Wireless Networks - Cybersecurity and Data Protection in Wireless Environments

Overview:

With the explosion of connected devices, new technological paradigms have appeared. Beyond purely cloud-based approaches, edge, fog and dew computing approaches are on the rise on top of wireless networks.

Internet of Things (IoTs), along with the advances in wireless networking including 5G, 6G and other wireless and low-range technologies (e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.) enable a substantial amount of new and highly personalized services.

Despite their undeniable advantages, this technological trend comes with a substantial number of threats. As they gather and process data related to users, it is essential to ensure that it cannot be abused. Otherwise, sophisticated attacks may be carried out -- the combination of fine-grained data can lead to extremely targeted cyberattacks. On the other hand, the security of the devices at stake cannot be taken for granted. Indeed, a substantial amount of attacks have already been materialized to IoT devices due to their poor design or leveraging their supply chain.

This special issue aims to gather novel research contributions that focus on all the stages that any defender may follow to address these threats. Thus, their identification, characterization, blockage, remediation or even the eventual post-event recovery are at stake. The relationship with wireless networks must be stressed. Practical approaches including comprehensive (and repeatable) experimentation with real-life applicability are favoured. As for the limits on the scope, blockchain-related technologies are discouraged.

This Special Issue will be formed by an open call, and a number of extended versions (more than 30% of new content) of the best papers of the Spanish Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad (JNIC) cybersecurity conference (https://2023.jnic.es (this opens in a new tab)). Please note that a new round of reviews will be required for these submissions.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:

Lightweight encryption techniques for wireless environments	Early detection of IoT-related attacks
Remediation techniques for wireless environments	Data protection mechanisms suitable for wireless environments, including data privacy for the IoT.
Uses of Artificial Intelligence in wireless environments for cyberdefence	Attack characterization in wireless environments
Secure architectures for wireless environments	Cryptographic protocols for wireless environments
Security, privacy and trust for wireless environments	IoT-related legal issues in the field of cybersecurity

Important Dates

Manuscript submission deadline (firm, no extensions): 26 June 2023

Early rejection: 17 July, 2023 

First decision: 15 September, 2023

Subsequent revision rounds: 6 October, 2023 – 15 November, 2023

Final decision notification: 22 November, 2023

Submission of final revised paper: 25 November, 2023

Publication of special issue (tentative): 22 December, 2023

Submission Procedure

Authors should follow the WINET Journal manuscript format described at the journal site. Manuscripts should be submitted on-line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/wine/ (this opens in a new tab).

A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the Guest Editors at the following email address: mveiga@det.uvigo.es with the subject “Submission for WINET SI”. Papers coming from the JNIC conference should also attach an additional cover letter identifying the novel contributions included in the extended version, and how comments from Reviewers have been addressed.

Guest Editors:

• Prof. Dr. José María de Fuentes (co-lead guest editor), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
• Prof. Dr. Manuel Fernández (co-lead guest editor), Universidad de Vigo (Spain)
• Prof. Dr. Nicolas Anciaux, INRIA (France) – TBC
• Prof. Dr. Georgios Kambourakis, Univ. of the Aegean (Greece)