Wireless Communication: Applications, Security and Reliability—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Technology application in civilian and military applications is crucial to support peace enforcement around the world. The pace of technological advancement in commercial products is very fast; however, military procurement processes are characterized by an R&D phase prolonged by careful verification procedures and a long equipment operation cycle.

Sustaining the life of soldiers on the battlefield depends heavily on communication means, and the three main pillars of security, i.e., confidentiality, integrity and availability, as well as an additional aspect, the early detection of threats. The two fields of technology, i.e., military communications and security issues, obtain their inspiration from general scientific achievements; however, the application area poses additional challenges and requirements on the mechanisms and solutions. Military applications require an innovative approach, long life support and special consideration of means that support survival in the battlefield.

Wireless communications are widely used today, but new areas of implementation are still being discovered. New applications are possible as a result of progress in many fields of science and technology. Exchanging large amounts of vital data among multiple nodes simultaneously, in a dynamically changing environment, for example, between groups of moving vehicles, imposes strict requirements on latency, the reliability of information delivery and the capacity of the communication system.

Information security is a very important area of radio communication. TRANSEC and COMSEC mechanisms require pseudo-random sequence generators to perform encryption and hopping functions. This Special Issue presents one of the possible solutions based on Galois NLFSRs and multiple de Bruijn sequences.

All devices, to ensure a secure processing of information, should be safe in terms of immunity from electromagnetic disturbances. Such devices have to meet several EMC requirements, but immunity from electromagnetic fields is the most important, as it is connected with the possibilities of use of electromagnetic weapons, and the insufficient immunity of a device to such exposure can be the cause of many serious accidents threatening information security.

Today’s solutions in the area of broadly understood military security involve post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, efficient authentication schemes, vulnerabilities recognition and threat and attack detection, as well as failover, high availability and survivability.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the presentation of various issues that affect the extension of areas of wireless communication applications, its security and reliability. Particularly interesting are techniques supporting autonomous systems, wideband communication in different frequency bands, the efficient use of spectrum, channel sensing and acquisition, radio environment map construction techniques, the protection of information in the aspect of cryptography and the selection of test methods of new IT devices from the point of view of immunity from electromagnetic fields.

Taking this into account, we would like to invite you to propose novel research in the area of communications and security that can be efficiently applied in the military domain, which would be interesting to the wide audience of the prestigious journal Applied Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Ireneusz Kubiak
Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Wieckowski
Prof. Dr. Yevhen Yashchyshyn
Guest Editors

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• wireless communication
• frequency allocation and assignment
• cognitive radio
• radio environment map
• spectrum monitoring
• sensing
• channel acquisition
• wideband waveforms
• RF propagation
• vehicular communications
• platooning
• spatial interpolation
• inverse distance weighing
• kriging
• 5G
• hybrid FSO/RF systems
• UOWC (underwater optical wireless communication)
• optical transmission sources and detectors
• reliability of radio communications
• system availability
• cryptography
• cryptography
• pseudo-random generators
• cross-join method
• cybersecurity
• attack detection
• graph analysis
• attack graphs
• risk assessment survivability
• failover
• high availability
• efficient communications
• AI
• machine learning
• post-quantum cryptography
• SDN
• NFV
• cloud infrastructure
• electromagnetic immunity
• electromagnetic field
• electromagnetic disturbance
• techniques for measuring of electromagnetic immunity
• immunity of IT devices on electromagnetic field
• electromagnetic eavesdropping

• Wireless Communication: Applications, Security and Reliability in Applied Sciences (17 articles)