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------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems (DSSNS'2006) http://www.dssns.org In conjunction with 2nd NASA/IEEE Systems and Software Week 30th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW'2006) Columbia, Maryland, USA ~ April 24-28, 2006

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the potential use of networked sensors in applications such as smart environments, disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, and security surveillance. While the initial view of the community was that networked sensors will play a complementary role that enhances the quality of these applications, recent research results have encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor networks and systems (SN&S) in such critical and sensitive applications. Therefore to realize their potential, necessary dependability and security (D&S) measures have to be incorporated in the design and during the operation of SN&S. Dependability is usually specified using attributes like reliability, survivability, safety, maintainability, and availability in presence of failure, while security is specified by attributes like integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, and availability in presence of attacks. D&S services accomplish tasks for attack and failure prevention, detection and response. The scope of D&S services may span the deployed sensors to command nodes and likely beyond. It also involves D&S support at, and cross-cutting, the protocol stack layers from physical to application.

Achieving dependability and security in SN&S will require non-conventional mechanisms due to many factors including: (1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage and computation; (2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers in normal as well as harsh/hostile environments; (3) sensor networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical protection, and (4) localization of impact is complicated due to the un-tethered nature of SN&S and of the potential attackers. In addition, D&S requirements may vary according to mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time.

This workshop will foster a forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on dependability and security in SN&S. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following:

- Fault and intrusion-tolerant architectures, middleware and operational models - Robust routing, storage, and processing of sensed data - D&S architectures, protocols and tools - Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures - Monitoring and evaluation techniques - Robust clustering techniques - Self-awareness and context-awareness - Resilient virtual infrastructures - Autonomic and adaptive D&S support. - Formal representation and verification of D&S properties - Network inference support for D&S - Quality of service provisioning - Models, metrics, and measurements for D&S - Privacy-aware D&S services - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Agent-based D&S management - SN&S support for D&S in larger information grids - SN&S application development environments

Submission Guidelines --------------------- For guidelines regarding paper submission, please refer to the workshop’s website (http://www.dssns.org). Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. The manuscript should not exceed 20 single-column double-space pages in PDF format, font size 11 or larger. The first page should include title, authors' contact information, abstract and five keywords.

Important Dates ---------------- Submission deadline: November 7, 2005 Decision notification: December 20, 2005 Final manuscript due: January 20, 2006

The accepted papers will appear in a proceedings published by IEEE. The best paper will be recognized and selected papers will be invited to

a Special Issue of the Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks.

Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------- Mohamed Eltoweissy Virginia Tech, USA E-mail: toweissy@vt.edu

Mohamed Younis University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA E-mail: younis@csee.umbc.edu

Publicity Co-Chairs -------------------- Denis Gracanin Virginia Tech, USA E-mail: gracanin@vt.edu

Moustafa Youssef University of Maryland at College Park, USA E-mail: moustafa@cs.umd.edu

Program Committee ------------------ Farooq Anjum, Telcordia & U. of Penn, USA David Carman, Johns Hopkins U.– Applied Physics Lab, USA Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA M. Nazih Elderini, Alexandria U., Egypt Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Lab and U. of Idaho, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA Shivakant Mishra, U. of Colorado, USA Peng Ning, North Carolina State U., USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue U., USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion U., USA David Simplot-Ryl, U. Lille, INRIA Futurs, France Mani B. Srivastava, U. of California – Los Angeles, USA John A. Stankovic, U. of Virginia, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, U. of Ottawa, Canada Gene Tsudik, U. of California-Irvine, USA Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA Stephen D. Wolthusen, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany Albert Zomaya, U. of Sydney, Australia