Call

 for  Papers  for  Special  Issue  on  “Protecting  the  Internet  of  Things”  

Security  and  Communication  Networks,  Wiley    InterScience  

The  vision  of  the  Internet  of  Things  (IoT),  supported  by  industrial  companies  and  
governments  all  over  the  world,  marks  an  evolution  that  will  surely  have  a  great  
impact  on  our  environments  and  our  lives.  The  central  element  of  this  vision  is  the  
existence  of  a  network  of  interconnected  objects  (from  books  to  cars,  from  electrical  
appliances  to  food)  that  will  be  able  not  only  to  obtain  information  from  their  
surroundings  and  interact  with  the  physical  world,  but  also  to  use  existing  Internet  
standards  to  provide  services.  However,  security  is  extremely  important  for  achieving  
this  goal.  As  this  worldwide  network  of  interconnected  objects  can  be  exploited  
anywhere  by  anyone  and  anytime,  it  is  necessary  to  enhance  it  with  strong  security  
foundations  able  to  give  birth  to  a  world-­‐changing  paradigm.  In  fact,  in  order  to  
adequately  protect  the  IoT,  there  are  plenty  of  factors  that  must  be  taken  into  
account.  For  example,  the  protection  of  the  different  building  blocks,  the  creation  of  
interoperable  security  mechanisms,  the  development  of  new  services  that  allow  
multiple  entities  (e.g.,  human  beings,  machines,  objects)  to  cooperate  with  each  other,  
and  the  management  of  all  the  information  produced  by  those  interactions.  This  
special  issue  is  proposed  to  cover  research  results  and  innovation  case  studies  on  
security  for  the  Internet  of  Things.  Topics  of  interest  include  but  are  not  limited  to:  

• New  security  problems  in  the  context  of  the  IoT.  

• Privacy  risks  and  data  management  problems.  
• Identifying,  authenticating,  and  authorizing  entities.  
• Development  of  trust  frameworks  for  secure  collaboration.  
• New  cryptographic  primitives  for  constrained  "things".  
• Connecting  heterogeneous  ecosystems  and  technologies.  
• Legal  Challenges  and  Governance  Issues.    
• Resilience  to  external  and  internal  attacks.  
• Context-­‐Aware  security.  
• Providing  protection  to  an  IP-­‐connected  IoT.  
• Web  services  security  and  other  application-­‐layer  issues.  
• Distributed  policy  enforcement  and  rights  management.  
• Usability  of  Security  and  Privacy  Technologies  in  the  context  of  the  IoT.  
 
Submission:  

Papers  must  represent  high-­‐quality  and  previously  unpublished  works.  Original  

research  papers  are  solicited  in  all  areas  on  security  for  the  Internet  of  Things.  All  
submissions  will  be  peer  reviewed  by  at  least  three  experts  working  in  the  areas.  The  
guidelines  for  prospective  authors  can  be  found  at  
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security).  Prospective  authors  should  
submit  their  papers  online  at  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn.  When  submitting  
the  papers,  the  authors  should  make  sure  to  choose  the  Manuscript  type  as  ‘Special  
Issue’,  and  enter  ‘Running  Head’  and  ‘Special  Issue  title’  as  ‘SCN-­‐SI-­‐029’  and  ‘Internet  
of  things’,  respectively.  

Guest  Editors:  

Jim  Clarke  
Waterford  Institute  of  Technology,  Ireland  
E-­‐mail:  jclarke@tssg.org  
Website:  http://www.tssg.org/people/jclarke/  

Stefanos  Gritzalis  
University  of  the  Aegean,  Greece  
E-­‐mail:  sgritz@aegean.gr  
Website:  http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/sgritz/  

Rodrigo  Roman  
University  of  Malaga,  Spain  
E-­‐mail:  roman@lcc.uma.es  
Website:  http://www.lcc.uma.es/~roman/  

Jianying  Zhou  
Institute  for  Infocomm  Research,  Singapore  
E-­‐mail:  jyzhou@i2r.a-­‐star.edu.sg  
Website:  http://icsd.i2r.a-­‐star.edu.sg/staff/jianying/  

Important  Dates:  

Manuscript  due           February/March  2011  

First  Review  Results           Late  May/June  2011  
Final  Acceptance  Notification       August/September  2011  
Camera  Ready  Manuscript  due       Late  August/September  2011  
Publication             November/December  2011  (Tentative)