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Jul 2, 2024·Babylonian Journal of Machine Learning
15 cites
Leveraging AI and Blockchain in MANETs to enhance Smart City Infrastructure and Autonomous Vehicular Networks

S. Gopalakrishnan, E. D. Kanmani Ruby, D. Hemanand, R. Anitha · 6 authors

The incorporation or combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology into Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) shows important factor for modern and advance smart city infrastructure and autonomous vehicular networks. This paper describes the complementary potential of the technologies to help the built-in difficulties of MANETs includes flexibility, protection, and data integrity. AI techniques such as machine learning and reinforcement learning, are emphasized to improve routing protocols to optimize data transmission rates, and decrease latency. Blockchain technology using Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) and other consensus mechanisms, gives a tight and decentralized architecture for data handling assuring trust and integrity amidst network nodes. The appeal of these incorpoarted technologies is especially related for smart cities which depand on collection of data and evaluation for effective handling of urban operations such as flow of traffic, environmental observing, and consumption of energy. Autonomous vehicular networks needing rigd and strong communication and data transfer between vehicles and infrastructure, also help from the enhanced network functions and security provided by AI and blockchain incorpoaration. Experimental evaluation denotes improvements in crucial performance metrics. Sensor 2 persists the highest data transmission rate of 12 Mbps. Sensor 4 had the decreased at 9 Mbps. Latency measurements observed that Sensor 2 recorded the lowest latency at 45 ms, with Sensor 3 having the highest at 55 ms.

Open access
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
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Jun 25, 2024·Machine Learning
7 cites
Discrete-time graph neural networks for transaction prediction in Web3 social platforms

Manuel Dileo, Matteo Zignani

Abstract In Web3 social platforms, i.e. social web applications that rely on blockchain technology to support their functionalities, interactions among users are usually multimodal, from common social interactions such as following, liking, or posting, to specific relations given by crypto-token transfers facilitated by the blockchain. In this dynamic and intertwined networked context, modeled as a financial network, our main goals are (i) to predict whether a pair of users will be involved in a financial transaction, i.e. the transaction prediction task , even using textual information produced by users, and (ii) to verify whether performances may be enhanced by textual content. To address the above issues, we compared current snapshot-based temporal graph learning methods and developed T3GNN, a solution based on state-of-the-art temporal graph neural networks’ design, which integrates fine-tuned sentence embeddings and a simple yet effective graph-augmentation strategy for representing content, and historical negative sampling. We evaluated models in a Web3 context by leveraging a novel high-resolution temporal dataset, collected from one of the most used Web3 social platforms, which spans more than one year of financial interactions as well as published textual content. The experimental evaluation has shown that T3GNN consistently achieved the best performance over time and for most of the snapshots. Furthermore, through an extensive analysis of the performance of our model, we show that, despite the graph structure being crucial for making predictions, textual content contains useful information for forecasting transactions, highlighting an interplay between users’ interests and economic relationships in Web3 platforms. Finally, the evaluation has also highlighted the importance of adopting sampling methods alternative to random negative sampling when dealing with prediction tasks on temporal networks.

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2 source records
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Recommender Systems and Techniques
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May 31, 2024·arXiv
3 cites
Wait or Not to Wait: Evaluating Trade-Offs between Speed and Precision in Blockchain-based Federated Aggregation

Huong Q. Nguyen, Tri Nguyen, Lauri Lovén, Susanna Pirttikangas

This paper presents a fully coupled blockchain-assisted federated learning architecture that effectively eliminates single points of failure by decentralizing both the training and aggregation tasks across all participants. Our proposed system offers a high degree of flexibility, allowing participants to select shared models and customize the aggregation for local needs, thereby optimizing system performance, including accurate inference results. Notably, the integration of blockchain technology in our work is to promote a trustless environment, ensuring transparency and non-repudiation among participants when abnormalities are detected. To validate the effectiveness, we conducted real-world federated learning deployments on a private Ethereum platform, using two different models, ranging from simple to complex neural networks. The experimental results indicate comparable inference accuracy between centralized and decentralized federated learning settings. Furthermore, our findings indicate that asynchronous aggregation is a feasible option for simple learning models. However, complex learning models require greater training model involvement in the aggregation to achieve high model quality, instead of asynchronous aggregation. With the implementation of asynchronous aggregation and the flexibility to select models, participants anticipate decreased aggregation time in each communication round, while experiencing minimal accuracy trade-off.

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cs.DC
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
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May 31, 2024·Advances in Multidisciplinary & Scientific Research Journal Publication
4 cites
NiCuSBlockIoT: Sensor-based Cargo Assets Management and Traceability Blockchain Support for Nigerian Custom Services

D. Obasuyi, Rume Elizabeth Yoro, Margaret Dumebi Okpor, A.M Ifioki · 13 authors

As competitive market and globalization continue to ripple a range of issues across the asset chain (i.e. safety, quality, tracing, and overall management efficiency). Pandemics are bound to occur without warning and has revealed the unpreparedness of many nations. Thus, the Nigerian Government aiming to shore up revenue/monetization via customs exercise duties to augment the nosedive in revenue of the oil sector – must formulate policies and adapt technology to harness its inherent benefits therein. Study advances a sensor-based blockchain NiCuSBlockIoT, which will provision a decision-support scheme for cargo goods traceability and asset movement on a value-chain by first ensuring that accurate records of cargo goods are registered, tagged and reported using the sensor-based units. These are then broadcasted on to the NiCuSBlockIoT as record and/or blocks via a P2P chain on the network as a decentralized framework executed on a distributed hyper-ledger fabric via smart-contract transaction logic. Result show model eliminate fraud that often accompanies a centralized scheme via its sensor-layered model that reports all such errors as data on NiCuSBlockIoT supply value chain. Keywords: BlockChain, Food supply chain, Nigerian Customs Service, NISBlockIoT framework CISDI Journal Reference Format Obasuyi, D.A., Yoro, R.E., Okpor, M.D., Ifioki, A.., Brizimor, S.., Ojugo, A.A., Odiakaose, C.C., Emordi, F.U., Ako, R.E., Geteloma, V.C., Abere, R.A., Atuduhor, R.R. & Akiakeme, E. (2024): NiCuSBlockIoT: Sensor-based Cargo Assets Management and Traceability Blockchain Support for Nigerian Custom Services. Computing, Information Systems, Development Informatics & Allied Research Journal. Vol 15 No 2, Pp 45-64. dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CISDI/V15N2P4. Available online at www.isteams.net/cisdijournal

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Vehicle emissions and performance
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
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Mar 28, 2024·The Open Transportation Journal
43 cites
Navigating the Future of Secure and Efficient Intelligent Transportation Systems using AI and Blockchain

Jyotsna Ghildiyal Bijalwan, Jagendra Singh, Vinayakumar Ravi, Anchit Bijalwan · 7 authors

Introduction/Background This study explores the limitations of conventional encryption in real-world communications due to resource constraints. Additionally, it delves into the integration of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in autonomous cars for trajectory management within Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). This study unveils the resource-constrained real-world communications, conventional encryption faces challenges that hinder its feasibility. This introduction sets the stage for exploring the integration of DRL in autonomous cars and the transformative potential of Blockchain technology in ensuring secure data transfer, especially within the dynamic landscape of the transportation industry. Materials and Methods The research methodology involves implementing DRL techniques for autonomous car trajectory management within the context of connected and autonomous CAVs. Additionally, a detailed exploration of Blockchain technology deployment, consensus procedures, and decentralized data storage mechanisms. Results Results showcase the impracticality of conventional encryption in resource-constrained real-world communications. Moreover, the implementation of DRL and Blockchain technology proves effective in optimizing autonomous car subsystems, reducing training costs, and establishing secure, globally accessible government-managed transportation for enhanced data integrity and accessibility. Discussion The discussion delves into the implications of the study's findings, emphasizing the transformative potential of DRL in optimizing autonomous car subsystems. Furthermore, it explores the broader implications of Blockchain technology in revolutionizing secure, decentralized data transfer within the transportation industry. Conclusion In conclusion, the study highlights the impracticality of conventional encryption in real-world communications and underscores the significant advancements facilitated by DRL in autonomous vehicle trajectory management. The integration of Blockchain technology not only ensures secure data transfer but also paves the way for a globally accessible transportation blockchain, reshaping the future landscape of the industry.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
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Jan 1, 2024·IEEE Access
31 cites
Secure and Transparent Mobility in Smart Cities: Revolutionizing AVNs to Predict Traffic Congestion Using MapReduce, Private Blockchain, and XAI

Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Sajid Farooq, Tariq Shahzad, Arfa Hassan · 8 authors

In the recent era, the practical implementation of Autonomous Vehicular Networks (AVNs) with the vulnerable Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication of autonomous vehicles and inadequate intelligent decision-making systems has become a primary concern in smart city mobility. This has led to the traffic congestion concerns such as time wastage, compromised safety, decreased durability and reliability of transportation infrastructure and V2V communication short delay and Roadside Units (RSUs), and reduced traffic flow. To address these issues, secure AVN communication and smart decision-making for autonomous vehicles in smart cities are of utmost importance. It ensures safety on roads, durability of the infrastructure, transparency, reliability, traffic congestion reduction and transportation efficiency. MapReduce is a reliable distributed computing paradigm which is able to analyze and process enormous AVN data in parallel. It contributes to smoother traffic flow by identifying the patterns and providing actionable insights for real-time decision making to decrease congestion. A private blockchain AVN can efficiently solve the problems of data security and reliability by providing tamper-proof record of all the transactions, hence enhancing reliability, and also offering a trusted solution of unauthorized access in real-time V2V communication. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) which is an efficient way to analyze fairness in traffic data over time providing transparency and availability of intricate traffic patterns, improving real-time traffic management with V2V communication and RSUs and reducing short delays that may occur as well as enabling traffic flow and the development of predictive traffic models that assist in decision making. This research proposed an XAI-based transparent model integrating MapReduce for processing large amounts of data and private blockchain technology for secured and tamper-proof vehicular communication. This proposed model is a promising solution for addressing the AVN data security issues and reliability of the system, mitigating negative effects of traffic congestion, and improving the transparency of decision making on the transport efficiency in smart cities. The proposed model provides a better performance than the previous approaches and gets 96% of the accuracy and 4% of miss rate.

Open access
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
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Jan 1, 2024·IEEE Access
16 cites
Blockchain-Based Framework for Traffic Event Verification in Smart Vehicles

Francisco A. Pujol, Higinio Mora, Tamai Ramírez-Gordillo, Carlos Rocamora · 5 authors

The development of smart vehicles has been a major focus of the automotive industry in recent years. Smart vehicles, equipped with advanced sensors and communication technologies, represent a transformative paradigm in modern transportation systems. Some of the challenges associated with the introduction of smart vehicles include developing reliable sensors, creating robust communication networks, and ensuring the security of vehicle systems. This paper proposes a Blockchain-based framework for accident prevention on the Internet of Vehicles, where vehicles monitor the state of the route and transmit information about hazardous situations to the Blockchain network. Once the event is confirmed, warnings are sent to all vehicles, and their speed is automatically reduced to avoid accidents. The tests in a 3D graphical simulator, combined with Hyperledger Besu technology for the creation of the Blockchain network, demonstrated both horizontal and vertical scalability, validating the potential of this framework for real-world integration. Moreover, it presents a fast reaction to anomalous situations on a route compared to human reactions under similar circumstances.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Traffic control and management
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Jan 1, 2024·Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University
1 cites
SECURE ROAD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (SRTM) SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATION DETECTION AND RECORDING USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Mohamed Hasan Omar, Islam Taj-Eddin, Nagwa M. Omar, Hosny Ibrahim

Traffic road violations are increasing continuously in crowded and big cities, which requires an automatic system for monitoring and detecting. This system should be accurate and secure against poisoning attacks that intend to delete some or all traffic violations. Accordingly, this study proposes a secure road traffic management system using the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology. The system uses a network of sensors, traffic signals, and cameras to track violating vehicles and record their violations in the blockchain. In the proposed system, we used deep learning models to recognize the vehicle identification number and type of traffic violations, and we stored the traffic violation data on the Ethereum test network. The proposed system consists of three steps: (1) vehicle information detection. (2) Type of violation detection. (3) Violation storage in the blockchain. The proposed secure road traffic management system uses blockchain, IoT, encryption, and authentication to increase violation detection and recording, processing speed, and communication delay, ultimately improving service quality and customer experience. The experimental results show that the proposed system is more accurate and secure than the other systems that have been proposed in recent research.

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Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Vehicle License Plate Recognition
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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Jan 1, 2024·SSRN Electronic Journal
0 cites
Bitcoin Prediction Using Lstm Model in Twitter

Saurabh Singh, Kanshu Sharma, Richa Jain

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Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Spam and Phishing Detection
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Jan 1, 2024·arXiv (Cornell University)
5 cites
A review on different techniques used to combat the non-IID and heterogeneous nature of data in FL

Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine-learning approach enabling collaborative model training across multiple decentralized edge devices that hold local data samples, all without exchanging these samples. This collaborative process occurs under the supervision of a central server orchestrating the training or via a peer-to-peer network. The significance of FL is particularly pronounced in industries such as healthcare and finance, where data privacy holds paramount importance. However, training a model under the Federated learning setting brings forth several challenges, with one of the most prominent being the heterogeneity of data distribution among the edge devices. The data is typically non-independently and non-identically distributed (non-IID), thereby presenting challenges to model convergence. This report delves into the issues arising from non-IID and heterogeneous data and explores current algorithms designed to address these challenges.

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Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
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Jan 1, 2024·Procedia Computer Science
7 cites
ChatGPT-based Sentiment Analysis and Risk Prediction in the Bitcoin Market

Wentian Kang, Xuan Yuan, Xiaohan Zhang, Yishan Chen · 5 authors

The risk prediction of financial markets is of paramount importance, with investor sentiment playing a critical role. However, current research appears to be lacking in-depth exploration of this particular aspect within the Bitcoin market. This study aims to explore the impact of market participants’ sentiment on risk prediction in the bitcoin market. We first applied ChatGPT to analyze the sentiment of crawled Bitcoin-related news headlines. Meanwhile, Monte Carlo simulation was employed to calculate value at risk (VaR). And we selected five conventional factors, including Bitcoin price, transaction volume, market share, hash rate, and average difficulty of mining. Finally, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) regression model was used to construct the model for predicting the risk of bitcoin market. We made a comparison between the accuracy outcomes when considering and not considering sentiment as factors. The results show that market participant’s sentiment is significantly associated with market risk, and the inclusion of sentiment can significantly improve the accuracy of the risk prediction model.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
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Nov 8, 2023·Sustainability
30 cites
Advances in the Optimization of Vehicular Traffic in Smart Cities: Integration of Blockchain and Computer Vision for Sustainable Mobility

Ángel Jaramillo-Alcázar, Jaime Govea, William Villegas-Ch

The growing adoption of Artificial Intelligence of Things technologies in smart cities generates significant transformations to address urban challenges and move towards sustainability. This article analyzes the economic, social, and environmental impacts of Artificial Intelligence of Things in urban environments, focusing on a case study on optimizing vehicular traffic. The research methodology is based on a comprehensive analysis of academic literature and government sources, followed by the creation of a simulated city model. This framework implemented a vehicle-traffic optimization system integrating artificial intelligence algorithms, computer vision, and blockchain technology. The results obtained in this case study are highly encouraging: artificial intelligence algorithms processed real-time data from security cameras and traffic lights, resulting in a notable 20% reduction in traffic congestion during peak hours. Furthermore, implementing blockchain technology guarantees the security and immutability of traffic data, strengthening trust in the system and promoting sustainability in urban environments. These results highlight the importance of combining advanced technologies to effectively address modern cities’ complex challenges and move towards more sustainable and livable cities.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Traffic control and management
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Oct 15, 2023·Applied Sciences
7 cites
Authenticity, and Approval Framework for Bus Transportation Based on Blockchain 2.0 Technology

Tariq Jamil Saifullah Khanzada, Muhammad Farrukh Shahid, Ahmad Mutahhar, Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam · 8 authors

The intelligent transport system (ITS) has transformed urban transportation, enhancing daily commutes with services like congestion management, vehicle crash prevention, traffic control, roadside safety, breakdown assistance, ticket booking, vehicle registration, and insurance. However, in urban bus transportation, the ITS faces security threats, such as data forgery and manipulation. To counter these challenges, a blockchain-based framework for bus transportation approval is proposed, ensuring data integrity and security. The framework’s performance is evaluated based on processing time, central processing unit (CPU), graphical processing unit (GPU), cloud usage, and memory consumption, and compared to Ethereum and Aurora testnet, in terms of gas cost, security, and performance. Stochastic algorithms, including the genetic algorithm and Tabu search, are used for time complexity analysis, to obtain an optimized solution. The decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) analysis is also performed to assess factors like transaction costs, execution time, memory consumption, and security. The results show that execution time, memory consumption, and processing time are crucial, while transaction cost, reliability, and transparency positively impact the system’s effectiveness. By reducing the risk of false data presentation and ensuring accurate records, the proposed framework contributes to a more efficient and reliable transportation system.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Traffic control and management
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Sep 30, 2023·arXiv
0 cites
DURENDAL: Graph deep learning framework for temporal heterogeneous networks

Manuel Dileo, Matteo Zignani, Sabrina Gaito

Temporal Heterogeneous Networks (THNs) are evolving networks that characterize many real-world applications such as citation and events networks, recommender systems, and knowledge graphs. Forecasting THNs involves predicting future connections within a network that evolves over time and comprises diverse types of nodes and interactions with varying temporal dynamics. Although some Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) models have been successfully applied to forecast THNs, there is a lack of a general overview of how the message-passing computation could be extended to treat THNs. Moreover, most of the current solutions exhibit pitfalls in their training and evaluation strategies. Hence, in this work, we propose a graph deep learning framework for THN forecasting. Our framework decomposes the computation of a GNN layer into multiple components and introduces two different schemes to update embedding representations for THNs. This design allows the classification of existing solutions into special instances of our framework and highlights their potential limitations. We also extend the set of benchmarks for THNs by introducing two novel high-resolution temporal heterogeneous graph datasets derived from an emerging Web3 platform and a well-established e-commerce website. Overall, we conducted the first massive evaluation of THNs solutions over four temporal heterogeneous network datasets on two different future link prediction tasks using a fair newly introduced evaluation setting that considers the evolving nature of the data. Based on the limitations of existing solutions, we develop a new model that combines working techniques from previous models and leverages a new embedding update scheme. Experiments show the prediction power of our model compared to current solutions for link prediction in temporal graphs. Moreover, the experimental evaluation highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the different solutions and shows the effectiveness of our framework design.

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3 source records
cs.LG
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Machine Learning in Healthcare
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Sep 28, 2023·Journal of Computing and Information Technology
3 cites
Short-Term Power Demand Forecasting Using Blockchain-Based Neural Networks Models

Ruohan Wang, Yunlong Chen, Entang Li, Hongwei Xing · 6 authors

With the rapid development of blockchain technology, blockchain-based neural network short-term power demand forecasting has become a research hot spot in the power industry. This paper aims to combine neural network algorithms with blockchain technology to establish a trustworthy and efficient short-term demand forecasting model. By leveraging the distributed ledger and immutability features of blockchain, we ensure the security and reliability of power demand data. Meanwhile, short-term power demand forecasting research using neural networks has the potential to increase the stability of the power system and offer opportunities for improved operations. In this paper, the root mean-square-error model evaluation indicator was used to compare the back propagation (BP) neural network algorithm and the traditional forecasting algorithm. The evaluation was performed on the randomly selected five household power datasets. The results show that, by comparing the long short-term memory network (LSTM) model with the BP neural network model, it was determined that the average prediction impact increases by about 25.7% under stable power demand. The short-term power prediction model of the BP neural network has the average error values more than two times lower than the traditional prediction model. It was shown that the use of the BP neural network algorithm and blockchain could increase the accuracy of short-term power demand forecasting, allowing the neural network-based algorithm to be implemented and taken into account in the research on short-term power demand forecasting.

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Energy Load and Power Forecasting
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Smart Grid Energy Management
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Aug 30, 2023·World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
0 cites
Enhancing IoT edge intelligence: Machine learning-driven visualization for smart cities decision-making

Natarajan Sankaran

Revolutionizing data processing, security and real-time decision making, the move to IoT edge intelligence is advancing the state of the art in how we approach these and all challenges of modern business. Latency, bandwidth constraints, security vulnerability are the traditional pain points of traditional cloud-based service models, edge computing is a critical solution. The IoT systems can be made more responsive, better able to utilize resources more effectively, and more secure by way of integrating ML driven visualization and edge AI strategies. Nevertheless, there are still some challenges about this such as scaling, data privacy, and computational efficiency. These risks can be mitigated with the solutions like federated learning, blockchain integration and then the anomaly detection, and all that data can actually flow seamlessly and securely. Edge AI takes the best of centralized cloud along with cost efficiency of distributed systems and results in reducing dependence on centralized cloud infrastructure, and optimizing data processing by doing the computation locally to lower latency and save bandwidth. Furthermore, ML based visualization tools help in making IoT applications efficient for smart cities, health-care and industrial automation domains. Though the technology was developed years ago, security continues to be a key consideration as blockchain technology ensures secure, tamper proof data management, while federated learning ensures that data is private because it is decentralized during training. It is expected that later IoT edge intelligence can be advanced further from emerging technology such as quantum computing and AI driven automation. Such advancements will enable more scalable, secure and efficient processing frameworks that would lead to making intelligent, autonomous decisioning in the real time environment. As organizations adopt the edge AI solutions, it is important to address their current limitations and exploit the future innovation for the further growth and efficiency of IoT ecosystems.

Open access
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Smart Cities and Technologies
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Jul 13, 2023·Research Square
2 cites
An Efficient and Secure Blockchain Based Homomorphic Encryption for Intelligent Transport System

Nikhil Tanwar

<title>Abstract</title> The volume of automobiles on roadways keeps growing and crashes increase in frequency, managing traffic routes gets increasingly crucial. Real-time messages are delivered through wireless connections in Intelligent Transport Systems(ITS), although this might raise safety and confidentiality issues. Safety flaws, hefty data processing and transmission costs, and safety vulnerabilities plague current traffic route management ideas. With fog-based ITS's, a simple congestion routing management system was developed to overcome these problems. In this system, automobiles encrypted their travel courses using homomorphic encryption and transfer the secured data onto a fog node. Despite being aware of what specific path was taken by every automobile, Traffic Control Centre (TMC) decodes the received ciphertexts which have been collected by the fog node and manages congestion based on the decoded data. Additionally, the plan makes utilization of the blockchain system to maintain the vehicle's public key. This makes it possible to manage individual vehicle's public key securely and impenetrably, guaranteeing that only authorized cars may join the ITS. The idea was put into operation via the Rinkeby test network based on Ethereum to show that it is feasible. According to the results of the study, this aforementioned approach outperforms other pertinent representative schemes. This lightweight traffic route management system offers a safe and effective method for controlling travel routes in ITSs by utilizing homomorphic encryption and blockchain technology. By addressing the safety and confidentiality concerns raised by sending real-time communications via wireless methods, also lowers the computation and transmission costs of previous ideas. This approach has the potential to improve traffic safety and ease congestion in ITS's.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
IoT and GPS-based Vehicle Safety Systems
Original source
Jun 7, 2023·Sensors
20 cites
DrunkChain: Blockchain-Based IoT System for Preventing Drunk Driving-Related Traffic Accidents

Hamza Farooq, Ayesha Altaf, Faiza Iqbal, Juan Castanedo Galán · 6 authors

Traffic accidents present significant risks to human life, leading to a high number of fatalities and injuries. According to the World Health Organization's 2022 worldwide status report on road safety, there were 27,582 deaths linked to traffic-related events, including 4448 fatalities at the collision scenes. Drunk driving is one of the leading causes contributing to the rising count of deadly accidents. Current methods to assess driver alcohol consumption are vulnerable to network risks, such as data corruption, identity theft, and man-in-the-middle attacks. In addition, these systems are subject to security restrictions that have been largely overlooked in earlier research focused on driver information. This study intends to develop a platform that combines the Internet of Things (IoT) with blockchain technology in order to address these concerns and improve the security of user data. In this work, we present a device- and blockchain-based dashboard solution for a centralized police monitoring account. The equipment is responsible for determining the driver's impairment level by monitoring the driver's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and the stability of the vehicle. At predetermined times, integrated blockchain transactions are executed, transmitting data straight to the central police account. This eliminates the need for a central server, ensuring the immutability of data and the existence of blockchain transactions that are independent of any central authority. Our system delivers scalability, compatibility, and faster execution times by adopting this approach. Through comparative research, we have identified a significant increase in the need for security measures in relevant scenarios, highlighting the importance of our suggested model.

Open access
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
IoT and GPS-based Vehicle Safety Systems
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
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Apr 19, 2023·Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks Ubiquitous Computing and Dependable Applications
11 cites
Intelligent Transport System based Blockchain to Preventing Routing Attacks

Mada Alharbi

In the era of smart cities, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) are necessary towards the success of smart cars in the modern societies. ITS rely on Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), which enable communication between cars to relay safety messages exchange. However, VANETs can be exposed to the issue of decentralization and high mobility of cars. Therefore, VANETs are vulnerable to a variety of attacks such as black-hole and grey-hole attacks. These attacks have a significantly dangerous influence on the availability of ITS, causing traffic disruption. In this paper, a blockchain-based model is proposed to provide a convenient and secure solution for ITS. Furthermore, it enables decentralized cooperation between cars and mutual trust is created using smart contracts. The experimental evaluation shows that the PDR rates of the proposed protocols achieve good results compared to previous routing protocols. However, the VCBC method gives a high rate of PDR than SCBC reaching 70% because of the high awareness of the sender car.

Open access
Transportation Systems and Logistics
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
E-commerce and Technology Innovations
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Apr 11, 2023·Sensors
352 cites
Smart Transportation: An Overview of Technologies and Applications

Damilola Oladimeji, Khushi Gupta, Nuri Alperen Kose, Kubra Gundogan · 6 authors

As technology continues to evolve, our society is becoming enriched with more intelligent devices that help us perform our daily activities more efficiently and effectively. One of the most significant technological advancements of our time is the Internet of Things (IoT), which interconnects various smart devices (such as smart mobiles, intelligent refrigerators, smartwatches, smart fire alarms, smart door locks, and many more) allowing them to communicate with each other and exchange data seamlessly. We now use IoT technology to carry out our daily activities, for example, transportation. In particular, the field of smart transportation has intrigued researchers due to its potential to revolutionize the way we move people and goods. IoT provides drivers in a smart city with many benefits, including traffic management, improved logistics, efficient parking systems, and enhanced safety measures. Smart transportation is the integration of all these benefits into applications for transportation systems. However, as a way of further improving the benefits provided by smart transportation, other technologies have been explored, such as machine learning, big data, and distributed ledgers. Some examples of their application are the optimization of routes, parking, street lighting, accident prevention, detection of abnormal traffic conditions, and maintenance of roads. In this paper, we aim to provide a detailed understanding of the developments in the applications mentioned earlier and examine current researches that base their applications on these sectors. We aim to conduct a self-contained review of the different technologies used in smart transportation today and their respective challenges. Our methodology encompassed identifying and screening articles on smart transportation technologies and its applications. To identify articles addressing our topic of review, we searched for articles in the four significant databases: IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Science Direct, and Springer. Consequently, we examined the communication mechanisms, architectures, and frameworks that enable these smart transportation applications and systems. We also explored the communication protocols enabling smart transportation, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular networks, and how they contribute to seamless data exchange. We delved into the different architectures and frameworks used in smart transportation, including cloud computing, edge computing, and fog computing. Lastly, we outlined current challenges in the smart transportation field and suggested potential future research directions. We will examine data privacy and security issues, network scalability, and interoperability between different IoT devices.

Open access
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Smart Parking Systems Research
IoT and GPS-based Vehicle Safety Systems
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Apr 4, 2023·Aerospace
11 cites
A Novel Fault-Tolerant Air Traffic Management Methodology Using Autoencoder and P2P Blockchain Consensus Protocol

Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Seyed Ali Hashemi, Seyed Ali Hashemi · 6 authors

This paper presents a methodology for designing a highly reliable Air Traffic Management and Control (ATMC) methodology using Neural Networks and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) blockchain. A novel data-driven algorithm was designed for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction (ATP) based on an Autoencoder architecture. The Autoencoder was considered in this study due to its excellent fault-tolerant ability when the input data provided by the GPS is deficient. After conflict detection, P2P blockchain was used for securely decentralized decision-making. A meta-controller composed of this Autoencoder, and P2P blockchain performed the ATMC task very well. A comprehensive database of trajectories constructed using our UAS-S4 Ehécatl was used for algorithms validation. The accuracy of the ATP was evaluated for a variety of data failures, and the high-performance index confirmed the excellent efficiency of the autoencoder. Aircraft were considered in several local encounter scenarios, and their trajectories were securely managed and controlled using our in-house Smart Contract software developed on the Ethereum platform. The Sharding approach improved the P2P blockchain performance in terms of computational complexity and processing time in real-time operations. Therefore, the probability of conflicts among aircraft in a swarm environment was significantly reduced using our new methodology and algorithm.

Open access
Air Traffic Management and Optimization
Traffic control and management
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
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Mar 27, 2023·IET Generation Transmission & Distribution
8 cites
RETRACTED: Machine learning based load prediction in smart‐grid under different contract scenario

Piyush Kumar Yadav, Rajnish Bhasker, Albert Alexander Stonier, Geno Peter · 6 authors

Abstract Many progressed information scientific strategies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) and profound learning methods, have been proposed and tracked down wide applications in our general public. This proposition creates information driven arrangements by utilizing the most recent profound learning and AI innovation, including outfit learning, meta‐learning and move learning, for energy the executives framework issues. Genuine world datasets are tried on proposed models contrasted and best in class plans, which exhibit the predominant presentation of the proposed model. In this proposition, the engineering of the Smart Grid testbed is additionally planned and created by using ML calculations and true remote correspondence frameworks to such an extent that constant plan necessities of Smart Grid testbed is met by this reconfigurable system with stacking of full convention in medium access control (MAC) and physical layers (PHY). The proposed engineering has the reconfiguration property in view of the organization of remote correspondence and trend setting innovations of Information and communication technologies (ICT) which incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) calculation. The fundamental plan objectives of the Smart Grid testbed is to make it simple to construct, reconfigure and scale to address the framework level prerequisites and to address the ongoing necessities.

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Energy Load and Power Forecasting
Smart Grid Energy Management
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
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Feb 28, 2023·Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences (PEN)
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Bitcoin Prediction with a hybrid model

Marwan Abdul Hameed Ashour, Ammar Sh. Ahmed

In recent years, Bitcoin has become the most widely used blockchain platform in business and finance. The goal of this work is to find a viable prediction model that incorporates and perhaps improves on a combina-tion of available models. Among the techniques utilized in this paper are exponential smoothing, ARIMA, artificial neural networks (ANNs) models, and prediction combination models. The study's most obvious discovery is that artificial intelligence models improve the results of compound prediction models. The sec-ond key discovery was that a strong combination forecasting model that responds to the multiple fluctua-tions that occur in the bitcoin time series and Error improvement should be used. Based on the results, the prediction accuracy criterion and matching curve-fitting in this work demonstrated that if the residuals of the revised model are white noise, the forecasts are unbiased. Future work investigating robust hybrid model forecasting using fuzzy neural networks would be very interesting.

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Stock Market Forecasting Methods
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Currency Recognition and Detection
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