ReMIoT: Reputation-based Network Selection in Multimedia IoT

Internet of Things (IoT) has progressively grown in its use cases ranging from the day-to-day lives of both individuals to industries. The growing rate on the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) applications has increased efficiency, improved communication, and greater productivity, to mention a few. Still, it comes with higher accretion of security threats. IoMTs are vulnerable due to the various resource constraint (i.e., Low CPU power, limited memory, and low power source). The resource constraints in IoMT prevent highly-ended traditional security systems from being implemented. Edge computing platform has emerged as a solution to mitigate these constraints by enabling computing capabilities and IT service proximal to the IoMT network’s edge. To protect the IoMT network from attacks, various lightweight security systems have emerged as a viable approach for detecting and preventing cyber-attacks. Machine learning-based Network Intrusion Detection System NIDS, lightweight end-to-end encryption and new network security standards are promising for detecting known and unknown attacks. Many security systems proposed are inefficient to be implemented in real application due to their performance overheads and evaluation processes of the underlying methods. This chapter presents different realistic centralized and distributed security approaches utilizing an edge computing platform to secure the IoMT network. Furthermore, a deployment architecture between the cloud, the IoMT edge computing platform, and the IoMT end-device is proposed. The first layer (IoMT end-device) runs a lightweight security system. The second level deployed in the edge computing platform performs extensive attack detection and protection based on the responses from the IoMT. The last layer (cloud) holds all the performance logic and orchestrates security updates and commands. Finally, we demonstrate our proposed deployment strategies in a real-world IoMT system to evaluate its performance. The Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) model deploy to the edge computing platform had an accuracy of 80%, and the lightweight One-Class support vector machine also produced 82% accuracy in the IoMT end-device.

With the immersive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time adaptability, quality of life for people is improving. IoT applications are diverse in nature and one crucial aspect of it is multimedia sensors and devices. These IoT multimedia devices form the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT). It generates a massive volume of data with different characteristics and requirements than the IoT. The real-time deployment scenarios vary from smart traffic monitoring to smart hospitals. Hence, Timely delivery of IoMT data and decision making is critical as it directly involves the safety of human beings. In this paper, we present a brief overview of IoMT and future research directions. Afterward, we provide an overview of the accepted articles in our special issue on the IoMT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions.

Internet of Things (IoT) has widely been accepted as a promising paradigm for connecting a large number of resource-constrained miniature sensor nodes that have the ability to sense the deployed environment. They have found their applications in various aspect of our daily lives. However, these nodes are mostly restricted to sense only the scalar data. Nowadays, multimedia sensor nodes are gaining significant attention due to their ability to collect scalar as well as multi-dimensional data. These nodes are considered as the foundation of Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) and are shaping the perception of IoT. Multimedia data have stringent requirements in terms of reliability, latency, storage, bandwidth, and Quality of Service (QoS). To provide seamless and interoperable communication in IoMT, the underlying protocol stacks need to fulfill these stringent requirements. However, the heterogeneous nature of multimedia sensors makes interoperability a challenging task to fulfill. To understand the challenges faced by seamless and interoperable communication in IoMT, we provide a comprehensive review of the existing protocol stacks of IoMT and analyze their feasibility for multimedia streaming applications. Data storage of multimedia applications is another area that requires immediate attention of the research community. For this purpose, we study cloud as an entity to facilitate multimedia applications of IoMT. The instances of multimedia cloud are analyzed and a number of shortcomings are identified that pave the way for edge computing in IoMT. Finally, we present a case study that shows the significance of our work. The case study portrays an in-home patient monitoring system with an interoperable communication among the connected multimedia streaming devices at home, and healthcare practitioners at hospital. The case study also highlights the importance of uninterrupted data storage and retrieval at the network edge and multimedia sensor nodes.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing fast and is gaining significant adoption in areas such as smart cities and manufacturing. The variety and low-cost of IoT devices with excellent audio/visual sensors is fueling the growth of multimedia IoT applications, many of which are bandwidth-hungry and time-sensitive (i.e., must produce their results within an application specific time-sensitive requirement). While a large body of related work has studied distribution of such Time Sensitive Multimedia IoT (TS-MIoT) applications in simulated environments, there is lack of a platform that can be used to experiment with techniques for meeting their time-sensitive and computing resource requirements on real-world IoT infrastructure, i.e., a combination of IoT devices, close by computers and a cloud data centre connected by a variety of networks. This paper proposes APOLLO, a platform for experimental analysis of TS-MIoT applications. APOLLO provides mechanisms to load TS-MIoT application execution plans and execute the plans on available IoT infrastructure. We describe a proof-of-concept implementation using Orleans and present experimental evaluations to validate APOLLO's ability to support the experimental analysis of TS-MIoT applications.

In opportunistic networks the communication opportunities (contacts) are intermittent and there is no need to establish an end-to-end link between the communication nodes. The enormous growth of devices having access to the Internet, along the vast evolution of the Internet and the connectivity of objects and devices, has evolved as Internet of Things (IoT). There are different issues for these networks. One of them is the selection of IoT devices in order to carry out a task in opportunistic networks. In this work, we implement a Fuzzy-Based System for IoT device selection in opportunistic networks. For our system, we use four input parameters: IoT Device’s Number of Past Encounters (IDNPE), IoT Contact Duration (IDCD), IoT Device Storage (IDST) and IoT Device Remaining Energy (IDRE). The output parameter is IoT Device Selection Decision (IDSD). The simulation results show that the proposed system makes a proper selection decision of IoT devices in opportunistic networks. The IoT device selection is increased up to 15% and 27% by increasing IDNPE and IDRE, respectively.

This paper addresses the issue of evaluating the Quality of Experience (QoE) for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, with particular attention to the case where multimedia content is involved. A layered IoT architecture is firstly analyzed to understand which QoE influence factors have to be considered in relevant application scenarios. We then introduce the concept of Multimedia IoT (MIoT) and define a layered QoE model aimed at evaluating and combining the contributions of each influence factor to estimate the overall QoE in MIoT applications. Finally, we present a use case related to the remote monitoring of vehicles during driving practices, which is used to validate the proposed layered model, and we discuss a second use case for smart surveillance, to emphasize the generality of the proposed framework. The effectiveness in evaluating classes of influence factors separately is demonstrated.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced transformative capabilities for ecological monitoring through the acquisition of real-time sensor-based data. In this context, the Internet of Trees (IoTr) has emerged as a promising domain for monitoring trees in forest ecosystems. However, the existing literature lacks species-specific, energy-efficient, and scalable frameworks capable of supporting proactive tree health surveillance and disease detection. Current research focuses on using IoTr for tree monitoring, but primarily covers basic soil moisture, with limited integration of disease-relevant parameters and species classification. This research addresses the existing research gap by proposing IoT-Based Tree Routing for Energy-Efficient Systems (I-TREES), a novel context-aware framework for real-time monitoring of tree health, with a specific focus on ash dieback and oak decline in the United Kingdom (UK). This research first evaluates three long-range communication protocols: Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN), and Sigfox, using MATLAB simulations to compare energy efficiency, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Packet Loss Ratio (PLR), delay, latency, and throughput across two node densities (100 and 300 nodes). Based on the comparative evaluation, NB-IoT was selected as the optimal protocol, and the I-TREES framework is designed and simulated in Network Simulator 3 (NS-3) using a large-scale network of 700 IoT nodes to assess its performance in forest health monitoring. The comparative benchmark against six established routing protocols Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), Power-Efficient Gathering in Sensor Information Systems (PEGASIS), Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm (HCA), Heuristic Clustering and Scheduling Algorithm (H-CSA), Event-Driven Spatio-Temporal Optimisation (ESTO), and K-Means. The results showed that I-TREES consistently outperformed in terms of scalability, throughput, latency, and energy efficiency. In the final phase, a Proof of-Concept (PoC) approach is adopted to assess the feasibility of disease classification under limited real-world data conditions. A multimodal PoC dataset was constructed by integrating IoT sensor readings with custom labelled image data of ash and oak trees. Machine Learning (ML) models, including Random Forest (RF), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and hybrid (CNN-RF, CNN-LSTM) architectures, are trained for disease detection. The RF-based multimodal model, in particular, offered strong interpretability and demonstrated consistently high performance in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score, supporting its suitability for real world deployment. The findings verified the effectiveness of the framework as an energy efficient and scalable approach for the detection of tree diseases. The proposed I-TREES framework presents a reliable and intelligent forest health surveillance framework for tree disease detection, suitable for real-world forest applications to manage diseases sustainably and support policy-making decisions for ecological resilience in the UK and similar environments.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already penetrated an ever-increasing array of daily aspects of life. IoTs bridge the analog and digital worlds in an unprecedented manner and degree by providing in situ sensing. Adding to the IoT the capability to collect interrelated multi-modal sensing, the use of the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMTs) has recently been exhibited to significantly enhance the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in numerous applications, and most importantly in agrifood systems. In this work, we review key recent works in the conjunction of the three domains of IoMT, agrifood and precision agriculture and present open research directions.

Multimedia Internet of Things (IoT) devices, especially, the smartphones are embedded with sensors including Global Positioning System (GPS), barometer, microphone, accelerometer, etc. These sensors working together, present a fairly complete picture of the citizens' daily activities, with implications for their privacy. With the internet, Citizens in Smart Cities are able to perform their daily life activities online with their connected electronic devices. But, unfortunately, computer hackers tend to write automated malicious applications to attack websites on which these citizens perform their activities. These security threats sometime put their private information at risk. In order to prevent these security threats on websites, Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) are generated, as a form of security mechanism to protect the citizens' private information. But with the advancement of deep learning, text-based CAPTCHAs can sometimes be vulnerable. As a result, it is essential to conduct performance evaluation on the CAPTCHAs that are generated before they are deployed on multimedia web applications. Therefore, this work proposed an optimal and light-weight Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to solve both numerical and alpha-numerical complex text-based CAPTCHAs simultaneously. The accuracy of the proposed CNN model has been accelerated based on Cyclical Learning Rates (CLRs) policy. The proposed CLR-CNN model achieved a high accuracy to solve both numerical and alpha-numerical text-based CAPTCHAs of 99.87% and 99.66%, respectively. In real-time, we observed that the speed of the model has increased, the model is lightweight, stable, and flexible as compared to other CAPTCHA solving techniques. The result of this current work will increase awareness and will assist multimedia security Researchers to continue and develop more robust text-based CAPTCHAs with their security mechanisms capable of protecting the private information of citizens in Smart Cities.

In Multimedia Internet of Things (IoT), in order to reduce the bandwidth consumption of wireless channels, Motion-Compensated Frame Rate Up-Conversion (MC-FRUC) is often used to support the low-bitrate video communication. In this paper, we propose a spatial predictive algorithm which is used to improve the performance of MC-FRUC. The core of the proposed algorithm is a predictive model to split a frame into two kinds of blocks: basic blocks and absent blocks. Then an improved bilateral motion estimation is proposed to compute the Motion Vectors (MVs) of basic blocks. Finally, with the spatial correlation of Motion Vector Field (MVF), the MV of an absent block is predicted based on the MVs of its neighboring basic blocks. Experimental results show that the proposed spatial prediction algorithm can improve both the objective and the subjective quality of the interpolated frame, with a low computational complexity.

In opportunistic networks the communication opportunities (contacts) are intermittent and there is no need to establish an end-to-end link between the communication nodes. The enormous growth of nodes having access to the Internet, along the vast evolution of the Internet and the connectivity of objects and nodes, has evolved as Internet of Things (IoT). There are different issues for these networks. One of them is the selection of IoT nodes in order to carry out a task in opportunistic networks. In this work, we implement a Fuzzy-based System for IoT node selection in opportunistic networks. For our proposed system, we use four input parameters: Node’s Free Buffer Space (NFBS), Node’s Successful Delivery Ratio (NSDR), Node’s Battery Level (NBL), Node Contact Duration (NCD). The output parameter is Node Selection Decision (NSD). The results show that the proposed system makes a proper selection decision of IoT nodes in opportunistic networks. The IoT node selection is increased up to 17% and 40% by increasing NBL and NSDR, respectively.

One of the most important 5G features is their support for heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Complementing the classic macrocell base stations (MBS), femtocell base stations (FBS) are beneficial in terms of extensive coverage, including indoor, and enhancement of capacity. Unfortunately, FBSs performance in 5G HetNets is affected by complex cross-tier and co-tier interferences, causing reduced quality of service (QoS) and unfairness among users. This paper proposes an innovative resource allocation (RA) algorithm for interference mitigation (IM) based on graph coloring techniques to improve QoS and inter-user fairness. The proposed algorithm, named Weighted Edge-Weighted Vertex Interference Mitigation (WEWVIM), employs a weight to the directed edge corresponding to the interference strength from nearby base stations (BSs) and a weight to every vertex, indicating the color with the smallest interference or higher transmission rate. A region of interest (ROI) is formed to find the interfering BSs. Simulation results show that WEWVIM outperforms existing schemes in terms of fairness and QoS, including throughput, packet loss ratio (PLR), delay, and jitter.

Designed as a specialized ad hoc network suitable for applications such as emergency responses, OppNets are considered as a sub-class of DTN where communication opportunities are intermittent, so an end-to-end path between the source and the destination may never exist. Existing networks have already brought connectivity to a broad range of devices, such as hand held devices, laptops, tablets, PC, etc. The Internet of Things (IoT) will extend the connectivity to devices beyond just mobile phones and laptops, but to buildings, wearable devices, cars, different things and objects. There are different issues for these networks. One of them is the selection of IoT nodes in order to carry out a task in opportunistic networks. In this work, we implement a Fuzzy-Based System for IoT node selection in opportunistic networks. For our proposed system, we use four input parameters: IoT Node’s Unique Encounters (NUE), IoT Node’s Free Buffer Space (NFBS), IoT Node’s Batter Level (NBL) and IoT Node Contact Duration (NCD). The output parameter is IoT Node Selection Decision (NSD). The results show that the proposed system makes a proper selection decision of IoT nodes in opportunistic networks. The IoT node selection is increased up to 25% and 11% by increasing NCD and NUE, respectively.

Internet of things (IoT) is the global interconnection of several heterogeneous devices. It allows people and “things” to connect anytime and anywhere using a variety of wired or wireless communication networks. It will have its presence in all sectors of human lives including healthcare. The market for the IoT in healthcare is growing steadily. IoT in healthcare helps in effectively managing health and thus improving the quality of life. This chapter provides a brief introduction into IoT in healthcare or the use of IoT in the healthcare domain. It begins by presenting an overview on both IoT and healthcare. It discusses Internet of medical things. It covers various applications of IoT in healthcare. It addresses some benefits and challenges of IoT in healthcare.

One of the advanced features of 5G technology is the Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, which capable of serving peer to peer communication, and D2D pair can communicate directly without having to pass through the Base Transceiver Station by re-using the frequency spectrum (resource) from the cellular user. D2D communication led to significant interference on mobile networks when sharing radio resources, and precise radio resource allocation requires algorithms to reduce interference. This study aims to evaluate the most optimal radio resource allocation algorithm of 5G D2D communication underlying on a 4G LTE network using heuristic algorithms, minimum interference algorithms, and random allocation algorithms. Each algorithm tested with the scenario that involved variations of the cell radius distance, the value of data rate, fairness, and energy efficiency to determine the most optimal algorithm. The result shows that the higher amount of cell radius distance in a system makes the value of the system's data rate, fairness, and energy efficiency smaller because the gain on the device in the system also becomes smaller. Heuristic algorithms were having better data rates and energy efficiency compared to other algorithms. Therefore, it is suitable to be used when the level of system complexity is high. However, it works less optimally when a system has a vast cell radius because the heuristic algorithm's performance value tends to decrease with a more significant difference at each increase.