SICK 2012 - The 7th IEEE LCN Workshop on Security In Communication networKs (SICK)

The 7th IEEE LCN Workshop on Security In Communication networKs (SICK)to be held in conjunction with
the 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2012),
October 22-25, 2012, Clearwater, Florida, USA
Check: http://www.sick-workshop.org for more info and CFP in pdf form.
Recent years have seen growth in the number of services and applications that enable groups of people and/or devices to communicate and collaborate in real-time. Oftentimes, these groups are spontaneously formed based on a common interest or objective, have a limited life span and use one or more network technologies to connect group members with available resources and each other. Examples range from multi-player online games and video conferencing to the coordination of first responders at a crime scene or troops in a battlefield. Secure group communication is a difficult problem that needs to be addressed to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of these applications. Challenges include user mobility, device heterogeneity, lack of infrastructure, cross domain interactions, as well as dynamic memberships without pre-configuration.
The main purpose of this workshop is to promote further research interests and activities on Secure Group Communication. This workshop aims to increase the synergy between academic and industrial researchers working in this area. We are interested in experimental, systems-related, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of Secure Group Communications.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Novel and emerging secure architectures
- Study of attack strategies, attack modeling
- Case studies and analysis of actual attacks
-Group key management
(incl. dynamic key generation, distribution, update and revocation)
-Context/capability/situational-aware group memberships
- Identity management
- Protection of video and multimedia content
- Secure multicast
- Secure collaborative services
- Secure data accumulation, storage and access control
- Tradeoffs between security vs. performance vs. usability
- Secure group communications in mobile ad hoc, mesh, vehicular and incident area networks, etc.
Authors are invited to submit full papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages, in IEEE TRANSACTION format) should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. All accepted papers will appear in the IEEE LCN conference proceedings. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS .
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: May 12, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: July 28, 2012
Please direct your questions to the program co-chairs:
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Best regards,
the SICK chairs