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An Evolutionary Game based Secure Clustering Protocol with Fuzzy Trust Evaluation and Outlier Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Trustworthy and reliable data delivery is a challenging task in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to unique characteristics and constraints. To acquire secured data delivery and address the conflict between security and energy, in this paper we present an evolutionary game based secure clustering protocol with fuzzy trust evaluation and outlier detection for WSNs. Firstly, a fuzzy trust evaluation method is presented to transform the transmission evidences into trust values while effectively alleviating the trust uncertainty. And then, a K-Means based outlier detection scheme is proposed to further analyze plenty of trust values obtained via fuzzy trust evaluation or trust recommendation. It can discover the commonalities and differences among sensor nodes while improving the accuracy of outlier detection. Finally, we present an evolutionary game based secure clustering protocol to achieve a trade-off between security assurance and energy saving for sensor nodes when electing for the cluster heads. A sensor node which failed to be the cluster head can securely choose its own head by isolating the suspicious nodes. Simulation results verify that our secure clustering protocol can effectively defend the network against the attacks from internal selfish or compromised nodes. Correspondingly, the timely data transfer rate can be improved significantly.


Artificial Intelligence at DocuSign

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Regarding business outcomes, the company claims that a large international information-services firm reduced the time spent on legal reviews by 75%. In another example, DocuSign cited how they decreased the time an international telecom company spent reviewing customer agreements by more than 80%, and enabled a global financial services leader to automate the analysis of over 2.6 million data points from supplier agreements. It's telling that the company can only procure a handful of examples and not one is willing to be named. Resolutely successful initiatives usually have no problem finding a dozen companies willing to lend their name – even to a banner on a company front page – to a brand that authentically benefited them. It's also worth noting that DocuSign's Rolodex is hardly wanting: the company lists T-Mobile, Unilever, Boston Scientific, AAA, and Salesforce as some of their past clients.


Over-the-Air Federated Edge Learning with Hierarchical Clustering

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We examine federated learning (FL) with over-the-air (OTA) aggregation, where mobile users (MUs) aim to reach a consensus on a global model with the help of a parameter server (PS) that aggregates the local gradients. In OTA FL, MUs train their models using local data at every training round and transmit their gradients simultaneously using the same frequency band in an uncoded fashion. Based on the received signal of the superposed gradients, the PS performs a global model update. While the OTA FL has a significantly decreased communication cost, it is susceptible to adverse channel effects and noise. Employing multiple antennas at the receiver side can reduce these effects, yet the path-loss is still a limiting factor for users located far away from the PS. To ameliorate this issue, in this paper, we propose a wireless-based hierarchical FL scheme that uses intermediate servers (ISs) to form clusters at the areas where the MUs are more densely located. Our scheme utilizes OTA cluster aggregations for the communication of the MUs with their corresponding IS, and OTA global aggregations from the ISs to the PS. We present a convergence analysis for the proposed algorithm, and show through numerical evaluations of the derived analytical expressions and experimental results that utilizing ISs results in a faster convergence and a better performance than the OTA FL alone while using less transmit power. We also validate the results on the performance using different number of cluster iterations with different datasets and data distributions. We conclude that the best choice of cluster aggregations depends on the data distribution among the MUs and the clusters.


An Intelligent Trust Cloud Management Method for Secure Clustering in 5G enabled Internet of Medical Things

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

5G edge computing enabled Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an efficient technology to provide decentralized medical services while Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising paradigm for future 5G networks. To assure secure and reliable communication in 5G edge computing and D2D enabled IoMT systems, this paper presents an intelligent trust cloud management method. Firstly, an active training mechanism is proposed to construct the standard trust clouds. Secondly, individual trust clouds of the IoMT devices can be established through fuzzy trust inferring and recommending. Thirdly, a trust classification scheme is proposed to determine whether an IoMT device is malicious. Finally, a trust cloud update mechanism is presented to make the proposed trust management method adaptive and intelligent under an open wireless medium. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively address the trust uncertainty issue and improve the detection accuracy of malicious devices.


12 Most Challenging Data Science Interview Questions - KDnuggets

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If you ask me, the hiring managers are not looking for the correct answers. They want to evaluate your work experience, technical knowledge, and logical thinking. Furthermore, they are looking for data scientists who understand both the business and technical sides. For example, during an interview with a top telecommunication company, I was asked to come up with a new data science product. I suggested an open-source solution and let the community contribute to the project.


How Will Artificial Intelligence Reshape The Telecom Industry

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In every facet of life, challenges keep coming, and overcoming them is all we have learned so far, and that's how AI is surprising every industry with its capabilities to enrich businesses. Now, automation and AI technology is the new technological advancement adopted by the telecom industry to solve challenges like network failures, improper resource utilization, managing bandwidth requirements, and issues related to customer support. According to a study, the global AI market in the telecom industry is expected to grow by $8.63 billion between 2022 and 2026, at a CAGR of 47.33 %. The telecommunications industry is experimenting and delivering new innovative concepts to businesses using artificial intelligence. AI capabilities are extracted for business use from collecting necessary data such as customer profiles, log behaviors, mobile devices, networks, service utilization, sales data, geo-location intelligence, and billing to assist customers better.


Graphcore advances in Southeast Asia with new Singapore base

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As more and more innovators across Asia choose IPU systems to power their AI breakthroughs, Graphcore is expanding into Southeast Asia with a new regional hub in Singapore. Graphcore Singapore will support our local teams and customers across ASEAN's fastest growing economies including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore itself. This important milestone in Graphcore's international growth reflects the rate at which customers across the wider Asia-Pacific region are adopting IPU technology for AI compute. High-profile clients such as Korean technology giant NHN and Korea Telecom, the country's largest telecommunications business, have already selected Graphcore systems because of their superior performance on both today's AI workloads and ability to unlock new AI techniques for tomorrow's emerging applications. Graphcore is expanding into Southeast Asia with the expert support of our new Elite Partners NetWeb and Cxrus, both headquartered in Singapore, and INT2, based in Vietnam, as well as our existing global partners.


Interference-Limited Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications: Graph Neural Networks or Stochastic Geometry?

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we aim to improve the Quality-of-Service (QoS) of Ultra-Reliability and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) in interference-limited wireless networks. To obtain time diversity within the channel coherence time, we first put forward a random repetition scheme that randomizes the interference power. Then, we optimize the number of reserved slots and the number of repetitions for each packet to minimize the QoS violation probability, defined as the percentage of users that cannot achieve URLLC. We build a cascaded Random Edge Graph Neural Network (REGNN) to represent the repetition scheme and develop a model-free unsupervised learning method to train it. We analyze the QoS violation probability using stochastic geometry in a symmetric scenario and apply a modelbased Exhaustive Search (ES) method to find the optimal solution. Simulation results show that in the symmetric scenario, the QoS violation probabilities achieved by the model-free learning method and the model-based ES method are nearly the same. In more general scenarios, the cascaded REGNN generalizes very well in wireless networks with different scales, network topologies, cell densities, and frequency reuse factors. It outperforms the model-based ES method in the presence of the model mismatch. Yuhong Liu, Changyang She, Wibowo Hardjawana and Branka Vucetic are with School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Yi Zhong is with School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China.


PRVNet: A Novel Partially-Regularized Variational Autoencoders for Massive MIMO CSI Feedback

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In a multiple-input multiple-output frequency-division duplexing (MIMO-FDD) system, the user equipment (UE) sends the downlink channel state information (CSI) to the base station to report link status. Due to the complexity of MIMO systems, the overhead incurred in sending this information negatively affects the system bandwidth. Although this problem has been widely considered in the literature, prior work generally assumes an ideal feedback channel. In this paper, we introduce PRVNet, a neural network architecture inspired by variational autoencoders (VAE) to compress the CSI matrix before sending it back to the base station under noisy channel conditions. Moreover, we propose a customized loss function that best suits the special characteristics of the problem being addressed. We also introduce an additional regularization hyperparameter for the learning objective, which is crucial for achieving competitive performance. In addition, we provide an efficient way to tune this hyperparameter using KL-annealing. Experimental results show the proposed model outperforms the benchmark models including two deep learning-based models in a noise-free feedback channel assumption. In addition, the proposed model achieves an outstanding performance under different noise levels for additive white Gaussian noise feedback channels.


An Intelligent Deterministic Scheduling Method for Ultra-Low Latency Communication in Edge Enabled Industrial Internet of Things

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Edge enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform is of great significance to accelerate the development of smart industry. However, with the dramatic increase in real-time IIoT applications, it is a great challenge to support fast response time, low latency, and efficient bandwidth utilization. To address this issue, Time Sensitive Network (TSN) is recently researched to realize low latency communication via deterministic scheduling. To the best of our knowledge, the combinability of multiple flows, which can significantly affect the scheduling performance, has never been systematically analyzed before. In this article, we first analyze the combinability problem. Then a non-collision theory based deterministic scheduling (NDS) method is proposed to achieve ultra-low latency communication for the time-sensitive flows. Moreover, to improve bandwidth utilization, a dynamic queue scheduling (DQS) method is presented for the best-effort flows. Experiment results demonstrate that NDS/DQS can well support deterministic ultra-low latency services and guarantee efficient bandwidth utilization.