Recent advances in electronics and wireless communication technologies have enabled the extensive deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). These networks have applications in many important areas, such as military, healthcare, environment monitoring, and manufacturing. Security and privacy are critical issues to many sensor network applications including military target tracking and healthcare monitoring. To provide security and privacy to these networks is challenging, due to the open nature of wireless communication and the limited capabilities of sensor nodes in terms of processing power, storage, bandwidth, and energy. Additionally, widespread and unrestricted deployment of WSNs makes them exposed to a number of security vulnerabilities. Moreover, a number of trust and reputation issues arise in WSNs since trust is a fundamental consideration for operation and stability of WSNs. An example is that a trust management frame in WSNs can be utilized to prevent nodes from performing malicious or selfish behaviour.
This special issue aims to foster the latest development in the design, implementation, and evaluation in the fields of trust, reputation, security and privacy of WSNs. Original and research articles are solicited including new mechanisms, theoretical studies, practical applications, and experimental prototypes.
Topics to be covered in this special issue include but are not limited to:
- Trust, anonymity, reputation and privacy models for WSNs
- Cross-layer design for security
- Formal methods for WSN security
- Security, privacy and cryptographic algorithms in WSNs
- Security and privacy in body sensor networks
- Software security for sensor network nodes
- Security and privacy in medical sensor networks
- Trust based protocols and computational model for WSNs
- Novel perspectives on trust, security and privacy for WSNs
- Economics of WSN security
- Unattended sensor network security
- Key management in WSNs
- Secure routing and localization protocols for WSNs
- Intrusion detection and prevention in WSNs
- Wireless passive sensor network security
Manuscript submission deadline: 1 March, 2011
First review completed: 1 May, 2011
Revised manuscript due: 1 June, 2011
Notification of acceptance: 1 July, 2011
Final manuscript due: 10 July, 2011
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