Intelligence, Security, Trust and Privacy Advances in IoT, Bigdata and 5G Networks (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026
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Interests: cross-layer architectures and protocols; collaborative and cooperative wireless networking; wireless information security; multi-sensory systems; internet of things; collaborative and autonomous UAVs; energy-friendly smart building; smart health; fault-tolerance; hybrid cloud; ubiquitous cloud
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Interests: cloud data security and privacy protection; mobile data security; big data security
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Interests: IEEE 802.11 standards; Internet of Things; low-power protocols; smart cities
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Interests: big data analytics; machine learning; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data, widespread applications of various intelligent terminals and wearable sensing devices promote many novel information transmission approaches and information service modes. Currently, 5G-enabled derivatives, such as smart city, smart transportation, connected healthcare, and smart energy, are developing rapidly. While it provides enhanced convenience to peoples’ lives, it also faces severe security and privacy challenges. Various data-driven intelligent applications should be combined with diversified privacy protection technologies, attach importance to personal and organizational identity and data privacy protection, and strive to build a secure ecological environment for the whole lifecycle of information flow.
This Special Issue organizes the latest intelligent data processing strategies, trust management, privacy protection techniques, and attack and defense methods for the IoT, Blockchain, and 5G ubiquitous networks. Technical contribution papers, industrial case studies, and review papers are welcome. The proposed topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Intelligent data processing, algorithms, and models;
- Security, trust, and privacy in IoT, big data, and 5G networks;
- Multimedia networking, communication, and security;
- Data fusion of heterogeneous sensor data and multi-mode data;
- Secure machine learning and deep learning;
- Privacy-preserving data mining;
- Trust and privacy representation, measurement, and management;
- Privacy computing methods, models, and algorithms;
- Security, trust, and privacy in wireless sensor networks and edge/fog computing;
- Federated learning, reinforcement learning, and meta learning;
- Adaptive access control model, authentication, and authorization;
- Unmanned aerial vehicle networking, communication, and security;
- Intelligent transportation systems, communication, and security;
- Connected healthcare technology and applications;
- Security, trust, and privacy in smart grids and smart energy;
- Trusted execution environments and hardware and chip security;
- Intelligent processing and security in connected autonomous vehicles;
- Blockchain technologies and applications.
Dr. Shaoen Wu
Prof. Dr. Jinbo Xiong
Prof. Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios
Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Daneshmand
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- security
- privacy
- cybersecurity
- IoT
- sensor network
- 5G/6G
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