Resilient and Trustworthy Sensor Networks for Intelligent IoT Systems
A Special Issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) belonging to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 110
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent sensing, and wireless communication technologies are driving the development of next-generation sensor systems and sensor networks. By integrating AI with advanced sensing technologies, modern sensor networks enable accurate, real-time, and context-aware monitoring for applications such as smart cities, industrial automation, healthcare, intelligent transportation, precision agriculture, and environmental monitoring. As these systems become increasingly interconnected through the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring trustworthy sensing and reliable sensor network operation has become a critical challenge.
Trustworthy sensor networks require reliable and authentic sensor data, resilient sensing under failures and attacks, secure and privacy-preserving communication, trustworthy sensor fusion, and efficient edge intelligence for real-time data processing. Although AI and distributed intelligence provide new opportunities to improve sensing performance, challenges related to uncertainty, interoperability, scalability, and energy efficiency continue to limit the deployment of dependable IoT sensing systems.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest advances in trustworthy sensor networks for IoT applications. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and case studies on reliable sensing, resilient sensor networks, trustworthy sensor fusion, AI-enabled sensing and resource-aware edge intelligence, secure and privacy-preserving sensor network architectures, and real-world validation through experimental platforms and field deployments. Contributions that advance the reliability, security, resilience, and practical implementation of trustworthy sensor networks are particularly encouraged.
**Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:**
*Intelligent sensor systems and smart sensing technologies;
*AI and machine learning for intelligent sensing and sensor data analytics;
*Autonomous sensing, perception, and decision-making systems;
*Sensor fusion and multimodal sensing;
*Edge intelligence and distributed AI for intelligent sensor systems;
*Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) sensing applications;
*Federated learning and privacy-preserving intelligent sensing;
*Trustworthy, explainable, and responsible AI for sensor systems;
*Blockchain-enabled trust, security, and data integrity for intelligent sensing;
*6G-enabled intelligent sensing and Internet of Things applications;
*Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC);
*Quantum-enhanced sensing and quantum computing for intelligent sensor systems;
*Autonomous unmanned aerial, ground, surface, and underwater systems (UxVs) in wireless sensor network;
*Multi-agent and collaborative sensing systems;
*Digital twins and sensor-enabled cyber-physical systems;
*Smart healthcare, wearable sensors, and biomedical sensing;
*Intelligent transportation, smart cities, and environmental sensing;
*Precision agriculture and intelligent environmental monitoring;
*Energy-efficient, self-powered, and sustainable sensor systems;
*Real-world deployments, experimental testbeds, and practical applications of intelligent sensor systems.
Dr. Md Masuduzzaman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trustworthy AI
- sensor networks
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- edge intelligence
- federated learning
- blockchain
- 6G communications
- autonomous systems
- quantum computing
- cyber–physical systems
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