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A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

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Prof. Dr. Jae-Hoon Kim

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1. Dept. of AI Convergence Nework, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea
2. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
Interests: AI network applications; edge computing architecture; Internet of Things; blockchain security
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Prof. Dr. Myung-Ki Shin

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Standards & Open Source Research Division, Intelligent Convergence Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon 34129, Korea
Interests: 5G networks; network automation; machine learning applications; SDN; NFV

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Dear Colleagues,

Machine-generated data expansion has become a global phenomenon in recent Internet services. The proliferation of mobile communication and smart devices has increased the utilization of machine-generated data significantly. Gartner estimates that the number of connected things will grow to over 20 billion by 2020. With recent innovative network and chip technology, IoT devices are becoming smarter in terms of high computing power, bandwidth, and storage availability. Data expansion and smart devices ensure the high availability of artificial intelligence in large networks. Edge networking for IoT and mobile devices accelerates the usability of intelligent applications. This Special Issue focuses on the analysis, design, and implementation of AI-powered IoT solutions over mobile networks.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

On-device machine learning;
Federated learning;
Decentralized applications;
AI for 5G mobile network;
Real-time computer processing on cognition;
AI for edge computing;
Low-power AI for IoT systems;
Distributed inferencing and learning;
AI powered security;
Blockchain for IoT and mobile devices.

Prof. Dr. Jae-Hoon Kim
Prof. Dr. Myung-Ki Shin
Guest Editor

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Artificial intelligence
Internet of Things
Mobile network
Edge computing
5G
Decentralized application

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Two-Stage Hybrid Network Clustering Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

by Joohyun Kim, Dongkwan Ryu, Juyeon Kim and Jae-Hoon Kim

Electronics 2021, 10(3), 232; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030232 - 20 Jan 2021

Cited by 6 | Viewed by 2588

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In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) environments, the publish (pub)/subscribe (sub)-operated communication is widely employed. The use of pub/sub operation as a lightweight communication protocol facilitates communication among IoTs. The protocol consists of network nodes functioning as publishers, subscribers, and brokers, wherein brokers transfer messages from publishers to subscribers. Thus, the communication capability of the broker is a critical factor in the overall communication performance. In this study, multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is applied to find the best combination of broker nodes. MARL goes through various combinations of broker nodes to find the best combination. However, MARL is inefficient to perform with an excessive number of broker nodes. Delaunay triangulation selects candidate broker nodes among the pool of broker nodes. The selection process operates as a preprocessing of the MARL. The suggested Delaunay triangulation is improved by the custom deletion method. Consequently, the two-stage hybrid approach outperforms any methods employing single-agent reinforcement learning (SARL). The MARL eliminates the performance fluctuation of the SARL caused by the iterative selection of broker nodes. Furthermore, the proposed approach requires a fewer number of candidate broker nodes and converges faster. Full article

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Autonomous Operation Control of IoT Blockchain Networks

by Jae-Hoon Kim, Seungchul Lee and Sengphil Hong

Electronics 2021, 10(2), 204; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020204 - 17 Jan 2021

Cited by 10 | Viewed by 3254

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Internet of Things (IoT) networks are typically composed of many sensors and actuators. The operation controls for robots in smart factories or drones produce a massive volume of data that requires high reliability. A blockchain architecture can be used to build highly reliable IoT networks. The shared ledger and open data validation among users guarantee extremely high data security. However, current blockchain technology has limitations for its overall application across IoT networks. Because general permission-less blockchain networks typically target high-performance network nodes with sufficient computing power, a blockchain node with low computing power and memory, such as an IoT sensor/actuator, cannot operate in a blockchain as a fully functional node. A lightweight blockchain provides practical blockchain availability over IoT networks. We propose essential operational advances to develop a lightweight blockchain over IoT networks. A dynamic network configuration enforced by deep clustering provides ad-hoc flexibility for IoT network environments. The proposed graph neural network technique enhances the efficiency of dApp (distributed application) spreading across IoT networks. In addition, the proposed blockchain technology is highly implementable in software because it adopts the Hyperledger development environment. Directly embedding the proposed blockchain middleware platform in small computing devices proves the practicability of the proposed methods. Full article

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Achieving Balanced Load Distribution with Reinforcement Learning-Based Switch Migration in Distributed SDN Controllers

by Sangho Yeo, Ye Naing, Taeha Kim and Sangyoon Oh

Electronics 2021, 10(2), 162; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020162 - 13 Jan 2021

Cited by 24 | Viewed by 4470

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Distributed controllers in software-defined networking (SDN) become a promising approach because of their scalable and reliable deployments in current SDN environments. Since the network traffic varies with time and space, a static mapping between switches and controllers causes uneven load distribution among controllers. Dynamic migration of switches methods can provide a balanced load distribution between SDN controllers. Recently, existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods for dynamic switch migration such as MARVEL are modeling the load balancing of each controller as linear optimization. Even if it is widely used for network flow modeling, this type of linear optimization is not well fitted to the real-world workload of SDN controllers because correlations between resource types are unexpectedly and continuously changed. Consequently, using the linear model for resource utilization makes it difficult to distinguish which resource types are currently overloaded. In addition, this yields a high time cost. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning-based switch and controller selection scheme for switch migration, switch-aware reinforcement learning load balancing (SAR-LB). SAR-LB uses the utilization ratio of various resource types in both controllers and switches as the inputs of the neural network. It also considers switches as RL agents to reduce the action space of learning, while it considers all cases of migrations. Our experimental results show that SAR-LB achieved better (close to the even) load distribution among SDN controllers because of the accurate decision-making of switch migration. The proposed scheme achieves better normalized standard deviation among distributed SDN controllers than existing schemes by up to 34%. Full article

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Internet Traffic Classification with Federated Learning

by Hyunsu Mun and Youngseok Lee

Electronics 2021, 10(1), 27; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010027 - 28 Dec 2020

Cited by 28 | Viewed by 5125

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As Internet traffic classification is a typical problem for ISPs or mobile carriers, there have been a lot of studies based on statistical packet header information, deep packet inspection, or machine learning. Due to recent advances in end-to-end encryption and dynamic port policies, machine or deep learning has been an essential key to improve the accuracy of packet classification. In addition, ISPs or mobile carriers should carefully deal with the privacy issue while collecting user packets for accounting or security. The recent development of distributed machine learning, called federated learning, collaboratively carries out machine learning jobs on the clients without uploading data to a central server. Although federated learning provides an on-device learning framework towards user privacy protection, its feasibility and performance of Internet traffic classification have not been fully examined. In this paper, we propose a federated-learning traffic classification protocol (FLIC), which can achieve an accuracy comparable to centralized deep learning for Internet application identification without privacy leakage. FLIC can classify new applications on-the-fly when a participant joins in learning with a new application, which has not been done in previous works. By implementing the prototype of FLIC clients and a server with TensorFlow, the clients gather packets, perform the on-device training job and exchange the training results with the FLIC server. In addition, we demonstrate that federated learning-based packet classification achieves an accuracy of 88% under non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) traffic across clients. When a new application that can be classified dynamically as a client participates in learning was added, an accuracy of 92% was achieved. Full article

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Improving Classification Accuracy of Hand Gesture Recognition Based on 60 GHz FMCW Radar with Deep Learning Domain Adaptation

by Hyo Ryun Lee, Jihun Park and Young-Joo Suh

Electronics 2020, 9(12), 2140; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9122140 - 14 Dec 2020

Cited by 26 | Viewed by 4348

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With the recent development of small radars with high resolution, various human–computer interaction (HCI) applications using them have been developed. In particular, a method of applying a user’s hand gesture recognition using a short-range radar to an electronic device is being actively studied. In general, the time delay and Doppler shift characteristics that occur when a transmitted signal that is reflected off an object returns are classified through deep learning to recognize the motion. However, the main obstacle in the commercialization of radar-based hand gesture recognition is that even for the same type of hand gesture, recognition accuracy is degraded due to a slight difference in movement for each individual user. To solve this problem, in this paper, the domain adaptation is applied to hand gesture recognition to minimize the differences among users’ gesture information in the learning and the use stage. To verify the effectiveness of domain adaptation, a domain discriminator that cheats the classifier was applied to a deep learning network with a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure. Seven different hand gesture data were collected for 10 participants and used for learning, and the hand gestures of 10 users that were not included in the training data were input to confirm the recognition accuracy of an average of 98.8%. Full article

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Improving Deep Learning-Based UWB LOS/NLOS Identification with Transfer Learning: An Empirical Approach

by JiWoong Park, SungChan Nam, HongBeom Choi, YoungEun Ko and Young-Bae Ko

Electronics 2020, 9(10), 1714; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9101714 - 18 Oct 2020

Cited by 46 | Viewed by 4943

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This paper presents an improved ultra-wideband (UWB) line of sight (LOS)/non-line of sight (NLOS) identification scheme based on a hybrid method of deep learning and transfer learning. Previous studies have limitations, in that the classification accuracy significantly decreases in an unknown place. To solve this problem, we propose a transfer learning-based NLOS identification method for classifying the NLOS conditions of the UWB signal in an unmeasured environment. Both the multilayer perceptron and convolutional neural network (CNN) are introduced as classifiers for NLOS conditions. We evaluate the proposed scheme by conducting experiments in both measured and unmeasured environments. Channel data were measured using a Decawave EVK1000 in two similar indoor office environments. In the unmeasured environment, the existing CNN method showed an accuracy of approximately 44%, but when the proposed scheme was applied to the CNN, it showed an accuracy of up to 98%. The training time of the proposed scheme was measured to be approximately 48 times faster than that of the existing CNN. When comparing the proposed scheme with learning a new CNN in an unmeasured environment, the proposed scheme demonstrated an approximately 10% higher accuracy and approximately five times faster training time. Full article

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