Smart cities have brought significant improvements in quality of life and services to citizens
and urban environments. They are fully enabled to control the physical objects in real time …

Smart cities are expected to improve the quality of daily life, promote sustainable
development, and improve the functionality of urban systems. Now that many smart systems …

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are increasingly common, although there remain a number of
limitations that need to be addressed in order for their deployment to be more widespread …

The large number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that need interaction between smart
devices and consumers makes security critical to an IoT environment. Biometrics offers an …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will be integrated into the future Internet as one of the
components of the Internet of Things, and will become globally addressable by any entity …

In this paper, we design and evaluate a convolutional autoencoder that perturbs an input
face image to impart privacy to a subject. Specifically, the proposed autoencoder transforms …

Biometric systems (BSs) have shown prominent results in providing secure authentication
protocols and a unique identification ecosystem for various applications. Over the years …

Eye iris has been widely recognized as one of the strongest biometrics attributed to its high
accuracy performance. However, templates in conventional iris recognition systems are …

An essential part of cloud computing, IoT, and in general the broad field of digital systems, is
constituted by the mechanisms which provide access to a number of services or …

6G networks can support global, ubiquitous and seamless connectivity through the
convergence of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). Unlike terrestrial scenarios …