<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Dear friend, </span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">We invite you to submit your research work in the Special Issue
(SI) we are organising with Digital Communications and Networks
Journal. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rcAICYW8MBSGWnjBc9Mht4?domain=keaipublishing.com/" id="gmail-LPlnk" style="color:blue">http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networks/call-for-papers/si-on-privacy-preserved-learning-in-distributed/</a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">This special issue will feature theoretical foundations and
empirical studies on data privacy in distributed communication systems.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Topics Covered:</span></h2>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 11.25pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation in mobile/edge/fog computing</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation in vehicular/drone networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation in IoT networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation in CDN (content distribution
networks) and ICN (information centric networks)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation for smart internet routing</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation in ad-hoc networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Privacy leakage and preservation in location-based services</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Data poison for learning in distributed systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Embedding federated/distributed learning in distributed
communication systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Gradient/parameter leakage for learning in distributed
systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Differential attacks and other attacks to crack data privacy
in distributed communication systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Differential privacy mechanism design for distributed
communication systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Data anonymisation in distributed communication systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Homomorphic encryption and privacy protection for learning in
distributed communication systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Multi-party computing and privacy protection in distributed
communication systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Blockchain and privacy protection in distributed
communication systems</span></li>
</ul>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Important Deadlines
(Tentative):</span></h2>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Submission deadline: 15 August 2021</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">First notification: 15 October 2021</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Revised version deadline: 1 December 2021</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Final notification: 15 February 2022</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Publication date: April 2022</span></li>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Submission Instructions:</span></h2>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 11.25pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Please read the </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/W7ZrCZY1WDcOqkXBFyC50C?domain=keaipublishing.com/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Guide for Authors</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> before submitting.
All articles should be </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-l7DC1WL9zSvAPLWIYHl9S?domain=editorialmanager.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">submitted online</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> via the editorial
management system. Please select the option “SI: Privacy and Learning”.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Guest Editors:</span></h2>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Managing Guest Editor: Dr. Yipeng Zhou, Macquarie University,
Australia. Email: </span><a href="mailto:yipeng.zhou@mq.edu.au" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">yipeng.zhou@mq.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Keshav Sood, Deakin University, Australia. Email: </span><a href="mailto:Keshav.sood@deakin.edu.au" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Keshav.sood@deakin.edu.au</span></a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Abderrahim Benslimane, The Avignon University, France.
Email: </span><a href="mailto:abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr</span></a></li>
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Email: </span><a href="mailto:shui.yu@uts.edu.au" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">shui.yu@uts.edu.au</span></a></li>
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<p class="gmail-xxxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Guest Editors</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span><span><font size="3" face="Calibri"></font></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Shui YU, PhD, Professor</font></font></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">School of Computer Science</font></font></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">, </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">University of Technology Sydney,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Sydney,<span> </span>Australia.</font></font></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/shui.yu" target="_blank">https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/shui.yu</a> </p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">Email: <a href="mailto:Shui.Yu@uts.edu.au" target="_blank">Shui.Yu@uts.edu.au</a><br><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>