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IoT Security: Threat Detection, Analysis and Defense

edited by

Olivier Markowitch

and

Jean-Michel Dricot

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10730 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Trends and Technologies

edited by

Zhihao Liu

Franco Davoli

and Davide Borsatti

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6019 | Submission Open

Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); edge computing; cybersecurity in IIoT; Artificial Intelligence (AI) in IIoT applications; Industry 5.0 with IIoT; big data analytics for IIoT; sensor networks for IIoT; IIoT-driven smart manufacturing; IIoT standards and protocols; wireless communication in industrial environments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

AI, Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Wireless Communications II

edited by

Xavier Fernando

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4863 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning (ML); artificial intelligence; deep learning; reinforcement learning; big data; 6G wireless networks; IoT; cloud computing; heterogeneous networks; vehicular networks; location-based services

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Software-Driven Federated Learning for/in Smart Environment

edited by Zheng Li and

Luis Javier García Villalba

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1974 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; Internet of Things; machine learning; smart environment; software-driven world

IoT–Edge–Cloud Computing and Decentralized Applications for Smart Cities

edited by Antonis Litke, Rodger Lea and Takuro Yonezawa

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 281 | Submission Open

Keywords: internet of things; edge and cloud computing; smart cities; decentralized architectures and applications; distributed systems and ledger technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Advances and Perspectives in Human-Computer Interaction II

edited by

and

submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: HCI; user experience; user-centered design; multimodal interfaces; interaction technologies; usability; virtual reality; augmented reality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Advanced 5G and beyond Networks

edited by

Mohammad Rajiullah

, Xun Zhang and

Hisham Kholidy

submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 707 | Submission Open

Keywords: 5G; 6G; massive MIMO; wireless systems; IoT; M2M; edge computing; fog computing; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Telecommunications Mobile Networks

edited by

Emanuele De Santis

and Francesco Delli Priscoli

submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 185 | Submission Open

Keywords: B5G/6G communication systems; intelligent systems in telecommunication networks; sematic communication in mobile networks; intelligent caching and offloading; terrestrial/non-terrestrial networks convergence; AI-driven network management; machine learning in telecommunications; edge computing in mobile networks; adaptive spectrum sharing; 5G/6G network optimization; intelligent resource allocation; IoT integration in mobile networks; network slicing; cognitive radio networks; autonomous network operations; dynamic network topology; ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC); energy-efficient mobile networks; network function virtualization (NFV); self-organizing networks (SONs)

IoT, Edge, and Cloud Computing in Smart Cities

edited by

Stefano Rinaldi

and Alan Oliveira De Sá

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6363 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyber-security; edge-to-cloud integration; urban governance and technology integration; data analytics; intelligent transportation systems; sustainable urban development; federated learning; cyber-physical systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Intelligent Decision Support Systems and Prediction Models in IoT-Based Scenarios

edited by

Mario Casillo

Marco Lombardi

and

Domenico Santaniello

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3753 | Submission Open

Keywords: decision support systems; prediction systems; artificial intelligence; machine learning; context awareness; situation awareness; recommender systems; e-service personalization; knowledge management; IoT; big data; digital twin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Convergence of IoT, Edge and Cloud Systems

edited by Dandan Li and Li Duan

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2803 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud computing; edge intelligence; hybrid cloud-edge architectures; communication protocols; IoT device orchestration; industry application; security and privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Internet of Things (IoT)

edited by

Liccardo Annalisa

and

Flora Amato

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2666 | Submission Open

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Internet of Things; edge computing; AI and IoT platforms; IoT applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Artificial Intelligence Driven Software-Defined Networking Technologies for Next Generation Networks

edited by

Evangelos Spyrou

and

Vassilios Kappatos

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 337 | Submission Open

Keywords: 5G AI-SDN metrhods and optimization; use of AI-SDN in 6G communications and applications; AI-SDN for edge computing and mobile networks; AI-SDN IoT solutions; delay; throughput and reliability in communications; generative AI for SDN; diffusion models for a time series in SDN; AI methods for the stadarisation and xerticipation of SDN methods; AI-SDN applications and developments; AI-SDN test cases and potential testbeds

Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence

edited by Rui Yu, Sooyeon Lee, Syed Masum Billah and

John M. Carroll

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open

Keywords: human-centered AI; explainable AI; fairness in AI; human– AI collaboration

Artificial Intelligence for Smart Healthcare: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

edited by Xiuyi Fan, Si Yong Yeo and Siyuan Liu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical imaging analysis; explainable medical AI; digital health; hospital management; telemedicine; smart healthcare system

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

AI and Blockchain: Synergies, Challenges, and Innovations

edited by

Klitos Christodoulou

and

Massimiliano Garda

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 247 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; blockchain; smart contracts; distributed ledger

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Emerging Approaches in Data Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications

edited by Arjun Mukherjee and

Leonardo Ranaldi

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open

Keywords: data mining; natural language processing; sentiment analysis; large language models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Information Communication Technologies and Social Media

edited by Jinpeng Chen,

Ruifan Li

and Kaimin Wei

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: social media impact; data privacy and security; digital communication; misinformation and media literacy; digital inclusion; cyberbullying and online safety; user behavior analytics; social media algorithms; ethical considerations in ICT; digital addiction effects

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare: Technologies, Applications, Challenges

edited by Daniela Gîfu and Kevin Bretonnel Cohen

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: interactive health technologies; natural language processing and text mining in healthcare; biomedical data analytics; big data in healthcare; visual analytics and decision-support systems; security and privacy in healthcare data; evaluation and validation of AI methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Smart Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Algorithms

edited by Fengyu Wang and Jincheng Dai

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence algorithms; multi-modal artificial intelligence; artificial intelligence empowered systems; artificial intelligence empowered evaluation; robotics algorithms; novel applications of artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

5G Security: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Road Ahead

edited by

Mario Di Mauro

, Francesco Pascale and

Marco Tambasco

submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11407 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Joint Design and Integration in Smart IoT Systems

edited by

Wei Yu

and Guobin Xu

submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4786 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; smart systems; integration design architecture; co-design modeling and simulation; machine learning and data science/engineering in IoT; security in IoT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Distributed Storage of Large Knowledge Graphs with Mobility Data

edited by

Yanhao Wang

Michael Sheng

and Chengcheng Yang

submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2379 | Submission Open

Keywords: knowledge graph; mobility data; trajectory; algorithm design; data stream; distributed system; federated learning; privacy; deep learning; big data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Information Security in Telecommunication Systems

edited by Xuyang Jing, Xian Li and Cong Wang

submission deadline 10 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-5G or 6G; information security; intrusion detection; privacy computing; trust management; big data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) Meet Generative Artificial Intelligence

edited by William Liu,

Xun Shao

and

Aniket Mahanti

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3967 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent transport system; generative artificial intelligence; large language models; distributed language models; vehicular Internet of Things; edge computing; cloud computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Object Detection with Deep Learning

edited by

Shun Zhang

Feng Gao

and Mingyang Ma

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 445 | Submission Open

Keywords: object detection; deep learning; few-shot object detection; model compression; rotated object detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Human-Centred Cybersecurity

edited by

Karen Renaud

and Partha Das Chowdhury

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open

Keywords: human-centred cybersecurity; accessible and inclusive cybersecurity; human decision making in cybersecurity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Featured Papers in the Section Internet of Things, 2nd Edition

edited by

Ping Wang

submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; wireless communications and networking; network protocols; network design; and architectures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Parallel and Distributed Systems

edited by Xingda Wei and

Massimo Cafaro

submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: parallel and distributed systems; reliability; heterogeneous computing; scalability; benchmarking

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Network Architectures and Protocols for Edge Learning in B5G IoT Systems

edited by Latif Ladid, Muslim Elkotob and Tayeb BenMeriem

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open

Keywords: network architectures; network protocols; edge learning; 5G

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) Advances for Next Generation Internet—2nd Edition

edited by

Jerry Chou

and

Wu-Chun Chung

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtualization; container; and microservices; resource management and orchestration; performance benchmarking and modeling; cluster; distributed systems; and data centers; cloud; fog; and edge computing; AI; machine learning; and big data processing; serverless and function as a service

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Vision

edited by Yonggang Lu and

Ivan Serina

submission deadline 10 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2755 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; computer vision; mobile devices; human– computer interaction; deep learning; image processing; video processing; few-shot learning; transfer learning; interpretability; image classification; object detection; semantic segmentation; action recognition; anomaly detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Graph Neural Networks and Its Applications

edited by Yifei Xu and

Dongjing Wang

submission deadline 10 May 2025 | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open

Keywords: graph neural networks for sequence behavior modeling; graph neural networks for personalized recommendation; graph neural networks for spatial-temporal data prediction; graph neural networks for traffic forecasting; graph neural networks for medical diagnosis and analysis; graph neural networks for electronic health; graph neural networks for skeleton data analysis and action recognition; graph neural networks for natural language and programming language processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Edge-Cloud Computing and Federated-Split Learning in Internet of Things—Second Edition

edited by

Qiang Duan

and

Zhihui Lu

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; split learning; hybrid federated– split learning; edge-cloud computing; internet of things; multimodal large models; large language model (LLM)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Smart Healthcare

edited by

Lidia Bajenaru

and Virginia Sandulescu

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare; smart healthcare systems; machine learning in medicine; AI-powered diagnostics; predictive analytics in healthcare; remote monitoring; telemedicine; digital twins in healthcare; ai-driven workflow optimization; wearable health technologies; AI and mental health; healthcare IoT (Internet of Things); data privacy and security in healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Key Enabling Technologies for Beyond 5G Networks—2nd Edition

edited by

Dania Marabissi

and

Lorenzo Mucchi

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open

Keywords: THz and visible light communications; intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS); cognitive and dynamic spectrum access; machine learning and artificial intelligence for wireless communications systems; energy-efficient wireless communications and networking; network softwarization and virtualization; network security; physical layer security; zero-touch networks; massive IoT communication; quantum communication and cryptography; joint communication and sensing; massive MIMO; advanced wearable technologies and body area networks; edge computing; 3D networking

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Digital Twins in Next-Generation IoT Networks

edited by Junhui Jiang, Yu Zhao, Mengmeng Yu and

Dongwoo Kim

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 8 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; IoT systems; real-time data processing; interoperability; cybersecurity; AI; predictive maintenance; advanced IoT systems; multimodal data processing; computer vision; large language models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

AI Based Natural Language Processing: Emerging Approaches and Applications

edited by William H. Hsu and Huichen Yang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language processing; information extraction; artificial intelligence; text mining; natural language processing; natural language generation; natural language understanding; machine learning for NLP; information extraction; information retrieval and text mining; question answering; speech recognition and text to speech; NLP for document intelligence; NLP applications; including domain-specific applications in fields such as science and medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

2024 and 2025 Feature Papers from Future Internet’s Editorial Board Members

edited by

Gianluigi Ferrari

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 8568 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; artificial intelligence; network virtualization; cybersecurity

State-of-the-Art Future Internet Technologies in Greece 2024–2025

edited by

Panagiotis Papageorgas

Dimitrios Piromalis

and

Dionisis Kandris

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3501 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced communication network infrastructures; internet of things; centralized and distributed data centers; industrial internet of things

State-of-the-Art Future Internet Technology in USA 2024–2025

edited by

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

and

Symeon Papavassiliou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3293 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless networks; smart grid systems; cybersecurity; public safety; cyber– physical systems; edge computing; smart cities; Internet of Things

State-of-the-Art Future Internet Technology in Italy 2024–2025

edited by

Massimo Cafaro