Secure and Privacy-Preserving IoT Systems for Next-Generation Healthcare
A special issue of IoT (ISSN 2624-831X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editor
Interests: internet of things; heterogeneous wireless networks; cloud/edge computing; machine learning; cybersecurity and privacy preserving
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into healthcare systems has transformed patient monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment. However, these advancements present significant challenges in safeguarding sensitive health data, especially when IoT devices are resource-constrained, energy-limited, and interconnected across diverse environments such as hospitals, smart homes, and telemedicine platforms. This Special Issue will focus exclusively on security and privacy innovations in healthcare IoT, differentiating itself from broader calls on IoT-based assistive platforms. We invite high-quality contributions that address lightweight and energy-efficient cryptographic solutions, privacy-preserving machine learning frameworks, resilient architectures against cyber-physical attacks, and novel compliance-aware data-sharing methods. Submissions may include research articles, review papers, and real-world case studies highlighting the secure deployment of healthcare IoT systems. By bringing together researchers from academia, healthcare, and industry, this Special Issue will advance the development of trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and regulation-compliant IoT ecosystems for next-generation healthcare.
Dr. Ali Jalooli
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- secure IoT Architectures
- privacy-preserving machine learning
- homomorphic encryption for IoT
- federated learning in healthcare
- zero-knowledge proofs
- Blockchain-enabled security
- edge and fog security
- post-quantum cryptography
- secure data aggregation
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