Along with the fast development of computer technologies, e.g., ubiquitous computing, cloud computing and cyber-physical system, all kinds of networks (e.g., control network, communication network, sensor network, body area network, social network, opportunistic network, cloud-based network, etc.) appeared and were applied in large-scale factories, including a lot of traditional and new industries, e.g., textile industry, coal industry, mining industry, steel industry, machinery industry, petrochemical industry, and biomedical industry, etc. Assisted by various industrial networks, automation in industry can reduce cost greatly because it takes advantage of control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services. However, the industrial environment is dynamic and harsh usually, including extreme temperature, humidity, electromagnetic interference and vibration, which proposed specific requirements to intelligent industrial systems under certain circumstances. All these highlight the criticality of the design, analysis and implementation of intelligent industrial systems.

Applications of wireless sensor networks, body area networks in large-scale industrial applications, such as fault theories of wireless networks, including routing, network control and management, reliable transmission and architectures, etc.
Applications of social networking, big data, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, and cloud computing in various industries and services (e.g., intelligent systems enhanced by social networking, cloud-based industrial networks, cloud-assisted intelligent systems, etc.)
Analysis of industrial control and communication networks, including network lifetime, security, network scalability, reliability, stability, etc.
Design and choice of industrial, intelligent, application-specific network protocols and algorithms (e.g., EtherNet/IP, Ethernet Powerlink, EtherCAT, Modbus-TCP, Profinet, SERCOS III, etc.) at any communication layer
Opportunistic networks in the industry, such as underwater sensor networks in sewage treatment systems, including establishing a temporary data transmission structure using available devices (e.g., underwater robot, surface data station, surface sink and under water sink), optimizing horizontal multi-hop data links (e.g., 3D data transmission), etc.
Applications of intelligent systems in various industries, including collaborative systems, quality control, optimization, decision support, planning, high-level control concepts (e.g., multi-agent and holonic systems, service-oriented architectures), low-level control concepts (e.g., IEC 61131-3 and IEC 61499-based control), advanced system engineering concepts (e.g., model-driven development, component-based design), supply chains, value chains, virtual organizations, and virtual societies, emergency preparedness, crisis management, business channels, electronic marketplaces, enterprise resources planning, etc.
Design and analysis of real-time embedded industrial systems, including real-time computing, real-time operating systems, real-time communications, networked embedded systems technology, etc.
Novel control techniques, with respect to process control, equipment control, supervisory control, adaptive control, motion control, etc.
Automated manufacturing systems, regarding formal modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems, scheduling of manufacturing systems, queuing systems and petri nets in manufacturing systems, etc.
Computational intelligence in automation, including neural, fuzzy, evolutionary approaches in automation, ant colonies optimization and swarm intelligence in automation, machine learning, expert systems, etc.
Hardware and software design and development for intelligent systems, such as intelligent and humanized production monitoring and control, etc.
Big data analysis and processing in various industries and services, including constructing data analysis models, providing data analysis and processing tools and designing various optimization algorithms based on data analysis.
Crowd-sourced behavior analysis in various industry and services, such as measuring and calculating the diffusion direction and speed of gas in the petrochemical industry based on crowd-sourced data from a large number of and various types of sensors, as well as product and service evaluation.
Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems, including network performance analysis, automated manufacturing, intelligent monitoring, disaster prevention, etc.
Vision of future smart factories, service, marketing, and their integration, incorporating current existing technologies.
Multimedia applications, content management, process management and knowledge management for various industries, services, and engineering education: including multimedia processing, multimedia retrieval, multimedia indexing, image sensing, image processing, image coding, image recognition, etc.
Pattern recognition methods for various industries and services: including statistical theory, clustering, similarity measures, unsupervised learning, supervised learning, etc.
Survey, review and essay of current industrial networks researches and intelligent systems development.

Special issue editor: Mithun Mukherjee (GUDP)

Guest editor: Tuan Thanh Nguyen (University of Buckingham, UK)

Guest editor: Quoc-Tuan Vien (Middlesex University, UK)

Guest editor: Long Tran-Thanh (University of Southampton, UK)

Call for Papers: Special issue on Intelligent Networks with NFV/SDN and Big Data (Submission Deadline: December 31, 2018)

Call for Papers: Intelligent Systems with Computer Vision and Data Analytics (Submission Deadline: December 31, 2018)

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Enabling Technologies for Networks-on-Chip (Submission Deadline: December 31, 2018)

Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (Southeast University, Bangladesh)
Ammar Rayes (Cisco Systems, USA)
Antonino Masaracchia (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Athanasios Maglaras (Dr, Prof . ofT.E.I. of Larissa)
Ayse Kortun (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Berk Canberk (Northeastern University, USA)
Ca V. Phan (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Vietnam)
Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Chinmoy Kundu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Christer Carlsson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Chunsheng Zhu (University of British Columbia)
Constandinos Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Der-Jiunn Deng (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan)
Dickson Chiu (The University of Hong Kong)
Doan Xuan Toan (Thu Dau Mot University, Vietnam)
Eleanna Kafeza (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Fu-ren Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Gerhard Hancke (University of London, UK)
Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China)
Guojun Wang (Central South University, China)
Hacene Fouchal (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Haklae Kim (Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd, South Korea)
Halil Yetgin (Bitlis Eren University, Turkey)
Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan)
Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
Hua Hu (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
Huy T. Nguyen (Inje University, South Korea)
Ibrahim Kushchu (Mobile Government Consortium International, UK)
Irene Kafeza (Irene Law Office, Greece)
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau (ESSEC Business School Paris, France)
Jaime Lloret- Mauri (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Javier M. Aguiar (Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain)
Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Telecommunications Technology Center of Catalonia, Spain)
Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Jiankun Hu (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Jianmin Jiang (Shenzhen University)
Jianwei Niu (Beihang University, China)
Jinlei Jiang (Tsinghua University, China)
Jinsong Wu (Bell Laboratory, China)
Joel Rodrigues (Inst. Telecomunicações, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Juan Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain)
Jucheng Yang (Tianjing University of Technology, China)
Junqing Zhang (Queen's University Belfast)
KUN WANG (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Kuo-Ming Chao (Leader – Distributed Systems and Modelling Research Group, UK)
Leandros A. Maglaras (De Montfort University, UK)
Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Liang Zhou (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Liangtian Wan (Electrical and Electrical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
Long D. Nguyen (Binh Duong University, Vietnam)
Lu Liu (University of Derby, UK)
Maggie M. Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Malcolm Egan (INSA Lyon)
Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Mohamamad Shojafar (University Sapienza of Rome, Italy)
Nicholas C Romano (Oklahoma State University, USA)
Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France)
P. Radha Krishna (SET Labs, Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
Panlong Yang (PLA University of Science and Technology, China)
Pasi Tyrväinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Patrick C.K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Phong Nam Nguyen (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Pierluigi Siano (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Pirkko Walden (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
Raymond Y.K Lau (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Rong Yu (Guangdong University of Technology, China)
Rose Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Sammy Chan (City University of HongKong, HK)
Sghaier Guizani (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Shing-Chi Cheung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Shui Yu (Deakin University, Australia)
Song Guo (University of Aizu, Japan)
Stephen J. H. Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Syed Hassan Ahmed (University of Central Florida, USA)
Tiago Cruz (University of Coimbra)
Tran Trung (PTIT, VietNam)
Trung Q. Duong (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Umar Zakir Abdul Hamid (Sensible 4 Oy, Helsinki)
Victor Leung (The University of British Columbia)
Vo Nguyen Son Dr. (Duy Tan University, Vietnam)
Wai-Wa Fung (Information Security and Forensics Society, Hong Kong)
Walid Gaaloul (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
Wendy W. Y. Hui (University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Xiang Gui (Massey University, New Zealand)
Xiaoling Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Xu Wang (Heriot Watt University, UK)
Yan Bai (University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway)
Yi Zhuang (Zhejian Gongshang University, China)
Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Yong Tang (South China Normal University, China)
Yuanfang Chen (Institute Mines-Telecom, University Pierre and Marie Curie )
Yuexing Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Yuqing Sun (Shangdong University, China)
Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE)
Zhangbing Zhou (China University of Geosciences, China)
ZhiMing Cai (Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau)
Zhiqiang Huo (GDUPT,UoL)
Zichao Sheng (ZTE, China)

Trung Q. Duong

Dr. Trung Q. Duong is a Reader at Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. His current research interests include IoT (applied to disaster management, agriculture, hydrometeorological hazards, smart grid) 5G networks (small-cell networks, ultra-dense networks, HetNets, physical layer security, massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, caching, energy-harvesting), and nanoscale, molecular communications networks. He has authored or co-authored over 110 IEEE Journals. He is currently serving as an Editor for IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans on Communications, IET Communications and a Lead Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters. He has served as the Guest Editor for more than 22 times on ISI-index journals including the IEEE Journal in Selected Areas on Communications 2015, IET Communications 2014, 2016, 2017, IEEE Communications Magazine 2014 and 2015, IEEE Access 2016, 2017, 2018, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine 2015, EURASIP JWCN, EURASIP JASP. He was an Editor of Electronics Letters, Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Communications Letters. He has served as a chair for more than 20 IEEE conferences/workshops including the IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Symposium Chair. Dr. Duong was awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring) in 2013, the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016, IEEE Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 2017. He is a recipient of prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship from 2016 to 2021 and has won the prestigious Newton Prize 2017.

Le Nguyen Bao

Dr. Le Nguyen Bao is the Vice Provost and Head of the Technology & Science division as well as the R&D Center of Duy Tan University (DTU), which is widely considered to be the No. 1 private university in Vietnam. He earned his doctorate degree in Computer Science also from DTU, specializing in the field of facial recognition. His research interest is in network security policy, data warehousing, and 3D animation design. He helped initiate the CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) framework for engineering education first time in Central Vietnam back in 2010. His efforts ultimately led to the championship of Vietnamese students at the CDIO Academy, organized at Harvard and MIT in 2013. In 2017, he and his team again won the prestigious award for Vietnamese No. 1 Talents in Information Technology (IT) & Entrepreneurship for a 3D human-anatomy simulation. Under his leadership, Duy Tan University is aiming to become the top university for IT in Vietnam.

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Power consumption in Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology has escalated to a point that only a fractional part of many-core chips can be powered-on at a time. Fortunately, this fraction can be increased at the expense of performance through the dark-silicon solution. However, w…Power consumption in Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology has escalated to a point that only a fractional part of many-core chips can be powered-on at a time. Fortunately, this fraction can be increased at the expense of performance through the dark-silicon solution. However, with many-core integration set to be heading towards its thousands, power consumption and temperature increases per time, meaning the number of active nodes must be reduced drastically. Therefore, optimized techniques are demanded for continuous advancement in technology. Existing eﬀorts try to overcome this challenge by activating nodes from diﬀerent parts of the chip at the expense of communication latency. Other eﬀorts on the other hand employ run-time power management techniques to manage the power performance of the cores trading-oﬀ performance for power. We found out that, for a signiﬁcant amount of power to saved and high temperature to be avoided, focus should be on reducing the power consumption of all the on-chip components. Especially, the memory hierarchy and the interconnect. Power consumption can be minimized by, reducing the size of high leakage power dissipating elements, turning-oﬀ idle resources and integrating power saving materials.
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A Fast Discrete Event Simulation Model for Queueing Network Systems
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inis 16(9): e4

Authors:
Jose Vazquez-Avila, Remberto Sandoval-Arechiga, Ramon Parra-Michel

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405

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Based on Lindley's recursive equations for G/G/1 systems, this paper proposes a Fast Discrete Event Simulation (FDES) model for queueing networks. Equations for multiplexer and de-multiplexer elements are presented, which allows to simulate not only tandem but queueing networks with an arbitrary to…Based on Lindley's recursive equations for G/G/1 systems, this paper proposes a Fast Discrete Event Simulation (FDES) model for queueing networks. Equations for multiplexer and de-multiplexer elements are presented, which allows to simulate not only tandem but queueing networks with an arbitrary topology. Time savings obtained with FDES could speed up the analyses of large-scale queueing network systems. Experimental results show that FDES modeling can be two orders of magnitude faster than their counterparts based on the event-scheduling for practical cases.
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A Novel Intrusion Detection Mechanism for SCADA systems which Automatically Adapts to Network Topology Changes
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inis 17(10): e4

Authors:
Barnaby Stewart, Luis Rosa, Leandros A. Maglaras, Tiago J. Cruz, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Paulo Simoes, Helge Janicke

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379

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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are getting more vulnerable as they become increasingly interconnected with other systems. Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT) will bring new opportunities to business and society, along with new threats and security risks. One major change that ICS will face will b…Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are getting more vulnerable as they become increasingly interconnected with other systems. Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT) will bring new opportunities to business and society, along with new threats and security risks. One major change that ICS will face will be that of the dynamic network topology. Changes in the network architecture will aﬀect the performance of the ICS along with the eﬃciency of the security mechanisms that are deployed. The current article investigates how changes in the network architecture of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system aﬀect the performance of an Intrusion Detection System IDS that is based on the One class Support Vector Machine (OCSVM). Also the article proposes an adaptive mechanism that can cope with such changes and can work in real time situations. The performance of the proposed adaptive IDS is tested using traces from a Hybrid ICS testbed with a dynamic topology.
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Hardware-software co-simulation for medical X-ray control units
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inis 16(8): e5

Authors:
Bruno Kleinert, Gholam Reza Rahimi, Marc Reichenbach, Dietmar Fey

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In this paper we present our solution to master the complex- ity of product adaption cycles of a medical X-ray control unit. We present the real hardware and software platform and our mapping of it to a virtual X-ray control unit, im- plemented as our hardware-software co-simulation. To re- du…In this paper we present our solution to master the complex-
ity of product adaption cycles of a medical X-ray control
unit. We present the real hardware and software platform
and our mapping of it to a virtual X-ray control unit, im-
plemented as our hardware-software co-simulation. To re-
duce complexity for hardware developers, we developed our
own XML-based abstract system description language which
is mapped onto instantiations of parameterizable SystemC
template modules. We verified the correctness of our virtual
X-ray control unit by co-simulating unmodified software to
hardware components, which we implemented in our system
description language from the specification of the real sys-
tem. Due to reduced complexity of our virtual X-ray control
unit, it can be used as a time and cost saving test platform
for future hardware and software adaption cycles.
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On the Experimental Evaluation of Vehicular Networks: Issues, Requirements and Methodology Applied to a Real Use Case
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inis 14(1): e4

Authors:
Manabu Tsukada, José Santa, Satoshi Matsuura, Thierry Ernst, Kazutoshi Fujikawa

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One of the most challenging fields in vehicular communications has been the experimental assessment of protocols and novel technologies. Researchers usually tend to simulate vehicular scenarios and/or partially validate new contributions in the area by using constrained testbeds and carrying out mi…One of the most challenging fields in vehicular communications has been the experimental assessment of protocols and novel technologies. Researchers usually tend to simulate vehicular scenarios and/or partially validate new contributions in the area by using constrained testbeds and carrying out minor tests. In this line, the present work reviews the issues that pioneers in the area of vehicular communications and, in general,
in telematics, have to deal with if they want to perform a good evaluation campaign by real testing. The key needs for a good experimental evaluation is the use of proper software tools for gathering testing data, post-processing and generating relevant figures of merit and, finally, properly showing the most important results. For this reason, a key contribution of this paper is the presentation of an evaluation environment called AnaVANET, which covers the previous needs. By using this tool and presenting a reference case of study, a generic testing methodology is described and applied. This way, the usage of the IPv6 protocol over a vehicle-to-vehicle routing protocol, and supporting IETF-based network mobility, is tested at the same time the main features of the AnaVANET system are presented. This work contributes in laying the foundations for a proper experimental evaluation of vehicular networks and will be useful for many researchers in the area.
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Multi-Radio 5G Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Application and Design Insights
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inis 18(13): e3

Authors:
Ioannis Mavromatis, Andrea Tassi, Giovanni Rigazzi, Robert J. Piechocki, Andrew Nix

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354

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Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) will play a crucial role in next-generation Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITSs). Not only is the information exchange fundamental to improve road safety and efficiency, but it also paves the way to a wide spectrum of advanced ITS applicat…Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) will play a crucial role in next-generation Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITSs). Not only is the information exchange fundamental to improve road safety and efficiency, but it also paves the way to a wide spectrum of advanced ITS applications enhancing efficiency, mobility and accessibility. Highly dynamic network topologies and unpredictable wireless channel conditions entail numerous design challenges and open questions. In this paper, we address the beneficial interactions between CAVs and an ITS and propose a novel architecture design paradigm. Our solution can accommodate multi-layer applications over multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs) and provide a smart configuration interface for enhancing the performance of each RAT.
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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2410-0218
Number of Volumes: 6

Last Published: 28th Mar 2019