Special Issues
Upcoming Special Issue - CALL FOR PAPERS
Modelling and Simulation in Secure Distributed Computing (ModSimDC)
Distributed computing systems are recognized today as low-cost environments for outsourcing infrastructure, platforms, and software. Privacy and security problems remain challenging, especially in mobile systems. ICT system end-users now use applications that fall under the data-intensive paradigm, such as Skyline queries, streaming information relays, and crowd-sourced disaster management. Cyber Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is a collection of models, frameworks, and tools that enable researchers, engineers, and technologists to practice the science of cybersecurity. However, this paradigm shift has opened new research directions in security, data interoperability, sustainable software development, and many other areas.
This issue encompasses practical approaches that advance research on securely handling large amounts of data across mobile nodes, the cloud, and connected edge clusters, including MANETs, wireless sensor networks, AI systems, and other ICT systems. Successful contributions may range from advanced technologies, applications, and innovative solutions for secure ICT to the development of methods, conceptual and theoretical models, secure management, monitoring, scheduling, and resource allocation, and showcase the role of modeling and simulation in these domains.
The publication topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
● M&S of security-aware data gathering and assimilation in ICT systems
● Cloud, edge, and fog-secure models and infrastructures
● M&S of secure multi-agent systems
● Machine learning-based models and simulators of secure ICT systems
● Advanced security and privacy mechanisms in mobile and distributed infrastructures
● Scalable identity and authentication protocols in ICT systems
● Secure resource allocation and scheduling in computing networks
● Secure communication in Smart Grid installations using Ad Hoc Network Protocols
● Wireless Sensor Node applications for Smart Grid
● Secure 5G applications for Smart Grid
● Economic models in secure ICT environments
● Secure mobile network applications
● Trust and Reputation Management in ICT Systems
● M&S of attacks on machine learning models
● Quantum and post-quantum cryptography
Paper Submission Guidelines
Submitted manuscripts should present original contributions and must not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the high standards of the journal. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity, and presentation.
Manuscripts should be submitted online through the Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology submission system using the following link: https://jtit.pl/jtit/about/submissions
Authors must add “ModSimDC” for clarity to the TITLE of their paper, which will be removed after acceptance.
Important Dates
Paper Submissions: November 15, 2026
● 1st notification of initial decision: December 06, 2026
● Final manuscripts due: December 31, 2026
● Expected Publication date: Spring 2027
Guest Editors
Joanna Kolodziej, NASK, Warsaw, Poland, Cracow University of Technology, joanna.kolodziej[at]nask.pl (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5181-8713)
Adrian Coleșa, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, adrian.colesa[at]cs.utcluj.ro (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2431-4253)
Cándido Caballero-Gil, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, ccabgil[at]ull.edu.es (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6910-6538)
Below is a list of the special issues we have published in JTIT:
• 2025 White Paper: Communication Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems: From Railways to UAVs and Beyond
• 2025 Special Issue, which features selected scientific papers from the 63rd FITCE Congress, held in Kraków, Poland, in September 2024
• ITU 2010 Plenipotentiary Conference Special Issue
