Advances in Network and Applications
A special issue of Network (ISSN 2673-8732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 358
Special Issue Editor
Interests: machine learning; federated learning; network security; IoT
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Network infrastructure in growing rapidly and becoming more advanced, with the increase in accessibility to IoT, smart phones, sensors, and civilian UAVs, just to name a few. Network infrastructure is growing in sectors that span healthcare, transportation, and smart homes. With the increase of these devices comes many challenges to the overall network infrastructure. Security, privacy, data preservation, efficient and scalable quality of service (QoS) are just a few of them. We have already seen what stress of scalability can do to a system like the healthcare industry. There are security breaches in many network infrastructures such as the Ring Alarm Home Security system, the autonomous care, and privacy issues of when companies utilize UAVs. To mitigate some of these challenges, we propose this Special Issue to encourage researchers to share their recent findings to address any of these issues.
This special issue intends to focus on understanding challenges such as security, privacy, communication protocols, and network infrastructure for efficient and scalable QoS for Advanced networks and their applications and explore innovative solutions proposed with the help of cutting-edge technologies such as network functional virtualization, blockchain, and federated learning techniques. Applications include healthcare, smart transportation systems, and smart-city infrastructures, to name a few. Hence, papers addressing the security, trust and privacy challenges in the following areas but not limited to, are highly welcome:
- IoT
- Smart-Grid Systems
- Critical Infrastructures
- Transportation Systems
- Healthcare
This issue seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions to all of the above challenges. The proposed issue will serve as a forum for researchers from academia, government and industries, to exchange ideas, present new results, and provide future visions on these topics.
Prof. Nadra Guizani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Network function virtualization
- Blockchain
- Federated learning
- Smart city
- Smart devices
- IoT network infrastructure
- Quality of service (QoS)
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