Export Citations
Save this search
Please login to be able to save your searches and receive alerts for new content matching your search criteria.
- research-articleNovember 2024
HashGrid: An optimized architecture for accelerating graph computing on FPGAs
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.107497AbstractLarge-scale graph processing poses challenges due to its size and irregular memory access patterns, causing performance degradation in common architectures, such as CPUs and GPUs. Recent research includes accelerating graph processing using Field ...
Highlights- Analysis of the power-law distribution in Real-World, large-scale graphs and its effect on the graph partitioning.
- Host and FPGA device communication analysis and optimization for large-scale graph computing.
- Investigation in an ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Global reduction for geo-distributed MapReduce across cloud federation
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.107492AbstractGeo-distributed Bigdata processing is increasing day by day, resulting in the origins of data that are geographically distributed in different countries and hold datacenters (DCs) across the globe, and also the applications that use different ...
Highlights- An heuristic algorithm GResearch is proposed to choose the best clusters as global reducers.
- An heuristic scheduling algorithm Geo-MR is proposed to ensure the scheduling of only the relevant data to selected global reducers that ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Quantum resource estimation for large scale quantum algorithms
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.107480AbstractQuantum algorithms are often represented in terms of quantum circuits operating on ideal (logical) qubits. However, the practical implementation of these algorithms poses significant challenges. Many quantum algorithms require a substantial ...
Highlights- Quantum error correction adds significant qubit and runtime overhead.
- Our proposed framework compares classical and quantum algorithms effectively.
- The article focuses on quantum algorithms’ impact on cryptographic systems.
- ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Certificateless Proxy Re-encryption with Cryptographic Reverse Firewalls for Secure Cloud Data Sharing
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.08.002AbstractCloud computing has enabled data-sharing to be more convenient than ever before. However, data security is a major concern that prevents cloud computing from being widely adopted. A potential solution to secure data-sharing in cloud computing is ...
Highlights- The paper introduces a certificateless proxy re-encryption scheme (CLPRE-CRF) that allows secure data transmission by transforming encrypted data without accessing the plaintext.
- It incorporates cryptographic reverse firewalls to ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Context aware clustering and meta-heuristic resource allocation for NB-IoT D2D devices in smart healthcare applications
- Nahar Sultana,
- Farhana Huq,
- Palash Roy,
- Md. Abdur Razzaque,
- Md. Mustafizur Rahman,
- Taiyeba Akter,
- Mohammad Mehedi Hassan
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.08.001AbstractThe utilization of Device-to-Device (D2D) communication among Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) devices offers significant potential for advancing intelligent healthcare systems due to its superior data rates, low power consumption, and ...
Highlights- Developed iRASH: a solution for smart healthcare using NB-IoT devices.
- Integrated D2D and NB-IoT to enhance coverage and connectivity.
- Ensured reliable healthcare data transmission and smart resource allocation.
- Integrated ...
-
- research-articleNovember 2024
Multi-objective federated learning: Balancing global performance and individual fairness
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.046AbstractIn federated learning, non-iid data not only diminishes the performance of the global model but also gives rise to the fairness problem which manifests as an increase in the variance of the global model’s accuracy across clients. Fairness issues ...
Highlights- Introduce FedMC and FedMC+ as methods to mitigate performance degradation and fairness problem.
- Conduct a theoretical analysis of FedMC which converges to Pareto stationary.
- Experiments shows FedMC+ achieves an average 4.5% ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
DIDS: A distributed inference framework with dynamic scheduling capability
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.037AbstractDistributed inference is a promising solution for deploying Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications in resource-constrained edge environments. However, due to the complexity and variability of edge scenarios, efficiently completing DNN inference ...
Highlights- Static inference cannot adapt to the dynamic changes in the edge environment.
- Two basic scheduling strategies: Re-Partition and Complete-Push.
- Dynamic Push is the proposed 3-stages runtime scheduler.
- DIDS achieves a noticeable ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Energy-efficiency optimization for heterogeneous computing-assisted NOMA-MEC edge AI tasks
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 162, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.036AbstractEdge artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging paradigm that leverages edge computing to pave the last-mile delivery of AI. To satisfy the increasing demand for high-performance computing and low latency of edge service, heterogeneous computing ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
A cross-modal high-resolution image generation approach based on cloud-terminal collaboration for low-altitude intelligent network
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 686–700https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.054AbstractThe advancement of digitization and automation in Low Altitude Intelligent Networking (LAIN) is constrained by limited computational resources and the absence of a dedicated modal transformation mechanism, affecting the performance of latency-...
Highlights- Federal Learning approaches applicable to private cloud edge systems.
- Module for zero-shot denoising with detail preservation for SAR images.
- Cross-channel local focusing partially enhances picture feature characterization.
- ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Self-adaptive asynchronous federated optimizer with adversarial sharpness-aware minimization
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 638–654https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.045AbstractThe past years have witnessed the success of a distributed learning system called Federated Learning (FL). Recently, asynchronous FL (AFL) has demonstrated its potential in concurrency compared to mainstream synchronous FL. However, the inherent ...
Highlights- Address challenges in fully asynchronous FL: trip asynchrony, local update drift, dynamic communication.
- Propose a 1-bit feedback mechanism to dynamically regulate client trips and match their capabilities.
- Present a sharpness-...
- research-articleNovember 2024
A prototype-assisted clustered federated learning for big data security and privacy preservation
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 376–389https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.032AbstractIn the rapidly expanding field of IoT, data production has reached an unprecedented scale, providing valuable insights that accelerate decision-making processes. However, ensuring the privacy and security of this massive amount of data poses ...
Highlights- Introducing a Clustered FL approach to enhance privacy and security in handling IoT big data.
- Addressing CFL challenges like multi-distribution data, cluster similarity, and class imbalance.
- MDSPFL allows local datasets to follow ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
A dynamic multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with variable stepsize and dual prediction strategies
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 390–403https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.028AbstractThe prediction strategy is a key method for solving dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs), particularly the commonly used linear prediction strategy, which has an advantage in solving problems with regular changes. However, using ...
Highlights- Using the linear prediction strategy only may result in the loss of population diversity.
- A dynamic particle swarm prediction strategy is used to increase the population diversity.
- An improved linear prediction strategy is used to ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
SHIELD: A Secure Heuristic Integrated Environment for Load Distribution in Rural-AI
- Ashish Kaushal,
- Osama Almurshed,
- Osama Almoghamis,
- Areej Alabbas,
- Nitin Auluck,
- Bharadwaj Veeravalli,
- Omer Rana
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 286–301https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.026AbstractThe increasing adoption of edge computing in rural areas is leading to a substantial rise in data generation, necessitating the need for development of advanced load balancing algorithms. This is particularly important in applications that ...
Highlights- SHIELD framework is designed to improve task management in rural edge computing infrastructures.
- The load distribution is performed while considering following factors – completion time, failure rate, resource utilisation, overhead, ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
TransGINmer: Identifying viral sequences from metagenomes with self-attention and Graph Isomorphism Network
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 445–453https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.025AbstractViruses, abundant across diverse environments, play pivotal roles in microbial ecosystems and impact human health. Traditional virus studies are limited by their reliance on culture cultivation, which has been mitigated by metagenomics. It ...
Highlights- TransGINmer is a composite model that incorporates multi-head attention mechanisms with graph isomorphic neural networks. It utilizes the multi-head attention mechanism to capture global dependencies and employs the graph isomorphic neural ...
- articleNovember 2024
Accelerating Maximal Bicliques Enumeration with GPU on large scale network
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 601–613https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.021AbstractBicliques, as a prevalent graph pattern, are of particular interest in graph mining and social network analysis, especially for detecting illegal activities on e-commerce platforms due to their dense structure. Overcoming the challenge of ...
Highlights- Developing GPU framework for MBE in large networks, first to solve in real-world.
- GPU-accelerated MBE with efficient APIs for various data analysis needs.
- Our framework outperforms with up to 12x speedup on key graph datasets.
- research-articleNovember 2024
Integrating fully homomorphic encryption to enhance the security of blockchain applications
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 467–477https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.015AbstractBlockchain has been widely used for secure transactions among untrusted parties, but the current design of blockchain does not provide sufficient privacy and security for the data on the chain, limiting its application in sensitive information ...
Highlights- Fully homomorphic encryption enables computation in ciphertext form.
- Approach merges blockchain with fully homomorphic encryption.
- Approach boosts blockchain scalability with new privacy-preserving scheme.
- Approach introduces ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Deciphering the abundance of immune cells in glomerular endothelium of Alport syndrome kidneys using the deconvolution algorithm CONVdeconv
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 496–501https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.013AbstractDue to the high cost of single-cell sequencing technology, understanding cell heterogeneity within tissues is crucial for elucidating the biological characteristics of complex tissues. Therefore, this study proposes a method for generating pseudo-...
Highlights- A novel attention mechanism-based method is developed for deconvoluting real bulk RNA-seq data.
- Restored the proportion of cell types in mouse kidneys using CONVdecov.
- There is a significant difference in the proportion of ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Efficient and scalable covariate drift detection in machine learning systems with serverless computing
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 174–188https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.010AbstractAs machine learning models are increasingly deployed in production, robust monitoring and detection of concept and covariate drift become critical. This paper addresses the gap in the widespread adoption of drift detection techniques by proposing ...
Highlights- Serverless-based architecture enables efficient data drift detection in ML systems.
- Drift detection should be a requirement in the development of ML deployment pipelines.
- An edge ML system can incorporate data drift detection ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
An exploration of online-simulation-driven portfolio scheduling in Workflow Management Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 345–360https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.07.005AbstractWorkflow Management Systems used to automate the execution of scientific workflow applications on parallel and distributed computing platforms must make scheduling decisions at runtime. A large number of workflow scheduling algorithms have been ...
Highlights- Simulation-Driven Portfolio Scheduling implemented in Workflow Management Systems can afford large performance improvement over the traditional one-algorithm approach.
- This improvement is still significant in the presence of high ...
- research-articleNovember 2024
Portability and scalability evaluation of large-scale statistical modeling and prediction software through HPC-ready containers
- Sameh Abdulah,
- Jorge Ejarque,
- Omar Marzouk,
- Hatem Ltaief,
- Ying Sun,
- Marc G. Genton,
- Rosa M. Badia,
- David E. Keyes
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 161, Issue CPages 248–258https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.06.057AbstractHPC-based applications often have complex workflows with many software dependencies that hinder their portability on contemporary HPC architectures. In addition, these applications often require extraordinary efforts to deploy and execute at ...
Highlights- We offer an automated method to create HPC-ready containers for software, ensuring portability across hardware architectures while preserving performance.
- We utilize Spack, Singularity, and Docker buildx for container creation, ...