Guest editorial: Security and privacy of P2P networks in emerging smart city

Abstract

Recently, the smart city has been introduced as a promising concept due to its potential benefits including low-carbon economy, intelligent traffic management, ubiquitous information sharing, and etc. In the smart city, there are many key components, such as smart grid, smart vehicle, smart cloud, and mobile social network. Thanks to the good salability and low processing cost on content delivery and distributed search engine in these components, P2P technologies are expected to play an essential role in accelerating the implementation of the smart city. Although we have witnessed the major and remarkable development in the field of smart city in the recent years, the security and privacy issues of the smart city have not been well studied. Thus, there is a crucial need for security and privacy research to achieve secure and privacy-preserving smart city. This special issue has gained overwhelming attention and received 32 submissions from researchers and practitioners working on security and privacy of P2P Networks in