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               CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE APPROACHING

The 3rd IEEE LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security
                         (MarCaS 2025)
                       in conjunction with the
50th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2025)

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Sydney, Australia, 14-16 October 2025
https://garykessler.net/lcn_marcas/
 
## Important Dates
* Paper registration: May 18, 2025 (FINAL DEADLINE, NO FURTHER EXTENSIONS)
* Paper submission: May 18, 2025 (FINAL DEADLINE, NO FURTHER EXTENSIONS)
* Notification: July 1, 2025
* Final paper: August 1, 2025
 
## Scope and Topics

The MarCaS Special Track will help bring together research groups
working at the intersection of maritime applications, communications
technologies, and protocols, as well as IT and network security to
share and discuss ideas, novel solutions, challenges, and recent
developments. The Track solicits high quality and previously
unpublished work in the maritime domain and the research field of the
LCN to stimulate novel approaches for a safer and more resilient
shipping.
 
Join us for this exciting and timely Special Track at the Local
Computer Network Conference!!!
 
## Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Maritime IT/OT systems, architectures, and communication technologies
* Multi-sensor networks and Cyber-Physical Systems
* Underwater communication, networks, and surveillance
* On-shore and intermodal communication systems
* Maritime cybersecurity and vulnerability analysis
* Safe and secure navigation, GPS interference technique, and
  GNSS-independent localization
* AIS and radar protocol security
* Security assessments, threat analyses, and cyber risk management
* (Open source) test and simulation environments and maritime datasets
* Autonomous systems and shipping
* Smart ships, smart ports, and maritime IoT technologies
* Maritime (security) education and training
* Machine learning / artificial intelligence
* Maritime blockchain use cases
 
## Submission Instructions
* Submission using EDAS system: https://edas.info/N33698
* Author and Submission Guideline are available at the MarCaS and LCN web page:
https://garykessler.net/lcn_marcas/author.html
https://www.ieeelcn.org/Author_Information.html
 
## Special Track Organizers
* Jan Bauer, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
* Gary C. Kessler, Gary Kessler Associates, USA
* Ulku Clark, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
* Stephen McCombie, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
 
## Technical Program Chair
* Aybars Oruc, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

On behalf of the Special Track Organizing Committee
contact: marcas@garykessler.net.