[AISWorld] Call for Papers -- Special Issue on Security of IoT-enabled Infrastructures in Smart Cities (Ad Hoc Networks Journal)

[Ali Ismail Awad]

Dear Colleagues,

We organize a Special Issue on Security of IoT-enabled Infrastructures in
Smart Cities for Ad Hoc Network Journal. More details are here:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-security-of-iot-enabled-infrastructures-in

Theme and Scope:
Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that involves a network of physical
objects containing embedded technologies to collect, communicate, sense,
and interact with their internal states or the external environment through
wireless or wired connections. IoT uses unique addressing schemes and
network infrastructures to create new application or services. Smart cities
are developed urban environments where any citizen can use any service
anywhere and anytime. IoT has become a generator of smart cities aiming at
overcoming the problems inherent in traditional urban developments. The
nature of IoT information exchange among the connected objects “Things” and
remote locations for data storage and data processing gives the ability to
collect numerous amounts of data about individuals, and other things in the
smart city. Hence, these data can be passed to malicious or have
vulnerabilities such as man-in-the-middle attack or denial-of-service (DoS)
attacks. Therefore, collected and transferred bands of data via IoT
infrastructure would affect the national security and privacy.

Driven by the concept that IoT is the major builder in the coming smart
cities, security and privacy have become inevitable requirements not only
for personal safety, but also for assuring the sustainability of the
ubiquitous city. Although, there are available researches that address the
security challenges in IoT data, this special issue aims to address the
security and privacy challenges emerging from deploying IoT in smart cities
with a special emphasize on the IoT device, infrastructures, networking,
and protocols. In addition, the special issue provides an up-to-date
statement of the current research progresses in IoT security, privacy
challenges, and mitigation approaches for protecting the individuals’
safety and the sustainability of the smart city.

Topics of Interest:
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-- Innovative techniques for IoT infrastructure security
-- Internet of Things (IoT) devices and protocols security
-- Cross-domain trust management in smart communities
-- Cloud computing-based security solutions for IoT data
-- Security and privacy frameworks for IoT-based smart cities
-- Critical infrastructures resilience and security in smart cities
-- Biometric modalities involved in IoT security for smart cities
-- Security challenges and mitigation approaches for smart cities
-- Cyber attacks detection and prevention systems for IoT networks
-- Interoperable security for urban planning and applications
-- Ethics, legal, and social considerations in IoT security

Publication Plan:
-- Submission deadline: September 01, 2017
-- Guest editors’ constructive rejection: October 01, 2017
-- First review completed: January 01, 2018
-- Revised manuscript due: April 01, 2018
-- Second review completed: May 01, 2018
-- Revised manuscript due: June 01, 2018
-- Final acceptance notification: July 01, 2018
-- Publication date: Third quarter of 2018

Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through
Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as
“Smart-City-IoT-Security” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the
submission process. The EES website is located at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/

Review Strategy:
A constructive rejection approach will be applied prior to the review
process. All the submissions will be initially screened by the guest
editors as soon as the submission deadline passes. The rejection criteria
at this stage include out-of-scope submissions, plagiarized manuscripts,
and the submissions with no research substances. The authors will initially
be notified about the rejected manuscripts within the following month after
the submission deadline. A rigorous review process will be carried out on
the rest of the submissions, and according to the publication plan. The
submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two independent
reviewers based on their originality, quality, and their relevance to the
theme of the special issue.

Lead Guest Editor:
Ali Ismail Awad, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space
Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, ali.awad[at]
ltu.se

Guest Editors:
Steven Furnell, Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research,
Plymouth University, United Kingdom, S.Furnell[at]plymouth.ac.uk

Abbas M. Hassan, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Al
Azhar University, Qena, Egypt, arch_abbas2002[at]yahoo.com

Theo Tryfonas, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol,
United Kingdom, theo.tryfonas[at]bristol.ac.uk

Your submissions are highly welcomed.

Sincerely Yours,
Ali.