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Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection (2021)
Journal Article
Cui, C., Lu, L., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2021). Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection. Neurocomputing, 464, 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.026

Segmentation-based methods are widely used for scene text detection due to their superiority in describing arbitrary-shaped text instances. However, two major problems still exist: (1) current label generation techniques are mostly empirical and lack... Read More about Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection.

Blockchain for edge-enabled smart cities applications (2021)
Journal Article
Jan, M. A., Yeh, K., Tan, Z., & Wu, Y. (2021). Blockchain for edge-enabled smart cities applications. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 61, 102937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2021.102937

The Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled devices are increasing at an exponential rate and share massive data generated in smart cities around the globe. The time-critical and delay-sensitive nature of this data means that cloud service providers are una... Read More about Blockchain for edge-enabled smart cities applications.

Newly Engineered Energy-based Features for Supervised Anomaly Detection in a Physical Model of a Water Supply System   (2021)
Journal Article
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Tan, Z. (2021). Newly Engineered Energy-based Features for Supervised Anomaly Detection in a Physical Model of a Water Supply System  . Ad hoc networks, 120, Article 102590. https://doi.or

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are hardware, network, and software, upon which a facility depends to allow daily operations to function. In most cases society takes the operation of such systems, for example public transport, tap water or electrici... Read More about Newly Engineered Energy-based Features for Supervised Anomaly Detection in a Physical Model of a Water Supply System  .

A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications (2021)
Journal Article
Lu, L., Ren, X., Cui, C., Tan, Z., Wu, Y., & Qin, Z. (2021). A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications. Computer Networks, 193, Article 108088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108088

Ensuring timeliness and mobility for multimedia computing is a crucial task for wireless communication. Previous algorithms that utilize information channels, such as the information bottleneck method, have shown great performance and efficiency, whi... Read More about A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications.

A Mobility Aware Duty Cycling and Preambling Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node (2021)
Journal Article
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2021). A Mobility Aware Duty Cycling and Preambling Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. Wireless Networks, 27(5), 3423-3439. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-021-02580-8

Utilising the mobilisation of a sink node in a wireless sensor network to combat the energy hole, or hotspot issue, is well referenced. However, another issue , that of energy spikes may remain. With the mobile sink node potentially communicating wit... Read More about A Mobility Aware Duty Cycling and Preambling Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.

Vehicular Computation Offloading for Industrial Mobile Edge Computing (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Yang, K., Tan, Z., Song, H., Al-Dubai, A., & Zomaya, A. (2021). Vehicular Computation Offloading for Industrial Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(11), 7871-7881. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2021.3059640

Due to the limited local computation resource, industrial vehicular computation requires offloading the computation tasks with time-delay sensitive and complex demands to other intelligent devices (IDs) once the data is sensed and collected collabora... Read More about Vehicular Computation Offloading for Industrial Mobile Edge Computing.

Towards an Energy Balancing Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node (2021)
Journal Article
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2021). Towards an Energy Balancing Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. Computer Communications, 170, 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2021.01.011

The issue of energy holes, or hotspots, in wireless sensor networks is well referenced. As is the proposed mobilisation of the sink node in order to combat this. However, as the mobile sink node may communicate with some nodes more than others, issue... Read More about Towards an Energy Balancing Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.

A Novel Web Attack Detection System for Internet of Things via Ensemble Classification (2020)
Journal Article
Luo, C., Tan, Z., Min, G., Gan, J., Shi, W., & Tian, Z. (2021). A Novel Web Attack Detection System for Internet of Things via Ensemble Classification. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(8), 5810-5818. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2020.3038761

Internet of things (IoT) has become one of the fastestgrowing technologies and has been broadly applied in various fields. IoT networks contain millions of devices with the capability of interacting with each other and providing functionalities that... Read More about A Novel Web Attack Detection System for Internet of Things via Ensemble Classification.