Welcome to the SECSOC-2019 workshop!

The submission deadline has been extended to April 11, 2019

The Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) present unprecedented opportunities for society progressively moving towards a socio-technical ecosystem. Big data collected from numerous CPS, connected via the advanced 4G/LTE and the near future 5G networks across various interfaces and locations, will facilitate more sophisticated Smart Decision Making and Personalised Services.

Security vulnerabilities in CPS, however, leave users or even the entire smart society at risk. Besides, a rapid on-going evolution in the technical architectures and topologies of the Internet brings new security challenges to the fore. The migration of networks to Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization, particularly, captures attention on security of orchestration, management functionality, surveillance as well as privacy. Novel security schemes are, therefore, in urgent demand to enhance the reliability, robustness and privacy of smart society.

The focus of this international workshop is to bring together expertise from industry and academia to build a secure smart society in next generation networking paradigm.

The SECSOC-2019 workshop will be held in Rotorua, New Zealand, and in conjunction with The 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-19). The workshop will be co-organised by The Edinburgh Napier University, The University of Aizu, and The University of Auckland on the 5th – 8th of August 2019. The focus of this international workshop is to bring together expertise from industry and academia to build a secure smart society in next-generation networking paradigm.

Special Issue:

Distinguishing Selected papers from SECSOC 2019 will be recommended for submission and publication in the CCPE Special Issue on Recent Advance in Security and Privacy for Smart Society (RASPSS19) http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2019.html#RASPSS19

• Impact factor:1.114
• Abstracting and Indexing Information
  • -ACM Guide to Computing Literature (ACM)
  • -COMPENDEX (Elsevier)
  • -CompuMath Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • -CompuScience Database (FIZ Karlsruhe)
  • -Computer Abstracts (Emerald)
  • -Computer Science Index (EBSCO Publishing)
  • -Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Clarivate Analytics)
  • -INSPEC (IET)
  • -Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
  • -Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
  • -SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • -The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (University of Trier)
  • -Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)

Call for papers: [PDF Version]

Objectives, Scope, and Topics:

This international workshop is intended to serve a platform for interested stakeholders from industry and academia to present their original work on building secure Smart Society in next generation networking paradigm. In this context, it is critical to understand the potential security vulnerabilities and threat models, as well as to develop security architectures and defending mechanisms for CPS and next generation network infrastructures.

The topics of interest may include but are not limited to the followings:

• Security and privacy of CPS including IoT

o Threat Models in CPS

o Attack Strategies for CPS

o Security Architectures

o Reliable Interactions with Network Services

o System and Data Integrity

o Scalability and Robustness for CPS

o Identity Management in CPS

o Trustworthiness in CPS

o Privacy in CPS

o Adaptive Security in CPS

o Secure CPS interactions

o Secure CPS architecture design

• Secure 5G networks

o Core Network Security

o Cellular security

o Physical Layer Security

o Terminal and Edge Computing Security

o Security Management and Orchestration of NFV and SDN elements

o Trusted Computing with NFV and SDN

o Protocol security: Diameter, SS7, BGP etc.

o 5G wireless communications

• General network security schemes for next generation networking

o Malware and attack detection and prevention techniques

o Authentication and Authorisation

o Encryption protocols, e.g. homomorphic encryption

o Key Exchange, Storage and Protection

o Honeypot and Firewall Technologies

o Software vulnerability testing, or reverse engineering.

o Formal Specification and Analysis of Protocols and Attacks, e.g. model checking etc.

o Blockchain technologies

o Cloud computing

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: March 28, 2019 (Firm extension: April 11, 2019)
• Author’s notification: April 27, 2019
• Camera-Ready Manuscript due: May 27, 2019

Organisers/General Chairs

• Dr Zhiyuan Tan; Edinburgh Napier University, UK (Leading Organiser)
• Associate Prof. Chunhua Su; University of Aizu, Japan
• Dr Xuyun Zhang; The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Steering Committee

• Associate Prof. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo; University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
• Prof. Song Guo; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Prof. Xiangjian He; University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Prof. Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
• Prof. Pieter Hartel, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Prof. Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK

Program Chairs

• Prof. Ren Ping Liu; University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Prof. Kuo-Hui Yeh; National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
• Dr Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan; Fordham University, USA

Publicity Chairs

• Associate Prof. Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian
• Dr Aruna Jamdagni, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Dr Mian Ahmad Jan, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan

Publication Chairs

• Associate Prof. Entao Luo, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, China
• Dr Houbing Song, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
• Dr Shaobo Zhang, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

PC members:

• Prof. Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK
• Prof. Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Prof. William Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Prof. Xinheng Wang, University of West London, UK
• Prof. Paul S Pang, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
• Associate Prof. Lam-for Kwok, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Associate Prof. Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Associate Prof. Gordon Russell, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Associate Prof. Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Associate Prof. Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
• Dr Priyadarsi Nanda, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Dr Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Dr Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK
• Dr Chunbo Luo, University of Exeter, UK
• Dr Shancang Li, University of the West of England, UK
• Dr Wei Ni, CSIRO Data61, Australia
• Dr Liangfu Lv, Tianjin University, China
• Dr Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Dr Chi Yang, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
• Dr Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
• Dr Xiong Li, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
• Dr Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China
• Dr Alexandr Vasenev, TNO, Netherlands
• Dr Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK
• Dr Christian Doerr, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr Rameez Asif, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Dr Mohsen Kakavand, Sunway University, Malaysia
• Dr Mohiuddin Ahmed, Canberra Institute of Technology, Australia

Paper submission guideline:

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secsoc2019) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each workshop paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high-quality international journals.

Accepted workshop papers will be published under the same IEEE proceedings. Up to two extra pages can be purchased. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register (Online Registration) the paper at the conference.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Z.Tan@napier.ac.uk (Dr Zhiyuan Tan)