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The high rate of development of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has brought to attention new challenges in the area of data security, especially within the resource-limited realm of RFID tags, sensors, and embedded systems. Traditional…

With the proliferation of IoT devices, the distributed control systems are now capturing and processing more sensors at higher frequency than ever before. These new data, due to their volume and novelty, cannot be effectively consumed…

Trust is a fundamental concept in many real-world applications such as e-commerce and peer-to-peer networks. In these applications, users can generate local opinions about the counterparts based on direct experiences, and these opinions can…

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In the rapidly growing development of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, achieving reliable wireless communication is a challenge. IoT devices operate in diverse environments with common signal interference and fluctuating channel…

Networked embedded systems endowed with sensing, computing, control and communication capabilities allow the development of various application scenarios and represent the building blocks of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm.…

This paper contains the details of a distributed trust-aware recommendation system. Trust-base recommenders have received a lot of attention recently. The main aim of trust-based recommendation is to deal the problems in traditional…

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Today's Internet maps, which are all collected from a small number of vantage points, are falling short of being accurate. We suggest here a paradigm shift for this task. DIMES is a distributed measurement infrastructure for the Internet…

Software-defined Internet-of-Things networking (SDIoT) greatly simplifies the network monitoring in large-scale IoT networks by per-flow sampling, wherein the controller keeps track of all the active flows in the network and samples the IoT…

We propose just-in-time memoryless trust for crowdsourced IoT services. We leverage the characteristics of the IoT service environment to evaluate their trustworthiness. A novel framework is devised to assess a service's trust without…

Classical distributed estimation scenarios typically assume timely and reliable exchanges of information over the sensor network. This paper, in contrast, considers single time-scale distributed estimation via a sensor network subject to…