Secure Big Data Analytics for Smart City

Submission Deadline: 20 December 2020 (closed)

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Summary

As most of the urban cities are extensively transformed into smart cities of recent times, the number of intelligent devices connected across this smart city networks has risen gradually. Also, it will continue to grow explicitly in the coming days. It is estimated that the amount of smart city enabled IoT devices may increase exponentially and will exceed more than 10 billion within a short period, which imposes a considerable security threat and traffic demand across the smart city communication networks. With these influences, data volume across these devices may also continue to multiply shortly with huge communication overheads and security vulnerabilities. Further, the process of provision of data-centric smart city services will diversely make the next generation smart city services to be extremely complex and challenging in nature. However, the traditional methods of security practices do not scale well with emerging requirements of the smart city applications and may create a higher risk of security and privacy concerns across the communication networks.

On the other hand, protection to hardware devices also becomes an emerging concern as it forms an integral part of edge assisted smart city communication networks. Without the use of novel cybersecurity assisted secure big data analytics approaches, it is highly critical to overcome the security and privacy constraints of big data-related smart city applications. Actually, the increasing security and privacy threats across big data assisted smart city form the key enabler of incorporating cybersecurity and computational intelligence practices across the smart city applications. However, the increasing complexity in the development, management, and deployment of smart city services it creates the requirement of advanced cybersecurity progresses. Hence, developing secure and privacy-preserving big data analytics applications form the crucial need of our time.

This special issue aims to bring academic researchers, practitioners, and data scientists from the background of computer science and information technology to share their novel and innovative cybersecurity assisted innovative solutions for smart city applications. It further intends to explore recent advances and future trends of converging advanced security practices across big data applications.

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