A revolution in advanced manufacturing has been driven by digital technology in the fourth
industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, and has resulted in a substantial increase …

With the rapid growth of flight operation data, how to alleviate the contradiction between data
sharing and privacy protection of civil aviation corporations has become a challenging …

Edge services provide an effective and superior means of real-time transmissions and rapid
processing of information in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). However, the continuous …

Abstract Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) driven blockchain is currently one of the most
promising technology revolutions with enormous potential across a wide range of …

Data are generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices and centralized at a cloud server, that
can later be traded with third parties, ie, data marketing, to enable various data-intensive …

This study proposes a primary node election method based on probabilistic linguistic term
set (PLTS) for the practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) consensus mechanism to …

The smart grid's local energy market (LEM) enables each renewable-energy-powered
residential unit to profit from trading energy with others. However, energy trading in LEMs is …

In cryptocurrencies, privacy of users is preserved using pseudonymity. However, it has been
shown that pseudonymity does not result in anonymity if a user's transactions are linkable …

The 5G-enabled Industrial Internet of Things tilts the data processing model from the cloud to
the edge. Users are more inclined to get feedback and data analysis of outsourcing …

In this paper, a novel message authentication model using the same key over wiretap
channel is proposed to achieve information-theoretic security. Specifically, in the proposed …