Intelligent Centralized and Distributed Secure Edge Computing for Internet of Things Applications

Dear Colleagues,

At present, the patterns of application services, networks, and computing are changing very rapidly. First, the rapid improvement of networks and end-systems has led to changes in services from simple applications to a variety of intelligent multimedia applications. Second, improved ubiquitous interoperability and convergence technologies have led to changes in networks, from cellular- and Wi-Fi-based networks to heterogeneous networks including all-IP, device-to-device, ad-hoc, sensor networks, and Internet of Things (IoT). Lastly, new software-defined radio, resource virtualization, and network security technologies have led to user-oriented computing platforms. With these changes, secure edge computing (EC) has become an active research area. Further, various smart IoT services such as networked game, smart healthcare, home automation, virtual reality (VR) multimedia, and artificial intelligent (AI) robots are becoming efficient. For the best provision of smart IoT services with secure edge computing environments, efficient and intelligent centralized and distributed computing algorithms should be developed.

This Special Issue “Intelligent Centralized and Distributed Secure Edge Computing for Internet of Things Applications” aims (i) to reflect recent developments in intelligent distributed and centralized controls and algorithms for secure edge computing-based IoT services and (ii) to identify critical issues and propose new guidelines that enable the development of future IoT services.

Submissions are expected to focus on both the theoretical aspects and the algorithm and application development of the centralized and distributed secure edge computing. New ideas proposing disruptive approaches are also welcome.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Standardization of secure edge computing architectures for IoT;
• Middleware for IoT computations and service management;
• Applications and architectures of content-centric computing or context-aware secure edge computing for IoT;
• Intelligent cache management for secure edge computing for IoT;
• Intelligent information and control synchronization for IoT;
• Security architecture for IoT;
• Computing architectures, frameworks, platforms, and protocols for IoT;
• Resource and energy management in secure edge computing for IoT;
• Spectral efficiency and energy efficiency management for IoT;
• Machine learning for secure edge computing for IoT;
• Optimization, control, and automation in secure edge computing for IoT;
• Low-latency communication and networking in secure edge computing for IoT.

We hope this Special Issue works as a roadmap for all developers and users of the centralized and distributed secure edge computing platform.

Prof. Dr. Jihoon Lee
Guest Editor

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