Integrated Underwater Data Transmission and Object Detection System Using TinyML and Multi-Hop Networks
Bhushan C.M., Laskar S.H., Garikapati J.S., Sai Srihitha P., Hemanth Durga Kumar S., Gazi F., Hussain M.M.
Conference paper, 2025 21st International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2025, 2025, DOI Link
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Underwater communication faces challenges like high attenuation, limited bandwidth, and energy constraints. This paper presents an underwater communication system using ultrasonic sensors for image transmission and TinyML for efficient object detection. The architecture comprises a Raspberry Pi-based transmitter node, intermediate repeater nodes and a receiver node. Images are processed using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), transmitted as text files, reconstructed via Inverse DCT (IDCT), and analyzed using a lightweight MobileNetV2 model for real-time object detection. The integration of TinyML enables energy-efficient on-device inference, addressing resource constraints in edge devices. The system demonstrates effective data transmission and accurate detection, with applications in underwater surveillance, marine monitoring, and aquaculture. This work underscores TinyML's role in advancing AI-driven Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) technologies.
Evolutionary Algorithms for Edge Server Placement in Vehicular Edge Computing
Article, IEEE Access, 2025, DOI Link
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Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is a critical enabler for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). It provides low-latency and energy-efficient services by offloading computation to the network edge. Effective edge server placement is essential for optimizing system performance, particularly in dynamic vehicular environments characterized by mobility and variability. The Edge Server Placement Problem (ESPP) addresses the challenge of minimizing latency and energy consumption while ensuring scalability and adaptability in real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a framework to solve the ESPP using real-world vehicular mobility traces to simulate realistic conditions. To achieve optimal server placement, we evaluate the effectiveness of several advanced evolutionary algorithms. These include the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), and Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO). Each algorithm is analyzed for its ability to optimize multiple objectives under varying network conditions. Our results show that ACO performs the best, producing well-distributed pareto-optimal solutions and balancing trade-offs effectively. GA and PSO exhibit faster convergence and better energy efficiency, making them suitable for scenarios requiring rapid decisions. The proposed framework is validated through extensive simulations and compared with state-of-the-art methods. It consistently outperforms them in reducing latency and energy consumption. This study provides actionable insights into algorithm selection and deployment strategies for VEC, addressing mobility, scalability, and resource optimization challenges. The findings contribute to the development of robust, scalable VEC infrastructures, enabling the efficient implementation of next-generation ITS applications.
Leveraging Edge Resources for Indoor Localization for Improved Accuracy
Conference paper, 2025 21st International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2025, 2025, DOI Link
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This paper presents a novel approach to zone prediction through Wi-Fi fingerprinting combined with machine learning, leveraging data collected by a UAV and a robotic car across distinct zones. Among the evaluated models, the Confidence-Aware Framework (ConFi) outperformed state-of-the-art methods, achieving a test accuracy of 91%, compared to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) at 73% and Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) at 85%. This superior accuracy underscores the ConFi model's capability to effectively manage the complexities of real-world environments. By leveraging the ConFi framework, the proposed system enhances precision, scalability, and adaptability over traditional methods. This study represents a significant advancement in indoor localization, offering a deployable and efficient solution for GPS-denied environments with promising applications in healthcare, logistics, and disaster management.
Resource management in fog computing: Overview and mathematical foundation
Book chapter, Swarm Intelligence: Theory and Applications in Fog Computing, Beyond 5G Networks, and Information Security, 2025,
Deploying TinyML for energy-efficient object detection and communication in low-power edge AI systems
Bhushan C.M., Koppuravuri P., Prasanthi N., Gazi F., Hussain M.M., Abdussami M., Devi A.A., Faizi J.
Article, Scientific Reports, 2025, DOI Link
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Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) is driving the widespread deployment of neural network models on resource-constrained microcontroller units (MCUs), enabling real-time, on-device data processing. This approach significantly reduces cloud dependency, making it ideal for applications in industrial automation and IoT. However, the deployment of deep learning models on such constrained devices poses significant challenges due to limitations in memory, computational power, and energy capacity. This paper presents a real-time object detection system optimized for energy efficiency and scalability, which integrates well-established model compression techniques, such as quantization, with a low-cost MCU-based platform. The system leverages MobileNetV2, a lightweight neural network, quantized to achieve the best trade-offs between accuracy and resource consumption. The proposed solution integrates a camera and Wi-Fi module for capturing and transmitting image data, utilizing dual-mode TCP/UDP communication to balance reliability and low-latency transmission for IoT applications. We present a comprehensive system-level analysis, exploring the trade-offs between latency, memory, energy consumption, and model size. The Visual Wake Words (VWW) dataset is used for this research, which demonstrates the practical performance and scalability of the system for real-time applications in smart devices, industrial monitoring, and environmental sensing. This work emphasizes the integration of TinyML models with constrained hardware and offers a foundation for scalable, autonomous, energy-efficient Edge AI solutions. Quantitatively, 8-bit post-training quantization achieved 3– storage reduction, yielding deployable flash footprints of 286-536 KB within a 1 MB flash / 256 KB SRAM budget, on-device inference latency ranged from 3.47 to 14.98 ms per frame with energy per inference of 10.6–22.1 J, while quantized MobileNet variants maintained accuracy. In wireless reporting, UDP reduced one-way latency relative to TCP, whereas TCP provided higher delivery reliability, underscoring application-dependent protocol trade-offs for real-time embedded deployments.
Swarm intelligence: Theory and applications in fog computing, beyond 5G networks, and information security
Book, Swarm Intelligence: Theory and Applications in Fog Computing, Beyond 5G Networks, and Information Security, 2025, DOI Link
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the theory and practical applications of swarm intelligence in fog computing, beyond 5G networks, and information security. The introduction section provides a background on swarm intelligence and its applications in real-world scenarios. The subsequent chapters focus on the practical applications of swarm intelligence in fog-edge computing, beyond 5G networks, and information security. The book explores various techniques such as computation offloading, task scheduling, resource allocation, spectrum management, radio resource management, wireless caching, joint resource optimization, energy management, path planning, UAV placement, and intelligent routing. Additionally, the book discusses the applications of swarm intelligence in optimizing parameters for information transmission, data encryption, and secure transmission in edge networks, multi-cloud systems, and 6G networks. The book is suitable for researchers, academics, and professionals interested in swarm intelligence and its applications in fog computing, beyond 5G networks, and information security. The book concludes by summarizing the key takeaways from each chapter and highlighting future research directions in these areas.
Facility Location in 6G-aware Vehicular Edge Computing
Conference paper, International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, ANTS, 2024, DOI Link
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This paper tackles the facility location problem in 6G -enabled Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) systems, focusing on the optimal placement of Roadside Units (RSUs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The goal is to minimize Quality of Service (QoS) degradation by addressing challenges like dynamic vehicle mobility, traffic variations, and real-time task offloading. A mathematical optimization model is proposed, considering latency, energy consumption, packet loss, and handover costs. To solve this complex problem, heuristic algorithms such as Hill Climbing, Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, and A∗ search are introduced. Extensive simulations evaluate their performance on energy efficiency and cumulative latency across various traffic and network conditions. The results reveal the strengths of each algorithm, offering valuable insights for their application in VEC scenarios. These findings contribute to scalable, energy-efficient solutions for 6G-aware VEC networks, particularly in dynamic vehicular environments, advancing research in edge computing and network optimization.
Music Generation Using Deep Learning
Vemula D.R., Tripathi S.K., Sharma N.K., Hussain M.M., Swamy U.R., Polavarapu B.L.
Conference paper, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2023, DOI Link
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In this paper, we explore the usage of char-RNN which is special type of recurrent neural network (RNN) in generating music pieces and propose an approach to do so. First, we train a model using existing music data. The generating model mimics the music patterns in such a way that we humans enjoy. The generated model does not replicate the training data but understands and creates patterns to generate new music. We generate honest quality music which should be good and melodious to hear. By tuning, the generated music can be beneficial for composers, film makers, artists in their tasks, and it can also be sold by companies or individuals. In our paper, we focus more on char ABC-notation because it is reliable to represent music using just sequence of characters. We use bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) which takes input as music sequences and observer that the proposed model has more accuracy compared with other models.
SONG: A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Delay and Energy Aware Facility Location in Vehicular Fog Networks
Hussain M.M., Azar A.T., Ahmed R., Umar Amin S., Qureshi B., Dinesh Reddy V., Alam I., Khan Z.I.
Article, Sensors, 2023, DOI Link
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With the emergence of delay- and energy-critical vehicular applications, forwarding sense-actuate data from vehicles to the cloud became practically infeasible. Therefore, a new computational model called Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) was proposed. It offloads the computation workload from passenger devices (PDs) to transportation infrastructures such as roadside units (RSUs) and base stations (BSs), called static fog nodes. It can also exploit the underutilized computation resources of nearby vehicles that can act as vehicular fog nodes (VFNs) and provide delay- and energy-aware computing services. However, the capacity planning and dimensioning of VFC, which come under a class of facility location problems (FLPs), is a challenging issue. The complexity arises from the spatio-temporal dynamics of vehicular traffic, varying resource demand from PD applications, and the mobility of VFNs. This paper proposes a multi-objective optimization model to investigate the facility location in VFC networks. The solutions to this model generate optimal VFC topologies pertaining to an optimized trade-off (Pareto front) between the service delay and energy consumption. Thus, to solve this model, we propose a hybrid Evolutionary Multi-Objective (EMO) algorithm called Swarm Optimized Non-dominated sorting Genetic algorithm (SONG). It combines the convergence and search efficiency of two popular EMO algorithms: the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) and Speed-constrained Particle Swarm Optimization (SMPSO). First, we solve an example problem using the SONG algorithm to illustrate the delay–energy solution frontiers and plotted the corresponding layout topology. Subsequently, we evaluate the evolutionary performance of the SONG algorithm on real-world vehicular traces against three quality indicators: Hyper-Volume (HV), Inverted Generational Distance (IGD) and CPU delay gap. The empirical results show that SONG exhibits improved solution quality over the NSGA-II and SMPSO algorithms and hence can be utilized as a potential tool by the service providers for the planning and design of VFC networks.
Enhanced resource provisioning and migrating virtual machines in heterogeneous cloud data center
Article, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2023, DOI Link
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Data centers have become an indispensable part of modern computing infrastructures. It becomes necessary to manage cloud resources efficiently to reduce those ever-increasing power demands of data centers. Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) in a data center is an effective way to map workloads onto servers in a way that requires the least resources possible. It is an efficient way to improve resources utilization and reduce energy consumption in cloud data centers. Virtual machine (VM) consolidation involves host overload/underload detection, VM selection, and VM placement. If a server becomes overloaded, we need techniques to select the proper virtual machines to migrate. By considering the migration overhead and service level of agreement (SLA) violation, we investigate design methodologies to reduce the energy consumption for the whole data center. We propose a novel approach that optimally detects when a host is overloaded using known CPU utilization and a given state configuration. We design a VM selection policy, considering various resource utilization factors to select the VMs. In addition, we propose an improved version of the JAYA approach for VM placement that minimizes the energy consumption by optimally pacing the migrated VMs in a data center. We analyze the performance in terms of energy consumption, performance degradation, and migrations. Using CloudSim, we run simulations and observed that our approach has an average improvement of 24% compared to state-of-the-art approaches in terms of power consumption.
Post-quantum distributed ledger technology: a systematic survey
Article, Scientific Reports, 2023, DOI Link
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Blockchain technology finds widespread application across various fields due to its key features such as immutability, reduced costs, decentralization, and transparency. The security of blockchain relies on elements like hashing, digital signatures, and cryptography. However, the emergence of quantum computers and supporting algorithms poses a threat to blockchain security. These quantum algorithms pose a significant threat to both public-key cryptography and hash functions, compelling the redesign of blockchain architectures. This paper investigates the status quo of the post-quantum, quantum-safe, or quantum-resistant cryptosystems within the framework of blockchain. This study starts with a fundamental overview of both blockchain and quantum computing, examining their reciprocal influence and evolution. Subsequently, a comprehensive literature review is conducted focusing on Post-Quantum Distributed Ledger Technology (PQDLT). This research emphasizes the practical implementation of these protocols and algorithms providing extensive comparisons of characteristics and performance. This work will help to foster further research at the intersection of post-quantum cryptography and blockchain systems and give prospective directions for future PQDLT researchers and developers.
Fog Computing for Smart Grid Transition: Requirements, Prospects, Status Quos, and Challenges
Conference paper, EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing, 2021, DOI Link
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As a result of the tech advancements, which have not been realized, IT segments, viz. smart transportation and information technology modern smart grid (SG) frameworks, are incorporated with intelligent entities and devices. This form of infrastructure, when implemented in the Internet of Things (IoTs), including the sensor networks, creates a space of online and active objects. The ancient cloud involvement results in meeting more computational and analytical advancements that are decentralized and dynamically consume the resourceful SG environment. This research categorically analyzes the measure through which cloud computing facilities can effectively accomplish the vision and crucial necessities of SG environments, and the services and subdomain calls for fog-centered computing models. The main rationale of this research is to evaluate the capabilities of the fog computing algorithm in effectively interplaying with the foundational positioned cloud computing sustenance, which enables the introduction of novel breeds of latency and actual-time free SG network services. This research also considers the problems and thrusts illustrated over the viabilities of the fog computing for effective SG change.
CODE-V: Multi-hop computation offloading in Vehicular Fog Computing
Article, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2021, DOI Link
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Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) is an extension of fog computing in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It is an emerging computing model that leverages latency-aware and energy-aware application deployment in ITS. In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-hop computation offloading in a VFC network, where the client vehicles are connected to fog computing nodes by multi-hop LTE access points. Our scheme addresses three key aspects in a VFC architecture namely: (i) Optimal decision on local or remote task execution, (ii) Optimal fog node assignment, and (iii) Optimal path (multi-hop) selection for computation offloading. Considering the constraints on service latency, hop-limit, and computing capacity, the process of workload allocation across host vehicles, stationary and mobile fog nodes, and the cloud servers is formulated into a multi-objective, non-convex, and NP-hard Quadratic Integer Problem (QIP). Accordingly, an algorithm named Computation Offloading with Differential Evolution in VFC (CODE-V) is proposed. For each client task, CODE-V takes into account inter-fog cooperation, fog node acceptance probability, and the topological variations in the transportation fleets, towards optimal selection of a target fog node. We conduct extensive simulations on the real-world mobility traces of Shenzhen, China, to show that CODE-V reduces the average service latency and energy consumption by approximately 28% and 61%, respectively, compared to the state-of-the-art. Moreover, the CODE-V also gives better solution quality compared to standard DE∕rand∕1∕bin algorithm and the solutions generated by a CPLEX solver.
Towards minimizing delay and energy consumption in vehicular fog computing (VFC)
Hussain M., Saad Alam M., Sufyan Beg M.M., Akhtar N.
Conference paper, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 2020, DOI Link
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Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) is a natural extension of Fog Computing (FC) in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It is an emerging computing model that leverages latency aware and energy aware application deployment in ITS. However, due to heterogeneity, scale and dynamicity of vehicular networks (VN), deployment of VFC is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a multi-objective optimization model towards minimizing the response time and energy consumption of VFC applications. Using the concepts of probability and queuing theory, we propose an efficient offloading scheme for the fog computing nodes (FCN) used in VFC architecture. The optimization model is then solved using a modified differential evolution (MDE) algorithm. Extensive experimentations performed on real-world vehicular trace of Shenzhen, reveals the superiority of proposed VFC framework over generic cloud platforms.
Big Data Analytics Platforms for Electric Vehicle Integration in Transport Oriented Smart Cities: Computing Platforms for Platforms for Electric Vehicle Integration in Smart Cities
Hussain M.M., Beg M.M.S., Alam M.S., Laskar S.H.
Book chapter, Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 2020, DOI Link
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are key players for transport oriented smart cities (TOSC) powered by smart grids (SG) because they help those cities to become greener by reducing vehicle emissions and carbon footprint. In this article, the authors analyze different use-cases to show how big data analytics (BDA) can play vital role for successful electric vehicle (EV) to smart grid (SG) integration. Followed by this, this article presents an edge computing model and highlights the advantages of employing such distributed edge paradigms towards satisfying the store, compute and networking (SCN) requirements of smart EV applications in TOSCs. This article also highlights the distinguishing features of the edge paradigm, towards supporting BDA activities in EV to SG integration in TOSCs. Finally, the authors provide a detailed overview of opportunities, trends, and challenges of both these computing techniques. In particular, this article discusses the deployment challenges and state-of-the-art solutions in edge privacy and edge forensics.
Extractive multi-document summarization using relative redundancy and coherence scores
Akhtar N., Sufyan Beg M.M., Hussain M.M.
Conference paper, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 2020, DOI Link
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Most extractive multi-document summarization (MDS) methods relies on extraction of content relevant sentences ignoring sentence relationships. In this work, we propose a unified framework for extractive MDS that also considers sentence relationships. We argue that adding a sentence to the summary increases summary score by relevance score of the new sentence plus some additional score which depends on the relationships of new sentence with other summary sentences. The quantification of additional score depends on how coherent the new sentence is with respect to the existing sentences in the summary. Simultaneously, some score is decreased from the summary score due to the redundancy which depends on overlap between new and existing summary sentences. To find the exact solution, sentence extraction problem is modeled as integer linear problem. The sentence relevance score is found using content and surface features of the sentence using topic model and regression framework. To find the relative coherence score, transition probabilities in the entity grid model are used. Redundancy between sentences is found using support vector regression that uses sentence overlapping features. The proposed method is evaluated on DUC datasets over query based multi-document summarization task. DUC 2006 dataset is used as training and development set for tuning parameters. Experimental results produce ROUGE score comparable to the state-of-the-art methods demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Vehicular Fog Computing-Planning and Design
Conference paper, Procedia Computer Science, 2020, DOI Link
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With the advent of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), coupled with enormous number of devices performing computational and storage tasks between the cloud and users, Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) can be an answer to the surging challenges in today's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, the decentralized and heterogeneous nature of VFC infrastructures makes Vehicular Fog Network Planning (VFNP) problem complex and challenging. To deal with this problem, we propose an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) model that determines the optimal location, the capacity and the number of Fog Computing Nodes (FCN) towards minimizing the overall network delay and energy consumption. By running an example problem on default settings of GAMS CPLEX solver, we demonstrate the working of VFNP model and the associated constraints. We also analyzed the delay and energy variation for different problem sizes. The results show that, as the input size increases the overall delay increases linearly, the energy consumption follows parabolic path and the solution time shows a non-deterministic polynomial (NP) behavior.
Sparse two level topic model for extraction of general summary words
Article, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 2020, DOI Link
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Extractive multi-document summarization methods based on topic models find relevant general concepts or topics that are most representative of the documents. These topics are used for sentence ranking and selection. In this paper, a two level topic model using spike and slab prior is proposed that identify better general topics for summarization. Spike and slab prior is used earlier for finding aspect specific topics. Proposed two level model uses spike and slab prior to achieve better general topics at high level of topic hierarchy. Experiments conducted on DUC2007 dataset show that proposed model is able to identify more summary oriented general words and improve ROUGE score.
Fog Computing for Big Data Analytics in IoT Aided Smart Grid Networks
Article, Wireless Personal Communications, 2020, DOI Link
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The recent integration of Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (CC) technologies into a Smart Grid (SG) revolutionizes its operation. The scalable and unlimited Store Compute and Networking (SCN) resources offered by CC enables efficient Big Data Analytics of SG data. However, due to remote location of Cloud Data Centers and congested network traffic, the cloud often gives poor performance for latency and energy critical SG applications. Fog Computing (FC) is thus proposed as a model that distributes the SCN resources at the intermediary devices, termed as Fog Computing Nodes (FCN), viz. network gateways, battery powered servers, access points, etc. By executing application specific logic at those nodes, the FC astonishingly reduces the response time as well as energy consumption of network elements. In this paper, we propose a mathematical framework that explains the Planning and Placement of Fog computing in smart Grid (PPFG). Basically, the PPFG model is formulated as an Integer Linear Programming problem that determines the optimal location, the capacity and the number of FCNs, towards minimizing the average response delay and energy consumption of network elements. Since this optimization problem is trivially NP-Hard, we solve it using an evolutionary Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm. By running the model on an exemplary SG network, we demonstrate the operation of proposed PPFG model. In fact, we perform a complete analysis of the obtained Pareto Fronts (PF), in order to better understand the working of design constraints in the PPFG model. The PFs will enable the SG utilities and architectural designers to evaluate the pros and cons of each of the trade-off solutions, leading to intelligent planning, designing and deployment of FC based SG applications.
Fog computing for ubiquitous transportation applications—A smart parking case study
Book chapter, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2019, DOI Link
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The current transportation architectures are heavily populated with smart devices and entities due to unfolded technological evolutions in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The ITS ecosystem, when introduced to Internet of Things (IoT) makes every object active and brings them online. Such devices generate data deluge that demand scalable storage and computational resources. Though centralized cloud-based solutions significantly circumvent those demands, but the current deployments still have silos and cease to meet the analytics and computational exigencies for such dynamic ITS subsystems. In this work, we investigate the current state of cloud-based solutions for fulfilling the mission-critical store and compute requirements of IoT-aided ITS architectures and revisit the motivations for adopting edge-centered fog computing paradigms. We also proposed a fog computing topology customized to ITS architectures. Further, the viability of proposed fog framework is demonstrated through a smart parking case study. Results show a significant improvement performance in terms of probabilistic QoS guarantees for private parking land owners, at the expense of a relatively small number of reserve premium spaces.
Big data analytics platforms for electric vehicle integration in transport oriented smart cities: Computing platforms for platforms for electric vehicle integration in smart cities
Hussain M.M., Beg M.M.S., Alam M.S., Laskar S.H.
Article, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 2019, DOI Link
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are key players for transport oriented smart cities (TOSC) powered by smart grids (SG) because they help those cities to become greener by reducing vehicle emissions and carbon footprint. In this article, the authors analyze different use-cases to show how big data analytics (BDA) can play vital role for successful electric vehicle (EV) to smart grid (SG) integration. Followed by this, this article presents an edge computing model and highlights the advantages of employing such distributed edge paradigms towards satisfying the store, compute and networking (SCN) requirements of smart EV applications in TOSCs. This article also highlights the distinguishing features of the edge paradigm, towards supporting BDA activities in EV to SG integration in TOSCs. Finally, the authors provide a detailed overview of opportunities, trends, and challenges of both these computing techniques. In particular, this article discusses the deployment challenges and state-of-the-art solutions in edge privacy and edge forensics.
Feasibility of Fog Computing in Smart Grid Architectures
Book chapter, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2019, DOI Link
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Contemporary Smart Grid (SG) systems are enticed by smart devices and entities due to unfolded developments in both the IT sectors viz. Intelligent Transportation and Information Technology. The intelligent transportation infrastructure elements when bestowed with Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor network of latter IT (Information Technology), makes every object active and brings them online. In such scenario, the traditional cloud deployment perishes to meet the analytics and computational exigencies for such dynamic cum resource-time critical subsystems. Starting with highlighting the mission-critical requirements of an idealized SG infrastructure, this work proposes an edge-centered FOG (From cOre to edGe) computing model primarily focused to realize the processing and computational objectives of SG. The objective of this work is to comprehend the applicability of FOG computing algorithms to interplay with the core-centered cloud computing support, thus enabling to come up with a new breed of real-time and latency free utilities. Further, for demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed framework, the SG use case is considered and an exemplary FOG Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is depicted. Finally, the potential adoption challenges elucidated in the realization of the proposed framework are highlighted along with nascent research domains that call for efforts and investments in successfully guiding the FOG approaches into a pinnacle.
A FOG Computing Based Battery Swapping Model for Next Generation Transport
Hussain M.M., Alam M.S., Sufyan Beg M.M.
Book chapter, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2019, DOI Link
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It has been a consensus persuasion from automotive industries, policymakers, R&Ds and vehicle vendors that electric vehicle is the powertrain archetype for future transport. The current Electric, plug in electric and plug in hybrid electric vehicles (xEVs) no longer remain only a means of commute, but can act as prime actors to have active business participation with various markets in the power system such as V2G, demand side management (DSM) etc. The modern development in the information and communication technology (ICT) evolves such vehicle into intelligent vehicle (IV) and augments their utility to provide diverse services for Intelligent Transportation (ITS) infrastructure. However, due to lack of viable charging infrastructures the contemporary power system fails to accommodate the incoming xEV flux. The inability is manifested in the form poor quality of service, which causes customer dissatisfaction and ultimately lower adoption of xEVs. This work proposes an energy efficient battery swapping topology (BSS) adopting the notion of Internet of Things (IoT). The work introduced the innovative notion of integrating internet of things (IoT) into smart charging infrastructures and proposed a data driven IoT-BSS model whose operation is regulated through Fog computing and Big Data analytics. Further, a four layer fog computing execution stack is developed to set up the service oriented architecture (SOA) for an efficient and real-time decision making framework for next generation intelligent transportation. The work also highlights the data science prospects and challenges that can elucidate in course of realization the proposed infrastructure.
Fog computing model for evolving smart transportation applications
Book chapter, Fog and Edge Computing: Principles and Paradigms, 2019, DOI Link
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This chapter introduces the needs and prospects of adopting data-drive transportation architectures and the landscape of smart applications supported over adoption of such data-driven mobility models. It discusses which computer requirements can be best fulfilled through cloud computing and which require fog rollout. The chapter identifies the fog computing requirements of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) such as mission-critical architectures. It assesses the state of cloud platforms to store and compute support for such applications and discusses the proper mix of both computational models to best meet the mission-critical computing needs of smart transportation applications. The chapter presents a fog computing framework customized to support latency sensitive ITS applications. The fog orchestrating requirements in ITS domain are substantiated through an intelligent traffic lights management (ITLM) system case study. The chapter outlines the key big data issues, challenges, and future research opportunities, while developing a viable fog orchestrator for smart transportation applications.
Fog computing for internet of things (IoT)-aided smart grid architectures
Article, Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2019, DOI Link
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The fast-paced development of power systems necessitates the smart grid (SG) to facilitate real-time control and monitoring with bidirectional communication and electricity flows. In order to meet the computational requirements for SG applications, cloud computing (CC) provides flexible resources and services shared in network, parallel processing, and omnipresent access. Even though CC model is considered to be efficient for SG, it fails to guarantee the Quality-of-Experience (QoE) requirements for the SG services, viz. latency, bandwidth, energy consumption, and network cost. Fog Computing (FC) extends CC by deploying localized computing and processing facilities into the edge of the network, offering location-awareness, low latency, and latency-sensitive analytics for mission critical requirements of SG applications. By deploying localized computing facilities at the premise of users, it pre-stores the cloud data and distributes to SG users with fast-rate local connections. In this paper, we first examine the current state of cloud based SG architectures and highlight the motivation(s) for adopting FC as a technology enabler for real-time SG analytics. We also present a three layer FC-based SG architecture, characterizing its features towards integrating massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into future SG. We then propose a cost optimization model for FC that jointly investigates data consumer association, workload distribution, virtual machine placement and Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints. The formulated model is a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problem which is solved using Modified Differential Evolution (MDE) algorithm. We evaluate the proposed framework on real world parameters and show that for a network with approximately 50% time critical applications, the overall service latency for FC is nearly half to that of cloud paradigm. We also observed that the FC lowers the aggregated power consumption of the generic CC model by more than 44%.
Public opinion on viability of xEVs in India
Saqib M., Hussain M.M., Alam M.S., Beg M.M.S., Sawant A.
Conference paper, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2018, DOI Link
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This work demonstrates a smart charging system of electric vehicle using information technology and cloud computing. xEVs (electric plugin hybrid, battery electric vehicles) charging management system will be very helpful for the varying charging infrastructure demands, namely perspectives from automakers, electricity providers, vehicle owners, and charging service providers. Through dedicated interface, the developed system will provide real-time information to xEV users regarding nearest charging station with minimum queuing delay and with minimum charging cost through a secured online accessing mechanism for accessing state of charge (SOC) of the xEV’s battery being charged. The system not only provide an execution framework for the xEV users but also provide an optimal energy trading solution to all entities involved in a smart charging infrastructure such as charging station, aggregators, smart grid. The work also explains the cloud-enabled bidding strategies that look for day-ahead and term-ahead markets. The aggregators will use the smart decisions undertaken by cloud analytics to execute their bidding strategies in way to maximize the profit. Further, the work also assesses the possible cybersecurity aspects of such architectures along with providing possible solutions.
Cognitive Fuzzy Rank Aggregation for Non-Transitive Rankings: An Institute Recommendation System Case Study
Hussain M.M., Rahman S.A., Beg M.M.S., Ali R.
Conference paper, Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 17th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2018, 2018, DOI Link
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In this work, we used the notion of Rank Aggregation (RA) to develop a software prototype for Institute Recommendation System (IRS). Specifically, the objective is to devise an institute recommendation system that takes diverse rankings from various institute ranking websites as inputs and use cognitive functions to collate and aggregate them such that the resulting ranking is more consensus and reliable. Since the institute rankings provided by different academic ranking websites are partial lists, existing full-list based algorithms fail to provide a consensus ranking. In this regard, we proposed fuzzy Shimura Preference Order Rank Aggregation (SPORA) algorithm that works efficiently for both partial as well a full list. The notion is to integrate subjective measures prevalent in realworld rankings. Though obtaining an ideal ranking is computationally NP hard, the validity of the proposed aggregation algorithm is ascertained by evaluating the resultant rankings at multiple precision points (at top-10, at top-20 and at top-100 positions) using Normalized Modified Correlation Coefficient (NMCC). The performance of the SPORA function is further evaluated by comparing the values of the NMCC with the existing baseline algorithms. Results reflect the soundness of the proposed algorithm over the existing counterparts and prove productive when used (to be used) for developing any recommendation software.
A risk averse business model for smart charging of electric vehicles
Conference paper, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2018, DOI Link
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Smart collaborations among the smart grid, electric vehicles, and aggregators will provide range of benefits to stakeholders involved in an intelligent transportation system (ITS). The EVs, nowadays, are becoming the epicenter of smart power system research towards the electrification of transport. However, massive penetration of EVs will pose management threats to the supporting smart grid in the foreseeable future. This work proposes a risk averse optimization framework for smart charging management of electric vehicles. Adopting conditional value at risk (CVaR) for estimating the risks, the work attempts to propose an optimized bidding strategy for the smart charging stations (SCS) that act on behalf of aggregators for managing the financial risk caused by the uncertainties. Finally, a fuzzified translation model is discussed along with notable methodologies as a solution strategy to the risk averse cost optimization problem.
Computing platforms for big data analytics in electric vehicle infrastructures
Hussain M.M., Beg M.M.S., Alam M.S., Krishnamurthy M., Ali Q.M.
Conference paper, Proceedings - 2018 4th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, BIGCOM 2018, 2018, DOI Link
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With the emergence of ever-growing smart vehicular applications and ubiquitous deployment of IoT devices across different architectural layers of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), data-intensive analysis emerges to be a major challenge. Without powerful communication and computational support, various vehicular applications and services will still stay in the concept phase and cannot be put into practice in the daily life. In this paper, we consider the case of Electric Vehicle (EV) to Smart Grid (SG) integration. The EVs are key players for Transport Oriented Smart Cities (TOSC) as they help cities to become greener by reducing emissions and carbon footprint. We analyze different use-cases in EV to SG integration to show how Big Data Analytics (BDA) platforms can play a vital role towards successful EV rollout. We then present two computing platforms namely, distributed cloud computing and edge/fog computing. We highlighted the distinguishing features of each towards supporting BDA activities in EV integration. Finally, we provide a detailed overview of opportunities, trends, and challenges of both these computing techniques.
Fog Computing for Next Generation Transport- a Battery Swapping System Case Study
Article, Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, 2018, DOI Link
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Electric vehicle (EV) is a promising technology for reducing environmental impacts of road transport. Efficient EV charging control strategies that can affect the impacts and benefits is a potential research problem. Adopting the notion of IoT, in this paper, we present a Cloud-Fog based Battery Swapping Topology (BSS). A QoS ensuring timing model is proposed for defining the charging management of EV batteries across the BSS. For optimal BSS infrastructure planning, we also present a cost optimization framework, considering the timing and architectural constraints. The potential solution approaches for the given optimization formulation is also discussed.
Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Through Cloud Monitoring and Management
Saqib M., Hussain M.M., Alam M.S., Beg M.M.S., Sawant A.
Article, Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, 2017, DOI Link
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Smart charging system of electric vehicle using cloud based monitoring and management is demonstrated in this work. xEVs (electric plugin hybrid, battery electric vehicles) Charging Management System is crucial for the dynamic demands of charging infrastructure, namely perspectives from automakers, electricity providers, vehicle owners and charging service providers. Through dedicated interface, the developed system is capable of providing real time information to xEVs users regarding nearest charging station with minimum queuing delay, with minimum charging cost through a secured online accessing mechanism for accessing Sate of the Charge (SOC) of the xEV’s battery being charged. The system not only provide an execution framework for the xEVs users but also provide an optimal energy trading solution to all entities involved in a smart charging infrastructure such as charging station, aggregators, smart grid etc. The work also explains the cloud enabled bidding strategies that look for day-ahead and term-ahead markets. The aggregators will use the smart decisions undertaken by cloud analytics to execute their bidding strategies in way to maximize the profit. Further, the work also assesses the possible cyber security aspects of such architectures along with providing possible solutions.
