Call for Papers

The IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society (OJ-COMS) invites manuscript submissions in the area of Security and Privacy for the Transformative Technologies in 5G and Beyond.

5G is expected to support supremely high data rates and extremely low latency to enabling a variety of applications, e.g., remote control of smart vehicles, and virtual/augmented reality. Due to diversified and stringent requirements in different applications, 5G also needs an intelligent way of managing the various resources including computing, networking and storage resources. By integrating disruptive technologies, 5G and beyond-5G networks satisfy the increasing performance demands and provide ultra-reliable and affordable broadband access everywhere, not only to cellular hand-carried devices, but also to a massive number of devices in machine-to-machine communications, cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, mobile edge computing, software-defined network and massive MIMO, are the transformative technologies that are all radically redefining the network demands, while simultaneously enriching the services that the future networks can offer.

Although 5G and beyond-5G offer a multitude of benefits to the emerging applications, they are susceptible to the malicious or inadvertent introductions of vulnerabilities, such as malicious software or hardware, counterfeit components, and poor designs. Even worse, these new technologies are facing a series of inherent security and privacy threats, which intensify the vulnerabilities of the 5G networks. In addition, vastly increased numbers of devices and an elevated use of virtualization result in more 5G security threats and a broader, multifaceted attack surface. To realize strong and healthy communication networks, exploring the approaches to address the security and privacy threats are vital for both industry and academia.

This special issue will be focusing on secure and privacy-preserving solutions to address the various problems in the key techniques for 5G and beyond-5G networks. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Security and Privacy for Mobile Edge Computing/Caching in 5G and Beyond
• Privacy-preserving Machine Learning or Deep Learning in 5G and Beyond
• Adversarial Machine Learning or Deep Learning in 5G and Beyond
• Trustworthiness and Fairness in Artificial Intelligence for 5G and Beyond
• Security and Privacy for Blockchain Technology in 5G and Beyond
• Security and Privacy for Data-centric Networks in 5G and Beyond
• Security and Privacy for Fog Computing in 5G and Beyond
• Security and Privacy for Software-Defined Networks
• Security and Privacy for Network Function Virtualization
• Security and Privacy for Drone Communications in 5G and Beyond
• Physical layer security for Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) in 5G and Beyond
• Physical Layer Security for Massive MIMO in 5G and Beyond
• Physical Layer Security for New Radio in 5G and Beyond

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts following the IEEE OJ-COMMS guidelines. Authors should submit manuscript to Manuscript Central.

Lead Guest Editor

Xiaodong Lin, University of Guelph, Canada

Guest Editors

Jianbing Ni, Queen’s University, Canada
Wei Wang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
Aiqing Zhang, Anhui Normal University, China
Abdulrahman Alamer, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Athanasios V. Vasilakos, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, please contact the Lead Guest Editor.