[Tccc] Last CFP: IEEE Network Magazine- Special Issue on Security in Cognitive Radio Networks

Haojin Zhu zhuhaojinatgmail.com
Sun Sep 23 22:25:21 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
 
 The Guest Editors for this issue are:
Kui Ren, k... at ece.iit.edu                                                       
     Haojin Zhu, zhu... at cs.sjtu.edu.cn 
Zhu Han, zh... at mail.uh.edu                                                      
 Radha Poovendran, r... at uw.edu
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