Call For Papers
IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on Network Security
Guest Editors:
Bulent Yener
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Tel: +1 908 582 7087
Fax: +1 908 582 1239
Email: yener@research.bell-labs.com
Patrick Dowd
Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences
United States Department of Defense
Ft. Meade MD 20755-6512
Tel: +1 301 688 0347
Fax: +1 301 688 0588
Email: p.dowd@ieee.org
Web page announcement: http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/special/yener_dowd.html
Scope:
Network and Internet security has become a crucial requirement for
both users and service providers. The Internet is a commercial
infrastructure where sensitive and confidential personal and business
data are carried over public networks. Although security is often
treated as an after-thought, this attitude is changing. Security
within an application needs to be considered as a fundamental element
of the application, treated analogously to Quality of Service (QoS)
considerations. Security is often viewed as a one-size-fits-all
paradigm, but this is difficult to sustain due to the eclectic
collection of communications mediums that compose the Internet
infrastructure. The danger of a cookie-cutter strategy is that
security will contend with performance since it is not suited to the
environment. As the QoS requirements of applications and the physical
layer properties internetworking become more diverse, agile but robust
and consistent security solutions are needed. This is difficult, since
custom solutions typically have difficulty surviving in a mass market,
yet flexibility is needed for security use to become ubiquitous.
We are interested in tutorial-oriented research
papers that describe real services, software systems and
experiments. Work-in-progress papers describing the state of on-going
research projects in Internet security are encouraged. Research papers
should demonstrate the feasibility of the approach and describe the
state of realization. Case studies and applied papers should discuss
the key factors that made the system work and should also mention the
pitfalls and problems encountered and how they may be overcome. Topics
of interest include:
Intrusion detection
Authentication
Mobile code and agent security
Privacy and anonymity
Key management
Access control and Firewalls
Wireless, mobile network security
Secure multicasting
Data integrity
Security verification
Security protocols
Policy modeling
Commercial security
Electronic commerce
Security management
If you are unsure if your work falls within the scope of this special
issue, please send an abstract to one of the guest editors. We would
be happy to review it and provide feedback.
Manuscript Submission
This special issue will only consider electronic submissions in the
format of postscript, PDF, or MS WORD. To submit a paper for
consideration, authors should
1. Send your paper to one of the guest editors via email. The paper
should be included as an email attachment, or the author may provide a
URL where the file can be downloaded.
2. Indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence contact.
3. Provide a contact list for all of the other authors. Please list
affiliations, mailing addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email
addresses.
We will provide an acknowledgement of receipt of the paper within 24
hours of submission.
Schedule:
Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 1999
Feedback to Authors: August 1, 1999
Final Manuscripts to Publisher: September 1, 1999
Publication of Special Issue: Nov/Dec 1999