[Om-announce] [CFP] Springer Computing - Special Issue on QoS and security in software for wireless and mobile micro-services

Mon Mar 2 10:50:42 CET 2020

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Springer - Computing (impact factor: 2.063)

Call for Special issue on "QoS and security in software for wireless and
mobile micro-services"

https://www.springer.com/journal/607/updates/17198624

(Submissions due: 30 May 2020)

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Recent years have witnessed very remarkable technological advances in both
hardware miniaturization (availability of enough powerful micro-devices at
reasonable prices with communication capabilities) and associated software
and service developments. Their target applications cover a broad spectrum
of services, ranging from general public applications (health services,
smart cities services, automotive services, etc.) to specialized
applications (military, industrial, etc.). The development of such services
and their deployment raise several open research challenges, among them
Quality of service (QoS) and Security.

Quality of Service is intrinsically related to the requirements of the end
users/applications. It can be declined under various metrics: technological
metrics (throughput maximization, delay, and energy minimization, etc.) as
well as user experience metrics (quality of data, completeness of the
information, etc.). The recent developments have widened the perimeter of
QoS to include new aspects and the corresponding metrics/constraints such as
quality of the captured data, quality of the transmission, quality of the
local processing due to intrinsic limitations (memory and computing), etc.
This is a consequence of the used hardware, known to be more prone to
failures, and of the development of the associated software, usually
characterized by low-level abstraction (i.e., close to the hardware
primitives for performance reasons). Another issue related to QoS is the
increased importance of scalability for the proposed services, raised by the
need of large scale deployment, as the expected number of devices used in an
application may be of the order of thousands. Those new conditions call for
a paradigm shift in terms of concepts and techniques handling QoS within
micro-services.

Closely connected to QoS, the objectives related to privacy, security, and
trust have become a significant challenge, mainly due to the extensive
dissemination of these micro-services in our private lives, for instance in
health monitoring, home control, e-payments, etc. Techniques addressing
these issues aim at ensuring that the provided micro-services will protect
the users' data and provide guarantees that no malicious device will affect
the system decisions, under the additional constraints of granting a given
QoS level.

The objective of this special issue is to explore recent advances in QoS and
Security in software for wireless and mobile micro-services.

** TOPICS

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Wireless and mobile network security (WLAN, PCS, Ad hoc and Sensor
Networks, Wireless Mesh, etc. )

- QoS for wireless networks,

- Intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

- Privacy and authentication

- QoS for wireless multimedia systems, VoIP QoS

- Quality of control of wireless networks

- Power and energy management

- Wireless video surveillance networks

- QoS in the Wireless Internet

- QoS and Routing

- QoS Metrics

- QoS of Wireless Network Services

- Wireless Network Survivability

- QoS and Reliability

- Image Quality in Wireless Video-Surveillance Networks

- QoS provisioning in wireless multimedia systems

- Wireless and mobile systems and applications

- Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques

- Mobile security: device, application, and data security

- Game Theoretical modeling of QoS and Security

** GUEST EDITORS

Ahmed Mostefaoui, University of Franche-Comte, France. Email:
ahmed.mostefaoui at univ-fcomte.fr

Gabriele Gianini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Email:
gabriele.gianini at unimi.it

Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Email:
ernesto.damiani at unimi.it

Geon Min, University of Exeter, UK. Email: g.min at exeter.ac.uk

** GUIDELINES

This Special Issue invites novel contributions that advance the
state-of-the-art in the above areas. Manuscripts that extend research
published previously (e.g., in conference or workshop proceedings) will only
be considered if they include at least 50% of significantly new material;
the submission of such manuscripts must be accompanied by a "Summary of
Differences" letter explaining how the authors extended their previously
published work.

Submission Guidelines

All submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to Computing's
instructions for authors which are available at
https://www.springer.com/607. We will accept both LaTeX manuscripts (which
must use Springer templates at https://www/springer.com/607) and word
manuscripts (for which no templates are available).

Manuscript length

Please note that the page limit for Special Issue submissions differs from
that of regular Computing submissions. Manuscripts submitted to the Special
Issue should not exceed 18 pages. Submission that do not comply with this
requirement are likely to be desk rejected without being reviewed.

Submission instruction

Manuscripts should be submitted using the online submission system at
(http://www.springer.com/607). When submitting a manuscript for this special
issue, authors should take care to select 'QoS and security in software for
wireless and mobile micro-services'.

** IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:             30th May       2020

First Review Notification:  30th September 2020

Revision Due:               30th November  2020

Second Review Notification: 31st January   2021

Publication date:  approx. third quarter   2021

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