With the development of communication and networking technologies, the Internet of
Vehicles (IoV) has become the foundation of smart transportation. The development of …

The accelerated growth of networking technologies highlights the importance of
Authentication and Access Control (AAC) as protection against associated attacks …

Nowadays, cloud servers are gathering an increasing amount of data. Data is commonly
stored on cloud servers in the form of ciphertext to protect security and concealment of data …

Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) has been widely studied and used in
access control schemes for secure data sharing. Since in most of the existing attribute-based …

Attribute-based access control, which can provide fine-grained and flexible privacy
protection, is widely used in practice. Traditional attribute-based access control schemes …

Objectives: This paper addresses the problem of secure data storage and sharing over
cloud storage infrastructures. A secure, distributed cloud storage structure incorporating the …

Smart Health, with its flexibility and efficiency, has been widely deployed, especially during
the COVID-19 pandemic. However, privacy protection mechanisms for Smart Health are not …

The increasing popularity of consumer smart devices has led to concerns about the security
of electronic data. Blockchains, which are tamper-proof, can be used to store electronic data …

Nowadays, the advance of smart grid technology has fostered the development of
microgrids, which can efficiently control and manage the distributed energy resources …

Secure cross-domain authorization and authentication (AA) enable application service
providers (ASPs) to allow users for resource access from different trusted domains. In this …