EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems

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Editor(s)-in-Chief: Trung Q. Duong, Le Nguyen Bao and Nguyen-Son Vo

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EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems is open access, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, and cyber-physical system, all kinds of networks in large-scale factories, including a lot of traditional and new industries. The journal, which is jointly sponsored and co-organized by Duy Tan University (Vietnam), publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency (four issues per year). Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

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.

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 (Chung-Ang University, 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)
Long D. Nguyen (Dong Nai University, Vietnam)
Maggie M. Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Malcolm Egan (INSA Lyon)
Nicholas C Romano (Oklahoma State University, USA)
Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France)
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)
Shing-Chi Cheung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Stephen J. H. Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Syed Hassan Ahmed (University of Central Florida, USA)
Tran Trung Duy (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)
Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)
Zichao Sheng (ZTE, China)

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Big Data and Knowledge Graph Based Fault Diagnosis for Electric Power Systems
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inis 22(32): 1

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DTWN: Q-learning-based Transmit Power Control for Digital Twin WiFi Networks
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inis 22(31): 3

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Using Deep Neural Networks to Classify Symbolic Road Markings for Autonomous Vehicles
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inis 22(31): 2

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Daniel Suarez-Mash, Arfan Ghani, Chan H. See, Simeon Keates, Hongnian Yu

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Smart Grid Attacks and Countermeasures
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inis 15(2): e4

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Eric McCary, Yang Xiao

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Ivan Jovović, Siniša Husnjak, Ivan Forenbacher, Sven Maček

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A Survey of System Level Power Management Schemes in the Dark-Silicon Era for Many-Core Architectures
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inis 18(15): e5

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Emmannuel Ofori-Attah, Xiaohang Wang, Michael Opoku Agyeman

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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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Wireless Power Transfer Near-field Technologies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Review
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inis 20(22): e5

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Anh M. Le, Linh H. Truong, Toan V. Quyen, Cuong V. Nguyen, Minh T. Nguyen

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Wireless power transfer (WPT) techniques are being popular currently with the development of midrange wireless powering and charging technology to gradually substitute the need for wired devices during charging. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are also being used with many practical purposes for a…Wireless power transfer (WPT) techniques are being popular currently with the development of midrange wireless powering and charging technology to gradually substitute the need for wired devices during
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inis 18(16): e4

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Inpainting techniques are developed to recover missing image information. Existing inpainting approaches are: Partial Differential Equations Based Inpainting (PDE-BI) and Exemplar-Based Inpainting (EBI). PDE-BI methods used to fill in the missing information via information propagation from neighbo…Inpainting techniques are developed to recover missing image information. Existing inpainting approaches are: Partial Differential Equations Based Inpainting (PDE-BI) and Exemplar-Based Inpainting (EBI). PDE-BI methods used to fill in the missing information via information propagation from neighbouring areas. However, it can only reconstruct successfully small missing regions that are surrounded by limited texture. However, EBI methods are used to recover large regions with richly-textured/structured areas around them, moreover, artefacts are likely to occur. This paper proposes a technique to reduce the missing region size based on seam carving approach, which enables EBI and PDE-BI to recover the missing part. In our proposal, seam carving is used to reduce only the size of the missing region, to be subsequently recovered using EBI method. The added extra paths resulting from the added seams is repaired using PDE-BI. This method outperformed the state-of-art EBI methods.
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Security Issues in ProtoGENI
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inis 16(6): e1

Authors:
Fnu Shalini, Yang Xiao, Bo Sun

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1475

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Network security consists of primary concerns in future Internet development due to the ever increasing threats to current Internet. ProtoGENI is a federated testbed facility supporting slice-based experiments to manage, utilize, and monitor the resources for innovative network research. Security…Network security consists of primary concerns in future Internet development due to the ever increasing threats to current
Internet. ProtoGENI is a federated testbed facility supporting slice-based experiments to manage, utilize, and monitor the
resources for innovative network research. Security research in ProtoGENI is crucial because experiments conducted in
manipulated or corruptted test environment can mislead about security mechanism’s capabilities in a system. In this paper,
existing ProtoGENI security mechanisms and functions are tested and analyzed through different experiments to find out
the exploitable attacking loopholes. Experiments elaborate the existing functioning and security issues that can cause nonfunctional,
semi non-functional or malfunctioned systems. Results indicate threats to ProtoGENI resources and run-time
interactions. Cross-experiment communication in Emulab wireless nodes have the capability of assisting in verifying
isolation between ProtoGENI slices. Host security is one of the security components, which can be enhanced by modifying
default security settings including SSH port number and root login rights. Documentation of experiment environment,
experiment design, results, and analysis including many observations is helpful to understand the basic functioning and
security issues to improve the overall functioning and security of ProtoGENI.
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Design of Cloud-Connected IoT System for Smart Buildings on Energy Management (Invited paper)
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inis 16(6): e3

Authors:
Wayes Tushar, Chau Yuen, Kai Li, Kristin L. Wood, Zhang Wei, Liu Xiang

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1453

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Building energy management (BEM) system can provide cost-effective energy management solutions for smart buildings. However, the success of BEM is contingent on identifying large energy consuming devices, monitoring energy usage, optimal scheduling of flexible appliances, and distinguishing and con…Building energy management (BEM) system can provide cost-effective energy management solutions for smart buildings. However, the success of BEM is contingent on identifying large energy consuming devices, monitoring energy usage, optimal scheduling of flexible appliances, and distinguishing and controlling energy wastage. To this end, this paper discusses the design of Internet of Things (IoT) for a flexible BEM with the backend analytic that performs analysis on energy usage pattern and the wastage. We present the experimental results of real-time monitoring of consumers’ energy usage in a commercial space to identify the electricity wastage. The experiment is conducted at an office testbed using a comprehensive wireless sensor network. Extensive analysis is done to identify the energy wastage pattern of users for reducing the electricity cost. It is demonstrated that it is possible to reduce significant energy wastage when an office building is equipped with the proposed IoT system.
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An Introduction of Real-time Embedded Optimisation Programming for UAV Systems under Disaster Communication
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inis 18(17): e5

Authors:
Long D. Nguyen, Ayse Kortun, Trung Q. Duong

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For disaster communications, it is very challenging for the contemporary wireless technology and infrastructure to meet the demands for connectivity. Modern wireless networks should be developed to satisfy the increasing demand of quality-of-service (QoS) in mission-critical communications for disa…For disaster communications, it is very challenging for the contemporary wireless technology and infrastructure to meet the demands for connectivity. Modern wireless networks should be developed to satisfy the increasing demand of quality-of-service (QoS) in mission-critical communications for disaster management which are currently faced with the challenges of limited spectrum, expensive resources, reliable and green communication. There is a tremendous need for optimisation techniques in the study and design of the key functionalities of wireless systems. Until now, almost current optimisation scenarios are often carried out on large timescales (e.g., minutes or hours) without strict time constraints for solving the problems. With the improvement of computational speed, eﬃcient algorithms and advanced coding approaches, a framwork of real-time optimisation programming, which plays a major role in the trend of modern engineering such as mission-critical communications, is introduced for the first time in this paper in the context of natural disaster. In particular, we propose an introduction of embedded convex optimisation programming for unmanned ariel vehicles (UAVs) communications in disaster networks with the strict supervision of executive time in real-time scenarios.
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Improving ns-3 Emulation Support in Real-World Networking Scenarios
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inis 16(9): e5

Authors:
Helder Fontes, Rui Campos, Manuel Ricardo

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1433

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A common problem in networking research and development is the duplicate effort of writing simulation and implementation code. This duplication can be avoided through the use of fast-prototyping methodologies, which enable reusing simulation code in real prototyping and in production environments. …A common problem in networking research and development is the duplicate effort of writing simulation and implementation code. This duplication can be avoided through the use of fast-prototyping methodologies, which enable reusing simulation code in real prototyping and in production environments. Although this functionality is already available by using ns-3 emulation, there are still limitations regarding the support of real network interfaces and easy configuration of the network settings, such as IP and MAC addresses.
In this paper we propose an improved version of the ns-3 emulation component by introducing new functionalities that address these limitations. The new functionalities include the support of new types of real network interfaces and the easier integration of emulation nodes with existing networks by means of a new auto-configuration mechanism for ns-3 nodes. Experimental results obtained in a laboratorial testbed and in a real vehicular network testbed demonstrate the new functionalities proper operation, and their backwards compatibility with previously coded ns-3 scenarios.
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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2410-0218
Number of Volumes: 9

Last Published: 2022-08-11