International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing

11-13 February 2009

Melbourne, Australia

Extended versions of selected best papers (and Presented) will be considered for Special issues of a high quality international journal and also in Journal of Security and Communication Networks published by John Wiley & Sons.
 

CFP for Special Issue on Security in Ad Hoc Networks and Pervasive Computing¨, Wiley's Security and Communication Networks (SCN) Journal

Background
Pervasive computing is an exciting and blooming research field, in which innovative techniques and applications are continuously emerging and aim to provide ambient and personalized services to users with high quality. Ad Hoc networks are wireless, self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Their topology is dynamic, decentralized, ever changing and the nodes may move around arbitrarily. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad hoc networking that are moving rapidly into implemented standards. Technology under development for ad hoc networks and pervasive computing is making important steps toward this end goal possible. However, the security concerns remain a serious impediment to widespread adoption. The underlying radio communication medium for wireless network provides serious exposure to attacks against wireless networks. Wireless ad-hoc networks usually cannot depend on traditional infrastructure found in enterprise environments such as dependable power sources, high bandwidth, continuous connectivity, common network services, well-known membership, static configuration, system administration, and physical security. Finally, throw in malicious adversaries with Byzantine collusion threats and you have a very interesting and challenging problem. Without adequate security, enterprises will not be able to profit from the use of wireless ad-hoc networks and pervasive computing environment, defense organizations might be unable to guarantee the safety of their personnel in battlefield scenarios, and wireless ad-hoc networks and pervasive computing will remain on the drawing board even if the other problems associated with them are solved.

This special issue is focused on various aspects of security in ad hoc networks and pervasive computing research and development to report both in-depth research and applications-oriented works. The special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of security in ad hoc networks and pervasive computing. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts containing original research in this area.

Scope of Contributions
The topics of interest include:
* Intrusion detection
* Self-monitoring/self-healing wireless networks
* Dependability/security optimization and adaptive control
* Novel threats/attacks/vulnerability
* Public key infrastructure implementation
* Intrusion tolerant mechanisms
* Denial of service attacks and prevention
* Secure group communication/multicast
* Security considerations for resource constrained devices
* Cross-layer network attacks and mitigation
* Secure routing protocols
* Network controlled secure physical reconfiguration
* Redundancy and security
* Reasoning about trust in wireless environment
* Tools for analysis and verification of protocols

Important Dates
Manuscript submission deadline: September 1, 2008
Decision Notification: December 1, 2008
Revision Due: January 1, 2009
Final Manuscript Due: February 1, 2009
Publication Date: May/June, 2009

Submission procedure
Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security. Prospective authors should submit their papers online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the Manuscript type as Special Issue, enter the "Running Head¨ and the ˇ§Special Issue titleˇ¨ as SCN-SI-003¨ and Adhoc Security, respectively.

Guest Editors
Zheng-Yu Wu
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
E-mail: bitwzy1@gmail.com

Xiang-Yang Li
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
E-mail: xli@cs.iit.edu

Yu-Chee Tseng
National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
E-mail: yctseng@cs.nctu.edu.tw

Min Song
Old?Dominion?University, USA
E-mail: MSong@odu.edu

Chuan-Ming Liu
National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan
E-mail: cmliu@csie.ntut.edu.tw