The integrity of electronic health record (EHR) is susceptible to compromise by hardware failures, software errors, or human errors. To date, numerous data integrity verification schemes have been proposed, but most face challenges related to third-party auditing and communication overhead. To address this, a novel EHR integrity verification scheme based on a multi-branch authentication tree is presented in this paper. By integrating an edge-based batch processing mechanism with data identity labeling technology, a low-overhead data verification framework is constructed, effectively reducing communication load. A minimal multi-branch tree structure is innovatively designed to enable parallel authentication and batch signing of data blocks. Concurrently, a random security code generation algorithm is introduced to ensure data security. Experimental and analytical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme maintains correctness, efficiency, and security, consistently achieving 100 % precision in detecting corrupted EHR data replicas. This scheme provides an efficient and reliable data integrity guarantee mechanism for EHR within edge computing environments and contributes significantly to building a trustworthy medical service system.

As one of data sources in cloud–edge–terminal collaboration enabled artificial intelligence of things (CETC-AIoT), the integrity and confidentiality of sensed information in the terminal side directly impact on the modeling and decision-making for CETC-AIoT. However, due to openness of transmission media among cloud, edge and terminal, it could be vulnerable to pollution attack and eavesdropping attack. Additionally, the constrained resources of some terminals make it difficult to deploy strong security schemes. In this context, how to make a tradeoff between the requirement of security and the limitation of resources needs to be explored. Therefore, toward secure and lightweight data transmission for CETC-AIoT, we propose a novel Gold sequence-based secure network coding (GS-SNC) scheme in this article. Specifically, the Gold sequence is introduced to generate the pseudo-random sequence, which is used to scramble and descramble the original information. The precoding matrix is constructed to encode and decode the scrambled information. The intermediate nodes perform the random linear network coding. The simulation results show that GS-SNC has advantages compared with double prime numbers-based secure network coding (DP-SNC) and secure practical network coding (SPOC), in terms of security, computational complexity, encryption capacity, and space overhead.

Toward green Big Data System (BDS), one of the key requirements is to save energy consumption so that the system lifetime can be prolonged. Hence, the energy evaluation metric for the measurement of energy efficiency in green BDS, is very critical. Unfortunately, most current energy evaluation metrics are based on a single factor, which might be difficult to meet the diverse application requirements. In this paper, we propose a novel two-factor energy evaluation metric (TEEM) for green BDS. Specifically, the transmission distance and the modulation level are taken into account simultaneously, generating a metric named the bit-per energy consumption (BEC). Extensive simulation results demonstrate that the system performance in energy consumption can be more effectively evaluated by BEC.

The internal attack launched by compromised nodes is a serious security risk in distributed networks. It is due to the openness of wireless channel and the lack of trust relationships between nodes. The trust model is an interesting approach to detect and remove these compromised nodes from the trusted routing table and maintain trust relationships in distributed networks. However, how to construct the secure dominating node to aggregate and forward the information is an enormous challenge in distributed networks. In this paper, a distributed construction algorithm of multi-layer connected dominating set is proposed for secure routing with trust models. The probabilities of nodes being compromised, combined with the trust value of the trust model, are used to construct a trusted multi-layer connected dominating set. Moreover, the impact of a node being compromised on the distributed network is quantified as loss expectation. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce the impact of nodes being compromised on the distributed network, and enhance the security of the network.

Currently, increasing attention is devoted to artificial intelligence (AI) enabled software defined industrial networks (AI-SDINs). Toward energy-efficient and secure data transmission in AI-SDINs, a metric called energy-cost-per-useful-bit (ECPUB), which means energy cost of transmitting per useful bit is presented to evaluate energy efficiency and a novel energy-efficiency based secure multipath routing scheme is then put forward. Specifically, the ECPUB incorporates the utility and the law of diminishing marginal utility, for revealing the relationship among energy consumption, residual energy, and useful bits required. Moreover, in this article, an energy-efficiency based secure multipath routing scheme (E2SMR) is proposed by adopting the ECPUB and (t,n) threshold secret sharing scheme, for enhancing the security under the premise of guaranteeing energy efficiency. Extensive simulation results show that ECPUB can evaluate the energy efficiency and facilitate the balance of network load, while E2SMR can prolong the lifetime of the network and simultaneously ensure the network functionality securely.

It has been observed that the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is being deployed to construct varieties of intelligent platforms in medical and healthcare field, in order to comprehensively improve the quality of medical services. However, the cyber security of IoMT is facing enormous threat. Although many trust schemes are proposed to address the issue, the ignorance of aging weight in trust increases the risk of long-term attacks before being detected. In this paper, we design a dynamic aging weight scheme for trust model in IoMT. Essentially, when there are cooperative behaviors between two nodes, the aging weight can be set as large as possible to slow down the increase in the trust value of normal nodes. Once noncooperative behaviors appear, the smaller aging weight could mitigate the danger of compromised nodes. The simulation results indicate that our proposed scheme could better meet the principle of “Easy to lose” for trust.

The authenticity and integrity of sensed data in the data collection stage is a very critical aspect for the smart city industrial environment. They impact the accuracy of data analysis and the objectivity of making decisions. However, how to identify attack behaviors from environmental interference and establish a secure route to transmit data for resource-constrained terminals are challenging problems. To address these problems, in this article, we propose a trust-based security system (TSS). In TSS, we first design a trust model using binomial distribution for calculating the node's trust value and a third-party recommendation scheme for improving the objectivity of trust value. Then, we propose a trust management scheme for preventing theon–offattack. After that, we design a secure routing protocol, which is used to balance the security, transmission performance, and energy efficiency. Finally, the analytical results of the TSS are evaluated with extensive simulation experiment.

As a key component of the information sensing and aggregating for big data, cloud computing, and Internet of Things (IoT), the information security in wireless sensor network (WSN) is critical. Due to constrained resources of sensor node, WSN is becoming a vulnerable target to many security attacks. Compared to external attacks, it is more difficult to defend against internal attacks. The former can be defended by using encryption and authentication schemes. However, this is invalid for the latter, which can obtain all keys of the network. The studies have proved that the trust management technology is one of effective approaches for detecting and defending against internal attacks. Hence, it is necessary to investigate and review the attack and defense with trust management. In this paper, the state-of-the-art trust management schemes are deeply investigated for WSN. Moreover, their advantages and disadvantages are symmetrically compared and analyzed in defending against internal attacks. The future directions of trust management are further provided. Finally, the conclusions and prospects are given.

Motion tracking technologies have been widely used in mobile interaction applications, such as Virtual Reality (VR), healthy monitoring, and virtual touch control. Compared with dedicated hardware devices, mobile phones use reliable speakers and microphones, and can serve as ubiquitous devices for cheap acoustic-based motion tracking solutions. However, for complex indoor environments, it is very difficult for acoustic-based methods to achieve accurate motion tracking due to multipath fading and limited sampling rate at mobile devices. In this paper, a new parameter named Multipath Effect Ratio (MER) is defined to indicate the multipath fading effect on received signals at different frequencies. Based on MER, a novel multipath effect mitigating technique is developed to calculate the phase change of acoustic signals and track the corresponding moving distance by using multiple speakers. A Phase-based Acoustic Motion Tracking (PAMT) method is then proposed and implemented on standard Android smartphones. Experiment results show, without any specialized hardware, PAMT can achieve an impressive millimeter-level accuracy for localization and motion tracking applications in multipath fading environments. Specifically, the measurement errors are less than 2mm and 4mm in one-dimensional and two-dimensional scenarios, respectively.

Motion tracking is attractive in what concerns a smart city environment, where citizens have to interact with Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures spread all around one particular city. Motion tracking is important for smart services and location-based services in smart cities, since it provides natural ways for users to interact with the IoT infrastructures, such as the ability to recognize of a wide range of hand motion in real-time. Compared with dedicated hardware devices, ubiquitous devices with reliable speakers and microphones can be developed to achieve cheap acoustic-based motion tracking, which is appropriate for low-power and low-cost IoT applications. However, for complex urban environments, it is very difficult for acoustic-based methods to achieve accurate motion tracking due to multipath fading and limited sampling rate at mobile devices. In this paper, a new parameter called multipath dispersion vector (MDV) is proposed to estimate and mitigate the impact of multipath fading on received signals using extreme learning machine. Based on MDV, a robust acoustic motion tracking (RAMTEL) method is proposed to calculate the moving distance based on the phase change of acoustic signals, and track the corresponding motion in 2-D plane by using multiple speakers. The method is then proposed and implemented on standard Android smartphones. Experiment results show, without any specialized hardware, RAMTEL can achieve an impressive millimeter-level accuracy for localization and motion tracking applications in multipath fading environments. Specifically, the measurement errors are less than 2 and 4 mm in 1-D and 2-D scenarios, respectively.

In this paper, we propose a cooperative model combined the multi-task reverse sparse representation model (MTRSR) and the AdaBoost classifier, which were used to cope with the disturbing of target gradient information caused by motion blur or target serious occlusion, and a descriptive dictionary were used to estimate the weights of each candidates. First, we use the MTRSR model to get the blur kernel which were used to get the blur target template set, meanwhile the confidence of the candidates is also obtained by the reconstruction error. Then we use the HOG features of the target templates to get the descriptive dictionary to calculate the weights of the candidates, and a AdaBoost classifier is used to calculate the confidences of all candidates. Finally, the best target is retrieved by the sum of production of weight value and the two confidences. The experimental data show that the proposed algorithm can fully cope with the target's information change which were caused by motion blur and target occlusion in the complex scene, and our algorithm can further improve the accuracy and robustness in visual tracking.

Healthcare-oriented wireless sensor network (HWSN) is one of the applications of wireless sensor networks in e-health. It not only can better achieve the physiological information of people, but also more efficiently reduce the Iatency regarding information collection and transmission. However, similar to other distributed networks, it also faces enormous security challenges, especially from internal attacks. It is difficult to distinguish many attack behaviors from interference in the complex healthcare scenarios, such as On-Off attack. In this paper, we propose a Binomial Distribution-based Trust Management Scheme (BDTMS) for HWSN. The proposed method can rapidly detect and effectively defend against On-Off attacks. In addition, the proposed method is also applicable to defending against bad mouthing attacks. Simulation results show that, compared with the Time-window-based Resilient Trust Management Scheme (TRTMS), our proposed BDTMS achieves better performance in defending against On-Off attack under obstacle movement, especially with higher detection accuracy.

Motion tracking, as a mechanism of mobile interaction, allows devices to get fine-gained user input by locating the real-time position of target devices (e.g., smart phones, smart watches) in the air. With the proliferation of mobile devices and smart multimedia devices (e.g., smart TV, home audio system), the ubiquitous speakers and microphones in the devices provide more diverse ways of acoustic-based mobile interaction. In this demonstration, we propose a fine-gained motion tracking system, which can be developed on commercial mobile devices and track the devices with millimeter level (mm-level) accuracy. We first compensate the phase offset between receiver and audio source at each frequency. We then use the acoustic phase change at receiver to achieve accurate distance measurement. Finally, we implement our system on off-the-shelf devices, and achieve a fine-gained motion tracking in two-dimensional space. Our experiments show that our system achieves high accuracy as well as high sensitivity: our system could detect the sight and slow movement caused by human breathing for example.