JCWN on Wireless Physical Layer Security

Call for papers

Security is a critical issue in multi-user wireless networks in which  secure transmissions is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain in highly mobile and distributed environments.  In his seminal works of the late 1940s, Shannon formalized the concepts of capacity (as a transmission efficiency measure) and equivocation (as a measure of secrecy). Together with Wyner’s fundamental formulation of the wiretap channel in the 1970s, this work laid the groundwork for the area of wireless physical area security. Interest in this area has exploded in recent years, motivated by the rise of wireless networking in general and by the increasing interest in large mobile networks with light infrastructure, which are extremely difficult to secure by traditional methods.

The objective of this special issue (whose preparation is carried out under the auspices of the EC Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications NEWCOM++) is to gather recent advances in the area of wireless physical layer security -  from the theoretical, such as the analysis of the secrecy capacity of various channel models -to more practical interests such as the development of codes and other communication schemes that can provide security in real networks. Suitable topics for this special issue dedicated to physical layer security include but are not limited to:

• Opportunistic secrecy
• The wiretap channel with feedback
• Authentication over the wiretap channel
• Information theoretic secrecy of fading channels
• Secrecy through public discussion
• Wireless key distribution
• Multi-user channels with secrecy constraints
• MIMO wiretap channels
• Relay-eavesdropper channel
• Scheduling for secure communications
• Secure communication with jamming
• Game theoretic approaches for secrecy
• Codes for secure transmission
• Secure compression

• Cognitive approaches for secrecy
• Physical Secrecy and Common Randomness
• Secrecy with channel uncertainty

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Guest Editors

Mérouane Debbah, Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, Supélec, 3 rue Joliot-Curie 91192 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX, France ; merouane.debbah@supelec.fr

Hesham El-Gamal, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210, Ohio State University; helgamal@ece.osu.edu

H. Vincent Poor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Engineering Quadrangle, Olden Street, Princeton, NJ, 08544  USA; poor@princeton.edu

Shlomo Shamai, Department of Electrical Engineering,Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel; sshlomo@ee.technion.ac.il