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Toward Adaptive IoT Service Balance in Low-Altitude Economy: Multi-UAV-Aided Bi-Objective Wireless Data Collection and Wireless Energy Transfer 面向低空经济的自适应物联网服务平衡:多无人机辅助双目标无线数据采集与无线能量传输
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3664903
Zeyu Zhao;Yueling Che;Sheng Luo;Kaishun Wu;Victor C. M. Leung
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Separating or Sharing: Tradeoff Oriented Joint Optimization of Beamforming and Reflective Precoding in Active RIS-Enabled ISAC System 分离或共享:主动RIS-Enabled ISAC系统中波束形成和反射预编码的权衡导向联合优化
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3664397
Zhongyu Ma;Yuxi Gao;Jing Li;Zhirong Liu;Yuankun Tang;Guangjie Han
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Delay-Trajectory-Accuracy Trilemma Optimization for Non-IID Mitigation in AAV-Cooperative Federated Learning IoT aav -合作联邦学习物联网非iid缓解的延迟-轨迹-精度三难选择优化
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3656974
Qihao Li;Tongzhou Yang;Qiang Ye;Nan Cheng;Fengye Hu
{"title":"Delay-Trajectory-Accuracy Trilemma Optimization for Non-IID Mitigation in AAV-Cooperative Federated Learning IoT","authors":"Qihao Li;Tongzhou Yang;Qiang Ye;Nan Cheng;Fengye Hu","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3656974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3656974","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative-enabled communication and learning optimization (CCLO) scheme to resolve the delay-trajectory-accuracy trilemma for non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data mitigation in AAV-assisted federated learning (FL) for IoT networks. Specifically, we design a tri-modular framework that synergizes dynamic blocklength allocation, energy-aware trajectory planning, and reliability-driven weight adaptation. We derive a convex reformulation of the error probability minimization problem by exploiting temporal coupling between AAV mobility and blocklength allocation, enabling real-time adaptation to channel dynamics via the golden section algorithm. Then, we develop a successive convex approximation (SCA)-based trajectory optimizer with novel convex relaxations to address non-convex collision avoidance and energy constraints. By introducing auxiliary distance variables, we decouple spatial and spectral resource dependencies, achieving Pareto-optimal paths that balance flight energy and latency. We investigate decentralized weight coordination through a block-coordinate Gauss-Seidel algorithm, dynamically aligning aggregation weights with channel success probabilities and local model divergence metrics to counteract stochastic packet losses. The closed-loop interaction among trajectory planning, blocklength allocation, and weight adaptation together ensures FL convergence while mitigating non-IID data skew and resource constraints. Simulation results demonstrate that the CCLO scheme significantly reduces communication delay and improves model accuracy by 18.9% compared to benchmarks. It also maintains robust convergence under time-varying wireless channels and diverse device distributions, validating its efficacy in harmonizing the trilemma for AAV-cooperative FL-IoT systems.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"10094-10111"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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3DLoRa: Refining LoRa Link Estimation Using 3D Point Clouds 3DLoRa:使用3D点云改进LoRa链路估计
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3655338
Junmei Yao;Shibo Liang;Junda Xu;Guoqing Yang;Ruitao Xie;Haodi Zhang;Kaishun Wu
{"title":"3DLoRa: Refining LoRa Link Estimation Using 3D Point Clouds","authors":"Junmei Yao;Shibo Liang;Junda Xu;Guoqing Yang;Ruitao Xie;Haodi Zhang;Kaishun Wu","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3655338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3655338","url":null,"abstract":"LoRa technology plays a vital role in IoT applications by enabling low-power and long-range communication. Since the LoRa signal may transmit hundreds of meters to tens of kilometers under different environments, estimating the path loss of LoRa links can bring great benefits to the network, such as device localization and network planning. Recent years have seen some mechanisms to improve the LoRa link estimation by analyzing the environments based on satellite images. However, they may be inaccurate when we consider the actual network in the three-dimensional (3D) scene. This paper proposes 3DLoRa, the first framework to refine LoRa link estimation through exploiting 3D point clouds. We generate a 3D map by conducting semantic segmentation and voxelization based on the point clouds. We then propose both model-based and learning-based methods to estimate the path loss of a link according to the environments obtained from the 3D map. We test the 3D map generation process based on 3D point clouds in a campus area and show an accuracy of about 97% for environment categorization. We also deploy a LoRa network on the campus and collect data to evaluate the performance of link estimation. Experimental results indicate that 3DLoRa can significantly improve the accuracy of link estimation in various environments compared to previous works. Specifically, the model-based method can reduce the estimation error to about <inline-formula><tex-math>$ text{7 dBm}$</tex-math></inline-formula> with low computational overhead, while the learning-based method can reduce the estimation error to about <inline-formula><tex-math>$ text{2.5 dBm}$</tex-math></inline-formula> with the cost of higher computational overhead. These results can serve as a reference for how to deploy link estimation methods in different network situations.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"9629-9643"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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ICN-Enabled Internet of Robotic Things Data Routing and Access for Post-Disaster Areas 基于icn的灾后地区机器人物联网数据路由和访问
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3664010
Xiaonan Wang;Xinru You
{"title":"ICN-Enabled Internet of Robotic Things Data Routing and Access for Post-Disaster Areas","authors":"Xiaonan Wang;Xinru You","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3664010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3664010","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) enables real-time data delivery and surveillance in harsh environments. In such monitoring scenarios, users need simultaneous access to diverse real-time data from multiple providers to perform collaborative, integrated analysis. The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) model satisfies this requirement by allowing consumers to efficiently share data from different providers through a single communication process. Based on this observation, we propose an ICN-enabled IoRT data routing and access framework that leverages ICN to enable rapid, simultaneous access to a variety of data. The framework utilizes inter-robot relationships and robot attributes to establish routing paths consisting of backbone robots, enabling unicast-based simultaneous sharing of various data among consumers. The experimental results demonstrate the framework's effectiveness and superiority.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"10200-10210"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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BSGAKA-IoD: Blockchain-Enabled Scalable Group Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for the Dynamic Internet of Drones BSGAKA-IoD:基于区块链的动态无人机互联网可扩展组认证和密钥协议方案
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3664384
Keke Huang;Huidan Hu;Changlu Lin
{"title":"BSGAKA-IoD: Blockchain-Enabled Scalable Group Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for the Dynamic Internet of Drones","authors":"Keke Huang;Huidan Hu;Changlu Lin","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3664384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3664384","url":null,"abstract":"With the advancing application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, also known as Drones), UAV swarms are deployed in various complex mission scenarios to collaborate on particular assignments. However, UAV group communication encounters security and privacy challenges due to the open and insecure communication environment. Moreover, many existing UAV group authentication and key agreement (GAKA) schemes provide limited support for dynamic membership and fail to enforce mandatory participation of the leader UAV in hierarchical architectures. To address these limitations, we propose a blockchain-enabled scalable GAKA scheme tailored for dynamic IoD, named BSGAKA-IoD. The scheme achieves UAV threshold GAKA through an enhanced designated participant <inline-formula><tex-math>$(ID, t, n)^{*}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-secret sharing scheme, which cryptographically enforces leader participation and enables threshold-based GAKA among the cluster leader and member UAVs. The scheme supports efficient group authentication, secure group key establishment, and dynamic joining/leaving without requiring any secure channel, while achieving <inline-formula><tex-math>$O(n)$</tex-math></inline-formula> computational and communication complexity. We conduct comprehensive security analysis and develop two blockchain prototypes: a Solidity smart contract implementation validated in Remix, and a Hyperledger Fabric implementation benchmarked using Hyperledger Caliper under two network configurations. The results confirm that BSGAKA-IoD provides strong security guarantees, maintains linear scalability, and is feasible for deployment in realistic consortium-chain IoD settings.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"10225-10241"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148519029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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vSoC: Efficient and Debug-Friendly Virtual System-on-Chip for Mobile Emulation 高效且易于调试的移动仿真虚拟片上系统
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3667012
Zijie Zhou;Jiaxing Qiu;Zhenhua Li;Feng Qian;Yunhao Liu;Bo Xiao;Hongwei Hu
{"title":"vSoC: Efficient and Debug-Friendly Virtual System-on-Chip for Mobile Emulation","authors":"Zijie Zhou;Jiaxing Qiu;Zhenhua Li;Feng Qian;Yunhao Liu;Bo Xiao;Hongwei Hu","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3667012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3667012","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging heavy-load mobile apps like UHD video and AR/VR access diverse high-throughput hardware devices, e.g., video codecs and cameras. However, today’s mobile emulators exhibit poor performance when emulating these devices. We pinpoint the major reason to be the discrepancy between the guest’s (system-on-chip) and host’s (PC or cloud server) memory architectures for these devices, which makes the shared virtual memory (SVM) architecture of mobile emulators highly inefficient. To address this, we introduce vSoC, the first virtual mobile SoC featuring a <italic>unified</i> SVM framework that enables efficient and secure data sharing among virtual devices, as well as an <italic>intelligent</i> prefetch engine that effectively eliminates the vast majority of coherence maintenance overhead. While vSoC addresses runtime performance issues, app developers face a severe debugging challenge due to the inability of traditional tools to capture complete system states. Therefore, we devise an adaptive VM (virtual machine) snapshot-based approach that dynamically selects the optimal resource loading strategy to make vSoC debug-friendly. Compared to state-of-the-art emulators, vSoC brings 1.8–9.0× frame rates, 35%-62% lower motion-to-photon latency, and 6.5–14.4× bug reproduction rates for heavy-load apps. It is applicable to a variety of scenarios like end-user high-performance emulation and cloud/web-based rendering.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"10242-10259"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148519030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Preamble Signaling in WLAN: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures WLAN前导信令:漏洞、攻击和对策
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3660297
Zhengguang Zhang;Marwan Krunz
{"title":"Preamble Signaling in WLAN: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures","authors":"Zhengguang Zhang;Marwan Krunz","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3660297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3660297","url":null,"abstract":"The preamble of a Wi-Fi frame contains multiple Signal (SIG) fields that are crucial for robust communications. In this paper, we first use measurements and security analysis to identify the vulnerabilities of the SIG fields in terms of confidentiality, predictability, and integrity. We then introduce a SIG tampering attack (SIGTAM), in which the attacker exploits these vulnerabilities to craft and transmit a signal that tampers with legitimate SIG fields. The attack signal is designed such that the tampered signal passes error detection, including even-parity and cyclic redundancy check (CRC), hence deceiving the receiver. The tampered SIG fields lead to frame discard or decoding errors at the receiver, and disrupt channel access of neighboring devices. We also develop strategies that make SIGTAM robust against channel impairments and synchronization errors. SIGTAM operates stealthily, targeting fewer than 20% of the subcarriers and lasting for only 4 <inline-formula><tex-math>$mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>s. We conduct extensive simulations and over-the-air hardware experiments on IEEE 802.11a/ax devices, and demonstrate that SIGTAM achieves nearly 100% packet drop and error rates. Compared to a smart jamming on selected subcarriers of SIG fields, SIGTAM consumes <inline-formula><tex-math>$40times$</tex-math></inline-formula> less energy to cause 100% packet drop, yet prevents channel access by legitimate devices for over <inline-formula><tex-math>$10times$</tex-math></inline-formula> longer time. Beyond denial-of-service (DoS), SIGTAM has broader impacts, including throughput degradation, increased latency, channel underutilization, unfair channel access, and reduced spatial reuse. To mitigate the threat of SIGTAM, we propose and evaluate a defense scheme that detects the attack, identifies affected subcarriers, and recovers legitimate SIG fields from their equalized frequency-domain symbols.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"9962-9979"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148515692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Privacy-Preserving Yet Vulnerable: Data Poisoning Attacks Against Differential Privacy Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing System 隐私保护但脆弱:针对差分隐私稀疏移动众测系统的数据中毒攻击
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3655365
Chengxin Li;Yujie Gu;Pengpeng Qiao;Shengli Pan;Kouichi Sakurai;Zhetao Li
{"title":"Privacy-Preserving Yet Vulnerable: Data Poisoning Attacks Against Differential Privacy Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing System","authors":"Chengxin Li;Yujie Gu;Pengpeng Qiao;Shengli Pan;Kouichi Sakurai;Zhetao Li","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3655365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3655365","url":null,"abstract":"Sparse Mobile CrowdSensing (SMCS) reduces sensing costs while preserving data quality, shedding a new paradigm on data collection. However, the reliance on user-contributed data raises significant privacy concerns. While Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong theoretical guarantees for protecting user privacy, the noise it introduces not only degrades inference accuracy but also creates opportunities for new security threats, in particular data poisoning attacks. In this work, we study the vulnerability of differentially private SMCS systems under data poisoning. We propose a novel attack framework formulated as a bi-level optimization problem with spatiotemporal constraints. Specifically, the lower-level problem performs robust data inference using differentially private matrix factorization with a mixture of Gaussians, enabling accurate reconstruction from noisy and incomplete data. The upper-level problem, from the attacker’s perspective, aims to maximize inference error while maintaining stealth, which is achieved by enforcing temporal and spatial similarity between poisoned and normal data. To solve the bi-level problem, we develop an alternating algorithm that combines projected gradient ascent with the Expectation-Maximization procedure to obtain the optimal poisoning strategy. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show that attackers can effectively degrade the system’s inference performance while concealing their attack behavior. Additionally, we observed a positive correlation between attack intensity and spatiotemporal constraint loss, enabling attackers to adapt their strategies to specific deployment requirements. These findings highlight the structural vulnerability of differential privacy SMCS systems to data poisoning attacks.","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"9594-9611"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Toward Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes via Tailored Small Language Models 通过量身定制的小语言模型实现隐私保护和个性化智能家居
IF 8.8 2区 计算机科学
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3654976
Xinyu Huang;Leming Shen;Zijing Ma;Yuanqing Zheng
{"title":"Toward Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes via Tailored Small Language Models","authors":"Xinyu Huang;Leming Shen;Zijing Ma;Yuanqing Zheng","doi":"10.1109/TMC.2026.3654976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3654976","url":null,"abstract":"Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable generalizability in language comprehension and hold significant potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction in smart homes. Existing LLM-based smart home assistants typically transmit user commands, along with user profiles and home configurations, to remote servers to obtain personalized services. However, users are increasingly concerned about the potential privacy leaks to the remote servers. To address this issue, we develop <i>HomeLLaMA</i>, an on-device assistant for privacy-preserving and personalized smart home serving with a tailored small language model (SLM). <i>HomeLLaMA</i> learns from cloud LLMs to deliver satisfactory responses and enable user-friendly interactions. Once deployed, <i>HomeLLaMA</i> facilitates proactive interactions by continuously updating local SLMs and user profiles. To further enhance user interaction while protecting their privacy, we develop <i>PrivShield</i> to offer an optional, privacy-preserving LLM-based smart home service for users who are unsatisfied with local responses and are willing to send less-sensitive queries to remote servers. For evaluation, we develop a comprehensive benchmark, <i>DevFinder</i>, to assess service quality. Extensive experiments and user studies (<inline-formula><tex-math>$M=100$</tex-math></inline-formula>) demonstrate that <i>HomeLLaMA</i> can provide personalized services while significantly enhancing user privacy","PeriodicalId":50389,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing","volume":"25 7","pages":"9505-9520"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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