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Nisar, K., Jimson, E. R., Hijazi, M. H., Welch, I., Hassan, R., Aman, A. H., . . . Khaf, S. (2020). A survey on the architecture, application, and security of software defined networking: Challenges and open issues. INTERNET OF THINGS, 12, Article ID 100289.
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2020 (English)In: INTERNET OF THINGS, ISSN 2543-1536, Vol. 12, article id 100289Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new technology that makes computer networks farther programmable. SDN is currently attracting significant consideration from both academia and industry. SDN is simplifying organisations to implement applications and assist flexible delivery, offering the capability of scaling network resources in lockstep with application and data. This technology allows the user to manage the network easily by permitting the user to control the applications and operating system. SDN not only introduces new ways of interaction within network devices, but it also gives more flexibility for the existing and future networking designs and operations. SDN is an innovative approach to design, implement, and manage networks that separate the network control (control plane) and the forwarding process (data plane) for a better user experience. The main differentiation between SDN and Traditional Networking is that SDN removes the decision-making part from the routers and it provides, logically, a centralised Control-Plane that creates a network view for the control and management applications. Through the establishment of SDN, many new network capabilities and services have been enabled, such as Software Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Network Virtualisation and Automation, and Orchestration for Cloud Applications. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art contribution such as a comparison between SDN and traditional networking. Also, comparison with other survey works on SDN, new information about controller, details about OpenFlow architecture, configuration, comprehensive contribution about SDN security threat and countermeasures, SDN applications, benefit of SDN, and Emulation & Tested for SDN. In addition, some existing and representative SDN tools from both industry and academia are explained. Moreover, future direction of SDN security solutions is discussed in detail. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ELSEVIER, 2020
Keywords
SDN; OpenFlow; Control plane; SDN security
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-179860 (URN)10.1016/j.iot.2020.100289 (DOI)000695695600009 ()2-s2.0-85114831069 (Scopus ID)
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Funding Agencies|Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah; [GUG0072-SG-2/2016]

Available from: 2021-10-04 Created: 2021-10-04 Last updated: 2025-08-28Bibliographically approved
Sodhro, A. H., Malokani, A. S., Sodhro, G. H., Muzammal, M. & Zongwei, L. (2020). An adaptive QoS computation for medical data processing in intelligent healthcare applications. Neural Computing & Applications, 32(3), 723-734
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2020 (English)In: Neural Computing & Applications, ISSN 0941-0643, E-ISSN 1433-3058, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 723-734Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Efficient computation of quality of service (QoS) during medical data processing through intelligent measurement methods is one of the mandatory requirements of the medial healthcare world. However, emergency medical services often involve transmission of critical data, thus having stringent requirements for network quality of service (QoS). This paper contributes in three distinct ways. First, it proposes the novel adaptive QoS computation algorithm (AQCA) for fair and efficient monitoring of the performance indicators, i.e., transmission power, duty cycle and route selection during medical data processing in healthcare applications. Second, framework of QoS computation in medical applications is proposed at physical, medium access control (MAC) and network layers. Third, QoS computation mechanism with proposed AQCA and quality of experience (QoE) is developed. Besides, proper examination of QoS computation for medical healthcare application is evaluated with 4-10 inches large-screen user terminal (UT) devices (for example, LCD panel size, resolution, etc.). These devices are based on high visualization, battery lifetime and power optimization for ECG service in emergency condition. These UT devices are used to achieve highest level of satisfaction in terms, i.e., less power drain, extended battery lifetime and optimal route selection. QoS parameters with estimation of QoE perception identify the degree of influence of each QoS parameters on the medical data processing is analyzed. The experimental results indicate that QoS is computed at physical, MAC and network layers with transmission power (- 15 dBm), delay (100 ms), jitter (40 ms), throughput (200 Bytes), duty cycle (10%) and route selection (optimal). Thus it can be said that proposed AQCA is the potential candidate for QoS computation than Baseline for medical healthcare applications.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPRINGER LONDON LTD, 2020
Keywords
Adaptive; QoS computation; Medical data processing; QoS-QoE correlation; Intelligent healthcare applications
National Category
Energy Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-164206 (URN)10.1007/s00521-018-3931-1 (DOI)000512022900009 ()
Available from: 2020-03-10 Created: 2020-03-10 Last updated: 2023-06-26
Borhani, M., Liyanage, M., Sodhro, A. H., Kumar, P., Jurcut, A. D. & Gurtov, A. (2020). Secure and resilient communications in the industrial internet. In: Jacek Rak, David Hutchison (Ed.), Guide to disaster-resilient communication networks: (pp. 219-242). Cham: Springer
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2020 (English)In: Guide to disaster-resilient communication networks / [ed] Jacek Rak, David Hutchison, Cham: Springer, 2020, p. 219-242Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The Industrial Internet brings the promise of increased efficiency through on-demand manufacturing and maintenance, combining sensors data from engines and industrial devices with big data analysis in the cloud. In this chapter, we survey the main challenges that the Industrial Internet faces from a networking viewpoint. We especially focus on security, as critical industrial components could be exposed over the Internet, affecting resilience. We describe two approaches, Identity-Defined Networking and Software-Defined Virtual Private LAN Services as potential network architectures for the Industrial Internet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2020
Series
Computer Communications and Networks
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-179401 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-44685-7_9 (DOI)9783030446840 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-09-20 Created: 2021-09-20 Last updated: 2022-03-17Bibliographically approved
Liyanage, M., Sodhro, A. H., Kumar, P., Jurcut, A. D. & Gurtov, A. (2020). Securing the Communication of Industrial Internet. In: Rak, Jacek, Hutchison, David (Ed.), Guide to Disaster-resilient Communication Networks: . Springer
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2020 (English)In: Guide to Disaster-resilient Communication Networks / [ed] Rak, Jacek, Hutchison, David, Springer, 2020Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The popularity of new cyber-physical systems such as Industrial Internetor Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in new applications is creating new requirementssuch as high security, enhanced scalability, and optimal utilization of networkresources, efficient energy management and low operational cost. Specifically, theincreasing number of connected devices and new services will result in the increasingcapacity requirements for the cyber-physical systems. Thus, accommodating thesecure connectivity for this expected traffic growth is an imminent requirement offuture cyber-physical systems. Although the existing secure communication architecturesare able to provide a sufcient level of security, they are suffering from limitationssuch as limited scalability, over utilization of network resources and highoperational cost, mainly due to the complex and static security management procedures.On these grounds, SDN and NFV are promising technologies which areexpected to solve the limitations in current communication networks. The pursuit ofa cohesive cyber security strategy will minimize the risks and enable society to take advantage of the opportunities associated with the IIoT. In this chapter, we presentsthe possible secure connectivity solutions for IIoT/Industrial Internet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2020
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-165999 (URN)978-3-030-44684-0 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-06-04 Created: 2020-06-04 Last updated: 2020-06-04
Sodhro, A. H., Pirbhulal, S., Muzammal, M. & Zongwei, L. (2020). Towards Blockchain-Enabled Security Technique for Industrial Internet of Things Based Decentralized Applications. Journal of Grid Computing, 18(4), 615-628
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2020 (English)In: Journal of Grid Computing, ISSN 1570-7873, E-ISSN 1572-9184, Vol. 18, no 4, p. 615-628Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

As the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is one of the emerging trends and paradigm shifts to revolutionize the traditional industries with the fourth wave of evolution or transform it into Industry 4.0. This all is merely possible with the sensor-enabled technologies, e.g., wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in various landscapes, where security provisioning is one of the significant challenges for miniaturized power hungry networks. Due to the increasing demand for the commercial Internet of things (IoT) devices, smart devices are also extensively adopted in industrial applications. If these devices are compromising the date/information, then there will be a considerable loss and critical issues, unlike information compromising level by the commercial IoT devices. So emerging industrial processes and smart IoT based methods in medical industries with state-of-the-art blockchain security techniques have motivated the role of secure industrial IoT. Also, frequent changes in android technology have increased the security of the blockchain-based IIoT system management. It is very vital to develop a novel blockchain-enabled cyber-security framework and algorithm for industrial IoT by adopting random initial and master key generation mechanisms over long-range low-power wireless networks for fast encrypted data processing and transmission. So, this paper has three remarkable contributions. First, a blockchain-driven secure, efficient, reliable, and sustainable algorithm is proposed. It can be said that the proposed solution manages keys randomly by introducing the chain of blocks with less power drain, a small number of cores, will slightly more communication and computation bits. Second, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) based intelligent decision-making approach for the secure, concurrent, interoperable, sustainable, and reliable blockchain-driven IIoT system. AHP based solution helps the industry experts to select the more relevant and critical parameters such as (reliability in-line with a packet loss ratio), (convergence in mapping with delay), and (interoperability in association with throughput) for improving the yield of the product in the industry. Third, sustainable technology-oriented services are supporting to propose the novel cloud-enabled framework for the IIoT platform for regular monitoring of the products in the industry. Moreover, experimental results reveal that proposed approach is a potential candidate for the blockchain-driven IIoT system in terms of reliability, convergence, and interoperability with a strong foundation to predict the techniques and tools for the regulation of the adaptive system from Industry 4.0 aspect.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPRINGER, 2020
Keywords
Industrial internet of things; Blockchain; Decentralized applications; Security
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-168773 (URN)10.1007/s10723-020-09527-x (DOI)000556603200001 ()
Note

Funding Agencies|Research grant of PIFI 2020, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT,CAS), Shenzhen, China [2020VBC0002]; Electrical Engineering Department, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan; PR China Ministry of Education Distinguished Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing grant; Centro de Competencias em Cloud Computing [Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000019-C4]; Programa Operacional Regional do Centro (CENTRO 2020), through the Sistema de Apoio a Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica- Programas Integrados de ICDT; Technologies and Equipment Guangdong Education Bureau Fund [2017KTSCX166]; Science and Technology Innovation Committee Foundation of Shenzhen [JCYJ201708171 12037041]

Available from: 2020-08-31 Created: 2020-08-31 Last updated: 2023-06-26
Sodhro, A. H., Pirbhulal, S., Sodhro, G. H., Gurtov, A., Muzamal, M. & Luo, Z. (2019). A Joint Transmission Power Control and Duty-Cycle Approach for Smart Healthcare System. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(19), 8479-8486
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2019 (English)In: IEEE Sensors Journal, ISSN 1530-437X, E-ISSN 1558-1748, Vol. 19, no 19, p. 8479-8486Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Emerging revolution in the healthcare has caught the attention of both the industry and academia due to the rapid proliferation in the wearable devices and innovative techniques. In the mean-time, Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have become the potential candidate in transforming the entire landscape of the medical world. However, large battery lifetime and less power drain are very vital for these resource-constrained sensor devices while collecting the bio-signals. Hence, minimizing their charge and energy depletions are still very challenging tasks. It is examined through large real-time data sets that due to the dynamic nature of the wireless channel, the traditional predictive transmission power control (PTPC) and a constant transmission power techniques are no more supportive and potential candidates for BSNs. Thus this paper first, proposes a novel joint transmission power control (TPC) and duty-cycle adaptation based framework for pervasive healthcare. Second, adaptive energy-efficient transmission power control (AETPC) algorithm is developed by adapting the temporal variation in the on-body wireless channel amid static (i.e., standing and walking at a constant speed) and dynamic (i.e., running) body postures. Third, a Feedback Control-based duty-cycle algorithm is proposed for adjusting the execution period of tasks (i.e., sensing and transmission). Fourth, system-level battery and energy harvesting models are proposed for body sensor nodes by examining the energy depletion of sensing and transmission tasks. It is validated through Monte Carlo experimental analysis that proposed algorithm saves more energy of 11.5% with reasonable packet loss ratio (PLR) by adjusting both transmission power and duty-cycle unlike the conventional constant TPC and PTPC methods.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2019
Keywords
Duty-cycle;Body Posture;Smart Healthcare;energy harvesting;AETPC;BSN;PTPC;Constant TPC
National Category
Computer Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-153119 (URN)10.1109/JSEN.2018.2881611 (DOI)000487216200014 ()
Note

This work is done under the supervision of Prof. Andrei Gurtov

Available from: 2018-11-28 Created: 2018-11-28 Last updated: 2019-11-04
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