💻 computer science

Distributed IoT Security with Blockchain, Privacy-Preserving Techniques, and Predictive Maintenance Models

This paper proposes a novel blockchain-based framework for distributed IoT security that integrates federated learning, IPFS, and lightweight cryptography to overcome scalability and resource constraints, achieving near-perfect accuracy (99.88%) and robust anomaly detection for real-time predictive maintenance across diverse applications.

Haitham A. Mahmoud, Ahmed T. Soliman, Mohammed El-Meligy, Azhar Imran, Abdelaty Edrees Abdelgawad2026-08-25
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LEGR: Learnable-Edge Graph Refinement for Table Structure Recognition

This paper introduces LEGR, an end-to-end framework for Table Structure Recognition that replaces static geometric heuristics with learnable relational edge features and a cascaded Graph Attention Network refinement module to achieve robust, domain-invariant performance by iteratively correcting predictions through learned global layout reasoning.

Saeed Ahmed, Muhammad Mudassir Mehmood, Muhammad Imran Malik, Muhammad Naseer Bajwa, Waheed Ahmed2026-08-25
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A Dual-Balance Framework for Long-Tailed Multimodal Relation Extraction

This paper proposes a unified dual-balance framework that addresses both label and modality imbalances in long-tailed multimodal relation extraction through a modality-branch fusion strategy for cross-modal consistency and a prior-aware class calibrator for improved tail relation recognition, demonstrating competitive performance on MNRE and MORE benchmarks.

Zhihao Lin, Hailin Wang, Ao Ma, Hangyi Ren, He Ma, Yanbing Xie, Dan Zhang2026-08-24
💻 computer science

Multiple approximate-response agents (MARA): Fast near-optimal primal recovery for distributed optimization

The paper proposes Multiple Approximate-Response Agents (MARA), a parallelizable primal recovery method that generates multiple bounded-suboptimal responses to dual price queries and combines them to rapidly achieve feasible, near-optimal solutions in distributed optimization without increasing wall-clock time.

Tetiana Parshakova, Yicheng Bai, Garrett van Ryzin, Stephen Boyd2026-08-24
💻 computer science

MeanRadius SMOTE Based Graph Neural Network for Imbalanced Node Classification in Fault and Intrusion Detection

This paper proposes the MeanRadius-SMOTE Graph Neural Network (MRS-GNN), a novel framework that addresses class imbalance in fault and intrusion detection by generating synthetic nodes in the embedding space and creating specialized edges to preserve graph topology, thereby significantly improving classification accuracy and AUC-ROC under extreme imbalance conditions.

Jagannath E. Nalavade, Ramachandra Pujeri, Rajani Sajjan, Nagesh Jadhav, Amar Buchade, Dattatray Kale2026-08-24
💻 computer science

An ECC-Diffie Hellman Authentication Scheme with PK-based Revocation for VANETs

This paper proposes a secure and efficient authentication scheme for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) that combines ECDSA, ECDH, and HMAC with SHA-256 to ensure message integrity and session key establishment, while employing dynamic pseudonyms for privacy, a public-key-based revocation list for efficient certificate management, and GPS-based time synchronization to prevent replay attacks.

Laxmi Chandolia, Om Pal2026-08-24