Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications SI on Security and Privacy of P2P
Networks in Emerging Smart City

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Call for Papers: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications seeks original
manuscripts for a Special Issue on Security and Privacy of P2P Networks in
Emerging Smart City.

Recently, the smart city has been introduced as a promising concept due to
its potential benefits including low-carbon economy, intelligent traffic
management, ubiquitous information sharing, and etc. In the smart city,
there are many key components, such as smart grid, smart vehicle, smart
cloud, and mobile social network. Thanks to the good salability and low
processing cost on content delivery and distributed search engine in these
components, P2P technologies are expected to play an essential role in
accelerating the implementation of the smart city.

Although we have witnessed the major and remarkable development in the
field of smart city in the recent years, the security and privacy issues of
the smart city have not been well studied. Thus, there is a crucial need
for security and privacy research to achieve secure and privacy-preserving
smart city. The purpose of this special issue is to report on the most
up-to-date contributions in smart city from P2P perspective. Researchers
and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical or applied papers
dealing with the following topics (but not limited to):

- Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Smart Grid
. Authentication, authorization, and access control for smart appliances
. Security and privacy in smart meters, energy auction markets, and
distributed power generations
. Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in the smart grid

- Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Smart Vehicle
. Security policies, standards, and regulations in vehicle ad-hoc
networks (VANETs)
. Authentication, authorization, accounting, secure routing, and privacy
protection in VANETs
. Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in VANETs

- Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Smart Cloud
. Keyword searching and matching in cloud computing
. Authentication, authorization, accounting, access control and privacy
protection in cloud computing
. Attack modeling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in cloud computing
. Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in cloud computing

- Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Mobile Social Network
. Authentication, authorization, access control and privacy protection in
mobile social network
. Secure information sharing, searching and matching in mobile social
network
. Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in mobile social
network

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Peer-to-Peer Networking
and Applications a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review
system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review
process of their manuscript. This online system offers easy and
straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range
of submission file formats. Manuscripts should be submitted to:
http://PPNA.edmgr.com. Choose ?Security and Privacy in Smart City? as the
article type.

Guest Editors:

Hongwei Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
(lead: Hongwei.uestc@gmail.com);
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Bong Jun (David) Choi, The State University of New York Korea, Korea /
Stony Brook University, USA

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: 25 Jan. 2013
First round notification: 15 Mar. 2014
Revised papers due: 1 May 2014
Final acceptance: 15 June 2014
Estimated Publication: 4Q 2014

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Haojin Zhu

Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
http://tdt.sjtu.edu.cn/~hjzhu/

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