of equipment and processes, mitigating lost time and enhancing efficienc...

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This study highlights the necessity for efficient database management in continuous authentication systems, which rely on large-scale behavioral biometric data such as keystroke patterns. A benchmarking framework was developed to evaluate the Postgre...

The security of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is of the utmost importance because of their widespread use in various applications. Protecting WSNs from harmful activity is a vital function of intrusion detection systems (IDSs). An innovative approa...

Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology offers efficient connectivity for numerous end devices over a wide coverage area in the Internet of Things (IoT) network, enabling the exchange of data over the Internet between even the most minor In...

The metaverse concept has been evolving from static, pre-rendered virtual environments to a new frontier: the real-time metaverse. This survey paper explores the emerging field of real-time metaverse technologies, which enable the continuous integrat...

This study explores the applications and implications of blockchain technology in the Australian higher education system, focusing on its integration with artificial intelligence (AI). By addressing critical challenges in credential verification, adm...

Traffic lights play an important role in efficient traffic management, especially in crowded cities. Optimizing traffic helps to reduce crowding, save time, and ensure the smooth flow of traffic. Metaheuristic algorithms have a proven ability to opti...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize various sectors and industries worldwide. Despite its global significance, the adoption and implementation of IoT technologies in emerging tec...

Due to the existence of low-textured areas in indoor scenes, some self-supervised depth estimation methods have specifically designed sparse photometric consistency losses and geometry-based losses. However, some of the loss terms cannot supervise al...

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative paradigm in machine learning, enabling decentralized model training across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. However, the decentralized nature of FL introduces significant security...

Federated learning offers a framework for developing local models across institutions while safeguarding sensitive data. This paper introduces a novel approach for heart disease prediction using the TabNet model, which combines the strengths of tree-...

Smart environments exploit rising technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and edge intelligence (EI) to achieve unseen effectiveness and efficiency in every tasks, including air sanitization. The latter represents a key preventative measure–...

Ensuring road safety is heavily reliant on the effective maintenance of vehicles. Accurate predictions of maintenance requirements can substantially reduce ownership costs for vehicle owners. Consequently, this field has attracted increasing attentio...

Federated learning enables model training on multiple clients locally, without the need to transfer their data to a central server, thus ensuring data privacy. In this paper, we investigate the impact of Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (n...

Malware remains a major threat to computer systems, with a vast number of new samples being identified and documented regularly. Windows systems are particularly vulnerable to malicious programs like viruses, worms, and trojans. Dynamic analysis, whi...

The emergence of smart technologies and the wide adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) have revolutionized various sectors, yet they have also introduced significant security challenges due to the extensive attack surface they present. In recent y...

An online social media platform such as Instagram has become a popular communication channel that millions of people are using today. However, this media also becomes an avenue where fake accounts are used to inflate the number of followers on a targ...

The article proposes a new model for defining and implementing performance tests used in the process of designing and operating IT systems. By defining the objectives, types, topological patterns, and methods of implementation, a coherent description...

The evolution of network technologies has significantly transformed global communication, information sharing, and connectivity. Traditional networks, relying on static configurations and manual interventions, face substantial challenges such as comp...

Online social networks (OSNs) are inundated with an enormous daily influx of news shared by users worldwide. Information can originate from any OSN user and quickly spread, making the task of fact-checking news both time-consuming and resource-intens...

Behind everyday websites, a hidden shadow world tracks the behavior of Internet users. Web tracking analyzes online activity based on collected data and delivers content tailored to users’ interests. It gathers vast amounts of information for v...

The rapid urbanization trend underscores the need for effective management of city resources and services, making the concept of smart cities increasingly important. This study leverages the IMD Smart City Index (SCI) dataset to analyze and rank smar...

This article explores how decentralized Web3 is reshaping Internet governance by enabling the emergence of new forms of nation-statehood and redefining traditional concepts of state sovereignty. Based on fieldwork conducted in Silicon Valley since Au...

In this study, improvements are made to Inter-SubNet, a state-of-the-art speech enhancement method. Inter-SubNet is a single-channel speech enhancement framework that enhances the sub-band spectral model by integrating global spectral information, su...

The advent of 5G heralds unprecedented connectivity with high throughput and low latency for network users. Software-defined networking (SDN) plays a significant role in fulfilling these requirements. However, it poses substantial security challenges...

In modern Internet-based communication, especially mobile systems, a mobile node (MN) will commonly have more than one possibility for Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. For example, an MN such as a smartphone may be associated with an IEEE 802.11...

In today’s advanced network and digital age, the Internet of Things network is experiencing a significant growing trend and, due to its wide range of services and network coverage, has been able to take a special place in today’s technolo...

This article presents a Blockchain-based solution for the management of multipolicies in insurance companies, introducing a standardized policy model to facilitate streamlined operations and enhance collaboration between entities. The model ensures u...

Load balancing between required power demand and the available generation capacity is the main task of demand response for a smart grid. Matching between the objectives of users and utilities is the main gap that should be addressed in the demand res...

Generative AI has drawn significant attention from stakeholders in higher education. As it introduces new opportunities for personalized learning and tutoring support, it simultaneously poses challenges to academic integrity and leads to ethical issu...

This paper presents a comprehensive literature review, focusing on the emerging intersection of chatbot technology and the generation of process models. As an evolving field of study, the integration of interactive chatbots into process model generat...

The rise of social media has transformed the landscape of news dissemination, presenting new challenges in combating the spread of fake news. This study addresses the automated detection of misinformation within written content, a task that has promp...

Survey data play a crucial role in various research fields, including economics, education, and healthcare, by providing insights into human behavior and opinions. However, item non-response, where respondents fail to answer specific questions, prese...

As the digital paradigm stimulates changes in various areas, seaports, which are fundamental to logistics and the global supply chain, are also undergoing a digital revolution, evolving into smart ports. Smart gates are essential components in this t...

In a context-aware Internet of Things (IoT) environment, the functional contexts of devices and users will change over time depending on their service consumption. Each iteration of an IoT middleware algorithm will also encounter changes occurring in...

While driving, stress and frustration can affect safe driving and pose the risk of causing traffic accidents. Therefore, it is important to control the driver’s anxiety level in order to improve the driving experience. In this paper, we propose...