Advances in Authentication, Authorization and Privacy for Securing Smart Communications

Dear Colleagues,

Modern architectures and systems are changing our activities of daily life and various industrial processes due to increased automation in various areas. 5G/6G, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Drones (IoD), Internet of Everything (IoE), and other emerging communication technologies facilitate the development of various smart places and modern communications. Thanks to smart communication environments, many important applications have been developed, including healthcare, electricity grids, satellite communication, underwater communication, and vehicular networks, among others. However, problems have arisen related to data security and user privacy during the communication in these systems; secure and efficient authentication, authorization, and accounting mechanisms are required to address them. Existing cryptographic methods are still constrained in terms of processing and communication ability. Moreover, there may be a trade-off consideration between privacy and authentication, or between security and performance found in various previously published works. As a matter of fact, there is a lack of sufficient research that efficiently addresses these concerns. This Special Issue calls for research papers, communications, and review articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Secure and anonymous designs for smart systems.
• New designs of cryptographic tool and protocol.
• New authentication schemes.
• Novel authorization methods.
• Innovative accounting tools.
• Applied cryptography.
• Post-quantum cryptography.
• Lightweight cryptography.
• Cryptographic verification solutions.
• Smart identification mechanisms.
• New digital-signature-based smart communication systems.
• Smart digital-certificate-based communication schemes.

Prof. Dr. Cheng-Chi Lee
Dr. Tuan-Vinh Le
Prof. Dr. Chun-Ta Li
Dr. Dinh-Thuan Do
Dr. Agbotiname Lucky Imoize
Guest Editors

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