Call for Papers and Other Useful Academic Information

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Dear all,

March 31. 2008 is the new paper submission due date for the CCNS symposium =

at=20
Globecom ‘08. We kindly are inviting you to submit your papers.
If you need a *.txt, *.doc, or *.pdf version of the CFP, please do not=20
hesitate to get in contact.

With best regards,

Abderrahim Benslimane, Jiankun Hu, Peter Mueller

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Call for Papers

GLOBECOM 2008
Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008
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30. November ? 4. December 2008=20
New Orleans, LA, USA

Brief description:
The IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Computer and Communications Network Security=20
Symposium=20
(CCNS) will be held in New Orleans, USA, November 2008.=20
With the advent of pervasive computer applications and due to the=20
proliferation
of heterogeneous wired and wireless computer networks, computer and=20
network=20
security has become paramount. The Computer and Communications Network=20
Security
Symposium will address all aspects of the modeling, design,=20
implementation,=20
deployment, and management of computer/network security algorithms,=20
protocols,=20
architectures, and systems. Furthermore, contributions devoted to the=20
evaluation, optimization, or enhancement of security mechanisms for=20
current=20
technologies as well as devising efficient security and privacy solutions=20
for=20
emerging technologies are solicited.=20
Original papers are invited in the area of computer and network security.=20
Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work.=20
Contributions in CCNS symposium target wired networks as well as wireless=20
networks:=20
3G/ 4G, Satellite, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, Ad hoc, vehicular, Sensor and=20
RFID=20
networks, WiMAX/ 802.16, 802.16e and Peer-to-peer systems.

Topics of interest:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Secure PHY, MAC, Routing and upper layer protocols
- Secure Cross layer design
- Authentication protocols and services authorization
- Confidentiality
- Data and system integrity
- Availability of secure services
- Key Distribution and management
- PKI and security management
- Trust models and Trust establishment
- Identity management and access control
- Deployment and management of computer/network security policies
- Monitoring Design for security
- Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems & Countermeasures
- Traffic filtering and Firewalling
- IPv6 security, IPSec
- Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- Prevention, Detection and Reaction Design
- Revocation of malicious parties
- Light-weight cryptography
- Quantum Cryptography and QKD
- Applications of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in communications=20
security
- Security and mobility=20
- Mobile code security=20
- Network traffic analysis techniques
- Secure naming and addressing (Privacy and anonymity)
- Application/network penetration testing
- Advanced Cryptographic Testbeds=20
- Network security metrics and performance evaluation
- Operating System (OS) security and log analysis tools
- Security modeling and protocol design
- Security specification techniques
- Self-healing networks
- Smart cards and secure hardware
- Biometric security: technologies, risks and vulnerabilities
- Information hiding and watermarking
- Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis
- Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) attacks and countermeasures
- DNS spoofing and security
- Critical infrastructure security
- Single- and multi-source intrusion detection and response (automation)
- Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security
- New design for unknown attacks detection

Important Dates:
Manuscript submission: 31. March 2008
Acceptance notification: 28. June 2008
Revised and camera ready: 15. August 2008=20

Instructions for Authors:
Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work.=20
Original=20
research papers are solicited in all areas of computer and communications=20
network security. All submissions will be handled electronically through=20
the=20
EDAS conference management system at=20
http://edas.info=20
and must be in pdf format, with a maximum length of five pages. A=20
formatting=20
template may be found at=20
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.

Sponsoring Technical Committees:
IEEE ComSoc Communications and Information Security (CISTC)
IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications (RCC)

IEEE Gobecom 2008 Security Symposium co-Chairs:
Abderrahim Benslimane, LIA/CERI, France=20
abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr
Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia jiankun@cs.rmit.edu.au
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland=20
pmu@zurich.ibm.com
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Dear all,

March 31. 2008 is the new paper submission due date
for the CCNS symposium at

Globecom ‘08. We kindly are inviting you to submit
your papers.

If you need a *.txt, *.doc, or *.pdf version of the
CFP, please do not

hesitate to get in contact.

With best regards,

Abderrahim Benslimane, Jiankun Hu, Peter Mueller