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Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are ubiquitous and growing rapidly in number. However, IoT manufacturers have focused on the functionality and features of the devices and made security an afterthought. Since IoT devices have small memory capacities and ...

Edge computing has seen a great progress nowadays eliminating the network latency risks by placing data and functionality in low-end devices closer to the end user is central in application domains such as the support of the backend of mobile apps. When ...

In order to preserve the prediction of machine defects, fault conditions and normal conditions must be classified from time series data collected in real time from various sensors. For predictive maintenance of machine defects, fault conditions and ...

Currently Big Data is the biggest buzzword, and definitely, we believe that Big Data is changing the world. Some researchers say Big Data will be even bigger buzzword than the Internet. With fast-growing computing resources, information and knowledge a ...

We define quality of service requirements for mixed-criticality systems based on min-plus algebra rather than discrete criticality levels. The requirements (1) unify a spectrum of weakly-hard real-time requirements with strongly-hard real-time and soft ...

Recently, researchers have demonstrated how the lack of security features in road vehicles may allow adversaries to take over partial or even full control. Specifically, in-vehicle communication protocols are prone to attacks, because no security ...

Representing data in the form of a graph (network) is becoming an increasingly common approach for modelling complex systems. Graph representation models have thus emerged as a unified vocabulary across scientific domains. The advantage of graphs for ...

The current work deploys a framework for rapid prototyping of Fully-Connected Neural Networks (FCNs). The scope is to provide an automatic design flow that generates a template-based VHDL code considering the accuracy, the resource utilization and the ...

Resource-constrained devices are unable to maintain a full copy of the Bitcoin Blockchain in memory. This paper proposes a bidirectional payment channel framework for IoT devices. This framework utilizes Bitcoin Lightning-Network-like payment channels ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that incentivizes industry, agriculture and academia to develop smart platforms. One of the areas where IoT is being developed is in smart farms. IoT in agricultural systems helps farmers collect ...

Noise is any undesired environmental sound. A sound at the same dB level may be perceived as annoying noise or as pleasant music. Therefore, it is necessary to go beyond the state-of-the-art approaches that measure only the dB level and also identify ...

Smartphones and wearable devices, such as smart watches, can act as mobile gateways and sensor nodes in IoT applications, respectively. In conventional IoT systems, wearable devices gather and transmit data to mobile gateways where most of computations ...

Security challenges are the most important obstacles for the advancement of IT-based on-demand services and cloud computing as an emerging technology. In this paper, a structural policy management engine has been introduced to enhance the reliability of ...

In all modern computer systems power consumption and thermal management is a major concern to control battery life and ageing to guarantee system availability. In such systems, a power manager changes the hardware component parameters at runtime to ...

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have shown great benefits in saving costs and at the same time in executing efficiently many of our daily life tasks. Yet the application of AI in the safety-critical embedded systems domain is ...

Image processing algorithms are dominating contemporary digital systems due to their importance and adoption by a large number of application domains. Despite their significance, their computational requirements often limit their usage, especially in ...

Edge computing is unlocking the potential of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to deliver business value and impact. Reliable data processing and guarantee of services within the IIoT sphere mandates the use of local storage within the device. The ...

With the ever increasing industrial demand for bigger, faster and more efficient systems, a growing number of cores is integrated on a single chip. Additionally, their performance is further maximized by simultaneously executing as many processes as ...

Edge Computing has risen as a new promising computing paradigm, that relies on connected devices to communicate and exchange data closer to the end-user. Specifically, gateways are a critical component as they receive requests from multiple edge devices ...

This article presents a system for creating an implemented open energy market for future smart grid systems, microgrids, the Internet of Things, and the Industrial Internet of Things. We also investigate and analyze different aspects of blockchain ...

The topics of fault diagnosis and security attack diagnosis in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) have been studied extensively in a stand-alone manner. However, considering the co-existence of both of these sources of abnormality in a system, and being able ...

Increased demands for real-time decision support and data analytics facilitate the need of performing significant computing away from the cloud and onto the IoT devices. In this paper, we propose Metis, a mathematical programming based framework, able ...

The relationship between technology and healthcare due to the rise of Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) and the rapid public embracement of medical-grade wearables has been dramatically transformed in the past few years. Powered by IoT, technology ...

Design by Contract supports the specification of the intended behavior of a software component at its interfaces. Out of these specifications, runtime monitors can be generated. While those runtime monitors check the correct behavior of the software ...

The steady progression of the digital transformation within all business sectors and society thrive the importance of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), whereas their areas of application grow and expand to an unmanageable amount. Since the model-based ...

With a rapid growth in the IT industry, Internet of Things (IoT) has gained a tremendous attention and become a central aspect of our environment. In IoT the things (devices) communicate and exchange the data without the act of human intervention. Such ...

In this paper, we analyse the foundations of Blockchain and DAG Directed acyclic graph its evolution and the tangle, DAG try to solve the most issues in blockchain and make a system that stable for Internet-of Things (IOT) industry. In addition, to ...

Over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates are very common in IoT (Internet of Things) devices with wireless capabilities. Although they are convenient, they may also be open to attack since physical access may not be needed. In addition, most frameworks use a ...

Counterfeit copycat devices have become one of the most important problems in IoT ecosystem. The number of IoT devices manufactured has grown exponentially through last years. In order to be competitive in terms of production cost, they usually need to ...

The advancement of technology has influenced all the enterprises. Enterprises should come up with the evolving approaches to face the challenges. With an evolving approach, the enterprise will be able to adapt to successive changes. Enterprise ...