Security and Privacy-preserving Algorithms of Distributed Networked Systems
A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 501
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-agent systems; networked control systems; sensor networks; cyber-physical systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Distributed networked systems (DNSs) have played a vital role in monitoring and controling most safety-critical infrastructures, such as electric power grids, gas and oil pipelines, water supply distribution and irrigation systems, transportation systems, airport traffic control systems, and so—the list is long. A defining feature of DNSs is that the physical processes (e.g., grids, pipelines, and vehicles) and physical elements (e.g., sensors and actuators) are monitored and controlled by a remote control center over a communication network. Nevertheless, because of the openness or insufficient protection of the network connection and communication, DNSs suffer from extendable vulnerabilities that are beyond classical networked systems. In this sense, traditional estimation and control techniques may be impractical or even fail to address several security and privacy related issues of DNSs because of their geographic dispersal, large scale, increased interconnectivity, real-time and sensitive information exchange, and intimate interaction of cyber and physical elements. Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative, secure, and privacy-preserving estimation and control algorithms in order to preserve the unprecedented performance and resource utilization efficiency, high reliability and resilience, desired security, and privacy requirements for DNSs.
We invite you to submit your latest research to this Special Issue. We are seeking original theory- and application-driven studies to address some emerging issues from the perspective of distributed secure and privacy-preserving sensing, estimation, detection, optimization, and control for DNSs.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Distributed secure estiamtion in wireless sensor networks
- Distributed privacy-preserving estimation in wireless sensor networks
- Distributed secure control of multi-agent systems
- Distributed privacy-preserving control of multi-agent systems
- Distributed attack detection and isolation
- Learning-based secure estimation and control
- Event-triggered secure estimation and control
- Adaptive secure estimation and control
Applications of security and privacy-preserving algorithms in wireless robotics, wireless sensor networks, smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, and so on.
Dr. Xiaohua Ge
Prof. Derui Ding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Secure estiamtion
- Privacy-preserving estimation
- Secure control
- Privacy-preserving control
- Attack detection and isolation
- Event-triggered estimation and control
- Wireless sensor networks
- Multi-agent systems
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