IEEE VTC2020-Fall
2020-11-18 - 2020-12-17
Dr. Gürkan Gür from INSPIRE-5Gplus partner Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) will contribute to the “Tutorial on Aerial Communications and Networks” at the IEEE VTC2020-Fall from 18 November to 16 December 2020. It will be a joint virtual tutorial by Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA, Serge Chaumette, Université de Bordeaux, France, Ravikumar Pragada, InterDigital, Inc., USA, Helka-Liina Määttänen, Ericsson, Finland, and Gürkan Gür, ZHAW, Switzerland.
The tutorial is intended to provide an overview of the state of art in aerial communications and networking. It covers topics such as security, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and ad hoc networking, along with experiences gained from flight-tests, experimental test-beds and simulations. While the focus is primarily on standardization in IEEE 1920.1 Work Group, novel ideas towards future research such as swarm autonomy, emerging security challenges and mesh networking for UASs will also be discussed.
Dr. Gür will present the segment on the security of aerial communications and networking.
Further information
IEEE VTC2020-Fall website

2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-12 | Alfândega do Porto Congress Centre, R. Nova da Alfândega, Porto, 4050-064, Portugal
The 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit aims to bring together leading telecoms researchers and industry players. The theme of the event is “On the Road to 6G”. The event will be held in the Alfândega Congress Centre located in the historic centre of Porto, Portugal. The joint event will consist of a conference and an exhibition The Organising Committee currently plans on holding the conference in a hybrid format, with the possibility for in-person or remote attendances.
INSPIRE-5Gplus is planing to contribute to EuCNC via a workshop.
Further information is available on the event website.

Workshop on Accountability and Liability for 5G and beyond - WAL5Gplus
2021-06-16 09:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin)
About this workshop
This one-day workshop organized by INSPIRE-5Gplus brought together researchers and practitioners from several domains such as actuaries, jurists, researchers in networking and multi-agent systems. They presented existing challenges and approaches for liability management for multi-party 5G ecosystems and provided digital services, with a forward-looking perspective for Beyond 5G (B5G) systems.
The multi-party and multi-layer nature of 5G ecosystems implies the inherent distribution of management and orchestration of decisions and actions across multiple entities. In such interconnected complex infrastructures on which end-to-end services are built, responsibilities can be difficult to track and therefore become obscure if no efficient liability and accountability mechanism is adopted. This problem is aggravated as soon as critical 5G verticals (e.g., suppliers of services like energy or intelligent transportation systems) are subject to specific industrial safety, security or service level rules and regulations (e.g., NIS or SEVESO Directives). Today, the ICT industry essentially elaborates on Trust and Trustworthiness (T&T) concepts, albeit not really venturing to address the fundamental question of who is really responsible during or after an incident/crisis. As a first step, the industry needs to really understand key aspects like:

What are the liability challenges?
How will we cover future risks and disasters in 5G ecosystems?
Which assets and capabilities will we have to investigate and develop in the coming period?

Accordingly, the purpose of this workshop was to share, compare and disseminate best practices, approaches, tools and methodologies to identify, formulate, and manage liability in 5G systems. It addressed crucial topics such as formalization of commitments and obligations (legal and technical schemes), contractualization, monitoring/supervision, evidence collection & analysis at runtime, post-mortem evidence collection & forensics to identify liabilities in case of disasters, security incidents or regulation violations.
Programme
09:00 Introduction to INSPIRE-5Gplus Project: Liability perspective [PDF] – Jean–Philippe Wary, Orange
09:15 Project presentations
09:15 Managing dependencies in the 5G environment through MUD files [PDF] – Sara Nieves Matheu García, University of Murcia
09:30 Liability-Aware Service Management (LASM) [PDF] – Chrystel Gaber, Orange
09:45 Root-Cause Analysis / RCA-MI [PDF] – Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage
10:00 Liability in 5G and Beyond: Concepts and challenges [PDF] – Chrystel Gaber, Orange
10:15 5G operators, suppliers and their clients: Liability management based on the contract [PDF] – Sylvie Jonas, AGIL’IT Law
11:00 A4Cloud: Accountability in the cloud – Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Málaga
11:45 A trust based recommendation system using Self Organized Map for service selection [PDF] – Samia Bouzefrane, CNAM
12:30 Lightning synthesis and morning session wrap-up
12:45 Break
13:30 Welcome and introduction to afternoon session
13:45 Trusted, trustworthy and accountable digital ecosystems – Arthur Van Der Wees, Arthur’s Legal, Strategies & Systems
14:30 5G Device Security certification – Jacques Kruse-Brandao, SGS
15:15 Responsibilities and certification in cybersecurity space [PDF] – Claire Loiseaux, Internet of Trust
16:00 Synthesis, round table and next steps [PDF] – Round-table discussion with speakers
17:30 End of Workshop

Programme Committee

Chrystel Gaber, Orange Labs
Jose Manuel Sanchez Vilchez, Orange Labs
Gürkan Gür, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Antonio Agustin Pastor Perales, Telefónica
Sébastien Keller, Thales
Jean-Philippe Wary, Orange Labs
Bernhard Tellenbach, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage
Dhouha Ayed, Thales – (Technical Manager of INSPIRE-5Gplus)

Special Interest Session on Cybersecurity at ITS World Congress
2021-10-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Hamburg Messe, Messeplatz 1, Hamburg, 20357, Germany
At the ITS World Congress in Hamburg (11-15 October 2021), INSPIRE-5Gplus partner National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece is organising a Special Interest Session on “Cybersecurity challenges and implications in ITS” (Intelligent Transport Systems).
ITS ecosystems are the dominant solution to networks’ saturation as they provide several benefits. They contribute to congestion reduction, limitation of emissions and air pollution, avoidance of unexpected incidents on the road and to transportation efficiency. However, deploying interconnected Intelligent Transport Systems creates several challenges, mainly in terms of safety and cybersecurity. Therefore, a key point for unlocking the enormous potential ITS ecosystems can offer towards more efficient transportation lies in the extent to which it remains cyber-secure. In this session, we will present and discuss the current situation, focusing on challenges and issues that need to be studied to address the growing needs of the ICT infrastructure.
SIS 52 – Cybersecurity challenges and implications in ITSWednesday, 13 October 2021, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PMHamburg Messe – B4 – Room 2
Further information
ITS World Congress 2021 Programme

4th International Workshop on Cyber-Security in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures - SecSoft
2022-07-01 - 2022-07-02 | Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
The SecSoft workshop is co-hosted at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft2022) that will be held in Milan, Italy from 27 June to 1 July 2022. IEEE NetSoft has been created as a flagship conference aiming to address the softwarization of networks and systemic trends concerning the convergence of Cloud Computing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
The SecSoft workshop contributes to the NetSoft conference topic of “Security, Safety, Trust and Privacy support in virtualized environments”.
Beyond security mechanisms at the hypervisor or domain level, the softwarization of legacy security appliances, and federation schemes between multiple domains, this workshop will look ahead to more dynamic, agile, and autonomic forms of detection and reaction of advanced threats, including the persistence ones. The specific focus will be on secure and trustworthy digital services, including pure virtual services as well as cyber-physical systems. The objective is to stimulate a constructive discussion on overall frameworks and specific aspects that are necessary to build wide situational awareness and to timely counter cyber-attacks: pervasive monitoring and deep inspection, cross-correlation in time and space dimensions and detection, automated control and management of complex orchestratable systems, forensics and legal investigation, trustworthiness and privacy.
The SecSoft workshop is a joint initiative by EU cybersecurity projects GUARD, SIMARGL, RAINBOW, PALANTIR, INSPIRE-5Gplus and SIFIS-Home.
Workshop co-chairs
Fulvio Valenza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
Matteo Repetto, IMATI-CNR, Italy
TPC co-chairs
Michał Choraś, FernUniversitat in Hagen, Germany
Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrea Saracino, IIT-CNR, Italy
Important dates
Workshop paper submission deadline: 28 February 2022
Workshop paper acceptance: 11 April 2022
Camera-ready papers: 25 April 2022
Workshop date: 1 July 2022
Further information
SecSoft workshop page
