SSecurity protocols and mechanism for communication networks have provided many features such as user access control, data confidentiality, user privacy, and system integrity. At the mean time, QoS is one of the most important issues for services and applications, especially for performance evaluation in the presence of security concerns and attacks for different network architectures and applications. This workshop is dedicated to original efforts in the area that brings security solutions and their impact on system performance together.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Trade-off of QoS and security in real-time transmission over wireless networks

• Authentication and user access control for handover in heterogeneous wireless networks, such as wireless LANs, 3G systems, and wireless mesh networks

• Impact of security management on QoS in high speed networks, such as grid networks

• Design and analysis of security protocols and mechanism for highly dynamic networks

• Preventing QoS theft, selfish behaviors, and policing

• Threat modeling and attach measures

• Evaluating the impact of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

• Trust management for distributed grid and wireless network

• Protocols for authentication and authorization for QoS-sensitive applications

• Cross-layer security protocols

• Robust, fault-tolerant network architecture

• Testbed, application practice, and standard activities

• Joint approaches to QoS and security metrics

Technical papers describing original unpublished research are solicited. The workshop papers will be published in CD-ROM proceedings and online on IEEE Xplore.

Authors of best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers to a special issue on Security and QoS in Communication Networks of the Springer's Telecommunication Systems Journal

Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to IEEE conference style 2-column, 10 pages limit.

Submissions must be uploaded electronically as PDF documents through the conference Web site
For further information, please send an email to secqos@create-net.it.

Contacts: Workshop Co-Chairs:
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, wwang@eos.ncsu.edu
Cristina Costa, CREATE-NET, cristina.costa@create-net.it