Wireless Innovation Laboratory » Second International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Electromagnetic Spectrum Security (CRESS 2015)

Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Electromagnetic Spectrum Security (CRESS 2015)

@ 2015 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Fall)

Wednesday 9 September 2015, Boston, MA, USA

Cognitive radio enables access to broader pools of spectrum and more efficient utilization of current wireless resources and thus plays a key role for the next generation of mobile broadband. Legacy static spectrum allocation, although simple, poses a major obstacle for efficient use of limited wireless resources across time, space, and frequency. This challenge has promoted substantial research and development into cognitive radio technologies with network-level perception, learning, adaptation, and optimization for efficient spectrum utilization. In fact, the latest advances in cognitive radio technology have already started to appear in numerous military and public safety applications, connected vehicle prototypes, and cellular telephony deployments such as 4G LTE-Advanced, e.g., Self-Organizing Network (SON) engines.

However, the autonomous manner in which cognitive radio systems make decisions fora wide range of wireless communications and networking functions, as well as its total dependency on environmental sensory information in order to reach these decisions, makes this technology highly susceptible to attack by a malicious, external entity. At the same time, research activities into identifying potential vulnerabilities in cognitive radio technology and developing robust countermeasures to mitigate these attacks is only now beginning to increase.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together members of the cognitive radio and electromagentic spectrum security community from around the world in order for them to share the latest research findings in this emerging and critical area, as well as exchange ideas and foster research collaborations, in order to further advance the state-of-the-art in security techniques, architectures, and algorithms for cognitive radio communications and networks. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following:

General security architecture for CR networks
Cross-layer security design of CR networks
Secure routing in multi-hop CR networks
Physical layer security for CR networks
Geo-location for security in CR networks
Defending and mitigating jamming-based DoS attacks in CR networks
Defending against energy depletion attacks in resource-constrained CR networks
Attack modeling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in CR systems
Primary user emulation attacks and countermeasures
Authentication methods of primary users
Spectrum sensing data falsification and countermeasures
Spectrum misusage and selfish misbehaviors and countermeasures
Unauthorized use of spectrum bands and countermeasures
Methods for detecting, isolating and expelling misbehaving cognitive nodes
Eavesdropping attack modeling and analysis in cognitive radio
Security policies, standards and regulations for CR networks
Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in CR systems
Information-theoretical secrecy capacity of cognitive transmissions
Privacy protection in CR networks
Security issues for database-based CR networks
Security in CR networks for the smart grid
Intrusion detection systems in CR networks
Truthful Spectrum Auctions

Important Dates:

Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 11 April 2015
Acceptance Notification: 11 May 2015
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 8 June 2015
Workshop Event: 9 September 2015

Paper Submission Instructions:

All 2-page extended abstract submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the following URL.

Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. All submissions must be made through the peer review system located at the following URL: https://vtc2015fall.trackchair.com/track/1408

Workshop Chairs:

Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, George Washington University, cheng@gwu.edu
Yalin E. Sagduyu, Intelligent Automation Inc., ysagduyu@i-a-i.com
Yi Shi, Intelligent Automation Inc., yshi@i-a-i.com
Shabnam Sodagari, University of Maryland, shabnam@ieee.org
Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, alexw@wpi.edu