Design and Implementation of Advanced Security Solutions for the Internet of Things

Dear Colleagues,

With the exponential growth of IoT devices, the IoT plays a crucial role in various applications. By making full use of various technological means, the level of intelligence of the IoT can be enhanced, thus promoting its in-depth development in different vertical domains. At the same time, the IoT also has the capacity to address the challenges of massive data generation and real-time processing. Despite possessing these advantages in different fields, the IoT still confronts other potential issues, such as overall network security, sensitive data leakage, and privacy concerns.

It is worth noting that the IoT is susceptible to becoming a target for attacks such as hacking, malware, viruses, and Trojans. On one hand, due to the lack of high-performance security mechanisms in devices, applications, and systems within the IoT, they struggle to effectively defend against various cyber attacks, posing a serious threat to the security and stability of the IoT system. On the other hand, while artificial intelligence provides significant advancements for the IoT, it also brings forth a host of security issues and challenges that require in-depth exploration. The vulnerability of the deep learning model itself (e.g., susceptible to adversarial attacks, backdoor attacks) makes it a great security risk in the application process.

Therefore, there is an urgent need to seek efficient and reliable algorithms, models, and frameworks in order to design safe and reliable network protection systems to enhance the overall security level of IoT.

The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

1. Model, algorithm, and framework design for IoT network security;
2. Data security and privacy issues in the IoT;
3. Research on defense strategies in the Internet of Things;
4. Network defense resource allocation methods in the IoT ;
5. Network gaming and adversarial learning methods in the IoT;
6. Research on computation offloading strategies in the IoT;
7. Defense methods for specific network attacks or vulnerabilities;
8. Efficient algorithms and modeling for network offensive and defensive adversarial problems;
9. Intelligent algorithm-based security system design;
10. Research on applied security of intelligent models in the IoT;
11. Vulnerability exploration of intelligent models in the IoT;
12. Data protection techniques in edge computing devices.

Prof. Dr. Hui Xia
Prof. Dr. Chunqiang Hu
Prof. Dr. Kai Wang
Dr. Chao Liu
Guest Editors

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