Special Issue "Security Trends in Mobile Cloud Computing, Web and Social Networking"

The EURASIP Journal on Information Security invites authors to submit manuscripts for a special issue on "Security Trends in Mobile Cloud Computing, Web and Social Networking".

Cyber security is an essential need for modern society where information technology and services pervade every aspect of our lives. However, it is challenging to achieve, as technology is changing at rapid speed and our systems turn into ever more complex. We are gradually more dependent upon such information and communications infrastructures, and the threats we face are organized and exploit our dependency by the attackers or cyber criminals. Moreover, cyber space is considered as fifth battle-field after land, air, water and space.

Mobile cloud computing, web and social networking have gained more and more attention in recent years. There are still significant security challenges in the development of cloud infrastructure, web and mobile terminal devices.

This special issue will focus on state-of-the-art research paradigms on security aspects in social networking, Web and cloud computing, particularly on advances in mobile computing technologies and related areas. Moreover, this issue will spotlight on the research challenges and issues in the mobile cloud computing security. This special issue is open for submission for high quality research contributions from academia and professionals. Original research papers and state of the art reviews will be accepted. We anticipate that the special issue will open new entrance for further research and technology improvements in this important area.

Topics of interest include:

• Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing
• Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds
• Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things
• Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing
• Security of Pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services
• Security and privacy in Smartphone Devices
• Security and privacy in sensor networks
• Security and privacy in social applications and networks
• Web service security
• Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc, Petrinets
• Security of Mobile social networks
• Near field communication services
• Security of Smart cities, smart environments and smart grid
• Security of Smart transportation

Lead Guest Editor:

• B. B. Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India

Guest Editors:

• Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan
• P. Raj, IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (COE), IBM, India

For more information about this special issue, please visit:
http://si.eurasip.org/issues/76/security-trends-in-mobile-cloud-computing-web-and/