Henan University of Technology

About: Henan University of Technology is a education organization based out in Zhengzhou, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Chemistry. The organization has 7648 authors who have published 6503 publications receiving 73067 citations. The organization is also known as: Hénán Gōngyè Dàxué.

An Efficient and Provably Secure Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol for Fog-Based Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Abstract: The maturity of cloud computing, the Internet of Things technology, and intelligent transportation system has promoted the rapid development of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). To keep pace with real-world demands (mobility, low latency, etc.) in a practical VANETs deployment, there have been attempts to integrate fog computing with VANETs. To facilitate secure interaction in fog-based VANETs, we design a new authenticated key agreement protocol without bilinear pairing. This protocol achieves mutual authentication, generates a securely agreed session key for secret communication, and supports privacy protection. We also give a strict formal security proof and demonstrate how the proposed protocol meets the security requirements in the fog-based VANETs. We then evaluate the efficiency of the proposed protocol, and it shows the practicality of the protocol.

Connect the dots: a systems level approach for analyzing the miRNA-mediated cell death network.

Abstract: In recent years, substantial research interests have arisen to decipher miRNA function in cell death modules such as apoptosis and autophagy. Despite enormous success, it is increasingly evident that systems biology approaches that analyze the intra- and inter-modular connectivity are essential to uncover the generic organizing principles of the miRNA-mediated cell death network. We therefore constructed the miRDeathDB database to archive experimentally confirmed programmed cell death (PCD)-associated miRNAs together with their target proteins. Based on global analysis of the miRNA-mediated cell death network, we find there are two classes of miRNAs important to the cell death output. One class tends to have more regulatory links to proteins within death modules, whereas the other one lies on the boundary between modules, and tends to connect with more protein pairs across the modules. These findings indicate that miRNAs provide a novel communication mechanism between PCD-related proteins involved in both intra- and inter-cell death modules. Furthermore, miRDeathDB can also facilitate researcher access to a variety of resources centered on PCD-associated miRNAs.