Walid Saad <saad.walid@gmail.com> schrieb:

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special issue on
“Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Physical Layer Security”

The emergence of large-scale, dynamic, and decentralized wireless
networks imposes new challenges on classical security measures such as
cryptography. To this end, researchers have sought novel information
theoretic techniques that can secure wireless networks without the
need for secret keys. One of the most promising ideas is to exploit
the wireless channel physical layer characteristics such as fading or
noise, which are traditionally seen as impediments, for improving the
reliability of wireless transmission against eavesdropping attacks.
Physical layer security has emerged as a key technique for providing
trustworthy and reliable future wireless networks and has witnessed a
significant growth in the past few years.

To this end, this special issue aims to gather cutting-edge
contributions from academia and industry that address and show the
latest results on securing wireless networks at  the physical layer.
This special issue has a particular emphasis on advanced signal
processing, information theoretic, and communication techniques that
can make the vision of secret wireless transmission using the physical
layer characteristics of the wireless channel a reality.

Suitable topics for this special issue include, but are not limited
to, the following areas:

- Advanced beamforming and other multi-antenna techniques.
- Secure relaying and cooperative transmission techniques.
- Dynamic resource allocation for physical layer security in various
communication scenarios which include  (but are not limited to)
securing multiuser channels (multiple access, broadcast, relay,
interference) ,  dynamic spectrum access, and spectrum-sharing based
cognitive radio channels.
- Secure network coding / Byzantine attacks.
- Signal processing techniques for advanced security  primitives such
as authentication, bit commitment,  oblivious transfer, secret
sharing, etc.
- Secret key generation from fading channels via public
discussion/common randomness.
- Cross-layer design techniques that combine physical layer security
and cryptographic algorithms.
- Attacker optimization: jamming and eavesdropping.
- Game theory for wireless physical layer security.
- Wireless physical layer techniques for enhanced location and signal privacy.
- Experimental results on signal processing for enhancing security at
the physical layer.

Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance
with the IEEE JSAC format described at
http://jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF
version of their complete manuscript to  EDAS: http://edas.info. The
timetable is as follows:

• Manuscript submission due: August 15, 2012
• First-round reviews due: January 10, 2013
• Acceptance notification/second reviews due: April 10, 2013
• Final manuscript due: May 1, 2013

Guest Editors:
Walid Saad (University of Miami), email: walid@miami.edu
Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden), email: Eduard.Jorswieck@tu-dresden.de
Lifeng Lai (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), email: lxlai@ualr.edu
Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma (the Chinese University at Hong Kong), email:
wkma@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University), email: poor@princeton.edu
A. Lee Swindlehurst (University of California, Irvine), email: swindle@uci.edu

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