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Over the past few years, network slicing has emerged as a pivotal component within the realm of 5G technology. It plays a critical role in effectively delineating network services based on a myriad of performance and operational requirements, all of which draw from a shared pool of common resources. The core objective of 5G technology is to facilitate simultaneous network slicing, thereby enabling the creation of multiple distinct end-to-end networks. This multiplicity of networks serves the paramount purpose of ensuring that the traffic within one network slice does not impede or adversely affect the traffic within another. Therefore, this paper proposes a Deep learning-based Multi Domain framework for end-to-end network slicing in traffic-aware prediction. The proposed method uses Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for in-depth resource allocation analysis and improves the Quality of Service (QOS). The DRL-based Multi-domain framework provides traffic-aware prediction and enhances flexibility. The study results demonstrate that the suggested approach outperforms conventional, heuristic, and randomized methods and enhances resource use while maintaining QoS.

The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain technologies has emerged as a powerful paradigm to address the challenges of data management, security, and privacy in the Edge of Things (EoTs) environment. This bibliometric analysis aims to explore the research landscape and trends surrounding the topic of convergence of AI and Blockchain for EoTs to gain insights into its development and potential implications. For this, research published during the past six years (2018-2023) in the Web of Science indexed sources has been considered as it has been a new field. VoSViewer-based full counting methodology has been used to analyze citation, co-citation, and co-authorship based collaborations among authors, organizations, countries, sources, and documents. The full counting method in VoSViewer involves considering all authors or sources with equal weight when calculating various bibliometric indicators. Co-occurrence, timeline, and burst detection analysis of keywords and published articles were also carried out to unravel significant research trends on the convergence of AI and Blockchain for EoTs. Our findings reveal a steady growth in research output, indicating the increasing importance and interest in AI-enabled Blockchain solutions for EoTs. Further, the analysis uncovered key influential researchers and institutions driving advancements in this domain, shedding light on potential collaborative networks and knowledge hubs. Additionally, the study examines the evolution of research themes over time, offering insights into emerging areas and future research directions. This bibliometric analysis contributes to the understanding of the state-of-the-art in convergence of AI and Blockchain for EoTs, highlighting the most influential works and identifying knowledge gaps. Researchers, industry practitioners, and policymakers can leverage these findings to inform their research strategies and decision-making processes, fostering innovation and advancements in this cutting-edge interdisciplinary field.

The financial system has reached its pinnacle because of economic and social growth, which has propelled the financial sector into another era. Public and corporate financial investment operations have significantly risen in this climate, and they now play a significant part in and impact the efficient use of market money. This finance sector will be affected by high-risk occurrences because of the cohabitation of dangers and passions, which will cause order to become unstable and definite financial losses. An organization’s operational risk is a significant barrier to its growth. A bit of negligence could cause the business’s standing to erode rapidly. Increasing funding management and forecasting risks is essential for the successful development of companies, enhancing their competitiveness in the marketplace and minimizing negative effects. As a result, this study takes the idea of mobile edge computing. It creates an intelligent system that can forecast different risks throughout the financial investment process based on the operational knowledge of important investment platforms. The CNN-LSTM approach, based on knowledge graphs, is then used to forecast financial risks. The results are then thoroughly examined through tests, demonstrating that the methodology can accurately estimate the risk associated with financial investments. Finally, a plan for improving the system for predicting financial risk is put out.

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers cloud-like capabilities to mobile users, making it an up-and-coming method for advancing the Internet of Things (IoT). However, current approaches are limited by various factors such as network latency, bandwidth, energy consumption, task characteristics, and edge server overload. To address these limitations, this research propose a novel approach that integrates Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) and Markov Decision Problem for task offloading in MEC. Among DRL algorithms, the ITODDPG algorithm based on the DDPG algorithm and MDP is a popular choice for task offloading in MEC. Firstly, the ITODDPG algorithm formulates the task offloading problem in MEC as an MDP, which enables the agent to learn a policy that maximizes the expected cumulative reward. Secondly, ITODDPG employs a deep neural network to approximate the Q-function, which maps the state-action pairs to their expected cumulative rewards. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that the ITODDPG algorithm outperforms the baseline algorithms regarding average compensation and convergence speed. In addition to its superior performance, our proposed approach can learn complex non-linear policies using DNN and an information-theoretic objective function to improve the performance of task offloading in MEC. Compared to traditional methods, our approach delivers improved performance, making it highly effective for developing IoT environments. Experimental trials were carried out, and the results indicate that the suggested approach can enhance performance compared to the other three baseline methods. It is highly scalable, capable of handling large and complex environments, and suitable for deployment in real-world scenarios, ensuring its widespread applicability to a diverse range of task offloading and MEC applications.

Leveraging a cloud computing environment for executing workflow applications offers high flexibility and strong scalability, thereby significantly improving resource utilization. Current scholarly discussions heavily focus on effectively reducing the scheduling length (makespan) of parallel task sets and improving the efficiency of large workflow applications in cloud computing environments. Effectively managing task dependencies and execution sequences plays a crucial role in designing efficient workflow scheduling algorithms. This study forwards a high-efficiency workflow scheduling algorithm based on predict makespan matrix (PMMS) for heterogeneous cloud computing environments. First, PMMS calculates the priority of each task based on the predict makespan (PM) matrix and obtains the task scheduling list. Second, the optimistic scheduling length (OSL) value of each task is calculated based on the PM matrix and the earliest finish time. Third, the best virtual machine is selected for each task according to the minimum OSL value. A large number of substantial experiments show that the scheduling length of workflow for PMMS, compared with state-of-the-art HEFT, PEFT, and PPTS algorithms, is reduced by 6.84%–15.17%, 5.47%–11.39%, and 4.74%–17.27%, respectively. This hinges on the premise of ensuring priority constraints and not increasing the time complexity.

Smart cities and urbanization use enormous IoT devices to transfer data for analysis and information processing. These IoT can relate to billions of devices and transfer essential data from their surroundings. There is a massive need for energy because of the tremendous data exchange between billions of gadgets. Green IoT aims to make the environment a better place while lowering the power usage of IoT devices. In this work, a hybrid deep learning method called "Green energy-efficient routing (GEER) with long short-term memory deep Q-Network is used to minimize the energy consumption of devices. Initially, a GEER with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and AutoEncoder (AE) provides efficient routing between devices in the network. Next, the long short-term memory deep Q-Network based Reinforcement Learning (RL) method reduces the energy consumption of IoT devices. This hybrid approach leverages the strengths of each technique to address different aspects of energy-efficient routing. ACO and AE contribute to efficient routing decisions, while LSTM DQN optimizes energy consumption, resulting in a well-rounded solution. Finally, the proposed GELSDQN-ACO method is compared with previous methods such as RNN-LSTM, DPC-DBN, and LSTM-DQN. Moreover, we critically analyze the green IoT and perform implementation and evaluation.

Recently, microservices have become a commonly-used architectural pattern for building cloud-native applications. Cloud computing provides flexibility for service providers, allowing them to remove or add resources depending on the workload of their web applications. If the resources allocated to the service are not aligned with its requirements, instances of failure or delayed response will increase, resulting in customer dissatisfaction. This problem has become a significant challenge in microservices-based applications, because thousands of microservices in the system may have complex interactions. Auto-scaling is a feature of cloud computing that enables resource scalability on demand, thus allowing service providers to deliver resources to their applications without human intervention under a dynamic workload to minimize resource cost and latency while maintaining the quality of service requirements. In this research, we aimed to establish a computational model for analyzing the workload of all microservices. To this end, the overall workload entering the system was considered, and the relationships and function calls between microservices were taken into account, because in a large-scale application with thousands of microservices, accurately monitoring all microservices and gathering precise performance metrics are usually difficult. Then, we developed a multi-criteria decision-making method to select the candidate microservices for scaling. We have tested the proposed approach with three datasets. The results of the conducted experiments show that the detection of input load toward microservices is performed with an average accuracy of about 99% which is a notable result. Furthermore, the proposed approach has demonstrated a substantial enhancement in resource utilization, achieving an average improvement of 40.74%, 20.28%, and 28.85% across three distinct datasets in comparison to existing methods. This is achieved by a notable reduction in the number of scaling operations, reducing the count by 54.40%, 55.52%, and 69.82%, respectively. Consequently, this optimization translates into a decrease in required resources, leading to cost reductions of 1.64%, 1.89%, and 1.67% respectively.

The role of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has increased tremendously in several areas like healthcare, agriculture, academia, industries, transportation, smart cities, etc. to make human life better. The number of IoT devices is increasing exponentially, and generating huge amounts of data that IoT nodes cannot handle. The centralized cloud architecture can process this enormous IoT data but fails to offer quality of service (QoS) due to high transmission latency, network congestion, and bandwidth. The fog paradigm has evolved that bring computing resources at the network edge for offering services to latency-sensitive IoT applications. Still, offloading decision, heterogeneous fog network, diverse workload, security issues, energy consumption, and expected QoS is significant challenges in this area. Hence, we have proposed a Blockchain-enabled Intelligent framework to tackle the mentioned issues and allocate the optimal resources for upcoming IoT requests in a collaborative cloud fog environment. The proposed framework is integrated with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based meta-heuristic algorithm that has a high convergence rate, and the capability to take the offloading decision at run time, leading to improved results quality. Blockchain technology secures IoT applications and their data from modern attacks. The experimental results of the proposed framework exhibit significant improvement by up to 20% in execution time and cost and up to 18% in energy consumption over other meta-heuristic approaches under similar experimental environments.

Health monitoring systems (HMS) with wearable IoT devices are constantly being developed and improved. But most of these gadgets have limited energy and processing power due to resource constraints. Mobile edge computing (MEC) must be used to analyze the HMS information to decrease bandwidth usage and increase reaction times for applications that depend on latency and require intense computation. To achieve these needs while considering emergencies under HMS, this work offers an effective task planning and allocation of resources mechanism in MEC. Utilizing the Software Denied Network (SDN) framework; we provide a priority-aware semi-greedy with genetic algorithm (PSG-GA) method. It prioritizes tasks differently by considering their emergencies, calculated concerning the data collected from a patient’s smart wearable devices. The process can determine whether a job must be completed domestically at the hospital workstations (HW) or in the cloud. The goal is to minimize both the bandwidth cost and the overall task processing time. Existing techniques were compared to the proposed SD-PSGA regarding average latency, job scheduling effectiveness, execution duration, bandwidth consumption, CPU utilization, and power usage. The testing results are encouraging since SD-PSGA can handle emergencies and fulfill the task’s latency-sensitive requirements at a lower bandwidth cost. The accuracy of testing model achieves 97 to 98% for nearly 200 tasks.

The adoption of User Equipment (UE) is on the rise, driven by advancements in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Among these, MEC stands out as a pivotal aspect of the 5G network. A critical challenge within the realm of MEC is task offloading. This involves optimizing conflicting factors like execution time, energy usage, and computation duration. Additionally, addressing the offloading of interdependent tasks poses another significant hurdle that requires attention. The developed models are single objective, task dependency, and computationally expensive. As a result, the Immune whale differential evolution optimization algorithm is proposed to offload the dependent tasks to the MEC with three objectives: minimizing the execution delay and reducing the energy and cost of MEC resources. The standard Whale optimization is incorporated with DE with customized mutation operations and immune system to enhance the searching strategy of Whale optimization. The proposed HIWDEO secured reduced energy and overhead of UE to execute its tasks. The comparison between the developed model and other optimization approaches shows the superiority of HIWDEO.