Computer Networks, Volume 201

Volume 201, December 2021

Research Article

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  Qian Mao, Lin Zhang, Fei Hu, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Sunil Kumar:
  Deep Learning (DL)-based adaptive transport layer control in UAV Swarm Networks. 108511

Special section on Recent Advances in Connected and Autonomous Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles

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  Rubina Akter, Van-Sang Doan, Jae-Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim:
  CNN-SSDI: Convolution neural network inspired surveillance system for UAVs detection and identification. 108519

Special section on Network Traffic Analytics in the Era of AI and SDN

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  Yuyu Zhao, Guang Cheng, Yu Duan, Zhouchao Gu, Yuyang Zhou, Lu Tang:
  Secure IoT edge: Threat situation awareness based on network traffic. 108525
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  Baolin Ma, Chao Yang, Mingzhe Chen, Jianfeng Ma:
  GramMatch: An automatic protocol feature extraction and identification system. 108528

Survey Article

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  Chuan Yu, Shuhui Chen, Fei Wang, Ziling Wei:
  Improving 4G/5G air interface security: A survey of existing attacks on different LTE layers. 108532

Research Article

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  Zhishuo Zhang, Shijie Zhou:
  A decentralized strongly secure attribute-based encryption and authentication scheme for distributed Internet of Mobile Things. 108553
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  Massimo Candela, Valerio Luconi, Alessio Vecchio:
  A worldwide study on the geographic locality of Internet routes. 108555
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  Noelia Pérez Palma, Falko Dressler, Vincenzo Mancuso:
  Precise: Predictive Content Dissemination Scheme exploiting realistic mobility patterns. 108556
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  Roberto Torre Arranz, Muhammad Tayyab, Georgios P. Koudouridis, Xavier Gelabert, Riccardo Bassoli, Frank H. P. Fitzek:
  Power efficient mobile small cell placement for network-coded cooperation in UDNs. 108559
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  Fatemeh Davami, Sahar Adabi, Ali Rezaee, Amir Masoud Rahmani:
  Distributed scheduling method for multiple workflows with parallelism prediction and DAG prioritizing for time constrained cloud applications. 108560

Review Article

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  Lu Jie, Hongchang Chen, Penghao Sun, Tao Hu, Zhen Zhang:
  OrderSketch: An Unbiased and Fast Sketch for Frequency Estimation of Data Streams. 108563

Research Article

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  Syed Muhammad Atif, Nicolas Gillis, Sameer Qazi, Imran Naseem:
  Structured nonnegative matrix factorization for traffic flow estimation of large cloud networks. 108564
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  Bin Wang, Fagui Liu, Weiwei Lin, Zhenjiang Ma, Dishi Xu:
  Energy-efficient collaborative optimization for VM scheduling in cloud computing. 108565

Survey Article

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  Fatima Salahdine, Johnson Opadere, Qiang Liu, Tao Han, Ning Zhang, Shaohua Wu:
  A survey on sleep mode techniques for ultra-dense networks in 5G and beyond. 108567
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  Babak Farhadi, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Parvaneh Asghari, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh:
  Friendship selection and management in social internet of things: A systematic review. 108568

Research Article

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  Michele Garetto, Emilio Leonardi, Giovanni Neglia:
  Content placement in networks of similarity caches. 108570

Special section on Network Traffic Analytics in the Era of AI and SDN

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  Bing Qian, Shun Lu:
  Detection of mobile network abnormality using deep learning models on massive network measurement data. 108571

Research Article

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  Shuang Liang, Zhiyi Fang, Geng Sun, Chi Lin, Jiahui Li, Songyang Li, Aimin Wang:
  Charging UAV deployment for improving charging performance of wireless rechargeable sensor networks via joint optimization approach. 108573
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  An Braeken:
  Device-to-device group authentication compatible with 5G AKA protocol. 108575
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  Ye Yang, Haiyang Jiang, Guangxing Zhang, Xin Wang, Yilong Lv, Xing Li, Serge Fdida, Gaogang Xie:
  S2H: Hypervisor as a setter within Virtualized Network I/O for VM isolation on cloud platform. 108577
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  T. Tolga Sari, Gökhan Seçinti:
  Chain RTS/CTS scheme with Opportunistic Channel Allocation. 108581

Survey Article

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  Khaled Abid, Hicham Lakhlef, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah:
  A survey on recent contention-free MAC protocols for static and mobile wireless decentralized networks in IoT. 108583

Research Article

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  Abhishek Sharma, Amik Garg, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Vibhav Kumar Sachan, Parvin Kumar:
  Performance optimization for UWB communication network under IEEE 802.15.4a channel conditions. 108585

Special section on Network Traffic Analytics in the Era of AI and SDN

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  Qiuning Ren, Chao Yang, Jianfeng Ma:
  App identification based on encrypted multi-smartphone sources traffic fingerprints. 108590

Research Article

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  Raniyah Wazirali, Rami Ahmad, Ashraf Abdel-Karim Helal Abu-Ein:
  Sustaining accurate detection of phishing URLs using SDN and feature selection approaches. 108591

Special section on Blockchain Consensus Protocols

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  Yuan Liu, Yixiao Lan, Boyang Li, Chunyan Miao, Zhihong Tian:
  Proof of Learning (PoLe): Empowering neural network training with consensus building on blockchains. 108594

Research Article

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  Sanjeev Kumar, B. Janet:
  Distinguishing malicious programs based on visualization and hybrid learning algorithms. 108595
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  Swapnil Sadashiv Shinde, Dania Marabissi, Daniele Tarchi:
  A network operator-biased approach for multi-service network function placement in a 5G network slicing architecture. 108598
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  Luciano Miuccio, Daniela Panno, Salvatore Riolo:
  A DNN-based estimate of the PRACH traffic load for massive IoT scenarios in 5G networks and beyond. 108608
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  Carlo Kleber da Silva Rodrigues:
  Analyzing Blockchain integrated architectures for effective handling of IoT-ecosystem transactions. 108610
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  Laurens D'hooge, Miel Verkerken, Tim Wauters, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck:
  Hierarchical feature block ranking for data-efficient intrusion detection modeling. 108613