Advances in Trusted Frameworks for Optimizing Privacy and Authentication in Communication and Mobile Networks

Dear Colleagues,

In this digital age of mobile communications, leading-edge trusted frameworks have become the first choice. The development and design process of scalable, reliable, robust, and highly secure frameworks must be carefully managed to improve the efficiency and overall functionality of applications with different frameworks. With the increasing demand for communications and mobile network services, organizations are faced with the urgent task of addressing security issues. The importance of prioritizing new trust frameworks is growing, which is critical to delivering privacy protection solutions and superior experiences for end users.

In addition, the widespread adoption of smart devices is growing at an alarming rate, which is burdening communication networks and causing high energy consumption issues. In this context, the need for the aggregation of private data has led to the development of new trust framework models, which are critical to reducing energy consumption and avoiding redundant data. Protecting against attacks for illegal data access during secure data collection and transfer in communication and mobile networks is a challenge, as safeguarding the individual’s data is critical in networks.

As a result, advances in trusted frameworks as well as the integration of tools such as identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, and more, are critical to effectively monitor the security of communications and mobile networks in real time to better assist organizations and individuals. In addition, the choice of appropriate trusted frameworks has become an integral part of communication and mobile security and should therefore be considered an important topic for further study.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Authentication, access control, and authorization for communication and mobile networks;
• Trusted framework algorithms and analysis models for location privacy-preserving in communication and mobile networks;
• Zero-trust framework models and cloud-based network security for real-time applications;
• Trusted frameworks with artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for monitoring and tracking communication and mobile networks;
• Blockchain for communication and mobile networks;
• Intrusion detection and prevention for communication and mobile networks;
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for communication and mobile networks.

Prof. Dr. Guangquan Xu
Guest Editor

Technical Program Committee Members:
1. Dr. Cong Wang;
Tianjin University of Science & Technology;
[email protected]
2. Dr. Xiao Wang;
Tianjin University of Finance and Economics; 
[email protected]

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• trust
• authentication
• privacy
• blockchain
• communication and mobile networks