CyberNet: Next-Gen Cybersecurity for Mission-Critical Mobile Networks

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A focused workshop on trustworthy AI, resilient mobile systems, edge security, IoT protection, and mission-critical network defense.

CyberNet 2026 addresses the cybersecurity challenges of rapidly deployable, dependable, mobile, edge-enabled, and mission-critical networks, including:

• Mission-critical connectivity: Rapidly deployable networks support situational awareness, autonomous systems, video-based communication, and remote-controlled devices.
• Edge intelligence: Edge computing delivers compute, caching, sensing, control, and IoT services near mission-critical operations.
• Trustworthy AI security: AI-based security must become dependable, robust, resilient, explainable, and resistant to adversarial and backdoor attacks.
• System-aware defenses: The workshop prioritizes prototypes, testbeds, measurement studies, deployment experiences, and cross-layer security designs.

CyberNet welcomes system-oriented contributions across AI security, mobile networking, IoT, edge orchestration, authentication, resilience, and software-defined control. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• New design and implementation for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Network science for embedding cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Security and information assurance in mission-critical mobile networks
• Foundation models and LLMs for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Federated and decentralized learning for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Edge intelligence and on-device AI for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Cross-layer security architectures and technologies for mission-critical mobile networks
• Trustworthy, explainable, and robust AI for mission-critical mobile network security
• Game-theoretic security approaches for mission-critical mobile networks
• Public key infrastructure, trust, and authentication for mission-critical mobile networks
• Lightweight and resource-aware AI for cybersecurity in mobile and edge environments
• Blockchain-based security and privacy applications for mission-critical mobile networks
• Intrusion detection, prevention, and response for mission-critical mobile networks
• Programmable and intent-driven security for software-defined mobile networks
• Named Data Networking for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Digital twins for AI-driven cybersecurity analysis in mission-critical mobile networks
• Cross-layer optimizations for cybersecurity provisioning in mission-critical mobile networks
• Knowledge fusion for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Multi-agent and distributed systems for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks
• Cognitive modelling for cybersecurity provisioning in mission-critical mobile networks
• Other smart applications for cybersecurity in mission-critical mobile networks

Submission Guidelines

A full paper should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form via the workshop’s website. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at this link.