Ali Ihsan

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• PhD
• Assistant Professor at Southeast Missouri State University

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) significantly enhance transportation efficiency, accident prevention, and pedestrian comfort by facilitating seamless information exchange between vehicles and road infrastructure. The effective deployment of VANETs depends on the precision of message delivery with minimal latency, along with data security and pri...

In modern communication systems, the demand for efficient and secure data transmission has become increasingly important due to the rapid growth of wireless technologies and connected devices. This paper addresses the power minimization problem in secure multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO)...

Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of the capable applicants for the future Internet architecture, where communications focus on content rather than providing content. NDN implements Information-Centric Networking (ICN) with its unique node structure and significant characteristics such as built-in mobility support, multicast support, and efficient...

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the fifth-generation (5G) network has emerged as a promising solution to deliver seamless services and provide connectivity because of their mobile nature. In vehicular networks, connectivity between vehicles and the network can be affected by ground-level obstacles and false messages created by...

The adoption and application of mobile communication technology have rapidly escalated, leading to a significant upsurge in the demand of data traffic. Ultra‐densification stands as one of the network solutions within the realm of 5G and beyond technologies, aimed to enhance data rates and network capacity. Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are depl...

In recent years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been used in many important areas, including weather forecasting, security, environmental monitoring, health care, and industry. However, the constraints of WSNs are in terms of energy, processing, connectivity, computation, and data integrity. The efficient administration of the enormous volume...

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the fifth-generation (5G) network has emerged as a promising solution to deliver seamless services and provide connectivity because of their mobile nature. In vehicular networks, connectivity between vehicles and the network can be affected by ground-level obstacles and false messages created by...

Electronic voting systems have undergone several studies to ensure the reliability of results. Many approaches have since been suggested to solve ongoing problems, including the adoption of conventional cryptographic techniques. On the one hand, the transfers of electronic voting data over Internet protocol-based Internet are vulnerable to numerous...

In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., smart home), several IoT devices may be available that are interconnected with each other. In such interconnected environments, a faulty or compromised IoT device could impact the operation of other IoT devices. In other words, anomalous behavior exhibited by an IoT device could propagate to other d...

The agricultural industry must produce more food while ensuring environmental sustainability and efficient resource usage to meet the global population's demand, set to hit 9.7 billion by 2050. Advanced technologies and automation are critical solutions for this challenge. Sensor networks, machine learning, and decision support systems integrated i...

p>Software-defined networking (SDN) plays a crucial role in the enterprise and wide-area networking. The increasing demand for strict service-level agreement applications on the Internet requires networks to be scalable and resilient in the face of link and switch failure. However, there is a lack of systematic reviews on SDN data plane failure rec...

Software-defined networking (SDN) plays a crucial role in the enterprise and wide-area networking. The increasing demand for strict service-level agreement applications on the Internet requires networks to be scalable and resilient in the face of link and switch failure. However, there is a lack of systematic reviews on SDN data plane failure recov...

In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g. smart home), several IoT devices may be available that are interconnected with each other. In such interconnected environments, a faulty or compromised IoT device could impact the operation of other IoT devices. In other words, anomalous behavior exhibited by an IoT device could propagate to other de...

In underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs), energy awareness, best path selection, reliability, and scalability are among the key factors that decide information delivery to the sea surface. Existing protocols usually do not combine such performance-affecting factors in information routing. As a result, the performance of such protocols usually...

Social media platforms like Twitter have become common tools for disseminating and consuming news because of the ease with which users can get access to and consume it. This paper focuses on the identification of false news and the use of cutting-edge detection methods in the context of news, user, and social levels. Fake news detection taxonomy wa...

The proliferation of big data for web-enabled technologies allows users to publish their views, suggestions, sentiments, emotions, and opinionative content about several real-world entities. These available opinionative texts have greater importance to those who are inquisitive about their desired entities, but it becomes an arduous task to capture...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a heterogeneous environment where multiple devices/consumers can interest/request for the same chunk of content at the same time with the need for source authenticity. According to the current NDN policy, only one user can verify the content authenticity using a digital signature. However, the digital signature is genera...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged as a prospective technology used to advance the practices of construction projects. Also, Internet of Things (IoT), as a technology that connects sensing devices to share information across platforms, has become essential in building and construction environment. The integration of BIM-IoT in the cons...

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is one of the most challenging and active research topics in data science due to its wide range of applications in human–computer interaction, computer games, mobile services and psychological assessment. In the past, several studies have employed handcrafted features to classify emotions and achieved good classific...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology enabling physical devices like cameras, home appliances, and other devices to communicate and interoperate with each other. The next wave transforms our homes, society, enterprises, and cities with the massive presence of IoT devices. The devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) may exchange sensiti...

Voltage sag in a power system is an unavoidable power quality issue, and it is also an urgent concern of sensitive industrial users. To ensure the power quality demand and economical operation of the power system, voltage sag management has always drawn great attention from researchers around the world. The latest research that realizes the power q...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is known to be one of the most lethal attacks in traditional network architecture. In this attack, the attacker uses botnets to overwhelm network resources. Botnets can be randomly compromised computers or IoT devices that are used to generate excessive traffic towards the victim, and as a result, legitim...

Designing an efficient, reliable, and stable algorithm for underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UA-WSNs) needs immense attention. It is due to their notable and distinctive challenges. To address the difficulties and challenges, the article introduces two algorithms: the multilayer sink (MuLSi) algorithm and its reliable version MuLSi-Co u...

Data collection is an essential part of sensor devices, particularly in such technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and sensor cloud (SC). In recent years, various literature had been published in these research areas to propose different models, architectures, and contributions in the domains. Due to the import...

Industrial internet of things (IIoT) is the usage of internet of things (IoT) devices and applications for the purpose of sensing, processing and communicating real-time events in the industrial system to reduce the unnecessary operational cost and enhance manufacturing and other industrial-related processes to attain more profits. However, such Io...

Internet of Things (IoT), which is a growing domain, provides a universal connection to the Internet by spinning common objects to connected ones by changing the way people communicate and interact with the things around them. This type of setup paves the way for the creation of interconnected infrastructure to support innovative services that ensu...

In recent years, progressive developments have been observed in recent technologies and the production cost has been continuously decreasing. In such scenario, Internet of Things (IoT) network which is comprised of a set of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), has received more attention from civilian to military applications. But network security poses...

Throughout the world, Internet of Things (IoT) have been used in different application areas to assist human beings in numerous activities such as smart buildings and cities via remote sensing-enabled techniques. However, simultaneous transmission of packet(s) by multiple devices Ci, which are interested to start a communication session with a comm...

div>To date, the novel Corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) has infected millions and has caused the deaths of thousands of people around the world. At the moment, five antibodies, two from China, two from the U.S., and one from the UK, have already been widely utilized and numerous vaccines are under the trail process. In order to reach herd immunity, around...

Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic diseases that cause high blood sugar. Early diagnosis of such a condition is challenging due to its complex interdependence on various factors. There is a need to develop critical decision support systems to assist medical practitioners in the diagnosis process. This research proposes developing a predic...

Software-defined networking (SDN) makes network agile and flexible due to its programmable approach. An extensive network has multiple domains in SDN for the scalability and performance of the network. However, the inter-domain link is also crucial for the stability of the entire network on the data plane layer. More than one inter-domain connectio...

Underwater acoustic sensor network (UASN) refers to a procedure that promotes a broad spectrum of aquatic applications. UASNs can be practically applied in seismic checking, ocean mine identification, resource exploration, pollution checking, and disaster avoidance. UASN confronts many difficulties and issues, such as low bandwidth, node movements,...

xCalamities such as earthquakes and tsunami affect communication services by devastating the communication network and electrical infrastructure. Multihop relay networks can be deployed to restore the communication environment quickly in catastrophe-stricken areas. However, performance in terms of throughput is affected by deploying the relay netwo...

Achievement of precision measurement is highly desired in a current industrial revolution where a significant increase in living standards increased municipal solid waste. The current industry 4.0 standards require accurate and efficient edge computing sensors towards solid waste classification. Thus, if waste is not managed properly, it would brin...

Reliable and resource-aware communication is a challenging task in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In these networks, seamless and interoperable communication among member devices is a challenging task that becomes more complex with the simultaneous communication of two or more devices with a centralized controller, that is, a cluster head or a...

Data center (DC) technology changes the mode of computing. Traditional DCs consist of a single layer and only have Ethernet connections among switches. Those old-fashioned DCs cannot fulfill the high resource demand compared with today’s DCs. The architectural design of the DCs is getting substantial importance and acting as the backbone of the net...

The Internet of Health Things (IoHT) is an extended version of the Internet of Things that is acting a starring role in data sharing remotely. These remote data sources consist of physiological processes, such as treatment progress, patient monitoring, and consultation. The main purpose of IoHT platform is to intervene independently from geographic...

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered one of the world’s ruling technologies. Billions of IoT devices connected together through IoT forming smart cities. As the concept grows, it is very challenging to design an infrastructure that is capable of handling large number of devices and process data effectively in a smart city paradigm. This paper pro...

The implementation of efficient security mechanisms for Radio Frequency Identifica-tion (RFID) system has always been a continuous challenge due to its limited computing resources.Previously, hash-based, symmetric-key cryptography-based and elliptic curve cryptography based securityprotocols were proposed for RFID system. However, these protocols a...

The implementation of efficient security mechanisms for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system has always been a continuous challenge due to its limited computing resources. Previously, hash-based, symmetric-key cryptography-based and elliptic curve cryptography based security protocols were proposed for RFID system. However, these protocols...

Billions of IoT devices and smart objects are already in operation today and even more are expected to be on the network over time. These IoT devices will generate enormous amounts of data that cannot be allowed to transmit on the network without end-to-end encryption or any trust and security mechanism. Currently, we have certificate authorities t...

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a complex system that consists of resource types such as vehicles, humans, and sensors. Although the Internet of Vehicles is complex, it improvises communication among vehicles on the roads. Quality of service (QoS) enabled the cooperative driving system (CDS) based on 5G technology, enabling vehicles to communicate an...

The integration of cellular networks and vehicular networks is complex and heterogeneous. Synchronization among vehicles in heterogeneous vehicular clusters plays an important role in effective data sharing and the stability of the cluster. This synchronization depends on the smooth exchange of information between vehicles and remote servers over t...

The adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology is expanding exponentially because of its capability to provide a better service. This technology has been successfully implemented on various devices. The growth of IoT devices is massive at present. However, security is becoming a major challenge with this growth. Attacks, such as IoT-based...

Speech is a powerful medium of communication that always convey rich and useful information, such as gender, accent, and other unique characteristics of a speaker. These unique characteristics enable researchers to recognize human voice using artificial intelligence techniques that are important in the areas of forensic voice verification, security...

Internet of Things (IoT) enables smart campuses more convenient for cloud services. The availability of cloud resources to its users appears as a fundamental challenge. The existing research presents several auto-scaling techniques to scale the resources with the increase in users’ demands. However, still, the cloud users of auto-scaled servers exp...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It was tagged as a pandemic soon by the WHO being a serious public medical condition worldwide. In spite of the fact that the virus can be diagnosed by qRT-PCR, COVID-19 patients who are affected with pneumonia and other severe complications can only be diagnosed...

Opportunistic routing is an emerging routing technology that was proposed to overcome the drawback of unreliable transmission, especially in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Over the years, many forwarder methods were proposed to improve the performance in opportunistic routing. However, based on existing works, the findings have shown that there i...

The integration of cloud computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to create Sensorcloud helps in extending the data processing capability and storage capability of WSNs. Knowing how weak WSNs are with regards to communication ability, how to collect and upload sensory data to the cloud in limited time has become an issue in Sensor-cloud. In th...

div>In recent years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) technologies are used in many important areas, including weather forecasting, security, environmental monitoring, health care, and industry. Nonetheless, due to the constraints of WSNs in terms of energy, processing, connectivity, computation and data integrity. An important issue in this rese...

The integration of cloud computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to create Sensorcloud helps in extending the data processing capability and storage capability of WSNs. Knowing how weak WSNs are with regards to communication ability, how to collect and upload sensory data to the cloud in limited time has become an issue in Sensor-cloud. In th...

In recent years, cloud computing has gained massive popularity in information technology and the industrial Internet of things. It provides facilities to the users over the wireless channel. Many surveys have been carried out in cloud security and privacy. The existing survey papers do not specify the classifications on the basis of cloud computing...

In recent years, cloud computing has gained massive popularity in information technology and the industrial Internet of things. It provides facilities to the users over the wireless channel. Many surveys have been carried out in cloud security and privacy. e existing survey papers do not specify the classifications on the basis of cloud computing c...

Data Collection in Sensor-cloud: A Systematic Literature Review

CITATION Hamid, Sufian; Shah, Syed Attique; Draheim, Dirk (2020): A Scalable Key and Trust Management Solution for IoT Sensors Using SDN and Blockchain Technology. TechRxiv. Preprint. Abstract-Billions of IoT devices and smart objects are already in operation today and even more are expected to be on the network over time. These IoT devices will ge...

Searchable encryption (SE) is appearing as a prominent solution in the intersection of privacy protection and efficient retrieval of data outsourced to cloud computing storage. While it preserves privacy by encrypting data, yet supports search operation without data leakage. Due to its applicability, many research communities have proposed differen...

The original article has been published with an incorrect grant number in the acknowledgements which should be RG # 1439-036.

The Internet of Things (IoT) integrates billions of smart devices that can communicate with one another with minimal human intervention. IoT is one of the fastest developing fields in the history of computing, with an estimated 50 billion devices by the end of 2020. However, the crosscutting nature of IoT systems and the multidisciplinary component...

Speaker identification refers to the process of recognizing human voice using artificial intelligence techniques. Speaker identification technologies are widely applied in voice authentication, security and surveillance, electronic voice eavesdropping, and identity verification. In the speaker identification process, extracting discriminative and s...

Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) are successful in single-query motion planning problems. The standard version of RRT grows a tree from a start location and stops once it reached the goal configuration. RRT-Connect is the bidirectional version of RRT, which grows two trees simultaneously. These two trees try to establish a connection to stop s...

The integration of cloud computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to create Sensor-cloud helps in extending the data processing capability and storage capability of WSNs. Knowing how weak WSNs are with regards to communication ability, how to collect and upload sensory data to the cloud in limited time has become an issue in Sensor-cloud. In t...

In this paper, a novel de-ghosting image fusion technique is presented, which enhances the quality of low dynamic range images using multi-level exposures taken from the ordinary camera and also removes the ghosting artifact. In the proposed algorithm, first, the source images, taken under different exposure settings, are decomposed into base and d...

The exponential growth in the number of smart devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT), and associated with various IoT-based smart applications and services, raises interoperability challenges which could affect the sustainability of IoT services. IoT software applications are built using different software platforms and embedded in diver...

Many receiver-based Preamble Sampling Medium Access Control (PS-MAC) protocols have been proposed to provide better performance for variable traffic in a wireless sensor network (WSN). However, most of these protocols cannot prevent the occurrence of incorrect traffic convergence that causes the receiver node to wake-up more frequently than the tra...

Underwater deployed sensors nodes are energy-constrained. Therefore, energy efficiency becomes crucial in underwater wireless sensor networks (U-WSNs). The adverse channel corrupts the packets and challenges their reliability. To handle these challenges, two routing schemes are introduced in this paper. They are effective energy and reliable delive...

Prior to the innovation of Information Communication Technologies (ICT), social interactions evolved within small cultural boundaries, such as geo spatial locations. The recent developments of communication technologies have considerably transcended the temporal and spatial limitations of traditional communications. These social technologies have c...

Cloud computing is now being utilized as a prospective alternative for catering storage service. Security issues of cloud storage are a potential deterrent in its widespread adoption. Privacy breach, malicious modification and data loss are emerging cyber threats against cloud storage. Recently, a fog server based three-layer architecture has been...

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the rising innovations of the current era that has largely attracted both the industry and the academia. Life without the IoT is entirely indispensable. To dispel the doubts, if any, about the widespread adoption, the IoT certainly necessitates both technically and logically correct solutions to ensure the underly...

The rapid advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) has drastically augmented the connectivity of actuators, computational elements and smart devices to the physical world. In this context, smart building (SB) serves as a significant domain to automatically handle and control the temperature, humidity, ventilation, safety, lig...

The protocols in underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UAWSNs) that address reliability in packets forwarding usually consider the connectivity of the routing paths up to one- or two-hops. Since senor nodes are connected with one another using other nodes in their neighborhood, such protocols have compromised reliability. It is because thes...

An efficient algorithm for the persistence operation of data routing is crucial due to the uniqueness and challenges of the aqueous medium of the underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UA-WSNs). The existing multi-hop algorithms have a high energy cost, data loss, and less stability due to many forwarders for a single-packet delivery. In ord...

Symmetry in nodes operation in underwater wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is crucial so that nodes consume their energy in a balanced fashion. This prevents rapid death of nodes close to water surface and enhances network life span. Symmetry can be achieved by minimizing delay and ensuring reliable packets delivery to sea surface. It is because del...

High-performance computing (HPC) demands many computers to perform multiple tasks concurrently and efficiently. For efficient resource utilization and for better response time, different scheduling algorithms have been proposed which aim to increase throughput, scalability, and performance of HPC applications. In this paper, our contribution is two...

Nowadays, data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems are crucial for intensive computing environments. The energy efficiency in HPC is an evergreen problem. Moreover, energy-efficient design and energy ecology measures are core challenges in HPC. However, current research focuses on practical methods to measure power utilization to t...

Multivariate data sets are common in various application areas, such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and DNA analysis. A robust mechanism is required to compute their similarity indexes regardless of the environment and problem domain. This study describes the usefulness of a non-metric-based approach (i.e., longest common subsequence) in comput...

Big Data is all about procedures, processes, tools and techniques used which an organization can manipulate, create and manage very large amount of data and storage facilities. Healthcare is one of the biggest domains of Big Data which has generated a very big amount of data which is driven by record-keeping. The recent technological developments h...