Information Security of Sensor Networks: A Focus on Surveys and Tutorials
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2026 | Viewed by 845
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cryptography; IoT network security; information security; quantum security communications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce the Special Issue "Information Security of Sensor Networks: A Focus on Surveys and Reviews", which aims to showcase high-quality surveys and review papers concerning Internet of Things research.
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to contribute your work so that we can collaboratively develop this exciting field of research further.
This Special Issue aims to collect surveys and tutorial articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of IoT security.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Trust theories and algorithms for IoT sensing networks;
- Quantum communication and quantum computing for IoT network security;
- Post-quantum cryptography and algorithms for IoT network security;
- Decentralized computing and collaborative learning for IoT network security;
- Machine/deep learning for IoT network security;
- AI-based data analytics for IoT network security;
- Blockchain-related applications for IoT network security.
Prof. Dr. Jian Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cryptography
- Sensor network security
- information security
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