iFaaSBus: A Security and Privacy based Lightweight Framework for Serverless Computing using IoT and Machine Learning

As data of COVID-19 patients is increasing, the new framework is required to secure the data collected from various Internet of Things (IoT) devices and predict the trend of disease to reduce its spreading. This article proposes a security and privacy-based lightweight framework called iFaaSBus, which uses the concept of IoT, Machine Learning (ML), and Function as a Service (FaaS) or serverless computing to diagnose the COVID-19 disease and manages resources automatically to enable dynamic scalability. iFaaSBus offers OAuth-2.0 Authorization protocol-based privacy and JSON Web Token & Transport Layer Socket (TLS) protocol-based security to secure the patient's health data. iFaaSBus outperforms in terms of response time compared to non-serverless computing while responding to up to 1100 concurrent requests. Further, the performance of various ML models is evaluated based on accuracy, precision, recall, F-score, and AUC values and the K-Nearest Neighbour model gives the highest accuracy rate of 97.51 %

Online Advertising Security: Issues, Taxonomy, and Future Directions

Online advertising has become the backbone of the Internet economy by revolutionizing business marketing. It provides a simple and efficient way for advertisers to display their advertisements to specific individual users, and over the last couple of years has contributed to an explosion in the income stream for several web-based businesses. For example, Google’s income from advertising grew 51.6% between 2016 and 2018, to $136.8 billion. This exponential growth in advertising revenue has motivated fraudsters to exploit the weaknesses of the online advertising model to make money, and researchers to discover new security vulnerabilities in the model, to propose countermeasures and to forecast future trends in research. Motivated by these considerations, this paper presents a comprehensive review of the security threats to online advertising systems. We begin by introducing the motivation for online advertising system, explain how it differs from traditional advertising networks, introduce terminology, and define the current online advertising architecture. We then devise a comprehensive taxonomy of attacks on online advertising to raise awareness among researchers about the vulnerabilities of online advertising ecosystem. We discuss the limitations and effectiveness of the countermeasures that have been developed to secure entities in the advertising ecosystem against these attacks. To complete our work, we identify some open issues and outline some possible directions for future research towards improving security methods for online advertising systems

An efficient meta-heuristic algorithm for grid computing

A grid computing system consists of a group of programs and resources that are spread across machines in the grid. A grid system has a dynamic environment and decentralized distributed resources, so it is important to provide efficient scheduling for applications. Task scheduling is an NP-hard problem and deterministic algorithms are inadequate and heuristic algorithms such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) are needed to solve the problem. PSO is a simple parallel algorithm that can be applied in different ways to resolve optimization problems. PSO searches the problem space globally and needs to be combined with other methods to search locally as well. In this paper, we propose a hybrid-scheduling algorithm to solve the independent task- scheduling problem in grid computing. We have combined PSO with the gravitational emulation local search (GELS) algorithm to form a new method, PSO–GELS. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of PSO–GELS compared to other algorithms

A Novel Distributed Fog-Based Networked Architecture to Preserve Energy in Fog Data Centers

The distinguishing feature of the Fog Computing (FC) paradigm is that FC spreads communication and computing resources over the wireless access network, so as to provide resource augmentation to resource and energy-limited wireless (possibly mobile) devices. Since FC would lead to substantial reductions in energy consumption and access latency, it will play a key role in the realization of the Fog of Everything (FoE) paradigm. The core challenge of the resulting FoE paradigm is tomaterialize the seamless convergence of three distinct disciplines, namely, broadband mobile communication, cloud computing, and Internet of Everything (IoE). In this paper, we present a new IoE architecture for FC in order to implement the resulting FoE technological platform. Then, we elaborate the related Quality of Service (QoS) requirements to be satisfied by the underlying FoE technological platform. Furthermore, in order to corroborate the conclusion that advancements in the envisioned architecture description, we present: (i) the proposed energy-aware algorithm adopt Fog data center; and, (ii) the obtained numerical performance, for a real-world case study that shows that our approach saves energy consumption impressively in the Fog data Center compared with the existing methods and could be of practical interest in the incoming Fog of Everything (FoE) realm