Call for papers: systematic network optimizations for security parameters (security and communication networks)

In network planning and design, security usually conflicts with other design objectives, such as usability, performance, and even functionality. Meanwhile, security goals have their own inherent contradictions, as confidentiality, integrity, privacy, accountability, availability, and recovery from safety attacks often conflict fundamentally. For a good network design, balancing these design objectives and cost is the prerequisite. However, it is quite difficult to satisfy all the security requirements simultaneously, let alone themultiple interacting and possibly conflicting targets. Ultimately, security comes down to using the information available best to balance the trade-offs among the competing goals of multiple factors. Considered as one of the grand challenges of the field, study the objective metric to evaluate the trade-offs of network security has draw extensive research attentions recently. In this call for papers, we would like to invite novel ideas; theoretical analysis for evaluating, modeling, and optimizing the trade-offs among network security; and other design objectives. Submissions of applications-oriented papers describing case studies and simulations are encouraged as well. Original papers, as well as expository and survey papers, are sought, both invited and contributed. All manuscripts are subjected to rigorous reviews as per the policy of this journal before they can be accepted for publication. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, the following: