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Ruohan Meng^1,2, Steven G. Rice³, Jin Wang⁴, Xingming Sun^1,2,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.001
Abstract The aim of information hiding is to embed the secret message in a normal cover media such as image, video, voice or text, and then the secret message is transmitted through the transmission of the cover media. The secret message should not be damaged on the process of the cover media. In order to ensure the invisibility of secret message, complex texture objects should be chosen for embedding information. In this paper, an approach which corresponds multiple steganographic algorithms to complex texture objects was presented for hiding secret message. Firstly, complex texture regions are selected More >

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Jinhua Cui^1,2, Yuanyuan Zhang³, Zhiping Cai^1,*, Anfeng Liu⁴, Yangyang Li⁵
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 17-35, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.017
Abstract While smart devices based on ARM processor bring us a lot of convenience, they also become an attractive target of cyber-attacks. The threat is exaggerated as commodity OSes usually have a large code base and suffer from various software vulnerabilities. Nowadays, adversaries prefer to steal sensitive data by leaking the content of display output by a security-sensitive application. A promising solution is to exploit the hardware visualization extensions provided by modern ARM processors to construct a secure display path between the applications and the display device. In this work, we present a scheme named SecDisplay More >

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Yuling Liu^1,*, Hua Peng¹, Jie Wang²
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 37-57, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.037
Abstract Data outsourcing has become an important application of cloud computing. Driven by the growing security demands of data outsourcing applications, sensitive data have to be encrypted before outsourcing. Therefore, how to properly encrypt data in a way that the encrypted and remotely stored data can still be queried has become a challenging issue. Searchable encryption scheme is proposed to allow users to search over encrypted data. However, most searchable encryption schemes do not consider search result diversification, resulting in information redundancy. In this paper, a verifiable diversity ranking search scheme over encrypted outsourced data is More >

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Qiankai Nie¹, Xuba Xu¹, Bingwen Feng^1,*, Leo Yu Zhang²
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 59-70, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.059
Abstract In this paper, an effective intra prediction mode-based video strganography is proposed. Secret messages are embedded during the intra prediction of the video encoding without causing large embedding impact. The influence on the sum of absolute difference (SAD) in intra prediction modes (IPMs) reversion phenomenon is sharp when modifying IPMs. It inspires us to take the SAD prediction deviation (SPD) to define the distortion function. What is more, the mapping rule between IPMs and the codewords is introduced to further reduce the SPD values of each intra block. Syndrome-trellis code (STC) is used as the More >

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Wenyan Liu¹, Xiangyang Luo^1,*, Yimin Liu¹, Jianqiang Liu², Minghao Liu¹, Yun Q. Shi³
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 71-93, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.071
Abstract Precise localization techniques for indoor Wi-Fi access points (APs) have important application in the security inspection. However, due to the interference of environment factors such as multipath propagation and NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight), the existing methods for localization indoor Wi-Fi access points based on RSS ranging tend to have lower accuracy as the RSS (Received Signal Strength) is difficult to accurately measure. Therefore, the localization algorithm of indoor Wi-Fi access points based on the signal strength relative relationship and region division is proposed in this paper. The algorithm hierarchically divide the room where the target Wi-Fi AP… More >

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Jieren Cheng^1,2, Ruomeng Xu^1,*, Xiangyan Tang¹, Victor S. Sheng³, Canting Cai¹
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 95-119, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.095
Abstract Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a rapidly growing problem with the fast development of the Internet. There are multitude DDoS detection approaches, however, three major problems about DDoS attack detection appear in the big data environment. Firstly, to shorten the respond time of the DDoS attack detector; secondly, to reduce the required compute resources; lastly, to achieve a high detection rate with low false alarm rate. In the paper, we propose an abnormal network flow feature sequence prediction approach which could fit to be used as a DDoS attack detector in the big data environment and… More >

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Daojian Zeng^1,3, Yuan Dai^1,3, Feng Li^1,3, R. Simon Sherratt², Jin Wang^3,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 121-136, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.121
Abstract Recently, many researchers have concentrated on using neural networks to learn features for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction (DSRE). These approaches generally use a softmax classifier with cross-entropy loss, which inevitably brings the noise of artificial class NA into classification process. To address the shortcoming, the classifier with ranking loss is employed to DSRE. Uniformly randomly selecting a relation or heuristically selecting the highest score among all incorrect relations are two common methods for generating a negative class in the ranking loss function. However, the majority of the generated negative class can be easily discriminated from… More >

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Donghui Li¹, Guozheng Zhang^1,*, Zeng Xu¹, Yong Lan¹, Yongdong Shi², Zhiyao Liang², Haiwen Chen³
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 137-150, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.137
Abstract Live streaming is a booming industry in China, involving an increasing number of Internet users. Previous studies show that trust is a cornerstone to develop e-commerce. Trust in the streaming industry is different from that of other e-commerce areas. There are two major dimensions of trust in the live streaming context: platform trust and cewebrity trust, which are both important for customers to adopt and reuse a specific live streaming service. We collected questionnaire data from 520 participates who have used live streaming services in China. We model the collected data and identified factors that More >

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Qili Zhou¹, Yongbin Qiu¹, Li Li^1,*, Jianfeng Lu¹, Wenqiang Yuan¹, Xiaoqing Feng², Xiaoyang Mao³
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 151-163, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.151
Abstract Steganography technology has been widely used in data transmission with secret information. However, the existing steganography has the disadvantages of low hidden information capacity, poor visual effect of cover images, and is hard to guarantee security. To solve these problems, steganography using reversible texture synthesis based on seeded region growing and LSB is proposed. Secret information is embedded in the process of synthesizing texture image from the existing natural texture. Firstly, we refine the visual effect. Abnormality of synthetic texture cannot be fully prevented if no approach of controlling visual effect is applied in the More >

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Wenyi Yin^1,2, Xiangyun Zhang^1,2,†, Bumaliya Abulimiti^3,*, Yuzhu Liu^1,2,*, Yihui Yan^1,2, Fengbin Zhou^1,2, Feng Jin⁴
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 165-176, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.165
Abstract Dioxin is a highly toxic and caustic substance, which widely existed in the atmosphere, soil and water with tiny particles. Dioxin pollution has become a major problem that concerns the survival of mankind, which must be strictly controlled. The bond length, bond angle, energy, dipole moment, orbital energy level distribution of dioxin under the external field are investigated using DFT (density functional theory) on basis set level of B3LYP/6-31G (d, p). The results indicate that with the increase of the electric field, the length of one Carbon-Oxygen bond increases while another Carbon-Oxygen bond decreases. The More >

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Liang Yang^1,2, Caizhuang Wang^3,*, Shiwei Lin^2,*, Yang Cao², Xiaoheng Liu¹
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 177-188, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.177
Abstract Understanding of metal oxidation is very critical to corrosion control, catalysis synthesis, and advanced materials engineering. Metal oxidation is a very complex phenomenon, with many different processes which are coupled and involved from the onset of reaction. In this work, the initial stage of oxidation on titanium surface was investigated in atomic scale by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using a reactive force field (ReaxFF). We show that oxygen transport is the dominant process during the initial oxidation. Our simulation also demonstrate that a compressive stress was generated in the oxide layer which blocked the oxygen More >

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Kemei Pei^1,*, Yueben Dong¹, Lei Chen¹
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 189-200, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.189
Abstract Raman (resonance Raman, FT-Raman), IR and UV-visible spectroscopy and quantum chemistry calculations were used to investigate the photodissociation dynamics of furfural in S₂ state. The resonance Raman(RR) spectra indicate that the photorelaxation dynamics for the S₀→S₂ excited state is predominantly along nine motions: C=O stretch ν₅ (1667 cm^-1), ring C=C antisymmetric stretch ν₆ (1570 cm^-1), ring C=C symmetric stretch ν₇ (1472 cm^-1), C2-O6-C5 symmetric stretch/C1-H8 rock in plane ν₈ (1389 cm^-1), C3-C4 stretch/ C1-H8 rock in plane ν₉ (1370 cm^-1), C5-O6 stretch in plane ν₁₂ (1154 cm^-1), ring breath ν₁₃ (1077 cm^-1), C3-C4 stretch ν₁₄ (1020 cm^-1), C3-C2-O6 symmetric stretch ν₁₆ (928 cm^-1 ). Stable More >

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