Call for Chapters: Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications

URL : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020


Introduction
Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place.

Objective
This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe.

Target Audience
Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field.

Recommended Topics
This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome :

- Game theoretical models of smart grid security
- SCADA and legacy system security
- Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing
- Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- Machine learning for security
- Computer security visualization techniques
- Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques
- Online money laundering and underground economy
- Hardware vulnerabilities
- Binary analysis and reverse engineering
- Security risk assessment, measurement and management
- Network exfiltration
- Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.)
- Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.)
- Hardware security
- Quantum cryptography
- Privacy-preserving systems
- New attacks against computers and networks
- Denial-of-Service Attacks
- Insider attack detection
- Formal models, analysis, and standards
- Deception systems and honeypots
- Vulnerability analysis
- Secure software development
- Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks
- Protocol security
- Network & active defenses
- Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation
- PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security
- Tamper-resistant device technologies
- Smartphone and other embedded systems security
- Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis
- Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control
- False data injection, detection and mitigation
- Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis
- Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems)
- Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management
- Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc
- Electro-mobility
- Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations
- Distributed systems security
- Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response
- DoS/DDoS resiliency
- Cloud security
- Embedded systems security
- Security design and verification tools

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 30, 2016, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 25, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016.

Important Dates
January 30, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline
February 25, 2016: Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission
July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned
September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries
Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D)
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science
Guelma University
BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria
Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53
E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag@gmail.com

Ahmed Ahmim (PhD)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life
University of Larbi Tebessi,
Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria
Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65
E-mail: a.ahmim@gmail.com