IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) provides an outstanding forum for cyber security researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experience related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security.

Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Anonymization and privacy in communication systems
Biometric authentication and identity management
Computer and network forensics
Data and application security
Data protection and integrity
Availability of communications, survivability of networks in the presence of attacks
Key management and PKI for networks
Information-theoretic security
Intrusion detection and prevention
Location privacy
Mobile security
Outsourcing of network and data communication services
Physical layer security methods, cross-layer methods for enhancing security
Secure routing, network management
Security for critical infrastructures
Security metrics and performance evaluation
Security and privacy for big data
Security and privacy in body area networks
Security and privacy in content delivery network
Security and privacy in cloud computing and federated cloud
Security and privacy in crowdsourcing
Security and privacy in the Internet of Things
Security and privacy in multi-hop wireless networks: ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular and RFID networks
Security and privacy in peer-to-peer networks and overlay networks
Security and privacy in single-hop wireless networks: Wi-Fi, Wi-Max
Security and privacy in smart grid, cognitive radio networks, and disruption/delay tolerant networks
Security and privacy in social networks
Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy
Traffic analysis
Usable security for networked computer systems
Vulnerability, exploitation tools, malware, botnet, DDoS attacks
Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security
PLEASE NOTE: Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the IEEE CNS 2016 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website for author requirements of accepted authors.

Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:
Jie Wu, Temple University, USA

Program Chairs:
Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA