-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: IEEE Communication Magazine - Feature Topic on Wireless Physical Layer Security Datum: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:17:04 -0400 Von: Walid Saad saad.walid@GMAIL.COM Antwort an: Walid Saad saad.walid@GMAIL.COM An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Physical Layer Security

The security of communication systems is continuously facing new challenges as people become increasingly dependent on wireless technologies for the transmission of private data, such as Internet banking using a wireless access point or mobile payments via a device-to-device link. Despite the convenience of wireless networks, the broadcast nature of the wireless medium makes it vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks from unauthorized or even adversarial users. The challenging problem of secure wireless communication has already drawn significant attention from various research communities in communications, signal processing, and cyber-security. These research efforts have culminated in tremendous improvements in existing cryptographic techniques and, more importantly, in the introduction of a new security paradigm for wireless networks, termed as physical layer security.

Physical layer security is the first security solution that focuses on exploiting the physical layer properties of the wireless channels, such as multi-path fading and interference, to protect the confidential information transmission against eavesdropping. It can also nicely complement current cryptographic techniques as the two approaches operate in different domains: one protects the communication phase while the other protects the data processing after the communication phase. In addition, physical layer security techniques can also be adopted for secret key generation and distribution, by exploiting the rich randomness and dynamics available in the wireless medium. This IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic aims to gather state-of-the-art contributions that can provide a timely and comprehensive overview of the current research and development of this emerging security technique, as well as the challenges and opportunities for its practical implementation in current and future wireless networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following categories:

- Information-theoretic limits of physical layer security; - Practical code designs for achieving near-optimal physical layer security performance; - Signal processing for secrecy enhancements; - Coordinated or distributed network-level designs for physical layer security; - Optimization and game-theoretic techniques for enhancing wireless secrecy; - Secret-key generation and agreement over wireless channels; - Cross-layer security solutions and joint designs of physical layer security and cryptography; - Experimental results on practical implementations of physical layer security techniques.

[image: bullet] SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible and accessible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found athttp://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central site ( http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Submit articles to the "June 2015/Wireless Physical Layer Security" category. [image: bullet] IMPORTANT DATES

- *Full Paper Submission Due:* November 1, 2014 - *Decision Notifications:* February 1, 2015 - *Final Manuscript Due:* April 1, 2015 - *Publication Date:* June 2015

http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0615.html

[image: bullet] GUEST EDITORS

*Merouane Debbah* SUPELEC merouane.debbah@supelec.fr

*H. Vincent Poor* Princeton University poor@princeton.edu

*Walid Saad* Virginia Tech walids@vt.edu

*Xiangyun Zhou* Australian National University xiangyun.zhou@anu.edu.au

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