The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cybersecurity researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policy makers to exchange ideas, techniques and tools related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research results in communications and network security.

Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Anonymity and privacy technologies
• Biometric authentication and identity management
• Cyber crimes, forensics, and defenses
• Data security
• Game-theoretic and information-theoretic security technologies
• Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems
• Intrusion detection, prevention, and response
• Key management, public key infrastructures, certification revocation, authentication, and access control
• Software and language-based security
• Security metrics and models
• Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies
• Machine learning security
• Security in Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and critical infrastructures (smart grids, transportation systems, etc.)
• Security in wireless, cellular, ad hoc, mesh, sensor networks and technologies
• Security for mobile and wearable devices
• Security of blockchain and its applications
• Security in cloud and edge computing, crowdsourcing, peer-to-peer and overlay networks
• Security for future Internet architectures and designs
• Security for software-defined and data center networks
• Security in autonomous vehicles, UAVs/UAS, drones, etc.
• Security of social networks, metaverse/virtual/augmented reality-based networks/systems
• Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy
• Traffic analysis
• Usable security and privacy
• Web security

Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the 2023 IEEE CNS Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website for detailed instructions and submission rules and regulations and for author requirements for accepted papers.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 18 June 2023 (AoE)
  
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: 11 August 2023
• Final Paper Submission: 25 August 2023

Organizing Committees

General Co-chairs

• David Mohaisen, University of Central Florida, USA
• Chunyi Peng, Purdue University, USA

Program Co-chairs

• Hao Chen, University of California, Davis, USA
• Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Zhuo Lu, University of South Florida, USA
• Rui Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

Panel Co-Chairs

• Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA
• Guanhua Yan, SUNY Binghamton, USA

Poster Chair

• An Wang, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Omar Alrawi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Publication Chair

• Guan-Hua (Scott) Tu, Michigan State University, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Qiben Yan, Michigan State University, USA
• Zhaowei Tan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Student Travel Chair

• Rhongho Jang, Wayne State University, USA

Web Chair

• Jeman Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Soohyeon Choi, University of Central Florida, USA