[CFP] JCN Special Issue on IoT (Internet of Thins) Security and Privacy (Submission Due: February 5, 2019)

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm aims to connect all kinds of different physical objects together and make them accessible from the Internet, with advanced sensing, actuation, communications, and networking technologies. IoT systems vary in type, scale, and function. They range from Internet of Vehicles, to Industrial Internet of Things, to Internet of Battlefield Things and Internet of Medical Things. Gartner predicts that tens of billions of IoT devices will be in use in the near future. Many low-cost IoT devices have little processing power or storage capacity, resulting in poor built-in security capabilities. This allows these devices to be used as ingress points to access the broader IT or critical infrastructure. Because of the expanded attack surface, IoT security and privacy has become a pressing issue. Every threat against the IoT may constitute a more severe threat to the IT or critical infrastructure behind the IoT. Thus, it is imperative to study and understand the security and privacy risks related to IoT and to propose innovative solutions to deal with these risks. 

The purpose of this special issue is to solicit original contributions and publish recent advances in security and privacy for any type of emerging IoT systems and devices, with emphasis on, but certainly not limited to, the following topics: 

• Trust management
• Access control and authentication
• Secure and privacy preserving data management
• Innovative intrusion detection solutions
• Secure application layer protocols
• Secure transport layer protocols
• Secure networking layer protocols
• Secure MAC layer protocols

Continuing JCN’s tradition of fast turnaround together with full peer reviews, a tentative schedule is set as follows: 

February 5, 2019     Paper submission deadline 
                                 [An earlier note to editors with intent to submit will be appreciated.] 
May 5, 2019            Reviews returned to authors. Papers will be either accepted, rejected, 
                                 or returned to the authors with requests for changes
July 5, 2019             Final revised manuscript due 
October 5, 2019      Special Issue published 

Prof. Daji Qiao, Iowa State University, USA, daji@iastate.edu
Prof. Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Paris Descartes University, France, naf@parisdescartes.fr
Prof. Ryan Gerdes, Virginia Tech University, USA, rgerdes@vt.edu 
Prof. Tie Qiu, Tianjin University, China, qiutie@tju.edu.cn 

Electronic submissions should be made through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcommnet. Information about submissions is available on the JCN web site, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcommnet. Please direct inquiries and intent to submit notifications to the Lead Guest Editor (email: daji@iastate.edu). 

JCN is a high-quality bimonthly archival journal, published by the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society, covering the fields of Communication Theory and Systems, Wireless Communications, and Networks and Services. JCN began publication in March 1999.