IoT for Smart Cities—Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2022) | Viewed by 469
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in ICT have contributed to the digitization of urban services, promising a more efficient use of resources and a better quality of life for the citizens. Smart sensors and wireless communication offer a rich supply of real time data. AI-based control algorithms may improve the decisions one can derive from these data.
The flipside of digitization is increases in the attack surface. The data collected may intrude too far on citizens’ privacy. Targeted manipulation of the data collected by sensors—including manipulations of the environment sensed—may lead to decisions by the control system that are detrimental to quality of life. Software in smart devices may be manipulated or may suffer from vulnerabilities that can be exploited by adversaries.
Some defenses, such as cryptographic protection of communication involving resource-constrained devices have been researched at length. Abstract studies on old issues in new forms are thus of limited benefit for Smart Cities. Lessons from field trials, however, would advance the state of the art. Some areas, such as adversarial machine learning, are still relatively young and it would be of interest to put them into a Smart City context. Privacy enhancing technologies support a privacy-friendly use of data but may decrease the quality of decisions based on sanitized data. Work on analyzing the trade-offs between the various quality-of-service aspects of Smart City services addresses this issue. Research on how cultural context influences acceptable choices between competing criteria is also relevant.
This Special Issue invites contributions on all aspects of cybersecurity and privacy in the Smart City. It wants to take the field beyond an analysis of challenges and requirements and is particularly interested in submissions that build on substantial field trials.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Gollmann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- IoT
- Smart Cities
- cybersecurity
- privacy
- PET
- risk analysis and mitigation
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