A Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks on “Communication and Security in Communicating Things Networks”
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-03-30
影响因子: 3.643
期刊难度:
CCF分类: C类
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 计算机科学 - 2区
• 小类 : 计算机:信息系统 - 3区
• 小类 : 电信学 - 3区
Overview
Communicating Things Networks (CTNs), could soon occupy a place comparable to that of electricity in the daily lives of citizens, and play a fundamental role in socio-economic development. Ensuring security in CTNs is an indispensable task that presents major challenges. Heterogeneity (powers, memory capacities, computing capacities, communication protocols etc.) and resource-constrained objects make solutions developed for conventional computer networks not applicable. Moreover, in the case of large-scale networks (millions of objects), the number of communication channels is limited and therefore a communication channel is not dedicated to only two objects. Limiting the number of channels to fewer than the number of objects creates several challenges, especially in collision and conflict management. In addition, due to the use of wireless technologies a secure communication is strongly needed to protect valuable information. Security focuses on the protection of systems against intentional attacks that can induce several types of risks. A security breach in these systems can cause large scale and irreversible damage.
This special issue will highlight emerging applications as well as enabling wireless communication and networking technologies and architectures to support heterogeneity and scalability in CTNs applications. Emphasis will be given to breakthrough research in CTNs co-design of secure solutions that efficiently integrate sensing, computing, communication, and exploit context awareness at various levels to dramatically improve wireless network performance across multiple dimensions: ultra-low latency, high reliability, uniform availability, improved bandwidth and power efficiency. The special issue will also cover test-beds and demonstration of CTNs design and development for such networks.
Topics of Interest
In particular, the topics of interest includes but are not limited to
- Communication in heterogeneous CTNs
- Blockchain Technologies in CTNs
- Security for self-configuring mobiles things
- Fog computing and CTNs
- Transport applications and CTNs
- Context-aware networking protocol design for CTNs
- Privacy, safety and cyberattacks in CTNs
- Demonstrations and test-beds distributed systems (e.g. mobile communicating robots)
- Simulation tools and experimental studies for CTNs