Abstract

With the emergence of the next generation networking and system technologies such as cloud computing, software defined networking, and the Internet of things, significant changes have been brought to how networks are designed, deployed, and managed. The research work of in these areas has been important and highly active in the past few years. In this context, security has been one of the major concerns and there is a prominent trend in the growing demand on the security research in such fields. The raising question is: how to design a secure next generation network? We are searching for answers from many different aspects, such as the architecture design of a secure system, privacy-preserving communication, secure data management, trustworthy evaluation for agents in a secure system, and the management of a secure system. In this special issue, we aims to bring together the state-of-the-art research on the various security aspects of next-generation networking technologies and service management frameworks. This special issue on “Next Generation Networks and Systems Security” attempts to highlight some of the latest research addressing those challenges. It collects a series of papers on the important topics, More specifically