Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	327
Cooperative-centrality enabled investigations on edge-based trustworthy framework for cloud focused internet of things	252
Editorial Board	231
The universal federator: A third-party authentication solution to federated cloud, edge, and fog	207
A dynamic spectrum access scheme for Internet of Things with improved federated learning	189
Efficient solutions to the placement and chaining problem of User Plane Functions in 5G networks	156
Terra: Low-latency and reliable event col	155
A cooperative image object recognition framework and task offloading optimization in edge computing	146
Stackelberg game-based dynamic resource trading for network slicing in 5G networks	131
DC-PUF: Machine learning-resistant PUF-based authentication protocol using dependency chain for resource-constraint IoT devices	128
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for privacy-aware distributed CNN in heterogeneous IoT surveillance systems	107
SRP: An Efficient Runtime Protection Framework for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts	106
Analysis of cryptocurrency transactions from a network perspective: An overview	106
Editorial Board	106
Editorial Board	103
Striking the perfect balance: Multi-objective optimization for minimizing deployment cost and maximizing coverage with Harmony Search	102
Harnessing federated generative learning for green and sustainable Internet of Things	101
Energy-efficient virtual-machine mapping algorithm (EViMA) for workflow tasks with deadlines in a cloud environment	96
NOMA and future 5G & B5G wireless networks: A paradigm	95
Open RAN security: Challenges and opportunities	92
A DDoS attack detection method based on IQR and DFFCNN in SDN	92
SFTO-Guard: Real-time detection and mitigation system for slow-rate flow table overflow attacks	88
CRAMP: Clustering-based RANs association and MEC placement for delay-sensitive applications	83
Hardening of network segmentation using automated referential penetration testing	83
BRIP: Towards a privacy-preserving, trustworthy, and transparent ride-sharing system with semantic matching powered by blockchain and IPFS	82

Two formal design solutions for the generalization of network segmentation	82
Mobility-aware fog computing in dynamic networks with mobile nodes: A survey	79
Green grant-free power allocation for ultra-dense Internet of Things: A mean-field perspective	78
A Stochastic Computational Graph with Ensemble Learning Model for solving Controller Placement Problem in Software-Defined Wide Area Networks	77
Community detection in complex network based on an improved random algorithm using local and global network information	75
Intelligent energy management with IoT framework in smart cities using intelligent analysis: An application of machine learning methods for complex networks and systems	74
UAV assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks: A survey	69
Holistic survey on energy aware routing techniques for IoT applications	69
Touch-based continuous mobile device authentication: State-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities	68
DeFinder: Error-sensitive testing of deep neural networks via vulnerability interpretation	68
Editorial Board	68
Online dynamic replication and placement algorithms for cost optimization of online social networks in two-tier multi-cloud	68
Heterogeneous IoT/LTE ProSe virtual infrastructure for disaster situations	67
Caching or not: An online cost optimization algorithm for geodistributed data analysis in cloud environments	67
Backscatter communication-based wireless sensing (BBWS): Performance enhancement and future applications	66
ALSketch: An adaptive learning-based sketch for accurate network measurement under dynamic traffic distribution	66
Constrained routing in multi-partite graph to solve VNF placement and chaining problem	64
CE-VNE: Constraint escalation virtual network embedding algorithm assisted by graph convolutional networks	64
Efficient application mapping approach based on grey wolf optimization for network on chip	64
Attenuating majority attack class bias using hybrid deep learning based IDS framework	63
A survey on data plane programming with P4: Fundamentals, advances, and applied research	63
Securing the Industrial Internet of Things against ransomware attacks: A comprehensive analysis of the emerging threat landscape and detection mechanisms	63
Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey	60
Exploring Blockchain-driven security in SDN-based IoT networks	60
OverShard: Scaling blockchain by full sharding with overlapping network and virtual accounts	59
Holistic resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks: An optimization perspective	57
Reducing cold start delay in serverless computing using lightweight virtual machines	57
A systematic review on energy efficiency in the internet of underwater things (IoUT): Recent approaches and research gaps	57
Label-aware learning to enhance unsupervised cross-domain rumor detection	57
Editorial Board	56
Editorial Board	52
Editorial Board	52
AntCom: An effective and efficient anti-tracking system with dynamic and asymmetric communication channel	50
Knowledge reuse in edge computing environments	49
AI for AI-based intrusion detection as a service: Reinforcement learning to configure models, tasks, and capacities	48
Device and network driven cellular networks architecture and mobility management technique for fog computing-based mobile communication system	47
Variational Deep Clustering approaches for anomaly-based cyber-attack detection	44
Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Federated Learning with weighted average aggregation in edge computing	43
Addressing security requirements in industrial IoT: A robust three-factor authentication scheme with enhanced features	42
Fatriot: Fault-tolerant MEC architecture for mission-critical systems using a SmartNIC	41
Optimizing disaster response with UAV-mounted RIS and HAP-enabled edge computing in 6G networks	41
FlexMon: A flexible and fine-grained traffic monitor for programmable networks	41
A dynamic state sharding blockchain architecture for scalable and secure crowdsourcing systems	40
A comprehensive survey on reinforcement-learning-based computation offloading techniques in Edge Computing Systems	40
Deep Reinforcement Learning based reliable spectrum sensing under SSDF attacks in Cognitive Radio networks	40
Comprehensive phishing detection: A multi-channel approach with variants TCN fusion leveraging URL and HTML features	40
Data reconstruction applications for IoT air pollution sensor networks using graph signal processing	39
Editorial Board	39
Comprehensive review on congestion detection, alleviation, and control for IoT networks	38
Optimizing the quality of information of networked machine learning agents	38

Survey of prominent blockchain development platforms	38
A bargain game theory assisted interest packet forwarding strategy for information centric network	35
RVC: A reputation and voting based blockchain consensus mechanism for edge computing-enabled IoT systems	35
A state lossless scheduling strategy in distributed stream computing systems	34
Intelligent aerial video streaming: Achievements and challenges	34
Quality-aware multi-task allocation based on location importance in mobile crowdsensing	34
Towards DDoS detection mechanisms in Software-Defined Networking	34
Network Coding-based Resilient Routing for Maintaining Data Security and Availability in Software-Defined Networks	34
An online bi-objective scheduling algorithm for service provisioning in cloud computing	33
An online service provisioning strategy for container-based cloud brokers	33
A review of graph-powered data quality applications for IoT monitoring sensor networks	33
Socially-aware and energy-efficient resource allocation and power control for D2D multicast content distribution	32
Fog radio access network optimization for 5G leveraging user mobility and traffic data	32
Towards blockchain-IoT based shared mobility: Car-sharing and leasing as a case study	31
ELA-RCP: An energy-efficient and load balanced algorithm for reliable controller placement in software-defined networks	31
A systematic review of blockchain scalability: Issues, solutions, analysis and future research	30
EBDL: Effective blockchain-based covert storage channel with dynamic labels	30
Broadcast/multicast delivery integration in B5G/6G environments	30
Enhancement of cellular networks via an improved clustering technique with D2D communication for mission-critical applications	30
Skin lesion classification using modified deep and multi-directional invariant handcrafted features	30
Efficient privacy-preserving ML for IoT: Cluster-based split federated learning scheme for non-IID data	30
A lightweight SEL for attack detection in IoT/IIoT networks	30
RICH: Strategy-proof and efficient coflow scheduling in non-cooperative environments	30
Unfolding the blockchain era: Timeline, evolution, types and real-world applications	29
Recent advances in energy management for Green-IoT: An up-to-date and comprehensive survey	29
Editorial Board	29
A comprehensive plane-wise review of DDoS attacks in SDN: Leveraging detection and mitigation through machine learning and deep learning	29
Design, implementation, and performance evaluation of an earliest-deadline-first packet scheduling scheme in P4 hardware switches	28
A novel secure and distributed architecture for privacy-preserving healthcare system	27
CPS: Cross-interface network Partitioning and Scheduling towards QoS-aware data flow delivery in multimedia IoT	27
Privacy protection among three antithetic-parties for context-aware services	27
Reinforcement learning-based dynamic routing using mobile sink for data collection in WSNs and IoT applications	27
Device-to-device communication in 5G heterogeneous network based on game-theoretic approaches: A comprehensive survey	26
MUSE: MUlti-lead Sub-beat ECG for remote AI based atrial fibrillation detection	26
Firm social management system for supporting IoT users in application environment	26
Controller load optimization strategies in Software-Defined Networking: A survey	26
Energy-efficient hierarchical dynamic depth adjustment routing protocol for UWSN with distributed sink mobility and semantic self-healing	26
DQN-based intelligent controller for multiple edge domains	26
End-to-end active queue management with Named-Data Networking	25
An efficient and lightweight identity-based scheme for secure communication in clustered wireless sensor networks	25
AI-enhanced blockchain technology: A review of advancements and opportunities	25
Multipoint communication using a fog-robotic coordinated nodal conveying system for wireless networks	25
A survey on security issues in IoT operating systems	25
Distributed enhanced multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition for cluster analysis in wireless sensor network	25
Data transmission reduction using prediction and aggregation techniques in IoT-based wireless sensor networks	25
Node cooperation for workload offloading in a fog computing network via multi-objective optimization	24
Predictive safe delivery with machine learning and digital twins collaboration for decentralized crowdsourced systems	24
Light up that Droid! On the effectiveness of static analysis features against app obfuscation for Android malware detection	24
Efficient congestion control scheme based on caching strategy in NDN	24
TridentShell: An enhanced covert and scalable backdoor injection attack on web applications	24
ParallelC-Store: A committee structure-based reliable parallel storage mechanism for permissioned blockchain sharding	24
Neglected infrastructures for 6G—Underwater communications: How mature are they?	23
Bitcoin attacks: A comprehensive study	23
SSBM: A spatially separated boxes-based multi-tab website fingerprinting model	23
A robust authentication scheme for remote diagnosis and maintenance in 5G V2N	23
Editorial Board	23
TD-RA policy-enforcement framework for an SDN-based IoT architecture	23
Evolving techniques in cyber threat hunting: A systematic review	23
A cost aware topology formation scheme for latency sensitive applications in edge infrastructure-as-a-service paradigm	23
REPS-AKA3: A secure authentication and re- authentication protocol for LTE networks	23
A survey of longitudinal changes in cellular network architecture: The good, the bad, and the ugly	22
Mobile cloud computing models security issues: A systematic review	22
Synchronizing real-time and high-precision LDoS defense of learning model-based in AIoT with programmable data plane, SDN	22
The convergence of Digital Twins and Distributed Ledger Technologies: A systematic literature review and an architectural proposal	22
Hierarchical community discovery for multi-stage IP bearer network upgradation	22
On challenges of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks: A comprehensive survey of requirements, applications, and security issues	22
DAPNEML: Disease-diet associations prediction in a NEtwork using a machine learning based approach	22
Preemptive admission control mechanism for strict QoS guarantee to life-saving emergency traffic in wireless LANs	22
An open-source implementation and validation of 5G NR configured grant for URLLC in ns-3 5G LENA: A scheduling case study in industry 4.0 scenarios	22
Living on the edge: A survey of Digital Twin-Assisted Task Offloading in safety-critical environments	22
Review of healthcare industry 4.0 application-based blockchain in terms of security and privacy development attributes: Comprehensive taxonomy, open issues and challenges and recommended solution	21
Lurking in the shadows: Unsupervised decoding of beaconing communication for enhanced cyber threat hunting	21
A Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit approach for NDN forwarding	21
Security and privacy of industrial big data: Motivation, opportunities, and challenges	20
A survey of privacy-preserving offloading methods in mobile-edge computing	20
Blockchain for unmanned underwater drones: Research issues, challenges, trends and future directions	19
5G/6G-enabled metaverse technologies: Taxonomy, applications, and open security challenges with future research directions	19
A progressive learning method on unknown protocol behaviors	19
Task offloading paradigm in mobile edge computing-current issues, adopted approaches, and future directions	19
DIMY: Enabling privacy-preserving contact tracing	19

A comprehensive survey on channel hopping and scheduling enhancements for TSCH networks	19
USAGE : Uncertain flow graph and spatio-temporal graph convolutional network-based saturation attack detection method	19
Towards defining industry 5.0 vision with intelligent and softwarized wireless network architectures and services: A survey	19
Community Detection method based on Random walk and Multi objective Evolutionary algorithm in complex networks	18
Exploiting web content semantic features to detect web robots from weblogs	18
A service function chain mapping scheme based on functional aggregation in space-air-ground integrated networks	18
Bidirectional utilization of blockchain and privacy computing: Issues, progress, and challenges	18
Anomalous state detection in radio access networks: A proof-of-concept	18
Enhanced multi-objective gorilla troops optimizer for real-time multi-user dependent tasks offloading in edge-cloud computing	18
Multi-Batches Revenue Maximization for competitive products over online social network	17
Deep Neural Networks meet computation offloading in mobile edge networks: Applications, taxonomy, and open issues	17
A systematic review of federated learning: Challenges, aggregation methods, and development tools	17
Multi-UAV aided energy-aware transmissions in mmWave communication network: Action-branching QMIX network	17
Exploring an edge convolution and normalization based approach for link prediction in complex networks	17
Editorial Board	17
Dynamic resource management in integrated NOMA terrestrial–satellite networks using multi-agent reinforcement learning	17
MATE: A multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for Traffic Engineering in Hybrid Software Defined Networks	17
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions	17
A deep density based and self-determining clustering approach to label unknown traffic	17
Enhanced detection of low-rate DDoS attack patterns using machine learning models	16
Editorial Board	16
Dynamic Web Application Firewall detection supported by Cyber Mimic Defense approach	16
Designing transport scheme of 3D naked-eye system	16
Early Prevention and Mitigation of Link Flooding Attacks in Software Defined Networks	16
PMP: A partition-match parallel mechanism for DNN inference acceleration in cloud–edge collaborative environments	15
Flow control oriented forwarding and caching in cache-enabled networks	15
VDFChain: Secure and verifiable decentralized federated learning via committee-based blockchain	15
A survey on essential challenges in relay-aided D2D communication for next-generation cellular networks	15
PRISM: PSI and Voronoi diagram based Automated Exposure Notification with location privacy	15
Red Deer Algorithm based nano-sensor node clustering for IoNT	15
A slotted random request scheme for connectionless data transmission in bluetooth low energy 5.0	15
MW3F: Improved multi-tab website fingerprinting attacks with Transformer-based feature fusion	15
Enhanced detection of imbalanced malicious network traffic with regularized Generative Adversarial Networks	15
Optimizing efficiency of P2P content distribution with network coding: Principles, challenges, and future directions	15
A Survey of Channel Modeling Techniques for Visible Light Communications	15
Fair association and rate maximization in 6G UAV Aided HS only network and HetNet	15
BLIND: A privacy preserving truth discovery system for mobile crowdsensing	15
Recent endeavors in machine learning-powered intrusion detection systems for the Internet of Things	14
A comprehensive survey on security, privacy issues and emerging defence technologies for UAVs	14
Securing SDN: Hybrid autoencoder-random forest for intrusion detection and attack mitigation	14
RL-based HTTP adaptive streaming with edge collaboration in multi-client environment	14
STSIR: An individual-group game-based model for disclosing virus spread in Social Internet of Things	14
RPL routing protocol over IoT: A comprehensive survey, recent advances, insights, bibliometric analysis, recommendations, and future directions	14
Editorial Board	14
A low-storage synchronization framework for blockchain systems	14
Multi-level video quality services and security guarantees based on compressive sensing in sensor-cloud system	14
Performance enhancement of artificial intelligence: A survey	14
Enhancing honeynet-based protection with network slicing for massive Pre-6G IoT Smart Cities deployments	14
Secured location-aware mobility-enabled RPL	14
Server load estimation by Burr distribution mixture analysis of TCP SYN response time	14
Editorial Board	13
Efficient stochastic scheduling for highly complex resource placement in edge clouds	13
No more DoS? An empirical study on defense techniques for web server Denial of Service mitigation	13
Book review	13
The convergence of blockchain, IoT and 6G: Potential, opportunities, challenges and research roadmap	13
An efficient and cost effective application mapping for network-on-chip using Andean condor algorithm	13
A holistic survey of multipath wireless video streaming	13
Complex networks for Smart environments management	13
RCA-SI: A Rapid Consensus Algorithm for Swarm Intelligence in unstable network environments	13
Blockchain-based key management system in Named Data Networking: A survey	13
GROM: A generalized routing optimization method with graph neural network and deep reinforcement learning	13
SDN-based wireless mobile backhaul architecture: Review and challenges	12
FRRL: A reinforcement learning approach for link failure recovery in a hybrid SDN	12
Split PO for paging in B5G networks	12
Node and relevant data selection in distributed predictive analytics: A query-centric approach	12
Boundary node detection in wireless networks with uneven node distribution on open surfaces	12
Contemporary advances in multi-access edge computing: A survey of fundamentals, architecture, technologies, deployment cases, security, challenges, and directions	12
Deep reinforcement learning-based algorithms selectors for the resource scheduling in hierarchical Cloud computing	12
Heuristic and approximate Steiner tree algorithms for ensuring network connectivity in mobile wireless sensor networks	12
Autonomous valet parking optimization with two-step reservation and pricing strategy	12
Region-aware dynamic job scheduling and resource efficiency for load balancing based on adaptive chaotic sparrow search optimization and coalitional game in cloud computing environments	12
Consensus hybrid ensemble machine learning for intrusion detection with explainable AI	11
PriFoB: A Privacy-aware Fog-enhanced Blockchain-based system for Global Accreditation and Credential Verification	11
A zero trust and blockchain-based defense model for smart electric vehicle chargers	11
Editorial Board	11
Clusters in chaos: A deep unsupervised learning paradigm for network anomaly detection	11
A survey of state-of-the-art sharding blockchains: Models, components, and attack surfaces	11
A multi-UAV assisted task offloading and path optimization for mobile edge computing via multi-agent deep reinforcement learning	11
Time-efficient distributed virtual network embedding for round-trip delay minimization	11
Blockchain-inspired intelligent framework for logistic theft control	11
TrailChain: Traceability of data ownership across blockchain-enabled multiple marketplaces	11
Heterogeneous graph representation learning via mutual information estimation for fraud detection	11
Micro2vec: Anomaly detection in microservices systems by mining numeric representations of computer logs	10
BAS-NDN: BlockChain based mobile producer authentication scheme for Named Data Networking	10
Video streaming over IoV using IP multicast	10
Efficient regular expression matching over hybrid dictionary-based compressed data	10
Caching transient data in Information-Centric Internet-of-Things (IC-IoT) networks: A survey	10
CL-AP2: A compo	10
Node cardinality estimation in a heterogeneous wireless network deployed over a large region using a mobile base station	10
Forecasting network events to estimate attack risk: Integration of wavelet transform and vector auto regression with exogenous variables	10
RSCAT: Towards zero touch congestion control based on actor–critic reinforcement learning and software-defined networking	10
Innovative detection of IoT cyber threats using a GBiTCN-Temformer and MKOA framework	10
Defeating deep learning based de-anonymization attacks with adversarial example	10
A survey of data mining methodologies in the environment of IoT and its variants	10
Synthetic and privacy-preserving traffic trace generation using generative AI models for training Network Intrusion Detection Systems	9