EAI is actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation to ensure the safety, comfort and quality of experience for attendees and a successful course of the event.

Scope

SecureComm 2021 is calling for high-quality research contributions in ALL areas of secure communications and networking, including those addressing interdisciplinary challenges in different application domains. Topics in less related areas will be considered only if a clear connection to secure communication/networking is demonstrated in the title or the abstract.

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Topics

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

- Network security and privacy (for all types of networks such as wired, wireless, mobile, hybrid, sensor, vehicular, satellite, 5G, 6G, ad hoc, peer-to-peer, and software-defined networks)
- Attacks on telecommunications and networking (e.g., malware, botnets, DoS, MitM, relay attacks, side channel attacks, phishing/pharming, DNS poisoning/hijacking, address spoofing, cybersquatting)
- Security protocols at all network layers and for different applications (e.g., for secure routing, naming/addressing, network management, remote authentication and attestation)
- Physical layer security (e.g., jamming, GPS spoofing)
- Systems security with a strong secure communication and networking element (e.g., security in cloud, edge and fog computing, IoT, RFID, cyber-physical sysytems, teleconferencing)
- Network intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, packet filters
- Web and mobile security & privacy
- Anonymous communications and other forms of privacy-enhancing or privacy-aware communications (e.g., Tor, darknet)
- Distributed ledger technologies (blockchain and cryptocurrencies)
- Internet censorship and countermeasures
- Resilience of computer networks and critical infrastructures
- Visualisation of secure communications and networking
- Cyber (both offensive and defensive) deception related to secure communications and networking (e.g., honeypots / honeytokens, cyber fraud)
- False information online including mis-, dis- and mal-information
- Moving target defence
- Information hiding (steganography, steganalysis, and digital watermarking)
- Privacy-preserving computing in secure communication and networking
- Cryptographic systems for secure communications and networking (e.g., key management, multi-party computing, broadcast encryption, sectre sharing schemes)
- Quantum key distribution and other quantum-based secure communications
- Network, internet and cloud forensics
- Cyber threat intelligence and cyber incident responses
- Cybercrime investigation and attribution
- Data leakage/loss prevention/protection (DLP)
- Secure communication and networking applications (e.g., industry 4.0, energy, smart cities, transportation, water, logistics, waste)
- Security and privacy of contact tracing and other COVID-19 related digital interventions with a core element on telecommunications or networking
- Socio-technical aspects of secure communications and networking (e.g., usability, human behaviours, legal issues, cybercrime, economics)

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Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

SecureComm proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:
- Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.602)

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety (Open Access)

Additional publication opportunities:
- EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series

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General Chairs
- Shujun Li - School of Computing, Univerisity of Kent, UK
- Radha Poovendran - University of Washington, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs
- Hervé Debar - Télécom SudParis, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), France
- Moti Yung - Google Inc., USA / Columbia University, USA

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This event is organized by EAI (www.eai.eu).

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities