IEEE CNS 2025 is scheduled in the vibrant city of Avignon, France. Avignon is full of history and full of life. In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Capital of the Vaucluse and the Côtes du Rhône, seat of the popes and city of art and culture, theatre, cinema and museums.
The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cybersecurity researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange ideas, techniques, and tools related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research results in communications and network security.
Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Machine learning security
- AI and LLM security and privacy
- Anonymity and privacy technologies
- Censorship countermeasures and privacy
- Combating cybercrime (anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-fraud techniques, etc.)
- Computer and network forensics
- Cyber deterrence strategies
- Game-theoretic security technologies
- Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems
- Information-theoretic security
- Intrusion detection, prevention, and response
- Key management, public key infrastructures, certification, revocation, and authentication
- Malware detection and mitigation
- Security metrics and models
- Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies
- Security and privacy for big data
- Security and privacy for mobile and wearable devices
- Security and privacy in cellular networks
- Security and privacy in cloud and edge computing
- Security in 5G/6G Wireless Systems
- Internet Security: protocols, standards, measurements
- Security and privacy in crowdsourcing
- Security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
- Security and privacy in emerging wireless technologies and applications (dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio networks, millimeter wave communications, MIMO systems, smart/connected vehicles, UAS, etc.)
- Security and privacy in peer-to-peer and overlay networks
- Security and privacy in WiFi, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, body-area, disruption/delay tolerant, and social networks.
- Security and privacy in smart cities, smart and connected health, IoT, and RFID systems
- Security for future Internet architectures and designs
- Security for software-defined and data center networks
- Security in machine learning
- Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy
- Blockchain and its applications
- Security in Web 3.0
- Traffic analysis
- Usable security and privacy
- Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security
Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the 2025 IEEE CNS Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website for detailed instructions on submission rules, regulations, and author requirements for accepted papers.
Submission Deadline: 5 May 2025
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 7 July 2025
Final Paper Submission: 5 August 2025
