4th workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2008)

In conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Orlando, Florida, October 19-22, 2008

Scope:

The 4th workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2008) is a one-day event
held in conjunction with ICNP 2008. NPSec focuses on two general areas.
The first focus is on the development and analysis of secure or hardened
protocols for the operation (establishment and maintenance) of network
infrastructure, including such targets as secure multidomain, ad hoc, sensor
or overlay networks, or other related target areas. This can include new
protocols, enhancements to existing protocols, protocol analysis, and new
attacks on existing protocols. The second focus is on employing such secure
network protocols to create or enhance network applications. Examples include
collaborative firewalls, incentive strategies for multiparty networks, and
deployment strategies to enable secure applications.

NPSec 2008 particularly welcomes new ideas on security in the context of
future Internet design, such as architectural considerations for future
Internet security and new primitives for supporting secure network protocol
and application design.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. security in future Internet architectures
- role of security in future architectures
- integrating security into future protocols and applications
2. secure and/or resilient network protocols, e.g.:
- internetworking/routing
- MANETs
- LANs and WLANs
- mobile/cellular data networks
- p2p and other overlay networks
- federated trust systems
- sensor networks
3. vulnerabilities of existing protocols and applications (both theoretical and case studies), including attacks
4. key distribution/management
5. intrusion detection and response
6. incentive systems for p2p systems and MANETs routing
7. secure protocol configuration and deployment

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: June 6, 2008
Paper submission: June 13, 2008
Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2008
Camera ready version: September 5, 2008
Workshop Date: October 19, 2008

NPSEC Steering Committee:
Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University (chair)
George Kesidis, Penn State University
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University
Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine

Program Co-Chairs:
Dan Massey, Colorado State University, USA
Lan Wang, University of Memphis, USA

Web and Proceedings Chair:
Kaustubh Gadkari

Technical Program Committee:
Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin
Bogdan Carbunar, Motorola Labs
Reza Curtmola, Purdue University
Joseph Evans, University of Kansas
Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University
Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University
David Lee, Ohio State University
Allison Mankin, NSF
Jelena Mirkovic, USC/ISI
Breno de Medeiros, Google
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University
Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University
Vasileios Pappas, IBM Research T.J. Watson
Sanjay Rao, Purdue University
Mike Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University
Felix Wu, University of California, Davis
Xiaowei Yang, University California, Irvine
Beichuan Zhang, University of Arizona