Fuzzy C-means clustering integration algorithm is a method to improve clustering quality by using integration ideas, but as the amount of data increases, its time complexity increases. A parallel FCM clustering integration algorithm based on MapReduce is proposed. The algorithm uses a random initial clustering centre to obtain differentiated cluster members. By establishing an overlapping matrix between

In energy-constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs), geographic routing (GR) also known as location-aware routing has been developed because it uses neighbourhood locality data as an alternative of overall topology information for routing. But, this protocol frequently suffers from the energy holes in the data transmission resulting in path failure. To avoid this problem, energy-aware dual-path GR

Waste management is one of the crucial issues in the creation of smart cities. Because of population growth, keeping urban areas clean is a challenge. The Internet of things (IoT) has played a vital role in urban computing because it facilitates the collection, integration, and processing of various types of information. Thus, the aim of this research is to develop an Internet of Things-Based Urban

Robotics are effectively utilized in the field of speech therapy because, most of the people affected by the apraxia speech problem which is one of the neurological disorder. This disorder occurred due to the Alzheimer disease, stroke that affects the movement of mouth severely. These neurological disease affected people requires more attention while training the speech therapy. Traditional approaches

The problem of securely outsourcing computation to cloud servers has attracted a large amount of attention in recent years. The verifiable computation of Gennaro, Gentry, Parno (Crypto’10) allows a client to verify the server’s computation of a function with substantially less time than performing the outsourced computation from scratch. In a multi-function model (Parno, Raykova, Vaikuntanathan; TCC’12)

Email services nowadays are flooded by spam and phishing attacks. Email service providers build their own email filters to protect the final users from such attacks resulting in an overall better experience. However, the attacks come mainly from the same problem in the email protocols, i.e., the lack of authentication mechanism. In this work, we attempt to minimize some of the most common problems

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), more and more devices are connected to IoT, leading to an exponential increase in IoT data. However, two problems stand in the way of the further development of IoT. First, IoT data is uploaded directly to the cloud, and the service provider obtains huge profits by analyzing IoT data. However, users can't get benefits, and they have to bear the

Infrastructure interdependency is a bidirectional interconnection between entities of two infrastructures. These Critical Infrastructures (CIs) suffer from several attacks, vulnerabilities, and failures. Indeed a failure in one CI could lead to serious consequences on physical security, economic security, or public health. However, the protection of these infrastructures is essential. The clustering

Like other emerging fields, Stream Processing Engines (SPEs) pose several challenges to the researchers e.g., resource awareness, dynamic configurations, heterogeneous clusters, load balancing, and topology awareness. All of these aspects play a major role in the job scheduling process. Currently, SPEs ignore topology’s structure while scheduling. Due to this, frequently communicating tasks may end

Denial of service (DoS) attack is the menace to private cloud computing environment that denies services provided by cloud servers leading to huge business losses. Efficient DoS attack detection mechanisms are demanded which necessitates the extraction of features for its best performance. The lacuna in the existing feature extraction based detection systems is the sensitiveness of initial cluster

Cloud computing is emerging as an increasingly popular computing paradigm, allowing dynamic scaling of resources available to users as needed. This requires a highly accurate demand prediction and a resource allocation methodology. The existing methodologies for dynamic resource allocation do not provide effective performance isolation between the VM and Artificial Demand Analysis machines since it

The recent years have witnessed significant interest in migrating different applications into the cloud platforms. In this context, one of the main challenges for cloud applications providers is how to ensure high availability of the delivered applications while meeting users’ QoS. In this respect, replication techniques are commonly applied to efficiently handle this issue. From the literature, according

Time sensitive virtual machines that run real-time control tasks are constrained by hard timing requirements. Optimal resource management and guarantee the hard timing requirements of virtual machines are critical goals. Basically, cloud resource usage predicting and resource reservation play a crucial role to achieve these two goals. So, we propose a predicting approach based on two-phase decomposition

The cloud computing (CC) model is diverse as well as has broad phenomena because of which it is being preferred widely. Due to security challenges, the user cannot utilize CC to its full potentials. Storing their sensitive data in an insecure place is not even an option for these users. Many techniques were posited for securely amassing the data in the cloud; however, during massive transmission, none

The nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are responsible for communicating data which is primarily of three types viz. video, audio and text. In literature, a large number of energy aware and shortest path based route selection approaches have been proposed to enhance the routing efficiency in WSNs. Most of these route selection approaches are designed by assuming fixed type and size of data packets

Clouds are heterogeneous service-oriented systems which are increasingly considered as platforms of choice for scientific workflow applications. Because resource and communication failures are inevitable in large complex distributed systems, insuring the reliability of heterogeneous service-oriented systems poses a major challenge. As it affects the quality of user service requirements, reliability

In recent years, cloud computing paradigm has emerged as an internet-based technology to realize the utility model of computing for serving compute-intensive applications. In the cloud computing paradigm, the IT and business resources, such as servers, storage, network, and applications, can be dynamically provisioned to cloud workloads submitted by end-users. Since the cloud workloads submitted to

General-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) have been widely adapted to the industry due to the high parallelism of graphics processing units (GPUs) compared with central processing units (CPUs). Especially, a GPGPU device has been adopted for various scientific workloads which have high parallelism. To handle the ever increasing demand, multiple applications are often run simultaneously in

Electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly employed to maintain, store and share varied types of patient data. The data can also be utilized for various research purposes, such as clinical trials or epidemic control strategies. With the increasing cost and scarcity of healthcare services, healthcare organizations feel at ease in outsourcing these services to cloud-based EHRs. That serves as

Despite the rapid improvement in dental health over the last few decades, a significant portion of our population continue seek dental care every year. Estimates show that 13% of adults seek dental care for dental infection or fatigue within four years. The Social and individual burden of this disease can be reduced by its early detection. However, the symptoms of teeth infection in the early stages

The rapid development of communications networks facilitate our lives but bring severe energy consumption problems. As an emerging network structure, software-defined networking can realize flexible scheduling of network traffic demands. In this paper, we exploit the above feature and adopt the idea that is powering down unnecessary links and improving links bandwidth’s utilization to formulate an

Serverless computing and a function execution model, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), are currently receiving considerable attention from both academia and industry. One of the reasons for the success of serverless computing is its straightforward interface that abstracts complex internals of cloud computing resource usage and configurations. However, this approach may result in hiding too much information

There is a sustained and changing voltage between living trees and soil, which may be related to transpiration. If the data of bioelectricity, transpiration characteristics and environmental factors can be observed continuously, thereby finding the relationship between the voltage and transpiration, a new method for transpiration measurement can be provided. In order to carry out long-term observations

Cloud computing is the fastest growing distributed computing paradigm that provides online IT resources on demand by following a pay-as-you-go billing model. The success of this computing paradigm enables cloud providers to offer an extensive collection of parallel computing resources to deal with Big Data workflow scheduling problems. Although, workflow scheduling has been extensively studied, however

The difficulty of sports video detection technology lies in how to detect the end point segment from the complex video speech environment, and the artificial intelligence technology is still in the research stage. Based on this, this study builds a model based on the hidden Markov model. At the same time, the video file noise reduction processing is performed by the spectral subtraction noise reduction

As an emerging and efficient paradigm for multimedia systems, fog networking has attracted widespread attention over the last few years. However, an increasing number of attacks in the current virtualized environments underlines the importance of secure data sharing. Unfortunately, existing multimedia data sharing schemes are not suitable for the networking systems because of the heavy computational

Nowadays, a lot of people have the oral health problems due to continuous changes in the lifestyle such as the person’s speech which can be affected by the malocclusion in teeth and the crooked teeth. The dental problems can cause cavity and bacterial infection. The dental and speech problems mostly can be related to the Alzheimer disease, and cognitive changes. Therefore, the dental information is

Digital communication developed into an imperative element of infrastructure now-a-days. Many applications that operate infrastructure systems are internet-centered. Because of the nontrivial risks of information/data leakage, communication in the systems ought to be secured. Many techniques like cryptography are being employed on a large scale to furtively transmit information. But in the data transmission

High demand for computational power by business, science, and applications has led to the creation of large-scale data centers that consume enormous amounts of energy. This high energy consumption not only imposes a significant operating cost but also has a negative impact on the environment (greenhouse gas emissions). A promising solution to reduce the amount of energy used by data centers is the

Clouds are complex systems that provide computing resources in an elastic way. Elasticity allows their adaptation to input workloads by (de)provisioning resources as the demand rises and drops. Given the numerous overlapping factors that impact their elasticity and the unpredictable nature of the workload, providing accurate action plans to manage Cloud elasticity is a particularly challenging task

Cloud computing offer various services over the Internet based on pay-per-use concept. Therefore, many organizations have already adopted this system to attract the users with its desirable features. However, due to its design, makes it vulnerable to malicious attacks. This demands an Intrusion Detection System that can detect such attacks with high detection accuracy in cloud environment. This paper

Cloud providers offer computing services based on user demands using the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service model. In a cloud data center, it is possible that multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) run on a Physical Machine (PM) using virtualization technology. Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) problem is the mapping of virtual machines across multiple physical ones. This process plays a vital role

In this paper, we introduced the framework to empowerment resource discovery units for supporting distributed exascale computing systems with high consistency. In addition to the execution of activities to find resources by ExaRD, this framework is able to manage and control the dynamic and interactive events in distributed exascale computing systems. For these reasons, the dynamic and interactive

Data analysis processes in scientific applications can be expressed as coarse-grain workflows of complex data processing operations with data flow dependencies between them. Performance optimization of these workflows can be viewed as a search for a set of optimal values in a multidimensional parameter space consisting of input performance parameters to the applications that are known to affect their