Network Security Management in Heterogeneous Networks, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, with the mutual connection and rapid development of diverse network devices, heterogeneous networks (e.g., mobile edge network and cloud-edge-terminal network) have emerged as a widespread network scenario. However, heterogeneous networks still face serious security challenges (e.g., DDoS, APT, and privacy leaks), which will lead to network interruptions and even more serious consequences. To handle this security problem, many methods have been proposed, such as moving target defense, blockchain, privacy protection, trusted computing, and malicious traffic detection. Therefore, network security management in heterogeneous networks can been regarded as an important research domain that still faces various challenges and new development trends.

The objective of this Special Issue is to explore recent advances that address fundamental and practical challenges related to network security management in heterogeneous network.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• New security architectures for heterogeneous network;
• Secure resource allocation in mobile edge network;
• Security management for cloud-edge-terminal network;
• Moving target defense for heterogeneous network;
• Blockchain for heterogeneous network;
• Secure federated learning for heterogeneous network;
• Generative AI for network security management;
• Privacy protection in mobile edge network;
• Trusted computing for heterogeneous network;
• Malicious traffic detection in cloud-edge-terminal network.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Tao Zhang
Dr. Xiangyun Tang
Dr. Jiacheng Wang
Prof. Dr. Jiqiang Liu
Guest Editors

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