[Tccc] Special Issue on "Security and Resilience for Smart Devices and Applications" of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking: June 1, 2010

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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Special Issue on

*Security and Resilience for Smart Devices and Applications*

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/ssda.html

_June 1, 2010_

= PDF version of the CFP =

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/ssda.pdf

= BACKGROUND =

It is widely argued that the increased requirements on ubiquitous computing
and network access led us to the era of smart devices and wireless
communications. The number of mobile phones, PDAs, NFC, RFID, smart card
tokens, and other computing and portable devices requiring wireless network
access has superseded that of wired ones.

Wireless communications and smart devices provide many benefits such as
mobility, portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower
installation and maintenance costs. At the same time futurists are
speculating about a world of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligent,
in which countless invisible sensors and actuators will communicate with
each other, imminently taking care of our needs and wishes.

Depending on their specific underlying operational characteristics and
deployment environment, these devices have specific platform, application,
and communication requirements, and they may be routinely used by millions
of users and for a variety of applications. These applications include a
myriad of deployment scenarios including WLAN accessibility in order to
check email and obtain access to the internet or other networks, buildings
and public transport networks, or even engaging into financial transactions
with banks or other individuals. As the technologies of next generation
wireless networks and smart devices are emerging, security has become a
primary concern, in order to ensure dependable, secure communications and
services to the end user.

This special issue on security of next generation smart devices will present
current research focusing on security-related protocols and applications,
secure architecture and frameworks, along with new theories and
methodologies for secure next generation wireless networks and respective
smart devices. We will welcome contributions from the academic, industrial,
research, and development communities that can demonstrate particular
advances into the aforementioned proposals and technologies.

= AREAS OF INTEREST = (but not limited)

* Smart devices: mobile phones, personal assistant devices (PDAs), radio
frequency identification devices (RFIDs), near-field-communication (NFC),
portable computing devices, contact and contactless smart card, wireless
sensor nodes (WSNs), trusted platform modules (TPMs)

* Smart devices applications: biometrics, national ID and passports, health
care, pay TV, physical access control, Internet of things, public transport,
mobile communications, new applications

* Smart devices networks: mobile ad hoc networks, wireless mesh networks,
3G/4G mobile cellular systems, delay-tolerant networks, domestic networks,
sensor networks, vehicular networks

= GUIDELINES =

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author
Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to
the timetable

= TIMETABLE =

Manuscript Due June 1, 2010

First Round of Reviews September 1, 2010

Publication Date December 1, 2010

= GUEST EDITORS =

* Konstantinos Markantonakis, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK

* Damien Sauveron, XLIM, University of Limoges, France (LEAD GE)

* Christos Verikoukis, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia,
Spain

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Christos Verikoukis, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher

Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia

Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7

08860 Castelldefels

Spain

Tel:+34936452911

Fax:+34936452901

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