A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a sophisticated wireless communication infrastructure incorporating centralized and decentralized control mechanisms, orchestrating seamless data exchange among vehicles. This intricate communication system relies on the advanced capabilities of 5G connectivity, employing specialized topological arrangements to enhance data packet transmission. These vehicles communicate amongst themselves and establish connections with roadside units (RSUs). In the dynamic landscape of vehicular communication, disruptions, especially in scenarios involving high-speed vehicles, pose challenges. A notable concern is the emergence of black hole attacks, where a vehicle acts maliciously, obstructing the forwarding of data packets to subsequent vehicles, thereby compromising the secure dissemination of content within the VANET. We present an intelligent cluster-based routing protocol to mitigate these challenges in VANET routing. The system operates through two pivotal phases: first, utilizing an artificial neural network (ANN) model to detect malicious nodes, and second, establishing clusters via enhanced clustering algorithms with appointed cluster heads (CH) for each cluster. Subsequently, an optimal path for data transmission is predicted, aiming to minimize packet transmission delays. Our approach integrates a modified ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) protocol for on-demand route discovery and optimal path selection, enhancing request and reply (RREQ and RREP) protocols. Evaluation of routing performance involves the BHT dataset, leveraging the ANN classifier to compute accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and loss. The NS-2.33 simulator facilitates the assessment of end-to-end delay, network throughput, and hop count during the path prediction phase. Remarkably, our methodology achieves 98.97% accuracy in detecting black hole attacks through the ANN classification model, outperforming existing techniques across various network routing parameters.

This research proposes a generic smart cloud-based system in order to accommodate multiple scenarios where agriculture farms using Internet of Things (IoTs) need to be monitored remotely. The real-time and stored data are analyzed by specialists and farmers. The cloud acts as a central digital data store where information is collected from diverse sources in huge volumes and variety, such as audio, video, image, text, and digital maps. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based machine learning models such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), which is one of many classification types, are used to accurately classify the data. The classified data are assigned to the virtual machines where these data are processed and finally available to the end-users via underlying datacenters. This processed form of digital information is then used by the farmers to improve their farming skills and to update them as pre-disaster recovery for smart agri-food. Furthermore, it will provide general and specific information about international markets relating to their crops. This proposed system discovers the feasibility of the developed digital agri-farm using IoT-based cloud and provides solutions to problems. Overall, the approach works well and achieved performance efficiency in terms of execution time by 14%, throughput time by 5%, overhead time by 9%, and energy efficiency by 13.2% in the presence of competing smart farming baselines.

Glioma is the most occurring brain tumor in the world. Its grade (level of severity) identification, crucial in its treatment planning, is most demanding in a clinical environment. Computer-aided methods have been experimented with to identify the grade of glioma, out of which deep learning-based methods, due to their auto features engineering, have a good impact in terms of their achieved outcomes. In this study, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been explored and utilized for the classification of glioma grading, for example, low grade (grade I-II) and high grade (grade III-IV). A CNN-based model, which is light-weighted in terms of layers, size, and learnable parameters, has been proposed. Experimental tests were carried out on benchmarked publicly available datasets, for example, Brats-2017, Brats-2018, & Brats-2019. A locally developed dataset from Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, Pakistan, has also been employed for experimentation and research to cross-validate the outcomes. Additionally, experiments have been carried out to compare the effectiveness of the proposed model, and results have been compared with the results of state-of-the-art pertained CNN models, i.e., resnet18, squeezenet, and alexnet. The proposed model achieved maximum standard evaluation measures on the benchmarked dataset, i.e., accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity at 97.85%, 98.88%, and 99.88%, respectively. Similarly, these measures were 98.89%, 99.28%, and 99.77% on a locally developed dataset, which is the best compared to the recent state-of-the-art related studies.