Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems: Security, Sensing, Intelligence, and System Integration
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer networks
Interests: blockchain; networking (e.g., crowdsensing/crowdsourcing, QoE assessment, resource optimization); smart city (e.g., mobility enhancement); security & privacy (e.g., user-centered security, privacy-aware computing)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cyber-physical systems are increasingly prevalent, leveraging sensing, computation, and networking to operate across diverse environments, including smart cities, industrial IoT, robotics, unmanned vehicles, and environmental monitoring. As these systems grow in scale and complexity, challenges related to security, sensing fidelity, intelligent decision making, and system integration have become critical to ensuring robust, safe, and efficient operation.
This Special Issue invites original research, reviews, and case studies on the design, analysis, and deployment of next-generation cyber-physical systems. Key areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Security and Privacy: Techniques to protect cyber-physical systems against cyber attacks, data breaches, and adversarial threats.
- Intelligent Sensing and Perception: AI/ML-enabled sensor fusion, multimodal perception, context-aware computation, and adaptive decision making.
- System Integration and Networking: Scalable and resilient integration of heterogeneous sensors, communication networks, and autonomous platforms.
- Applications and Testbeds: Real-world deployments, experimental platforms, UAVs, robotics, and other cyber-physical systems.
Contributions addressing emerging trends, novel algorithms, experimental validation, and cross-domain integration of secure, intelligent, and networked cyber-physical systems are particularly encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Lan Wang
Dr. Ming Li
Dr. Dejun Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cyber-physical systems
- wireless sensor networks
- intelligent sensing
- AI/ML for autonomous systems
- security and privacy
- system integration
- IoT and edge computing
- robotics and unmanned vehicles
- sensor fusion
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