ACEEE-NSG Director: Prof. Vinu V Das (Chairman, ACEEE)

Network security consists of the provisions made in an underlying computer network infrastructure, policies adopted by the network administrator to protect the network and the network-accessible resources from unauthorized access, and consistent and continuous monitoring and measurement of its effectiveness (or lack) combined together. Network security is generally taken as providing protection at the boundaries of an organization, keeping the intruders out. Network security systems today are mostly effective, so the focus has shifted to protecting resources from attack or simple mistakes by people inside the organization. One response to this insider threat in network security is to compartmentalize large networks, so that an employee would have to cross an internal boundary and be authenticated when they try to access privileged information. Information security is explicitly concerned with all aspects of protecting information resources, including network security.

Network security being a one of the highly vibrant area, we have started a research group in the name of ACEEE-Network Security Group (ACEEE-NSG). To create a platform to discuss and present innovative new ideas, NSG is publishing a peer-reviewed international journal, International Journal of Network Security (IJNS), focusing on theories, methods, and applications in network security.

The International Journal of Network Security (IJNS) reflects the multidisciplinary security nature of communications, computer networks, mobile network and etc. Both theoretical research contributions (presenting new techniques, concepts, or analyses) and applied contributions (reporting on experiences and experiments with actual systems) and tutorial expositions of permanent reference value are published. The topics covered by this journal include, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Network Security, Services and Applications,
• Network Operations and Management policies
• Network Security Architecture and Design
• Next Generation Network Security threads
• Communication Protocols and Theory
• Signal Processing for Communications
• Digital Security, Watermarking
• Multimedia Security, Electronic Cash
• Firewall / VPN / Security Protocols
• Information, Communications and Network Security
• Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling
• Network Access, Error Recovery, Routing, Congestion, and Flow Control
• BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN, Internet, Network Interconnections
• Broadband and Very High Rate Networks,
• Data Networks and Telephone Network Security,
• Wireless Communications & Networking
• Bluetooth, IrDA, RFID, WLAN, WMAX, 3G
• Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
• Next Generation Mobile Networks
• Optical Systems Security
• Satellite and Space Communications
• DoS, IP spoofing, Cryptography, IPSEC, SSL, & SET

Original contributions are solicited on topics covered under the above broad areas (but not limited to). Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in PDF double column format to: aceee.nsg AT engineersnetwork.org