Transfer learning (TL) has shown potential for body sensor network (BSN) applications. However, TL performance is influenced by various factors, such as the BSN environment, user-specific physiological signs, or sensor modalities, leading to negative transfer (NT) effects. Limited research has defined NT from perspectives, such as data quality, domain transferability, and transfer components, but the cognition of NT in multimodal BSNs remains insufficient. In this article, we explore the correlation between transfer modes and NT, proposing a knowledge transfer framework composed of common domain adaptation constraints to reveal the NT effects in overconstrained environments. This effect can explain why strongly constrained transfer algorithms are effective but not necessarily optimal in terms of performance. In the three typical BSN scenarios of emotion recognition, fall detection, and daily activity recognition, we demonstrate the NT in overconstrained environments and its potential influencing factors using different constraint combinations and based on different multimodal body sensor fusion architectures. Extensive experiments focus on discussing the impact of category-condition constraints, domain similarity, and fusion architectures on the NT effect in BSNs. This work can provide a new perspective for the design of multimodal BSN knowledge transfer scheme.

The swift expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought about convenient services, but it has also increased cyber threats. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is an effective tool of mitigating security concerns by identifying suspicious network activities. Many decentralized deep learning methods, such as federated learning (FL), have been applied for intrusion detection. However, developing an effective and reliable collaborative IDS is still challenging due to data privacy leakage during model updates and high communication overhead by local model parameters. Moreover, existing FL methods are limited in practicality since they only perform well under data independent identically distribution (IID), which is not commonly found in real scenarios. To solve these issues, we propose a novel collaborative intrusion detection framework with strong privacy preservation in IoT networks (CIDIoT). Specifically, the CIDIoT extends the improved generative adversarial network model without exchanging individual network data to enable efficient intrusion detection. To enhance the privacy preserving of the framework, differential privacy noise and dynamic threshold secret sharing are added to the uploaded model information and downloaded data while keeping communication efficiency. A novel robust aggregation method is also developed to increase the robustness of the CIDIoT against imbalanced and Non-IID data case. Extensive experimental results on two real-world heterogeneous data sets validate that CIDIoT significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of detection accuracy, communication overhead, and cooperative privacy preservation.

As a core component of the Internet of Vehicles, reasoning about the trajectory of pedestrians or vehicles in complex road conditions plays a critical role in autonomous driving and socially aware robotic navigation. Most existing methods do not adequately consider the effects of heterogeneous traffic agents. Toward this end, we propose the traffic trajectory prediction algorithm based on the convolutional attention network (TraGCAN) to predict the trajectories of heterogeneous traffic agents in dense traffic. The algorithm of the proposed method examines the behavior of different traffic agents in terms of both time and space dimensions to identify their movement patterns and interactions. We construct the spatial relationship of traffic agents as a graph structure and introduce a graph convolutional network to extract spatial interactions. In addition, we design a spatial attention mechanism to adaptively calculate weights for all spatial interactions to capture different influences from neighboring agents. To improve the accuracy of trajectory prediction, the algorithm considers the influence of the heterogeneous characteristics of traffic agents on their motion behaviors. We evaluated the performance of the proposed TraGCAN on heterogeneous traffic data sets, and the results demonstrate that the error of TraGCAN is reduced by 15% compared to existing methods.

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has expanded network space by interconnected devices, which has been widely used in various fields, such as environmental monitoring, object tracking, risk warning, etc. Due to insufficient computing capacity, limited battery life, and unreliable communication environment in IoT, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled edge computing has been recently utilized to provide enhanced coverage and efficient computational support in the scenarios with sparse or unreliable ground infrastructure, such as disaster rescue, emergency response, military fields, etc. However, UAV-enabled edge computing faces many challenges, such as low offloading efficiency, high energy consumption, high complexity, etc. In this article, a distributed computation offloading scheme is proposed to provide computational support to large-scale IoT nodes and optimize the energy efficiency of multiple UAVs. First, to provide accurate and efficient computational support, a real-time intelligent positioning algorithm is designed to obtain the precise location information of IoT nodes. Then, a distributed computation offloading and path planning algorithm is presented, which jointly optimizes the computation offloading of large-scale IoT nodes and trajectory planning of multiple UAVs to reduce the energy consumption of UAVs. Furthermore, we develop a closed-form theoretical analysis model to demonstrate that the algorithm enables a performance guarantee related to energy efficiency. Finally, extensive simulations have been conducted and show that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the system utility and energy efficiency.