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In the domain of cognitive radio (CR), unlicensed users have the opportunity to efficiently use available spectrum bands without interfering with licensed primary users (PUs). Our study addresses the challenge of secondary user (SU) spectrum shortage due to high arrival rates of licensed users. We propose two models aimed at improving the average total waiting time for SUs in such scenarios. These models incorporate non-acquired and preemptive priority mechanisms within the M/D/1 model of a PU delay system. Through quantitative evaluations and Monte Carlo simulations, we evaluate the performance of these models. Our findings show significant improvements in average waiting time for both PUs and SUs, especially under the priority scheme. Furthermore, we explore these models in the context of real-time systems, considering the limited buffer capacity for both user types. This further improves the average waiting time for PUs and SUs in both priority schemes. Our contribution lies in providing effective solutions to mitigate SU shortages in CR networks, providing insight into priority-based approaches and real-time system considerations.

The advancements in social networking have empowered open expression on micro-blogging platforms like Twitter. Traditional Twitter Sentiment Analysis (TSA) faces challenges due to rule-based or dictionary algorithms, dealing with feature selection, ambiguity, sparse data, and language variations. This study proposed a classification framework for Twitter sentiment data using word count vectorization and machine learning techniques to reduce the difficulties faced with annotated sentiment-labelled tweets. Various classifiers (Naïve Bayes (NB), Decision Tree (DT), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Logistic Regression (LR), and Random Forest (RF)) were evaluated based on accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and specificity. Random Forest outperformed the others with an Area under Curve (AUC) value of 0.96 and an average precision (AP) score of 0.96 in sentiment classification, especially effective with minimal Twitter-specific features.

The emergence of federated learning (FL) technique in fog-enabled healthcare system has leveraged enhanced privacy towards safeguarding sensitive patient information over heterogeneous computing platforms. In this paper, we introduce the FedHealthFog framework, which was meticulously developed to overcome the difficulties of distributed learning in resource-constrained IoT-enabled healthcare systems, particularly those sensitive to delays and energy efficiency. Conventional federated learning approaches face challenges stemming from substantial compute requirements and significant communication costs. This is primarily due to their reliance on a singular server for the aggregation of global data, which results in inefficient training models. We present a transformational approach to address these problems by elevating strategically placed fog nodes to the position of local aggregators within the federated learning architecture. A sophisticated greedy heuristic technique is used to optimize the choice of a fog node as the global aggregator in each communication cycle between edge devices and the cloud. The FedHealthFog system notably accounts for drop in communication latency of 87.01%, 26.90%, and 71.74%, and energy consumption of 57.98%, 34.36%, and 35.37% respectively, for three benchmark algorithms analyzed in this study. The effectiveness of FedHealthFog is strongly supported by outcomes of our experiments compared to cutting-edge alternatives while simultaneously reducing number of global aggregation cycles. These findings highlight FedHealthFog's potential to transform federated learning in resource-constrained IoT environments for delay-sensitive applications.

The prevalence of heart disease has remained a major cause of mortalities across the world and has been challenging for healthcare providers to detect early symptoms of cardiac patients. To this end, several conventional machine learning models have gained popularity in providing precise prediction of heart diseases by taking into account the underlying conditions of patients. The drawbacks associated with these methods are a lack of generalization and the convergence rate of these methods being much slower. As the healthcare data associated with these systems scale up leading to healthcare big data issues, a Cloud-Fog computing-based paradigm is necessary to facilitate low-latency and energy-efficient computation of the healthcare data. In this paper, a DeepMist framework is suggested which exploits Deep Learning models operating over Mist Computing infrastructure to leverage fast predictive convergence, low-latency, and energy efficiency for smart healthcare systems. We exploit the Deep Q Network (DQN) algorithm for building the prediction model for identifying heart diseases over the Mist computing layer. Different performance evaluation metrics, like precision, recall, f-measure, accuracy, energy consumption, and delay, are used to assess the proposed DeepMist framework. It provided an overall prediction accuracy of 97.6714% and loss value of 0.3841, along with energy consumption and delay of 32.1002 mJ and 2.8002 ms respectively. To validate the efficacy of DeepMist, we compare its outcomes over the heart disease dataset in convergence with other benchmark models like Q-Reinforcement Learning (QRL) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms and observe that the proposed scheme outperforms all others.

The emergence of 2019 novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) raised global health concerns throughout the world. It has become a major challenge for healthcare personnel and researchers throughout the world to efficiently track and prevent the transmission of this virus. In this paper, the role of geographic information system (GIS) based spatial models for tracking the spread of COVID-19 and discovery of testing centres in Maharashtra, India was studied. The datasets collected from diverse sources were geocoded to make it geospatially compatible. A three-tiered framework was proposed to practically realize the impact of COVID-19 in a cartographic fashion. Initially, choropleth maps labeled with testing centres, number of confirmed cases and casualties were visualized in a district-wise manner. Heatmaps for visualizing the spatial density of confirmed cases and casualties were presented. The visualization of spatial K-means clustering for optimal value of “k” estimated using the heuristic-based Elbow method was provided along with zonal analysis of the districts. Map showing spatial autocorrelation was also presented to identify spatial hotspots and coldspots. The districts of Pune and Thane reported respective z-scores of 3.424 and 3.347 along with p-values of 0.006 and 0.001 respectively. It was inferred from the generated results that Pune and Thane districts in Maharashtra were identified as COVID-19 hotspots. Based upon this analysis, certain effective mitigation strategies can be devised in order to check the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 in the identified hotspot areas.

In contemporary healthcare, the prediction and identification of cardiac diseases is crucial. By leveraging the capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled devices and Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the healthcare sector can largely benefit to improve patient outcomes by increasing the accuracy of disease prediction. However, protecting data privacy is essential to promote participation and adhere to rules. The suggested methodology combines EHRs with IoT-generated health data to predict heart disease. For its capacity to manage high-dimensional data and choose pertinent features, a soft-margin L1-regularised Support Vector Machine (sSVM) classifier is used. The large-scale sSVM problem is successfully solved using the cluster primal–dual splitting algorithm, which improves computational complexity and scalability. The integration of federated learning provides a cooperative predictive analytics methodology that upholds data privacy. The use of a federated learning framework in this study, with a focus on peer-to-peer applications, is crucial for enabling collaborative predictive modeling while protecting the confidentiality of each participant’s private medical information.

Several real-world applications involve the aggregation of physical features corresponding to different geographic and topographic phenomena. This information plays a crucial role in analyzing and predicting several events. The application areas, which often require a real-time analysis, include traffic flow, forest cover, disease monitoring and so on. Thus, most of the existing systems portray some limitations at various levels of processing and implementation. Some of the most commonly observed factors involve lack of reliability, scalability and exceeding computational costs. In this paper, we address different well-known scalable serverless frameworks i.e., Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda, Google Cloud Functions and Microsoft Azure Functions for the management of geospatial big data. We discuss some of the existing approaches that are popularly used in analyzing geospatial big data and indicate their limitations. We report the applicability of our proposed framework in context of Cloud Geographic Information System (GIS) platform. An account of some state-of-the-art technologies and tools relevant to our problem domain are discussed. We also visualize performance of the proposed framework in terms of reliability, scalability, speed and security parameters. Furthermore, we present the map overlay analysis, point-cluster analysis, the generated heatmap and clustering analysis. Some relevant statistical plots are also visualized. In this paper, we consider two application case-studies. The first case study was explored using the Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) dataset, which refers to worldwide density of mineral resources in a country-wise fashion. The second case study was performed using the Fairfax Forecast Households dataset, which signifies the parcel-level household prediction for 30 consecutive years. The proposed model integrates a serverless framework to reduce timing constraints and it also improves the performance associated to geospatial data processing for high-dimensional hyperspectral data.