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Volume 12 Issue 1

January 2022

Issue of Open Computer Science

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Journal Overview

Regular Articles

Open Access February 21, 2022

An ROI-based robust video steganography technique using SVD in wavelet domain

Urmila Pilania, Rohit Tanwar, Prinima Gupta

Page range: 1-16

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Steganography is a technique that embeds secret information in a suitable cover file such as text, image, audio, and video in such a manner that secret information remains invisible to the outside world. The study of the literature relevant to video steganography reveals that a tradeoff exists in attaining the acceptable values of various evaluation parameters such as a higher capacity usually results in lesser robustness or imperceptibility. In this article, we propose a technique that achieves high capacity along with required robustness. The embedding capacity is increased using singular value decomposition compression. To achieve the desired robustness, we constrain the embedding of the secret message in the region of interest in the cover video file. In this manner, we also succeed in maintaining the required imperceptibility. We prefer Haar-based lifting scheme in the wavelet domain for embedding the information because of its intrinsic benefits. We have implemented our suggested technique using MATLAB. The analysis of results on the prespecified parameters of the steganography justifies the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

Open Access February 23, 2022

SIKM – a smart cryptographic key management framework

Saman Shojae Chaeikar, Ali Ahmadi, Sasan Karamizadeh, Nakisa Shoja Chaeikar

Page range: 17-26

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For a secure data transmission in symmetric cryptography, data are encrypted and decrypted using an identical key. The process of creating, distributing, storing, deploying, and finally revoking the symmetric keys is called key management. Many key management schemes are devised that each one is suitable for a specific range of applications. However, these schemes have some common drawbacks like the hardness of key generation and distribution, key storage, attacks, and traffic load. In this article, a key management framework is proposed, which is attack resistant and transforms the current customary key management workflow to enhance security and reduce weaknesses. The main features of the proposed framework are eliminating key storage, smart attack resistant feature, reducing multiple-times key distribution to just one-time interpreter distribution, and having short key intervals – minutely, hourly, and daily. Moreover, the key revocation process happens automatically and with no revocation call.

Open Access February 23, 2022

Predicting and monitoring COVID-19 epidemic trends in India using sequence-to-sequence model and an adaptive SEIR model

Koyel Datta Gupta, Rinky Dwivedi, Deepak Kumar Sharma

Page range: 27-36

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In the year 2019, during the month of December, the first case of SARS-CoV-2 was reported in China. As per reports, the virus started spreading from a wet market in the Wuhan City. The person infected with the virus is diagnosed with cough and fever, and in some rare occasions, the person suffers from breathing inabilities. The highly contagious nature of this corona virus disease (COVID-19) caused the rapid outbreak of the disease around the world. India contracted the disease from China and reported its first case on January 30, 2020, in Kerala. Despite several counter measures taken by Government, India like other countries could not restrict the outbreak of the epidemic. However, it is believed that the strict policies adopted by the Indian Government have slowed the rate of the epidemic to a certain extent. This article proposes an adaptive SEIR disease model and a sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) learning model to predict the future trend of COVID-19 outbreak in India and analyze the performance of these models. Optimization of hyper parameters using RMSProp is done to obtain an efficient model with lower convergence time. This article focuses on evaluating the performance of deep learning networks and epidemiological models in predicting a pandemic outbreak.

Open Access February 24, 2022

3D chaotic map-cosine transformation based approach to video encryption and decryption

Mohit Dua, Drishti Makhija, Pilla Yamini Lakshmi Manasa, Prashant Mishra

Page range: 37-56

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Data security is vital for multimedia communication. A number of cryptographic algorithms have been developed for the secure transmission of text and image data. Very few contributions have been made in the area of video encryption because of the large input data size and time constraints. However, due to the massive increase in digital media transfer within networks, the security of video data has become one of the most important features of network reliability. Block encryption techniques and 1D-chaotic maps have been previously used for the process of video encryption. Although the results obtained by using 1D-chaotic maps were quite satisfactory, the approach had many limitations as these maps have less dynamic behavior. To overcome these drawbacks, this article proposes an Intertwining Logistic Map (ILM)-Cosine transformation-based video encryption technique. The first step involved segmenting the input video into multiple frames based on the frames per second (FPS) value and the length of the video. Next, each frame was selected, and the correlation among the pixels was reduced by a process called permutation/scrambling. In addition, each frame was rotated by 90° in the anticlockwise direction to induce more randomness into the encryption process. Furthermore, by using an approach called the random order substitution technique, changes were made in each of the images, row-wise and column-wise. Finally, all the encrypted frames were jumbled according to a frame selection key and were joined to generate an encrypted video, which was the output delivered to the user. The efficiency of this method was tested based on the state of various parameters like Entropy, Unified Average Change in Intensity (UACI), and correlation coefficient (CC). The presented approach also decrypts the encrypted video, and the decryption quality was checked using parameters such as mean square error (MSE) and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR).

Open Access February 24, 2022

Security and privacy issues in federated healthcare – An overview

Jansi Rani Amalraj, Robert Lourdusamy

Page range: 57-65

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Securing medical records is a significant task in Healthcare communication. The major setback during the transfer of medical data in the electronic medium is the inherent difficulty in preserving data confidentiality and patients’ privacy. The innovation in technology and improvisation in the medical field has given numerous advancements in transferring the medical data with foolproof security. In today’s healthcare industry, federated network operation is gaining significance to deal with distributed network resources due to the efficient handling of privacy issues. The design of a federated security system for healthcare services is one of the intense research topics. This article highlights the importance of federated learning in healthcare. Also, the article discusses the privacy and security issues in communicating the e-health data.

Open Access March 3, 2022

Designing of fault-tolerant computer system structures using residue number systems

Victor Krasnobayev, Alexandr Kuznetsov, Anastasiia Kiian

Page range: 66-74

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This article discusses computing systems that operate in residue number systems (RNSs). The main direction of improving computer systems (CSs) is increasing the speed of implementation of arithmetic operations and the reliability of their functioning. Encoding data in RNS solves the problem of optimal redundancy, i.e., the creation of such computing systems provides maximum reliability with restrictions on weight and size characteristics. This article proposes new structures of fault-tolerant CSs operating in RNS in the case of the application with an active fault-tolerant method. The use of the active fault-tolerant method (dynamic redundancy) in the RNSs provides higher reliability. In addition, with an increase in the digits of CSs, the efficiency of using the proposed structures increases.

Open Access March 8, 2022

A method for detecting objects in dense scenes

Chuanyun Xu, Yu Zheng, Yang Zhang, Gang Li, Ying Wang

Page range: 75-82

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Recent object detectors have achieved excellent performance in accuracy and speed. Even with such impressive results, the most advanced detectors are challenging in dense scenes. In this article, we analyze and find the reasons for the decrease in detection accuracy in dense scenes. We started our work in terms of region proposal and location loss. We found that low-quality proposal regions during the training process are the main factors affecting detection accuracy. To prove our research, we established and trained a dense detection model based on Cascade R-CNN. The model achieves an accuracy of mAP 0.413 on the SKU-110K sub-dataset. Our results show that improving the quality of recommended regions can effectively improve the detection accuracy in dense scenes.

Open Access March 10, 2022

An effective integrated machine learning approach for detecting diabetic retinopathy

Penikalapati Pragathi, Agastyaraju Nagaraja Rao

Page range: 83-91

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Millions of people across the world are suffering from diabetic retinopathy. This disease majorly affects the retina of the eye, and if not identified priorly causes permanent blindness. Hence, detecting diabetic retinopathy at an early stage is very important to safeguard people from blindness. Several machine learning (ML) algorithms are implemented on the dataset of diabetic retinopathy available in the UCI ML repository to detect the symptoms of diabetic retinopathy. But, most of those algorithms are implemented individually. Hence, this article proposes an effective integrated ML approach that uses the support vector machine (SVM), principal component analysis (PCA), and moth-flame optimization techniques. Initially, the ML algorithms decision tree (DT), SVM, random forest (RF), and Naïve Bayes (NB) are applied to the diabetic retinopathy dataset. Among these, the SVM algorithm is outperformed with an average of 76.96% performance. Later, all the aforementioned ML algorithms are implemented by integrating the PCA technique to reduce the dimensions of the dataset. After integrating PCA, it is noticed that the performance of the algorithms NB, RF, and SVM is reduced dramatically; on the contrary, the performance of DT is increased. To improve the performance of ML algorithms, the moth-flame optimization technique is integrated with SVM and PCA. This proposed approach is outperformed with an average of 85.61% performance among all the other considered ML algorithms, and the classification of class labels is achieved correctly.

Open Access March 15, 2022

Greatest-common-divisor dependency of juggling sequence rotation efficient performance

Joseph A. Erho, Juliana I. Consul, Bunakiye R. Japheth

Page range: 92-102

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In previous experimental study with three-way-reversal and juggling sequence rotation algorithms, using 20,000,000 elements for type LONG in Java, the average execution times have been shown to be 49.66761ms and 246.4394ms, respectively. These results have revealed appreciable low performance in the juggling algorithm despite its proven optimality. However, the juggling algorithm has also exhibited efficiency with some offset ranges. Due to this pattern of the juggling algorithm, the current study is focused on investigating source of the inefficiency on the average performance. Samples were extracted from the previous experimental data, presented differently and analyzed both graphically and in tabular form. Greatest common divisor values from the data that equal offsets were used. As emanating from the previous study, the Java language used for the rotation was to simulate ordering of tasks for safety and efficiency in the context of real-time task scheduling. Outcome of the investigation shows that juggling rotation performance competes favorably with three-way-reversal rotation (and even better in few cases) for certain offsets, but poorly with the rests. This study identifies the poorest performances around offsets in the neighborhood of square root of the sequence size. From the outcome, the study therefore strongly advises application developers (especially for real-time systems) to be mindful of where and how to in using juggling rotation.

Open Access March 16, 2022

Construction of a gas condensate field development model

Alexander K. Skiba

Page range: 103-111

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This article has developed and verified a mathematical aggregated approximate model of developing a gas condensate field using a cyclic process. The essence of the cyclic process is to pump the drained gas into the productive formation to reduce the pressure drop into the deposit. This process allows for increased condensate recovery in the future. The model discussed in this article is a continuous dynamic system with control parameters. It is a modification of the dynamic aggregated model of a purely gas field, designed for planning for a sufficiently long period with limited information about the state of the reservoir (the initial flow rate of wells, the initial recoverable gas reserves, the initial reservoir pressure, the dependence of potential condensate content per unit volume of fatty gas on the reservoir pressure). A non-standard approach underlies the model construction. Logical simplifications and a priori assumptions about the processes occurring in the field during its development are at its core. The instruments in the model are the increase in production and injection wells and the proportion of injection wells involved in the production. The purpose of the article is to calculate various variants of the dynamics of the fundamental indicators of the development of a gas condensate field for a sufficiently long-term period at the stage of preliminary design.

Open Access March 19, 2022

A novel similarity measure of link prediction in bipartite social networks based on neighborhood structure

Fariba Sarhangnia, Shima Mahjoobi, Samaneh Jamshidi

Page range: 112-122

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Link prediction is one of the methods of social network analysis. Bipartite networks are a type of complex network that can be used to model many natural events. In this study, a novel similarity measure for link prediction in bipartite networks is presented. Due to the fact that classical social network link prediction methods are less efficient and effective for use in bipartite network, it is necessary to use bipartite network-specific methods to solve this problem. The purpose of this study is to provide a centralized and comprehensive method based on the neighborhood structure that performs better than the existing classical methods. The proposed method consists of a combination of criteria based on the neighborhood structure. Here, the classical criteria for link prediction by modifying the bipartite network are defined. These modified criteria constitute the main component of the proposed similarity measure. In addition to low simplicity and complexity, this method has high efficiency. The simulation results show that the proposed method with a superiority of 0.5% over MetaPath, 1.32% over FriendLink, and 1.8% over Katz in the f -measure criterion shows the best performance.

Open Access March 21, 2022

Rough set-based entropy measure with weighted density outlier detection method

Tamilarasu Sangeetha, Amalanathan Geetha Mary

Page range: 123-133

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The rough set theory is a powerful numerical model used to handle the impreciseness and ambiguity of data. Many existing multigranulation rough set models were derived from the multigranulation decision-theoretic rough set framework. The multigranulation rough set theory is very desirable in many practical applications such as high-dimensional knowledge discovery, distributional information systems, and multisource data processing. So far research works were carried out only for multigranulation rough sets in extraction, selection of features, reduction of data, decision rules, and pattern extraction. The proposed approach mainly focuses on anomaly detection in qualitative data with multiple granules. The approximations of the dataset will be derived through multiequivalence relation, and then, the rough set-based entropy measure with weighted density method is applied on every object and attribute. For detecting outliers, threshold value fixation is performed based on the estimated weight. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated and compared with existing outlier detection algorithms. Datasets such as breast cancer, chess, and car evaluation have been taken from the UCI repository to prove its efficiency and performance.

Open Access March 24, 2022

Word2Vec: Optimal hyperparameters and their impact on natural language processing downstream tasks

Tosin Adewumi, Foteini Liwicki, Marcus Liwicki

Page range: 134-141

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Word2Vec is a prominent model for natural language processing tasks. Similar inspiration is found in distributed embeddings (word-vectors) in recent state-of-the-art deep neural networks. However, wrong combination of hyperparameters can produce embeddings with poor quality. The objective of this work is to empirically show that Word2Vec optimal combination of hyper-parameters exists and evaluate various combinations. We compare them with the publicly released, original Word2Vec embedding. Both intrinsic and extrinsic (downstream) evaluations are carried out, including named entity recognition and sentiment analysis. Our main contributions include showing that the best model is usually task-specific, high analogy scores do not necessarily correlate positively with F 1 scores, and performance is not dependent on data size alone. If ethical considerations to save time, energy, and the environment are made, then relatively smaller corpora may do just as well or even better in some cases. Increasing the dimension size of embeddings after a point leads to poor quality or performance. In addition, using a relatively small corpus, we obtain better WordSim scores, corresponding Spearman correlation, and better downstream performances (with significance tests) compared to the original model, which is trained on a 100 billion-word corpus.

Open Access March 30, 2022

Post-quantum cryptography-driven security framework for cloud computing

Henry Chima Ukwuoma, Gabriel Arome, Aderonke Thompson, Boniface Kayode Alese

Page range: 142-153

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Data security in the cloud has been a major issue since the inception and adoption of cloud computing. Various frameworks have been proposed, and yet data breach prevails. With encryption being the dominant method of cloud data security, the advent of quantum computing implies an urgent need to proffer a model that will provide adequate data security for both classical and quantum computing. Thus, most cryptosystems will be rendered susceptible and obsolete, though some cryptosystems will stand the test of quantum computing. The article proposes a model that comprises the application of a variant of McEliece cryptosystem, which has been tipped to replace Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) in the quantum computing era to secure access control data and the application of a variant of N-th degree truncated polynomial ring units (NTRU) cryptosystem to secure cloud user data. The simulation of the proposed McEliece algorithm showed that the algorithm has a better time complexity than the existing McEliece cryptosystem. Furthermore, the novel tweaking of parameters S and P further improves the security of the proposed algorithms. More so, the simulation of the proposed NTRU algorithm revealed that the existing NTRU cryptosystem had a superior time complexity when juxtaposed with the proposed NTRU cryptosystem.

Open Access May 16, 2022

BiSHM: Evidence detection and preservation model for cloud forensics

Prasad Purnaye, Vrushali Kulkarni

Page range: 154-170

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The cloud market is growing every day. So are cloud crimes. To investigate crimes that happen in a cloud environment, an investigation is carried out adhering to the court of law. Forensics investigations require evidence from the cloud. Evidence acquisition in the cloud requires formidable efforts because of physical inaccessibility and the lack of cloud forensics tools. Time is very crucial in any forensic investigation. If the evidence is preserved before the cloud forensic investigation, it can give the investigators a head start. To identify and preserve such potential evidence in the cloud, we propose a system with an artificial intelligence (AI)-based agent, equipped for binary classification that monitors and profiles the virtual machine (VM) from hypervisor level activities. The proposed system classifies and preserves evidence data generated in the cloud. The evidence repository module of the system uses a novel blockchain model approach to maintain the data provenance. The proposed system works at the hypervisor level, which makes it robust for anti-forensics techniques in the cloud. The proposed system identifies potential evidence reducing the effective storage space requirement of the evidence repository. Data provenance incorporated in the proposed system reduces trust dependencies on the cloud service provider (CSP).

Open Access May 23, 2022

Two hide-search games with rapid strategies for multiple parallel searches

Peter E. Creasey

Page range: 171-180

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Making a rapid unpredictable decision from N N choices of unequal value is a common control task. When the cost of predictability can be modelled as a penalty hidden under a single option by an intelligent adversary, then an optimal strategy can be found efficiently in O ( N log N ) O\left(N\log N) steps using an approach described by Sakaguchi for a zero-sum hide-search game. In this work, we extend this to two games with multiple parallel predictions, either coordinated or drawn independently from the optimal distribution, both of which can be solved with the same scaling. An open-source code is provided online at https://github.com/pec27/rams.

Open Access May 23, 2022

A student-based central exam scheduling model using A* algorithm

Mehmet Sinan Başar, Sinan Kul

Page range: 181-190

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In this study, a student-based placement model using the A* algorithm is proposed and applied to solve the problem of placing the courses in exam sessions. The application area of the model is midterm and final exams, conducted by the Open Education Faculty. The reason for choosing open education exams for the practice is that the exams are applied across the country and more than 100,000 students participate. The main problem is to obtain a suitable distribution that can satisfy many constraints simultaneously. In the current system, the lessons in the sessions were placed once using the curriculum knowledge. This placement plan is applied in all exams. When the placement is done according to the curriculum information, the courses in the sessions cannot be placed effectively and efficiently due to a large number of common courses and the large number of students taking the exam. This makes the booklets more expensive and the organization more prone to errors. Both the opening of new programs and the increase in the number of students regularly lead to the necessity of placing the classes in sessions dynamically each semester. In addition, to prevent conflicts with the calendars of other central exams, it is necessary to conduct all exams in three sessions. A better solution was obtained by using a different model than the currently used model in the study. With this solution, distribution of the courses of successful students with few courses to all sessions is provided, and difficult courses of unsuccessful students who have a large number of courses were gathered in the same session. This study can support future studies on two issues: the first issue is the approach of using the course that will be taken by most students instead of the courses taught in most departments in the selection of the course to be placed in the booklet. The second issue is to try to find the most suitable solution by performing performance tests on many algorithms whose performance has been determined by many academic studies.

Open Access May 30, 2022

Deep learning-based ensemble model for brain tumor segmentation using multi-parametric MR scans

Suchismita Das, Srijib Bose, Gopal Krishna Nayak, Sanjay Saxena

Page range: 211-226

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Glioma is a type of fast-growing brain tumor in which the shape, size, and location of the tumor vary from patient to patient. Manual extraction of a region of interest (tumor) with the help of a radiologist is a very difficult and time-consuming task. To overcome this problem, we proposed a fully automated deep learning-based ensemble method of brain tumor segmentation on four different 3D multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The segmentation is performed by three most efficient encoder–decoder deep models for segmentation and their results are measured through the well-known segmentation metrics. Then, a statistical analysis of the models was performed and an ensemble model is designed by considering the highest Matthews correlation coefficient using a particular MRI modality. There are two main contributions of the article: first the detailed comparison of the three models, and second proposing an ensemble model by combining the three models based on their segmentation accuracy. The model is evaluated using the brain tumor segmentation (BraTS) 2017 dataset and the F 1 score of the final combined model is found to be 0.92, 0.95, 0.93, and 0.84 for whole tumor, core, enhancing tumor, and edema sub-tumor, respectively. Experimental results show that the model outperforms the state of the art.

Open Access June 28, 2022

Design of a web laboratory interface for ECG signal analysis using MATLAB builder NE

Hussain A. Jaber, Hadeel K. Aljobouri, Ilyas Çankaya

Page range: 227-237

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An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a noninvasive test, determining any defect in the heart rate or rhythm or changes in the shape of the QRS complex is very significant to detect cardiac arrhythmia. In this study, novel web-ECG simulation tools were proposed using MATLAB Builder NE with WebFigure and ASP.NET platform. The proposed web-ECG simulation tools consisted of two components. First, involved the analyses of normal real ECG signals by calculating the P, Q, R, S, and T values and detecting heart rate, while the second part related to extracting the futures of several types of abnormality real ECG. For calculating the PQRST values, simple and new mathematical equations are proposed in the current study using MATLAB. The Web ECG is capable to plot normal ECG signals and five arrhythmia cases, so the users are able to calculate PQRST easily using the proposed simple method. ECG simulation tools have been tested for validity and educational contributions with 62 undergraduate and graduate students at the Al-Nahrain University-Biomedical Engineering Department, Iraq. The proposed ECG simulation tools have been designed for academic learning to be run easily by a student using only any web browsers without the need for installing MATLAB or any extra programs. The proposed tools could provide a laboratory course for ECG signal analysis using a few buttons, as well as increase and develop the educational skills of students and researchers.

Open Access July 26, 2022

An alternative C++-based HPC system for Hadoop MapReduce

Vignesh Srinivasakumar, Muthumanikandan Vanamoorthy, Siddarth Sairaj, Sainath Ganesh

Page range: 238-247

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MapReduce (MR) is a technique used to improve distributed data processing vastly and can massively speed up computation. Hadoop and MR rely on memory-intensive JVM and Java. A MR framework based on High-Performance Computing (HPC) could be used, which is both memory-efficient and faster than standard MR. This article explores a C++-based approach to MR and its feasibility on multiple factors like developer friendliness, deployment interface, efficiency, and scalability. This article also introduces Eager Reduction and Delayed Reduction techniques to speed up MR.

Open Access July 27, 2022

A new watermarking scheme for digital videos using DCT

Ahmed Al-Gindy, Aya Al-Chikh Omar, Omar Mashal, Yomna Shaker, Eslam Alhogaraty, Sherif Moussa

Page range: 248-259

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With the advent of high-speed broadband Internet access, the need to protect digital videos is highly recommended. The main objective of this study is to propose an adaptive algorithm for watermarked digital videos in the frequency domain based on discrete cosine transform (DCT). The watermark signature image is embedded into the whole frame of the video. The green channel of the RGB frame is selected for the embedding process using the DCT algorithm as it shows the recommended quality of the watermarked frames. The experiment results indicate that the proposed algorithm shows robustness and high quality of the watermarked videos by testing various strength values ∆ for different videos. It offers resistance against different types of attacks.

Open Access October 17, 2022

Rainfall prediction system for Bangladesh using long short-term memory

Mustain Billah, Md. Nasim Adnan, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Romana Rahman Ema, Md. Alam Hossain, Syed Md. Galib

Page range: 323-331

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Rainfall prediction is a challenging task and has extreme significance in weather forecasting. Accurate rainfall prediction can play a great role in agricultural, aviation, natural phenomenon, flood, construction, transport, etc. Weather or climate is assumed to be one of the most complex systems. Again, chaos, also called as “butterfly effect,” limits our ability to make weather predictable. So, it is not easy to predict rainfall by conventional machine learning approaches. However, several kinds of research have been proposed to predict rainfall by using different computational methods. To accomplish chaotic rainfall prediction system for Bangladesh, in this study, historical data set-driven long short term memory (LSTM) networks method has been used, which overcomes the complexities and chaos-related problems faced by other approaches. The proposed method has three principal phases: (i) The most useful 10 features are chosen from 20 data attributes. (ii) After that, a two-layer LSTM model is designed. (iii) Both conventional machine learning approaches and recent works are compared with the LSTM model. This approach has gained 97.14% accuracy in predicting rainfall (in millimeters), which outperforms the state-of-the-art solutions. Also, this work is a pioneer work to the rainfall prediction system for Bangladesh.

Open Access November 11, 2022

A flexible framework for requirement management (FFRM) from software architecture toward distributed agile framework

Rao Nadeem, Rana M. Amir Latif, Khalid Hussain, N. Z. Jhanjhi, Mamoona Humayun

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GSD is a Global software development environment where data are distributed to more than two sites. These sites may be located on national or continental borders. Every year it expands its development volume, which has become a trend for the software development business. Because of increasing demand, it has become a common type of business. The value of offshore software development has increased immensely. According to the recent predictions, one-quarter of US software-related business shifts offshore, including integration and management-related services. GSD helps explore resources from other countries, increasing knowledge and enhancing operational efficiency. Therefore, globalization has changed the development nature of software. Different organizations face several challenges, such as coordination and requirement ambiguity, during the change management process in GSD. Traceability accommodates these changes in forward and backward direction. However, it gives rise to several challenges like less client involvement because of its distributed nature and challenging to manage the requirement ambiguity due to increased cost. Therefore, the Flexible Framework for Requirement Management (FFRM) must handle the abovementioned issues.

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Open Access May 25, 2022

Sign language identification and recognition: A comparative study

Ahmed Sultan, Walied Makram, Mohammed Kayed, Abdelmaged Amin Ali

Page range: 191-210

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Sign Language (SL) is the main language for handicapped and disabled people. Each country has its own SL that is different from other countries. Each sign in a language is represented with variant hand gestures, body movements, and facial expressions. Researchers in this field aim to remove any obstacles that prevent the communication with deaf people by replacing all device-based techniques with vision-based techniques using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning. This article highlights two main SL processing tasks: Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Sign Language Identification (SLID). The latter task is targeted to identify the signer language, while the former is aimed to translate the signer conversation into tokens (signs). The article addresses the most common datasets used in the literature for the two tasks (static and dynamic datasets that are collected from different corpora) with different contents including numerical, alphabets, words, and sentences from different SLs. It also discusses the devices required to build these datasets, as well as the different preprocessing steps applied before training and testing. The article compares the different approaches and techniques applied on these datasets. It discusses both the vision-based and the data-gloves-based approaches, aiming to analyze and focus on main methods used in vision-based approaches such as hybrid methods and deep learning algorithms. Furthermore, the article presents a graphical depiction and a tabular representation of various SLR approaches.

Open Access August 12, 2022

Wormhole attack detection techniques in ad-hoc network: A systematic review

Chitvan Gupta, Laxman Singh, Rajdev Tiwari

Page range: 260-288

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Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are considered as decentralized networks, which can communicate without pre-existing infrastructure. Owning to utilization of open medium access and dynamically changing network topology, MANETs are vulnerable to different types of attacks such as blackhole attack, gray hole attack, Sybil attack, rushing attack, jellyfish attack, wormhole attack (WHA), byzantine attack, selfishness attack, and network partition attack. Out of these, worm hole attack is the most common and severe attack that substantially undermines the performance of the network and disrupts the most routing protocols. In the past two decades, numerous researchers have explored the number of techniques to detect and mitigate the effect of WHAs to ensure the safe operation of wireless networks. Hence, in this article, we mainly focus on the WHAs and present the different state of art methods, which have been employed in previous years to discern WHA in wireless networks. The existing WHA detection techniques are lacking due to usage of additional hardware, higher delay, and consumption of higher energy. Round trip time (RTT) based detection methods are showing better results as they do not require additional hardware. Machine learning (ML) techniques can also be applied to ad-hoc network for anomaly detection and has a great influence in future; therefore, ML techniques are also analyzed for WHA detection in this article. SVM technique is mostly used by the researchers for outstanding results. It has been analyzed that hybrid approach which uses the traditional detection technique and ML technique are showing better results for WHA detection. Finally, we have identified the areas where further research can be focused so that we can apply the WHA detection methods for larger topological area for more flexibility and accurate results.

Special Issue on Programming Models and Algorithms for Big Data

Open Access August 17, 2022

Research on the structure of smart medical industry based on the background of the internet of things

Luhong Zhang, Kai Zhou, Weibin Zhao, Huiyan Zhou

Page range: 289-299

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In view of the current development trend of the smart medical industry in the context of the internet of things, this study conducts an evolutionary game analysis on information technology providers, medical institutions, digital medical equipment providers, and medical regulatory agencies in the smart medical industry. This study also analyzes the stable state of the future development of the smart medical industry and performs simulation calculations through MATLAB software. The research results show that the overall development trend of the smart medical industry structure in the future is consistent with the development trend of each industry structure. Under the strategic background of the supervision of medical regulatory agencies, information technology providers and digital medical equipment providers, respectively, provide the smart medical industry with the latest information technology and digital medical equipment to ensure the technical support of the smart medical industry. The smart medical industry provides corresponding medical talents and medical equipment to ensure the demand for talents and equipment of the smart medical industry, so that the structure of the smart medical industry can continuously improve the level of smart medical technology in the future development and ultimately promote the overall development of the smart medical industry.

Open Access September 27, 2022

Mass data processing and multidimensional database management based on deep learning

Haijie Shen, Yangyuan Li, Xinzhi Tian, Xiaofan Chen, Caihong Li, Qian Bian, Zhenduo Wang, Weihua Wang

Page range: 300-313

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With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, the requirements for massive data processing technology are getting higher and higher. Traditional computer data processing capabilities can no longer deliver fast, simple, and efficient data analysis and processing for today’s massive data processing due to the real-time, massive, polymorphic, and heterogeneous characteristics of Internet of Things data. Mass heterogeneous data of different types of subsystems in the Internet of Things need to be processed and stored uniformly, so the mass data processing method is required to be able to integrate multiple different networks, multiple data sources, and heterogeneous mass data and be able to perform processing on these data. Therefore, this article proposes massive data processing and multidimensional database management based on deep learning to meet the needs of contemporary society for massive data processing. This article has deeply studied the basic technical methods of massive data processing, including MapReduce technology, parallel data technology, database technology based on distributed memory databases, and distributed real-time database technology based on cloud computing technology, and constructed a massive data fusion algorithm based on deep learning. The model and the multidimensional online analytical processing model of the multidimensional database based on deep learning analyze the performance, scalability, load balancing, data query, and other aspects of the multidimensional database based on deep learning. It is concluded that the accuracy of multidimensional database query data is as high as 100%, and the accuracy of the average data query time is only 0.0053 s, which is much lower than the general database query time.

Open Access October 5, 2022

Research on the virtual simulation experiment evaluation model of e-commerce logistics smart warehousing based on multidimensional weighting

Ganglong Fan, Bo Fan, Hongsheng Xu, Chuqiao Wang

Page range: 314-322

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Through the analysis of the current research situation at home and abroad, this article finds that there is a lack of evaluation standards and methods in the virtual simulation experiment of e-commerce logistics smart warehousing. Therefore, it seriously affects the standardization and rationality of the experiment. To solve the problems in the evaluation of the current virtual simulation experiment, this article proposes a virtual simulation experiment evaluation model of e-commerce logistics smart warehousing based on multidimensional weighting. This article firstly sorts out the basic process of e-commerce logistics smart warehousing experiment activities and establishes the evaluation object. Then, based on the duality degree of the output results of the experimental steps, it proposes a method that conforms to the corresponding operation steps. Thus, a three-dimensional evaluation model of the completion degree of the operation steps, the reasonable degree of the operation steps, and the completion time of the operation steps are constructed. An automatic scoring evaluation model is proposed based on the combination of three-dimensional weighted evaluation of experimental steps. Finally, the feasibility and convenience of the evaluation model are verified through the experiment analysis.

Open Access October 17, 2022

Cross-modal biometric fusion intelligent traffic recognition system combined with real-time data operation

Wei Xu, Yujin Zhai

Page range: 332-344

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Intelligent traffic recognition system is the development direction of the future traffic system. It effectively integrates advanced information technology, data communication transmission technology, electronic sensing technology, control technology, and computer technology into the entire ground traffic management system. It establishes a real-time, accurate, and efficient integrated transportation management system that plays a role in a wide range and all directions. The aim of this article is to integrate cross-modal biometrics into an intelligent traffic recognition system combined with real-time data operations. Based on the cross-modal recognition algorithm, it can better re-identify the vehicle cross-modally by building a model. First, this article first presents a general introduction to the cross-modal recognition method. Then, the experimental analysis is conducted on the classification of vehicle images recognized by the intelligent transportation system, the complexity of vehicle logo recognition, and the recognition of vehicle images with different lights. Finally, the cross-modal recognition algorithm is introduced into the dynamic analysis of the intelligent traffic recognition system. The cross-modal traffic recognition system experiment is carried out. The experimental results show that the intraclass distribution loss function can improve the Rank 1 recognition rate and mAP value by 6–7% points on the basis of the baseline method. This shows that improving the modal invariance feature by reducing the distribution difference between different modal images of the same vehicle can effectively deal with the feature information imbalance caused by modal changes.

Open Access October 27, 2022

Big data network security defense mode of deep learning algorithm

Yingle Yu

Page range: 345-356

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With the rapid development and progress of big data technology, people can already use big data to judge the transmission and distribution of network information and make better decisions in time, but it also faces major network threats such as Trojan horses and viruses. Traditional network security functions generally wait until the network power is turned on to a certain extent before starting, and it is difficult to ensure the security of big data networks. To protect the network security of big data and improve its ability to defend against attacks, this article introduces the deep learning algorithm into the research of big data network security defense mode. The test results show that the introduction of deep learning algorithms into the research of network security model can enhance the security defense capability of the network by 5.12%, proactively detect, and kill cyber attacks that can pose threats. At the same time, the security defense mode will evaluate the network security of big data and analyze potential network security risks in detail, which will prevent risks before they occur and effectively protect the network security in the context of big data.

Open Access October 27, 2022

A study on the big data scientific research model and the key mechanism based on blockchain

Shengwei Wen

Page range: 357-363

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In an era of open data sharing, the scientific research field puts forward an urgent need for the value of big data. However, big data still form “data islands,” which seriously affects the level of scientific research and the progress of scientific research. In this regard, this article proposes the research and realization of the big data scientific research model and key mechanism based on blockchain. This article uses the K -means algorithm to cluster scientific research data and reasonably utilizes the decentralization, smart contracts, and non-tampering characteristics of the blockchain to design a distributed data model based on the blockchain. This article proposes that a BIZi network is formed based on a blockchain Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and Zigzag code (blockchain, IPF Sand Zigzag code, BIZi for short) to achieve reliable data connection and through a set of data access control mechanisms and data service customization mechanism to effectively provide data requirements for scientific research. Finally, IPFS network transmission speed performance can better meet the needs of scientific research. The larger the number of file blocks, the higher the fault tolerance rate of the scheme and the better the storage efficiency. In a completely open data-sharing scenario, the fault tolerance rate of Byzantine nodes is extremely high to ensure the stability of the blockchain. The current optimal consensus algorithm fault tolerance rate reaches 49%.

Open Access November 18, 2022

Study on the random walk classification algorithm of polyant colony

Wenhai Qiu

Page range: 378-388

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With the sustained and healthy development of economy, saving energy and reducing consumption and improving energy utilization rate is a major task that enterprises need to solve. With the complex and large-scale chemical process, the heat exchange network has become complex and diverse. For more and more complex and large-scale industrial heat exchange networks, there are many different kinds of heat exchangers, the flow is complex, so the heat exchange network presents a high degree of complexity, a node status change; its disturbance transfer will influence the stability of other nodes associated with it, because of the system coupling, thus affecting the controllability and reliability of the whole heat exchanger network. Process optimization design of heat exchange network is one of the main methods of energy saving in the industrial field. As a typical simulated evolutionary algorithm in swarm intelligence algorithm, ant colony algorithm combined with random walk classification algorithm, this article proposes an optimized heat transfer network based on multi-ant colony random walk classification algorithm. The heat exchanger was abstracted as a node, and the heat exchanger pipeline was abstracted as a side. According to the maximum geometric multiplicity of the eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix and the linear correlation row vector of the matrix, and combining the importance of the edge of the heat exchange network with the controllable range of the driving edge, the optimal control driving edge of the heat exchange network is identified. The results show that compared with the traditional heat exchanger, the size of the enhanced heat transfer equipment and the influence of pressure drop change. Compared with the results of the size of the heat exchanger strengthening heat transfer equipment and the stepwise optimization of the heat exchange network in this study, the cost of public engineering is reduced by 5.98% and the total cost is reduced by 8.83%.

Open Access December 10, 2022

Privacy protection methods of location services in big data

Wenfeng Liu, Juanjuan Wu, Zhong Xi

Page range: 389-402

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The rapid development of mobile communication technology not only brings convenience and fun to our life, but also brings a series of problems such as privacy disclosure. Therefore, it is very necessary to study the privacy protection method based on location service to strengthen the security of location privacy. The purpose of this work is to improve the security of location privacy and prevent the disclosure of user privacy by studying the characteristics of location services and privacy protection methods. This article first describes the characteristics of the important location privacy protection law, and then studies the structural characteristics and operation process of the location privacy protection law. This work evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of different methods, and finally compares the performance of several privacy protection algorithms through experimental analysis. Through the research of hiding space method, two-level cache method based on user grid, differential privacy protection method and experimental analysis of the algorithm, an effective privacy protection algorithm can be obtained. It can better protect the location privacy of users. For example, dual-active in the hidden space algorithm has the best privacy protection performance. Compared with other algorithms, the success rate of generating hidden space is increased by more than 10%, and the time of generating hidden space is shortened by about a quarter. The algorithm It has certain practical value and significance for use in the privacy protection of users.

Open Access December 10, 2022

Data sharing platform and security mechanism based on cloud computing under the Internet of Things

Jie Cai, Jun Wang

Page range: 403-415

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Under the background of the rapid development of information technology, people’s data and information security problems are becoming increasingly serious. Data and information can be leaked in daily Internet access or communications. When doing data sharing, the security mechanism of the data sharing platform should be analyzed. This article aims to study how to analyze the security mechanism of cloud computing-based data sharing platforms in the Internet of Things era. This article presented an attribute-based encryption (ABE) algorithm, a detailed interpretation of the attribute-based encryption algorithm, and analyzed security problems in data sharing in cloud computing. The experimental results showed that the ABE algorithm takes an average of 11 s with five trials, while the other two methods take 51.8 and 31.6 s. ABEs take less time for different encryption numbers under the same data than the other two methods and are more efficient than the other two methods. Thus, attribute-based encryption algorithms should have more advantages.

Open Access December 13, 2022

Multisource data acquisition based on single-chip microcomputer and sensor technology

Yahui Huang, Daozhong Lei

Page range: 416-426

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Today, data and information are flooded every day. Data are a reliable basis for scientific research. Their function is not only to clearly show real problems in various fields, but also to guide people to find the key factors that cause problems. The emergence of big data responds to this era of information explosion, and it is precisely by virtue of the accumulation of quantity that it presents the rules more clearly. No matter political, economic, cultural, and other fields are closely related to data. The application of microcontroller and sensor technology can help explore new branches of multisource data. However, the collection and analysis of multisource data only stays in the aspects of computer and communication technology. In view of the earlier problems, this article carried out scientific data collection and analysis of multisource data based on single-chip microcomputer and sensor technology. The research results showed that based on two algorithms, random early detection and weighted fair queuing, the analysis algorithm according to the Genetic Algorithm had a higher successful conversion rate. The power consumption of a node with better antenna performance was 9–10% lower than that of a node with poor antenna performance, which provided a basis for multisource data collection and analysis.

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