Hardware-Based Security Techniques for Smart/Intelligent Sensor Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 553
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Interests: IoT; sensor network; hardware security; vehicular network security
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Interests: security; blockchain; smart grids; FL; adversarial machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Technological advancements in sensor technologies are rapidly transforming the internet landscape. Intelligent sensing devices, including the Internet of Things (IoT), have introduced a dynamic new ecosystem that is now integral to a wide range of data communication networks, including manufacturing, industrial control systems, healthcare, transportation, and military applications.
However, the widespread adoption of sensor devices has also significantly increased the attack surface for cyber threats. These threats include authentication bypass, device identification attacks, sensor cloning, side-channel attacks, hardware tampering, exploitation of sensor I/O interfaces, denial-of-service (DoS), and sensor data injection attacks. This challenge is further exacerbated by the limited computational and energy resources typical of sensor devices, which render traditional software-based security solutions often infeasible.
This Special Issue invites the submission of high-quality, original, and unpublished research articles that focus on software and hardware sensor vulnerability assessments, including novel hardware-based security techniques, trustworthy architectures, and security isolation methodologies based on ARM trust zone technology designed to protect these systems. Submissions may target a variety of platforms, including autonomous mobile systems, ARM processor cores, drone flight control systems, reconfigurable systems (e.g., FPGA-based), biomedical sensing systems, cyber–physical systems (CPSs), crypto modules, RFID, IoT devices, and embedded sensor modules. Both theoretical studies and experimental works involving system design and implementation are highly encouraged to be submitted to this Special Issue.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Hardware-based defensive strategies against side-channel attacks on sensing units.
- Lightweight hardware mechanisms to counter data spoofing attacks in drone systems.
- Vulnerability assessment of UAV sensor data.
- Energy-efficient data encryption techniques tailored for IoT devices and sensors.
- Intrusion detection systems leveraging physical characteristics of sensing units.
- Hardware-level device identification techniques to mitigate sensor device cloning.
- Security assessment of hardware vulnerabilities in mobile platforms and autonomous aerial systems.
- Machine learning and federated learning techniques tailored for IoT devices and sensors.
Dr. Amar Rasheed
Dr. Mohamed Baza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hardware-based security
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- intelligent sensing
- sensor device
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