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Online social networks are becoming a major growth point of the internet, as individuals, companies and governments constantly desire to interact with one another, the ability of the internet to deliver this networking capabilities grows…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Shafii M. Abdulhamid , Sulaiman Ahmad , Victor O. Waziri , Fatima N. Jibril

With the advent of modern technology, critical infrastructure, communications, and national security depend increasingly on space-based assets. These assets, along with associated assets like data relay systems and ground stations, are,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Nafisa Anjum , Tasnuva Farheen

Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to play, work, and socialize. Driven by recent advances in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Ning Zhang , Rui Xing , Dongxiao Liu , Tom H. Luan , Xuemin Shen

Network embedding represents network nodes by a low-dimensional informative vector. While it is generally effective for various downstream tasks, it may leak some private information of networks, such as hidden private links. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xiao Han , Leye Wang , Junjie Wu , Yuncong Yang

An infrastructure network is a self-organizing network which uses Access Point (AP) of wireless links that connecting one node with another. These nodes can communicate without using ad hoc, instead these nodes form an arbitrary topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-15 K. Karnavel , M. Sakthivel , L. Karuppasamy

Platforms have struggled to keep pace with the spread of disinformation. Current responses like user reports, manual analysis, and third-party fact checking are slow and difficult to scale, and as a result, disinformation can spread…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Austin Hounsel , Jordan Holland , Ben Kaiser , Kevin Borgolte , Nick Feamster , Jonathan Mayer

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly integral to diverse applications, their capabilities raise significant privacy concerns. This survey offers a comprehensive overview of privacy risks associated with LLMs and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kang Chen , Xiuze Zhou , Yuanguo Lin , Shibo Feng , Li Shen , Pengcheng Wu

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Seyed Ali Osia , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ali Taheri , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamid R. Rabiee , Nicholas D. Lane , Hamed Haddadi

In this paper, we address the issue of privacy in 5th generation (5G) driven Internet of Things (IoT) and related technologies while presenting a comparison with previous technologies for communication and unaddressed issues in 5G.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Amreen Batool , Baoshan Sun , Ali Saleem , Jawad Ali

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks persist as significant threats to online services and infrastructure, evolving rapidly in sophistication and eluding traditional detection mechanisms. This evolution demands a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jincheng Wang , Le Yu , John C. S. Lui , Xiapu Luo

Internet censorship limits the access of nodes residing within a specific network environment to the public Internet, and vice versa. During the last decade, techniques for conducting Internet censorship have been developed further.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Steffen Wendzel , Simon Volpert , Sebastian Zillien , Julia Lenz , Philip Rünz , Luca Caviglione

The metaverse promises unprecedented immersive digital experiences but also raises critical privacy concerns as vast amounts of personal and behavioral data are collected. As immersive technologies blur the boundaries between physical and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Muhammad Irfan Khalid , Ilias Pappas , Moatasim Mahmoud , Stamatia Rizou

The field of IoT has blossomed and is positively influencing many application domains. In this paper, we bring out the unique challenges this field poses to research in computer systems and networking. The unique challenges arise from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Saurabh Bagchi , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Ramesh Govindan , Prashant Shenoy , Akanksha Atrey , Pradipta Ghosh , Ran Xu

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations called nodes, which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interest, and exchange of finance, relationships…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Wajeb Gharibi , Maha Shaabi

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly common, from smart speakers to security cameras, in homes. Along with their benefits come potential privacy and security threats. To limit these threats a number of commercial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Anna Maria Mandalari , Hamed Haddadi , Daniel J. Dubois , David Choffnes

In systems design, we generally distinguish the architecture and the protocol levels. In the context of privacy by design, in the first case, we talk about privacy architectures, which define the privacy goals and the main features of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Vinh-Thong Ta , Thibaud Antignac

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the existing blockchain protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. We start by describing the blockchains and summarizing the existing surveys that deal with blockchain technologies.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Makhlouf Derdour , Mithun Mukherjee , Abdelouahid Derhab , Leandros Maglaras , Helge Janicke

The explosive growth of machine learning has made it a critical infrastructure in the era of artificial intelligence. The extensive use of data poses a significant threat to individual privacy. Various countries have implemented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hengzhu Liu , Ping Xiong , Tianqing Zhu , Philip S. Yu

In this paper, we present a stealthy and effective attack that exposes privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by inferring private links within graph-structured data. Focusing on the inductive setting where new nodes join…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Oualid Zari , Javier Parra-Arnau , Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen

As we transition into the era of B5G/6G networks, the promise of seamless, high-speed connectivity brings unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Among the most critical concerns is the preservation of location privacy, given the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hannah B. Pasandi , Faith Parastar