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Xiaojiang Du
Security and Privacy in Wireless IoT
The 13 articles in this special section focus on security and privacy in wireless Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is a paradigm that involves networked physical objects with embedded technologies to collect, communicate, sense, and interact with the external environment through wireless or wired connections. With rapid advancements in IoT technology, the number of IoT devices is expected to surpass 50 billion by 2020, which has also drawn the attention of attackers who seek to exploit the merits of this new technology for their own benefits. There are many potential security and privacy threats to IoT, such as attacks against IoT systems and unauthorized access to private information of end u…
Recent Advances in Security and Privacy for Future Intelligent Networks
The articles in this special section focus on recent advances in security and privacy for future intelligent networks. Recent booming advancements in networking techniques have led to an evolution toward future intelligent networks (FINs). This trend takes place under a circumstance in which a great number of devices are connected for specific purposes by a variety of novel techniques. In FINs, we envision the benefits of integrating intelligence into networks. Contemporarily, these emerging techniques are still at the exploration stage, leaving many privacy and security challenges unaddressed. Existing researchers have already uncovered a great amount of attacks and threats. The situation …