Security Issues and Solutions for the Internet of Things
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2025 | Viewed by 88
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Interests: sensors; electrical impedance spectroscopy; optical spectroscopy; food analysis; portable sensor systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of distributed wireless sensor networks has dramatically increased in recent years and boosted the development of the Internet of things (IoT) paradigm. Such sensor networks share a huge amount of information among sensors, as well as between sensors and servers in the cloud. This allows for the collection and sharing of a large amount of information, but also presents security issues. As is known, sensor networks can be particularly susceptible to malicious attacks that threaten system security. In particular, malicious users can launch attacks against a sensor network, thus deteriorating its integrity, confidentiality, and/or availability.
As a consequence, extensive research activity has been/is being carried out to develop proper techniques with which to improve the security of sensor networks, either for the detection of cyberattacks or to mitigate them. Examples of such techniques are lightweight authentication schemes and cryptographic algorithms for resource-constrained devices (like wireless sensor nodes), the use of physical unclonable function (PUF) devices for the generation of safe passwords, the integration of lightweight firewalls to monitor network traffic, and the use of machine learning algorithms to detect the presence of malicious attacks.
The editors welcome submissions of high-quality research papers (not previously published in other journals) presenting innovative strategies with which to mitigate the impact of cyberattacks on wireless sensor networks, as well as review articles discussing recent advancements in the development of strategies to mitigate the impact of such cyberattacks.
Dr. Marco Grossi
Dr. Martin Eugenio Omana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things
- security
- cyberattacks
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- authentication
- cryptography
- firewall
- physical unclonable functions
- denial of service attack
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