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Wiley Journal: Security and Communication Network (SCN)

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Special Issue: Secure Multimedia Communication

Background ==========

With the rapid progress in information technology and an enormous amount of media appearing over Internet, e.g. text, audio, speech, music, image and video, guaranteeing information security is becoming increasingly important. Several pivotal challenges include copyright protection, integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc. As a consequence, the subject of security protection in multimedia communication has attracted intensive research activities in academia, industry and also government.

Multimedia data like images, audios or videos are different from plain text. They are often of large volumes and are compressed in order to save the storage cost and bandwidth. Due to such requirement and property, the media protection mechanisms for images, audios or videos are significantly different from the ones for text or binary data. With the recent advances in network and multimedia technology, the applications in commercial scenario become increasing crucial. There is an increasing trend in the multimedia content distribution from the central service provider to the individuals, e.g. video-on-demand, IPTV and p2p sharing. In these applications, piracy is becoming a critical issue. Solutions are needed to protect the copyright of multimedia content. During the past decades, schemes have been reported for secure multimedia communication, e.g., key management, multimedia encryption, authentication, digital watermarking, digital fingerprinting, access control and digital rights management. These techniques are able to protect multimedia content's confidentiality, integrity, ownership, traitor traceability. In addition, in different networks such as Internet, 3G wireless, DVB-H and p2p, different secure protocols and algorithms are required to provide the system security. All these topics are in active development.

This special issue aims to expose the readership of SCN to the latest research results on secure multimedia communication. The issue focuses on secure transmission or distribution of multimedia content.

Topics ======== Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Copyright techniques · Digital rights management for multimedia · Secure multimedia transcoding in communication · Secure media streaming · Secure multimedia content sharing in P2P network · Broadcast encryption and authentication · Security in multimedia message sending · Security in mobile TV · Security in IPTV · Attacks and prevention in multimedia communication · Secure multimedia broadcasting over wireless networks · Secure multimedia broadcasting over IEEE 802.x families · Secure multimedia over multi-hop networks, e.g. Ad hoc network, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks · Hardware Implementations of secure multimedia techniques · Low-power Architectures for portable appliances

Submission Procedures =====================

Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal. Submissions of both indepth research papers and review/application-oriented papers are encouraged. All submissions should be done in Wiley’s manuscript central whose web link is http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. For more detailed information on the submission requirements, please refer to the journal home page at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the manuscript type as ‘Special Issue,’ enter the ‘Running Head,’ and the ‘Special Issue title’ as ‘SCN-SI-002’ and ‘Multimedia Security,’ respectively.

Schedule ======== · Manuscript Due: May 30, 2008

· Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2008

· Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2008

· Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2009

Guest Editors: ==============

Shiguo Lian France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China Email: shiguo.lian@orange-ftgroup.com

Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang@ieee.org

Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea E-mail: parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com

Paris Kitsos Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece Email: pkitsos@ieee.org

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