[Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Security in Cognitive Radio Networks
Kui Ren
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Sun Apr 22 00:10:09 EDT 2012
Call for Papers
IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on Security in Cognitive Radio Networks
Cognitive radio (CR) is an emerging advanced radio technology in wireless access, with many promising benefits including dynamic spectrum sharing, robust cross-layer adaptation, and collaborative networking. Based on a software-defined radio (SDR), cognitive radios are fully programmable and can sense their environment and dynamically adapt their transmission frequencies, power levels, modulation schemes, and networking protocols for improving network and application performance. It is anticipated that cognitive radio technology will be the next wave of innovation in information and communications technologies.
Although the recent years have seen major and remarkable developments in the field of cognitive networking technologies, the security aspects of cognitive radio networks have attracted less attention so far. Due to the particular characteristics of the CR system, entirely new classes of security threats and challenges are introduced such as licensed user emulation, selfish misbehaviors and unauthorized use of spectrum bands. These new types of attacks take the advantage the inherent characteristics of CR, and could severely disrupt the basic functionalities of CR systems. Therefore, for achieving successful deployment of CR technologies in practice, there is a critical need for new security designs and implementations to make CR networks secure and robust against these new attacks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
General security architecture for CR networks
Cross-layer security design of CR networks
Secure routing in multi-hop CR networks
Physical layer security for CR networks
Geo-location for security in CR networks
Defending and mitigating jamming-based DoS attacks in CR networks
Defending against energy depletion attacks in resource-constrained CR networks
Attack modeling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in CR systems, including primary user emulation attacks, authentication methods of primary users, spectrum sensing data falsification, spectrum misusage and selfish misbehaviors and unauthorized use of spectrum bands
Methods for detecting, isolating and expelling misbehaving cognitive nodes
Security policies, standards and regulations for CR networks
Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in CR systems
Privacy protection in CR networks
Security issues for database-based CR networks
Security in CR networks for the smart grid
Intrusion detection systems in CR networks
With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose "Special Issue -Security in Cognitive Radio Networks " from the drop down menu on the submission page. The timetable is as follows:
Manuscript submission: October 1, 2012
Acceptance notification: January 15, 2012
Final manuscript due: February 15, 2013
Publication date: May 2013
Guest Editors:
Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhu Han, University of Houston
Radha Poovendran, University of Washington
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Kui Ren
Assistant Professor
ECE Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology
Web: www.ece.iit.edu/~kren
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