Guest Editorial: Energy Management, Protocols, and Security for the Next-Generation Networks and Internet of Things

The tremendous growth of interconnected things/devices in the whole world advances to the new paradigm i.e. Internet of Things (IoT). This special session focuses on the recent challenges, design and issues for Energy Management, Protocols and Security for the next generation networks and IoT. The aim of this special issue in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics is to bring together global ICT state of the art and research trends with new developments in this area. This theme is expected to provide the primary and major resources necessary for researchers, academicians, IT industries, and scientists to adopt and implement new inventions. Ten papers have been selected for publication in this part of the section, following several rounds of rigorous reviews. These papers cover the range of encouraging milestones: energy management, resource management, blockchain, cryptography and security aspects for satisfying demands, new algorithms and protocols for the IoT, cloud computing, fog-computing, smart grid, wireless data center and next-generation networks.