Outputs (17)

A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Li, S., Tan, Z., Hawbani, A., Timotheou, S., & Yu, K. (online). A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization. IEEE Transactions on Computers, https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.2024.3483636

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been considered a promising technology for advancing terrestrial mobile computing in the dynamic environment. In this research field, throughput, the number of completed tasks and latency are critical evaluation indi... Read More about A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization.

Evaluation Mechanism for Decentralised Collaborative Pattern Learning in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks (2022)
Journal Article
Qiao, C., Qiu, J., Tan, Z., Min, G., Zomaya, A. Y., & Tian, Z. (2023). Evaluation Mechanism for Decentralised Collaborative Pattern Learning in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(11), 13123 - 13132. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3186630

Collaborative machine learning, especially Feder-ated Learning (FL), is widely used to build high-quality Machine Learning (ML) models in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In this paper, we study the performance evaluation problem in an inherently hete... Read More about Evaluation Mechanism for Decentralised Collaborative Pattern Learning in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks.

A VMD and LSTM based hybrid model of load forecasting for power grid security (2021)
Journal Article
Lv, L., Wu, Z., Zhang, J., Tan, Z., Zhang, L., & Tian, Z. (2022). A VMD and LSTM based hybrid model of load forecasting for power grid security. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(9), 6474-6482. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2021.3130237

As the basis for the static security of the power grid, power load forecasting directly affects the safety of grid operation, the rationality of grid planning, and the economy of supply-demand balance. However, various factors lead to drastic changes... Read More about A VMD and LSTM based hybrid model of load forecasting for power grid security.

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.

A Novel Cost Optimization Strategy for SDN-Enabled UAV-Assisted Vehicular Computation Offloading (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Yang, K., Tan, Z., Li, X., Sharma, S., & Liu, Z. (2021). A Novel Cost Optimization Strategy for SDN-Enabled UAV-Assisted Vehicular Computation Offloading. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 22(6), 3664-3674. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2020.3024186

Vehicular computation offloading is a well-received strategy to execute delay-sensitive and/or compute-intensive tasks of legacy vehicles. The response time of vehicular computation offloading can be shortened by using mobile edge computing that offe... Read More about A Novel Cost Optimization Strategy for SDN-Enabled UAV-Assisted Vehicular Computation Offloading.

KNN-Based Approximate Outlier Detection Algorithm Over IoT Streaming Data (2020)
Journal Article
Zhu, R., Ji, X., Yu, D., Tan, Z., Zhao, L., Li, J., & Xia, X. (2020). KNN-Based Approximate Outlier Detection Algorithm Over IoT Streaming Data. IEEE Access, 8, 42749-42759. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2977114

KNN-Based outlier detection over IoT streaming data is a fundamental problem, which has many applications. However, due to its computational complexity, existing efforts cannot efficiently work in the IoT streaming data. In this paper, we propose a n... Read More about KNN-Based Approximate Outlier Detection Algorithm Over IoT Streaming Data.

FairEdge: A Fairness-Oriented Task Offloading Scheme for Iot Applications in Mobile Cloudlet Networks (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, S., Fan, X., Ye, Q., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., He, X., & Nanda, P. (2020). FairEdge: A Fairness-Oriented Task Offloading Scheme for Iot Applications in Mobile Cloudlet Networks. IEEE Access, 8, 13516-13526. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2965562

Mobile cloud computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to facilitate computation-intensive and delay-sensitive mobile applications. Computation offloading services at the edge mobile cloud environment are provided by small-scale cloud infrastruct... Read More about FairEdge: A Fairness-Oriented Task Offloading Scheme for Iot Applications in Mobile Cloudlet Networks.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network (2019)
Journal Article
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network. Sensors, 19(22), Article 4930. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19224930

The hotspot issue in wireless sensor networks, with nodes nearest the sink node losing energy fastest and degrading network lifetime, is a well referenced problem. Mobile sink nodes have been proposed as a solution to this. This does not completely r... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network.

PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, R., Zakarya, M., Tan, Z., Usman, M., Jan, M. A., & Khan, M. (2019). PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(18), Article e4144. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4144

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of resource-starving nodes that face a challenging task of handling various issues such as data redundancy, data fusion, congestion control, and energy efficiency. In these networks, data fusion a... Read More about PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme.

A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles (2019)
Journal Article
Yao, W., Yahya, A., Khan, F., Tan, Z., Rehman, A. U., Chuma, J. M., Jan, M. A., & Babar, M. (2019). A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Access, 7, 160889-160900. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945610

The advancements in hardware technologies have driven the evolution of vehicular ad hoc networks into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The IoV is a decentralized network of IoT-enabled vehicles capable of smooth traffic flow to perform fleet managemen... Read More about A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles.

Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments (2019)
Journal Article
Mclaren, P., Russell, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2019). Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments. Digital Investigation, 29, 109-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.010

Decrypting and inspecting encrypted malicious communications may assist crime detection and prevention. Access to client or server memory enables the discovery of artefacts required for decrypting secure communications. This paper develops the MemDe-... Read More about Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments.

Urban data management system: Towards Big Data analytics for Internet of Things based smart urban environment using customized Hadoop (2019)
Journal Article
Babar, M., Arif, F., Jan, M. A., Tan, Z., & Khan, F. (2019). Urban data management system: Towards Big Data analytics for Internet of Things based smart urban environment using customized Hadoop. Future Generation Computer Systems, 96, 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.02.035

The unbroken amplfication of a versatile urban setup is challenged by huge Big Data processing. Understanding the voluminous data generated in a smart urban environment for decision making is a challenging task. Big Data analytics is performed to ob... Read More about Urban data management system: Towards Big Data analytics for Internet of Things based smart urban environment using customized Hadoop.

A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment (2018)
Journal Article
Babar, M., Khan, F., Iqbal, W., Yahya, A., Arif, F., Tan, Z., & Chuma, J. (2018). A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment. IEEE Access, 6, 43088-43099

Smart societies have an increasing demand for quality-oriented services and infrastructure in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm. Smart urbanization faces numerous challenges. Among them, secured energy Demand Side Management (DSM) is o... Read More about A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment.

Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors (2018)
Journal Article
Lenka, R. K., Rath, A. K., Tan, Z., Sharma, S., Puthal, D., Simha, N. V. R., Prasad, M., Raja, R., & Tripathi, S. S. (2018). Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors. IEEE Access, 6, 30162-30173. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2842760

Wireless Sensors are an important component to develop the Internet of Things (IoT) Sensing infrastructure. There are enormous numbers of sensors connected with each other to form a network (well known as wireless sensor networks) to complete IoT Inf... Read More about Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors.

Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait (2018)
Journal Article
Khan, F., ur Rehman, A., Usman, M., Tan, Z., & Puthal, D. (2018). Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait. Mobile Networks and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1020-4

The enormous developments in the field of wireless communication technologies have made the unlicensed spectrum bands crowded, resulting uncontrolled interference to the traditional wireless network applications. On the other hand, licensed spectrum... Read More about Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait.

A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar Mishra, A., Kumar Tripathy, A., Obaidat, M. S., Tan, Z., Prasad, M., Sadoun, B., & Puthal, D. (2018, July). A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors. Presented at The 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business, Porto, Portugal

Due to lack of an efficient monitoring system to periodically record environmental parameters for food grain storage, a huge loss of food grains in storage is reported every year in many developing countries, especially south-Asian countries. Althoug... Read More about A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019, August). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, Tianjin, China

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) the use of Mobile Sink Nodes (MSNs) has been proposed in order to negate the ”hotspot” issue. This where nodes closest to the sink node shall run out of energy fastest, affecting network lifetime. However, in using... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.