[AISWorld] CFP: IEEE SmartGridComm Symposium on Cyber and Physical Security and Privacy

[Goel, Sanjay]

Call For Papers

IEEE SmartGridComm Symposium on Cyber and Physical Security and Privacy
Second IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications

Location: Brussels, Belgium
Conference Dates: Oct. 17-20, 2011
Web: http://www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/cfp.html

Important Dates
April 4, 2011: paper submission
June 27, 2011: notification of acceptance
July 11, 2011: Camera Ready Paper Due
July 11, 2011: Author Registration due

Symposium Co-chairs
Prof. Sanjay Goel, University at Albany, SUNY (chair)
Dr. Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research, New York
Prof. William H. Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scope and Motivation
The emerging Smart Grid vision is of an interconnected power distribution network that streamlines transmission, distribution, monitoring, and control of electricity. This vision is being realized through the design and implementation of an information network overlaying the traditional power grid. On the distribution side, it is envisioned that a smart meter will be connected to each household allowing the consumer to not only draw power, but also supply surplus power to the grid. A distribution-side communication network would allow for a more precise real-time estimation of anticipated usage allowing for a more optimized demand-response driven control. The smart grid vision also includes many technologies on the transmission side, including those that provide wide area situational awareness of grid status. All of these technologies must be woven together in a way that insures end-to-end security and resiliency. Ensuring end-to-end grid security and resiliency is one of the biggest challenges of the Smart Grid vision. Not only is it necessary to ensure high-availability, real-time, communication but also to ensure that communications are secure, private, and have integrity. Given the size and time-scales involved, the new grid must also be able to detect and respond to such problems and either recover automatically or provide timely alerts to humans. This capability may require that redundancy and diversity be built into the system in a manner that ensures that critical IT functions not be compromised. Means to measure and validate grid resilience also need to be developed. Also important are policy issues that will govern privacy and usage of information. The scope includes physical security of the grid communication infrastructure including a risk analysis of the critical components as well as incorporation of redundancy in the grid.

Topics of Particular interest

The symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of security to present and discuss the knotty issues involved in smart grid security. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

* Grid Resilience
  o Mechanisms to isolate and/or recover from both physical and cyber faults and attacks
  o Metrics of resilience
* Smart Grid Security Risk Assessment and Management
* Communications and Device Security
  o Authorization and Access Control
  o End-to-end Encryption, Key Management, etc.
* Security of Devices
* Privacy and Misuse of User Data
* System Security, e.g.,
  o Malware attacks (on the network and devices)
  o Intrusion
  o Denial-of-Service Attacks
  o SCADA security
  o Other network attacks
* Physical Security of the Grid Communication Infrastructure
  o Building redundancy in the grid
  o Meter tampering by customer or others

Submission Guidelines
Submission deadlines and format requirements are the same for all symposia, see here
Paper submission will be through EDAS, please check this page again in March 2011 for a direct link.
Technical Program Committee (TPC) members
Bora Akyol, Pacific Northwest Labs, USA
Brian M. Bowen, Columbia University, USA
Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
David Bakken, Washington State University
Georgios Kalogridis, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, UK
John Buford, Avaya Labs Research, USA
Mostafa El-Said, Grand Valley State University, USA
Russ Housley, Vigil Security, US
Sanjay Goel, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Shalini Kishore, Lehigh University, USA
Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research, USA
William H Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
William T. Polk, NIST, USA
Kevin Mills, NIST, USA
Carl Hauser, Washington State University, USA
Dave Dalva Cisco Systems, USA
Stojan Denic, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK 
Henrik Sandberg, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vincent Roca, INRIA Rhne-Alpes, France
Andrew Wright, N-Dimension Solutions, USA
Le Xie, Texas A&M University, USA
Marianne Swanson, NIST, USA
Bulent Yener, RPI, USA


Best,
Sanjay Goel
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Director of Research, NYS Center for Information Forensics and Assurance
Associate Professor, Information Technology Management, School of Business
University at Albany, State University of New York
http://www.albany.edu/~goel