CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM):
"Measure, Detect and Mitigate – Challenges and Trends in Network Security"

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014 Publication: September, 2015


Scope of the Special Issue:

Cybercrime has developed rapidly within the last decade and in particular the last years have seen an unprecedented amount of attacks. Despite increased national as well as international effort against cybercrime and the global financial crisis, cybercrime still has double-digit annual growth rates. On the one hand, more and more services and systems migrate to the Internet and cloud storage systems. On the other hand, the commercial success of the Internet and the possibilities to carry out attacks from a relatively safe distance attracts criminals and made e-Crime to a multi-billion dollar market. In addition, recent trends have highlighted that not only end-hosts are the target of attacks, but also the Internet infrastructure itself, with attacks aiming at impeding the functioning of e.g., the Domain Name System (DNS) or Internet backbones.

The dramatic trends in attack evolution call upon innovative solutions. Nowadays, detection and mitigation of network attacks are more than ever a must. However, current solutions need to evolve fast in order to cope with new attack scenarios. The goal of this Special Issue is twofold. We encourage, on the one hand, contributions characterizing and measuring emerging network threats; on the other hand we welcome submissions presenting cutting-edge detection and mitigation techniques effective against network attacks and insider activities in today and future small-to-enterprise sized networks and in backbones.


Areas of Interest:

Contributions in the following areas are of specific interest, but not limited to:

Identification and Classification of Attacks
Network Measurements to Understand Cyber-criminal activities
Network Attacks Characterization
Multi-Layer Network Detection
Inter-Domain and Cooperative Detection and Mitigation
Detection in Encrypted Networks
Supervised/Unsupervised Network Detection
Alert and Event Correlation
Visualization of Network Attacks and Alerts
Interaction of Detection Systems and Exchange Formats
Future Trends in Network Detection and Mitigation
Mitigation of Large-Scale Distributed Attacks
Novel Network Measurements and Data Analyses of Internet Malware



Submission Guidelines:

Authors should submit their papers in PDF format only to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem
Paper submissions should not exceed 20 pages (double-space).
Author instructions are available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/ForAuthors.html
and the respective LaTeX template can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm


Important Deadlines:

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2015
Final Version: June 15, 2015
Publication: September 1, 2015

Submissions to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem in PDF only.


Guest Editors:

Gabi Dreo Rodosek - Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Anna Sperotto - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Corinna Schmitt - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rick Hofstede - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Alberto Dainotti - CAIDA, University of California,San Diego, USA