CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF version here)
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5-th Workshop on
Embedded Systems Security (WESS 2010)
A Workshop of the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK 2010)
October 24, 2010, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Embedded computing systems are widely found in application areas ranging from

safety-critical systems to vital information management. This introduces a large

number of security issues. Embedded systems are vulnerable to remote intrusion,

local intrusion, fault-based and power/timing-based attacks, intellectual-property

theft, subversion, hijacking and more. Due to their strong link to software

engineering and hardware engineering, these security issues are different from

the traditional security problems found on personal computers. For example,

embedded devices are resource-constrained in power and performance, which

requires them to use computationally efficient solutions. They have a very weak

physical trust boundary, which enables many different implementation-oriented

attacks. They use an intimate connection between hardware and software, often

without the shielding of an operating system. This workshop provides a forum for

researchers to present novel ideas on addressing security issues that arise in the

design, the operation, and the testing of secure embedded systems. Of particular

interest are security topics that are unique to embedded systems.

Such topics include but are not limited to the following:

·         Trust models for secure embedded hardware and software

·         Isolation techniques for secure embedded hardware, hyperware, and software

·         System architectures for secure embedded systems

·         Metrics for secure design of embedded hardware and software

·         Security concerns for medical and other applications of embedded systems

·         Support for intellectual property protection and anti-counterfeiting

·         Specialized components for authentication, key storage and key generation

·         Support for secure debugging and troubleshooting

·         Implementation attacks and countermeasures

·         Design tools for secure embedded hardware and software

·         Hardware/software codesign for secure embedded systems

·         Specialized hardware support for security protocols

Important Dates:

• Abstract Registration: July 26, 2010
• Submission deadline:  August 2, 2010
• Author notification:    August 30, 2010
• Copyright forms due:  September 3, 2010
• Camera ready papers:  September 13, 2010

General Chairs

• Catherine Gebotys - University of Waterloo - Canada
• Marilyn Wolf - Georgia Tech - USA

Technical Chairs

·         Raj Rajagopalan - HP Labs - USA

·         Patrick Schaumont – Virginia Tech - USA

Technical Program Committee:

• Frederik Armknecht - University of Mannheim - Germany
• Lejla Batina - Radboud University - Netherlands
• Levente Buttyan - Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Hungary
• Reouven Elbaz - Intel - USA
• Junfeng Fan - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium
• Guy Gogniat - Universite de Bretagne Sud - France
• Leyla Nazhandali - Virginia Tech - USA
• Sri Parameswaran - University of New South Wales - Australia
• Axel Poschmann - Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
• Kazuo Sakiyama - University of Electro-Communications - Japan
• Zhijie Jerry Shi - University of Connecticut - USA
• Stefan Tillich - University of Bristol - UK
• Ingrid Verbauwhede - UCLA - USA
• Ning Weng - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - USA
• Tilman Wolf - University of Massachusetts Amherst - USA
• Chuck Yoo - Korea University - Korea

Steering Committee:

• Catherine Gebotys - University of Waterloo - Canada
• Dimitrios Serpanos - University of Patras, Industrial Systems Institute – Greece
• Marilyn Wolf - Georgia Tech - USA