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Low-power wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) have great impact for the real-time applications in future 5th generation (5G) mobile networks due to the wireless-powered communication technologies. The Age of Information (AoI) plays a crucial performance metric in an IoT-enabled real-time smart warehouse application, where the freshness of the aggregated data is very important. However, wireless medium communication among the beacon nodes and the user equipments (tracking nodes) gives an opportunity to an adversary not only to eavesdrop the data but also to corrupt the data by means of deleting, modifying or inserting malicious information during communication among the entities involved in the smart warehouse environment. To mitigate these issues, we design a security scheme for AoI-enabled 5G smart ware- house through an access control mechanism, where the secure communication among the beacon nodes and the tracking nodes will take place by mutual device authentication and key agree- ment process. The fresh data collected at the enterprise cloud is then used for big data analytics for better predictions and anal- ysis, such as optimal device scheduling so that the data becomes very fresh. The rigorous security analysis and comparative study show that the proposed mechanism has significantly better secu- rity and comparable communication and computational costs as compared to the relevant schemes. In addition, through the real- time testbed experiments, we show that the proposed scheme is practical in 5G smart warehouse context. Index Terms—Access control and key agreement (ACKA), Age of Information (AoI), bi

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Emerging 5G/6G communication and next-generation Internet (NGI) technologies demand proper administration and control of an ultra large-scale dynamic network to provide high-speed ubiquitous networked-resource accessing while assisting higher channel bandwidth. The conventional static network infrastructure-based solutions provide only manual supervision and third-party provisioning of the networked assets. In addition, such settings mostly forefront to unsuitable resource usage, and sometimes lead to several security and privacy concerns. The de facto Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has come up with several new promises to solve such limitations. Since its inception, SDN decouples the traditional data layer from the control plane of a third-party network equipment, which is claimed to be ensured higher security, dynamicity, scalability, efficiency, and faster reconfiguration capability of a ultra large-scale dynamic network as compared with the conventional network. However, a thorough inspection of the literature presently shows that most of the vulnerabilities are originated from the two specific layers, namely, control and data plane of the underlying SDN framework. Also, due to the absence of proper authentication and access control mechanisms ensuring inevitable protection of the SDN controller node and the network assets is a very challenging task. Though secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS)-based solutions are predominantly advocated in this domain to assist security in SDN framework but such mechanisms are also vulnerable to spoofing, sniffing, eavesdropping, replay, man-in-the-middle, privileged-insider, denial-of-service, distributed-denial-of-service, impersonation attacks. Therefore, this work qualitatively countermeasures all the recently attended (or unattended) state-of-the-art security and privacy concerns related to the recently reported access control, authentication, key management, secure data aggregation, privacy-aware secure auditing, and layer-wise functional inconvenience policies with respect to each and every layers of SDN platform. This study hence will be helpful to the academicians and researchers for the future development of new policies and protocols in the SDN platform.

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The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a kind of communication environment, which deals with communication that occurs through the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled smart medical (healthcare) devices. The potential security threats of IoMT affect the confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability of its data and the associated resources. In this review article, we explain various architectures of IoMT communication along with their applications. We highlight the security requirements of IoMT communication environment along with some potential security attacks and threats of IoMT. Furthermore, the network model and adversary model of IoMT communication are provided. A taxonomy of security protocols of IoMT communication environment is additionally added, which contains various security protocols, such as key management, user/device authentication, access control and intrusion detection protocols. Moreover, we provide a detailed comprehensive comparative analysis of several security protocols with respect to various parameters, like computation cost, communication cost, security features and functionality features, accuracy and F1-score. Additionally, we also provide some future research directions.

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With the emergence of the concept of smart city and the increasing demands for a range of drones, Internet of Drones (IoD) has achieved a variety of attention by providing multiple benefits in academia and industry. IoD offers numerous services, such as traffic monitoring, environmental monitoring, and disas- ter management by combining infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), and Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANET) in smart city envi- ronments. However, communication among drones is vulnerable to potential security threats because the sensitive messages in various applications are exchanged via an insecure channel in IoD-based smart city environments. Since IoDs can be operated in unat- tended environment with minimum human interventions, smart devices (e.g., drones and sensors) deployed in IoD architectures are vulnerable to physical capture attacks. In addition, drones are resource-constrained in terms of computation and communication overheads, and it is not much viable to apply public key cryptog- raphy (PKC) that requires high computation and communication overheads. Thus, we design a secure and lightweight authentication protocol using a physical unclonable function (PUF) for IoD to guarantee reliable and useful services in smart city environments, called SLAP-IoD. We prove the security of the SLAP-IoD using informal and formal security analyses using the broadly recog- nized Real-Or-Random (ROR) random oracle model, and also through the formal security verification using the widely-accepted Automated Validation of Internet Security-sensitive Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) security verification. Furthermore, we com- pare the performance of the SLAP-IoD with related schemes. Consequently, we show that SLAP-IoD offers better security and efficiency than other related schemes and is suitable for IoD-based smart city environments

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of interconnected, Internet-connected items (i.e., smart devices) that can collect and transmit data across a wireless network with- out the need for human intervention. IoT enables the systems to have higher efficiency and dependability in their day-to-day operations due to its strong focus on machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity, big data, and machine learning. While IoT has many advantages over traditional techniques, it also has a number of security and privacy concerns. Trust is a belief in the competence of a device (computing machine) to act dependably, securely and reliably in some specific context. In an M2M (one IoT device to other IoT device) communication, trust is accomplished by making the use of cryptographic operations (i.e., digital signa- tures and electronic certificates). Various security threats and attacks have been launched on IoT connectivity in recent years. A trust mechanism is necessary to ensure the quality of collab- orative service behaviors and to build confidence between IoT devices. As a result, how to create an effective trust computing mechanism has become an emerging topic in IoT. Therefore, we provide the design of a novel trust-aggregation-based authen- tication scheme for secure communication of edge-enabled IoT (in short, TACAS-IoT). The security analysis shows that TACAS- IoT is secured against a variety of attacks. Moreover, TACAS-IoT delivers greater security and capabilities with less communica- tion and computation overheads, according to the performance comparison. Finally, a practical implementation of TACAS-IoT is provided in order to assess its impact on the key performance parameters. Index Terms—Authentication and key management, Internet of Things (IoT), security, simulation, trust.

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Machine learning (ML) is a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which focuses on the implementation of some systems that can learn from the historical data, identify patterns and make logical decisions with little to no human interventions. Cyber security is the practice of protecting digital systems, such as computers, servers, mobile devices, networks and associated data from malicious attacks. Uniting cyber security and ML has two major aspects, namely accounting for cyber security where the machine learning is applied, and the use of machine learning for enabling cyber security. This uniting can help us in various ways, like it provides enhanced security to the machine learning models, improves the performance of the cyber security methods, and supports effective detection of zero day attacks with less human intervention. In this survey paper, we discuss about two different concepts by uniting cyber security and ML. We also discuss the advantages, issues and challenges of uniting cyber security and ML. Furthermore, we discuss the various attacks and provide a comprehensive comparative study of various techniques in two different considered categories. Finally, we provide some future research directions. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Keywords: Cyber security; Machine learning; Internet of Things (ioT); Privacy; Security; Intrusion detection

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In this smart and rapidly growing computing world, most of the organizations and companies needs to share necessary information (data) to third parties for their analysis which plays major role in decision making. Any data generally consists of sensitive (personal) information about people and organizations and when the sensitive information to be revealed to third parties, there is always chance of privacy loss. In this regard any organization or an individual requires the application of privacy preserving techniques to ensure data privacy, that means the data to be exchanged between two or more sites, without data loss or privacy violation. When data to be shared between multiple organizations or sites (parties) the privacy issues will be arises more. In this line we choose collaborative fuzzy clustering that gives better solutions to preserve privacy of data while sharing information between multiple parties to achieve …

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This study aims to analyze the dynamics of the published articles and preprints of Covid-19 related literature from different scientific databases and sharing platforms. The PubMed, ScienceDirect, and ResearchGate (RG) databases were under consideration in this study over a specific time. Analyses were carried out on the number of publications as (a) function of time (day), (b) journals and (c) authors. Doubling time of the number of publications was analyzed for PubMed “all articles” and ScienceDirect published articles. Analyzed databases were (1A) PubMed (01/12/2019-12/06/2020) “all_articles” (1B) PubMed Review articles) and (1C) PubMed Clinical Trials (2) ScienceDirect all publications (01/12/2019- 25/05/2020) (3) RG (Article, Pre Print, Technical Report) (15/04/2020 – 30/4/2020). Total publications in the observation period for PubMed, ScienceDirect, and RG were 23000, 5898 and 5393 respectively. The average number of publications/day for PubMed, ScienceDirect and RG were 70.0 ±128.6, 77.6±125.3 and 255.6±205.8 respectively. PubMed shows an avalanche in the number of publications around May 10, the number of publications jumped from 6.0±8.4/day to 282.5±110.3/ day. The average doubling time for PubMed, ScienceDirect, and RG was 10.3±4 days, 20.6 days, and 2.3±2.0 days respectively. The average number of publications per author for PubMed, ScienceDirect, and RG was 1.2±1.4, 1.3±0.9, and 1.1±0.4 respectively. Subgroup analysis, PubMed review articles mean review <0|17±17|77> days; and reducing at a rate of -0.21 days (count)/day. The number of publications related to the COVID-19 until now is huge and growing very fast with time. It is essential to rationalize and limit the publications.

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The persistence of biodiversity of species is a challenging proposition in ecological communities in the face of Darwinian selection. The present article investigates beyond the pairwise competitive interactions and provides a novel perspective for understanding the influence of higher-order interactions on the evolution of social phenotypes. Our simple model yields a prosperous outlook to demonstrate the impact of perturbations on intransitive competitive higherorder interactions. Using a mathematical technique, we show how alone the perturbed interaction network can quickly determine the coexistence equilibrium of competing species instead of solving a large system of ordinary differential equations. It is possible to split the system into multiple feasible cluster states depending on the number of perturbations. Our analysis also reveals the ratio between the unperturbed and perturbed species is inversely proportional to the amount of employed perturbation. Our results suggest that nonlinear dynamical systems and interaction topologies can be interplayed to comprehend species’ coexistence under adverse conditions. Particularly our findings signify that less competition between two species increases their abundance and outperforms others

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The role of topological heterogeneity in the origin of extreme events in a network is investigated here. The dynamics of the oscillators associated with the nodes are assumed to be identical and influenced by mean-field repulsive interactions. An interplay of topological heterogeneity and the repulsive interaction between the dynamical units of the network triggers extreme events in the nodes when each node succumbs to such events for discretely different ranges of repulsive coupling. A high degree node is vulnerable to weaker repulsive interactions, while a low degree node is susceptible to stronger interactions. As a result, the formation of extreme events changes position with increasing strength of repulsive interaction from high to low degree nodes. Extreme events at any node are identified with the appearance of occasional large-amplitude events (amplitude of the temporal dynamics) that are larger than a threshold height and rare in occurrence, which we confirm by estimating the probability distribution of all events. Extreme events appear at any oscillator near the boundary of transition from rotation to libration at a critical value of the repulsive coupling strength. To explore the phenomenon, a paradigmatic second-order phase model is used to represent the dynamics of the oscillator associated with each node. We make an annealed network approximation to reduce our original model and, thereby, confirm the dual role of the repulsive interaction and the degree of a node in the origin of extreme events in any oscillator associated with a node. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS