Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is one of the challenging research areas revolving around rapid communication services. Nonetheless, these networks are afflicted by congestion, routing, and security issues, particularly in urban areas, which result in delay and computational complexity issues and late message delivery or data congestion. Sensitive data are collected and transmitted over public channels, which presents challenges for security and authentication. Moreover, the security of ITS-smart vehicle communication is impacted by the complexity of discrete logarithm and factoring problems, which could make data transmission and authentication very difficult in the presence of highly scalable quantum computers. Hence, we present a novel, secure and verifiable post-quantum data transmission and authentication protocol for ITS (RAVEN), specifically designed for smart automobiles. The RAVEN scheme incorporates a discrete Gaussian distribution and lattice-based cryptosystem for enhanced performance and security. We use the formal verification method SVO logic and an informal security analysis against passive and active assaults to validate the security of mutual authentication. The use of a well-known automated AVISPA tool allowed for a further evaluation of the scheme’s security soundness. The OMNeT $++$ simulator is used to evaluate the efficacy of the RAVEN scheme in terms of end-to-end delay, throughput, and energy consumption. The evaluation findings demonstrate that the suggested method achieves reduced costs in terms of computation and communication compared to existing schemes but with comprehensive security that can greatly benefit ITS.

An immense volume of digital documents exists online and offline with content that can offer useful information and insights. Utilizing topic modeling enhances the analysis and understanding of digital documents. Topic modeling discovers latent semantic structures or topics within a set of digital textual documents. The Internet of Things, Blockchain, recommender system, and search engine optimization applications use topic modeling to handle data mining tasks, such as classification and clustering. The usefulness of topic models depends on the quality of resulting term patterns and topics with high quality. Topic coherence is the standard metric to measure the quality of topic models. Previous studies build topic models to generally work on conventional documents, and they are insufficient and underperform when applied to web content data due to differences in the structure of the conventional and HTML documents. Neglecting the unique structure of web content leads to missing otherwise coherent topics and, therefore, low topic quality. This study aims to propose an innovative topic model to learn coherence topics in web content data. We present the HTML Topic Model (HTM), a web content topic model that takes into consideration the HTML tags to understand the structure of web pages. We conducted two series of experiments to demonstrate the limitations of the existing topic models and examine the topic coherence of the HTM against the widely used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and its variants, namely the Correlated Topic Model, the Dirichlet Multinomial Regression, the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process, the Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation, the pseudo-document based Topic Model, and the Supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation models. The first experiment demonstrates the limitations of the existing topic models when applied to web content data and, therefore, the essential need for a web content topic model. When applied to web data, the overall performance dropped an average of five times and, in some cases, up to approximately 20 times lower than when applied to conventional data. The second experiment then evaluates the effectiveness of the HTM model in discovering topics and term patterns of web content data. The HTM model achieved an overall 35% improvement in topic coherence compared to the LDA.

Hadoop MapReduce reactively detects and recovers faults after they occur based on the static heartbeat detection and the re-execution from scratch techniques. However, these techniques lead to excessive response time penalties and inefficient resource consumption during detection and recovery. Existing fault-tolerance solutions intend to mitigate the limitations without considering critical conditions such as fail-slow faults, the impact of faults at various infrastructure levels and the relationship between the detection and recovery stages. This paper analyses the response time under two main conditions: fail-stop and fail-slow, when they manifest with node, service, and the task at runtime. In addition, we focus on the relationship between the time for detecting and recovering faults. The experimental analysis is conducted on a real Hadoop cluster comprising MapReduce, YARN and HDFS frameworks. Our analysis shows that the recovery of a single fault leads to an average of 67.6% response time penalty. Even though the detection and recovery times are well-turned, data locality and resource availability must also be considered to obtain the optimum tolerance time and the lowest penalties.

Cyber parental control aims to filter objectionable web content and prevent children from being exposed to harmful content. Succeeding in detecting and blocking objectionable content depends heavily on the accuracy of the topic model. A reliable ground truth dataset is essential for building effective cyber parental control models and validation of new detection methods. The ground truth is the measurement for labeling objectionable and unobjectionable websites of the cyber parental control dataset. The lack of publicly accessible datasets with a reliable ground truth has prevented a fair and coherent comparison of different methods proposed in the field of cyber parental control. This paper presents a ground truth dataset that contains 8000 labelled websites with 4000 objectionable websites and 4000 unobjectionable websites. These websites consist of more than 2 million web pages. Creating a ground truth objectionable web content dataset involved a few phases, including data collection, extraction, and labeling. Finally, the presence of bias, using kappa coefficient measurement, is addressed. The ground truth dataset is available publicly in the Mendeley repository.