The eleventh annual IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2023 will be held in Orlando, FL on 2-5 October 2023.

IEEE CNS provides a premier forum for security researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experience related to all practical and theoretical aspects of cybersecurity.

IEEE CNS 2023 seeks original high-quality technical papers from academia, government, and industry. Topics of interest encompass all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security, from the physical layer to the network layer to the variety of applications reliant on a secure communication substrate. Submit a Paper

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.

Submission deadline: 18 June 2023