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  EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

  Special Issue on

  Wireless Network Security

  Call for Papers

Recent advances in wireless network technologies have rapidly developed
in recent years, as evidenced by wireless location area networks (WLANs),
wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless metropolitan area
networks (WMANs), and wireless wide area networks (WWANs), that is,
cellular networks. A major impediment to their deployment, however,
is wireless network security. For example, the lack of data confidentiality
in wired equivalent privacy (WEP) protocol has been proven, and newly adopted
standards such as IEEE 802.11i robust secruity network (RSN) and IEEE 802.15.3a
ultra-wideband (UWB) are not fully tested and, as such, may expose unforeseen
security vulnerabilities. The effort to improve wireless network security is
linked with many technical challenges including compatibility with legacy
wireless networks, complexity in implementation, and cost/performance
trade-offs. The need to address wireless network security and to provide
timely, solid technical contributions establishes the motivation behind
this special issue.

This special issue will focus on novel and functional ways to improve wireless
network security. Papers that do not focus on wireless network security will not
be reviewed. Specific areas of interest in WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, and WWANs include,
but are not limited to:

    o Attacks, security mechanisms, and security services
    o Authentication
    o Access control
    o Data confidentiality
    o Data integrity
    o Nonrepudiation
    o Encryption and decryption
    o Key management
    o Fraudulent usage
    o Wireless network security performance evaluation
    o Wireless link layer security
    o Tradeoff analysis between performance and security
    o Authentication and authorization for mobile service network
    o Wireless security standards (IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, and 3GPP2)

Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format
described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.info/wcn/
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the EURASIP JWCN's manuscript
tracking system at journal's web site, according to the
following timetable.

  Manuscript Due              October 1, 2005
  Acceptance Notification     February 1, 2006
  Final Manuscript Due        May 1, 2006
  Publication Date            3rd Quarter, 2006

GUEST EDITORS:

Yang Xiao, Computer Science Division, The University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN 38152, USA; yangxiao@ieee.org

Yi-Bing Lin, Department of Computer Science and Information
Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan;
liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw

Ding-Zhu Du, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
dzd@cs.umn.edu

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