A recent trend in both industry and research is the Internet of Drones, which has applications civilian military settings. However, drones (also known as unmanned aerial vehicles) are generally not designed with security mind, there fundamental privacy issues that need study. Hence, this article, we study architecture its requirements. We also outline potential solutions to address challenging such leakage, data confidentiality protection, flexible accessibility, hope article will provide...

The concept of vehicular ad-hoc networks enables the design emergent automotive safety applications, which are based on awareness among vehicles. Recently, a suite 802.11p/WAVE protocols aimed at supporting car-to-car communications was approved by IEEE. Existing cellular infrastructure and, above all 3GPP LTE, is being considered as another communication technology appropriate for applications. This letter provides theoretical framework compares basic patterns both technologies in context...

Mobile edge computing provides the radio access networks with cloud capabilities to fulfill requirements of Internet Things services such as high reliability and low latency. Offloading servers can alleviate storage limitations prolong lifetimes IoT devices. However, offloading in MEC faces scalability problems due massive number In this article, we present a new integration architecture cloud, MEC, IoT, propose lightweight request admission framework resolve problem. Without coordination...

As heterogeneous networks (HetNets) emerge as one of the most promising developments toward realizing target specifications Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) networks, radio resource management (RRM) research for such has, in recent times, been intensively pursued. Clearly, mainly concentrates on aspect interference mitigation. Other RRM aspects, utilization, fairness, complexity, QoS, have not given much attention. In this paper, we aim to provide an overview key challenges...

Privacy-preserving data aggregation (P2DA) is an important basic building block that can protect consumer's privacy in the smart grid environment because it could be used to prevent extraction of electricity consumption information a specific consumer. Due this function, P2DA scheme for has attracted lot attention from both academic and industry researchers who have proposed many schemes recent years. However, most these are not secure against internal attackers or cannot provide integrity....

IEEE 802.11p/WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) is an emerging family of standards intended to support wireless access Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). Broadcasting data and control packets expected be crucial this environment. Both safety-related non-safety applications rely on broadcasting for the exchange or status advertisement messages. Most traffic designed delivered a given frequency during channel (CCH) interval set by WAVE draft standard. The rest time, vehicles switch over...

Routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) is the underlying routing of 6LoWPAN, a core communication standard Internet Things. RPL outperforms other wireless sensor ad hoc protocols in quality service (QoS), device management, energy saving performance. The Rank concept serves multiple purposes, including route optimization, prevention loops, managing control overhead. In this paper, we analyze several different types internal threats that are aimed at property study their...

The development of smart grid brings great improvement in the efficiency, reliability, and economics to power grid. However, at same time, volume complexity data explode. To address this challenge, big technology is a strong candidate for analysis processing data. In article, we propose computing architecture analytics, which involves resources, transmission, storage, analysis. order enable grid, communication then described consisting four main domains. Key technologies big-data-aware...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) can provide safety and nonsafety applications to improve passenger comfort. Grouping vehicles into platoons in VANETs road reduce fuel consumption. It is critical design an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for platoon-based VANETs. Moreover, because of the space time dynamics moving vehicles, network connectivity important performance metric indicate quality communications satisfaction users. Unfortunately, often ignored existing MAC protocols...

Effective data broadcasting is essential in vehicular networks not only for road-safety message dissemination but also to aid routing and cooperative driving applications through periodic beaconing spread network initialization advertisements that are mandatory support infotainment applications. Broadcast neither acknowledged nor retransmitted case of failure, which raises the possibility frame loss due channel errors collisions with multiple simultaneous broadcasts. This paper aims at...

With rapid developments of sensor, wireless and mobile communication technologies, Mobile Healthcare Social Networks (MHSNs) have emerged as a popular means in healthcare services. Within MHSNs, patients can use their devices to securely share experiences, broaden understanding the illness or symptoms, form supportive network, transmit information (e.g., state health new symptoms) between users other stake holders medical center). Despite benefits afforded by there are underlying security...

A method for real-time detection of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in IEEE 802.11p vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) is proposed. The study focused on the "jamming" periodic position messages (beacons) exchanged by vehicles a platoon. Probabilities attack and false alarm are estimated two different attacker models.

Data offloading using vehicles is one of the most challenging tasks to perform due high mobility vehicles. There are many solutions available for this purpose, but inefficient management data along with control decisions, these not adequate provide by making use networks. Moreover, advent 5G and related technologies, there a need cope speed traffic congestion in existing infrastructure used offloading. Hence, make intelligent decisions offloading, an SDN-based scheme presented article. In...

Cloud-based vehicular networks is a new paradigm to improve the services through distributing computation tasks between remote clouds and local terminals. To further reduce latency transmission cost of offloading, we propose cloud-based Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offloading framework in networks. In framework, efficient strategies are designed contract theoretic approach. We obtain optimal feasible contracts that maximize benefit MEC service provider while enhancing utilities vehicles....

Cooperative adaptive cruise control (C-ACC) and platooning are two emerging automotive intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications. In this tutorial article we explain their principles, describe related ongoing standardization activities, conduct performance evaluation of the underlying communication technology.

Reliable and scalable wireless transmissions for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) are technically challenging. Each vehicle, from driver-assisted to automated one, will generate a flood information, up thousands times that by person. Vehicle density may change drastically over time location. Emergency messages real-time cooperative control have stringent delay constraints while infotainment applications tolerate certain degree latency. On congested road, vehicles need exchange information badly,...

Multi-user spatial multiplexing combined with packet aggregation can significantly increase the performance of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). In this letter, we present and evaluate a simple technique to perform in IEEE 802.11ac MU-MIMO (Multi-user Multiple Input Output) WLANs. Results show that non-saturation conditions both number active stations (STAs) queue size have significant impact on system performance. If STAs is excessively high, heterogeneity destinations packets contained...

Overtaking on rural roads often becomes dangerous when oncoming traffic is detected by the driver too late or its speed underestimated. Recently proposed cooperative overtaking assistance systems, which are based Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs), rely either real-time video transmission exchange of status messages (beacons). In first case, a stream captured camera installed at windshield vehicle compressed and broadcast to any vehicles driving behind it, where it displayed driver. second...

The smart grid is widely considered as an efficient and intelligent power system. With the aid of communication technologies, can enhance efficiency reliability system through energy management. However, with development new sources, storage transmission technologies together heterogeneous architecture network, several features have been incorporated into grid. These make trading more complex pose a significant challenge on designing schemes. Based this motivation, in paper, we present...

Cooperative awareness on the road is intended to support users by providing knowledge about surroundings and relies information exchange enabled vehicular communications. To achieve this goal European telecommunication standard institute (ETSI) delivered EN 302 637-2 for cooperative messages (CAM). The CAM triggering conditions are based kinematics of originating vehicle, which checked periodically. In paper, we show that standardized ETSI protocol may suffer a decrease in communication...

Tight coupling between the performance of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and cooperative intelligent transportation system (C-ITS) safety applications is addressed. A cyber-physical analytical framework developed which links characteristics V2V (such as packet loss probability transmission delay) with physical mobility vehicular safe intervehicular distance). The study applied to Day 1 C-ITS application, emergency electronic brake lights, enabled by European Telecommunication...

The advanced idea of machine-to-machine technology has attracted a new period network revolution, evolving into method to monitor and control global industrial user assets, machines, the production process. M2M networks are considered be intelligent connection communication between machines. However, security issues have been further amplified with development networks. Consequently, it is essential pour attention attack detection forensics problems in This article puts forward hybrid model...

Sensor data sharing enables vehicles to exchange locally perceived sensor among each other and with the roadside infrastructure increase their environmental awareness. It is commonly regarded as a next-generation vehicular communication service beyond of highly aggregated messages in first generation. The approach being considered European standardization process, where it relies on detected objects representing anything safety-relevant, such or pedestrians, periodically broadcasted direct...

In recent years, the use of remote operation has been proposed as a bridge towards driverless mobility by providing human assistance remotely when an automated driving system finds situation that is ambiguous and requires input from operator. The road vehicles also way to enable drivers operate safer more comfortable locations. While commercial solutions for exist, remaining challenges are being tackled research community, who continuously testing validating feasibility deploying on public...