Journal of Communications
Special Issue on
Security and Privacy in Communication Systems and Networks
The rapid advancement of communication technologies has revolutionized human's
lifestyles by providing the best convenience and flexibility ever in accessing the Internet
services and various types of personal communication applications. For instance, with the
emerging wireless communication technologies, healthcare industry now is offering high
quality services to patients with low costs through a variety of applications enabled by
wireless and information technologies. This is because these wireless-equipped healthcare
systems enable remote and continuous monitoring of patients' health status in both
residential settings and outdoor settings, where patients feel more comfortable and their
activities are less restricted. Early detection of emergency situations via wireless
communications makes it possible to provide timely first-aid and access patient's health
information in a pervasive manner, thereby improving reliability and efficiency of our health
care system. Although huge potential benefits are widely recognized, there are many
challenges especially with respect to security and privacy issues.
The objective of this special issue is to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the
modeling, designing, implementation, deployment, and management of computer/network
security systems, architectures and protocols. We solicit contributions to the evaluation,
optimization, and/or enhancement of security mechanisms for current technologies as well
as new designs for efficient security and privacy solutions of emerging technologies, e.g.,
M2M Communications. High quality and original research papers are solicited in all related
areas of emerging communication systems and network technologies. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
* Security design for cognitive radio networks
* Security and privacy in M2M and its applications
* Key distribution and management
* Security design for sensor/Ad Hoc networks
* Security and privacy in VANETs
* Security and privacy in Healthcare
* RFID security
* Cross layer approach to security
* Secure cooperation in wireless networks
* Network coding security
* Social network security
* Mobile code security
* Distributed system security
* Forensic applications and techniques in communication systems and networks
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline August 15, 2011
Acceptance Notification November 30, 2011
Final Manuscript Due January 1, 2012
Tentative Publication Date Q2, 2012
SUBMISSION
The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is
not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Submissions
should follow the author guidelines of Journal of Communications and the complete
instructions for prospective authors can be found at
http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/authorguide.html.
Manuscripts are to be submitted via EDAS at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11025
For further questions or inquiries, please contact Dr. Xiaodong Lin at xiaodong.lin@uoit.ca.
GUEST EDITORS
Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
E-mail: xiaodong.lin@uoit.ca
Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
E-mail: joeljr@ieee.org
Xu Li, INRIA Lille – Nord Europe, France
E-mail: xu.li@inria.fr
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