Computer Networking Security and Privacy
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editors
Interests: differential privacy; data privacy; IOV privacy; cybersecurity; machine learning privacy
Interests: natural language processing (NLP); machine learning (ML); deep learning (DL) applications; health security; AI security; quantum technology to identify software vulnerabilities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid evolution of information technology has positioned computer networks as an indispensable component of societal infrastructure. However, this technological progression has concurrently precipitated escalating security vulnerabilities and privacy infringements that manifest as sophisticated cyber threats. As a result, effective methods to safeguard network security and privacy have become a crucial research focus in both academia and industry.
This Special Issue seeks to curate pioneering advancements in computer network security and privacy. Aligned with the interdisciplinary focus of Electronics, this initiative prioritizes research at the nexus of secure network architecture resilience, adaptive cyber-physical system governance, and machine learning-driven threat intelligence frameworks. This Special Issue endeavors to establish a transformative knowledge repository that catalyzes paradigm shifts in cybersecurity strategy formulation, ethical AI deployment, and next-generation privacy-preserving computational models.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
(1) Privacy protection;
(2) Cybersecurity;
(3) Federated learning;
(4) Split learning;
(5) Unlearning mechanisms;
(6) Differential privacy;
(7) Blockchain;
(8) Distributed learning.
Dr. Baihe Ma
Dr. Mst Shapna Akter
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- privacy
- AI privacy
- cybersecurity
- distributed learning
- unlearning mechanisms
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