Security and Communication Networks Journal: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing

Editors: Ali Miri (Ryerson University, Canada), Nen-Fu Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC), and Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France)

The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc network tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of high bandwidth 3G infrastructures and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructures and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. Security and privacy in converged computing systems are considered an important part of these systems, and pose challenging open problems. This special issue will focus on the research challenges and issues in security and privacy in ubiquitous computing. Manuscripts regarding novel algorithms, architectures, implementations and experiences are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Secure architectures for converged communication networks
- Multi-hop authentication and authorization
- Context-aware security in computing
- Security management of mobile data
- Security for ubiquitous multimedia communication
- Secure user interactions and ubiquitous services
- Security and privacy in location based services
- Security and privacy in mobile social networks
- Trust management in ubiquitous services
- Security in home networks
- Homeland security and surveillance
- Trusted cloud computing
- Secure group communication/multicast
- Secure machine-to-machine communication
- Security in portable devices and wearable computers
- Privacy protection in distributed data mining
- Energy efficient intrusion detection schemes in mobile computing

For more information, please see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sec.290/full