EECLP: AWireless Sensor Networks Energy Efficient Cross-Layer Protocol

Recent advancements in wireless communications have allowed the birth of novel wireless sensor networks(WSN).A sensor network comprises several micro-sensors deployed randomly in an area of interest.A micro-sensor is provided with an energy resource to supply electricity to all of its components.However,the disposed energy resource is limited and battery replacement is generally infeasible.With this restriction,the sensors must conserve energy to prolong their lifetime.Various energy conservation strategies for WSNs have been presented in the literature,from the application to the physical layer.Most of these solutions focus only on optimizing a single layer in terms of energy consumption.In this research,a novel cross-layer technique for WSNs’effective energy usage is presented.Because most energy consumption factors exist in the Medium Access Control(MAC)layer and network layer,our EECLP protocol(Energy Efficient Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks)integrates these two layers to satisfy energy efficiency criteria.To gain access to the transmission channel,we implement a communication regime at the MAC layer based on CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance)techniques.Next,depending on the activity and a standby period,we employ the RTS/CTS(Request to Send/Clear to Send)method to prevent collisions and resolve hidden node concerns by utilizing the network allocation vector(NAV)to calculate the transmission duration.Employing a greedy strategy,we establish chains amongst cluster members to mitigate the issue of high energy consumption in routing data.An objective function was utilized to determine the optimal cross-chain path based on the distances to the base station(BS)and residual energy(RE).The simulation,testing,and comparison of the proposed protocol to peer protocols have shown superior outcomes and a prolonged network lifespan.Using the suggested protocol,the network lifetime increases by 10%compared to FAMACO(Fuzzy and Ant Colony Optimization based MAC/Routing Cross-layer)protocol,and it increases by 90%and 95%compared to IFUC(Improved Fuzzy Unequal Clustering)and UHEED(Unequal Hybrid Energy Efficient and Distributed)protocols successively.

Terrorism Attack Classification Using Machine Learning: The Effectiveness of Using Textual Features Extracted from GTD Dataset

One of the biggest dangers to society today is terrorism, where attacks have become one of the most significantrisks to international peace and national security. Big data, information analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI) havebecome the basis for making strategic decisions in many sensitive areas, such as fraud detection, risk management,medical diagnosis, and counter-terrorism. However, there is still a need to assess how terrorist attacks are related,initiated, and detected. For this purpose, we propose a novel framework for classifying and predicting terroristattacks. The proposed framework posits that neglected text attributes included in the Global Terrorism Database(GTD) can influence the accuracy of the model’s classification of terrorist attacks, where each part of the datacan provide vital information to enrich the ability of classifier learning. Each data point in a multiclass taxonomyhas one or more tags attached to it, referred as “related tags.” We applied machine learning classifiers to classifyterrorist attack incidents obtained from the GTD. A transformer-based technique called DistilBERT extracts andlearns contextual features from text attributes to acquiremore information from text data. The extracted contextualfeatures are combined with the “key features” of the dataset and used to perform the final classification. Thestudy explored different experimental setups with various classifiers to evaluate the model’s performance. Theexperimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms the latest techniques for classifying terroristattacks with an accuracy of 98.7% using a combined feature set and extreme gradient boosting classifier.

ECO-BAT: A New Routing Protocol for Energy Consumption Optimization Based on BAT Algorithm in WSN

Wireless sensor network (WSN) has been widely used due to its vastrange of applications. The energy problem is one of the important problems influencingthe complete application. Sensor nodes use very small batteries as a powersource and replacing them is not an easy task. With this restriction, the sensornodes must conserve their energy and extend the network lifetime as long as possible.Also, these limits motivate much of the research to suggest solutions in alllayers of the protocol stack to save energy. So, energy management efficiencybecomes a key requirement in WSN design. The efficiency of these networks ishighly dependent on routing protocols directly affecting the network lifetime.Clustering is one of the most popular techniques preferred in routing operations.In this work we propose a novel energy-efficient protocol for WSN based on a batalgorithm called ECO-BAT (Energy Consumption Optimization with BAT algorithmfor WSN) to prolong the network lifetime. We use an objective function thatgenerates an optimal number of sensor clusters with cluster heads (CH) to minimizeenergy consumption. The performance of the proposed approach is comparedwith Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) and EnergyEfficient cluster formation in wireless sensor networks based on the Multi-Objective Bat algorithm (EEMOB) protocols. The results obtained are interestingin terms of energy-saving and prolongation of the network lifetime.

An Energy-Efficient Protocol Using an Objective Function & Random Search with Jumps forWSN

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)have hardware and software limitations and are deployed in hostile environments.The problem of energy consumption in WSNs has become a very important axis of research.To obtain good performance in terms of the network lifetime,several routing protocols have been proposed in the literature.Hierarchical routing is considered to be the most favorable approach in terms of energy efficiency.It is based on the concept parent-child hierarchy where the child nodes forward their messages to their parent,and then the parent node forwards them,directly or via other parent nodes,to the base station(sink).In this paper,we present a new Energy-Efficient clustering protocol for WSNs using an Objective Function and Random Search with Jumps(EEOFRSJ)in order to reduce sensor energy consumption.First,the objective function is used to find an optimal cluster formation taking into account the ratio of the mean Euclidean distance of the nodes to their associated cluster heads(CH)and their residual energy.Then,we find the best path to transmit data from the CHs nodes to the base station(BS)using a random search with jumps.We simulated our proposed approach compared with the Energy-Efficient in WSNs using Fuzzy C-Means clustering(EEFCM)protocol using Matlab Simulink.Simulation results have shown that our proposed protocol excels regarding energy consumption,resulting in network lifetime extension.

Application of Image Compression to Multiple-Shot Pictures Using Similarity Norms With Three Level Blurring

be stored or transmitted in an efficient form.In this work,a new idea is proposed,where we take advantage of the redundancy that appears in a group of images to be all compressed together,instead of compressing each image by itself.In our proposed technique,a classification process is applied,where the set of the input images are classified into groups based on existing technique like L1 and L2 norms,color histograms.All images that belong to the same group are compressed based on dividing the images of the same group into sub-images of equal sizes and saving the references into a codebook.In the process of extracting the different sub-images,we used the mean squared error for comparison and three blurring methods(simple,middle and majority blurring)to increase the compression ratio.Experiments show that varying blurring values,as well as MSE thresholds,enhanced the compression results in a group of images compared to JPEG and PNG compressors.