Secure Issues in Wireless Cyber–Physical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber–physical system (CPSs) are complex platforms that rely on network communication for the measurement and control of actuators and sensors to govern a physical process. A key component of a CPS is a wide-area network (WAN) protocol that it utilizes to collect and transmit sensor data. In recent years, with advances in wireless communications technology, CPSs have come to rely on a variety of networking protocols, including 4G/LTE and 5G. The confluence of wireless communications with a CPS introduces a hybrid architecture that is vulnerable to a variety of threat vectors from cyber space. The aim of this Special Issue is to generate ideas and innovative solutions to the cyber security issues introduced in a wireless CPS environment.

We encourage high-quality, original submissions that consider defensive strategies for cyber attacks in a wireless network. Both theoretical and experimental research will be considered. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: 

• Techniques for securing 5G-based CPS;
• Privacy and authentication of wireless CPS;
• Machine learning driven approaches to secure wireless CPS;
• Machine learning driven approaches to secure cyber control systems;
• Secure wireless CPS architectures;
• Threat models for wireless CPS;
• Intrusion Detection in wireless CPS.

Dr. Preetha Thulasiraman
Guest Editor

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• cyber–physical systems
• 5G
• 4G/LTE
• machine learning
• control systems
• intrusion detection