As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace, intelligent big data control and information systems have become critical enablers for organizational digital transformation, facilitating data-driven decision making, fostering innovation ecosystems, and maintaining operational stability. In this study, we propose an advanced deployment algorithm for Service Function Chaining (SFC) that leverages an enhanced Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) mechanism. The main goal is to tackle the issues of security and resource efficiency in SFC implementation across diverse network settings. By integrating blockchain technology and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), our algorithm not only optimizes resource utilization and quality of service but also ensures robust security during SFC deployment. Specifically, the enhanced PBFT consensus mechanism (VRPBFT) significantly reduces consensus latency and improves Byzantine node detection through the introduction of a Verifiable Random Function (VRF) and a node reputation grading model. Experimental results demonstrate that compared to traditional PBFT, the proposed VRPBFT algorithm reduces consensus latency by approximately 30% and decreases the proportion of Byzantine nodes by 40% after 100 rounds of consensus. Furthermore, the DRL-based SFC deployment algorithm (SDRL) exhibits rapid convergence during training, with improvements in long-term average revenue, request acceptance rate, and revenue/cost ratio of 17%, 14.49%, and 20.35%, respectively, over existing algorithms. Additionally, the CPU resource utilization of the SDRL algorithm reaches up to 42%, which is 27.96% higher than other algorithms. These findings indicate that the proposed algorithm substantially enhances resource utilization efficiency, service quality, and security in SFC deployment.

The YOLOv5 algorithm is widely used in edge computing systems for object detection. However, the limited computing resources of embedded devices and the large model size of existing deep learning based methods increase the difficulty of real-time object detection on edge devices. To address this issue, we propose a smaller, less computationally intensive, and more accurate algorithm for object detection. Multi-scale Feature Fusion-YOLO (MFF-YOLO) is built on top of the YOLOv5s framework, but it contains substantial improvements to YOLOv5s. First, we design the MFF module to improve the feature propagation path in the feature pyramid, which further integrates the semantic information from different paths of feature layers. Then, a large convolution-kernel module is used in the bottleneck. The structure enlarges the receptive field and preserves shallow semantic information, which overcomes the performance limitation arising from uneven propagation in Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN). In addition, a multi-branch downsampling method based on depthwise separable convolutions and a bottleneck structure with deformable convolutions are designed to reduce the complexity of the backbone network and minimize the real-time performance loss caused by the increased model complexity. The experimental results on PASCAL VOC and MS COCO datasets show that, compared with YOLOv5s, MFF-YOLO reduces the number of parameters by 7% and the number of FLoating point Operations Per second (FLOPs) by 11.8%. The mAP@0.5 has improved by 3.7% and 5.5%, and the mAP@0.5:0.95 has improved by 6.5% and 6.2%, respetively. Furthermore, compared with YOLOv7-tiny, PP-YOLO-tiny, and other mainstream methods, MFF-YOLO has achieved better results on multiple indicators.