Wireless Personal Communications special issue on 
Security for Next Generation 
Communications                                                                                            

                                                                                     
Guest Editors:   
Anand Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH 
James Kempf, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. USA, Inc. 
 
The special session on `Security for Next Generation Communications' in WPMC 2003 held in 
Yokosuka, Japan, received five high quality papers which inspired the editors of the journal to publish a 
special issue. This call for papers requests researchers interested in publishing a high quality paper in 
the field of next generation communications security for mobile communications systems to contribute 
papers to the journal. 
 
We are moving towards an era where "always-on" devices will provide communication anywhere, 
anytime and any kind of service. The "always-on" mobile device usage model faces new security issues.
Long term secure sessions and simple security for multiple services challenge the current state of 
security technology. In addition, the trend towards heterogeneous networks, also known as Beyond 3G 
or B3G, integrates various heterogeneous access network technologies underneath a common IP layer. 
The different access network technologies have their own security requirements and mechanisms, 
making the integration of multiple access technologies for simple network access more challenging. In 
addition, many existing security protocols re-implement common security operations at different layers of 
the stack. A more modularized architecture, allowing common operations like certificate exchanged to be 
reused, would simplify many protocols and reduce implementation overhead. Finally, the trend toward 
software defined radio may require a new approach to security in order to accommodate dynamically 
reconfigurable spectrum usage.  
 
In this special issue our focus will be particularly on network layer security for next generation mobile 
networks. Possible topics are: 
·  Modularized security architectures and implementations for reduced footprint 
·  Security issues related to mobility in heterogonous networks 
·  Location privacy 
·  Opportunistic security  
·  Security for ad hoc networks 
·  Lightweight security infrastructure (ex. lightweight key distribution) 
·  Bridging the divide between traditional AAA and e-commerce techniques 
   for authentication and authorization 
·  Security techniques for software defined radio and dynamic spectrum usage 
                                                        
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Important dates: 
 
Submission of manuscripts       : 1 December 2003 
Notification of acceptance      : 1 March 2004 
Final Manuscripts Due           : 1 April 2004 
Publication of Feature Topic    : second half 2004 


Submissions should be sent to one of the guest editors: 
 
Anand R. Prasad                             Dr. James Kempf 
DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH              DoCoMo Comm. Labs. USA, Inc. 
Landsberger strasse 308-312                 181 Metro Drive, Suite 300 
80687 Munich                                San Jose, CA 95110 
Germany                                     USA 
E-mail: prasad@docomolab-euro.com           E-mail: kempf@docomolabs-usa.com