Emerging applications such as Internet of Everything, Holographic Telepresence, collaborative robots, and space deep-sea tourism are already highlighting the limitations existing fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks. These in terms data-rate, latency, reliability, availability, processing, connection density global coverage, spanning over ground, underwater space. The sixth-generation (6G) networks expected to burgeon coming decade address these limitations. development 6G vision,...

The world is going through a fundamental transformation with the emergence of intelligent information era. key domains linked human life such as healthcare, transport, entertainment, and smart cities are expected to elevate quality service high-end user experience. Therefore, telecommunication infrastructure has meet unprecedented level requirements ultra high data rates traffic volume for prominent future applications Virtual Reality (VR), holographic communications, massive Machine Type...

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected almost all aspects of human life, various sectors business, and regions the world. flow activities halted for several months, are now being carefully redefined to align with guidelines recommendations avoid spread novel coronavirus. In contrast other pandemics world witnessed in past, technological advancements current era a boon that can play key role safeguarding humanity. this work, we begin by highlighting general challenges have arisen during...

The emergence of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) technology aims to extend cloud computing capabilities the edge wireless access networks, i.e., closer end-users. Thus, MEC-enabled 5G systems are envisaged offer real-time, low-latency, and high-bandwidth radio network resources. MEC allows operators open up their networks a wide range innovative services, thereby giving rise brand-new ecosystem value chain. Furthermore, as an enabling will provide new insights into coherent integration...

Sharing of students’ credentials is a necessary and integral process an education ecosystem that comprises various stakeholders like students, schools, companies, professors the governmental authorities. As today, all these have to put-in enormous amount efforts ensure authenticity privacy credentials. Despite efforts, sharing complex, error-prone not completely secure. Our aim leverage blockchain technology mitigate existing security-related issues concerning Thus, paper proposes...

Robotics is the multi-disciplinary domain that booming in today's world, and expanding its roots deep into various fields of research, manufacturing industries, healthcare, even our day-to-day lives. Nevertheless, as with any other evolving technology, robotics face numerous challenges. In this context, lately, blockchain technology has been identified a promising to resolve many these issues such identification malicious/rogue nodes, malfunctioning/faults automated processes, non-compliance...

Sixth-generation mobile networks (6G) are expected to reach extreme communication capabilities realize emerging applications demanded by the future society. This paper focuses on six technological directions towards 6G, namely, intent-based networking, THz communication, artificial intelligence, distributed ledger technology/blockchain, smart devices and gadget-free quantum communication. These technologies will enable 6G be more capable of catering demands network services applications....

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a novel edge computing paradigm that moves cloud-based processing and storage capabilities closer to the mobile users by implementing server resources in access nodes. MEC helps fulfill stringent requirements of 5G beyond networks offer anytime-anywhere connectivity for many devices with ultra-low delay huge bandwidths. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) another prominent network technology builds on content-centric architecture overcome host-centric...

Abstract Rice is one of the significant crops, and early identification prevention its diseases are essential to ensure adequate healthy availability world's growing population. The use image processing an encouraging method for automatic rice leaf disease detection. In particular, recent advancements indicate effectiveness convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning approaches. this direction, present work proposes a novel stacked parallel convolution layers‐based (SPnet) with...

Hitherto, the evolution of mobile networks have fulfilled increasing demands for enhanced performance, availability, portability, elasticity, and energy efficiency posed by ever growing network services. In line with progression, 5G depicts next generation that further promises remarkable performance improvements as well creation new value chain. parallel to 5G, Internet Things (IoT) has emerged another paradigm interconnection massive communication-capable heterogeneous smart objects. is...

The next generation of mobile networks, i.e., sixth (6G), is expected by 2030, with already burgeoning research efforts toward this goal. Along various other candidate technologies, blockchain envisioned to enable and enhance numerous key functionalities 6G. Thus, the main objective article threefold: categorize different aspects 6G into four emerging directions that anticipate significant advancements leveraging blockchain, discuss potential role blockchainized under each direction, expound...

Internet of Things (IoT) has proved its applicability in numerous domains such as healthcare, agriculture, automobile, industrial production, logistics and supply chain management. Looking at the current trend, we expect massive proliferation IoT devices all around us. However, one issues with widespread use is increasing complexity underlying architecture, which lead to difficulty ensuring security compliance. One critical processes key refreshment, needs be regularly executed order...

The paper aims to resolve security issues revolving around the sharing of students' credentials by leveraging blockchain technology. It proposes a novel blockchain-based architecture followed its implementation as decentralized application (DApp). Further, cost & performance analysis are carried out based on experiments conducted.

Content dissemination is the primary usage of Internet today, whereas existing architecture based on TCP/IP mainly designed for point-to-point communications. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been proposed to conciliate and technology. The idea behind ICN omit notion host location establish content as first class citizen network. advocates in-network caching, i.e., cache path from providers requesters. This on-path caching achieves good overall performance but not optimal may be...

Virtual Private LAN services (VPLS) is a Layer 2 Network (L2VPN) service that has gained immense popularity due to number of its features, such as protocol independence, multipoint-to-multipoint mesh connectivity, robust security, low operational cost (in terms optimal resource utilization), and high scalability. In addition the traditional VPLS architectures, novel solutions have been designed leveraging new emerging paradigms, Software Defined Networking (SDN) Function Virtualization...

The increasing popularity of Internet Everything and small-cell devices has enormously accelerated traffic loads. Consequently, increased bandwidth high data rate requirements stimulate the operation at millimeter wave Tera-Hertz spectrum bands in fifth generation (5G) beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks. Furthermore, efficient allocation, maximizing utilization, achieving sharing (SS), managing to enhance system performance remain challenging. To this end, recent studies have implemented...

The roll-out of 5G technology will nurture the realization broadband, ultra-reliable, and zero latency services. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) are among key enablers for 5G. synergy between NFV MEC allows migration Virtual Functions (VNF) from cloud to edge network thereby adding agility softwarized networks. overall orchestration VNF includes, but is not limited to, processing requests, selecting appropriate VNF, migrating MEC, instantiating...

Several recent works talk about the potential use of network slice brokering mechanism to facilitate resource allocation slicing in next generation networks. This involves tenants on one hand and resource/infrastructure providers other hand. However, downside deploying Network Slice Broker (NSB) is that it can be victimized by DoS (Denial Service) attack. Thus, aim this work three fold. First, present possible ways which DoS/DDoS attacks mounted NSB their adverse effects. Second, propose...

Recent advances in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technologies have offered the capability of integrating thousands processing elements onto a single silicon microchip. Multiprocessor systems-on-chips (MPSoCs) are latest creation this technology evolution. Network-on-Chip (NoC) is scalable and promising interconnection solution used by MPSoCs to achieve high performance. Routing algorithms provide path packet toward destination. For this, these should exhibit two characteristics. First,...