Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications
Special Issue "Low Power Hardware Security"

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2018

Dear Colleagues,
The globalization of the integrated circuit (IC) supply chain has resulted in increased concern for the authenticity and security of components included in anything from consumer electronics to the most sensitive circuits managing our financial and military systems. Of particular concern is the reliance on third-party entities for tasks that range from circuit design to the fabrication and packaging of the IC. An untrusted third-party is capable of intellectual property (IP) theft, IC counterfeiting, IC overproduction, and the insertion of malicious circuitry (hardware Trojans). Even less sinister, but of equal concern, companies in competitive markets often seek the tiniest of advantages, which incentivizes reverse engineering of a competing product. Therefore, there has been significant effort in the past decade to advance many aspects of hardware security, with diverse topics that range from the development of novel security primitives and circuit techniques to the mathematical proofing and validation of implemented security measures.

As the protection of the integrated circuit supply chain is of critical importance, this Special Issue of the JLPEA is dedicated to advances in all aspects of hardware security and trust. Original contributions from the following non-exhaustive list of topics are solicited:
- Hardware Trojan attacks, detection, and countermeasures
- Hardware obfuscation and reverse engineering
- Metrics, assessment, and security policies
- Hardware security primitives (TRNGs, PUFs)
- Fault injection, detection, and mitigation
- Reconfigurable devices for security
- System-on-chip and FPGA security
- Machine learning for hardware security
- Security for emerging technologies
- Architectural security methods
- Trustworthy manufacturing (split manufacturing, 2.5/3-D integration)
- Security for IoT, automotive, and cyber-physical system
- Side-channel attacks and protections
- Analog circuit security

Manuscript Submission Information:
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Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission. For more information, please see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jlpea/special_issues/Low_Power_Hardware_Security.


Special Issue Guest Editor
Prof. Ioannis Savidis

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
website: ice.ece.drexel.edu, ece.drexel.edu/savidis/
email: isavidis@coe.drexel.edu