At present, the rapid development of satellite capabilities has prompted the proposal of satellite–terrestrial integrated networks (STIN), which solves the problem of limited signal coverage of terrestrial cellular networks, further promotes the ...

• An access authentication protocol supporting batch verification for STIN is proposed.
• The batch verification mechanism reduces the verification overhead of satellites.
• The handover authentication mechanism is lightweight and ...

The presence of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables the exponential growth of IoT devices. The IoT commonly involves many limited resources that are incapable of processing classical cryptographic protocols and vulnerable to threats like privacy ...

This paper proposes a blockchain-based scheme, focusing on anonymous identity authentication and data aggregation, for safer and more reliable bidirectional communication between the utility company and power consumers based on Advanced Metering ...

Cyberattacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) may be avoided by implementing cybersecurity protocols on IoT devices, platform packages, and Internet tools. A significant problem is developing a simple security mechanism suitable for resource-...

Vehicle cloud computing (VCC) is a recent area of study that blends vehicular networks with cloud computing, offering networking and sensor capabilities to vehicles for interaction with other vehicles and roadside infrastructure. Integrating ...

The window $\tau$-adic non-adjacent form (window $\tau$NAF) was initially proposed by Solinas in 2000 as a method to calculate scalar multiplication on the Koblitz curves. To ensure the correctness of the window $\tau$NAF, Blake, Murty, and Xu demonstrated that ...${}_{}{\mathbb{}}_{{\mathrm{}}^{}}$$$$$$$$$$$$\mathrm{}$${}_{\mathrm{}}$

Harnessing satellite resources to designate a communication network has felicitous the flexibility to bounteous applications, including broadcasting, news gathering, aeronautical and maritime tracking. The peculiarities of the satellite-integrated ...$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$

The Internet is rapidly transitioning from a network of personal computers, laptops and mobile phones to a network that will soon connect 32 billion smart devices (or "things"), many of which are extremely constrained in terms of computational resources ...

SM2 algorithm is a commercial cryptographic algorithm based on elliptic curve cryptography proposed by China in 2010. In this paper, we propose the following schemes for its optimization on ARMv8-A architecture: when SM2 algorithm performs multiplication ...

Images play a vital role in almost all sectors, including medical, video conferencing, weather forecasting, military applications, and most common social media applications. Today’s proliferating technology provides attackers an opportunity to ...

Several cryptosystems based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography such as KMOV and Demytko process the message as a point M = ( x 0 , y 0 ) of an elliptic curve with an equation of the form y 2 ≡ x 3 + a x + b ( mod n ) over a finite field when n is a ...

The evolution of decentralized storage, propelled by blockchain advancements, has revolutionized data management. This paper focuses on content security in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a leading decentralized storage network lacking ...

The rise of payment details theft has led to increasing concerns regarding the security of e-commerce platforms. For the MageCart threat family, the attacks employ e-skimmers, which are pieces of software code that instruct clients to forward ...

Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is widely applied in transportation applications to ensure safety and security during road transportation. In VANET, all the information’s are interchanged among vehicles with the available infrastructure on the ...

As more devices are integrated into the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, accurate and efficient information transmission between resource-constrained equipment has become particularly important. For data encryption, compared to traditional ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) connect and link objects and people for creating, processing and sharing countless information. The use of IoT is widely spread in important life fields like smart farming, by collecting and transferring data from ...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is the network of medical devices, software applications, and healthcare information systems used for remote monitoring and delivery of healthcare services. Despite the several advantages of IoMT for today ...

• The framework incorporates scalable and lightweight group authentication over blockchain for a fog-based IoMT system.
• The framework utilizes the efficient SSS algorithm and ECC technique to implement the authentication scheme.
• The ...

Authentication is a security practice that seeks to validate a user identity to various entities, yet doing so across a wireless network poses inherent risks. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are a unique form of network that contains e-...

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) refers to a system of interconnected equipment, sensors, and devices deployed within industrial environments whose primary function is to collect and facilitate the exchange of data. IIoT has gained ...

Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT) systems are a step forward in improving the efficiency and quality of patients’ vital information. The HIoT system collects, encrypts, and outsources the patients’ sensitive data over the cloud server for ...