Security and Privacy Special Track
IEEE-AESS Conference in Europe about Space and Satellite Communications (ESTEL)
Rome, Italy - October 2-5, 2012

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Call for Papers

The special track on Security and Privacy of the ESTEL Conference aims at providing a forum for discussing security and privacy issues that need to be investigated for providing advanced services, architectures, and technologies for space and satellite applications. In this context, it is of utmost importance to ensure proper protection to such complex systems, or systems-of-systems, to ensure security, privacy, and availability of the infrastructure as well as of resources and information it provides and manages. These aspects concern both the specific satellite application and infrastructure as well as the base stations and land data servers and communications that serve them, touching then the different areas with ICT. The problem is far from trivial, due to the criticality and the social impact of the applications and services relying on this global infrastructure, as well as the complexity given by the co-existence and co-operation of, possibly heterogeneous, component systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Access Control Secure Cloud Computing
Applied Cryptography for Space Applications Secure Software Development Methodologies
Authentication Security Protocols
Biometrics Security and Privacy Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems
Data Integrity Security and Privacy in Complex Systems
Data Protection Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing
Database Security and Privacy Security and Privacy in Location-based Services
Digital Forensics Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
Digital Rights Management Security and Privacy in Satellite Surveillance
Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Security and Privacy in Web Services
Formal Methods for Security Security and Privacy Policies
Homeland Security Security Area Control
Human Factors and Human Behaviour Recognition Techniques Security Deployment
Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation Security Engineering
Identity Management Security for Grid Computing
Information Hiding Security in Distributed Systems
Information Systems Auditing Security Information Systems Architecture and Design and Security Patterns
Insider Threats and Countermeasures Security in e-Healthcare
Intellectual Property Protection Security Issues of Satellite Communications
Intrusion Detection & Prevention Security Management
Management of Computing Security Security Metrics and Measurement
Organizational Security Policies Security Requirements (Threats, Vulnerabilities, Risk, Formal Methods, etc.)
Peer-to-Peer Security Security Verification and Validation
Privacy Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security
Reliability and Dependability Software Security
Risk Assessment Trust Management and Reputation Systems
Satellite-based Disaster Recovery Ubiquitous Computing Security
Satellite Network Security Wireless Network Security


Paper submissions
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Conference proceedings format, available at http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html. Submissions should be at most 6 pages. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=estelsec2012. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of July 15, 2012 July 22, 2012 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time) [extended]. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. A one-day registration option will be made available to special session attendees.


Important dates
Paper submission due: July 15, 2012 July 22, 2012 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time) [extended]
Notification to authors: August 27, 2012
Camera ready due: September 5, 2012

Special Track Program Chair
Pierangela Samarati
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Program Committee
Vijay Atluri Rutgers University, USA
Carlo Blundo Università di Salerno, Italy
Roberto Di Pietro Università di Roma Tre, Italy
Josep Domingo-Ferrer Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
Alberto Ferrante Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Ravi Jhawar Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro Telecom France, France
Krishna Kant NSF and Intel, USA
Yingjiu Li Singapore Management University, Singapore
Giovanni Livraga Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Javier Lopez University of Malaga, Spain
Wenjing Lou Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Carlos Alberto Maziero Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Siani Pearson HP Labs, UK
Günther Pernul Universität Regensburg, Germany
Emil Petriu University of Ottawa, Canada
Kui Ren Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Cosimo Stallo University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Vicenc Torra IIIA-CSIS, Spain
Qinghan Xiao Defence R&D, Canada
Meng Yu Virginia Commonwealth University, USA