The division Cybersecurity is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division conducts research and education in cybersecurity and consists of four research groups.
Magnus Johansson
The division has around 40 employees and consists of four research groups:
For a presentation of each research group, see below.
This group conducts research on air security including manned air communication systems and drone identification and communication, as well as ground IT security including industrial internet, smartgrids, security and monitoring of vehicular systems (cars, ships, rails) and 6G.
The group is led by Andrei Gurtov, Professor.
This group performs research on communication networks, such as semantics-aware goal-oriented communications, timeliness of information, tactile internet, wireless energy harvesting networks, performance analysis and stochastic modeling, and physical layer security. An important research direction is how to utilize the traffic properties and characteristics to increase the performance of wireless networks by reducing the amount of information that is generated, transmitted, and processed in a network. Typical examples include content caching and timing properties and requirements of traffic, which are crucial aspects towards 6G communications.
The group is led by Nikolaos Pappas, Associate Professor.
We focus on getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Information security is an important part of this aim: for a system to be trusted, it must also be secure.
Research within this group is done on a broad range of topics, spanning security, networks, and related areas such as performance evaluation and multimedia systems.
The group is led by Niklas Carlsson, Professor.
Dependable systems and networks, including reliability, safety and security, resource efficiency with respect to computation capacity, memory, bandwidth and energy.
The group is led by Mikael Asplund, Senior Associate Professor.
DYNACON: DYNamic Attack detection and mitigation for seCure AutONomy. Protect autonomous systems from cyber-attacks targeting control systems.
For more information about the project, please follow the link NEST-Project DYNACON
PI at Linköping University: Andrei Gurtov, Professor.
SOURCE: Secure Operation of Uncontrolled and Reliable Computing on the Edges. Generative AI to ensure secure operation in dynamic edge scenarios.
For more information about the project, please follow the link NEST-project SOURCE
Co-PI:s at Linköping University Mikael Asplund and Fredrik Heintz
Remote State Estimation Over a Wearing Channel: Information Freshness Versus Channel Aging
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 71, p. 7014-7021
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2026.3694625
Version AoI Optimization Under Power and General Distortion Constraints in Uplink NOMA
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 25, p. 23503-23518
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2026.3731651
Uneven Toxicity Dynamics: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Toxicity and Engagement in Instagram News
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE, WEBSCI 2026, p. 199-210
(Conference paper)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3795766.3799776
Robustifying Age-Threshold Slotted ALOHA Under Feedback Uncertainty
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 25, p. 23553-23569
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2026.3724601
Improving SIEM Rules Using Transformer-Based Rule Evasion Detection and Attribution
DATA AND APPLICATIONS SECURITY AND PRIVACY XL, DBSEC 2026, p. 83-103
(Conference paper)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-33260-8_5
Value of Communication in Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications: A Pareto Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 72, p. 8018-8033
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2026.3720415
Proceedings of the 5th International Ice Hockey Analytics Conference LINHAC 2026 Research Track and Community Notes
(Conference proceedings (editor))
https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp221
A Cyber-Resilient Zero Trust Architecture for Renewable Energy Communities
Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 11, Article 56
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40866-026-00374-5
Semantics in Actuation Systems: From Age of Actuation to Age of Actuated Information
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Vol. 10, p. 3890-3903
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGCN.2026.3717658
A Survey on Drone Remote ID Architectures, With an Emphasis on Security
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Vol. 7, p. 9551-9583
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3717215
