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Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Special Section on Cyber-Physical Threats and Solutions for
Autonomous Transportation Systems
Theme: The rapid evolution of technology has radically changed
our everyday lives from multiple points of view. Among the
others, transportation systems are nowadays populated by smart
and interconnected vehicles that need to communicate with each
other and with critical infrastructures to orchestrate traffic
and mobility. Transportation systems are hence operated through
multiple technologies that need to cooperate to provide
efficient delivery of goods and human mobility, as well as to
provide security in the overall networks. The latter task is
complicated by the fact that vehicles autonomously drive and
cooperate in the network without human intervention. The overall
transportation network can be therefore represented by a
cyber-physical system, where a large number of sensors,
actuators, and multiple technologies are connected and exchange
information. To guarantee the overall network
security, attack detection and the design of suitable
countermeasures play a fundamental role. The security of
cyber-physical systems has been widely studied in literature.
However, most of the proposed solutions target either the cyber
or the physical threats, without providing a unified view able
to detect and mitigate more complicated attacks. The purpose of
this special issue is therefore to collect the latest research
achievements in the cyber-physical threats and countermeasures
in autonomous transportation systems.
This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the
following topics:
- Methods for detection of cyber-physical attacks in
transportation systems
- Design of countermeasures for cyber-physical attacks in
transportation systems
- Hardware solutions for mitigating the attacks on controller
area networks of automotive
- Protocol and semantics agnostic security solutions to
automotive CPS
- Formal modeling of cyber-physical attacks in transportation
systems
- Privacy preserving solutions for cyber-physical transportation
systems
- Cyber-physical threats in platoons/swarms
- Scalability of the security solutions in autonomous
transportation systems
- Blockchain solutions against cyber-physical threats in
autonomous transportation systems
- Security testing of vulnerabilities in automotive CPS
Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE
Transaction on Industrial Informatics http://www.ieeeies.org/pubs/transactions-on-industrial-informatics
. Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through
ManuscriptCentral web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii
. On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type,
select:
SS on Cyber-Physical Threats and Solutions for Autonomous
Transportation Systems Submissions to this Special Section must
represent original material that has been neither submitted to,
nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length
is 8 pages. Note: The recommended papers for the section are
subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers
may be published outside the special section, at the EIC
discretion.
Timetable:
- Deadline for manuscript submissions January 30, 2022
- Expected publication date (tentative) September 2022
Guest Editors:
- Dr. Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova, Padova, Italy