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IoE framework system, location and data privacy
are also important. The SPbD/PSbD mechanisms
have the potentials to provide both security and
privacy in the IoE framework to ensure the security and privacy is full proof.

FEATURE ARTICLES
PUFChain: Hardware-Assisted Blockchain for
Sustainable Simultaneous Device and Data Security
in Internet of Everything (IoE): This article presents
the first-ever blockchain which is overhauled by
hardware-assisted security mechanism so that it
can simultaneously handle device and data security, which is important for the emerging IoE.
Consumer IoT: Security Vulnerability Case Studies and Solutions: This article presents selected
common attacks faced by consumer IoT devices
and suggests potential strategies for their mitigation with intention for provide inputs for the
design of consumer IoT devices.
Supporting Blockchain Based Cryptocurrency
Mobile Payment With Smart Devices: This article
presents schemes to obtain cryptocurrency mobile
payment while overcoming high storage cost and
payment processing latency of the blockchains.
Design of a Framework to Detect Device Spoofing Attacks Using Network Characteristics: This
article presents a mechanism for detection of
device spoofing attacks based on physical characteristics of networks.
Tracking Attacks on Virtual Reality Systems: This
article presents attacks and possible countermeasure of the security of Virtual Reality (VR) systems.
Power Management Strategies for Medical
Information Transmission in Wireless Body Sensor
Networks: This article presents discussions on
the impact of power management techniques on
resource-constrained networks for in healthcare
framework.
Autonomous Tactical Deployment of the UAV
Array Using Self-Organized Swarm Intelligence:
This article discussed application of swarm intelligence for the arrays of autonomous unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) for effective deployment
in various applications.
Extending Aspect-Oriented Programming for
Dynamic User's Activity Detection in Mobile App Analytics: This article analyzes the possibility of oriented programming for providing a mechanism for
detecting activity of the users inside mobile apps.

March/April 2020

COLUMNS
Bits Versus Electrons-Communities of
Things: This article presents the vision of communities of things in which a community using a
set of IoT devices can present their collective
ability.
Storage-New Electronic Architectures: This
article presents perspectives of new architectures which are needed due to need for data
driven processing of AI and IoT.
Energy and Security Matters-Switch Technologies: Powering milliWatts to MegaWatts:
This article presents views of electronic switch
technologies used in the power supplies from a
portable consumer electronics system to large
power electronics systems.

SPECIAL SECTION
The cover theme articles selected by the
team of guest editors are presented in the special section titled "Privacy and Security by
Design." I would like to thank the Guest Editors
Ibrahim J. Gedeon, Pamela Snively, Carey Frey,
Wahab Almuhtadi, and Saraju P. Mohanty for all
their hard work for this strong special section
which will be a good reading for CE community
around the globe.
I would like to sincerely thank TELUS Communications for their generous support to sponsor this thematic issue on "Privacy and Security
by Design."
I would like to thank Xavier Fernando for his
hard work for selecting articles for a special section
on "Implementable Humanitarian Technology."

LOOKING FORWARD
I hope this issue dedicated to "Privacy and
Security by Design" becomes a good reading for
a wider set of CE community to advance their
knowledge. CE magazine will continue the trend
of covering more themes for our enthusiastic
readers in future issues on the latest hot topics
with the help of editorial board and authors
around the globe.
Saraju P. Mohanty is currently the Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE and a professor with the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX,
USA. Contact him at Saraju.Mohanty@unt.edu.

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