With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, edge networks are progressively evolving towards intelligence, and mobile intelligent agents such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) are playing an increasingly vital role in this process. However, existing studies have addressed cooperation among homogeneous agents, such as multiple UAVs, without exploring collaboration between heterogeneous mobile intelligent agents. For this purpose, we propose a vehicle-mounted multi-UAV cooperative service system to collaboratively collect and process multi-source heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) tasks under strict latency and resource constraints. To address the complexities of heterogeneous task structures and dynamic collaboration, the paper firstly introduces a multi-source heterogeneous task scheduling mechanism, which optimizes task prioritization and resource allocation for efficient processing. In addition, a decentralized reinforcement learning approach based on Partial Reward Decoupling Heterogeneous Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (PRD-HAPPO) is employed to enhance collaboration and trajectory planning between UAVs and vehicles. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed framework significantly improves task completion efficiency, reduces system latency, and outperforms existing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in terms of convergence and scalability.

With the rapid expansion of data volumes in cloud computing, more data owners are opting to outsource their data to cloud service providers to reduce local storage and management costs. However, data outsourcing deprives data owners of direct physical control over their data, increasing the risk of unauthorized access and exposure of sensitive information. To mitigate these risks, various privacy-preserving keyword search schemes with access control have been developed, but many are vulnerable to leakage-abuse attacks due to the exposure of access, search or volume patterns, which can lead to privacy breaches in outsourced data and queries. To solve this problem, we propose an oblivious encrypted keyword search scheme with fine-grained access control, called OEKA. It enables efficient oblivious keyword search over encrypted multi-maps by using the adapted XOR filter and distributed point function, ensuring protection of access, search and volume patterns. Moreover, OEKA enforces role-based access control by using polynomial-based access strategy and keyword-based private information retrieval, allowing access policies of retrieved objects to be detecting without revealing the objects themselves. A formal security analysis verifies the scheme’s robustness, and experimental results demonstrate its practical efficiency.

The cloud boundary network environment is characterized by a passive defense strategy, discrete defense actions, and delayed defense feedback in the face of network attacks, ignoring the influence of the external environment on defense decisions, thus resulting in poor defense effectiveness. Therefore, this paper proposes a cloud boundary network active defense model and decision method based on the reinforcement learning of intelligent agent, designs the network structure of the intelligent agent attack and defense game, and depicts the attack and defense game process of cloud boundary network; constructs the observation space and action space of reinforcement learning of intelligent agent in the non-complete information environment, and portrays the interaction process between intelligent agent and environment; establishes the reward mechanism based on the attack and defense gain, and encourage intelligent agents to learn more effective defense strategies. the designed active defense decision intelligent agent based on deep reinforcement learning can solve the problems of border dynamics, interaction lag, and control dispersion in the defense decision process of cloud boundary networks, and improve the autonomy and continuity of defense decisions.

Abstract Reversible circuit synthesis methods based on decision diagrams achieve low quantum costs but do not account for quantum bit (qubit) limits for the application of reversible logic in quantum computing. Here, a synthesis method using sub-graphs of shared functional decision diagrams (SFDDs) is proposed for reducing the number of lines when synthesizing reversible circuits. An SFDD is partitioned into sub-graphs by exploiting the longest dominant-active paths, and the sub-graphs are mapped to reversible gate cascades. To further reduce the number of lines, template root matching is presented for reusing circuit lines. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves the known minimum number of lines in many cases and has good scalability. Although the proposed method increases the quantum cost over a prior method based on functional decision diagrams, it significantly reduces the number of lines in most cases. Compared with the one-pass method using quantum multiple-valued decision diagrams, the proposed method reduces the quantum cost without increasing the number of lines in many cases. When compared with the lookup table-based method using a direct mapping flow, the method reduces the number of lines in a few cases. Thus, the method aids in the physical realization of a quantum circuit.

Network attack identification effectively secures Internet of Things (IoT) application scenarios. However, dynamic scene changes, attack feature reliance, high data dimensions, and challenges with spatio-temporal feature fusion frequently pose limitations to attack traffic identification in IoT contexts. Definitive intelligent IoT attack identification enables intelligent algorithms to extract attack features for application scenarios with fixed topological environments but cannot construct the intricate changes of IoT application scenarios. Through the dynamic acquisition, feature awareness, and deep learning, intelligent digital twin-based attack detection can address these issues and enhance attack identification for IoT threats. Thus, this paper proposed an intelligent digital twin method based on spatio-temporal feature fusion for IoT attack behavior identification. Firstly, feature subsets are selected based on information gain to reduce the dimensionality of IoT data with high traffic; Secondly, a parallel spatio-temporal feature extraction model is designed unlike the existing tandem model, which uses a simplified Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) model to learn the spatial features of the attack, a Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) model to learn the temporal features of the attack, an attention mechanism to fuse the temporal and spatial features, and the (Deep Neural Networks) DNN to learn the combined features; Finally, the virtual instance space and topology of the attack scenario are simulated using digital twin (DT) to build a digital version of the complex system for IoT applications and tested in a simulation environment. Based on experimental results using the UNSW-NB15 and CICIDS2017 datasets, this paper shows that the proposed method can extract spatio-temporal features from network attack traffic and has a 5% improvement in test accuracy.