[telco-cg] CFP Extension - AI-Driven Cyber Security Threats to Future Networks Special Issue - IEEE VT Magazine (IF 6.145)

[Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel]

Extended submission deadline (final): January 6th, 2020	

CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on AI-Driven Cyber Security Threats to Future Networks -  IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.145)			

5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) networks will support a variety of services and verticals (enhanced mobile broadband, health, industry 4.0, smart energy and automotive). These services, verticals and the critical components that compose 5G architecture (e.g., radio access, edge and core networks) face new cyber security risks and challenges. A new generation of smart threats defined as Artificial Intelligence (AI)-attacks has emerged. These threats can utilize AI to attack 5G networks or services or hack the AI algorithms used by 5G components. In the first case, AI can be utilized to launch attacks against targets such as autonomous vehicles, drones or manufacturing machinery. In the second case, attackers hack the Machine Learning (ML) algorithms by modifying for instance the labels of ML's classification functions and altering the training data, which cause a decrease on the accuracy classification rate. These threats require a new era of cyber security approaches based on robust AI algorithms to protect future networks from AI-related attacks. Future solutions must consider 5G and B5G network constraints (e.g. overhead, latency, energy and bandwidth consumption). 
In this special issue, we invite high-quality original submissions on AI-based solutions for cyber security in 5G and B5G networks.			 

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

- AI-attacks against 5G and B5G networks.		
- AI modeling for network behavior in 5G and B5G networks.		
- Attacks detection and prediction based on deep and reinforcement learning in 5G and B5G networks.		
- Cyber protection based on advanced learning to secure 5G and B5G networks.		
- Cyber threats intelligence based on AI to secure 5G and B5G networks.		
- AI-cyber security approaches in virtualized environments.		
- Cyber security games to protect 5G and B5G services.			
- Lightweight AI-based cyber security to protect low-resources 5G and B5G services and devices (e.g. IoT devices).		
- AI-cyber defense for 5G and B5G-based vertical applications.						

Submitted papers should contain state-of-the-art research or technical material presented in a tutorial or survey style. All manuscripts must adhere to the IEEE VTM guidelines at http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php. Authors should submit a PDF version of their manuscript to (select Special Issue when submitting) http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee	
				     
Important Dates					
- Extended submission deadline: January 6th, 2020								
- First Round Reviews: February 28th, 2020										
- Submission for second round of reviews: April 10th, 2020								
- Second Round Reviews: June 5th, 2020								
- Publication: September 2020								

Guest Editors:										
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Burgundy, France, Sidi-Mohammed.Senouci at u-bourgogne.fr		
Hichem Sedjelmaci, Orange Labs, France, hichem.sedjelmaci at orange.com  			
Chadi Assi, Concordia University Montreal, Canada, assi at ciise.concordia.ca 			
Jiajia Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, liujiajia at nwpu.edu.cn 			
Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, mshrehmani at gmail.com 			
Elias Bou-Harb, Florida Atlantic University, ebouharb at fau.edu								 		 	 												
Editor in Chief: Javier Gozalvez (j.gozalvez at umh.es), Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain