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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a
premier forum for cybersecurity researchers, engineers, practitioners,
and policy makers to exchange ideas, techniques and tools related to
all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network
security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry,
and government presenting novel research results in communications and
network security.

The twelfth annual IEEE Conference on Communications and Network
Security (IEEE CNS) 2024 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan 
on 30 September - 3 October 2024

https://cns2024.ieee-cns.org/

=== Topics ===
Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Anonymity and privacy technologies
    Biometric authentication and identity management
    Cyber crimes, forensics, and defenses
    Data security
    Game-theoretic and information-theoretic security technologies
    Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems
    Intrusion detection, prevention, and response
    Key management, public key infrastructures, certification
      revocation, authentication, and access control
    Software and language-based security
    Security metrics and models
    Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies
    Machine learning security
    Security in Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and
      critical infrastructures (smart grids, transportation systems,
      etc.)
    Security in wireless, cellular, ad hoc, mesh, sensor networks and
      technologies
    Security for mobile and wearable devices
    Security of blockchain and its applications
    Security in cloud and edge computing, crowdsourcing, peer-to-peer
      and overlay networks
    Security for future Internet architectures and designs
    Security for software-defined and data center networks
    Security in autonomous vehicles, UAVs/UAS, drones, etc.
    Security of social networks, metaverse/virtual/augmented
      reality-based networks/systems
    Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy
    Traffic analysis
    Usable security and privacy
    Web security

Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the 2024
IEEE CNS Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other
Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website
(https://cns2024.ieee-cns.org/submission-instructions) for detailed
instructions and submission rules and regulations and for author
requirements for accepted papers.

=== Important Dates ===
Submission Deadline: 10 June 2024 (AoE)
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 9 August 2024
Final Paper Submission: 23 August 2024

=== Organizing Committees ===
General Co-chairs
    Shi-Cho Cha, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
    Eric Burger, Virginia Tech, USA

Technical Program Co-chairs
    Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
    Rui Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

Workshop  Co-chairs
    Hrishikesh B. Acharya, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
    Yao Liu, University of South Florida, USA

Panel  Co-chairs
    Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA
    Wei-Chung Teng, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Poster Chair
    Hossein Shirazi, San Diego State University, USA

Local Co-chairs
    Chun-Ying Huang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    Wei-Chung Teng, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Financial Chair
    Kuo-Hui Yeh, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Publication Chair
    Linke Guo, Clemson University, USA

Publicity Co-chairs
    Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan
    Yidan Hu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Student Travel Chair
    Qiang Zeng, George Mason University, USA

Web  Chair
    Hsu-Chun Hsiao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

=== Steering Committees ===

Steering Committee Chair
    Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA

Steering Committee Members
    Yingying Chen, Rutgers University, USA
    Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA
    Charles Clancy, MITRE Corp., USA
    David Du, University of Minnesota, USA
    Tom Hou, Virginia Tech., USA
    Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
    Jiwu Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy
    Cliff Wang, National Science Foundation, USA
    Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA