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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue on *Security and Resilience for Smart Devices and Applications* http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/ssda.html _June 1, 2010_
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= BACKGROUND = It is widely argued that the increased requirements on ubiquitous computing and network access led us to the era of smart devices and wireless communications. The number of mobile phones, PDAs, NFC, RFID, smart card tokens, and other computing and portable devices requiring wireless network access has superseded that of wired ones.
Wireless communications and smart devices provide many benefits such as mobility, portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation and maintenance costs. At the same time futurists are speculating about a world of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligent, in which countless invisible sensors and actuators will communicate with each other, imminently taking care of our needs and wishes.
Depending on their specific underlying operational characteristics and deployment environment, these devices have specific platform, application, and communication requirements, and they may be routinely used by millions of users and for a variety of applications. These applications include a myriad of deployment scenarios including WLAN accessibility in order to check email and obtain access to the internet or other networks, buildings and public transport networks, or even engaging into financial transactions with banks or other individuals. As the technologies of next generation wireless networks and smart devices are emerging, security has become a primary concern, in order to ensure dependable, secure communications and services to the end user.
This special issue on security of next generation smart devices will present current research focusing on security-related protocols and applications, secure architecture and frameworks, along with new theories and methodologies for secure next generation wireless networks and respective smart devices. We will welcome contributions from the academic, industrial, research, and development communities that can demonstrate particular advances into the aforementioned proposals and technologies.
= AREAS OF INTEREST = (but not limited) * Smart devices: mobile phones, personal assistant devices (PDAs), radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs), near-field-communication (NFC), portable computing devices, contact and contactless smart card, wireless sensor nodes (WSNs), trusted platform modules (TPMs)
* Smart devices applications: biometrics, national ID and passports, health care, pay TV, physical access control, Internet of things, public transport, mobile communications, new applications
* Smart devices networks: mobile ad hoc networks, wireless mesh networks, 3G/4G mobile cellular systems, delay-tolerant networks, domestic networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks
= GUIDELINES = Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the timetable
= TIMETABLE = Manuscript Due June 1, 2010 First Round of Reviews September 1, 2010 Publication Date December 1, 2010
= GUEST EDITORS = * Konstantinos Markantonakis, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK * Damien Sauveron, XLIM, University of Limoges, France (LEAD GE) * Christos Verikoukis, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain