💻 computer science

SENTRY: Secure Energy-Efficient Network Threat Response and Yield in WSN-IoT Environment

This paper introduces SENTRY, a secure and energy-efficient framework for WSN-IoT environments that integrates Ethereum blockchain for decentralized data integrity with a hybrid AI approach using Machine Learning and Deep Learning to detect and mitigate cyberthreats, achieving superior performance metrics compared to existing methods.

Nandini Prasad K S, Chaya Puttaswamy, Pavani Cherukuru, Mumtaz Begum Mustafa, Suma V, Divyashree H B2026-09-22
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Neural construction heuristics for large-scale airport ground scheduling

This paper proposes a two-phase neural construction heuristic that combines a Transformer-based reinforcement learning model with a customized allocation algorithm to efficiently solve large-scale Multi-depot Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows for airport ground scheduling, demonstrating superior performance over existing solvers on real-world hub airport data.

Yang Zhang, Mingjie Tang, Hua Cheng, Jizhen Ma, Runhao Xu, Fei Xiang2026-09-22
💻 computer science

Levenberg-Marquardt-Optimized Feed-Forward Neural Network for High-Accuracy Day-Ahead Joint Forecasting of Electricity Load and Market Prices in Smart Grid Environments

This paper proposes a Levenberg-Marquardt-optimized multi-output feed-forward neural network that achieves high-accuracy day-ahead joint forecasting of electricity load and market prices by effectively capturing their nonlinear dependencies, outperforming conventional and deep-learning baselines on standard smart-grid datasets.

Jiakun Liu, Dianli Wang, Zhanle Dong, Hamdolah Aliev2026-09-22
💻 computer science

DRL-Based Adaptive Backup Optimization Framework with Predictive Retrieval and Trust-Aware Management for Edge–Cloud Environments

This paper proposes a DRL-based adaptive backup optimization framework for edge-cloud environments that integrates Self-Organizing Map-driven pattern learning, LSTM-Transformer-based predictive retrieval, and trust-aware management to dynamically optimize backup decisions, achieving high reliability, low latency, and efficient resource utilization.

S S Parthiban, Jim Mathew Philip, N M Saravana Kumar2026-09-22