CFP: International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security
2nd International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security
(WNDSS 2027)
Linköping, Sweden
June 15-16, 2027
Co-located with the 42nd International Information Security and Privacy
Conference (IFIP SEC 2027).
Submission Deadline: December 22, 2026 (11:59 pm AoE)
Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2027
Camera-ready Deadline: March 15, 2027
Organized by IFIP Working Group 11.4 "Network & Distributed Systems
Security", this workshop provides 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. The workshop is open to
everyone (membership in IFIP or in WG11.4 is not necessary). Attending
the workshop requires registration at IFIP SEC 2027 (options for
registering for the whole conference or only for the workshop will be
available). The proceedings will be published by Springer in the IFIP
series.
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Submission instructions: Submitted papers must be original, unpublished,
not submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal, and written
in English. Submissions should not be anonymised. Technical papers,
completed research, 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, including figures, tables, references, and
appendices. Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting
instructions (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines);
camera-ready papers must be in LaTeX or Word format. At least one
author of each accepted paper must register, following the rules of the
main conference, and present the paper at the workshop.
Best student paper award: awarded to the best paper accepted to and
presented at the workshop whose main author is a student. To be
eligible, the main author must be a Bachelor or Master student at the
time of the workshop, or have been one when the work was carried out.
Eligible papers must be marked as such in the submission system, with
proof of the main author's student status uploaded along with the
paper. The workshop chairs may award 0, 1, or more student papers.
Contact: [email not found]
Submission system: EasyChair
Conference web page: https://ifiptc11.org/wg114-events/wg114-workshop
Call for Papers: https://ifiptc11.org/wg114-events/wg114-workshop#call-for-papers