The 4th IEEE International Symposium on
Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2021)


In conjunction with
The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021)

Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 (Virtual)

Hardware systems and Software applications continue to evolve with more functionalities, complex structures and interactions between them and with users. Cyber Security risks continue to evolve as well in both quantity in the same domains as well new types and ways on how to break into computing systems, software applications, websites, databases, programmable networks etc. For example, monitoring the car manufacturing industry, we can see that recent car models have more complex hardware components and automated programmable features in comparison with their earlier models, this will increase the risk associated with protecting such systems. Same thing can be applicable to most other engineering products. Such complex hardware and programmable techniques bring security opportunities to change the way cyber security controls (e.g. firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), etc.) are developed and enforced. They also bring security challenges related to our computing systems and software architectures or any changes that can be directly or indirectly related to them due to the complex interactions between them. The 4th International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2021) will focus on issues related to future cyber security challenges as well as opportunities which mainly highlight the above mentioned aspects.

The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2021) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of cyber security techniques, security challenges and opportunities for emerging technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing,big data, 5G, SDN and many others . We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of future cyber security management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported security systems to mention but few.

The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Cyber Security Techniques Architectures and Design
  • Cyber Security Systems
  • Cyber Security Techniques Integration
  • Cyber Security Techniques Orchestration
  • Cyber Security Techniques Based Network Control plane design
  • Cyber Security Techniques Based NetworkData plane design
  • Cyber Security Techniques Performance Management
  • Cyber Security Techniques for Cloud based DataCenter
  • Cyber Security Techniques for 5G Networks
  • Cyber Security Techniques for Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Cyber Security Techniques for Big Data Computing
  • Cyber Security Techniques for large scale storage system
  • Hardware system design for Cyber Security Techniques/li>
  • Cyber Security Techniques management
  • Radio Access Network virtualization
  • Cyber Security Techniques for programmable Networks
  • Cyber Security Techniques for Edge and Fog Computing
  • Cyber Security Techniques Cloud Computing
  • Cyber Security Techniques for Software Defined Network (SDN)
  • Cyber Security Techniques Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
  • Cyber Security Techniques Case studies

Organising Committee

General Co-chairs

    Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A&M, San Antonio, USA

    Yunpeng (Jack) Zhang, University of Houston, USA

Technical Program Co-chairs

    Mohammed I. Al-Saleh, Higher Colleges of Technology, Ras Al Khaima, UAE

    Zilong Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

Steering Committee

    Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A&M, San Antonio, USA

    Yunpeng (Jack) Zhang, University of Houston, USA

    Cristina Cervelló-Pastor,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Zilong Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

    Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain

Publication and Publicity Co-chairs

    Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain

    Abdallah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Technical Programme Committee

    Zilong Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

    Issa Khalil, Qatar Foundation, Qatar

    Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A&M, San Antonio, USA

    Yunpeng (Jack) Zhang, University of Houston, USA

    Cristina Cervell-Pastor,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Yazan M. Al-Issa, Yarmouk University, Jordan

    Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain

    Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain

    Abdallah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

    Jingyuan Fan, SUNY Buffalo, USA

    Doan Hoang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Huu-Nghi Nguyen, École Normale Supérieur de Lyon, France

    Gladys Diaz, Paris 13 University, France

    Zhanqi Xu, Xidian University, China

    Jian Kong, The University of Texas, Dallas, USA

    Yu Xiong, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Yongli Zhao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Lingxia Liao, The University of British Columbia, Canada

    Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

    Gang Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

    Abdulaziz Ghaleb, QU, Qatar

    Kohei Shiomoto, NTT, Japan

    Suleyman Eken, Kocaeli University, Turkey.

    Andy Rindos, IBM Research, USA

    Jianwu Wang, University of California, San Diego, USA

    Ahmed Bouridane, University of Northumbria, UK

    Mohamed Abdel-Maguid, University Campus Suffolk, UK

    Emmanuel Bertin, Orange Labs - France Telecom, France

Important Dates
  • Submission Date: 20th Oct, 2021

    Paper Submission

  • 31st Oct, 2021

    Author's Notification

  • 10th Nov, 2021

    Camera-ready paper submission

  • 30th Oct, 2021

    Registration Deadline

Submission Instructions

Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcst2021