2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Security in Communication (MUSIC'08) will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM 2008) on August 25th ~ 27th, 2008, in Hangzhou, China. http://www.chinacom.org/

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference Proceedings, IEEE XPlore, and Engineering Index.

Scope

The rapid development of communication techniques allows us to transmit more than text/binary data in real time. While multimedia (image, video, audio, etc.) enriches human's daily life, its prosperity also attract malicious attackers and abusers with different motivations, such as political reasons, illegal financial benefits, or simply to win a prestige reputation in a hacker community. Nowadays, multimedia communication plays an important role in multiple areas in human society including entertainment, politics, economics, militaries, industries, etc. It is urgent to secure multimedia data by providing confidentiality, integrity, and ownership or identity. In the past decade, multimedia security has been a hot topic in the security research community. Various solutions have been reported, which address problems including data encryption, digital watermarking, multimedia authentication, digital rights management, etc.

However, due to some characteristics of multimedia content, such as large data volumes, interactive operations, and requires real-time responses, the problems multimedia security need to address are different from text/binary data security. Furthermore, multimedia security is highly services-dependable. Different services require different methods for content transmission or distribution, paying, interaction, etc. Particularly, new services have been emerging and new techniques are appearing, such as mobile TV, IPTV, IMS, VoIP, P2P living or download, convergence of mobile and Internet, etc. For instance, in mobile TV, the terminal's power should be considered when designing security functions; in P2P living, the requirement in a distributed architecture is different from the server-client mode. Additionally, multimedia content filtering should be considered to clean up the service system. Under the environment of network convergence, the smart means adaptive to different networks are expected. This workshop aims to bring together research work in the area of multimedia security, investigate the novel solutions for secure multimedia services, and discuss the future trends for multimedia security in new services.

Topics

This workshop covers various aspects of multimedia security in emerging services. The services may work in the following environment: Internet, mobile TV, IPTV, IMS, VoIP, P2P, sensor network, network convergence, etc. The paper may focus on architecture construction, algorithm designing or hardware implementation. Both review paper and technical paper are expected. The topics include but not limited to

•   Security threats to multimedia content in new services
•   Security model for new services
•   Lightweight multimedia encryption for services
•   Information hiding in multimedia content
•   Multimedia forensics
•   Secure multimedia adaptation
•   Multimedia copy tracking
•   Multimedia content authentication
•   Multimedia content filtering
•   Secure payment for services
•   Key management/distribution
•   User authentication in services
•   Biometric Security
•   Intrusion detection/prevention
•   Network filtering
•   Secure set-top box
•   Secure Smart Cards
•   Secure SIM card
•   Secure telecom/broadcast convergence
•   Secure mobile/Internet convergence
•   Interoperable DRM systems
•   Conditional access systems
•   Security protocols or standards
•   Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in multimedia application

Submission

The submission should be done according to the guidelines on http://www.chinacom.org/. The revised or extended versions of the accepted and presented papers will be published in one of the special issues below

• Wiely International Journal of Security and Communication Network (SCN) Special Issue Call for Paper 
• International Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS) Special Issue Call for Paper

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 31, 2008 April 15, 2008
Notification date: May 15, 2008
Camera-ready due: May 31, 2008
Conference dates: August 25-27, 2008

Organizing Committee

Dr. Stefanos Gritzalis (General Chair)
University of the Aegean, Greece
Email: sgritz[AT]aegean.gr

Dr. Yan Zhang (General Co-Chair)
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Email: yanzhang[AT]ieee.org

Dr. Shiguo Lian (TPC Chair)
France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China
Email: shiguo.lian[AT]orange-ftgroup.com

Dr. Yu Chen (TPC Co-Chair)
State University of New York - Binghamton, USA
Email: ychen[AT]binghamton.edu

Technical Program Committee 

Sasan Adibi, University of Waterloo, CA
Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, CA
Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia
Yuan Dong, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA
Weifeng Chen, California University of Pennsylvania, USA
El-Sayed El-Alfy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Jiwu Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Zhiquan Wang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Giovanni Bodini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Noureddine BOUDRIGA, University of the 7th of November at Carthage, Tunisia
Andreas U. Schmidt, Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Germany
Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK
Frank Y. Shih, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Mark Stamp, San Jose State University, USA
Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA
Chun-Shien Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Tarek BEJAOUI, University of Carthage, Tunisia
Jianhong Zhang, North China University of Technology, China
Xiamu Niu, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China
Esther Palomar, Carlos III University, Spain
Theodore Stergiou, KPMG Advisors AE, Greece
Paris Kitsos, Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sajal Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA
George Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Tom Karygiannis, NIST, USA
Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research I2R, Singapore
Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM CEDRIC Laboratory, France
Eric Renault, GET/INT, France
Shuiming Ye, EPFL, Switzerland
Benamar KADRI, University of Tlemcien, DZ, Algeria
Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan
Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain

Di Jin, University of Oklahoma, USA
L. Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
WeiQi YAN, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Rocky K. C. Chang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China