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Security, Privacy and Trust in Wireless Sensor Networks

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1946

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Weidong Fang

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Science and Technology on Micro-System Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Micro-System and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
Interests: clean energy; smart grid; Internet of Things; cyber security
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Dr. Chunsheng Zhu

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SUSTech Institute of Future Networks, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: Internet of Things; wireless sensor networks; cloud computing; big data; social networks and security
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Dr. C. H. Wu

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Department of Supply Chain and Information Management, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Interests: IIoT; digital transformation; trust management; cloud security
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) serves as a pivotal component of the Internet of Things (IoT), extensively deploy across domains such as intelligent manufacturing, smart healthcare, and industrial automation. WSN typically consists of numerous low-power, resource-constrained sensor nodes that communicate wirelessly to sense and transmit real-time monitoring information. However, the distributed nature, resource limitations, and open wireless communication channels of WSN render them susceptible to a variety of security threats, including unauthorized access, data leakage, and malicious attacks. As WSN become increasingly integrated with IoT and edge computing technologies, ensuring data privacy, network trust, and system security becomes more important and complex. This special issue aims to solicit the latest research results and innovative solutions related to the security, privacy, and trust of WSN. We invite researchers to submit original research articles and reviews that explore various mechanisms and methods for ensuring security, privacy, and trust in WSN environments.

  • Distributed Authentication and Key Management in WSNs
  • Decentralized Access Control in WSNs
  • Lightweight Cryptographicand Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
  • Privacy and Trust-Aware Collaborative Computingin WSNs
  • End-to-End Trust Management Mechanisms in WSNs
  • Security and Trust Assurance Strategies for Real-Time Data Transmission
  • Real-Time Malware and Intrusion Detection in Dynamic Node Networks
  • Blockchain-Based Solutions for Data Integrity and Privacy Protection
  • Security and Trust Optimization in Resource-Constrained Environments
  • Applications and Researchesof Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Privacy, Security, and Trust in WSNs

Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit original research papers, review articles, or case studies that are not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review to ensure high academic standards and relevance to the special issue theme.

Dr. Weidong Fang
Dr. Chunsheng Zhu
Dr. C. H. Wu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wireless sensor network
  • internet of things
  • edge computing
  • cyber security
  • privacy preservation
  • trust

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Securing UAV Flying Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Authentication Development for Robust Communications
by Muhammet A. Sen, Saba Al-Rubaye and Antonios Tsourdos
Sensors 2025, 25(4), 1194; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25041194 - 15 Feb 2025
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized numerous domains by introducing exceptional capabilities and efficiencies. As UAVs become increasingly integrated into critical operations, ensuring the security of their communication channels emerges as a paramount concern. This paper investigates the importance of safeguarding UAV communication [...] Read more.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized numerous domains by introducing exceptional capabilities and efficiencies. As UAVs become increasingly integrated into critical operations, ensuring the security of their communication channels emerges as a paramount concern. This paper investigates the importance of safeguarding UAV communication against cyber threats, considering both intra-UAV and UAV–ground station interactions in the scope of the Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs). To leverage the advancements in security methodologies, particularly focusing on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), this paper proposes a novel authentication framework tailored for UAV networking systems. Investigating the existing literature, we categorize related studies into authentication strategies, illuminating the evolving landscape of UAV security. The proposed framework demonstrated a high level of security with lower communication and computation costs in comparison with selected studies with similar types of attacks. This paper highlights the urgent need for strong security measures to mitigate the increasing threats that UAVs encounter and ensure their sustained effectiveness in a variety of applications. The results indicate that the proposed protocol is sufficiently secure and, in terms of communication cost, achieves an 18% improvement compared to the best protocol in the referenced studies. Full article
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Intragroup and Intergroup Pairwise Key Predistribution for Wireless Sensor Networks
by Ching-Nung Yang, Ting-Song Gu, Jhou-Cian You and Chang-Ji Wang
Sensors 2025, 25(1), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25010086 - 26 Dec 2024
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The major task of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is data collection. Key predistribution (KP) is to establish pairwise keys for secure communication in a WSN, such that all collected data could be securely sent to a backend database. Most research on KP-like [...] Read more.
The major task of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is data collection. Key predistribution (KP) is to establish pairwise keys for secure communication in a WSN, such that all collected data could be securely sent to a backend database. Most research on KP-like schemes is dedicated to enhancing resiliency against node capture attack (NA) and retaining the link connectivity in the meantime. For large-scale wireless sensor networks, a more common approach is to use a multiple-sink WSN (MWSN) to support a large number of sensor nodes. In MWSNs, there are different clusters (referred to as groups). We took the lead in studying KP in the MWSN environment. Based on the new MWSN environment, we present intragroup and intergroup KP (I2KP) to fulfill both requirements of security and energy efficiency when gathering data via various sink nodes in a large-scale WSN. Three types of I2KP with respective pros and cons are proposed. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation demonstrate their effectiveness. Full article
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