Adaptive Resilient Vehicular Fog Computing
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 4339
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber and CPS system security; ubiquitous computing; software-defined environments; moving target defense; cloud and fog computing
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Interests: embedding intelligence in energy-constrained networking operations; autonomic resilient network-ing; network semantics reasoning; and machine learning applications in computer networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent innovations in vehicular computing supported by smart software-defined elastic networking have enabled ad hoc construction of logical powerful computing platforms that unlock many interesting features needed to support future smart cities. Vehicular fog computing (VFC) platforms can harvest vast underutilized resources to provide on-demand localized support for many applications. The infrastructure-independent construction of VFC makes it a perfect candidate to support disaster situations. Enabling VFC to adapt to abrupt dynamic network changes with nodes randomly joining and departing the network is a major challenge. Further, enabling a trustworthy exchange and processing of data given such ad hoc formation of nodes while preserving the participating nodes’ privacy through anonymity is another hard problem that requires extensive research. Unfortunately, the ad hoc nature of VFC even with the support of contemporary defense tools might not be enough to ensure safe and secure VFC operation. The lack of intrinsic support for self-and-situation awareness limits the defense platform’s ability to dynamically coordinate defense services for the best interest of VFC and VFC-hosted applications. Such lack of coordination limits defense service provisioning quality and facilitates maliciously induced conflicts that can lead to serious devastating attacks. This Special Issue targets innovative ideas, novel solutions, and systems to enable resilient adaptive vehicular fog computing and seeks solutions enabling dynamic adaptive construction of ad hoc mobile networks, enhanced situation awareness, early threat detection, and proactive resolution, and privacy-preserved data exchange and processing. Submissions considering but not limited to the following topics are encouraged:
- Enabling dynamic adaptive ad hoc mobile network construction;
- Proactive defense techniques for dynamic mobile networks and supported applications;
- Machine-learning guided situation awareness and early warning systems;
- Privacy-preserving system operations;
- Trustworthy anonymization mechanisms;
- Investigating and analyzing VFC operational vulnerabilities;
- Evaluating the impact of failures and attacks on VFC;
- Surveys on VFC network threats and attacks;
- Trust management techniques and issues for VFC.
Dr. Mohamed Azab
Guest Editor
Dr. Bassem Mokhtar
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Vehicular cloud/fog
- Blockchain supported VANET
- 5G-enabled secure VANET
- Security and privacy
- Drone assisted secure networks
- Proactive defense
- Dynamic mobile networks
- Smart situation awareness
- Trustworthy wireless communications
- 5G-supported secure wireless mesh networks
