Frontier Information Technology and Cyber Security for Sustainable Smart Cites
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2021) | Viewed by 634
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber security; artificial intelligence; combinatorial optimisation; IoT/smart cities
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Interests: communication systems, protocol design, wireless networks, security and privacy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart cities provision technology-driven services by bringing together the government, citizens, and its resources. Smart city technology sustainability will help enable digital transformation, rapid technology adoption, and empowerment of the society at large. Such sustainability will be achievable only through the design, development, and subsequent adoption of sound and policy-driven frontier information technology (IT) systems, platforms, and solutions comprising both information technology, in general, and cyber security, in particular, as core and complementary technology domains.
This Special Issue of Sustainability will provide a core knowledge base for understanding and progressing cutting-edge theory and practice for sustainable and secure smart cities. The Special Issue aims to bring together, under one umbrella, high-quality submissions discussing frontier technologies for IT systems and associated cyber security challenges, the design and proposal of cutting-edge solutions, policy-driven future smart city design proposals, and novel technology rating systems. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit original research contribution that may be articles, case studies, critical perspectives, and reviews on topics related to smart cities including, but not limited to, the following:
- Innovative and sustainable frontier IT systems and platforms
- IT and Operations Technology (OT) convergence use cases
- Cyber security—the design, assessment, and development of platforms and solutions
- Trust enablement
- Privacy preservation
- International standards and policies for sustaining IT and cyber security
- Intelligent, adaptive, and high-performance IT networks
- Networks of the future
- Case studies on technology-driven sustainable smart cities
- Case studies on cyber security for smart cities
Dr. Zubair Baig
Prof. Robin Doss
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- smart city sustainability
- information technology
- cyber security
- resilience
- trust
- policy
- future networks
- sustainable frontier IT
- sustainability standards
