Guest Editor(s)
Prof. Fei Zuo
Email: fzuo@uco.edu
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, United States
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Research Interests: artificial intelligence, network and systme security, mobile computing, AI security, edge intelligence
Prof. Junghwan Rhee
Email: jrhee2@uco.edu
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, United States
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Research Interests: systems security, distributed systems debugging, memory forensics, virtualization, IoT and automotive security
Prof. Chuxiong Wu
Email: chuxiong.wu@siu.edu
Affiliation: School of Computing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
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Research Interests: CPS security (authentication and pairing, smart sensing, IoT, mobile payment security), AI security
Summary
The paradigm shift towards "Collaborative Intelligence" across next-generation computing architectures, spanning the edge-cloud network continuum, distributed routing fabrics, and large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) applications, unlocks unprecedented processing capabilities but introduces critical, multidimensional security concerns. As computing power decentralizes and permeates complex physical networks, ranging from autonomous vehicular ad-hoc networks to smart urban communication infrastructures, traditional centralized security perimeters have become manifestly obsolete. From protocol-level algorithmic exploits and quantum-era privacy threats to cascading network-wide failures, securing these decentralized ecosystems is an urgent imperative. This demands a fundamental transition toward endogenous network security, cryptographic privacy, and dynamic protocol resilience. This Special Issue aims to provide a premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present state-of-the-art network architectures, secure communication protocols, and deployment models. We actively seek interdisciplinary approaches that fuse advanced cryptographic primitives, robust machine learning, and decentralized trust mechanisms to secure next-generation computing environments.
The following subtopics are the particular interests of this special issue, including but not limited to:
• Secure collaborative AI architecture
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for collaborative computing
• Security, resilience, and safety control in multi-agent systems
• Secure collaborative sensing in edge-cloud continuums
• Collaborative threat intelligence
• Trustworthy Internet of Things (IoT) applications
• Decentralized trust and next-generation cryptographic infrastructures
• Edge intelligence
• Security and privacy in vehicular networks
• AI-empowered CPS
• Federated learning and blockchain
• Applied AI in next-generation network
Keywords
collaborative intelligence, edge intelligence, multi-agent systems, CPS, IoT, security and privacy, vehicular networks, next-generation computing environment, federated learning, blockchain, cryptography
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