Journal of Information Security and Applications

Special Issue on Security and Privacy in D2D-aided Fog Computing
Environment: Current Progress and Future Challenge

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-information-security-and-applications/call-for-papers/security-and-privacy-in-d2d-aided-fog-computing-environment


*Guest Editors*

Dr. Prosanta Gope, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 
(Email: p.gope@sheffield.ac.uk)

Dr. Biplab Sikdar, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
(Email: bsikdar@nus.edu.sg)

Dr. Wei Yu, Towson University, USA (Email: wyu@towson.edu)

*Special Issue Outline*

Fog computing has emerged as a viable solution for many large-scale
latency-sensitive applications. Usually, the concept of fog computing is
useful for various mission critical applications that require real-time
data processing. Despite the concept of fog computing offering several
notable features (e.g., low latency, dynamic per user optimization, etc.),
many issues still need to be solved before it can be practically deployed
as an efficient computing paradigm. Device-to-device (D2D) communication
with advanced communication technologies that exploit short range
communications have been suggested as a solution for some of these issues
by improving the network performance and supporting proximity-based
services. For instance, D2D communication-based fog computing environments
can be utilized in 5G HetNet infrastructure for establishing seamless
communication between a large number of devices with ultra-low latency
support. However, security and privacy in D2D communication for fog enabled
applications are major concerns that have hampered their adoption and thus,
require immediate and significant efforts from the research community.

This special issue is focused on security and privacy issues in fog
computing and D2D communication. Here, we welcome high quality research
from both academia and industry, with particular emphasis on novel ideas
and techniques. Only technical papers describing previously unpublished,
original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review by a
conference or a journal will be considered. We will recommend submission of
multimedia with each paper as this significantly increases the visibility,
downloads, and citations of articles.

Selection and Evaluation Criteria

    Relevance to the topics of this special issue
    Research novelty (e.g., new techniques) and potential impact
    Readability

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

    Authentication for D2D-aided fog computing environment
    Privacy for D2D-aided fog computing environment
    Accountability for D2D-aided fog computing environment
    Hardware security of devices
    Access control and key-management for D2D-aided fog computing environment
    Theories, methods and applications in machine learning addressing
      security issues and solutions for fog computing and D2D
      communication
    Trust management for fog computing and D2D communication
    Test-bed, prototype implementation and fog-based security applications
    New paradigms facilitating fog computing and D2D communication
    Data security in D2D-aided fog computing environment

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15th November 2020
First Round of Reviews: 31 January 2021
Revised Manuscript: 15th March 2021
Second Round of Reviews: 15th April 2021
Camera-Ready: 7th May 2021

Guest Editors

Dr. Prosanta Gope, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 
  (Email: p.gope@sheffield.ac.uk)
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/pgope

Dr. Biplab Sikdar, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
  (Email: bsikdar@nus.edu.sg)

Website: https://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/ece/staff/biplab-sikdar/

Dr. Wei Yu, Towson University, USA (Email: wyu@towson.edu)
Website: http://wp.towson.edu/wyu/

Submission Guidelines

All the submission are required to be submitted through the Journal of
Information Security and Applications online submission system
available at:
https://www.evise.com/evise/faces/pages/navigation/NavController.jspx?JRNL_ACR=JISA

All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be
reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Once your manuscript
is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously
published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online
Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in
different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly
marked and branded as Special Issue articles.

Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent
electronically to

Dr. Prosanta Gope, p.gope@sheffield.ac.uk