The integration of digital twin(DT)and 6G edge intelligence provides accurate forecasting for distributed resources control in smart park.However,the adverse impact of model poisoning attacks on DT model training cann...The integration of digital twin(DT)and 6G edge intelligence provides accurate forecasting for distributed resources control in smart park.However,the adverse impact of model poisoning attacks on DT model training cannot be ignored.To address this issue,we firstly construct the models of DT model training and model poisoning attacks.An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the weighted sum of the DT loss function and DT model training delay.Then,the problem is transformed and solved by the proposed Multi-timescAle endogenouS securiTy-aware DQN-based rEsouRce management algorithm(MASTER)based on DT-assisted state information evaluation and attack detection.MASTER adopts multi-timescale deep Q-learning(DQN)networks to jointly schedule local training epochs and devices.It actively adjusts resource management strategies based on estimated attack probability to achieve endogenous security awareness.Simulation results demonstrate that MASTER has excellent performances in DT model training accuracy and delay.展开更多
The better management of resources and the potential improvement in trafc congestion via reducing the orbiting time for parking spaces is crucial in a smart city,particularly those with an uneven correlation between t...The better management of resources and the potential improvement in trafc congestion via reducing the orbiting time for parking spaces is crucial in a smart city,particularly those with an uneven correlation between the increase in vehicles and infrastructure.This paper proposes and analyses a novel green IoT-based Pay-As-You-Go(PAYG)smart parking system by utilizing unused garage parking spaces.The article also presents an intelligent system that offers the most favorable prices to its users by matching private garages’pricing portfolio with a garage’s current demand.Malta,the world’s fourth-most densely populated country,is considered as a case of a smart city for the implementation of the proposed approach.The results obtained conrm that apart from having a high potential system in such countries,the pricing generated correctly forecasts the demand for a particular garage at a specic time of the day and year.The proposed PAYG smart parking system can effectively contribute to the macro solution to trafc congestion by encouraging potential users to use the system’s services and reducing the orbiting time for parking.展开更多
In crowded cities,searching for the availability of parking lots is a herculean task as it results in the wastage of drivers’time,increases air pollution,and traffic congestion.Smart parking systems facilitate the dr...In crowded cities,searching for the availability of parking lots is a herculean task as it results in the wastage of drivers’time,increases air pollution,and traffic congestion.Smart parking systems facilitate the drivers to determine the information about the parking lot in real time and book them depending on the requirement.But the existing smart parking systems necessitate the drivers to reveal their sensitive information that includes their mobile number,personal identity,and desired destination.This disclosure of sensitive information makes the existing centralized smart parking systems more vulnerable to service providers’security breaches,single points of failure,and bottlenecks.In this paper,an Improved Asymmetric Consortium Blockchain and Homomorphically Computing Univariate Polynomial-based private information retrieval(IACB-HCUPPIR)scheme is proposed to ensure parking lots’availability with transparency security in a privacy-preserving smart parking system.In specific,an improved Asymmetric Consortium Blockchain is used for achieving secure transactions between different parties interacting in the smart parking environment.It further adopted the method of Homomorphically Computing Univariate Polynomial-based private information retrieval(HCUPPIR)scheme for preserving the location privacy of drivers.The results of IACB-HCUPPIR confirmed better results in terms of minimized computation and communication overload with throughput,latency,and response time with maximized drivers’privacy preservation.Moreover,the proposed fully homomorphic algorithm(FHE)was compared against partial-homomorphic encryption(PHE)and technique without encryption and found that the proposed model has quick communication in allocating the parking slots starting with 24.3 s,whereas PHE starts allocating from 24.7 s and the technique without encryption starts at 27.4 s.Thus,we ensure the proposed model performs well in allocating parking slots with less time and high security with privacy preservation.展开更多
Smart parks serve as integral components of smart cities,where they play a pivotal role in the process of urban modernization.The demand for cross-domain cooperation among smart devices from various parks has witnesse...Smart parks serve as integral components of smart cities,where they play a pivotal role in the process of urban modernization.The demand for cross-domain cooperation among smart devices from various parks has witnessed a significant increase.To ensure secure communication,device identities must undergo authentication.The existing cross-domain authentication schemes face issues such as complex authentication paths and high certificate management costs for devices,making it impractical for resource-constrained devices.This paper proposes a blockchain-based lightweight and efficient cross-domain authentication protocol for smart parks,which simplifies the authentication interaction and requires every device to maintain only one certificate.To enhance cross-domain cooperation flexibility,a comprehensive certificate revocation mechanism is presented,significantly reducing certificate management costs while ensuring efficient and secure identity authentication.When a park needs to revoke access permissions of several cooperative partners,the revocation of numerous cross-domain certificates can be accomplished with a single blockchain write operation.The security analysis and experimental results demonstrate the security and effectiveness of our scheme.展开更多
An integrated energy system(IES)is considered to be an important supporting technology for emission reduction because it can effectively improve the efficiency of energy utilization and promote its sustainable develop...An integrated energy system(IES)is considered to be an important supporting technology for emission reduction because it can effectively improve the efficiency of energy utilization and promote its sustainable development.Considering the uncertainties and operational conditions,this paper establishes a bilevel multi-objective optimization model for IES for the Smart Park from the standpoint of economy,technology and environment.The upper level with one objective reflects the economic cost composed of investment,operating and maintenance,etc.The lower level constructs three objectives,including pollution emission,operation costs and renewable energy utilization.Simultaneously,various equality and inequality constraints are addressed to satisfy the technical requirements.In addition,an improved MOEA/D-MC-DC algorithm(Multi Objective Evolutionary Algorithm through Decomposition Based on Monte Carlo and Decoupled Coding,MOEA/D-MC-DC)is presented for handling the complex and nonlinear bilevel multi-objective optimization problems with constraints.A genetic algorithm(GA)is used to solve the upper single objective,while MOEA is employed to cope with the multi-objectives of the lower level.Using three typical IESs in the Smart Park as examples,several simulations are carried out to verify the efficiency,applicability and universality of the proposed model and optimization algorithm.The results show that the proposed method can effectively optimize the configuration of an IES in various Smart Parks.展开更多
Vehicular fog computing(VFC)has been envisioned as an important application of fog computing in vehicular networks.Parked vehicles with embedded computation resources could be exploited as a supplement for VFC.They co...Vehicular fog computing(VFC)has been envisioned as an important application of fog computing in vehicular networks.Parked vehicles with embedded computation resources could be exploited as a supplement for VFC.They cooperate with fog servers to process offloading requests at the vehicular network edge,leading to a new paradigm called parked vehicle assisted fog computing(PVFC).However,each coin has two sides.There is a follow-up challenging issue in the distributed and trustless computing environment.The centralized computation offloading without tamper-proof audit causes security threats.It could not guard against false-reporting,free-riding behaviors,spoofing attacks and repudiation attacks.Thus,we leverage the blockchain technology to achieve decentralized PVFC.Request posting,workload undertaking,task evaluation and reward assignment are organized and validated automatically through smart contract executions.Network activities in computation offloading become transparent,verifiable and traceable to eliminate security risks.To this end,we introduce network entities and design interactive smart contract operations across them.The optimal smart contract design problem is formulated and solved within the Stackelberg game framework to minimize the total payments for users.Security analysis and extensive numerical results are provided to demonstrate that our scheme has high security and efficiency guarantee.展开更多
The searching of parking burns a lot of barrels of the world’s oil every day. Car parking problem is a major contributor in congestion of traffic and has been, still a major problem with increasing vehicle size in th...The searching of parking burns a lot of barrels of the world’s oil every day. Car parking problem is a major contributor in congestion of traffic and has been, still a major problem with increasing vehicle size in the luxurious segment and also confines parking spaces in urban cities. The rapid growth in the number of vehicles worldwide is intensifying the problem of the lack of parking space. As the global population continues to urbanize, without a well-planned, convenience-driven retreat from the car, these problems will worsen in many countries. The current unmanaged car parks and transportation facilities make it difficult to accommodate the increasing number of vehicles in a proper, convenient manner so it is necessary to have an efficient and smart parking system. Smart parking management systems are capable of providing extreme level of convenience to the drivers. In this paper, a proposed web App system, named “Park Easy” is based on the usage of smart phones, sensors monitoring techniques with a camera which is used as a sensor to take photos to show the occupancy of cars parks. By implementing this system, the utilization of parking spaces will increase. It allocates available parking space to a given driver to park their vehicle, renew the availability of the parking space when the car leaves and compute the charges due. Smart parking App, “Park Easy”, will also enable most important techniques to provide all the possible shortage route for parking from any area of the city mainly, it helps to predict accurately and sense spot/vehicle occupancy in real-time.展开更多
As a vital part of a smart grid, smart power consumption enables real-time interaction between consumers and the grid. With improved management of the demand side and energy efficiency, smart power consumption plays a...As a vital part of a smart grid, smart power consumption enables real-time interaction between consumers and the grid. With improved management of the demand side and energy efficiency, smart power consumption plays an important role in emission reduction as well as the economic operation of the power grid. Meanwhile, it enhances the power grid to a larger scale infrastructure by the two-way transmission of energy and information. This paper introduces the research, practice and vision of smart power consumption in China.展开更多
The development of Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS)is closely intertwined with the growth of every city,serving as a critical component of smart city construction.This paper provides a concise overview of the c...The development of Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS)is closely intertwined with the growth of every city,serving as a critical component of smart city construction.This paper provides a concise overview of the concept and overall framework of smart transportation.It emphasizes the application of key technologies,including Traffic Element Identification and Perception,data mining,and Smart Transportation System Integration Technology,in the field.Furthermore,the paper elucidates the current practical applications of smart transportation,showcasing its advancements and implementations in real-world scenarios.展开更多
基金supported by the Science and Technology Project of State Grid Corporation of China under Grant Number 52094021N010 (5400-202199534A-05-ZN)。
文摘The integration of digital twin(DT)and 6G edge intelligence provides accurate forecasting for distributed resources control in smart park.However,the adverse impact of model poisoning attacks on DT model training cannot be ignored.To address this issue,we firstly construct the models of DT model training and model poisoning attacks.An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the weighted sum of the DT loss function and DT model training delay.Then,the problem is transformed and solved by the proposed Multi-timescAle endogenouS securiTy-aware DQN-based rEsouRce management algorithm(MASTER)based on DT-assisted state information evaluation and attack detection.MASTER adopts multi-timescale deep Q-learning(DQN)networks to jointly schedule local training epochs and devices.It actively adjusts resource management strategies based on estimated attack probability to achieve endogenous security awareness.Simulation results demonstrate that MASTER has excellent performances in DT model training accuracy and delay.
基金funding by the University of Malta’s Internal Research Grants.
文摘The better management of resources and the potential improvement in trafc congestion via reducing the orbiting time for parking spaces is crucial in a smart city,particularly those with an uneven correlation between the increase in vehicles and infrastructure.This paper proposes and analyses a novel green IoT-based Pay-As-You-Go(PAYG)smart parking system by utilizing unused garage parking spaces.The article also presents an intelligent system that offers the most favorable prices to its users by matching private garages’pricing portfolio with a garage’s current demand.Malta,the world’s fourth-most densely populated country,is considered as a case of a smart city for the implementation of the proposed approach.The results obtained conrm that apart from having a high potential system in such countries,the pricing generated correctly forecasts the demand for a particular garage at a specic time of the day and year.The proposed PAYG smart parking system can effectively contribute to the macro solution to trafc congestion by encouraging potential users to use the system’s services and reducing the orbiting time for parking.
基金The research was funded by the School of Information Technology and Engineering,Vellore Institute of Technology,Vellore 632014,Tamil Nadu,India.
文摘In crowded cities,searching for the availability of parking lots is a herculean task as it results in the wastage of drivers’time,increases air pollution,and traffic congestion.Smart parking systems facilitate the drivers to determine the information about the parking lot in real time and book them depending on the requirement.But the existing smart parking systems necessitate the drivers to reveal their sensitive information that includes their mobile number,personal identity,and desired destination.This disclosure of sensitive information makes the existing centralized smart parking systems more vulnerable to service providers’security breaches,single points of failure,and bottlenecks.In this paper,an Improved Asymmetric Consortium Blockchain and Homomorphically Computing Univariate Polynomial-based private information retrieval(IACB-HCUPPIR)scheme is proposed to ensure parking lots’availability with transparency security in a privacy-preserving smart parking system.In specific,an improved Asymmetric Consortium Blockchain is used for achieving secure transactions between different parties interacting in the smart parking environment.It further adopted the method of Homomorphically Computing Univariate Polynomial-based private information retrieval(HCUPPIR)scheme for preserving the location privacy of drivers.The results of IACB-HCUPPIR confirmed better results in terms of minimized computation and communication overload with throughput,latency,and response time with maximized drivers’privacy preservation.Moreover,the proposed fully homomorphic algorithm(FHE)was compared against partial-homomorphic encryption(PHE)and technique without encryption and found that the proposed model has quick communication in allocating the parking slots starting with 24.3 s,whereas PHE starts allocating from 24.7 s and the technique without encryption starts at 27.4 s.Thus,we ensure the proposed model performs well in allocating parking slots with less time and high security with privacy preservation.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation Project of China under Grant No.62062009the Guangxi Innovation-Driven Development Project under Grant Nos.AA17204058-17 and AA18118047-7.
文摘Smart parks serve as integral components of smart cities,where they play a pivotal role in the process of urban modernization.The demand for cross-domain cooperation among smart devices from various parks has witnessed a significant increase.To ensure secure communication,device identities must undergo authentication.The existing cross-domain authentication schemes face issues such as complex authentication paths and high certificate management costs for devices,making it impractical for resource-constrained devices.This paper proposes a blockchain-based lightweight and efficient cross-domain authentication protocol for smart parks,which simplifies the authentication interaction and requires every device to maintain only one certificate.To enhance cross-domain cooperation flexibility,a comprehensive certificate revocation mechanism is presented,significantly reducing certificate management costs while ensuring efficient and secure identity authentication.When a park needs to revoke access permissions of several cooperative partners,the revocation of numerous cross-domain certificates can be accomplished with a single blockchain write operation.The security analysis and experimental results demonstrate the security and effectiveness of our scheme.
基金supported by the Scientific Research Plan of Beijing Municipal Education Commission(KM202111232022)。
文摘An integrated energy system(IES)is considered to be an important supporting technology for emission reduction because it can effectively improve the efficiency of energy utilization and promote its sustainable development.Considering the uncertainties and operational conditions,this paper establishes a bilevel multi-objective optimization model for IES for the Smart Park from the standpoint of economy,technology and environment.The upper level with one objective reflects the economic cost composed of investment,operating and maintenance,etc.The lower level constructs three objectives,including pollution emission,operation costs and renewable energy utilization.Simultaneously,various equality and inequality constraints are addressed to satisfy the technical requirements.In addition,an improved MOEA/D-MC-DC algorithm(Multi Objective Evolutionary Algorithm through Decomposition Based on Monte Carlo and Decoupled Coding,MOEA/D-MC-DC)is presented for handling the complex and nonlinear bilevel multi-objective optimization problems with constraints.A genetic algorithm(GA)is used to solve the upper single objective,while MOEA is employed to cope with the multi-objectives of the lower level.Using three typical IESs in the Smart Park as examples,several simulations are carried out to verify the efficiency,applicability and universality of the proposed model and optimization algorithm.The results show that the proposed method can effectively optimize the configuration of an IES in various Smart Parks.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61971148)the Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province(2015B010129001)+2 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province(2018GXNSFDA281013)the Foundation for Science and Technology Project of Guilin City(20190214-3)the Key Science and Technology Project of Guangxi(AA18242021)
文摘Vehicular fog computing(VFC)has been envisioned as an important application of fog computing in vehicular networks.Parked vehicles with embedded computation resources could be exploited as a supplement for VFC.They cooperate with fog servers to process offloading requests at the vehicular network edge,leading to a new paradigm called parked vehicle assisted fog computing(PVFC).However,each coin has two sides.There is a follow-up challenging issue in the distributed and trustless computing environment.The centralized computation offloading without tamper-proof audit causes security threats.It could not guard against false-reporting,free-riding behaviors,spoofing attacks and repudiation attacks.Thus,we leverage the blockchain technology to achieve decentralized PVFC.Request posting,workload undertaking,task evaluation and reward assignment are organized and validated automatically through smart contract executions.Network activities in computation offloading become transparent,verifiable and traceable to eliminate security risks.To this end,we introduce network entities and design interactive smart contract operations across them.The optimal smart contract design problem is formulated and solved within the Stackelberg game framework to minimize the total payments for users.Security analysis and extensive numerical results are provided to demonstrate that our scheme has high security and efficiency guarantee.
文摘The searching of parking burns a lot of barrels of the world’s oil every day. Car parking problem is a major contributor in congestion of traffic and has been, still a major problem with increasing vehicle size in the luxurious segment and also confines parking spaces in urban cities. The rapid growth in the number of vehicles worldwide is intensifying the problem of the lack of parking space. As the global population continues to urbanize, without a well-planned, convenience-driven retreat from the car, these problems will worsen in many countries. The current unmanaged car parks and transportation facilities make it difficult to accommodate the increasing number of vehicles in a proper, convenient manner so it is necessary to have an efficient and smart parking system. Smart parking management systems are capable of providing extreme level of convenience to the drivers. In this paper, a proposed web App system, named “Park Easy” is based on the usage of smart phones, sensors monitoring techniques with a camera which is used as a sensor to take photos to show the occupancy of cars parks. By implementing this system, the utilization of parking spaces will increase. It allocates available parking space to a given driver to park their vehicle, renew the availability of the parking space when the car leaves and compute the charges due. Smart parking App, “Park Easy”, will also enable most important techniques to provide all the possible shortage route for parking from any area of the city mainly, it helps to predict accurately and sense spot/vehicle occupancy in real-time.
文摘As a vital part of a smart grid, smart power consumption enables real-time interaction between consumers and the grid. With improved management of the demand side and energy efficiency, smart power consumption plays an important role in emission reduction as well as the economic operation of the power grid. Meanwhile, it enhances the power grid to a larger scale infrastructure by the two-way transmission of energy and information. This paper introduces the research, practice and vision of smart power consumption in China.
文摘The development of Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS)is closely intertwined with the growth of every city,serving as a critical component of smart city construction.This paper provides a concise overview of the concept and overall framework of smart transportation.It emphasizes the application of key technologies,including Traffic Element Identification and Perception,data mining,and Smart Transportation System Integration Technology,in the field.Furthermore,the paper elucidates the current practical applications of smart transportation,showcasing its advancements and implementations in real-world scenarios.