About the Workshop

Due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium, communication security has always been an important concern in sensor systems. Although security was originally viewed as a high-layer problem to be solved using key-based cryptographic techniques, physical-layer security is now emerging as a complementary approach to further enhance secrecy performance. The breakthrough idea of physical-layer security is to exploit the intrinsic characteristics of the wireless channels, such as fading, path loss, or noise, to transmit a message from a source to the intended receiver while keeping confidentiality from both passive and active eavesdroppers. Physical-layer security owns its advantages in terms of no need for distributing/managing secret keys, low computational complexity, and easy implementation in a wireless environment, so it is highly promising for implementing secure communication in sensor systems. Moreover, it will be more advantageous by combining physical-layer and upper-layer security techniques via cross-layer design.

The organizers aim to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry for discussion and technical presentations on fundamental and practically relevant questions related to the many challenges arising from secure communications in sensor systems.

Workshop Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Information-theoretic fundamentals for physical-layer security
• Physical-layer authentication techniques for sensor systems
• Physical-layer secret key generation and agreement
• Secure advanced coding techniques for sensor systems
• Cooperative secure communications in sensor systems
• Covert communication in sensor systems
• Secure cross-layer design techniques
• Secure resource allocation (secure energy efficiency, secure cross-layer optimization and game theory techniques)
• Information theoretical security for massive sensor networks
• Applications of physical-layer and cross-layer security strategies in sensor networks

Important Dates

• Paper Abstract Submission: August 14 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE September 11 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE
• Paper Full Submission: August 21 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE September 18 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 25 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE October 2 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE
• Camera-Ready: October 16 (Friday), 2020, 23:59 AoE
• Workshop Date: November 16 (Monday), 2020

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. We solicit three types of paper submission:

• Technical Papers: up to 6 pages (including everything except references), reporting on novel research, to be presented at the workshop as an oral presentation.
• Position Papers: up to 3 pages (including everything), reporting on new research directions and/or a controversial debate of past research, to be presented at the workshop as a short pitch with interactive discussion.
• Demo/Poster Papers: up to 2 pages (including everything), to be presented at the workshop as an interactive demonstration or poster respectively.

PLAS 2020 Workshop HotCRP Submission Site