Located in northeast Algerian, the coastal aquifer of Taleza constitutes a significant source of groundwater. It contains hundreds of private wells installed by the population for several purposes including drinking water. Recently, the groundwater has become quite salinized. Furthermore, some people have noted the presence of a bad odor, as rotten eggs, in the groundwater pumped from their wells. The groundwater quality is mostly controlled by two factors: 1) natural processes related to aquifer lithology, and soil/rock interactions with groundwater, and 2) anthropogenic activities. However, the later activities can be considered as the most serious sources of groundwater contamination. This paper describes a review of potential anthropogenic sources of groundwater contamination over the Taleza territory. Several different potential anthropogenic sources were identified, such as cultivated fields, private sanitation systems, random urbanisation, over-exploitation of groundwater, solid waste dumpsites, and cemeteries. Consequently, efficient and durable groundwater protection planning is urgently required, to limit and possibly remediate groundwater contamination related to anthropogenic activities.

This paper proposes a compromise-tolerant (t,n)-threshold certification management scheme for MANETs. Our solution allows to mitigate the impact of compromised nodes that participate in the certification service. In our design, certification management is achieved anonymously by an Anonymous Certification Authority (ACA). The latter is fully distributed into multiple disjointed coalitions of nodes whose structure is made hidden. This prevents an adversary from taking the control of the ACA by arbitrarily compromising t or more nodes. In other words, our proposal enhances the compromise-tolerance to more than the threshold number t of nodes without breaking down the whole certification system. As a result, our scheme requires a very smaller threshold than traditional schemes, which improves considerably the service availability. The experimental study shows a clear advantage over traditional threshold-based certification schemes by ensuring a significant positive compromise between security and availability of certification service.

Let B(H) be the C* -algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on a complex separable Hilbert space H . We shall show that: 1. The class of all selfadjoint operators in B(H) multiplied by scalars is characterized by ∀X ∈ B(H), S2X +XS2 =>2||SXS||, (S ∈ B(H)). 2. The class of all normal operators in B(H) is characterized by each of the three following properties (where DS = S*S-SS* , for S ∈ B(H)), (i) ∀X ∈ B(H), S2X + XS2 =>2||SXS||,(S ∈ B(H)), (ii) S*DSS = 0 = SDSS*,(S ∈ B(H)), (iii) S*DSS=> 0 =>SDSS*,(S ∈ B(H)).  

In this paper, we propose a novel self-organization protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) assisted by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV or Drone) called SSP (Self-organization Smart Protocol). In order to provide energy efficiency, low latency, high success rate and suitably interactions between sensors and UAVs while taking advantage of the air mobility (fly) and resource available on the UAVs in the network. The UAVs move according to RWP (Random Waypoint) mobility model. Each UAV, during its pause time at a known height, creates a temporary cluster, and acts as its head, collects and processes sensor data and performs actions on the environment based on the information gathered from sensor nodes in its cluster. Once an UAV detects a base station (BS) it forwards the collected data to it. The results of the simulations show the high performance of the proposed algorithm.

Electronic health records (EHRs) replaced the old paper-based systems to make patient data more accurate, reliable, and more accessible. Yet, the EHRs system requires high transmission cost, energy, and waste of time for both doctors and patients. Furthermore, EHRs security presents a serious issue threatening the patient’s privacy. Most of the third-party hosting systems have some issues related to the users’ privacy and data security. Hence, it is necessary to restrict the access control policies and develop efficient mechanisms for cloud-based EHRs data. In this paper, a sensitive and energetic access control (SE-AC) mechanism is proposed for managing the cloud-hosted EHRs and providing a fine-grained access control even in critical situations. The proposed mechanism ensures the confidentiality of the patient’s data, where only authorized individuals to have permission to be able to edit or review certain of the patient’s data. Each EHR data is encrypted by the managing authority before submitting to the cloud storage. The requesting user can get dynamically changing permissions based on authentication and context attributes. In addition, seven major aspects have been quantified to assess the operation of any access control that could be deployed in the Internet-of-Thing (IoT). The security analysis indicates that the SE-AC mechanism is secure and will prevent any unauthorized access. The results show exceptional compatibility and performance with different setups and configuration.