IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) seeks original manuscripts for a special issue on hardware security, scheduled to appear in July 2020.
Recently, the hardware of computing systems has been a major target for cyber attacks. Unlike software vulnerabilities, hardware attacks and vulnerabilities can be difficult to detect, isolate or prevent. Such hardware attacks include adversarial bus snoopers, hardware trojans, and physical access to the system. Additionally, side-channel attacks and covert-channel attacks typically exploit unanticipated information leakage due to hardware implementation or resource sharing. The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks are prominent examples of vulnerabilities resulting mainly from specific hardware implementations. Moreover, emerging memory technologies, such as non-volatile memories (NVMs), further facilitate hardware attacks due to data remanence. Finally, in cloud systems where limited control of the surrounding environment is an acceptable trade-off, the presence of hardware attacks and vulnerabilities becomes even more plausible. We invite original articles that address issues related to the security of hardware components of computing systems.
Topics of interest to this special issue include, but not limited to:
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to the TC submission guidelines. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs
Please note the following important dates.
Please address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to Lead Guest Editor Amro Awad (amro.awad@ucf.edu).
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Corresponding Topical Editor (CTE)
Prof. Jun Yang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
E-mail: juy9@ohio.edu
