Despite the potential benefits of smart meters as part of the Smart Grid initiative, the deployment of smart meters has aroused several concerns on consumer privacy. To address such concerns, various solutions are ...

The Smart Grid (SG) initiative introduces a two-way communication between utility companies and the consumers thanks to Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) networks. One of the most crucial components that constitute ...

As drones are becoming prevalent to be deployed in various civic applications, there is a need to integrate them into efficient and secure communications with the existing infrastructure. In this paper, considering emergency ...

The 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology and its evolutions are promising candidate technologies to support smart meter communications. However, smart meter traffic is uplink heavy and needs large number of ...

With the proliferation of drones in our daily lives, there is an increasing need for handling their numerous challenges. One of such challenge arises when a swarm-of-drones are deployed to accomplish a specific task which ...

Homomorphic encryption allows arithmetic operations to be performed on ciphertext and gives the same result as if the same arithmetic operation is done on the plaintext. Homomorphic encryption has been touted as one of ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also known as drones are being used in many applications where they can record or stream video. One of such applications is the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) where drones may ...

One of the most common methods to preserve consumers’ private data is using secure in-network data aggregation. The security can be provided through the emerging fully (FHE) or partial (PHE) homomorphic encryption ...

Moving target defense (MTD) is becoming popular with the advancements in Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies. With centralized management through SDN, changing the network attributes such as routes to escape ...