Secure and Decentralised IoT Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is one of the modern technological revolutions that enables communication amongst a plethora of different devices. The IoT is essential in implementing various visions such as smart cities, smart buildings, and industry 4.0. Although IoT applications are now spreading throughout everyday life, they are still organised vertically in an isolated manner. The distributed interconnection of IoT devices is still a challenge since devices have different communication protocols, heterogeneous hardware, and different security capabilities and belong to different domains.

To date, some solutions have been proposed but are mainly based on a logically centralised infrastructure. This introduces a single trusted party that prevents data democratisation and holds all sensitive data. A centralised solution also limits scalability.

This Special Issue aims to collect papers on conceptual and practical approaches for building secure and decentralised IoT applications.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Latest tools and methodologies that underpin the design and implementation of IoT applications.
• Use of blockchain for designing and building decentralised and secure IoT applications.
• Industrial case studies.
• State of the art and future perspectives about the design, validation, and implementation of decentralised and secure IoT applications.

This Special Issue will critically review most aspects of various technologies and methodologies such as distributed ledger technologies and smart contracts for the IoT; simulation, modelling, and programming frameworks; machine learning; testing; edge computing; federated learning; and real-life case studies for building decentralised and secure IoT applications.

Dr. Diletta Romana Cacciagrano
Guest Editor

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• IoT
• blockchain
• edge computing
• machine learning
• scalability
• security