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In this paper, an Internet of Energy (IoE) solution for providing optimal charging and control of resources in the era of electric vehicles (EVs) with energy trading and security is considered. A blockchain based security solution is presented by considering the IoE as a distributed energy system with internet of things (IoT). However, by inheriting the security concerns of IoTs, IoE also faces the security challenges and is considered here. Hierarchical key generation is used for cryptographic keys, based on lattice constructions. Along with a consensus tailored with Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), an additional smart contract is also applied for utilization of energy transfer. The presented solution provides transparency, reliability, availability and failure recovery inheriting from the blockchain aspects. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first attempt in this direction of IoE-EV interface solutions. The experimental results, comparative analysis and security validation affirm the superiority of the proposed solution over the existing approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel trust-based range-free secure algorithm using blockchain technology is considered in hostile WSNs for localization. The trust values of beacon nodes are evaluated against reputation value, mobility, residual energy and neighbor node list. The blockchain technology is implemented then to share the beacon nodes trust value with neighbor nodes. The highly trustworthy beacon nodes are subsequently elected as a miner for the mining process of blocks so that unknown nodes get information from highly honest beacon nodes to perform the localization process correctly. A set of simulations is conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm compared to the existing one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present world of vehicle technology is inclined to develop Electric Vehicles (EVs) with various optimized features. These vehicles need frequent charging which takes a longer time to charge up. Therefore, scheduling of vehicles in charging stations is required. Besides, the information of the EVs and its location is also stored by the charging stations and therefore creates a concern of EV privacy. Various researches are going on to solve these problems; however, an efficient privacy-preserving solution is less practiced till date. In this paper, a framework for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging is discussed. The framework uses the concept of Matching Market to identify a charging station and uses the lattice-based cryptography for secure communications. The matching market considers multiple factors to provide the best allocation of charging station and cryptography ensures security and privacy preservation. The use of lattice-based cryptographic hash SWIFFT avoids heavy computation. This usage of matching market and lattice cryptography, more specifically signcryption for EV charging framework are the highlights of the solution and add-ons to the novel features. Overall, the presented framework is efficient in terms of computation and communication cost, satisfaction ratio, slot ratio, charging latency and load balancing index. The performance metrics are compared with recent developments in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we show a deep learning model for bot detection, named as DeBot, for industrial network traffic. DeBot uses a novel Cascade Forward Back Propagation Neural Network (CFBPNN) model with a subset of features using the Correlation-based Feature Selection (CFS) technique. A time series-based Nonlinear Auto-regressive Network with eXogenous inputs (NARX) technique analyzes the factors having a higher impact on the target variable and predict the behavioral pattern. To the best of our knowledge, we pioneer the use of optimal feature selection and integration with the cascading model of deep learning in bot detection of IIoTs. We conduct a thorough set of experiments on five popular bot datasets: NF-UNSW-NB15, NF-ToN-IoT, NF-BoT-IoT, NF-CSE-CIC-IDS2018, and ToN-IoT-Windows. We compare CFBPNN with other existing neural network models. We observe that CFBPNN in DeBot shows 100% accuracy in all the datasets with subset evaluation and obtains optimum F1-score and zero precision. [Display omitted] • We address the multi-layered network model with IIoT features to enable bot attack detection. • Our DeBot model evaluates the subset with optimal features with high impact on attack class and predict the risk factor. • We pioneer the implementation of time series-based Nonlinear Auto-Regressive eXogenous (NARX) model to predict the risk in the specified time gap. • We introduce a new cascading model with recurrent feature to preserve the relationship between input and output variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we develop a feature extraction model using the amalgamation of machine and deep learning techniques for Industrial Internet of Thing (IIoT). We train the model with the most effective feature set evaluated using machine learning algorithms and deep learning feature extraction methods. We test these features with deep learning based network models for validation. We consider error metrics and accuracy as the major factors for combining the machine learning and deep learning techniques. The error rates are analysed using mean square error which show low error rate for the subset than the model tested for full dataset. Further, mean square error, accuracy rate and false values are analysed to test the performance of the proposed model. The comparative analysis with IIoT dataset and existing methods show that our approach is 25% better than the others. [Display omitted] • We address the multi-dimensional problem of the IIoT features to make an adequate feature extraction method. • We use machine learning classifier and wrapper subset evaluation technique with Naive-Bayes and meta bagging methods for feature selection. Deep learning auto encoders are implemented as a part of dimensionality reduction techniques and provides a amalgamation for the appropriateness of the features. We verify them with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and ranking. Thus, only relevant features are extracted for analysis. • We create network models for analysing detection using deep learning Feed forward neural network and Elman Back propagation techniques for classification and detection with various training methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internet-of-Things (IoTs) are one of the most promising technologies in the present world. It connects people, processes and things. The increasing number of devices in IoT invoking various security and privacy issues. Authentication is one of them which should be measured at the very first level when a device comes into the network. Many authentication schemes are in use which follow the traditional cryptographic techniques of first-sign-then-encryption. The low performance and high complexity of these techniques also have urged the development of signcryption and lightweight signcryption techniques which are more beneficial for low-powered devices in IoTs. The literature study also provides a scope of improvement in the existing signcryption techniques. With this objectives, in this paper, the work shows a lightweight signcryption scheme for perception layer devices in IoT. It uses PHOTON-256 as a lightweight hash function which makes the proposed scheme less complex and faster. The performance of the scheme has been measured in terms of complexity, cost analysis and energy consumption. AVISPA validation is performed to evaluate security. The analysis of attacks, comparative experimentation and energy consumption confirm the efficiency of the scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]