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CFP for Special Issue on

Security and Privacy in Emerging Wireless Networks

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

Rapid advances in wireless ad hoc networking have extended its application from mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks to emerging wireless networks including wireless mesh networks, delay-tolerant networks, vehicular networks, and urban sensing networks. While facilitating ubiquitous network access and also social interactions, these emerging networks are particularly vulnerable to numerous privacy and security threats. For example, attackers may jeopardize the privacy of users in vehicular and urban sensing networks; the adversary may also compromise selected nodes in a tactical delay-tolerant network and thus fail the critical mission of the network. There is clearly an urgent need to protect emerging wireless networks from various security and privacy threats, thereby eliminating a major impediment to their widespread adoption of such networks.

Scope of Contributions

This special issue is to disseminate cutting-edge research results, highlight research challenges and open issues, and promote further research interests and activities on security and privacy in emerging wireless networks. We are more interested in contributions on wireless mesh networks, delay-tolerant networks, vehicular networks, and urban sensing networks, but we also welcome submissions related to mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks. We seek original and unpublished contributions on topics including, but not limited to:

Authentication and access control
Secure routing and MAC protocols
Privacy and anonymity
Secure localization
Secure time synchronization
Secure data aggregation
Secure location services
Key management
Intrusion detection and tolerance
Performance and security/privacy tradeoffs
Secure data storage and queries
Novel threats and attacks
Cross-layer security/privacy designs
Security and privacy under resource constraints

Submission Instructions

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. However, papers presenting original contributions will also be considered, as long as the presentation is accessible and the paper length is kept within the appropriate limits. Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE WCM guidelines for authors, which can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/pub_guidelines.html. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via the EasyChair Conference Management System at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcmwisec10

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission: December 31, 2009
Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2010
Final Manuscript: June 1, 2010
Publication Date: October, 2010

Guest Editors

Guohong Cao
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University, USA
gcao@cse.psu.edu

Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Professor
School of Computer and Communication Sciences
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
jean-pierre.hubaux@epfl.ch

Yongdae Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota, USA
kyd@cs.umn.edu

Yanchao Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
yczhang@njit.edu