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Special Issue: Secure Embedded IoT Devices for Resilient Critical
Infrastructures

 

URL:
http://ieee-iotj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/CFP-SI-Secure-Embedded-IoT-D
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The Internet of Things (IoT) opens the door to new technological
opportunities for a wide range of applications that cover e-health, smart
homes and automation, e-commerce, location-based services, smart vehicles,
fleet management and remote system monitoring. However, at the same time as
these technological opportunities grow so does the threat surface for
potential adversaries targeting at various, interconnected ICT systems and
consequently at ICT-dependent critical systems, such as SCADA (Supervisory
Control and Data Acquisition Systems) systems. At this point, attackers
could take advantage from the incorporation of the paradigm to exploit new
security gaps, probably caused by unforeseen interoperability and
adaptability problems. 

 

Indeed, the deployment of Internet-enabled embedded devices that are
distributed over major critical domains, may create indirect and non-obvious
inter-connections with the underlying Critical Infrastructures (CIs).
Examples of such inter-connected systems may include traffic monitoring and
control systems communicating with smart vehicles, energy related systems
communicating with smart homes and smart meters, monitoring systems
connected with autonomous sensors in nuclear plants, power grids and body
area networks. There is a need to further explore the security issues
related to IoT technologies to assure the resilience of CIs against advanced
IoT-based attacks. The goal of this special issue is therefore to address
the diverse security challenges and related to IoT-enabled CIs (IoT-CIs) and
their resilience to advanced threats.

 

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Security analysis and requirements in the coupling of IoT-CIs

* Vulnerabilities, threat models and risk management in IoT-CIs

* Reference architectures for the secure coupling of IoT in CI scenarios

* Embedded security for mobile devices and BYOD

* Network-layer attacks and defense mechanisms between IoT devices and CIs

* Key management and access control in IoT-CIs

* Resilience models for advanced threats in IoT-CIs

* Advanced and lightweight awareness models for large IoT-CIs

* Privacy and location privacy for IoT-CIs 

 

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Important Dates

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* Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2018

* First Reviews Due: December 15, 2018

* Revision Due: January 15, 2019

* Second Reviews Due/Notification: Feb. 15, 2019

* Final Manuscript Due: March 15, 2019

* Publication Date: 2019

 

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Paper Submission Guidelines

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All original manuscripts or revisions to the IEEE IoT Journal must be
submitted electronically through IEEE Manuscript Central,
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Solicited original submissions must not
be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author
guidelines and submission information can be found at
http://iot.ieee.org/journal.  

 

Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest
editors.

 

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Guest Editors

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* Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain alcaraz@lcc.uma.es
<mailto:alcaraz@lcc.uma.es>  

* Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA burmester@cs.fsu.edu
<mailto:burmester@cs.fsu.edu>  

* Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany, jorge.cuellar@siemens.com
<mailto:jorge.cuellar@siemens.com>  

* Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China, xyhuang81@gmail.com
<mailto:xyhuang81@gmail.com>   

* Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, University of Piraeus, Greece, pkotzani@unipi.gr
<mailto:pkotzani@unipi.gr>  

* Mihalis Psarakis, University of Piraeus, Greece, mpsarak@unipi.gr
<mailto:mpsarak@unipi.gr> 

 



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