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Mobile Networks and Applications

The Journal of SPECIAL ISSUES on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing

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Mobile Networks and Applications - Privacy and Security in Emerging Internet of Multimedia Things

Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) devices is distinct from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Due to the increased bandwidth requires more incredible memory, more processing power, and is more energy-intensive. IoMT primary characteristic is its on-time and reliable data transmission. As a result, it enforces stringent Quality of Service (QoS). Multimedia data plays a critical role in IoT monitoring, tracking and surveillance applications. The amount of multimedia data being generated is exploding. It presents new obstacles in transmitting, processing, storing, and disseminating information in edge, fog, and cloud devices, requiring new processing methods. For the storage and manipulation of multimedia data, innovative compression and decompression algorithms are needed. The aforementioned problem necessitates the enhancement of a typical IoT routing protocol. The routing protocol has to be improved by taking fault tolerance, load-balancing, delay-aware and energy-aware IoMT deployment. A significant source of concern in an IoMT is the possibility of revealing streaming video footage, such as that resulting from video surveillance, which might expose confidential information. In the Internet of Things, privacy and data security in storage and transport are critical.

Since IoMT is so open and diverse, maintaining a high level of trust, security, and privacy is a massive challenge. Access control protects the confidentiality and integrity of IoMT resources. It offers a way to ensure that unauthorized users do not access multimedia applications in the IoT framework. In contrast, as the multimedia services and the number of users made available by the Internet of Things platform continue to grow massively, the access control system's capabilities are becoming more diverse. Furthermore, the assessment of access control policies hurts the performance of IoMT applications. Additionally, the Internet of Multimedia Nano-Things (IoMNT) is described as the network of multimedia nano-devices connected to the internet and communication networks. The possible uses of IoMNT include security, medicinal research, military and industrial applications.

The most significant research problems in IoMNT are innovative addressing schemes, QoS-aware cross-layer communication modules, medium access control mechanisms, neighbour finding and routing strategies, and security solutions for IoMNT. Henceforth, the widespread deployment of wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, 5G/6G, robotics and automation, cognitive computing, blockchain, edge intelligence and inexpensive sensors has facilitated multimedia technologies and fostered some emerging applications. Hence this special issue focuses on Privacy and Security in Emerging Internet of Multimedia Things.

GUEST EDITORS:

Dr Achyut Shankar (LGE)

Department of Cyber Security

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

ashankar2711@gmail.com (this opens in a new tab)

Dr Zahid Akhtar

Assistant Professor

State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA

akhtarz@sunypoly.edu (this opens in a new tab)

List of topic areas include, but are not limited to:

  • Privacy-enhanced computation on Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT)
  • Risk analysis, vulnerabilities analysis and countermeasures in IoMT
  • Blockchain-enabled AI for securing the Internet of Multimedia Things
  • QoS-aware cross-layer communication modules for IoMT
  • Edge Intelligence-based decentralized computation for IoMT
  • Hybrid cloud-based framework for Security, Privacy, & Trust Management in IoMT
  • Privacy engineering and Privacy-by-design techniques on the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT)
  • Futuristic Data protection framework for Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT)
  • Threat modelling and Intrusion detection in IoMT
  • Innovative architecture and framework for Internet of Multimedia Nano-Things

GE Details & Short Biography:

Dr. Achyut Shankar [Managing Guest Editor]

Dr. Achyut Shankar is currently working with University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has published more than 95 research papers in reputed international conferences & journals in which 75 papers are in SCIE journals. He is a member of ACM and has received research award for excellence in research for the year 2016 and 2017. He had organized many special sessions with Scopus Indexed International Conferences worldwide, proceedings of which were published by Springer, IEEE, Elsevier etc. 
He is currently serving as an Associate Editor in SAIEE Africa Research Journal(IEEE), Scientific Reports( Nature Journal, Q1), Human- Centric Computing and Information Sciences & SN applied sciences(SCOPUS & ESCI, Springer) and in year 2021 and 2022, 2023 handing few special issues as a Guest editor ACM transaction for TALIP, International Journal of Human Computer Interaction( Taylor and Francis) , International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management(Springer) and Journal of Interconnection networks( World Scientific journals) & Journal of electronic imaging(SPIE) He is serving as reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing and other prestigious conferences. His areas of interest include Network Security, WSN, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Machine Learning.

Dr Zahid Akhtar

Dr. Akhtar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Network and Computer Security at State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (USA) since August 2020. Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant Professor at University of Memphis, USA (2018-2020) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at INRS-EMT-University of Quebec, Canada (2016-2018), University of Udine, Italy (2013-2016), Bahcesehir University, Turkey (2013), and University of Cagliari, Italy (2012-2013), respectively. He was a visiting Research Fellow at University of Cagliari, Italy, from 2008 to 2009. Between 2005 to 2008, he was Junior Research Fellow at University of Pune, India. In 2004, he worked as a summer intern at Tata Motors Limited, India. Dr. Akhtar received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from University of Cagliari (Italy). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Moreover, he is a Senior Member of IEEE as well as a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also a recipient of the Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Biometrics Journal (2014), Outstanding Paper Award at the International Conference on Internet (2017), Best Industry-Oriented research work award at National Seminar on Physics and Technology of Sensors (2007), Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award in the prestigious journal Pattern Recognition Letters (2016), and Thrice Best Reviewer Award at the International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (2017, 2018 & 2019).Dr. Akhtar’s current research interests are in the areas of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition with applications to Biometrics, Affect Recognition, Image and Video Processing, Perceptual-Based Audiovisual Multimedia Quality Assessment, and Cybersecurity.

Proposed Special Issue Dates:

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 10th May 2023

Authors Notification: 20th July 2023

Revised Papers Due: 30th Sep 2023

Final notification: 25th Nov 2023


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