International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security (WNDSS 2025)

At a glance:

Workshop date: 23 May 2025
Location: Maribor (Slovenia)
Submission deadline: 31 January 2025
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2025
Organizer: IFIP WG11.4 “Network & Distributed Systems Security”
Proceedings published by Springer

Background:

Working Group 11.4 “Network & Distributed Systems Security” (https://www.ifiptc11.org/wg114) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP, https://ifip.org/) is organizing a workshop. The workshop will be co-located with the 40th International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025, https://sec2025.um.si/), the flagship conference of IFIP Technical Committee 11 “Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems”. The workshop is open to all; membership in IFIP or in WG11.4 is not necessary. Attending the workshop requires registration at the IFIP SEC conference (options for registering either for the whole conference or only for the workshop are available).

Call for papers:

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion among researchers, practitioners, regulators, students, and any other interested parties. The scope of the workshop covers the security of computer networks and of distributed systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Attacks on networks and distributed systems
• Distributed defense strategies against cyberattacks
• Distributed identity and access management
• Federated learning
• Mobile and wireless network security
• Privacy and data protection
• Public key infrastructures
• Secure multiparty computation
• Security and privacy in cloud computing, edge computing, and the Internet of Things
• Security and privacy in Distributed Ledger Technologies
• Security and privacy in emerging networks and distributed technologies (e.g., 6G and beyond, digital twins, metaverse, quantum computing and networking)
• Security and privacy in networked cyber-physical systems (e.g., connected autonomous mobility, smart homes, body-area networks)
• Security and privacy in web applications and services
• Security and privacy of distributed applications
• Security and privacy of distributed Artificial Intelligence applications, including machine learning and generative AI
• Security of critical infrastructures
• Security of network protocols
• Security protocols
• Surveillance and Cyber-resilience 

Submission guidelines:

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal for consideration. Submitted papers must be written in English. Submissions should not be anonymised. Beyond technical papers and papers presenting the results of completed research, also work-in-progress papers, position papers, survey papers, and papers discussing non-technical aspects are of interest. Submissions must be either full papers of at most 14 pages, or short papers of at most 10 pages. In both cases, the page count includes figures, tables, references, and appendices (if any). Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. For camera-ready papers, Latex or Word format must be used. Author instructions and templates can be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register, following the rules of the main conference, and present the paper at the workshop.

Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair conference system, which can be found at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wndss2025.

Best student paper award:

The aim of the best student paper award is to reward the best paper accepted to and presented at the workshop, the main author of which is a student. To be eligible, the main author of the paper must be a Bachelor or Master student at the time of the workshop, or he/she must have been a Bachelor or Master student when the work reported in the paper was carried out. During the submission process, papers eligible for the best student paper award should be marked as such in the submission system, and proof of the main author's student status has to be uploaded along with the paper itself. Based on the number of accepted student papers, the workshop chairs reserve the right to decide on the number of student papers to be rewarded, which could be 0, 1, or more.

Important dates:

Deadline for submission: 31 January 2025
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2025
Delivery of camera-ready papers: 21 March 2025

Workshop chairs:

Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova, Italy
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France
Zoltan Mann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Program committee (preliminary):

• Matt Bishop, University of California Davis, USA
• Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova, Italy
• Alexandra Dmitrienko, University of Würzburg, Germany
• Mathias Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France
• Dogan Kesdogan, University of Regensburg, Germany
• Jorn Lapon, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Zoltán Mann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• Eduard Marin, Telefonica Research, Spain
• Vincent Naessens, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

To be announced later