Important Dates
  • Paper Submission
    15 December 2008
  • Acceptance Notification
    31 January 2009
  • Camera Ready Due
    23 February 2009
  • Workshop
    15 May 2009

2nd International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks Security (MWNS'09)

MWNS'09 is the second event in the series of international workshops on "Mobile and Wireless Networks Security", following the highly successful MWNS workshop in Singapore 2008. This year the workshop will be organized on 15 May 2009, as a full-day event on the last day of the IFIP conference Networking 2009 which will be held 11-15 May 2009, in Aachen, Germany.

Call for Papers PDF CFP

Network security being for many years addressed in wired networks, it becomes more and more challenging in mobile and wireless networks since those environments are widely open and accessible.

In this context, mobile and wireless terminals and communication are more vulnerable than wired terminals and networks to different attacks such as denial of service, man in the middle, hijacking, spoofing, etc. In addition, they have less resources which is a real problem in security solution design. This poses new challenges in a sense that we need to design secure and robust solution and light enough to be supported by those wireless and mobile terminals and communications.

Different wireless and mobile technologies are available today such as RFID, Wifi, Wimax, 3G, etc promising the deployment of a variety of services for mobile users. However, security needs to be robust enough in order for the user to trust the services offered on top of those technologies. Other technologies such as ad hoc or sensor networks are also very interesting for new type of services, but they also need to prove that security level is high enough to support user services.

Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics:

  • Security in wireless PAN, LAN, MAN, RAN
  • Security in IP Mobility networks
  • Security in Mobile P2P
  • Security policies and models
  • Privacy, anonymity, and tracking
  • AAA - Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting
  • Security in Mobile networks (2G, 3G, 4G, ...)
  • Security in ad hoc networks
  • Security in sensor/RFID networks
  • Identity management
  • Security of wireless and mobile terminals
    (smart cards, biometry, ...)

As keynote speaker we are welcoming Hannes Tschofenig, who is an active fellow at the IETF.

Paper Submission

Full papers are solicited in English to be submitted to MWNS2009@gmail.com, no more than 12 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full peer review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory.

The conference proceedings will be published as hard-copy and electronically by Shaker Verlag Series and will be available during the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow the LNCS guidelines strictly and without exception, including the 12 page limit. The Springer template file is available in both Latex2e and Microsoft Word format. Post-conference journal publication of selected papers is under preparation.

General Information

The workshop will be organized on May 15, 2009, as a full-day event on the last day of the IFIP conference Networking 2009 which will be held 11-15 May 2009, in Aachen, Germany. The registration for this workshop is handled within the framework of Networking 2009, see the registration site for further details.

For further information please send an e-mail.