Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems: 17th EAI International Conference, QShine 2021, Virtual Event, November 29-30,

Machine Learning in Distributed Networks.- FedDICE: A ransomware spread detection in a distributed integrated clinical environment using federated learning and SDN based mitigation.- Accelerating TEE-based DNN Inference Using Mean Shift Network Pruning.- Towards Secure and Trustworthy Crowdsourcing with Versatile Data Analytics.- Blockchain Networks and Blockchain-based Applications.- Blockchain for IoT: A Critical Analysis Concerning Performance and Scalability.- Toward Achieving Unanimity for Implicit Closings in a Trustless System.- DBS: Blockchain-based privacy-preserving RBAC in IoT.- 5G Networks and Security.- 8 A Lightweight Authentication Protocol for 5G Cellular Network Connected Drones.- Anti-eavesdropping Proportional Fairness Access Control for 5G Networks.- Joint Relay Selection and Frequency Allocationfor D2D Communications.- IoT Security and Lightweight Cryptography 11 Chaos and Logistic Map based Key Generation Technique for AES-driven IoT Security.- A Usability Study of Cryptographic API Design.- An S-box Design using Irreducible Polynomial with Affine Transformation for Lightweight Cipher.- The Phantom Gradient Attack: A Study Of Replacement Functions For The XOR Function.- Network Security 15 Topology Validator - Defense against Topology Poisoning Attack in SDN.- Towards an Attention-based Accurate Intrusion Detection Approach.- Avoiding VPN Bottlenecks: Exploring Network-Level client Identity Validation Options.- Privacy-preserving Emerging Networked Applications.- Privacy-Preserving Ranked Searchable Encryption Based on Differential Privacy.- Memory-efficient Encrypted Search using Trusted Execution Environment Viet Vo.