Guest Editorial Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems

• Published in: IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 4; no. 6; pp. 1798 - 1801
• Main Authors: Yu, Wei, Fu, Xinwen, Song, Houbing, Economides, Anastasios A., Jo, Minho, Zhao, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.12.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Cyber-physical systems; Cybersecurity; Internet of Things; Manufacturing processes; Medical research; Privacy; Smart cities; Smart grids; Special issues and sections
• ISSN: 2327-4662; 2327-4662
• DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2771580

A typical cyber-physical system (CPS) refers to a system that features a tight integration of computation, networking, and physical elements for interactions between cyber and physical spaces. The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered to be the networking infrastructure of CPS. Applications of CPS cover numerous smart-world research areas that our daily life depends upon, including smart transportation, smart electrical power grid, smart cities, smart medical systems, smart manufacturing systems, and others. While major research on improving the efficiency and reliability of CPS by using advanced information and communication technologies has been conducted, the risks of cyberspace security and privacy breaches in CPS need to be seriously investigated before a massive deployment of CPS technologies can or should be realized.